Opaque Lucidity

No Viva Fidel (Here's Hoping)

Fidel Castro is still alive. Is anyone other than me disappointed?

I had a Spanish teacher in high school who had escaped from Cuba with her family when she was young. She hated Castro and communism with a hot, hot, hatred that, upon reflection, probably wasn't healthy. Then again, he and his fellow pinkos didn't ruin my childhood. Regardless, Lourdes believed that Raul Castro (Fidel's brother) was insane and that putting him in charge of Cuba would be both bad and good: bad because he would be much more ruthless than his brother and good because he would soon be killed by his own inner circle. If the rumors are true, Raul was running the show while Fidel went under the knife. I guess that means he's officially the next guy to run the empty store.

I can't wait until Cuba and her people become a free nation or at least a freer nation. Billions of dollars and pesos will be invested there in tourism and agriculture. What's more, thousands of Cuban ex-pats living in the US will go back home with a desire to raise the standard of living up to what they are used to here. It can't happen soon enough.

Prediction: when Castro dies, he will be treated as a sort of misunderstood hero by most of the mainstream media and the Hollywood leftists who have kissed his ass for the past thirty years. Ed Asner, Oliver Stone and the rest will talk about how he built hospitals, schools and provided universal healthcare. Somehow, the thousands who met cruel deaths at the hands of his regime will be ignored. After all, that's just a little too dirty for them to handle.