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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHappy 87th birthday Fidel
Thanks for your nurses, doctors and scholarships for Caribbean people.
Now let me count down 3...2...1...
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Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)BuddhaGirl
(3,586 posts)I wonder what THEY get in honor of his birthday??
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)TBF
(31,921 posts)Country in shambles - check out these inequality charts: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph
Entire world - Prison Population Totals
For more details about the figures of any country, please click on the name of that country
1 United States of America 2,239,751
2 China 1,640,000
3 Russian Federation 686,200
4 Brazil 548,003
5 Nigeria 541,444
http://www.prisonstudies.org/info/worldbrief/wpb_stats.php?area=all&category=wb_poptotal
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)TBF
(31,921 posts)if you're a 1%er it's good to be you. Others not so much.
Catherina
(35,568 posts)Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)happy b-day.*
(*this post does not mean I approve of authoritarian governments of any fashion.)
TBF
(31,921 posts)Comments from Chavez 8-13-01 (repeated in Granma yesterday)
Fidel not only belongs to Cuba, he belongs to this world of ours, to this Our America
Brother, ¡Hasta la victoria siempre! And may you have very many more birthdays among us, giving demonstrations of this integrity which you have given all your life, giving demonstrations of courage, example, and driving forward, as always, the waves of the peoples.
Homeland is humanity: it is the legacy of what is the living embodiment of Comandante Fidel Castro.
When you meet with Fidel Castro, he is going to ask you 100 questions in the first five minutes. He wants to know about everything.
Fidel is a boy of 75 years ( ), a dreamer, an example without any doubt to all of us, and for entire generations of Latin Americans, Caribbeans and fighters all over the world.
Fidel can show his face with total integrity and absolute morality, not only to the Cuban people, but to all the peoples of the world. Cuba blockaded, almost without resources from the material point of view, but led by Fidel and constructed by his people, has entered the 21st century in a social situation which is the envy of the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean ...
The rest is here: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/cuba-i/12agos-Fidel%20not.html
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)...more surrounding countries would emulate its prosperity.
Wonder why they haven't...