United Nations Declares Dictator Fidel Castro World Hero
By Competitive Enterprise Institute 
September 7, 2009 
Opposing Views
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The UN has http://volokh.com/posts/1251864128.shtml \t _blank declared Fidel Castro, the longtime Communist dictator of Cuba, the “http://barticles.mytimesdispatch.com/index.php/barticles/comments/un-believable/ \t _blank World Hero of Solidarity.” Castro killed thousands and http://www.miamiherald.com/multimedia/news/castro/victims.html \t _blank thousands of people during his rule, torturing some to death (including a few http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=7920 \t _blank American citizens), and Cuba remains an http://barticles.mytimesdispatch.com/index.php/barticles/comments/un-believable/ \t _blank oppressive dictatorship even today.

The award was http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=342574&CategoryId=14919 \t _blank presented to Castro by the President of the UN General Assembly, Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann. D’Escoto http://innercitypress.blogspot.com/2009/07/zelaya-and-descoto-flew-in-chavez-plane.html \t _blank Brockmann also http://volokh.com/posts/1251864128.shtml \l 640816 \t _blank 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 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/honduras/5677026/Honduras-supreme-court-ordered-army-coup.html \t _blank orders of Honduras’s Supreme Court arrested Zelaya after he – HYPERLINK http://www.examiner.com/x-7812-DC-SCOTUS-Examiner%7Ey2009m8d29-Obama-likely-to-cut-off-all-aid-to-Honduras-based-on-legal-mistake-and-misreading-of-the-law \t _blank systematically abused his powers. After the Court quite http://www.examiner.com/x-7812-DC-SCOTUS-Examiner%7Ey2009m7d5-Will-Obama-blackmail-Honduras-into-installing-a-bullying-wouldbe-dictator \t _blank legally declared that Zelaya was no longer president, he was http://www.examiner.com/x-7812-DC-SCOTUS-Examiner%7Ey2009m8d29-Obama-likely-to-cut-off-all-aid-to-Honduras-based-on-legal-mistake-and-misreading-of-the-law \t _blank duly replaced by Honduras’s Congress with a civilian, the Congressional Speaker). The Obama Administration recently decided to – HYPERLINK http://www.examiner.com/x-7812-DC-SCOTUS-Examiner%7Ey2009m9d3-Obama-imposes-sanctions-on-impoverished-nation-of-Honduras-despite-loss-of-legal-basis-for-doing-so \t _blank impose sanctions on Honduras, and http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/03/AR2009090302624.html \t _blank indicated it will not recognize future democratic http://www.opposingviews.com/tags/elections 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 http://www.opposingviews.com/tags/green-jobs green jobs czar is the http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/03/van-jones-valerie-jarrett-barack-obama-do-it-yourself-vetting/ \t _blank race-baiter Van Jones, a “http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/09/024434.php \t _blank a self-avowed communist” and http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/09/truther-czar-obamas-green-czar-van.html \t _blank Truther who http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/04/sen-kit-bond-urges-congressional-hearing-on-mr-jones/ \t _blank believed that George Bush http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/back-story/2009/sep/03/green-jobs-czar-signed-truther-statement-in-2004/?feat=home_blogs \t _blank was behind the 9/11 attacks. Jones, who is busy http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/08/surprise-obamas-radical-green-czar.html \t _blank orchestrating advertiser boycotts of Obama’s http://www.opposingviews.com/topics/media media critics, was until recently a “http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/08/024381.php \t _blank member of a radical communist group that was dedicated to ‘organizing a revolutionary movement in America.’”

The http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/28/race-baiter-democrat-rep-diane-watson-praises-cuban-health-system-castro-guevara-who-kicked-out-the-wealthy/ \t _blank race-baiting liberal Congresswoman Diane Watson (D-CA) recently http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/28/race-baiter-democrat-rep-diane-watson-praises-cuban-health-system-castro-guevara-who-kicked-out-the-wealthy/ \t _blank 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 http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110005494 \t _blank shot unarmed demonstrators, Lloyd has called socialist Venezuela a model, praised its authoritarian leader’s “http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/27/rush-and-beck-on-the-fairness-doctrine-threat/ \t _blank incredible revolution” and defended his attacks on independent media. Obama’s nominee to be Assistant Secretary of State, Arturo Valenzuela, has a http://www.nhinsider.com/press-releases/2009/7/8/alg-urges-senate-committee-to-reject-valenzuela-nomination-t.html \t _blank reputation as a http://www.offnews.info/verArticulo.php?contenidoID=12157 \t _blank loud defender of Venezuelan dictator Chavez’s terrible record on freedom of the press.

By contrast, the Obama Administration is extremely hostile to non-communist Honduras and its democratically-elected legislature, demanding that they allow the return to power of Honduras’s http://www.opposingviews.com/tags/bullying bullying ex-president and would-be dictator. The ex-president’s removal was perfectly constitutional, say many experts, such as attorneys Octavio http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0702/p09s03-coop.html \t _blank Sanchez, Miguel http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-estrada10-2009jul10,0,1570598.story \t _blank Estrada, and Dan http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_07_05-2009_07_11.shtml \l 1247020907 \t _blank Miller, former Assistant Secretary of State Kim http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/09/deja-vu-on-dictatorships-and-double-standards/?feat=home_columns \t _blank Holmes, and Stanford’s William http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jul/18/opinion/oe-ratliff18 \t _blank Ratliff.