Do you have to still apologize when they defame you, beat you, set dogs loose to attack you, and point guns at you?
On Monday a large number of secret police gathered to violently put down a student protest at the Salvador Allende School of Medical Sciences in Havana, Cuba. There had been rising tensions among Congolese medical students who had been kept in poor conditions, and not been provided with their scholarship funds for over two years. Images of the students being attacked with clubs and dogs by Cuban police appeared in news coverage.
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| These are who the Cuban official press describes as having "staged a violent riot." |
On Monday a large number of secret police gathered to violently put down a student protest at the Salvador Allende School of Medical Sciences in Havana, Cuba. There had been rising tensions among Congolese medical students who had been kept in poor conditions, and not been provided with their scholarship funds for over two years. Images of the students being attacked with clubs and dogs by Cuban police appeared in news coverage.
Today, in Prensa Latina, the Castro dictatorship's official press, responded with an Orwellian report with the headline "Congolese Medicine Students Apologize to Cuba." The report claims that the students released a statement in an online letter claiming that their words were being taken out of context to defame "the Cuban people." However that same Prensa Latina article defames the students when the official press writes:
"The future doctors started a protest several days ago to demand from the Government of the Republic of Congo the payment of 27 months late in the stipend, and staged a violent riot on Monday, which forced the Cuban law enforcement authorities to act."Videos of what transpired showed a peaceful assembly that turned into chaos when the police began attacking the medical students, beating them with sticks, setting dogs loose on them, and pointing a gun at one student who had his hands up.
Could it be that what we are witnessing in action is an aphorism stated in 1980 by the late Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas: “The difference between the communist and capitalist systems is that, although both give you a kick in the ass, in the communist system you have to applaud, while in the capitalist system you can scream.”
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| Police crackdown on students who peacefully assembled and call it a riot. |
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You have succinctly talked about how the free-of-charge medical system developed by Fidel Castro has become so-overrated, despite sub-Saharan African leaders' continued tendency to praise Fidel Castro as a humanist for wanting to liberating the rural poor. In particular, Armando Valladares destroyed the praises heaped upon Castro by the radical left for promoting free-of-charge medical services for the Cuban people by noting in his memoir "Against All Hope" that Stalin also built hospitals for the rural poor. The scuffle between Congolese medical students and Cuban officials may, in the long-term, raise questions about whether people in South Africa and other African countries could run for office and be outspoken about Fidel Castro's sins, and make Africans realize that Castro was a monster and not a humanist, and that Castro-style communism was just as destructive and evil as other forms of communism.
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