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Cuba

Communism has been a failure and it is time for Cuba to abandon it and adopt democracy, free speech, free enterprise and freedom of religion.

• Communism
  • Summary of killings for Communism

  • The right to travel

  • Freedom of religion

• Communism in the Americas

  
  

• Cuba is rated "Not Free" by Freedom House.

History

• Rudolph J. Rummel
  • Castro's communists were meant to have "liberated" Cuba from the brutal dictator Batista.
  • Rudolph J. Rummel gives estimates (see table) for democide by:
    • Cuba (Batista) - killed 1,000.
    • Cuba (Castro) - has killed 70,000 so far, by executions, camps, and the deaths of refugees (boat people) trying to escape.
  • This is reminiscent of how the Bolsheviks "liberated" Russia from the Tsar.

  • For comparison, Rummel estimates (see table) the democide for:
    • Chile (Pinochet) - killed 10,000.
    and (see table) the democide for:
    • Nicaragua (Somoza) - killed 15,000.
    and (see table) the democide for:
    • El Salvador (authoritarian/military) - killed 12,000.

• The Cuba Archive - Victims of the communist regime.

• history

• The brutal, unelected dictator Fidel Castro
  • Cuba has not held an election since 1948.
  • Castro has never won an election in his life. Unlike Bush and Sharon, who won free elections, he holds power entirely at gunpoint. Unlike Bush and Sharon, he has never faced the people in an election.
  • The book Fidel by Humberto Fontova (2005)

• The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 (and here)
  • The brutal, unfree regime of Cuba threatened America and the free world with nuclear weapons in 1962. Castro begged the Soviets to launch their nuclear missiles from Cuba at U.S. cities, but the Soviets refrained.
  • Castro illustrates that as the smaller rogue states get nuclear weapons, they are far more likely to use them than the larger, more cautious, states. This monster Castro is still in power today.
  • The thug Che Guevara also wanted the Soviets to launch their nuclear missiles at U.S. cities.

• Cuba-US relations
  • The Cuban Five - dictator's lackeys.

• Elian Gonzalez
  • nocastro.com articles
  • Keep Elian Free - Capitalism magazine site
  • The unfeeling, malevolent clown Michael Moore wrote a sick letter to Elian Gonzalez, laughing at the fact that his mother died trying to reach freedom, like millions of others who have fled communism over the past century: "You are being told that your mother died trying to bring you to freedom. I am so sorry to have to tell you, that's not true. ... The truth is your mother and her boyfriend snatched you and put you on that death boat because they simply wanted to make more money.", said the obscenely wealthy multi-millionaire. See John Derbyshire on Moore.

• Sanctions on Cuba
  • Pro-sanctions
  • Actually, I'm not pro-sanctions myself. I believe in invading and deposing dictators, not making their people suffer while the dictator stays in power.
  • I tend to believe in war, not sanctions.

• The new power blocs of the world

• The Axis of Evil

• The plan

Che Guevara

• Che Guevara (and here), heroic fighter for tyranny.
• Che Guevara - "Chief executioner for the Castro regime, responsible for the murder of thousands".

• The Cult of Che: Don't applaud The Motorcycle Diaries by Paul Berman, on the movie The Motorcycle Diaries, which glorifies Che Guevara. "Che was an enemy of freedom, and yet he has been erected into a symbol of freedom. He helped establish an unjust social system in Cuba and has been erected into a symbol of social justice. He stood for the ancient rigidities of Latin-American thought, in a Marxist-Leninist version, and he has been celebrated as a free-thinker and a rebel."
• "Che Guevara was sexy and idealistic. He was also a defender of Joseph Stalin and mass murder." - Article by the leftist Johann Hari.
• Article by Lawrence Osborne
• Free Cuba Foundation
  • Che Guevara's Dubious Legacy

• The book The Hidden Face of Che by Jacobo Machover (2007)
• The book Exposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him by Humberto Fontova (2007)
• Far from being an individuality-loving rebel, Che Guevara was an unelected authoritarian tyrant who supported (and implemented) capital punishment, burned books, supported the end of free elections, helped to massively increase poverty, and made rock and roll illegal (see Fontova's book). An open admirer of Stalin, he signed his name "Stalin II". He was against individualism. He often stated that individualism should be stamped out, that young people should unquestioningly obey the state and its leaders.

• Guevara's family appear at an Islamist terror conference in Iran, Oct 2007.
  • The Iranians are looking for ties with the global anti-American left, hoping to bring some of them under Islamist leadership. Some of the left are willing to make this deal with the devil, despite the fact that the Islamists despise them and will kill them first.
  • One speaker called on all anti-American forces to accept the leadership of Iran. Another speaker claimed Guevara was "a truly religious man who believed in God and hated communism and the Soviet Union. Today, communism has been consigned to the garbage can of history as foreseen by Imam Khomeini. Thus progressists everywhere must accept the leadership of our religious, pro-justice movement. ... The Soviet Union is gone. The leadership of the downtrodden has passed to our Islamic Republic. Those who wish to destroy America must understand the reality and not be clever with words." (I love the way he describes the left.)
  • Guevara's daughter, forced to wear the hijab, horrifies them by disputing this claim about Guevara: "My father never mentioned God. He never met God." Suddenly she finds herself escorted from the hall, losing her VIP status, and having to leave Iran in a hurry. Hilarious stuff.

• Unbelievably, movie director Steven Soderbergh is making no less than two puff pieces about Che Guevara, neither of which mention his crimes, nor even the kind of country Cuba became because of him. Naive young people will see these films and think they are truth rather than incurious propaganda.
  • The Argentine (2008).
  • Guerrilla (2008).

Human rights

• Human rights in Cuba

• issues
• human rights
• political prisoners

• politics (and here)
• activism

• Human rights campaigns
  • Human Rights Watch (and publications)
  • Amnesty International

• Human rights reports
  • Freedom House
  • U.S. State Department
  • Amnesty International
  • Human Rights Watch

• The Real Cuba
• nocastro.com
• Center for a Free Cuba
• Freedom Advocacy
  • Castro puts homosexuals in concentration camps (see archive) - and the western left doesn't care.
  • Just as they don't care about the imprisonment and torture of gays by the Palestinians.

• Religious freedom reports
  • U.S. State Department

Writing

• Capitalism magazine
  • Cuba articles
  • LibertyForCuba.com
  • Cox and Forkum cartoon on western idiots like Jimmy Carter, who are surprised when Castro executes dissidents.

• FrontPage articles

• Blogs
  • Babalu Blog

• 1984 and Animal Farm are banned by the cowards that run Cuba.
• Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag by Armando Valladares

• Why Havana Had to Die by Theodore Dalrymple. - "Fidel Castro is no eighteenth-century English gentleman, and Havana is not his private estate .... The ruins of Havana that he has brought into being are, in fact, the habitation of over 1 million people, whose collective will, these ruins attest, is not equal in power to the will of one man."
• Scepticism about Cuba's health and education systems, which are supposed to be good, according to the lying communist dictatorship. Also here and here. Good quote by David Carr: "Who, in their right minds, would want to risk being eaten by sharks in order to get away from first-class health-care and education?"

• The left's support for tyranny in Cuba
  • Go Live There, Then - Tim Blair on leftist idiots' support for Cuba. He is responding to the idiot British Labour MP Brian Wilson.
  • The left supports the jailing of dissidents in Cuba!

  • The modern left's support for Cuban communist dictatorship

  • The Irish left's support for Cuban communist dictatorship

The coming death of Castro

Newspaper headline: "The Old Bastard Just Will Not Die"
Photoshop by David A. Lunde of this image.
(He has also added a Ned Lamont ad and a Democratic Party logo.)

• Hope at last for Cuba: An ill Castro cedes power to his brother Raul Castro, July 2006.
  • A prelude: Miami streets burst with spontaneous joy, Aug 1, 2006. "It's time for him to pay for all the suffering he has caused, not only to Cuban people but the whole world." "Cuba is free. Raul Castro can't stop us, nobody can."

  • Cuban exiles dance in the streets with the news of Castro's illness. Cuba will be free soon.

• The US (see statement) says freedom is coming soon: "The United States is actively monitoring the situation in Cuba following the announcement of a transfer of power. At this time of uncertainty in Cuba, one thing is clear: The United States is absolutely committed to supporting the Cuban people's aspirations for democracy and freedom. We have repeatedly said that the Cuban people deserve to live in freedom. ... We will support you in your effort to build a transitional government in Cuba committed to democracy, and we will take note of those, in the current Cuban regime, who obstruct your desire for a free Cuba. In the event of a transition in the Cuban government, we stand ready to provide humanitarian assistance as needed to help the Cuban people. It has long been the hope of the United States to have a free, independent, and democratic Cuba as a close friend and neighbor."

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This poster by the (ironically) left-wing press freedom group Reporters Sans Frontieres is banned in France. This website, however, is in the United States. French law does not apply. And American law protects political satire. The poster says: "Welcome to Cuba: The biggest prison in the world for journalists". Other version here. Search for more copies here and here and here and here.