Is Your Next Vacation Destination CUBA

Then probably North Korea, China or one of the other tourist paradises where human rights are a joke is probably on your vacation list.

Canadian hypocrisy
By MICHAEL COREN, TORONTO SUN FREELANCE

TORONTO -- I would not have invited the late General Augusto Pinochet to tea. I'm not a fan of sharing cookies with a man who wore ostentatious uniforms and led a regime that murdered almost 4,000 people.

The problem is that while the Chilean dictator who died last week certainly had blood on his hands, it was a sprinkling compared to the pool of gore in which so many leftist rulers have bathed.

And here is the hypocrisy. The Marxist who preceded Pinochet was a good buddy of Fidel Castro's and even killed himself with a gun given as a gift by the Cuban thug. Fidel is lionized by many in Canada but has operated a web of concentration camps for decades.

Just last week a group protesting for basic human rights was beaten up and arrested in Cuba, joining political dissidents, Christians, homosexuals and all sorts of other threats to the Havana regime in prisons and torture cells.

Pinochet's defence was that he saved his country from Marxism and that the anarchy and slaughter that would have ensued if the Communists had taken power would have been far worse than anything the military could have created.

As bad as he was, he may have had a point. The left have always been the masters of social engineering and mass murder, but unlike the right, they get away with it.

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