The death of longtime Cuba dictator Fidel Castro has brought out many different reactions throughout the world. After the death of the long time Cuban leader was announced on Black Friday, many took to the streets in Little Havana, and other South Florida areas to celebrate the death of the brutal tyrant who destroyed so many of their families. This seems to be the typical reaction anybody would have to the death of a mass-murderer, but the response throughout the rest of the world and even the rest of the country, was surprisingly warm, to a man who was the architect of so much destruction for his people and his country.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called Castro, "Remarkable," and lauded his work on Cuba's healthcare and education system. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said he had "fond" memories of the dead dictator, while current U.S. President Barack Obama refused to even mention Castro's long history of human rights abuses.
The reaction of former and current left of center world leaders is ominously indicative of how far many on the left will go in the name of defending their ideology. Sure, Castro put homosexuals in concentration camps, but at least he gave them free health care. Sure, all you are allowed to read in Cuba is state propaganda, but the literacy rate is 99.8%! The whitewashing of communist dictators by the left has long been a problem, because the ultimate philosophy of the hard left, is the disregard for all religious and moral values in pursuit of their own selfish, worldly desires.Nobody embodied this philosophy better than Fidel Castro, who was an atheist, who had 11 kids with four different woman, enriched himself by taking from hardworking people, and used brute force to destroy his dissenters. This dangerous ideology has led to the glorification of a brutal dictator, who is no more worthy of nuanced discussion than other mass-murdering tyrants such as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, or Benito Mussolini.
Fidel Castro is a man who once ordered a boat of fleeing Cuban refugees to be shot at, killing over 40 people, who simply disagreed with his ideology and went looking for a better life. Unfortunately, the unadulterated evil of this hateful man lives on, despite his death. His brother Raul, who took over the title of head of state in Cuba in 2008, due to Fidel's failing is already intimidating and arresting Cuba's human rights activists, just as he did before President Obama visited earlier this year to lift America's Cuban embargo.
There is now two hopes that we should hold. The first is that Fidel Castro, will finally face the justice he denied to millions, as he meets the make that he rejected and pretended to be. The second, is that his death will finally open the door to freedom and opportunity for the Cuban People.
Viva Cuba Libre!
