Al Jazeera's Latin America Editor Lucia Newman recounts Fidel Castro's life and legacy. Subscribe to our channel bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter / ajenglish Find us on Facebook / aljazeera Check our website: www.aljazeera.com/
Personally, I think Fidel Castro will always be a legend for all revolutionaries and those who seek social justice anywhere in the world. Viva Fidel! Viva Cuba!
@Ludd Zarko - Well, Luddy, Fidel Castro may have had some mistakes during his leadership of Cuba for many decades, but he believes that true social justice involves the common good of people, eradicating such evils as poverty and injustice, and a more humane society in the world. You may disagree on what I said about Castro, but in spite of his mistakes, he did believe in social justice for his country. Only right-wing nutjobs are AGAINST social justice when it comes to their defense of imperfect capitalism.
When I was young all I knew about Fidel Castro was that he was one of the worst people in the world. Then I looked into who he was and what he achieved and I believe he was one of the best people in the world.
@@killjoy.beauty He organised a rag-tag band of revolutionaries and lead them to victory over a mafia government in the pocket of the USA. Then, under economic embargo, ended hunger and homelessness and provided every Cuban with healthcare and a purpose. The one's who left to go live in the USA did so because they didn't like the new government preventing them from exploiting their fellow Cubans.
No op, but he liberated the people of Cuba whilst constantly being under attack from America and despite the genocidal embargo from Ameica was able to build a better life for the people as opposed to if they stayed under direct US influence
fidel Castro Fidel Castro was a dictator, a criminal and a thief, I lived in the Ceausist communist era imposed by the USSR in Eastern Europe and it was very terrible, we were starving, we took everything with a limit of 10 o'clock in the evening, it was blackout and you were obliged to do what the dictator said
I Remember History of Cuba : Cuba is the Number One Producers of Sugar in The World But Monopolized by US when Re - Colonized by USA After Spanish - RCC ( Major Religion of Cuba ) & Fidel Castro Assumed Power After Revolution with mandated by Majority of Cuban Citizens 👈👈👈👍👍👍
@Marliz de Jezus Put between your girlfriend's legs these condolences. YOU must be an idiot to write such nonsense! How much are they paying you for this? Congratulation!
He was right blaming every problem to the embargo. Look at Vietnam! In the 80s we suffered from poor economy and the Russians, whose economy was also struggling, supported us with horses' food. After the US lifted the sanctions, the economy started to go up. Do you see how we are doing now? Still a lot of problems but absolutely much better than the 80s.
dui - clang - enguyen: We don't care about the little chinese. Not our problem. For all we know, what you say might be just a pack of lies. comunistas cannot tell A SINGLE TRUTH !
I'll never forget the week he died. I was actually on RU-vid watching a documentary about him & i was talking to someone on the comments about him. Few days later i hear the news that Fidel has passed away. It bought a tear to my eye.
Although Fidel Castro was no longer in Cuban politics when Obama began the process of dismantling Cold War-era Cuba policy and when Alan Gross was jailed (his departure from power came during Bush 43's second term in office), his death in 2016 was a dream come true for all Cuban Americans in South Florida, even those who cheered Barack Obama for swinging the door wide open to Cuba.
Of course, given the nature of the ownership of Al Jazeera, the criticism may have a semblance with truth, but doesn't quite ring authentic. The role Fidel played in inspiring generations across the globe is brushed aside in a sentence or two. At the end of the day, what we see depends on where we stand....
Although many sub-Saharan African countries chose to part ways with Cuba as regards their economic way of life, Fidel Castro's fierce opposition to racism in all its forms, including the apartheid regime in South Africa, but also his dispatching of Cuban doctors to Africa, mean that the leaders of sub-Saharan Africa see Fidel as a humanist and beacon of hope for downtrodden mankind rather than a tyrant. Although Nelson Mandela was anti-racist and anti-war like Fidel Castro, he preached forgiveness, reconciliation, and Gandhian-style nonviolence when opposing socioeconomic inequalities in South Africa, while Che Guevara made no apologies about violence and bloodshed when striving for a developing world free of inequality and colonial oppression, and Fidel Castro didn't publicly regret his efforts to foment mayhem in Latin America through Marxist insurgencies like FARC.
Cubans long to leave Cuba, as a legacy of the tyrant Fidel Castro. It is an everyday topic of conversation among friends and family. Nobody talks about the (mediocre) embargo on the streets of Cuba, it is not a topic that Cubans on the island care to talk about. Talk about who was able to escape from Cuba among known people, because almost everyone keeps it silent until they do. This began to become increasingly accentuated starting in 1993, when hunger began in Cuba for Cubans, and in this 21st century it is increasingly growing, having its greatest peak in 2023 with the arrival of more than 200,000 Cubans to the USA, the favorite country of Cubans. Cuban families are divided between the US and Cuba where the US family supports the Cuban family, the Cubans on the island can no longer survive without the US
Fidel Castrol was truly an independent mind. He stood tall to the end of his time. He never bowed to the Goliath who throughput his life kept attempting assassination but lamentably failed. Fidel was the man of the people and the people protected him. He forcibly came into government and left on his own terms. R. I. P
20.01.2023. Shortly after mourning for this criminal, I was in Cuba and I didn't see anyone worrying about Fidel. The Cubanos just said it's worse now that Raul is here. Havana is painted but no food! Now for Canel, no pints and no food! The progress of socialism is "huge" and you will never build this system! Your slogans: socialism or death, put in a museum! For 64 years of revolution, Cuba's government can neither feed nor clothe the people!!! Long live Cuba but free Cuba forever! Al poco tiempo de estar de luto por este criminal, estuve en Cuba y no vi a nadie preocupándose por Fidel. Los cubanos acaban de decir que es peor ahora que Raúl está aquí. ¡La Habana está pintada pero no hay comida! ¡AHORA POR CANEL, SIN PINTA Y SIN COMIDA! ¡El progreso del socialismo es "enorme" y nunca construirás este sistema! ¡Pon tus consignas "socialismo o muerte" en un museo! ¡¡¡Por 64 años de revolución el gobierno de Cuba no puede ni alimentar ni vestir al pueblo!!! ¡Viva Cuba pero Cuba libre para siempre!
@@kamilebrahimoff3589 Really? Which group? All Cubans are below any poverty level worldwide..! Cubans jump on homemade rafts, face storms and sharks in order to flee their own country..? WTF are you talking about??? Cuba is worse than ever..! That's why all Cubans are fleeing in mass, more than ever..!!!!
This documentary presents a highly skewed perspective that fails to accurately depict the reality of Fidel Castro's Cuba. Omitting crucial aspects and neglecting diverse viewpoints creates an incomplete and misleading portrayal of the country's complex history and socio-political landscape.
Fidel Castro Ruz was born in 1926 the son of a rich landowner in the vicinity of Santiago de Cuba. The parents of his mother Lina Ruz, who was )ewish immigrated from Turkey. Castro's father Angel Castro became a millionaire working for Rockefellers (jay family) United Fruit Company. While a student at Univ. of Havana Castro was also a notorious hooligan. Fidel joined UIR, an anti fascist and anti Catholic organization. He also associated himself with Communists. His friends were all Communists. At that time Castro became a KGB agent. While at the University, together with Ortiz he killed Manolo Castro - campus on 02/22/1948. He was also involved in the killing of police officer Fernandez and in the murder case of Lionel Gomez Castro was involved in confetti key invasion of the Dominican Republic on 09/20/1947, a rebellion staged by a radical/extremist student group. He was armed with a submachine gun. The Journalist Gerardo Reyes wrote in his article "Scotland Yard investigated Castro for Assassination". Cel Nuevo Herald, 04/10/2001/ that Fidel Castro was considered one of the suspects in the murder of the liberal Colombian leader Jorge Elicier Gaitin by Scottland Yard detectives, who investigated the case in July 1948, according to American investigator Paul Wolf (jooish). Castro made an appointment with presidential candidate Gaitan. On 04/09/1947/, at 11:00h, Castro and his associate Del Pino met in the Cafeteria Colombia in Bogota with Gaitan's assassin, the 22 year old student leader and Freemason Juan Roa Sierra, hours before he shot the Politician in a central Bogota street. The assassination brought on riots where 5000 people died. CIA agents William A. Wieland and Robottom kept an eye on the events. The Cuban Ambassador to Washington, Octavio Belt, was present in Bogota, and in charge of providing a plane for Castro and the other Communist radicals to return to Cuba. Castro got his law degree in 1949 in Havana and thereafter worked as a lawyer. At this time he also became a Freemason. He lacked principles, and labeled himself a Revolutionary. Castro found inspiration in the Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera. As long as the Cuban economy was thriving, he was unable to introduce communism. Fidel together with Batista planned all the details of Batista's take over from 1948 to 1950 sometimes in Batista's Villa Cooky Ness. Batista was called a symbiant, because the only purpose for having him in power was, to help Castro with the communist take over. Castro received communist Training in the Soviet Embassy in Havana from 1948-1949). Batista's coup on 03/10/1950/ was like a bad TV movie repeated. On /07/26/1953/ he led an armed riot against the dictator Fulgecio Batista in Santiago de Cuba, which officially rendered him a 15 year prison sentence. He was however, granted amnesty in 1955, after he moved to Mexico. Exiled in Mexico Castro got even more help from the communists. Veterans of the Red Brigades of Spain trained Castro in Mexico. The Mexican press accused them of being communist radicals. The Socialist president Lazaro Cardenas and London's vermin bankers protected them. Cardenas also provided them with some fancy weapons and and several farms and security houses where to train and live. Benjamin Vega published Castro's interviews in Alerta a new paper owned by Vasconelos and Batista. On 12/92/1956/, he returned together with 82 radicals that landed near Belic - Niquero, Oriente, in Cuba intending to fight Batista with the support of the CIA. The Cuban authorities monitored the landing. They did nothing, because Fidel was in Symbiosis with Batista. Castro's permanent headquarters was at Hacienda Sevilla, the largest farm in Cuba, in the Sierra Maestra Mountains , east of Tarquino Peak. Rockefeller Standard Oil earlier owned Hacienda Sevilla. The Americans were also able to supply Castro from Guantanamo Bay. U.S. Marine ships were caught transporting supplies to Castro in Camanera - Guatanamo in 1957. To justify Batista not using his Air Force for the only large military operation of the war, Plan H, Castro had his brother Kidnap 50 AMERICANS in the area. Fazit: Fidel Castro was a nose man supported secretly by the jay CIA. This information was withheld from us via the media (👃). Fidel in bed with the US government by screaming death to American Imperialism, secretly receiving all the support he needs from this damned Capitalism, just to continue the struggle against the fiction American Imperialism. This Circus is still on going. Books: Behind Comunism by Frank L Britton.--/ The Anti Humans by D. Bacu.--/ Freemasonry by Leon de Poncins.--/ The Beasts Of The Apocalypse by Olivia O'Grady.--/
@@Mr77ethan77 I don't need advice from the likes of you. And I am alive. You could NOT kill me. I escaped and I am free, out of your reach. Your Master and Lord, fidelovich kastrov, tsar of all the Cubas is DEAD. Join him
@@Mr77ethan77 Join your Master and Lord, fidelov kastrov, in the deepest circle of fire, the 9th, reserved for traitors, where he will be for all eternity as punishment for all his terrible crimes
Doom-YT, That is not like that! First, Fidel and Che were inciting the USSR to detonate an atomic bomb to, according to them, "devastate Washington, even if Cuba disappeared from the face of the earth..." Second, in the 64 years of communism in Cuba, the Americans have never shown the slightest interest in Cuba and its problems; What's more, when the people took to the streets asking for freedom more than a year ago... they yelled at the Americans to intervene, to help with troops. What happened? Nothing! The US did not move a finger. The so-called "blockade" is pure communist manipulation, it is a pure lie. Cuba can trade with WHOEVER IT WANTS!
Underwood95 castro did more than any Latin leader ever has. Free housing, universal healthcare and a 100& literacy rate. He wasn't perfect but he did more than anyone. Hugo & Gadaffi was great leaders.
@@TheSilverExperience he imprisoned people who were against communism not murdered. Untill you can find evidence of MURDER, please dont say it. Thats sinply misinformation. He did not starve anybody. Socialism/communism is about having all fed well. Treated equally. Basically social fairness. And with the nuclear war, they did that to show americans if they bomb anyone else as they did to turkey beforehand.... they are ready to protect and attack. In other words that is how you deal with capitalism which is for the corrupt.
Like Mr Castro. I need assistance. In my declaration for civil war. Here in NZ.. . I have evidence and documentations. For ne one interested. Tama davis
el Kamilito What a pity on you! With those cheers to the man who DESTROYED Cuba and who enslaved 11 million Cubans, locking them up in an island-prison...well...you reveal the kind of person you are. I don't know if you said it because you were deceived or out of ignorance; maybe you're a dirty communist intelligence agent. Whatever, but, you've cheered for the worst. The communist government that has been in Cuba for 64 years is a liar, hypocrite, thief and repressor!!!!
@Vertiegrief No, you are repeating what Fidel Castro led the world to believe. Look, Fidel had to find a PRETEXT to JUSTIFY all the DISASTER caused by him and by communism. There is NO blockade for Cuba!!!!! Cuba CAN trade with WHOM IT WANTS; in fact it does it with: China, Russia, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Canada, Panama, Spain, Portugal, India, New Zealand, South Africa, Ecuador, Viet Nam, South Korea, Algeria, Iran, Sweden, Belgium, Turkey... even with the US, for example, the chicken that the Cuban government sells to the people, says: "Made in USA", The Castro family and the high communist leadership live like great magnates at the expense of the BUSINESSES they do in the name of the country. They do not reinvest the money in the people!!!!!! Everything that Fidel and the Cuban government have said IS LIES!!!!!
The demon has departed to his father the devil. his little demon brothers cannot even play with him. Satan had a special place for him ,the darkest of darkness.
@Ludd Zarko wrong. The USSR provided aide and kept a FAR more hands off approach than the yanks ever did. Of course, being run by a bunch of foreign businesses and meyer lansky is what real freedom is right?
@@travisnell6849 The only GUSANO here it is YOU ! You are a comunist gusano, sold to the comunists for half a pound of butter. As comunist, you are an enemy of Humanity. The summary of ALL BAD THINGS that can be in a person. If you had any honor, you would hide under your bed
Bernie Sanders got clobbered in the Democratic primaries in the 2020 presidential election for reiterating in a February 2020 interview with 60 Minutes his longstanding praise of Fidel Castro's social services for rural Cubans. Lucky that Joe Biden (who campaigned on reviving Obama-era Cuba policies) skewered Bernie for these comments and making clear that praising Castro for building world-class schools, hospitals, and universities for rural Cubans is akin to ultra-leftists praising Stalin for turning the USSR into an industrial power and saving the country from the Nazis in WW2.
@@vahe2391 NO. Praising kastro for building very fine schools for indoctrination of the masses with comunism and Universities ( NOT FOR RURAL CUBANS ) also for indoctrination is akin to nazis praising Der Fuhrer for the extermination of 6 million Jews, plus some other millions Poles, French, gypsies, Russians, etc. But in a way, you are right. It is akin to praise Stalin for all that and forgetting the massacre of 6, 000 Polish officers in Kathyn, the purges of 1 million people, a few more in the gulags and just a few more. Stalin payed no attention to such details. The hospitals in Cuba are filthy, no medications, no alcohol, no medical supplies, doctors deserting by droves, the religious persecutions, the camps of the UMAP, etc
@@victorhrodriguez1159 It wasn't just rural Cubans who got access to free-of-charge schools, universities, and hospitals but also disaffected urban Cubans who were fed up with Batista. But you're right. Little children, whether urban or rural, were brainwashed to fete Fidel as a great leader, an icon of fierce resistance to US economic hegemony in Latin America and the Caribbean and beacon of hope for the sick, illiterate, and poor in not just Cuba and other former European colonies in LatAm and the Caribbean but also other parts of the developing world under the banner of fighting the supposedly evil capitalist system.
Viva l'Internazionale. Viva Fidel. Cuba e' democratica sostanzialmente. Avra' accesso a piu' democrazia formale quando altre democrazie socialiste vinceranno nel Continente Sud Americano; strappando al monopolio dei ricchi e delle borghesie dipendenti e transnazionali le istituzioni, la cultura e l' informazione . Viva Bolivia, Equador e Nicaragua.
