Hope For A Cursed Exile

7-IV-2006
Hope For A Cursed Exile
Editorial

«The left has created a climate of such vile radicalism even ambassadors
from foreign tyrannies do not feel the need to mask their positions as
spokesmen for totalitarianism in diplomatic language.»

Days after a group of radical leftists kept Cuban dissident Raul Rivero
from giving a conference in the main hall of the University of Seville,
the Cuban ambassador to Spain, Alberto Velazco, dared to criticize
Madrid’s regional governor, Esperanza Aguirre for committing the
terrible sin of having given a speech in Miami in favor of freedom in Cuba.

Not satisfied with representing a regime that for more than four decades
has restricted his compatriots’ freedom and prosperity, Velazco feels he
has the authority to dictate the rights to assembly and free speech not
only of exiled Cubans, but of Spaniards as well.

The Cuban ambassador has criticized Esperanza Aguirre (he disparagingly
called her a “faithful Aznar follower”) for meeting with exiled Cubans
who he feels are nothing more than a bunch of “mercenaries and
terrorists,” former “torturers and murderers for the Batista regime.”

While it is true Castro’s hangmen need little encouragement to
presenting themselves as victims, in Spain under Zapatero, the left has
created a climate of such vile radicalism even ambassadors from foreign
tyrannies do not feel the need to mask their positions as spokesmen for
totalitarianism in diplomatic language.

In any other country, having the Cuban ambassador criticize a political
representative like Aguirre would have caused a diplomatic incident. Not
here. Here the government is the host that paves the way to these
freedom-killing excesses.

Cuban exiles are doubly cursed. In addition to being the uprooted
victims of a totalitarian regime (one of the cruelest and
longest-lasting in modern history), they have to endure insults from
“progressive” media outlets that continue to disqualify them and employ
the same rhetoric as their tormentors.

While the indomitable Cuban exile has often lacked European politicians’
solidarity and support, unlike the warm welcome Esperanza Aguirre has
tirelessly offered them, it is true that lately few have offered the
exiles’ tormentors as high a degree of complicity and understanding as
the Zapatero administration.

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