Cuba Solidarity Day 2010

Ray Walser / May 20, 2010

Cuban President Fidel Castro (L) and his brother Raul, chat on December 23, 2003 in Havana, during a meeting of the Cuban Parliament. Raul Castro succeeded his brother Fidel Castro as the president of Cuba on February 24, 2008, in a historic power shift expected to keep Havana firmly on its communist path, officials said.

It is the sad plight of the proud Cuban people to live under the yoke of the Cuban Communist regime. May 20, 2010 marks the 108th year of Cuba’s independence. This year is also the 51st year of the Castro dictatorship.

The people of Cuban – vibrant, ethnically-diverse and enterprising – are shackled hand and foot by a system conceived in the 19th century utopian musings of Marx but actually forged and perfected by the great totalitarians of the 20th century.

In History’s light, Havana’s aging dictators – Fidel and Raul Castro – are the living descendants of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong. Cubans in the tens of thousands are as much victims of crimes and misdeeds of Communism as were those of the Stalinist Purges, the Soviet Gulag, and Mao’s Great Cultural Revolution. (more…)