why the commies don't leave Pinochet alone in peace??
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I don't know.  Why didn't he leave the desaparecidos alone during his time in office?  Where are they now?  Ask them, I know they will have an answer to your question.
560317
It all still is determined the distribution of the wealth. Peasants don't have the ability to stand up to their military. Why do you think that there is so many suicide bombings? To those people that are being repressed, they are martyrs, and hero's to their own people. They don't have anything to loose, because they have already lost everything from the start. I am glad I am an American, and that I don't have to live that way.
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It the scares the shit out of me ! To our ignorant friends heed the words of ben Franklin: THOSE WILLING TO GIVE UP FREEDOMS FOR SECURITY WILL HAVE NEITHER. \n\nAnd to our apathetic friends I quote Martin Niemoeller, one of the most respected Protestant leaders in WWII Germany.\n\nFirst they came for the communists, and I did not speak out--\n    because I was not a communist;\nThen they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out--\n    because I was not a socialist;\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out--\n    because I was not a trade unionist;\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--\n    because I was not a Jew;\nThen they came for me--\n    and there was no one left to speak out for me.
749227
No, he would never have gone peacefully. Dictators rarely leave power easily.That does not mean we did it in the right way or at the right time.
310943
Yes, and Us supported Pinochet in Chile, Batista in Cuba and many more bloody dictators, as show the link below.  Do you know that US give Israelis arms to kill palestinans? USA are not so friendly.
339704
In 1936, General Francisco Franco was among a cabal of military and political leaders who attempted to overthrow the Spanish crown to gain dictatorial powers for themselves and Franco was the commander in Spanish Morocco so he was able to bring a large contingent of African troops for the coup forces. Very shortly, the Fascist powers of Italy and Germany sent huge numbers of troops and equipment to help Franco's forces. To counter this, the Socialist Prime Minister began to receive help from the Soviet Union (unlike Franco who received help from Germany and Italy for free, the government had to pay for Soviet help with gold) and from 'international brigades' of volunteers from all over the world (there was ONE Fascist international brigade, from Ireland, but they decided very early that they didn't like fighting against people who could fight back so they left). As part of their help, the Soviets sent Commissars and eventually murdered more of the government forces than of the Fascists. By 1939, the government began to run out of money, and Stalin began to decide that freedom for Spain really wasn't so important any more so the Russian forces went home (many to be liquidated because they had been exposed to capitalism!). In mid-1939, Franco was installed as the unconditional dictator of Spain, and the Germans were freed just in time to go into Poland.\n\nFranco would remain in uncontested power until about 1980 when he died after a very long illness (hence Saturday Night Live's long-running gag, "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is STILL dead!). Juan Carlos I was mentored by Franco and upon the dictator's death was crowned the King of Spain, and he remains king to this day. The televangelist Jack Van Impe (I just watch because Rexella is a babe, 'Hey, Grandma's pretty hot!') has written several books claiming that Juan Carlos I is in fact the Anti-Christ King.
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Why shouldn't they be, isn't it discrimination if they don't?\nCapitalists are still worried to death about Communists,and rightly so (esp USA).\nI wonder why (apart from the stuff they have read in the capitalist news papers and watched on the capitalist TV)\nI don't think capitalists and communists can ever reach a mutual understanding. (Religion is the opium of the working classes) some one once said! he was right. Both sides have committed atrocities, both sides have done some good, is the question meant to prove this sort of reaction?
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You should not be allowed to be outside alone.  You are dumb as s**t.  Hitler killed people because he didn't like them, not because they had tried to kill him or other people from his country for no reason other than that they were "infidels".  The terrorists killed many, many American people simply because they believe that they should wipe us off the face of the earth because we don't believe what they believe.  Bush is trying to protect his country and its people, not destroy others.  If he didn't care about the other people over there, he wouldn't have sent his troops and would have just blown the whole place to hell and back.  His protection allows you to make dumb a** comments - don't forget.
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They have never stopped loving Fidel or worshipping Che.  Don't forget the little crush they have on Kim Jong of North Korea.  \nAnd here's to hoping that Danny Ortega can stage a comeback in Nicaragua. \n\nThe Liberals lament is so many dictators to love, so little time
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There is no such thing as PEACE\nat any given time - there is a \nwar going on in some country.\nMan killing Man it never stops
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More than anything else, I think it started out of embarassment. When Fidel Castro came out of nowhere to lead his people against a very corrupt regieme led by Bautista, it was like he was a Latino John Kennedy. We welcomed him here in the US. The problem was, of course, that much of the corruption was tied up with the American Mafia and gambling cartels. They did not take very well to being kicked out of Cuba. \n\nThen there was Fidel's Socialist leanings. He was a man of the people, right? He and Che Gueverra saw themselves as liberators. The revolution would not be confined to just Cuba but might well be exported to all the corrupt North American dominated regimes. The US could not stomach that. Trade started getting "difficult."\n\nFidel appealed to a nation very interested in establishing a Western Hemisphere base of influence, the Soviet Union. This was the era of a very hot "Cold War" with Nikita Khruchov taking off his shoe and banging it on the desk in the UN threatening the US with "We will bury you!" The Soviet Union even went so far as to send guided missiles to Cuba. John Kennedy was President at the time. It seemed as though the US and the Soviet Union were going to nuclear war over Cuba. The Soviets withdrew their missiles.\n\nFidel stayed on. The US took in Cubano refugees. Some of them launched attempts to topple Fidel's government. The CIA may have even tried to assassinate him.  There were rumors that Cuba was behind the JFK assassination plot.\n\nSo, Cuba has remained only 80 miles off the Florida shores. And the US still has a base there where the prisoners from the latest war are kept. Strange, huh? Yet, we still do not trade with them.
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Ernesto “Che” Guevara was more than a revolutionary he was a visionary.  He was the son of a middle class Argentinean family who chose a life of sacrifice over privilege.  He saw with his own eyes the horrible effects of oppression and the savage repercussions of the American backed dictators throughout Latin America.  He developed his personal ideology through life experience and chose to be an instrument of the people.  After Castro’s failed coup d'état and subsequent release from prison the two met in Mexico through a mutual friend.  Here he found a vehicle for his cause.  Throughout the Cuban revolution he worked his way up the ranks to Comandante because of his stringent self-discipline and courage.  After Castro took control he headed the national bank and was in charge of developing the country’s economy.  As a Socialist he sided with the Maoist rather than the Leninist school of thought.  He always felt the Kremlin was corrupt and didn’t represent a true form of Communism.  This compromised Castro’s foreign policy because after the U.S. embargo the Soviet Union purchased most of Cuba’s goods and provided stability through financial support of its economy.  Castro could not afford the strained relations with Russia so the two started to drift apart philosophically.  As a result of this and because Che was never a politician or diplomat at heart his fighting spirit led him to Africa and Bolivia. Both cases were disastrous.    In the Congo he joined a disorganized group of insurgents who were not invested in their cause.  In Bolivia he failed to recreate the conditions that made it possible for the peasant population to rise above their oppressors and gain control.  He was ultimately caught and murdered by U.S. trained Bolivian soldiers in 1967.  Whether you believe in his ideology or not you have to admire his commitment to his beliefs.  He left Cuba penniless leaving behind a wife and kids.  After his death he became idolized as a martyr for the forgotten class.  You can view him as a patriot or a murderer depending on if you are looking up or down.  He did govern with a militant fist but he lived accordingly.  \n\nWhy do so many people like him?  In my opinion, because he live and died as a man of his word, true to his beliefs and sacrificed so others may not have to.\n\nThis may be a simplistic description of his life so I can recommend a book or two if you are interested.
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Last night I watched Bill Moyers interview of Salman Rushdie on PBS - first of a new seven part series - and Mr Rushdie addressed this issue.  \n\nHis comment was that people who have never experienced freedom don't know that other avenues are available, and I agree.  \n\nWith the usual total control of the instruments of suppression, the military, secret police, the newspapers and other information media, and the often fatal consequences for disobedience it is probably remarkable that any of these people rebel.  Additionally, keeping body and soul together in most dictatorships doesn't leave time for much else.  \n\nThat mindset take a long time to change.  The Internet should help.  \n\nCuba is a bit different in that Castro replaced a government that was corrupt and his early supporters remembered.  \n\nRemember, too, where the is no free press there isn't much debate.
469842
Yes, they must leave them alone. Why can't they live peacefully, without daily harassment? They must die like princess Diana for that?
852858
I'm getting deja-vu. Didn't you ask this question already ? I remember answering it also. Many people feel bad for Cubans because they are suffering under Castro's tyranny. Not to say that Mexicans aren't suffering as well. Many of the Cubans that come here already have family members here to help them. The main thing is the Communism issue. This country has always hated Communists,this is why,in my opinion Americans are more accepting of Cubans.
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Whatever the reason, it's false The usa has  distorted view of socialism, they are staunch supporters of capitalism They loathe communism to the point of paranoia.But they're not afraid of cuba or anyone else
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Maybe he was a communist just as long as it took to realise that they were as dirty at in-fighting as anybody else...then he realised that he might as well make a living from this knowledge...so he became as dirty at in-fighting as anybody else...high on the power, and better-off than the average commie..