Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Comes Full Circle

Fulgencio Batista was a corrupt and brutal dictator whose regime collapsed under the weight of its own excesses. Fidel Castro emerged from his crypt yesterday to spew anti-American and anti-Israel rhetoric in predicting that these "Italiccolonialist oppressor" states will soon start a nuclear war with peace-loving North Korea and those stalwart harmony seekers in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Fidel Castro has for two generations taken whatever wealth, resources, and productivity Cuba enjoyed and while living a superficially modest life, looted his nation for himself and his close cadre while making the proud Cuban people prisoners and dependents first on charity from the old Soviet bloc to now more reliant on his tyrant friend Hugo Chavez and the new revolutionary states that Castro and Chavez have inspired to follow the corrupted socialist path throughout Latin America. Castro's Cuba has always denied holding political prisoners but has just released fifty-two of those non-existent dissidents from jail in a gesture to Spain within the context of a mutual courtship where Spain seeks greater access to Cuba's resources and more extensive trade ties and Cuba seeks more remuneration for the Castroites, now with younger brother Raul Castro nominally running the nation cum family enterprise in the stead of the largely incapacitated Fidel. Pity the Cuban people and pray that they will soon overturn the real oppressor.

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