December 12, 2003

BlogCuba

Bablu Blog held a BlogCuba day today. Great idea, because just 90 miles off the U.S. coast sits a prison nation just waiting to burst from its shackles and join the league of free nations.

At that weblog I found an awful piece of propaganda from the Granma, Castro's "journalistic" mouthpiece. Over three years ago when I was passionately covering Elian Gonzalez's story I knew Castro would use that little boy as a propaganda tool. I was right, that's exactly what Fidel has done to Elian. To celebrate Elian's 10th birthday, Castro declared that Cuba has "made a utopian dream reality." It's such a utopia that people clammor to escape.

Kevin Aylward is right to call for the end of travel restrictions to Cuba. I'd even go so far as to call for the end of the embargo. Castro's survived all these measures that were designed to remove him from power. After all these years of failure something new must be tried. We shouldn't bother crushing them with our military (It's too busy fighting the Islamist War). Instead, we should crush them with our economy and our ideas of freedom.

"Cuba Has Made a Utopian Dream Reality"