Set Aside Anti-Americanism and Condemn Cuban Tyranny: Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland
Mar 5th, 2010 | 9 responses
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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9 Responses to “Set Aside Anti-Americanism and Condemn Cuban Tyranny: Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland”
Many former East Germans do not vacation in Cuba because they understand how it is to live under communist oppression. I watched an interview of a 70 year old East German man that was jailed for 26 years because he wrote swing music.
West Germans love to vacation in Cuba.
My position regarding the kind of people who cannot condemn the coup against Chavez *and* his incompetence and obvious power-accumulating tricks is already clear. Incapacity to handle nuances, contradicting situations and uncomfortable facts is the sign of a vulgar mind.
Same applies here – Latin American antipathy towards globalized capitalism and it's harbinger, the US, is understandable considering the evil doctrines forced on the region, the support of Pinochet/ the Contras etc. The treatment of Cuba has been a bit panicky and self-righteous, but let us not forget that Castro was scum. The embargo isn't total – Cuba has received aid and the like, and the reason there is no trade with the island is because they don't produce anything other nations want, grace of the economic know-how of your average communist bureaucrat.
The good education system and the awesome healthcare? That was in place before the revolution. The Russian money went towards weaponization and life-sustaining handouts of bread, mostly. So in Cuba's case, the problems are both self-inflicted and the fault of America's dialectal, fearful response to the spread of totalitarian socialism.
Castro and Chavez both dictators and disasters for their poor countries.
Care to explain how a Man who got elected with well over 50% of the vote, in multiple supervised election is a Dictator? The Carter center which supervised multiple elections in Venezuela says that Hugo won fair and square…
Just because you don't like a politician does not make him a dictator… It's not Hugo's fault that the people who preceded him in office were a bunch of incompetent crooks…
1960s – 1990s
And now you know why Chavez keeps getting reelected, he makes the life of his people better…
And now you know why Chavez keeps getting reelected, he makes the life of his people better..”
And, he will make it even better being tutored by Castro, Putin and Am.
If you don't want him to deal with those people, stop treating him like an enemy… And don't try to overthrow him again…
If you don't want him to deal with those people, stop treating him like an enemy”
I think it is too late, his power hunger has driven him around the bend:
“Here is video saying Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez is blaming the United States for the Earthquake in Haiti, claiming the U.S. Navy tested a “powerful weapon” which caused the Earthquake. According to Chavez, destroying Iran is the real purpose of the U.S. using a “Tectonic Weapon.”
http://www.freedomslighthouse.com/2010/01/venez…
Chavez, like Berlusconi, was once elected fairly but then impedes the working of liberal, modern democracies to more easily keep the power and avoid scrutiny or repercussions.
Baby Huey actually has defender-groupies who at time are worse than he is. What a wacko crowd.