Castro asked US president for $10

[M_Rawlins]

hehe, just read this from the BBC, it's pretty funny.

In 1940, 12-year-old Cuban boy Fidel Castro wrote to US President Franklin Roosevelt to request a $10 note.

Fidel wants 10 dollars (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3808431.stm)

[Guerrilla22]

I wonder what Fidel would have done with 10 bucks.

[Pawn Power]

that is crazy, i liked how he signed it your friend at the end

[Archpremier]

Hmm... What would he have done with $10... Probably started a lemonade stand that would evolve into a multi-national beverage corporation.

[RABBIT - THE - CUBAN - MILITANT]

Originally posted by [email protected] 18 2004, 02:41 AM
Hmm... What would he have done with $10... Probably started a lemonade stand that would evolve into a multi-national beverage corporation.
AHAHHAHAH

[herr_Nosferatu]

Originally posted by [email protected] 18 2004, 01:37 AM
that is crazy, i liked how he signed it your friend at the end
Still you can't critize this reply, after all Fidel was only a ten year old innocent child unaware of the faults of the United States at that early time.

[Cognitioned Kazak]

even at that age..I can envision fidel burning the bill in a furious anti-imperialist furor.

[DaCuBaN]

He asks Roosevelt, President of the US between 1933 and 1945, to fulfil one desire - to send him a green $10 note.

"Never I have not seen a ten dollars bill green American and I would like to have one of them," the future Cuban leader wrote.

He included a return address at the Colegio de Dolores in Santiago, Cuba, where he was studying at the time.

The White House had an office to deal with all the president's correspondence and sure enough Fidel Castro received a reply, but disappointingly, no bill.

About 19 years later, his guerrilla campaign toppled the seven-year military rule of Cuban President Fulgeneio Batista and, at 32, Mr Castro became the country's new leader


I knew it... he never was a socialist! He was just put out because teddy wouldn't give him ten bucks :lol:

[Le Libérer]

He probably wanted the money for a new baseball bat and ball! Imagine the change in history had the NY Mets decided to keep him!

[Pawn Power]

Originally posted by [email protected] 18 2004, 05:05 AM
Still you can't critize this reply, after all Fidel was only a ten year old innocent child unaware of the faults of the United States at that early time.
i wasent critizing, just thought it was funny :lol:

[Take the Power back]

Originally posted by [email protected] 18 2004, 07:37 AM

I knew it... he never was a socialist! He was just put out because teddy wouldn't give him ten bucks :lol:
Franklin, not Teddy. If it was Teddy, Fidel would be long dead by now.

[STI]

Originally posted by Take the Power [email protected] 18 2004, 05:30 PM
Franklin, not Teddy. If it was Teddy, Fidel would be long dead by now.
NO! Pappa Fidel is as immortal as the mountains and as bountiful as the seas! He always was and always will be! :P

[Wiesty]

He and che both were already in political classes and debates and military mapping when they were pre-teens

[Jesus Sanchez]

I read it in the Heral Sun (Australian) yesterday aswell. I can amagine people claiming that the US funded the overthrow of the Batista regime!

[Guerrilla22]

The US did fund the overthrow of Batista, partly, when it became apparent that the Guerrillas had a chance to win, the CIA started to pour funds into M-26-7, but later after suspecting the movement had communist roots, withdrew their funding.

[percept¡on]

Originally posted by Debora [email protected] 18 2004, 03:51 PM
He probably wanted the money for a new baseball bat and ball! Imagine the change in history had the NY Mets decided to keep him!
Castro never tried out for any MLB team, that's an urban legend.

[Guerrilla22]

I wonder if G. W. would send me 10 bucks if I wrote to him?

[Jesus Sanchez]

He can't read. Sending him a letter would be useless.

[Cheech06]

i think in the biography of Che by jon lee anderson, it said that Fidel asked for 1 dollar....but i might be wrong

[All My Stitches Itch]

Didnt che write to Eva Peron and ask for a jeep?

:D

Never got it tho . . . poor guy must of been crushed :(

[Commie-K]

The US did fund the overthrow of Batista, partly, when it became apparent that the Guerrillas had a chance to win, the CIA started to pour funds into M-26-7, but later after suspecting the movement had communist roots, withdrew their funding.

Wanna know something stupid? When the US was helping the revolution, when a city, or base, or anything was conquered, they would fly the AMERICAN flag, when they were liberating Cuba.... nice job assholes.

[Kouros]

Thats pretty funny. Did he ever get it though?

[Kurai Tsuki]

I thought that M26 was funded by donations from exiles before the expidition and then later armed by equipment taken from defeated columns and bases of Batista's troops. It was the 'states who funded Batista's coup in the first place. Why is it that the book Guevara, Also Known as Che or the documentary El Che: Investigating a Legent mention nothing of this aid? And then in Guerilla Warfare, Che says that it is the dictatorship who can expect funding from a powerful foreign country. This all seems very contradictory :unsure:

[Latin American Socialist]

Did any of you know that when fidel was broke he went to mexico and a old guy helped him out by giving him money. Years later fidel bumps into the old guy again, but now fidel is president. Do you know what he did to the old guy, unaware that the old man was the same man who helped him, he executed the old guy because he thaught that the old guy was trying to attack him.

Fidel must have been in a bad mood :angry:

[SittingBull47]

Originally posted by [email protected] 18 2004, 07:37 AM

I knew it... he never was a socialist! He was just put out because teddy wouldn't give him ten bucks :lol:
talk about ambition. If he would have received $10, would he have went on to threaten American interests? (probably yes, but it would be quite amusing to imagine otherwise)

[Latin American Socialist]

It'll be funny if the only reason fidel doesn't like the usa is because he didn't make it to the major leagues and because he didn't get the $10 bill. I could imagine fidel in his office, "Damn the greedy americans, they don't let me play baseball with them and they don't give me $10!" :lol: lol