Guillermo Martinez has a great recap of the Michelle Bachelet visit to Cuba in the Sun Sentinel. Money quote:
…the harshest comments about Bachelet’s actions came from a Chilean best-selling novelist, university professor and columnist, who once lived in Cuba as an exile from the Pinochet regime.
In a letter to the Chilean president, Roberto Ampuero said that in a previous missive he had warned Bachelet that “when a democrat hugs a tyrant the democrat always comes away from the meeting with a soiled poncho.”
It is incredible, he added, “that Fidel Castro has thrown in your face an alleged injustice that took place 130 years ago and that you did not even bring up” Cuba’s human rights abuses.
So who’s surprised? Did anyone with half a brain expect a Latin American Leftist to do anything but genuflect to Fidel Castro?
Fifty years of evidence might have prevented the same infantile fantasies, hallucinations and pipe dreams that motivated Ann Margaret in Bye Bye Birdie.
o go ahead–wail and whine about these “dreadful dictators” all ya want–
Viva Somoza! Trujillo! Pinochet! Ydigoras! Stroesnner!
I know, I know–but say what you want, and keep whimpering like Ann Margaret.
But those are the only guys who even TRIED to help us against Castro.
Live with it. Facts are facts. The historical record is the historical record–y pal carajo!!
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With all that shit coming out of his artificial ass, anyone who gets next to him is bound to get tagged.
I read the columns or letters published by Ampuero addressing Bachelet’s Cuba visit. They’re perfectly reasonable and on target, but this isn’t about reason or logic or truth. Bachelet is not retarded or ignorant of history. She’s simply a Latin American leftist who automatically drools over Fidel Castro, like one of Pavlov’s dogs, and justifies or downplays or “overlooks” his myriad crimes. It’s a kind of infatuation, but of course it’s also obvious hypocrisy. Business as usual.
It’s probably not worth mentioning, but Guatemala’s President Colom, who happens to look like a really geeky wimp, just visited Cuba and conferred upon Fidel Castro the Order of the Quetzal, apparently the highest honor the Guatemalan government can bestow. The honoree, however, declined to receive Colom in person, so the damn medal or whatever it is had to be handed over to Raul Castro instead. Colom, of course, is a total joke, far too paltry to get an audience with Fidel the Great, and ultimately this whole thing is just some tenth-rate asshole being a jackass. However, it does illustrate, for the umpteenth time, what Cubans can expect from their Latin “brothers.” They’re beneath contempt.
Ampuero has written brilliantly about Cuba in his novels – you all should check it out. As for Bachelet I love the way Fidel bitch slapped her by saying Chile should give back land to Bolivia while she was still in town. Serves her right.
Somehow, I doubt Bachelet learned her lesson. She might be more cautious or guarded in future, but she’s still the same person. It’s like the Cuban saying about “el perro huevero.” She is what she is.