Monday, September 04, 2006

Cuba's lost population

We read all the time about the great strides made under Castro's brutal regime, increases in literacy and...? That's as far as The Terrier gets, because the really inconvenient truth about Castro keeps intruding, like the ghost of Banquo . The real human toll of Castro's crimes are still being toted up, but 114,000 is where the figure now stands. A piker compared to Hitler, or Stalin or Mao, I know, but then Fidel has only the tiny island nation to work with.

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