When have the castro's ever delivered any good news?

Referring to raul’s July 26 speech, warning Cubans of tough times ahead, Armando Pérez Roura points out, when did the castro’s ever deliver any good news?

That got me wondering what if anything has the average Cuban family received in return for their half century of enslavement by the castro dictatorship.

Clearly, the castro’s and their henchmen have gained - money, power, and for some, perhaps a sense security in exchange for their humanity. However, the average Cuban family has gained nothing, and in fact has lost that which is most precious to we humans, notably expressed 232 years ago by a very different group of revolutionary rebels. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” in other words, the right to be autonomous, the right to exercise one's freewill.

In Cuba, the CDR makes sure that Cubans understand that even behind closed doors, there is no such right, no right to privacy. In schools, children are taught to spy on parents, brother against brother, in defense of the revolution. Imagine the fear that permeates every waking moment of your life when you cannot trust anyone.

The only free space in Cuba is in the silent and solitary struggle for free thought, early shackled by an indoctrinating educational system.

Would those hypocrites who voice support for the regime while living free in under democracy willingly give away that freedom in exchange for the so-called glories of castro’s revolution? I don’t think so.

Posted by Ziva at August 3, 2008 04:57 PM

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