While Cuba holds her breath, waiting to hear whether or not she is free from the cruelty and corruption of the Old Communist, and waiting to see if further outrages against her follow at the hands of Fidel's barbarous baby brother, freedom-loving people around the world pray.There are many English-language web sites designed to give the world the true picture of Cuba, complete with the details of her poverty, illness and oppression under Castro -- news that the fellow-traveling mainstream media has always failed utterly to provide. They include Babalu', Cuban-American Pundits, 26th Parallel, Kill Castro, and The Real Cuba.
It was at The Real Cuba that I found this revealing anecdote:
"Mr. Roosevelt, can you spare 10 bucks?"
In 1940, when he was a young student at one of Cuba's most exclusive Catholic schools, Fidel Castro wrote a letter to then US President Franklyn Roosevelt asking the president to send him a $10 bill. In his letter, the young Castro referred to Roosevelt as his "friend." The letter is now in the National Archives.
"Never I have not seen a ten dollars bill green American and I would like to have one of them," Castro told Roosevelt.
But much has changed since then. After becoming Cuba's absolute ruler and running the island as his private farm and the 11 million Cubans as his peons, Castro is now a multimillionaire. His fortune, according to Forbes magazine, is more than 900 million dollars or 90 million 10 dollar bills like the one Castro was begging Mr. Roosevelt to send him.
It seems that Castro has always liked to beg his "friends" for money.A few years after writing the letter to Roosevelt, Castro was begging Cuba's richest class for money to fight Batista and bring democracy to Cuba. Many went ahead and gave him the money and he later betrayed them and the millions of Cubans who once trusted him. Later he begged the Russians for money and took billions of dollars from them until they went bankrupt, thanks in part to all the money they dumped in Castro's "Black Hole."
And now he found another "rich daddy" who is using billions of dollars that belong to the Venezuelan people and giving them to the beggar-in-chief.
Two things are clear from Castro's letter: One, that he always has been begging for money and two, that he has always been a liar. In the letter to Roosevelt, Castro said that he was "12 years old," but he was born on August 13 1926 and since the letter to Roosevelt was dated November 6, 1940, Castro was already 14.
Conclusion: A beggar then and a beggar now; a liar then and a liar now.
