The Communist dictator responsible for making the lives of millions of Cuban citizens miserable is dead. Yet, watching the media in the immediate wake of Fidel Castro’s passing early this morning, one saw “real” news sources (the same ones who got the 2016 presidential election entirely wrong) advocating for the sort of restraint and balance around the “context” and “narratives” associated with Castro’s life that you would never see given to any decent conservative. Such “fairness” is to be reserved for Leftist strongmen because all storylines are not equal, and the Left must protect its own hide.
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His legacy in Cuba and elsewhere has been a mixed record of social progress and abject poverty, of racial equality and political persecution, of medical advances and a degree of misery comparable to the conditions that existed in Cuba when he entered Havana as a victorious guerrilla commander in 1959.
Here’s a rule that the media should follow when it comes to balance — when there are victims of government malpractice, focus on the victims. Because the facts are that whatever Castro’s supposed belief in building a Communist utopia on Earth, this provided a convenient facade for a savage authoritarian who almost led the world to nuclear holocaust, and did lead the Cuban people to slavery and impoverishment.
The truth is that Castro was no romantic revolutionary — and do not let the staged mourning or even the genuine, Stockholm syndrome-induced outpouring of affection we will see depicted in still-Communist, still Castro-controlled Cuba fool you — he was a poor man’s Stalin or Mao. I say “poor man’s” only because he didn’t kill quite as many people as they did.
But like his socialist superiors, Castro was responsible for imprisoning, torturing and executing thousands of “enemies of the regime,” that is anyone who challenged his fascist rule.
Castro was dedicated to the violent overthrow of the capitalist order, and colluded with the Soviet Union against the United States and West generally, from pointing nuclear weapons at America during the Cuban missile crisis, to sponsorship of espionage activities that persist to this day.
Castro turned Cuba into an economic basket-case by nationalizing industries wholesale and replacing the rule of law with his bloodied iron fist.
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Castro was a poor man's version of Stalin and Maohttps://t.co/a0EEstbWCG
via @bhweingarten— Conservative Review (@CR) November 26, 2016
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