New York Times Heartbroken: Latin America Refuses to Keep Propping Up Castro's Eternal Paradise
http://twitchy.com/justmindy/2026/03/15/cuba-new-york-times-n2426063
Yeah ... the "eternal paradise" that is Cuba, eh? Pfft!
The New York Times is really covering themselves in glory lately covering up for the worst people and the worst governments. Now, they are apparently here to shame Latin American countries who believe the Cuban people deserve more than the government they have now.
Melissa Chen (@MsMelChen) ~ The NYT cannot help but romanticize commie regimes - especially Cuba's
It uses the emotionally loaded term "abandonment" to lament the supposed betrayal, like a family turning its back on a troubled relative or a beleaguered symbol of resistance cruelly forsaken.
The whole thing is dripping with the kind of sanctimonious leftist framing that treats the brutal, one-party dictatorship as an "ideological lodestar," conjuring images of "longhaired guerrillas" and "revolutionary nostalgia."
Like clockwork, it dutifully recites the Castro regime's "triumphs" such as eradicating illiteracy and universal healthcare, heralding it as a "unyielding bastion of resistance" against US policies while overlooking the abject human cost.
Genuinely, what the hell is the point of literacy and healthcare when people are starving?
Generations have been living in poverty, crushed under surveillance and censorship, dissidents beaten and disappeared. Blackouts are routine and basic goods are fantasies. A young Cuban's prospects are either to beg tourists for soap or join insurgencies to prop up narco-tyrannies elsewhere in Latin America or flee as a refugee.
Cuba is nothing more than yet another failed socialist experiment. Will Western lefties finally square their cognitive dissonance with reality?
Not going to hold my breath. ¡Cuba libre!
Melissa Chen (@MsMelChen) ~ [i]Probably should be highlighting the decades of political repression, economic mismanagement, mass emigration driven by hardship, human rights abuses, and Cuba's role in bolstering other regimes such as Venezuela's instead of cherry picking "free healthcare."
"Free healthcare"? BWHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! What a pathetic lie. Cuba provided doctors for foreigners who could pay, but not for the common people of Cuba.
They could take a moment to talk about political prisoners, lack of freedom, or starving citizens, but they chose to focus on Latin American countries "abandoning" the poor Communist leadership.
Official Leftist Translator - AKA Tony (@tony4mrht) ~ UGH, this is reprehensible. How about: Is Cuba Ready to Ditch Communism?
Well, the Cuban people are long past ready to ditch Communism, but the Cuban dictators aren't ready to quit living in luxury off the backs of their people.
Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) ~ BREAKING: Cubans are out in the streets, chanting “Death to Communism!”
Video ~ http://x.com/i/status/2033006422959526014
This is what a responsible news organization would focus on.
Yeah, well ... The New York Slimes are Marxist a-holes, so ...
Roger Geissler (@RogerGeissler) ~ Universal literacy all the better to propagandize the population with.
Ken Broad (@Metis65) ~ Can’t wait to drink a Cuba Libre actually in Cuba. 💪
Luiss (@luiss) ~ Let’s not forget get that in 1957, Castro contacted foreign media to spread his message; he became a celebrity after being interviewed by Herbert Matthews, a journalist from The New York Times. The philosophy inside of the newspaper is that he was a saint and that all the actions that he took were justified no matter who he killed, and how many he killed.
Some things never change apparently.
Ernesto Ronin (@Ronin1021) ~ University professors and "journalists" everywhere ...
Kurt Nimphius' Hair (@Hcp1Hcp) ~ The Cuban and other various teetering Communist regimes are always the oppressed in the eyes of the dreamy Western useful academic idiots. They're the "freedom fighters" against evil empires like the U.S.A.
The American "journalists" should go try living there and then see what they think.
Ima_Pseudonym (@ima_pseudo41406) ~ "The other day, my wife and her friends were in the kitchen speaking fluent Cuban. It's a lot like Spanish, but there are no words for 'Luxury items.'" - Emo Philips
Grover Dill (@grover_lou) ~ Yet another failed Communist country could be an epic mental health Waterloo for America’s university faculties.
It might be the straw the breaks the insane camel's back.
MojoSurfer (@mojo_surfer) ~ As a Hispanic, it boggles me that people actually think the majority of us support the Cuban regime. Most Hispanics have lived through leftist regimes and know the nightmares that they bring. True disappearances, genocidal attacks, and more. Only the rich and idiots would dare to defend Cuba.
Their privilege makes them blind to reality.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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