{"id":6001,"date":"2016-11-27T10:23:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T10:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/27\/fidel-castro-hero-of-the-left\/"},"modified":"2016-11-27T10:23:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T10:23:37","slug":"fidel-castro-hero-of-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/27\/fidel-castro-hero-of-the-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Fidel Castro, Hero of the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u25cfHe turned Cuba into a colony of the Soviet Union and nearly caused a nuclear holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u25cfHe sponsored terrorism wherever he could and allied himself with many of the worst dictators on earth.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u25cfHe was responsible for so many thousands of executions and disappearances in Cuba that a precise number is hard to reckon.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u25cfHe brooked no dissent and built concentration camps and prisons at an unprecedented rate, filling them to capacity, incarcerating a higher percentage of his own people than most other modern dictators, including Stalin<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n

\u25cfHe condoned and encouraged torture and extrajudicial killings.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u25cfHe forced nearly 20 percent of his people into exile, and prompted thousands to meet their deaths at sea, unseen and uncounted, while fleeing from him in crude vessels.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u25cfHe claimed all property for himself and his henchmen, strangled food production and impoverished the vast majority of his people.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u25cfHe outlawed private enterprise and labor unions, wiped out Cuba\u2019s large middle class and turned Cubans into slaves of the state.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u25cfHe persecuted gay people and tried to eradicate religion.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u25cfHe censored all means of expression and communication.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u25cfHe established a fraudulent school system that provided indoctrination rather than education, and created a two-tier health-care system, with inferior medical care for the majority of Cubans and superior care for himself and his oligarchy, and then claimed that all his repressive measures were absolutely necessary to ensure the survival of these two ostensibly \u201cfree\u201d social welfare projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u25cfHe turned Cuba into a labyrinth of ruins and established an apartheid society in which millions of foreign visitors enjoyed rights and privileges forbidden to his people.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u25cfHe never apologized for any of his crimes and never stood trial for them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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