Cuba libre

Cuba is a communist country with its own gulag. Perhaps leftists in this country want to avoid this nasty reality , but it is there for all the world to see. Castro seems to be retiring, but unfortunately his people are still imprisoned. castro will die in the lap of luxury, while his people live as cogs in his communist machine.
This is a good piece in the Post.

Cuba libre!!


Don't support Castro's island prison

Theo Caldwell, National Post Published: Tuesday, February 19, 2008


It grates against our national character that Canada continues to do business with Cuba, thereby helping to prop up Fidel Castro's tyrannical regime.

Trade between our two nations is broad, encapsulating resources, mining, agriculture and beyond, but captains of industry are not the only ones who are complicit. During the winter months, many well-meaning Canadians fly, in grinning ignorance, to that imprisoned island for vacations. I say they are ignorant because my countrymen are not sociopaths: The tragic irony of sipping a Cuba Libre beside the pool in a hotel that native Cubans are forbidden from entering under pain of imprisonment, and within walking distance of one of Castro's torture chambers, would dampen the holiday of even the most hard-hearted snowbird, were they aware of the full circumstances by which they came to be clutching that refreshing beverage.