Saturday, November 26, 2016
RIP Fidel
I've already discussed Fidel as a Graybillian developer of skills and Fidel as an enemy of American gangsters.
Reuters has a remarkably objective review of the good and bad parts, including a forgotten moment in 1994 when Bill Clinton sounded just like Trump:
Then, wielding the masterstroke in the days that followed, he announced that if the United States would not change its policy on Cuban migrants, the Cuban government would no longer seek to stop people trying to leave the island, instead turning a blind eye. It was a safety valve that allowed the most desperate to go. Castro had allowed a similar wave of discontent to spill off the island with the Mariel boat lift in 1980. It also shifted the problem squarely to Washington. By the end of the summer more than 30,000 Cubans had left and by allowing an exodus, Fidel Castro put the ball in President Bill Clinton's court. That forced Washington to stop welcoming Cubans picked up in the Florida Strait, and brought about a bilateral agreement in September on more 'orderly' migration that included an annual granting of 20,000 visas to Cubans.Bill stopped welcoming Dreamers from ONE SPECIFIC COUNTRY? No! That's TRUMP TROLL KKK HITLER. It can't be true! Push it back in the Memory Hole!
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