Here's the BBC's adoring headline: "Fidel: The world icon"
Here's the first sentence.
"Cuba's President Fidel Castro - the world's longest serving leader - turns 80 on 13 August."
Funny how dictators seem to rule so long, isn't it? It seems to be a requirement of dictatorship that you stay in power as long as you're alive.
Paul begins...
"He is instantly recognisable both from his appearance - the beard and the military fatigues - and from his first name alone: Fidel."
So was Hitler, Paul.
Paul continues...
He is praised for standing up for the oppressed of Latin America, for opposing the Yankee imperialist, for making Cuba into a more equal society than many, for developing Cuba's health service and sending doctors aboard to help others.
Paul fails to mention that many of the doctors defect as soon as they get out of Cuba. Castro traded doctors for oil to his dictator buddy Chavez, and 4,000 immediately defected. Many thousands more would probably do the same except they would have to leave family behind.
More...
He has stopped his people from leaving the island, leading them to risk their lives in rickety boats to try to get out.
Which would indicate to most normal people that there is something terribly wrong with Castro's Cuba. Castro once opened the gates during the Mariel boat lift and 125,000 Cubans fled in rickety boats. Imagine how many would have left if transport had been provided!
Paul concludes...
"And whatever happens to Cuba after him, the name of Fidel will survive in history."
Just as Hitler has Paul, just as Hitler has.
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