Posted on 05/09/2002 6:51:17 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:07:46 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
FIDEL CASTRO loathes anyone who champions freedom and democracy, but for Vladimiro Roca, who was freed this week after nearly five years in prison, he harbors a particular hatred.
Roca is a scion of Cuba's Communist elite. His father was Blas Roca, a founding father of the Cuban Communist Party and a member of Castro's inner circle until his death in 1987. Vladimiro - he was named after Lenin - was raised in privilege, trained as a fighter pilot in the Cuban Air Force, then entered the University of Havana to study economics. If anyone had cause to embrace the Communist ''revolution,'' this Cuban princeling did. But the more Roca saw of Castro's corruption and despotism, the more repelled he was by the system his father had helped create.
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Regards to Cincinnatus.
Every liberal is a brutal thug.
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