As I sometimes have cause to tell people, if I wanted a government which persecuted those who engage in homosexual acts, then I'd move to Cuba. The American blockade has won the Cuban regime the sympathy of huge numbers of people who should know better.
Since there is both a Santiago de Chile and a Santiago de Cuba, I propose the Santiago Test: however you reacted to the death of Pinochet, then that is how you should react to the clearly impending death of Castro. Watch out for the people who don't pass the Santiago Test.
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I must have missed the time when Pinochet helped liberate Namibia and Angola from apartheid or the thousands of doctors which Pinochet sent to the Third World.
ReplyDelete"The American blockade has won the Cuban regime the sympathy of huge numbers of people who should know better."
Including Pope John Paul II, who made a point of condemning the embargo.
But pointedly not of endorsing the regime.
ReplyDeleteWhat was Castro fighting FOR in Namibia and Angola (where the regimes, though backed by South Africa, did not practise apartheid, and were in fact made up of black people)? That is just as important as what he was fighting against.
Opposing one side in a war does not neceassrily entail supporting the other side. They might be equally objectionable.