Wednesday, December 13
"The Right Wing Castro and why I don't defend him"
Peter Hitchens writes:
"...whatever he might believe about Castro's alleged (and dubious) achievements in health and education -- the evidence for which comes mainly from Cuban official statistics which cannot be independently checked -- Castro is a monster.
"He has reversed the verdicts of courts when he didn't like them, so as to punish opponents. He imprisoned his old comrade Huber Matos, who just wanted to go home quietly. His regime began with show trials and mass shootings and continued with repression and censorship and intolerance, which have gone on ever since. For a long period he persecuted homosexuals..."
"...whatever he might believe about Castro's alleged (and dubious) achievements in health and education -- the evidence for which comes mainly from Cuban official statistics which cannot be independently checked -- Castro is a monster.
"He has reversed the verdicts of courts when he didn't like them, so as to punish opponents. He imprisoned his old comrade Huber Matos, who just wanted to go home quietly. His regime began with show trials and mass shootings and continued with repression and censorship and intolerance, which have gone on ever since. For a long period he persecuted homosexuals..."
