MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Almost nothing to be named after Fidel to avoid cult of personality in Cuba
Cuban lawmakers Tuesday passed a bill whereby nothing shall bear the name of the late revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, who passed away November 25 last. No monuments or buildings shall be erected in his honour either. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesArgentina could learn a few things from this particular Cuban policy.
Dec 29th, 2016 - 11:17 am - Link - Report abuse +4Ha, and in the other thread your were bitching about rock throwing.
Dec 29th, 2016 - 01:43 pm - Link - Report abuse -3How come over there instead of yet again criticizing Argentina, didn't you say something like “North Americans could learn a few things from this particular Argentine habit: it's much more civilized than using automatic assault rifles against people in the streets”.
So tell us how many times where you ruthlessly dumped that got you to hate Argies so much? Please don't say you don't, your posts exude that feeling and you use every single article in this forum to rail against Argentina, whether the article has anything to with it or not.
Fidel Nostrils
Dec 29th, 2016 - 03:43 pm - Link - Report abuse +3You are the only thing I know that is named after Fidel Castro - and it's against his wishes!
@Fidel Nostrils
“So tell us how many times where you ruthlessly dumped that got you to hate Argies so much? Please don't say you don't, your posts exude that feeling and you use every single article in this forum to rail against Argentina, whether the article has anything to with it or not”
This is too funny!
What a hypocrite you are.
Every one of your posts these days is a deflection rant denouncing “Anglos” and spewing your bigotry and hate for the nation's and people you loosely associate with that 'ethnicity'.
You could not have stuck your foot in it any deeper!!
Fidelito, your intellectual capacity and argentinicity keep you from understanding the subtle difference between “criticism and ridicule” and “hatred.”
Dec 29th, 2016 - 03:53 pm - Link - Report abuse +2You may note that I did not suggest either rock-throwing or shooting people in the streets. Your comment is yet another invention, a practice in which you excel. Re-read my comments and you will observe that I insisted upon the release of hordes of specially-trained stoats to ferret out the Kirchnerista weasels who throw stones from the sidelines.
Fidelito, your participation here has given us all greater cause to laugh at that which is argentine, and you have provided a wealth of targets for derision. No doubt you will continue to do so.
Perhaps we can use this note as a point of departure to contrast the difference between the Perón and Kirchner personality cults here, and the decision of the Cuban government to avoid such pedestrian populism.
You there, in the back of the room. I see that you have a comment on this personality cult question. Tell us your thoughts.
https://www.loveartnotpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/el-legado.jpg
Well the Argentine version has inspired an interesting reaction...
Dec 29th, 2016 - 10:20 pm - Link - Report abuse +1http://www.thebubble.com/statues-of-nestor-kirchner-vandalized/
I am waiting to read about somebody cutting the hands of statues of Peron.
What a refreshing story. Hat's off to the Cubans.
Dec 29th, 2016 - 10:31 pm - Link - Report abuse +1There's even more pictures here...
Dec 29th, 2016 - 11:26 pm - Link - Report abuse +1http://www.infonews.com/nota/301815/dialogo-y-consenso-actos-de-vandalismo
I'm surprised Kamerad/Komrade Rique hasn't come in to decry the lost opportunities for public employment repairing the damage. Macri of course won't be wasting public money on them.
@Fidelito
Dec 30th, 2016 - 07:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the fact that rock throwing seems to be more popular in Argentina than using an assault rifle is purely a matter of economics...the Argies can't afford assault rifles....maybe they could learn to use the good ole slingshot ?
But going back to the topic subject, perhaps they decided to rule that Fidel's name cannot be used to designate buildings or monuments, because 1) it isn't likely they'll be building any new ones, as they have no money, and 2) all those that exist are already named after him...
@JB “......the Argies can't afford assault rifles....”
Dec 30th, 2016 - 10:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You're just being silly there. It's a matter of availability (almost zero, though the drug traffickers are certainly coming up with them) and general understanding that it's really not such a good idea.
If you follow the news here you do see occasional references to drug related gangs with some serious automatic weapons. If you read the vernacular, here is a recent headline (ametralladora is machinegun but it's loosely used here to describe assault rifles as well)
“Detuvieron a dos armeros sospechados de proveer a narcos de la Villa 1-11-14: tenían un arsenal con más de 60 pistolas y ametralladoras”
You can see the pictures from that article and bear in mind it's not such a terribly isolated sort of thing in the north
http://www.infobae.com/sociedad/policiales/2016/10/02/detuvieron-a-dos-armeros-sospechados-de-proveer-a-narcos-de-la-villa-1-11-14-tenian-un-arsenal-con-mas-de-60-pistolas-y-ametralladoras/
@ML
Dec 31st, 2016 - 06:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You're right, was just taking the piss out of Fidelito for his lame comparison. The Brazilian drug traffickers have access to just about any weapon of their choice, from Paraguay, and by the look of it (the link) the same goes for the ones in Argentina....money buys just about anything. I fully agree that the ready availability of assault rifles, or sub machine guns (in gun stores), is not a good idea, but the contraband of such weapons seems to be something that the Brazilian (and Argentine) governments have been less than efficient in trying to curb.
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