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Fidel Castro is finally dead. It was an eventuality that Cubans have been waiting to happen for a very long time. I am not a Fidel Castro fan. Never was. Never will been. And I see much commonality with the Cuban diaspora who yearn to be back to their homeland. However, I would like to pay homage to someone when it merited. Fidel Castro, a giant in Latin American history, deserves that homage. Read More ...
Very nice article . I agree that he set a trend in Latin America to have Indian origin to be leaders of those countries. But one thing I dislike with Communiat leaders like Fidel is that they didn't really eradicate that two classes of very few privileged and many poor people. In the communist country, that few privileged ones are the leaders of the communist party and their families. They transfer power to their family as if the country is their personal property that they have to maintain power within their family. Their family members became heads of state agencies and enjoy a comfortable life while the rest of the population is in poverty.
ReplyDeleteOne thing about the other type of government is that it can allow people to move from one class to another as long as they work hard for it. They might not reach the upper class but nevertheless, they have an opportunity to change their lives.
Fidel is very charismatic but he was really a bad national leader like what you mentioned. Someone like him can inspire people but what is bad about a charismatic leader is that people depend on him and not in their capacity or ability to improve their lives. Charismatic leader maintains their power by acting like Robin Hood and tends to be dictator
But, We also noticed what you observed in Mexico. Most of the Mexican leaders, managers and supervisors even in the very international institution we worked, are usually Spanish origin. They have fair skin. I agree with you that it will be nice to have browned colored people to be in those top positions
Sorry for being too opinionated about this. :) Ako rin Ay lumaki Sa universidad Na lumalaban Sa "imperialistang kano" and ironically it was established by the Americans. But after working so hard for so many years, I lost that idealism and forced to face the reality of life. When a person is young, he or she always wants to rebel because he or she always want to pursue that idealism. I think that was the one that motivated Fidel Castro. But he was also a fair skinned person, a non Indian person who also wanted power which he wasn't able to experience hence he revolted
ReplyDeleteReality taught me that the best way to fight for equality is to work hard and not by revolt.
I never believe that good leadership is based on the color of the skin. But I greatly wish that non-white will work hard to also have a share of that leadership and will help to change the pyramid shape of the distribution of wealth