PrintJanuary 1, 2009
Fifty Years of Fidel
Fifty years ago, the forces of Fidel entered Havana and Batista left. Fifty years ago, freedom left Havana and it has never come back. There was an odd sort of celebration in many parts of America when the Batista government collapsed. There was an even odder sort of canonization of Castro in the subsequent twenty years. Radical students from American colleges used to travel to Cuba during the 1960s to help Cuban harvest its sugar crop. Rock stars today wear tattoos of the monstrous twerp Che Guevara, something as surreally immoral as poets writing odes to Reinhard Heydrich. The Maximum Leader, Fidel, attracts the fawning adoration of every sort of American Leftist silliness.What was the fascination with Fidel? By any measurement pleasing to the Left, Fulgencio Batista was better for Cuba than Castro. Unlike Castro, Batista was elected in 1940 took office a second time in a bloodless coup in 1952. He sponsored massive...(Read Full Article)
