Even Senator Sanders’ severest critics have readily credited him with being, however politically mistaken, a “man of principle.” His recently voiced claim that it is “unfair” to say that
“everything is bad” about Fidel Castro’s Communist revolution in Cuba because El Caballo, as “Fidel” was known to his supporters, seized power with a literacy program ready to introduce on the island should put an end to this “principled” business once and for all. We can now see that, if the Comrade Senator is indeed a man of principle, that principle is an evil one.
In context, it is entirely beside the point that in 1959 Cuba already had a literacy rate of eighty percent, and that neighboring Latin American countries have since made enormous advances in this regard without the aid of a program of imprisonment, torture, exile, and expropriation. Castro’s criminal regime and personal cruelty have been extensively documented, including by Antonio Navarro–a wealthy businessman from an affluent family and former acquaintance who had been at Jesuit school with Castro and initially welcomed his deposition of Fulgencia Batista, but later joined the Resistance and finally fled to Florida after his wife and family–in his superb memoir, Tocayo. Sanders has no interest in any of this, as he had no interest in recognizing the inhumanities of the Soviet regime when he honeymooned in Moscow in 1988 almost two decades after Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago was published in the United States. Sanders is, and has been for decades, an apologist for a regime whose criminality, when measured by the number of lives sacrificed, exceeds that of the Third Reich.
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the “end of history.” Writing a few months before the Berlin Wall fell, Fukuyama argued that humankind’s ideological evolution had come to an end. Although various twentieth-century political movements had promised to supersede Western liberalism, by the end of the century their impetus had been exhausted. Communism might still have “some isolated true believers” in such far-flung places as “Managua, Pyongyang, or Cambridge, Massachusetts,” but it was no longer a viable contender for ideological hegemony. Devoid of credible alternatives, the world was safe for liberal democracy: “The state that emerges at the end of history is liberal insofar as it recognizes and protects through a system of law man’s universal right to freedom, and democratic insofar as it exists only with the consent of the governed.”
Hace un par de años me invitaron a una entrevista en la estación de radio Univisión de Los Angeles. El tema era inmigración, pero, como había participación de los radioescuchas, se inició una avalancha de llamadas tratando de lincharme por mi posición defendiendo el retiro del gobierno de las actividades que, de forma natural, pertenecían a la iniciativa privada. Me impresionó una dama que me acusaba de aliado del capitalismo salvaje mexicano y al responderle que en Mexico nunca había existido el capitalismo, me rebatía esgrimiendo como ejemplos, a Azcárraga, Slim, Salinas Pliego etc. Al ver su furiosa reacción cuando le notifico que eso no era capitalismo, me di cuenta de la gran confusión que existe de lo que realmente es el capitalismo y el motivo de su mala reputación. A partir de esos momentos entendí por qué la gente, entre el paraíso o el infierno, escogen el infierno.
roads, bridges, and tunnels (including a connection between the West Bank and Gaza).