January 05, 2009

Sagacity from the Scotsman

Great column in The Scotsman about the 50th anniversary of the castroite "revolution" in Cuba. He would score very high on the regime's grading scale, but then again the regime only cares about perpetuating the types of lies that Gerald Warner blows up:

The 50th anniversary of the revolution without Fidel is Hamlet without the prince. Yet there is so much to celebrate. The average salary of Cubans is now £17 a month; food imports, on an island that should be self-sufficient, cost £1.4bn a year; on the index of economic freedom Cuba ranks 150th out of 157 nations; clearly, capitalist materialism is not a threat to the Caribbean's Potemkin village. Marxism enriches: we know this because Fidel's personal fortune is $900m – sufficient to gain him entry to Forbes magazine.

Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at January 5, 2009 11:06 PM


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