{"id":5996,"date":"2016-11-29T03:45:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T03:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/29\/fidel-castro-was-a-mass-murderer\/"},"modified":"2016-11-29T03:45:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T03:45:55","slug":"fidel-castro-was-a-mass-murderer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/29\/fidel-castro-was-a-mass-murderer\/","title":{"rendered":"Fidel Castro was a Mass Murderer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine having seven pints of your blood forcibly extracted prior to being executed for your political dissent.  You are not allowed to face the firing squad with dignity, but murdered while dazed and confused from blood loss.  And yet the Left sings the dictator's praises. Here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Castro\u2019s body count varies depending on who you ask. The Cuba Archive Project<\/a> has one of the most reliable data sets. The group\u2019s records cover a period from May 1952 to the present. In order to be counted, the stories of each victim must be verified by two independent sources. To date, the Archive attributes some 10,723 deaths to the regime. Including nearly 1,000 deaths linked to \u201cdisappearances,\u201d more than 2,000 extrajudicial killings, and over 3,100 people killed by firing squad. Some 100 minor children have been murdered by the regime via beating, the withholding of medical attention, and other methods. In addition to these killings, some 78,000 people are estimated to have died while trying to flee the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

To those unconvinced by mass murder that Castro was a lamentable dictator, consider his government\u2019s practice of forced blood donation. This can range from taking a person\u2019s blood forcibly without their consent to coercing individuals to offer their blood.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Cuba Archive<\/a> has credible information on at least 11 cases of forced blood extraction prior to execution. According to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of States (OAS) 1967 report regarding the practice at Havana\u2019s La Caba\u00f1a prison, an average of seven pints of blood were forcibly taken from prisoners on their way to be executed, causing \u201ccerebral anemia and a state of unconscious paralysis.\u201d (For perspective, the average adult has around 10 pints of blood in their body.) Victims would then be taken to the firing squad on a stretcher.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Cuban government would then sell the blood to the North Vietnamese for around $50 a pint.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, Cubans are required to \u201cdonate\u201d blood before even minor medical procedures. Year-round media campaigns encourage citizens to donate in an effort to \u201csave lives.\u201d In reality, the Cuban government has kept up with its history of exporting blood products<\/a>. According to Cuba\u2019s Oficina Nacionel de Estad\u00edsticas (National Office of Statistics), the country exported some $622.5 million\u2014an average of $31 million per year\u2014of blood products between 1995 and 2014. (It\u2019s worth noting that these numbers may very well be understated. Other products made from blood derivatives may not be classified as blood products when exported.)<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imagine having seven pints of your blood forcibly extracted prior to being executed for your political dissent.  You are not allowed to face the firing squad with dignity, but murdered while dazed and confused from blood loss.  And yet the Left sings the dictator's praises. Here: Castro\u2019s body count varies depending on who you ask. … Continue reading “Fidel Castro was a Mass Murderer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}