Former Cuban President Fidel Castro dead at age 90 | Miami Herald:
Millions
cheered Fidel Castro on the day he entered Havana. Millions more fled
the communist dictator’s repressive police state, leaving behind their
possessions, their families, the island they loved and often their very
lives. It’s part of the paradox of Castro that many people belonged to
both groups.
Few national leaders have inspired such intense
loyalty — or such a wrenching feeling of betrayal. Few fired the hearts
of the world’s restless youth as Castro did when he was young, and few
seemed so irrelevant as Castro when he was old — the last Communist,
railing on the empty, decrepit street corner that Cuba became under his
rule.
Fidel Castro: Cuban leader condemned as 'dictator' who presided over executions and human rights abuses | The Independent:
When
Castro handed the presidency to his brother Raul in 2008, Human Rights
Watch (HRW) warned that the “abusive legal and institutional mechanisms”
set up during the communist revolution continued to deprive Cubans of
their basic rights.
“Even if Castro no longer calls the
shots, the repressive machinery he constructed over almost half a
century remains fully intact,” said the group’s Americas director, José
Miguel Vivanco. “Until that changes, it’s unlikely there will be any
real progress on human rights in Cuba.”
HRW cited secret police,
surveillance, short-term detentions, house arrests, travel restrictions,
criminal prosecutions and politically motivated sackings as methods of
“enforcing political conformity”, as well as restrictions embedded in
legal and constitutional structures.
All media is heavily censored
and the spreading of “unauthorised news” a criminal offence, with
internet access heavily limited by cost and restrictions.
Fidel Castro was a cruel dictator. Ignore the revisionists | Coffee House:
Why
are left-wing dictators always treated with more reverential respect
when they die than right-wing ones, even on the Right? The deaths of
dictators like Franco, Pinochet, Somoza are rightly noted with their
history of human rights abuses front and centre, but the same treatment
is not meted out to left-wing dictators who were just as monstrously
cruel to people who opposed their regimes.
Pois é todas as passadas de pano prá Fidel também funcionam prá outros ditadores, genocidas: "Pinochet era um ditador, mas em compensação olha o que ele fez pela economia", ou "Franco era uma personalidade ambígua, nem boa nem má". Ou ainda, como resumiu o mestre Goiaba:
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