[Mark17]

"I was a Fidelista. I love my nation," Ramona Copello told wire service reporters in Cuba on April 11, the day her son was executed. "I no longer love Fidel. He assassinated my son. Now I have no faith in the revolution."

If she still lives in Cuba, she may regret saying that. Fidel will get her too.

[backhoe]

Cincy, one of the most enduring, abiding characteristics of totalitarian, oppressive regimes is their institutionalized, habitual use of force and violence against their own people.

Too soon we forget how the old Comblock countries used barbed wire, guard towers, attack dogs and machine guns to prevent their own citizens from fleeing the "worker's paradise" to the West.

Cuba is no different.