It almost seems surreal. Capitalist U.S. media celebrating the life of an infamous Communist dictator and eulogizing him on national television? And yet, that’s what most of the mainstream TV networks did when 90-year-old former Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro passed away on November 25.
Anchors and network news show hosts highlighted Castro’s supposed achievements over the course of his lifetime, such as endowing his countrymen with a high level of literacy and low infant mortality rate.
But left out of many commentators’ summaries was the misery and persecution Castro wrought on many of his people who dared to challenge him or his ideology over the last five decades.
Not only did Castro wield power like a third-world dictator, he was a political hypocrite, living a life of pampered luxury, with 20 residences, an 88-foot yacht, a string of female companions and cigars made of tobacco that was unavailable to ordinary citizens, who scrimped and starved on the country’s streets while Castro lived large.
An inspiration to despots and tyrants the world over, Castro spent many of his active years thumbing his nose at the United States while assisting third-world revolutions in Africa, Asia and elsewhere, driving needles into the figurative feet of the United States, which sat just 90 miles off his coastline.
Through relationships with the United Nations and countries such as Venezuela, Castro and Cuba reminded the U.S. that there were still parts of the Western hemisphere that were pointedly not under its influence.
President-Elect Trump has promised that change will eventually come to Cuba, likely when Castro’s brother Raul, the country’s current leader, joins Castro six feet under.
Watch this montage of all the radical left has to say about the man who they say helped Cubans and made his country better.
