Distressing but a must read. Go.
H/T Bill
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Why on earth does the writer jump to the conclusion that the group preferred death to life in Cuba, instead of the rather more obvious conclusion that seeing your friend be blown up by a mine will remove your appetite for walking through minefields?
(yes, I know the answer is that he’s grown up with 40 years of demented anti-Castro propaganda; the question was broadly rhetorical). -
He jumps to that conclusion, John, because something about Cuba had clearly driven them through that minefield in the first place. One has to ask, what part of PRO-Castro propaganda is capable of encompassing that part of the story. Doesn’t that argument that we hear in the case of suicide bombers – “driven by despair” have relevance here? It did strike me at first that the other refugees might simply have been killed by the shockwave from the exploding landmine, but the narrative seems to rule that out explicitly.
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I’m well aware that many people from everywhere in the developing world are willing to risk death to escape from poverty and move to the rich world, whether they’re Haitians or Cubans on rafts or Chinese people in lorry containers.
This doesn’t say anything interesting about freedom in Cuba, unless you count freedom from poverty as a freedom (normally a rather leftie move to make).
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