There’s no end to the media fawning over the evil-dictator-for-life of Cuba, Fidel Castro. Alexandre Trudeau has a despicable slurp over the near-dead tyrant in which he gives evidence that the foolish U.S. government’s embargo on U.S.-Cuban trade has served only to entrench the dictatorship by giving it an easy excuse for its own failure:
Cuba under Castro is a remarkably literate and healthy country, but it is undeniably poor. Historians will note, however, that never in modern times has a small, peaceful country been more subjected to unfair and malicious treatment by a superpower than Cuba has by the United States.
The Cuban government can trade with all the world, so the restriction on trade with the U.S., while a hindrance, cannot account for the poverty there. It turns out that they don’t make much of anything that anyone else — even wealthy trash like Alexandre Trudeau, who is not restrained by the embargo as I am — want to buy.
Euronews went one further, however, with a “touching story” on the visit of Hugo Chavez, showing the two of them eating yogurt together. It ended with the hope that the leader of Cuba would soon be again “fit as a Fidel.” Ugh.
A Canadian named “Alexandre” is a “she”?
Oops! I’ve corrected the pronoun error.
“…don’t make much of anything that anyone else [would] want to buy.”
That was my reaction when I visited the Soviet Union in 1979. Things have improved after the wall fell. The fall of the Fidel empire I hope is less severe than the USSR experience.
It should be noted that Euronews is the propaganda channel of the European Union.
If you’re not digusted enough, Tom, be sure to check out Humberto Fontova’s great book, “Fidel: Hollywood’s Favorite Tyrant.”
Ironic. I thought “free trade = Satan.” Wouldn’t trading with Cuba account for the sin of globalization. But when were Leftists ever honest? Honesty doesn’t count much in the Will to Power.
Trudeau has his competition in the US media – Mort Zuckerman’s risible “Dinners With Fidel”, in the most recent U.S. News and World Report, might be impossible to outdo. It reads like the excerpt of a Danielle Steele novel.
While I harbor no love for dictators, America’s embargo has most certainly made the country poorer. So have idiotic and costly agriculture subsidies and quotas that have been put in place by American government. I support the natural rights of Cubans to trade freely with America, and I hope that the idiocy of tyrants on both land masses will subside with Fidel’s passing.