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General_Strike
William.
I did hear a tough interview with Ken Livingstone, pressing on the issue of human rights abuses, lack of freedom of speech, and entrenched poverty. Livingstone's main argument in favour of Castro was that there were other dictators in South America who were worse. They also had Carlos Acosta on who thought Castro was lovely, he knew about the abuses, interments without trial etc but thought on balance the revolution was a good thing because his personal experience was fine. They also covered the celebrations among a million exiled Cubans in Miami, so on balance many more voices against Castro got air time I suppose. It's a very good thing for Cubans that Obama made steps to end hostilities between the two countries.