February 13, 2006
Someone who needs education
Francisco Toro of The Caracas Chronicles is a good Venezuelan guy who gives it right between the eyes to Hugo Chavez, but he is a liberal (in the wretched U.S. sense, not the truly Liberal Alvaro Vargas Llosa libertarian sense) and unfortunately, was educated at leftwing American institutions where they must have filled his head with baloney.
He's clear-eyed gazing upon Chavez but he's woefully uneducated on castro, and seems to think that the monstrous castro is not quite a "totalitarian" but something just a step below, maybe 'semi-totalitarian.'
This is garbage.
castro, as we know, is the worst curse ever to befall our hemisphere, and his 46-years of absolute rule is something that has totally disfigured Cuba and the minds and hearts of its people. It has impoverished them, robbed them of development, taken their freedom and sealed them in exactly like a prison. Cubans tell us this not by their words but by their actions, sailing shark infested seas, dependent on ocean currents that could take them anywhere, on any old crap that will float, to an uncertain future in an unknown land. It's all done just to breathe free air.
But Toro doesn't know any better and seems to think fidel is just a tougher-than-average caudillo.
How is it that someone who understands the nightmare in his own country so well can revert to cliche mode when it comes to a country outside, but cripes, not far, from the disaster destroying own country? It boggles the mind.
Toro only lacks education, he's not a bad guy. He needs, without abuse, to be set straight.
His woefully misinformed item on the nature of castro's murderous, bonafide, textbook totalitarian regime is here or, scroll down, here.
Posted by Mora at February 13, 2006 12:48 PM
Comments
wow...chill, man.
All I intended to communicate is that 7-figure+ murder tallies are sort of a distinguishing feature of totalitarianism. Fidel's Cuba seems to show all the distinguishing features of totalitarianism, except the million-man corpse piles. So, I take it as a borderline case...
Seems unobjectionable enough to me...
Posted by: Francisco Toro at February 16, 2006 06:08 PM
Francisco,
I think the point is, at what number do we say it's genocide? how many deaths does one man have to be responsible for before he's officially a totalitarian?
If hugo chaves goes and kills over, lets say, 10,000 people, does that constitute calling him a murderous totalitarian?
Posted by: Val Prieto at February 16, 2006 06:18 PM