realclearworld.com - 1/3/2009
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Fifty Years ago Fidel and Raul Castro hijacked an entire island, and ever since that New Year’s day, they have never relaxed their grip on it. What can one say about such an anniversary, if one is Cuban? This fateful date hovers over all of us like a mushroom cloud, smothering our past, ...
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Eire on castro's "achievement"
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Eire on castro's "achievement" The esteemed Professor Eire's latest column, which is about the 50th anniversary of the castroite revolution in Cuba, has been picked up by Real Clear Politics and Real Clear World . If you haven't read it yet, please do. Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at January 3, 2009 12:03 PM Comments Post a comment
Fifty Years In Hell
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... Carlos Eire , the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University, points out the living hell Fidel (and now Raul) Castro presides over. It is not the paradise apologists in the west think it is. One option was to oppose the so-called Revolution. But if you dared, even by murmuring in the dark, you faced certain imprisonment, torture, or death at the hands of the new elites. Hundreds of thousands of Cubans were brave enough to choose that path, but the world at large never paid much attention to them, or simply denied their existence. The other ...
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