"Protest organizer Medea Benjamin, one of Ms. Sheehan's backers, has also backed communists in Vietnam and Nicaragua and recently said of her visit to Cuba, "It seemed like I died and went to heaven."
These types always say that, but you notice, they never stay. You can bet she didn't live as the Cubans lived. Probably got the VIP treatment due to the procommunist propaganda she spews.
You really have to wonder about people that could say that Cuba was heaven in any way. Maybe she meant the weather!
Seems even Castro isn't stupid to keep this trouble maker around. He had her
deported.
Medea Benjamin lived for some time in Cuba with her first husband, who was the coach of that country's national
basketball team. Because Cuba's Communist social and economic structure satisfied Ms. Benjamin's own political
leanings, her move to that island nation initially made her feel "like I died and went to heaven."
She was
deported, however, after writing an anti-government article in the Communist-run newspaper for which she
worked. She moved to San Francisco in 1983 to work for Food First / The Institute for Food and Development
Policy. Soon thereafter, she and her husband separated.
DiscoverTheNetwork.org : Medea Benjamin
Benjamin is currently married to
Kevin Danaher.