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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups: alt.survival,misc.survivalism
Subject: Re: Bring your own generator if you want to visit the Hispanic failed
 state of Cuba
Date: 14 Mar 2025 18:38:44 GMT
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On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 09:11:04 -0600, Burny Sanders wrote:

> You are obviously well prepared for weather emergencies, as is your
> nation.  As for Cuba, it was a thriving nation prior to Marxist Fidel
> Castro's experiment with communism and his nationalization of American
> owned companies without compensation in 1959.  He had support in the
> U.S. for a brief period of time and was even considered a George
> Washington style revolutionary figure.  It seems that several Democratic
> Party mayors and governors in the United States want to take us down the
> same failed path that Castro did in Cuba.  Not sure why you seem to be
> upset by my post which paints a sad picture of Cuba today.

Yeah, I remember when Fidel was a heroic freedom fighter working to 
overthrow Batista's corrupt oligarchy. Then Castro declined to follow the 
playbook and became a pariah. He did have the sense to send Guevara off to 
anyplace but Cuba.

I still can't see the sense of the decades long embargo though other than 
revenge by wealthy Miami Cubans like Rubio.