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Cuban Dissident Murdered In The Name Of Progressive Socialism

March 1, 2010 | 2 Comments

The blood of Cuban political prisoner Orlando Zapata is on the hands of every Progressive in this country:

Mexican President Felipe Calderón wore a broad smile as he warmly greeted Cuba’s Raúl Castro at the Rio Group summit on the posh Mexican Riviera last week. The two men, dressed in neatly pressed guayabera shirts, shook hands as Mr. Calderón, with no small measure of delight, gestured to his audience to welcome Mexico’s very special guest.

A mere 300 miles away, in a military prison hospital in Havana, political prisoner Orlando Zapata lay in a coma. For 84 days the 42-year-old stone mason of humble origins had been on a hunger strike to protest the Castro regime’s brutality toward …

Unfortunately the rest of this story is behind the WSJ pay wall, but long story short, the non-progressive dissident is now dead, and the Progressive movement is at least partially to blame. When you apologize for a Socialist dictator, you own his murders too.

Nice utopia you have there Progressives!


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  1. Tati on March 1, 2010 1:53 pm

    Thank you for posting about Orlando Zapata – there is good post on the following blog regarding his murder – http://desdeaquifromhere.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/what-do-these-signs-indicate/

    This is a blog from within Cuba. I hope you will take the time to read. Again, thank you for mentioning Orlando.

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