The "Miracle Mission" alone, which provides free cataract operations for poor Venezuelans, Bolivians, and Central Americans, has given more than , people back their eyesight. Cuba does not accept its denial to millions of poor people. It is a shame that while you look back with heated reproaches, you do not see the truth of what is happening in Cuba today and do not know how to decode the permanence of its socialist regime.
There are always intellectuals ready to justify crimes. It was the case with Stalin and Franco, and now it will be the case with Castro. It is morally incomprehensible: They love the executioners and hate the victims.
How can the Cuban government simultaneously respect solidarity with its Latin neighbors and yet fail to uphold human rights in its own backyard? Where is the mutual incompatibility between solidarity and democracy? No, all dictatorships — like all forms of terrorism — are reprehensible. I suppose not. And if they do not want it for France or for themselves, why do they want it for us Cubans? Do we Cubans not have the right to freedom and democracy? But, despite this sad complicity, the day will come for releasing the political prisoners, for holding pluralist elections, and for beginning the material and moral reconstruction of an artificially impoverished society cruelly terrorized by repression and devastated by Stalinist totalitarianism.
After Castro, Cuba will be free. It is not even a question of an intellectual stance. Being an intellectual must be earned. Foreign Policy, Economics, South America. Shusha was the key to the recent war between Azerbaijan and Armenia. Now Baku wants to turn the fabled fortress town into a resort. Feature Was Fidel Good for Cuba?
Nearly 50 years after a small island nation embarked on one of history's most radical social experiments, it's time to measure the results.
Does Fidel Castro's exit offer Cubans a long-awaited chance for freedom and prosperity, or merely mark the end of an era in which Cuba saw unprecedented success? One of Castro's harshest critics squares off with one of his foremost advocates. Sign up for Latin America Brief A one-stop weekly digest of politics, economics, technology, and culture in Latin America. Written by Rio de Janeiro-based journalist Catherine Osborn. October 14, , PM. Cubans Are Poor and Enslaved Carlos Alberto Montaner responds Anyone familiar with Cuban history knows that Fidel led the revolution against President Fulgencio Batista to restore freedoms to Cuba and to reinstate the Constitution of , not to create a communist dictatorship copied from the Soviet model.
Viva Fidel! Tags: Economics , South America , U. Foreign Policy. November 12, , AM. November 11, , PM. Trending 1. Fiona Hill: U. But Sanders evolved into what he called a "democratic socialist," and why wouldn't he? The type of old-school repressive socialism practiced by Castro was an abject failure. There were much better nations to study and emulate: Scandinavian democracies that manage to value personal liberty and the essential nature of learning and good health at the same time.
Fidel outlived his enemies, but he did so as a relic of a past that's best forgotten. It will be fascinating to watch the next couple of years, to see if Raul Castro honors his promise to step down in and if Cuba can add a layer of democracy to what it's achieved so far in social services.
That won't undo Fidel Castro's tragic legacy of firing squads and repression. But it will only compound that tragedy if the naysayers here at home wave the bloody shirts of Castro's grim history as a lame excuse to stop pushing for the kinds of universal health care and college education that poor and middle-class Americans so desperately need.
Skip to content Share Icon. Facebook Logo. Link Icon. The good, the bad and the ugly of Fidel's revolutionary life. But a much bigger question looms over Fidel Castro's legacy: Is it possible to have the basic human rights of good health and a good education Published Nov. Nana Brantuo Nana Brantuo. A significant number of mostly-white Cubans in Miami and elsewhere throughout the United States celebrated his death as the end of ideologies that they believe obstructed democracy and freedom on the island nation.
For them, Castro was a leader whose early promises of justice only deteriorated into tyranny that broke apart families and lead to the imprisonment and deaths of those who opposed his leadership.
Conversation worldwide, however, differs along racial lines. Acknowledgement of the complicated nature of the Cuban Revolution and the resistance of its leader against the United States government, despite the harsh impact of the U.
In this country, our understandings of heroism have always been informed by an ugly past of racial prejudice and discrimination.
He focused largely on medical and educational collaborations and furthering the fight against imperial rule — providing military assistance that led to independence in Namibia and the end of apartheid rule in South Africa. Over the past four decades, Cuba has trained thousands of Caribbean nationals in various disciplines at no cost to the students.
Castro is also recognized for his responses to international crises, most notably for the work of the Henry Reeve Brigade — a group of more than 1, Cuban doctors and nurses who were among the first on the ground following the earthquake Haiti in and West African Ebola outbreak in The U. On 25 November , Fidel Castro died at the age of The former Cuban leader was revered and loathed by the people he reigned over for 47 years.
Fidel Castro, who seized power in following the Cuban Revolution, will be remembered as an iconic, yet deeply-polarising, figure of the 20th Century.
Cuban officials claim that the former leader survived more than assassination attempts. MaximeBernier November 26, He also led an unprecedented drive to improve literacy rates. Amnesty International has been documenting the state of human rights in Cuba for more than 50 years.
Upon establishing his provisional government in , Castro organised trials of members of the previous government that resulted in hundreds of summary executions.
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