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AGUSTIN BLAZQUEZ |
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Wawa and the Tyrant
© 2002 ABIP
Agustin Blazquez with the collaboration of Jaums Sutton
Monday, Oct. 14, 2002
In 1977, when Barbara Walters (Baba Wawa in the late Gilda Radner's
sketches on "Saturday Night Live") was in Cuba interviewing Castro,
there were rumors in Cuba that transpired abroad that Miss Wawa – oops,
Walters – had an affair with the despicable tyrant of that unfortunate
island.
We may never know the truth about this alleged affair, since the members
of the U.S. media are so protective of each other. Remember the case of
the millionaire reporter Sam Donaldson receiving U.S. government
subsidies for his wool farm? Probably not, because everything
disappeared from the headlines very soon, including the reporter who
uncovered the story.
Rumors are rumors, but sometimes they carry an iota of truth –
Donaldson's situation certainly needs further explanation. And so does
the Walters rumor, especially when so many significant foreign women
visitors have ended up in the sack, or should I say hammock, with the
ruler-for-life of Cuba.
Now ABC's "20/20" has treated us to a jovial 25-year television reunion
– although Walters has seen him on other occasions, such as a few years
ago when they dined together at the mansion of a wealthy capitalist in
New York when Castro came to the United Nations.
But television is television, and ratings and MONEY are what it's all
about for "20/20," "60 Minutes" and all those kinds of shows. And it was
quite a show! Walters seemed to be debating between melting for his
supposed charisma (which I fail to see, since his body language reflects
a mental status comparable to Charles Manson) and the need she seemed to
feel to ask important and revealing tough questions, as she has done
with other personalities. Her usual professionalism was missing.
Castro, the consummate actor and pathological liar, succeeded once more
in dancing around, his eyes full of admiration and fondness for Walters.
And succeeded again when he fooled Walters with a supposedly spontaneous
visit to schools and others places, where he was received as if he were
the incarnation of Elvis Presley.
Nothing is really spontaneous in totalitarian Cuba, where people are
commanded to cheer the very henchman cutting off their heads. The
spontaneous display of rejection of Castro and his criminal regime is
rarely seen in Cuba but is quite evident in the Florida Straits where,
for 43 years, Cubans have been taking unthinkable risks to liberate
themselves. There are many stories to tell from his millions of victims
who live in exile all over the world, if Walters or any other U.S.
reporter would care to interview them.
But as usual, Castro makes the news, not his victims.
It was insulting when Walters asked him about his private life and he
claimed his "human right" to privacy. Well, he has deprived the Cuban
people of that particular human right, as well as the rest of them, for
all these years and Walters let it slip through. So Castro, the most
inhumane tyrant in the Americas, owner of the island he stole and the
grandest slave master in history, is the only one entitled to human
rights.
How can Walters or anybody else feel admiration for this mass murderer
who has caused the deaths of 105,000 people (31 of them Americans)? But
he told Barbara that he has not killed any Americans, and Barbara didn't
even hint at the 1996 Brothers to the Rescue incident in which three
Americans and one U.S. resident were killed over international waters.
Barbara, Charles Manson killed a comparatively infinitesimal number of
innocents and he is in jail for life, and you don't treat him with the
respect and smiles you had for your longtime friend in Cuba.
Timothy McVeigh killed fewer people than Castro and he was rightfully
vilified, sentenced to death and executed, while there are many
Americans, including Barbara Walters, who look up to Castro with
admiration. That is baffling.
And she let him get away with a huge brand new lie (he has been lying
all his life; remember in 1957 and again in 1959 when he said that he
was not a communist?) when he said that he did not ask Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev for a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the U.S. His
request is in a personal letter from Castro to Khrushchev dated Oct. 26,
1962, that is on record at the Kennedy Library (www.jfklibrary.org/cmc_castro_khrushchev).
So Castro, a manipulator of people and history, changed history thanks
to the opportunity Ms. Walters presented to him, and she wistfully let
it go by.
On the 40th anniversary of the closest we ever came to nuclear
annihilation, a new spin is being created in which Castro becomes the
savior.
On Oct. 12, the day after the Walters and Castro reunion show, I read in
the newspaper that Robert S. McNamara, on his pilgrimage to Cuba for the
anniversary of the 1962 Missile Crisis, said that Castro, President
Kennedy and Russian Leader Nikita Khrushchev had saved the world from
nuclear war. Rather than being responsible for setting up the situation,
they are heroes.
This is really outrageous and a shameful act of disinformation to
Americans, who are already badly misinformed about Cuba by the U.S.
media.
Since Kennedy and Khrushchev are dead, I will not be surprised if, after
Jimmy Carter, Castro wins the Nobel Peace Prize next year for having
saved the world from nuclear holocaust.
While NBC, ABC and CBS refused to give airtime to President Bush to
explain to the American people about the serious issue of the war
against Saddam Hussein, they fought among themselves to get an interview
with Castro. They gladly prefer to expose the American public to the
lies of a tyrant. Shouldn't they take some sort of moral responsibility
for what they do?
And to close this jovial reunion of old flames, Barbara Walters called
him "Mr. President." Castro has never been elected to anything in Cuba.
He is self-appointed to all the positions he holds in his government in
control of everything, for as long as he desires. Not my idea of a
"president."
As a matter of fact, his complete government became illegitimate once he
set aside the Cuban Constitution of 1940, which was a valid,
democratically created constitution. He ruled Cuba from 1959 without a
constitution, until he created that abominable 1976 Communist
Constitution that officially deprives Cuban citizens of all rights,
except the right to hail him and his revolution.
He is the Alpha and Omega of Cuba. The only thing to fear more is how it
will come to an end.
Let's beware of the end; it might not be pretty for the Cubans and for
the U.S. Remember that he wrote a letter (proudly displayed on the third
floor of the Museum of the Revolution in Havana) dated June 5, 1958, to
his secretary, the late Celia Sanchez, that says: "When this war is
over, a much wider and bigger war will begin for me, the war I am going
to wage against them [the U.S.]. I realize that this is going to be my
true destiny."
He has been fulfilling that destiny since 1959, waging a covert war
against the U.S. on all fronts as Cuba became a state that sponsors
terrorism, associates with the most anti-American groups all over the
world, and is part of the international terrorist network, all directed
against the U.S.
Barbara Walters should examine why she feels such obvious fondness for a
character like this.
© 2002 ABIP
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