MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Mujica flies to Havana to meet the Castro brothers and celebrate 60 years of Cuba’s revolution
Uruguayan president and former guerrilla Jose Mujica left Tuesday night for Cuba where he is scheduled to hold meetings with President Raul Castro, the revolution leader Fidel Castro and attend the celebrations of the sixtieth anniversary of the assault on the Moncada military fort. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesYay a democratically elected president celebrating the Cuban people's lack of democracy!
Jul 24th, 2013 - 10:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Thankfully most Latin Americans have moved beyond glamourising dictatorship.
Well Anglolatino, what can I say.
Jul 24th, 2013 - 10:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0You call Cuba, a country that exports medicine and doctors, undemocratic.
You call USA, a coutry that exports weapons and death, democratic.
Thankfully most of the world has moved beyond your convenient world view...
Stevie, do you really consider Cuba democratic when:
Jul 24th, 2013 - 12:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 01- The people cannot choose between multiple parties to vote for?
2- The people cannot choose the candidates to vote for?
3- Do you consider the Department of Revolutionary Orientation democracy?
4- Do you consider Fidel appointing Raul successor democratic?
5-Do you consider outlawing campaigning in order to get a candidates word out democratic?
6-Do you consider that until recently, people were banned from travelling out of the country and even now only special people can get visa's to travel abroad?
7- do you think being required to have a travel visa from your OWN country freedom and democratic?
Exporting anything has absolutely nothing to do with democracy. USSR exported.
by the way its anyway a silly and pathetic joke to say that Cuba “exports medicine”. They barely have enough of the simplest medicine for themselves and they export “doctors” only to other banana republics in exchange of oil and money. In slightly more developed countries (like Chile), these cuban “doctors” don't even aprove the basic test to be allowed to work there.
Jul 24th, 2013 - 12:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.mercopress.com/2012/01/25/most-cuban-trained-doctors-fail-basic-test-to-practice-medicine-in-chile
Steve's isolated and out of the context argument sounds very like the intent for justification of Hitler: “he wasn't that bad, as he build the Autobahn!”
Pathetic...
We have a similar meeting in our village - “Senior Citizens Lunch Club”. But there is a difference, the feeble minded ones must be escorted by a carer. It's so nice to get an invite from the axis of evil. Wonder why KFC wasn't invited? Is it because when she sees an island she wants to take it over?
Jul 24th, 2013 - 01:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Shame on Mujica, spending money on toadying up to the Castros when he'd promised to build housing for Uruguay's poor. “Neoliberal” former president Lacalle put up three times as many houses in 5 years than the Frente Amplio in eight.
Jul 24th, 2013 - 04:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 06 ynsere
Jul 24th, 2013 - 04:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But Pepe IS an unreconstructed commie, what else can you expect?
@2
Jul 24th, 2013 - 06:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I understand that Cuba has also been peacefully exporting MIG fuselages to North Korea - maybe wrapped up in a doctor and medicine.
Let's not forget the missiles and radar
Jul 24th, 2013 - 06:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0he came close=
Jul 24th, 2013 - 06:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0but no cigar...lol.
3 Captain Poopy . You forgot to mention that Cuba nearly took Latin America into a nuclear war in 1962 . Not a war ,like others , in which the area looked on and made lots of money selling food to Britain but in which the whole area would have suffered ,
Jul 24th, 2013 - 10:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Baxter, where did you learn history, in Havana? Cuba was supported and on the payroll of USSR, did you not know that? Cuba was a tool in the match between the USSR and the USA....did you not know that? Those were all USSR ballistic missiles, not Cuba's, did you not know that. Where was your history bought at? The Soviet Union almost took two super powers to nuclear, latam was not in the equation. But whatever you wish to teach you kids, do not forget to tell them one country and way of life does not exist anymore.
Jul 24th, 2013 - 11:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Even the Soviet naval force eventually left during the quarantine. Really Bax........you tell a tall tale.
Briton........Cuba may be a poor man's paradise......but lordy, their Partagas are tops!!! Cohiba's too
Havana, as with all Latin American and Caribbean capital cities, is utterly dysfunctional but it is still relatively safe and corruption is usually petty; famously, a parking ticket was not written after a jug of milk appeared, miraculously, at the side of the traffic enforcement officer! Notwithstanding rationing and buruaucracy etc., life there seems preferable to San Juan, PR, and in terms of overall quality of life may rank third after San Jose (Costa Rica) and -- probably the most boring capital on the planet -- Belmopan, Belize.
Jul 25th, 2013 - 01:26 am - Link - Report abuse 012 What world do you live in ,nut case . Cuba was a free country and allowed Soviet missiles to be based in their territory . Hence , dumbo , an accessory in a crime ,. You big pompous fool . Castro nearly destroyed not just his country but part of Latin America too . Wake up boyo
Jul 25th, 2013 - 01:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Wetback wannabe, wake up and stop reading the “The World According to Latam”. Castro has destroyed his country and you RG's and the rest are fast working on SA. Yes I see Cuba must be back in the arms business with N.Korea......and 1962 radar and Migs....lol
Jul 25th, 2013 - 09:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0I think you have lost your bearings .No longer Captain . Now just a private soldier and not considered for promotion .
Jul 25th, 2013 - 01:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 016 Baxter
Jul 25th, 2013 - 03:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The “Captain” relates to ships not the land forces.
If he had fallen that far he would be a naval rating.
Bax a Naval Captain is an O6 whereas as an Army Captain is an O3, equivalent to a Naval Lieutenant. Either way......both officers. It's unheard of to be broken to an enlisted man. And while you make think I've lost my bearings, I guarantee you than my dead reckoning is fine and my rhumbline is accurate.
Jul 25th, 2013 - 04:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0By your response it is quite obvious you toss your panties in a bunch and need to initiate the insults that I can happily oblige. I can also oblige straight talk of point and counterpoint of which I prefer and seemingly you do not.
Chris is correct......the missile crisis was all naval action, maybe 50 ships. However, many of those ships had a land force in the holds. And again, Cuba was a mere tools during that incident. Cuba was like holding the towel and water bucket and the USSR was the defeated boxer.
Baxter & Capt. Poppy.
Jul 25th, 2013 - 05:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think you're both right (I'm not referring to the insults you're hurling at each other). On the one hand, Cuba certainly wasn't paying for the nuclear and other ordinance placed on the island by the USSR, nor did the Cuban government have access to the trigger, On the other, if President Kennedy had been unsuccessful, Cuba would have caused untold misery to a number of democratic South American nations, including Uruguay. They did more than a little harm even without nuclear weapons.
And now they try to send them to north korea hidden under other stuff,
Jul 25th, 2013 - 06:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0those weapons must be at least 50 years old,
#19 I really do not think that Cuba have many decisions nor choices in what USSR did with respect to being on their island in return for USSR support. Cuba could not support themselves, as after the Soviet collapse, when Venezuela came in. Now Venezuela cannot support Cuba and we see Cuba moving to market reforms and entrepreneurial measures.
Jul 25th, 2013 - 06:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do not the American have a base on that cuban island,
Jul 25th, 2013 - 07:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0that must be awkward at times..
19 ynsere . Thank you so much .The situation reached such a point that Kennedy was in touch with allies such as de Gaulle and Macmillan . The first played dumb ! The second asked if Kennedy realized what could happen ,a nuclear holucust ,to which he replied affirmative confirming that , if necessary , he would use force . Whereupon Mamillan ordered all British troops to be on full alert .It is said that the news that the BAOR was on full alert and moving to the border convinced the Russian premier to back down . Realizing that his , and Castro' s stupidity , could lead to war .
Jul 25th, 2013 - 07:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 060 years and the butt is still soar, I see...
Jul 25th, 2013 - 09:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 024 . Please do learn to spell .It is sore not soar ! And my butt is fine . Cold but well .Long time since we had such a long period of cold weather . Brazil and Argentina punishing us again !
Jul 25th, 2013 - 10:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hahaha Baxter
Jul 26th, 2013 - 12:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sore it is then!
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