Fidel Castro's sudden moment of economic reality
It is with some interest that I have been following the articles
concerning Fidel Castro's informal interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of
The Atlantic, including the dictator's latest ``insights'' into the
state of the Cuban economy.
What most commentators have missed pointing out is that Castro's
concerns have never been about Cuba, its people, its economy or its
political system. It's always been solely about him.
What we are witnessing is merely a case of arrested development and the
ramblings of an egomaniacal individual who, almost 60 years ago,
proclaimed, ``History will absolve me.'' Time has passed, and he now is
coming to the realization that, instead, history will condemn him or,
perhaps even worse, proclaim him a failure and ignore him.
This latest, pathetic public-relations ploy would even be humorous if
not for the facts that it is being covered seriously in the press and
that in the past 50 years so many families have been divided, so many
prisoners of conscience have been sent to and continue to be sent to
jail in Cuba and so many have died in the Florida Straits trying to
reach liberty.
Oftentimes the best way to deal with children's manipulative tactics is
to simply ignore them.
JESUS MENDEZ, associate professor of history, Barry University, Miami Shores
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/09/12/1819848/fidel-castros-sudden-moment-of.html
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