Reply #89: You might want to check the status of human rights, freedom of the press etc. in Cuba... [View All]

[DutchLiberal]

You might also want to check what happens with dissidents in Cuba. Not a nice place to live. Can't vote, can't speak your mind.

Just because the RW hates him, is no reason for ANY sane liberal to adore him. Castro was/is what he was/is: a dictator, and a brutal one. I know he looks very friendly and cuddly and his association with the 'revolution' is very romantic, but that doesn't change the fact that Cubans have suffered gravely under him.

Frankly, I don't know why Mandela and Tutu, who lived through dictatorship and who got imprisoned for speaking their mind (at least Mandela did) would embrace a dictator who works with the same policies.