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2010-09-09 Caribbean-Latin America

Now he tells us: Cuba economic model doesn't work, says Fidel

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Posted by tipper 2010-09-09 11:52|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 In a thousand faculty lounges across the nation, distraught professors are wailing, gnashing their teeth, rending their garments, and collapsing into pathetic sobbing heaps. Not since Shoeless Joe Jackson confessed to fixing the World Series, not since it was revealed that Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus of Milli Vanilli weren't actually singing, has a beloved hero uttered such disillusioning words and crushed the faith of his adoring fans.

Posted by Mike 2010-09-09 12:50|| 2010-09-09 12:50|| Front Page Top

#2 "Dr." Castro?

As in Demento? OR maybe a reference to the fact that the caudillo's tears cure cancer too bad he never cries

Posted by lex 2010-09-09 12:55|| 2010-09-09 12:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Fidel was just mistaken in 1959. Now in 2010 he's just demented.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-09-09 13:00|| 2010-09-09 13:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Given all the Hollyweird slugs who wax about the 'Cuban Model' but who do not move there, is anyone really surprised? White courtesy phone for Michael Moore.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-09-09 13:20|| 2010-09-09 13:20|| Front Page Top

#5 In a thousand faculty lounges across the nation, distraught professors are wailing, gnashing their teeth, rending their garments, and collapsing into pathetic sobbing heaps.

Wait until they're hit with the Simon theory.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-09-09 14:19|| 2010-09-09 14:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Re: the Simon theory --

And here I was thinking of Fidel having a "come to Jesus" meeting with himself (in the role of Jesus, of course).

Posted by Gabby 2010-09-09 15:02|| 2010-09-09 15:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Jeffrey Goldberg is a low-cal neocon of some standing, FYI. The invite to Havana was issued because Fidel read Goldberg's epic "the Israelis feel they have to do something about the Iranian Bomb" article in the Atlantic last month.

Apparently Fidel's playing his hand at "elder
statesman" now that he's unexpectedly survived his resignation as murderous tyrant, and is playing at anti-anti-Semitism. I'm not sure if this new anti-Iranian game of the elder Castro's is a Cuban initiative, something he's doing in his dotage on his own hook, a rift in the Cuba-Venezuela-Iran chain of alliances, or a break-up between Cuba and Venezuela done at two removes.

The "Cuba doesn't work" strongly suggests a divorce between Cuba and Venezuela, since that's essentially the Chavez plan, with a bit of Bolivarian showmanship to distract the rubes and campus creatures. Castro's determined that the Bolivarian republic is about to go smash, and wants to negotiate an "out"?

Posted by Mitch H. 2010-09-09 15:40|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2010-09-09 15:40|| Front Page Top

#8 The Soviets maintained the illusion in Cuba for a long time, particularly during the start up period. Hugo has no similar sponsor for his economic blackhole. Now the Chinese might be willing to chip in some resources in return for oil concessions, but they're already massively committed to the blackhole at the US Treasury.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-09-09 16:24|| 2010-09-09 16:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Poor Mr. Goldberg then was seen hunched over a stiff drink at the bar down the street from the Atlantic offices, wondering why he'd chosen a career as a progressive journalist and whether he should have listened to his mother and become an accountant ...

michael douglass' character in Romancing the Stone

Plastic surgeon - $500k a year and up 2 my neck in tits and ass.

Posted by anonymous2u 2010-09-09 23:31|| 2010-09-09 23:31|| Front Page Top

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