E muerto, creo… Marc Cooper reports on Castro’s new fleecing of his own people. [Maybe the UN will give him a job.-ed.]
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That couldn’t be the same Fidel Castro who stood in faternal solidarity with the late, sainted Salvatore Allende, now could it Marc? There must be some mistake. Either that or you are now a reactionary tool of Bush and his corporate masters. What would Noam say?
He asked sarcastically.
Knowing full well the answer he would get would be something along the lines of….
The failing is in the personality, not the system.
Oy.
Maybe the UN will give him a job.-ed.]
Not quite, but Cuba’s been on the UN Commission of Human Rights from 1976-1984, and presently since 1989, in spite of the evidence. For more enlightment on Castro’s respect for human rights, I highly recommend Carlos Eire’s Praying for Snow in Havana, and Reinaldo Arenas’s Antes que anochezca/Before Night falls.
Carib Pundit compares Fidel to Saddam. Fair enough.
Roger:
What would Oliver Stone say. Fidel is very good about inviting naive international artists to his private island to create good will and a “one world” mindset but now that his vaunted economic system isn’t funded by the old Soviet System the fading tyrant is doing what all dictators always do. Squeeze the life out of the people. The only reason he was able to provide all the social services that the Stonistas drooled over was because it was subsidised from the USSR. Now that he has to compete like normal countries the system is starting to crack. But because the people live in a police state they can only smile and praise the revolution while they rely on charity from the “empire”.