The UN has declared Fidel Castro, the longtime Communist dictator of Cuba, the “World Hero of Solidarity.” Castro killed thousands and thousands of people during his rule, torturing some to death (including a few American citizens), and Cuba remains an oppressive dictatorship even today.
The award was presented to Castro by the President of the UN General Assembly, Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann. D'Escoto Brockmann also successfully lobbied the Obama Administration to demand that Honduras allow the return to power of its ex-president and would-be dictator, Manuel Zelaya. (Two months ago, soldiers acting on orders of Honduras’s Supreme Court arrested Zelaya after he systematically abused his powers. After the Court quite legally declared that Zelaya was no longer president, he was duly replaced by Honduras’s Congress with a civilian, the Congressional Speaker). The Obama Administration recently decided to impose sanctions on Honduras, and indicated it will not recognize future democratic elections in Honduras unless Honduras first lets ex-president Zelaya return to power.
Marxism seems to be back in fashion in Washington these days. Obama’s green jobs czar is the race-baiter Van Jones, a “a self-avowed communist” and "Truther" who believed that George Bush was behind the 9/11 attacks. Jones, who is busy orchestrating advertiser boycotts of Obama’s media critics, was until recently a “member of a radical communist group that was dedicated to ‘organizing a revolutionary movement in America.’”
The race-baiting liberal Congresswoman Diane Watson (D-CA) recently praised Fidel Castro as a genius who “kicked out the wealthy” from Cuba.
Many officials in the Obama Administration are sympathetic to Marxist regimes. For example, Obama’s appointee to be the FCC’s “diversity officer” is Mark Lloyd, a big fan of Venezuela’s socialist dictator, Hugo Chavez. Although Chavez has shot unarmed demonstrators, Lloyd has called socialist Venezuela a model, praised its authoritarian leader’s “incredible revolution” and defended his attacks on independent media. Obama’s nominee to be Assistant Secretary of State, Arturo Valenzuela, has a reputation as a loud defender of Venezuelan dictator Chavez’s terrible record on freedom of the press.
By contrast, the Obama Administration is extremely hostile to anti-communist Honduras and its democratically-elected legislature, demanding that they allow the return to power of Honduras’s bullying ex-president and would-be dictator. The ex-president’s removal was perfectly legal, say many experts, such as attorneys Octavio Sanchez, Miguel Estrada, and Dan Miller, former Assistant Secretary of State Kim Holmes, and Stanford’s William Ratliff.
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Is your real name Hans BAITER?...surely no one in his right mind would take you seriously...
You left out other communists in the Obama administration like Carol Browner (until recently in the Socialist International).
There are a lot of Communists and socialists in the Obama Administration.
Not just Van Jones and global-warming czar Carol Browner, who was a proud member of the Socialist International, but also others like Gregory Craig, who was the lawyer for the Castro regime in sending little Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba, and the incoming Assistant Secretary of State, Arturo Valenzuela.
The US needs some Socialism, really badly.
Perhaps if the US had not attacked Cuba,cut off trade and made innumerable attempts on Castro`s life, things would have gone better there.Even so, the place is much better off than it was as the US`s number 1 casino and brothel, surely ?
They have better educational and healthcare standards than the US, so it isn`t all bad, what ? cheers from Australia - `The workers paradise` comparatively speaking :)
Australian leftist Robina Creaser is wrong. Cuba is not only a miserably poor, oppressive country, but it also does not have good health care or educational standards compared to the U.S. or many other countries.
It has a lower life expectancy than other countries, like Costa Rica, that were once poorer than it.
The parts of the U.S. that have the most "socialism," like New York State, have the worst economic growth rates, highest costs of living, and highest taxes.
I don't understand why some people keep defending Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez. Maybe it's because they never had to live under the their regimes or don't even understand what they say.
where is the official UN information on this. Why are all the source personal blogs?
www.un.org has nothing on this event.
Sal, there is at least one "news" story about the UN's award of "world hero" status to communist dictator Fidel Castro, the Latin American Herald Tribune story entitled "Morales Named 'World Hero of Mother Earth' by UN General Assembly."
Bart Hinkle, of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, also has a September 3 commentary entitled "UN-believable," about the award.
Why is America paying for the UN, if it is so hostile to democracy, human rights, and civil liberties?
Can we defund the UN, and stop sending it our tax dollars?
It is sad that there are so many Marxists in the Obama Administration, like Carol Browner and Arturo Valenzuela.
"The US needs some Socialism, really badly."
Socialism IS the problem here in america you twit, stay out of my country!
Is there now any remaining doubt that the UN is nothing but a dictators club, out to support tyranny and oppression? The U.S. needs to defund and abolish that abomination. And IF anyone feels the need for a super-national organization, it should be a League of Free Nations, each of which must maintain high standards of individual liberty in order to remain a member. What Obama seeks to do would disqualify the U.S. from such membership.
Fernandez says:
I don't understand why some people keep defending Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez. Maybe it's because they never had to live under the their regimes or don't even understand what they say
Im sorry to say but i believe in Fidel castro and hugo chavez partly because i LIVED IN BOTH COUNTRIES THEY ARE MY COUNTRIES FROM ORIGINS AND I FULLY DEFEND THE REVOLUTION.
You people have no idea what you are talking about, socialism is good, it is to give everybody the same chance, you guys would'nt understand because you have big houses and you've never lived in a socialist country before and have money to spare but not everybody is born with the same chances. Just look at canada for god sake and tell me its a failure its one of the best places to live and its based and socialist beliefs.(i live in Canada presently.)And america use to call Canada a horrible place because of socialism.
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