Surprise Fidel Castro Acts Like a Communist

Surprise. Fidel Castro Acts Like a Communist!
World/Tom DeWeese
April 15, 2006
For fifty years the American left has promoted the image of Fidel Castro
as a great humanitarian who has saved his people in a workers’ paradise.

Here’s a fact: Fidel Castro is a communist. Period. Communists are not
humanitarians. They are vile, brutal thugs who use their power to steal
the rights and property of their people, forcing them to live in utter
poverty and misery. One can look the world over and will not find a
single communist regime that does not operate this way. And so does Fidel.

But the propaganda campaign for the oldest living beast has gained
momentum in the past few years, describing in glowing terms the
harmonious life of the happy Cuban people, forced to struggle against
the unfair American boycott of their beloved leader and his communist
utopia. That’s the story coming out of the international news media.
There has rarely been a crack in the Castro legend. Until now.

The suffering Cuban people owe a huge debt of thanks to the courage of
Czech super model Helena Houdova. She risked her own freedom by
smuggling photos out of the Cuban gulag which clearly showed Cuban
suffering and misery.

The former Miss Czech Republic took photos of Cuban Aids victims and the
squalid conditions in a Havana shantytown. Said Miss Houdova, "The
people are repressed and Fidel Castro’s government is in denial. People
can’t do what they love. People can’t speak what they want. That’s
what’s happening. The fact that the (government) says there is no
poverty, makes a bad situation worse."

As a glimpse into the police state that is Cuba, Miss Houdova’s own
experience in taking the pictures makes it clear. She was arrested
simply for taking the photos, then detained for more than eleven hours
and denied access to Czech consular officials. In police custody, the
model was forced to turn over a roll of 35 mm film from her camera, but
was able to hide the memory chip from her digital camera in her bra.
Miss Houdova brought more than 20 photos out of the country, which she
is now exhibiting around the world.

Miss Houdova decided to take the photos at the urging of her Cuban guide
who said, "please talk about it everywhere you can and let the world
know what is happening here." She is now very worried about his safety
from Cuban security police. The Cuban government is efficient at slowly
harassing and threatening anyone who speaks out against the government.
People disappear into the penal system, never to be seen again.

Such is the reality of the Cuban workers paradise, where we are told
daily that poverty and misery do not exist. Communism is not a human
form of life and freedom fighters everywhere should renew efforts to
stamp it out where ever it exists.
Tom DeWeese is the publisher/editor of the DeWeese Report and president
of the American Policy Center, a grassroots activist think tank.

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