Fidel Castro’s death was a cause for joy for millions of people who watched for 47 years as the Cuban communist dictator committed numerous human rights abuses, including killing and imprisoning homosexuals, trashing the country’s economic infrastructure, and transforming Cuba into a one-party nationalist socialist state.
But to some purveyors of socialist causes, Castro’s administration provided free healthcare, and free education, and… well, isn’t that incentive to want to praise him? Here’s a list of six college professors here in the United States who think so:
Peter Schwab, professor of political science at the State University of New York
In a New York Times letter to the editor, Schwab claimed Castro’s death was only celebrated by “Cuban exiles in Miami” and conservatives.
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