HAVANA (AP) — Fidel Castro says his comments about Cuba’s communist economic model were misinterpreted by a visiting American journalist.
Appearing at the University of Havana on Friday, the 84-year-old ex-president says he meant “exactly the opposite” of the quote contained in a blog by Atlantic magazine reporter Jeffrey Goldberg.
Goldberg wrote Wednesday that he asked Castro if Cuba’s economic system was still worth exporting to other countries. He said that Castro replied: “The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.”
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jkten57
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 8:14pmHey, when you get as OLD as he is you can say anything you WANT !!! Course just because it’s true does not mean anything.
Report Post »jds7171
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 7:50pmI remember reading an add about N. Korea. In the past 3 years they have gone through around 10 finance ministers. I think that is the name. That position is just like the economic board that Obama has. The finance ministers are in charge of trying to make their economy work. Around 4 have been fired because the economy was not improving after using command system of economics. The other 6 got fired because they were starting to use more free enterprise system and the economy was growing a bit. The new guy would come in and do the command system and the economy would die, and then get fired for killing the economy. I love stories that have Irony in them.
Report Post »davecoolworld
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 11:52amThe reporter (Goldberg) caught Castro at a clear, lucid moment and he spoke the truth. He knows his time is short and is now trying to get into heaven after all the evil he has bestowed upon Cuba.
Report Post »MikeinIdaho
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 9:36amHis Russian-made teleprompter broke and made him do it. Or was it George Bush, hmmmmmm?
Report Post »boycottlamestreammedia
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 11:10pmWhich “lame stream media” is covering this story????? Oh I forgot the majority of our US media are communist/Alinsky like followers that will make sure that they will NOT be telling this story! lol!
Report Post »Stupid Windmill
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 9:58pmPoor Castro, why must he suffer so.
Report Post »smartypoop
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 9:28pmPoor Castro! See what happens when you accidently tell the truth? Someone always puts it in print! Maybe thats why the POTUS lies, so no one will listen to him.
Report Post »GodsDotr
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 9:20pmWhere was HIS teleprompter? You gotta wonder.
Report Post »Steverino
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 8:20pmPay no attention to the man behind the curtain…
Report Post »MB
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 7:55pmI knew it was too good to be true
Report Post »JJMinor
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 5:34pmSo, why haven’t the sanctions against Cuba been lifted? Would it be too obvious in some way? Would Obama keep sanctions in place to keep people from thinking he’s a communist sympathizer? Which he seems to be. Collective Salvation and all that. I guess Obama and Fidel are both fans of Marx.
Report Post »IhatewhenIwakeupandObummerisstillPOTUS
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 5:22pmDementia for sure.
Report Post »aherzog129
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 5:09pmo castro…..communism doesnt work mi amigo
Report Post »redneckphilosopher
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 4:55pmWhat is the secret to selling this socialist idea in this country? With all the failures in the past and all the evil men that are behind them you would think we would not give it a second thought. Why would so many americans look at these other countries and say yes that’s what I want. Is it a case of the bigger the lie the more people will believe it?
Report Post »Uber
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 4:48pmSo many lives ruined, 50 years later he figures it out
Report Post »Kataklysmic
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 4:45pmOf course he meant the opposite. Cuba’s robust economy and stellar quality of life are powerful refutations to what his words were twisted by the interviewer to mean. /
Report Post »LC LaWedgie
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 6:50pmBrilliance such as his, Hugo Chavez, Sean Penn and Code Pink are often initially misunderstood by the common man. It’s a curse.
Report Post »AKSamson1
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 5:32pmYeah, that’s why people are risking life and limb to escape.
Report Post »JDComments
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 4:42pmIt’s really kind of difficult to imagine how something that cut and dried could be so completely misinterpreted. Castro must have thought he was talking to a Cuban journalist who would never have reported that.
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M31Sailor
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 4:27pmThe Univ of Havana is conferring a Doctor of Economics award on Obummer
Report Post »CherryBomb
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 4:25pmThese ******** really have a hard time conveying a message, don’t they?
Report Post »GulfPeg
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 3:50pmCastro’s mind is just too far gone. He doesn’t know if he is dead or alive.
Report Post »rocktruth
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 3:47pmYeah, we need a new system… let me think… Many of the world systems are not functioning like they should anymore. soooo I got an idea, let’s merge them all into one socialized system. Workers of the world unite! Yeah, That will fix it. Where is Che Guevara and Obama? Maybe they can help with this new revolution.
Uhhhh NO… I don’t think so.
Report Post »Freelancer
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 3:38pmMust have received a threatening call from George Soros telling him to fix the statement or he would demolish what’s left of his economy with the flick of a switch…..
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 3:27pmthat sure sounds familiar…we’ve heard that spin everyday in America since Jan 2009. wonder if the fugly hippie socialist Stanley Dunham ever met with Castro behind closed doors, in his bedroom.
Report Post »Azmodious
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 3:23pmoops….a teachable moment?
Report Post »RM Brand
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 8:20pmI see it more as a “DOH!” moment. lol
Report Post »M31Sailor
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 3:21pmRemind you of anybody
Report Post »gracentruth
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 4:21pmIt surely does remind me of – - – - and lots more of those socialist/communists (remember USSR – Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republic).
Report Post »Joseph
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 4:34pmCastro has been doing this for years, and even did it to his buddies USSR. Once the FSU fell, they remembered Castros games and left him flat. He’s the model for the presant idealist that we have to deal with now. The problem is Castro is stupid and always was. If he wants to stimulate the Cuban economy and get some Luker, all he has to do is threaten to soak 10,000 Korans in pigs blood and then set them on fire.
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 4:59pmObama called him and told him he better retract the statement or Obama would lose part of the reasoning for importing the Cuban model here.
Report Post »rubberbabybuggybumpers
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 6:00pmgracentruth
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 4:21pm
It surely does remind me of – – – – and lots more of those socialist/communists (remember USSR – Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republic).
You forgot to capitalize the other obvious: UNION of Soviet SOCIALIST Republic
Report Post »Unions and Socialism are synonymous. A fact that goes undetected by MSM.
VirginiaMargarita
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 8:27pmPotus?
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