{"id":7916,"date":"2010-03-26T23:20:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T03:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7916"},"modified":"2010-03-26T23:20:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T03:20:12","slug":"just-what-obama-needs-fidel-castro-applauding-us-health-care-reform-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/just-what-obama-needs-fidel-castro-applauding-us-health-care-reform-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Just what Obama needs: Fidel Castro applauding the US health-care reform bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

HAVANA (AP) — It perhaps was not the endorsement President Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress were looking for.<\/p>\n

Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro on Thursday declared passage of American health care reform “a miracle” and a major victory for Obama’s presidency, but couldn’t help chide the United States for taking so long to enact what communist Cuba achieved decades ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Can\u2019t think why the US has waited so long to enact what communist Cuba achieved decades ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Add<\/p>\n

Word is getting out about the disastrous state of Cuban health care.<\/p>\n

During that cold snap in mid-January, Cuban dissidents snuck out, via internet, a report claiming that over forty patients had somehow frozen to death in Cuba\u2019s Mazorra mental hospital\u00a0 \u2014 not far from the one featured in Michael Moore\u2019s paean to Cuban health care, Sicko<\/em>.\u00a0 Cuba\u2019s Stalinist regime, along with the media courtesans to whom it grants press bureaus and \u201cjournalist visas,\u201d were utterly mum on the matter, however. It took three days \u2014 as the word spread through the mostly Spanish-language web<\/a> \u2013but finally the Stalinist regime issued a terse and exculpatory press-release on the matter.<\/p>\n

But the story did not go away. Just last week, pictures of some of the dead were snuck out of Cuba. They proved that hypothermia alone was not the cause of death, any more than it was the cause of the death for the prisoners at Dachau or Buchenwald. Horrific malnutrition and savage beatings were plain to see for anyone genuinely interested in the causes.<\/p>\n

Needless to add, such interested parties do not<\/em> include Castro\u2019s favored members of the press. True to form, they dutifully connived with the regime, as they have for half a century, to hide the catalog of Castroite horrors.<\/p>\n

But don\u2019t take my word for it. Apparently tormented by their consciences, two Spanish journalists have just released mea-culpa- books (sadly available only in Spanish) about this collusion. \u201cSelf-censorship is a very common practice,\u201d one writes. \u201cNo journalist on the island can write the truth of what happens there.\u201d \u00a0Whatever their faults, at least these Spanish journalists finally came clean<\/a>. When will Barbara Walters, Dan Rather, Andrea Mitchell, Ted Turner, Herbert Matthews and the rest of the bunch come clean? Don\u2019t hold your breath.<\/p>\n

The Cuban health stories ignored or buried by the MSM would require an entire 24-hour network broadcasting for five decades to disclose. Senor Marzo Fernandez, an economist who, until defecting in 1996, served as Secretary General of Castro\u2019s Ministry of Nutrition gets us started. \u201cThe average height of Cubans has decreased by 8 centimeters in the past 25 years,\u201d he reported on Miami television. \u201cFor the first time in Cuban history, thousands of Macrocepahlic children (abnormally large heads in proportion to their bodies) due to protein (primarily milk) deficiencies have been found in the eastern provinces.\u201d This in a country that prior to the glorious revolution enjoyed a lower infant-mortality rate and more doctors and dentists per-capita than half of European countries<\/a>, plus a larger middle class than Switzerland.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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