[Cincinatus]

"For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. The literacy rate is 96 percent." -- Barbara Walters narrating her interview with Fidel Castro on ABC's 20/20, October 11.

This one is my personal favorite. Absolutely amazing.

[jonascord]

If you ignore the recent roundup of dissidents in Cuba, including all but one of Jimmah's pals, freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose...

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Barbara should know.

Director Stone shows human side of Cuba's Castro - "…even our prostitutes are university educated"*** "I say it is one of the achievements of the revolution that even our prostitutes are university educated," Castro says. Stone's next project will be about Alexander the Great starring Colin Farrell. But he is set to court controversy again with another project, "Persona Non Grata," a film about Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, set to air in June in America.

After Castro, Stone said he could imagine interviewing another U.S. enemy, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. "I would try to get on with him in the same way ... Who knows who he is. The American media makes him into a monster."***

[Born on the Storm King]

I think it's an interesting point about the literacy rate in Castro's Cuba. I believe the high literacy rate in the Soviet Union is what helped to bring it down---the Soviet citizens were starved to read anything truthful---samizdat or self publishing became the vogue.