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Communism’s Resurgence
Stoptheftaa.org ^ | 01.24.05 | William F. Jasper
Posted on 01/11/2005 10:20:32 PM CST by Coleus
Communism is not dead in Latin America. In fact, the dominoes are falling south of the border, but no one seems to be noticing.
“It’s a new day. Communism is dead. It’s even dead in Cuba.” So declared Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing in May 2002. “I hate to say it,” she continued, “it’s dead.” The senator’s proclamation was a surprise, no doubt, to Fidel Castro, whose regime was (and is) alive and as Red as ever. It also must have come as welcome news to the people of Cuba, still suffering, after nearly half a century, under Fidel’s stifling oppression. Unfortunately, for them, the senator was wrong, as usual.
Conservatives had a field day blasting Senator Boxer’s ridiculous epitaph. But while ridiculing her forensic pathology regarding Cuba, her critics frequently repeated Boxer’s error by proclaiming that “Communism is dead” in the rest of Latin America.