Do Latin American countries that rail against “U.S. Empire” have a double standard when it comes to Cuba? Furthermore, do Western Europeans, who cling to their own brand of anti-Americanism, share this distorted thinking?
For Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza, columnist Maciej Stasinski writes in part:
The communist dictatorship of the Castro brothers has allowed a Cuban dissident, Orlando Zapata Tamayo, to starve to death in prison. A bricklayer, Zapata had been condemned to 36 years in prison, castigated and tortured just for demanding a return of basic civil liberties to the island.
What more do we need for the international community to decide it should unify to do something to put an end to this Stalinist anachronism in the Western hemisphere?
The death of the Cuban should be taken to heart by leaders of the many Latin American countries that, due to their aversion to the United States – which is historically justified – don’t condemn Cuba’s regime as a tyranny. They themselves prefer to live in democracies but leave the Cuban dictatorship alone because it remains a symbol of the hopeless rebellion of David against Goliath.
This death should also be taken to heart by those European countries and leaders who just shrug their shoulders when the fate of the island is discussed, either because they are anti-American or simply indifferent to the fate of the eleven million Cubans.”
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