He liked it so much he didnât want to leave.
Being rich is successful is it? A very odd claim for a supposed socialist.
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Are you a Mongol now as well?
Ah here, donât start him bragging about what he made after tax last year, again.
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we only have a capitalist system still because governments around the world were blackmailed into propping it up temporarily after the crash. It failed spectacularly, or had you forgotten that. It will fail again too, and all it is doing in the meantime is returning us to a modern variant of the feudal system, with a few super rich billionaires taking the place of the aristocratic elite, a manager/professional class replacing the old courtier class and a vast impoverished underclass in the serf role, only this time they wonât even have any work to do. Theyâll get a few handouts from the elite though and theyâll be fed dross through the media, which will keep them from rebelling.
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Fidel even wins Katie over
No surprise that communism and socialism is espoused by wasters and parasites on the dole, look at the likes of the top commies in Ireland, Michael D Higgins and the labour party, lads who never done a hard days work in their lives, true communists.
still no clarity or opinion from the socialist students on what motivated Castro to let nobody leave Cuba for 50 years.
which is very very disappointing
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Maybe nobody is bothered answering your dull boring tedious questions.
Because youâre a dull boring tedious cunt.
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Do you know the answer to this yourself?
Its tedious now because iv had to ask a few times. I donât believe these fellows dont know the answer as they have the answers to everything else.
im confident @Watch_The_Break will get me the answer because he seems the smartest of them.
who said anything about being rich?
Student Union opens at 12:30pm on Wednesday, Guinness give the socialist society a keg, heâll be along soon
Youâre actually defending US interventionism now having previously claimed to be a âlibertarianâ. 
Some libertarian, a proper warmongering neo-con, more like.
âBy far the best system availableâ, eh?
You might want to read up on your history.
An Apology for a Guatemalan Coup, 57 Years Later
By ELISABETH MALKIN
OCT. 20, 2011
MEXICO CITY â More than a half-century after Guatemalaâs elected president Jacobo Arbenz Guzman was overthrown in a coup planned by the C.I.A. and forced into a wandering exile, President Alvaro Colom apologized on Thursday for what he called a âgreat crime.â
In a muted ceremony at the National Palace in Guatemala City, Mr. Colom turned to Mr. Arbenzâs son Juan Jacobo and asked for forgiveness on behalf of the state.
âThat day changed Guatemala and we have not recuperated from it yet,â he said. âIt was a crime to Guatemalan society and it was an act of aggression to a government starting its democratic spring.â
The overthrow in 1954 of Mr. Arbenz, a former army colonel whose policies attempted to narrow the chasm betwen the countryâs tiny elite and its impoverished peasants, squashed a 10-year effort to build a democratic state.
Under a succession of military rulers who took power after the coup, Guatemala descended into three decades of a brutal civil war in which as many as 200,000 people died, many of them peasants killed by security forces.
The Eisenhower Administration painted the coup as an uprising that rid the hemisphere of a Communist government backed by Moscow. But Mr. Arbenzâs real offense was to confiscate unused land owned by the United Fruit Company to redistribute under a land reform plan and to pay compensation for the vastly understated value the company had claimed for its tax payments.
Mr. Arbenz âwas not a dictator, he was was not a crypto-communist,â said Stephen Schlesinger, an adjunct fellow at the Century Foundation and co-author of âBitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala.â
âHe was simply trying to create a middle class in a country riven by extremes of wealth and poverty and racism,â Mr. Schlesinger said.
Under Mr. Colom, Guatemala has taken steps to address its legacy of repression. Prosecutors have won long sentences for soldiers convicted of one of the civil warâs worst massacres, and police files have been opened for families to trace the last moments of relatives who disappeared during the conflict.
The presidentâs apology was one of a number of steps that the government agreed to take to restore Mr. Arbenzâs name and his role in the nationâs history after five years of negotiations overseen by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington.
âIt has taken a lot of courage for the government to do what it is doing,â Dr. Erick Arbenz, the former presidentâs grandson, said in an interview. Noting that young Guatemalans do not even know who his grandfather was, he said: âWe want to become the missing link of this new generation.â
The Arbenz family is seeking an apology from the United States for its role in the coup, he said.
The government is also revising the school curriculum and has renamed a main highway and a museum wing after Mr. Arbenz. At Thursdayâs ceremony, Ruth del Valle, the president of the presidential human rights commission, presented a copy of a memoir written by Mr. Arbenzâs widow, Maria Cristina Vilanova, to their son Juan Jacobo Arbenz Vilanova.
The agreement with the family is âan example of how these processes â the search for justice and reparations for victims of the armed conflict or violations of human rightsâ are irreversible, Ms. Del Valle said in an interview.
Iâve had a bad year. Iâm contemplating going back and picking spuds next year.
The Chairman, the President and the crowd at Fidelâs funeral event in Havana last night https://t.co/pVADsBUYWw
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Eventually got twitter working. Photos from last night Fidel"s funeral event in Havana. More to follow. https://t.co/ugDquqdOi4
What a great statesman Gerry is.Tiocfaidh ar la.
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Heâs in a small bit of bother when he gets home
Yawn.
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