Humberto Fontova
Embracing a recent invitation by the Castro brothers Jimmy Carter
visited Cuba this week. "We greeted each other as old friends," gushed
Carter regarding his meeting with Fidel Castro.
"In 2002, we received him warmly," reciprocated Castro. "Now, I
reiterated to him our respect and esteem."
"Jimmy Carter was the best of all U.S. Presdients," gushed Raul Castro
while seeing his American guest off personally and jovially.
Jimmy Carter earned all this warmth and joviality from Cuba's Stalinist
rulers by doing everything within his power to dismantle the so-called
embargo against them. "The embargo of Cuba is the stupidest law ever
passed in the U.S.", he remarked in 2002. And yet President Jimmy Carter
imposed more economic sanctions against more nations than any American
president in modern history. These sanctions were against, Chile, Iran,
Rhodesia, Nicaragua, South Africa, Paraguay and Uruguay. President
Carter was extremely selective in imposing his sanctions, let's give him
that. He was careful to punish only U.S. allies.
In Cuba, Carter also took time to visit and console some bereaved Cuban
families. According to the Black Book of Communism (no outpost of the
vast-right wing conspiracy much less of the "Miami Mafia") Carter's
Cuban hosts murdered 12-14,000 Cubans by firing squad. According to
Freedom House over half a million Cubans have suffered in Castro's
various Gulags, dungeons and torture chambers, an incarceration rate
higher than Stalin's. According to the scholars and researchers at the
Cuba Archive, the Castro regime's total death toll—from torture, prison
beatings, firing squads, machine gunning of escapees, drownings,
etc.—approaches 100,000.
So President Carter would seem to have little trouble in finding
bereaved Cuban families to meet. And he did meet the grieving families
of some Cuban-born prisoners. But these prisoners were serving time in
U.S. prisons, after conviction by U.S. juries for espionage against the
nation that elected Jimmy Carter President and for conspiracy to murder
his fellow citizens. These Cubans, you see, are the ones who tugged at
Carter's heartstrings.
Some background: On September 14, 1998, the FBI uncovered a Castro spy
ring in Miami and arrested ten of them. Five were convicted by U.S.
Juries (from which Cuban-Americans were scrupulously excluded) and
became known as "The Cuban Five" in Castroite parlance.
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