Fidel Castro died November 25th (if you haven't heard). He was Cuba’s

communist dictator from 1959 to 2006. There has been a lot said about

Castro from numerous people. I thought it might be interesting to look at

three different viewpoints of a man that soon-to-be-ex President Obama

stated, “History will record and judge the enormous impact of this

singular figure on the people and world around him.” So true!

How the media, the liberals, the communists, and other “useful idiots”1

viewed him.

Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, “revolutionaries of the world must

follow his legacy.”

UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon, “a strong voice for social justice in

global discussions at the UN General Assembly.”

Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau, “Fidel Castro was a larger than life leader

who served his people for almost a half century…Mr. Castro made

significant improvements to the education and healthcare of his island

nation.”

Jill Stein, “Fidel Castro was the symbol of the struggle of justice in the

shadow of empire.”

Rev. Jesse Jackson, “Freedom fighter…poor people’s hero.”

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, “romantic figure…was almost like a folk hero to

most of us.”

1 This term was attributed to Lenin by some Russian writers, e.g., by Vladimir Bukovsky (1984).

John Kerry, “Over more than half a century, he played an outsized role in

their lives, and he influenced the direction of regional, even global affairs.”

Jimmy Carter, “We greeted each other as old friends.”

NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, “Fidel Castro is old-fashioned, courtly-even

paternal, a thoroughly fascinating figure.”

Dan Rather, “Fidel Castro could have been Cuba’s Elvis.”

American University (AU) student, “remarkable leader…made possibilities

for the Cuban people nearly endless.”

How those who knew him best viewed him.

Cuba Archive - Castro regime’s total death toll- from torture, prison

beatings, firing squads, machine gunning of escapees, drownings, etc.

approaches 100,000.

Freedom House - 500,000 Cubans (young and old, male and female) have

passed through Castro’s prison and forced labor camps.

Miami’s Cuban Memorial - “Fusilado”, the singular word below the name

on the tomb markers meaning “firing squad execution.” The tombs, by

the way, are symbolic. The bodies still lie in mass graves dug by bulldozers.

Miami Herald - “The case against Fidel and Raul Castro (illegal drugs)

right now is much stronger than the one we had against Manuel Noriega

in 1988.”

Juanita Castro (sister) - “Fidel’s feeling of hatred for this country cannot

even be imagined by you Americans…His intention - his OBSESSION -

is to destroy the US!”

Che Guevara - “To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is

unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a

revolution! And a revolutionary must be a cold killing machine motivated

by pure hate.”

U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who fled Cuba with her family when she

was 8 and eventually became the first Cuban-American elected to

Congress, saw nothing in Castro to romanticize. Responding scornfully to

the praise of world leaders such as Prime Minister Trudeau, she said, “you

did not lose a loved one to an execution squad. You did not lose a loved

one to the gulags in Cuba. The only thing that Fidel has been successful

in, has not been health nor education, or human rights or democracy, it's

been holding onto power -- which is easy to do when you don't have

elections.”

Author Humberto Fontova - “Folks [the] Castro regime jailed and tortured

political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin’s regime during the great

terror. They murdered, murdered, mostly by firing squad, more political

prisoners in their first three years in power than Hitler’s regime murdered

in his first six. They drove 20 times as many people to die trying to escape

from Cuba as died trying to escape East Germany…”

Fidel Castro (1961), describing himself - “Socialist…a lifelong Marxist-

Leninist!”

How the One who loved him most viewed him.

Eze. 18:32 - “For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith

the Lord GOD…”

Eze. 33:11 - “Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no

pleasure in the death of the wicked…”

2 Pet. 3:9 - “…not willing that any should perish, but that all should come

to repentance.”

1 Tim. 2: 4 - “Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the

knowledge of the truth.”

Jn. 3:16 - “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,

that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting

life.”

November 25th Fidel Castro went through the gates of Hell…and was met