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"Forbes magazine ups Fidel Castro net worth
By Michele Gershberg
Fidel Castro was furious when Forbes magazine estimated his fortune at $550 million (300 million pounds) last year. This year, the magazine upped its estimate of the communist leader's wealth to a cool $900 million.
Castro, who says his net worth is nil, is likely the beneficiary of up to $900 million, based on his control of state-owned companies, the U.S. financial magazine said in its annual tally of "Kings, Queens & Dictators" fortunes on Thursday.
Kings and sheikhs of the oil-rich Gulf Arab states still top the Forbes list, to be published in its May 22 edition.
Saudi King Abdullah is number one with an estimated $21 billion, followed by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei at $20 billion and United Arab Emirates' President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan at $19 billion.
Among Europeans, Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein improved upon his family fortune of palaces, real estate and artwork with an investment in a U.S. producer of hybrid rice, for total estimated riches of $4 billion.
Perhaps the most industrious of the leaders listed is Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, ruler of Dubai, with a net worth of $14 billion.
Forbes estimates the renowned racehorse breeder also helped raise Dubai's gross domestic product from about $8 billion to nearly $40 billion since 1994 by diversifying its industries outside of oil and making successful investments overseas.
"He would probably be the shrewdest of the bunch," said Luisa Kroll, associate editor at Forbes.
Africa's Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, president of Equatorial Guinea, made the list of wealthiest leaders for the first time. He is estimated to hold up to $600 million, the magazine said, although an oil boom has not prevented his country's slide down the
United Nations' development rankings.
Castro had said he was considering suing after Forbes released its 2005 list, scoffing then his wealth was estimated to be close to that of the queen of England.
"Do they think I am (former Zairian President) Mobutu (Sese Seko) or one of the many millionaires, those thieves and plunderers that the empire has suckled and protected?" he said last year, referring to his capitalist archenemy, Washington.
This year, Castro would be well above the British monarch. The Queen came in with some $500 million in estates, gems and a stamp collection built by her grandfather. The list does not include Buckingham Palace or the crown jewels.
A copy of the list, compiled by Forbes editors and not confirmed by the royals themselves, was released on Thursday.
"People are always intrigued. What is the ultimate fantasy but being a rich princess or prince?" said Kroll, who edits the magazine's annual list of global billionaires.
"We keep it separate from the billionaires because there are some very tricky things about these folks," Kroll said. "It's very hard to separate state from personal wealth. Some of these fortunes literally go back 800 years."
Comme c’est ironique cet article. Surtout quand on regarde la source. Le magasine Forbes n’est pas, je crois, doctrinalement aligné sur la politique cubaine. Alors, moi, je mets en doute les allégations d’un magasine qui n’a toujours fait que diaboliser Castro afin d’alimenter ceux qui souhaiteraient que l’île redevienne la propriété des mafiosis américains qui y exploitaient des casinos en méprisant la communauté locale.
On a beau tenter de faire passer Castro pour un dictateur sanguinaire, il ne faut pas être très aux faits de la réalité cubaine pour avoir de telles prétentions.
Nommez-moi un seul dictateur ayant éradiqué totalement l’analphabétisme de son peuple, fait passer l’espérance de vie à 77 ans et abaissé le taux de mortalité infantile à 5,8 pour 1000 naissances.
Malgré un embargo américain des plus sauvages, le sort des cubains n’a cessé de s’améliorer au cours des dernières décennies. Pouvons-nous en dire autant des autres pays antillais, de l’amérique centrale ou de l’amérique du sud? Haïti, ça vous dit quelque chose?
Alors, quand Forbes fait la liste des plus grandes fortunes du monde et qu’elle met Castro dans cette liste en lui attribuant la propriété des actifs des grandes entreprises nationales cubaines, c’est de la pure calomnie visant à diaboliser encore le président cubain.
C’est comme si on attribuait la propriété des actifs des compagnies pétrolières albertaines à leur premier ministre…Ou qu’on mette sur le compte de la fortune personnelle de Jean Charest, tous les actifs d’Hydro-Québec! Vous imaginez quelle serait sa fortune?
Désolé Richard, mais votre titre est tendancieux. Vous prenez les allégations d’un magasine qui a 1000 fois démontré son parti-pris anti-castriste pour une vérité objective alors que nous savons tous qu’il n’en est rien. L’exercice de Forbes est une mascarade qui cache à peine sa haine viscérale pour tout ce qui n’est pas du capitalisme sauvage à l’américaine. De la poudre aux yeux!
En parlant de Cuba, regardez cet extrait d’un article qui défend le film « The Lost City » d’Andy Garcia et qui nous décrit le VRAI cuba avant que Che Guevara ce lâche- meurtrier et Castro ce dictateur-nabôt en fassent une grosse prison de pauvreté ;
[…]Here’s a UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) report on Cuba circa 1957: « One feature of the Cuban social structure is a large middle class, » it starts. « Cuban workers are more unionized (proportional to the population) than U.S. workers. The average wage for an 8-hour day in Cuba in 1957 is higher than for workers in Belgium, Denmark, France and Germany. Cuban labor receives 66.6 per cent of gross national income. In the U.S. the figure is 70 per cent, in Switzerland 64 per cent. 44 per cent of Cubans are covered by social legislation, a higher percentage than in the U.S. »
…In 1958 Cuba had a higher per-capita income than Austria and Japan. Cuban industrial workers had the eighth-highest wages in the world. In the 1950s Cuban stevedores earned more per hour than their counterparts in New Orleans and San Francisco. Cuba had established an eight-hour workday in 1933 – five years before FDR’s New Dealers got around to it. Add to this a one-month paid vacation. The much-lauded (by liberals) social democracies of Western Europe didn’t manage this till 30 years later…
[…]And get this, Maxine Waters, Barbara Walters, Andrea Mitchell, Diane Sawyer and the rest of you feminist Castro groupies: Cuban women got three months of paid maternity leave. I repeat, this was in the 1930s. Cuba, a country 71 percent white in 1957, was completely desegregated 30 years before Rosa Parks was dragged off that Birmingham bus and handcuffed. In 1958 Cuba had more female college graduates per capita than the U.S…
Ça vayt la peine de lire le reste, allez à;
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/4/30/233226.shtml
merci à M.Leblanc pour l’article.
Pour plus de renseignements sur Castro, voir:
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=912
et, pendant que nous y sommes, un article sur Monsieur Guevara :
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2054
Bien entendu ça vient d’un site d’extrème droite, pro États-Unis, anti-castriste, pro capitalisme sauvage et ses auteurs sont des mangeurs de « Liberty Fries »….
Extrait très révélateur d’une lettre ouverte d’un journaliste Cubain du nom de Jorge Olivera ( qui en passant ne travaille pas pour Forbes magazine…) adressée aux dirigeants du Canada, de l’Union Européenne et des USA;
« HAVANA, February 27 (Jorge Olivera) – Given the notable worsening of repression in Cuba against everyone who exercises rights consigned by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, I’ve decided to write to you asking, today more than ever, your solidarity and support[…]
Actions undertaken by the government in the last few months have reached such levels that they could be considered state terrorism.
[…]I am a witness of the abuse and cruelty.
I was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment in April of 2003 for practicing journalism without the supervision of official censors. Sick, they placed me in a barely lit cell infested with insects. I had to drink contaminated water and the food was regularly served in a state of putrefaction. On December 6, 2004, after 20 months and 18 days of the cruelest treatment, the penal authorities conditionally freed me for reasons of health.
Now they plan to return me to jail. They will not allow me or my family to go into exile. Immigration officials deny us an exit visa, a process that reflects on the country in which we live…Since February 21, I have been prohibited to go outside the limits of Havana without court authorization, nor to participate in any celebrations or public events
[…]I dearly plead for you to use your good offices in favor of those in Cuba who work for reconciliation and the peaceful transition to democracy and pluralism. »
…En prison pour son opinion! non mais pensez-y deux secondes!!!
Et ça c’est juste une petite partie ( 2000 caractères c’est vite passé ) de ce qui se passe de très laid à Cuba …
On a beau tenter de faire passer Castro pour un « christ de bon gars », il ne faut pas être très aux faits de la réalité cubaine pour avoir de telles prétentions…