I am sort of confused about the "palaces" - Did Castro actually build many palaces? Or are you mocking the palaces built by his predecessors?
bbbustard

bbustard,

Please do us all a favor. Go and do a little research and learn about Cuba before you come commenting here with some ridiculous sarcastic comment like this one.

kaSStro is the one who created the embargo, against his own people. This goes back to 1960. We were still in Cuba when certain consumer goods began to disappear, because the (mis)government decided they did not want to buy from the imperialists unless it suited their purposes. The people be damned.

Far more important and devastating than any embargo on material things is the embargo kaSStro placed on the freedoms of the Cuban people and keeps firmly in place.

Cry me a river, indeed.

Slap 'em, Val.
One could consider the tourist resorts (no Cubans allowed!) to be castro's "palaces." They are well-supplied, have functioning indoor plumbing, a/c, swimming pools w/ clean water, convenience stores, food -- every basic and every luxury while the rest of the country crumbles.

Embargo=nocastro , no embargo=capital=bombas nucleares echas en corea del norte. YA NO MAS.

Way to go Val - but why aren't you slapping FL Mom? She doesn't think Castro built any palaces either - except for the hotels he built to try to restart the tourism business.
I understand that Castro has been a tyrant, and have no sympathy for him. I don't understand how you guys can compare him to Hitler.

Saber que el comediante esta jodiendose por el embargo es grata noticia para empezar el dia. Gracias Val!

"I don't understand how you guys can compare him to Hitler."

I don't think the comparison to Hitler is very apt, either bbbustard. I tend to think more like Stalin. Maybe Hoenecher. Or, if you would rather a more direct comparison, look to Kim Jong-Il.

A German friend of our family, who had suffered because of Hitler - the suffering including such niceties as spending time in a Soviet prison camp thanks to Adolf's adventurism - compared kaSStro to Adolf 45 years ago during a conversation with my father...and vowed he would not be returning to Cuba as long as kaSStro was in charge. Unfortunately kaSStro outlived our good friend, who never did return to Cuba.

bbustard,

My comment to you was basically me asking you what predecessors you were referring to? There are some beautiful buildings in Cuba - or, i should say, there were before fidel let them go to ruin- that were built prior to the Pilgrims landing on Plymouth rock. Are those the palaces and predecessors you were referring to? or were you making some uneducated and sarcastic statement about castro's predecessor?

You know, saying you dislike castro while criticizing those who had to flee his tyranny doesnt get you a pass on the old conscience. I suggest you peruse the archives of this blog prior to making any more asinine and inane statements that make you look foolish.

And it isnt our problem that you cant see the similarities between one fidel castro and one adolf hitler. There's plenty of them if you chose to remove the blinders. Why dont you go and ask Kos if that would be OK?

I compare him to Hitler.

bbustard, I've compared him to Hitler here many times. Executions, prisons of torture, labor camps, a SS type security apparatus controlling everyone, book burnings, all that's missing is the ovens and this dictator has been at it for 46 years.

Kathleen - In comparing Castro to Hitler you state "all that's missing is the ovens". Hitler killed over six million people in those ovens that you dismiss so easily. Another 50 million died in Europe in wars started by Hitler. I am not the one wearing blinders, and I am not the one who is proudly slapping around curious visitors.