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This photo-story appeared in the online version of the New York Times this morning. One of the photos in particular struck me. It was a photo of Cuban military personnel standing on the side of the road waiting for Fidel’s ashes to pass by. Hundreds-of-thousands of people did the same. But what really struck me was that the military personnel were completely unarmed! In fact, in all the news photos of the masses of Cuban people out in the streets to morn the passing of Fidel you see no armed military or police; no armored tanks with sharp-shooters on their gun turrets as we’ve seen on the streets of Baltimore and on the plains of North Dakota! In fact, there has never been such a scene here in the U.S where even the local police are armed to the teeth with military-grade armor and weapons! Where else in the world can you see hundreds-of-thousands, maybe millions, of people out in the streets with no armed police or military necessary. Even the vehicle carrying the ashes of Fidel is open and unarmed! These images speak for themselves! I guess the Cuban governmental “dictatorship” doesn’t feel the need to bare arms against its own people! A Nation in Mourning: Images of Cuba After Fidel Castro By TOMAS MUNITA, MAURICIO LIMA and AZAM AHMED <http://www.nytimes.com/by/azam-ahmed>DEC. 3, 2016 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/world/americas/a-nation-in-mourning-images-of-cuba-after-fidel-castro.html?ref=world <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/world/americas/a-nation-in-mourning-images-of-cuba-after-fidel-castro.html?ref=world> _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
