Tsipras's neoliberal opression
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras did his bit in Havana. It is no small thing to speak at an event commemorating the life of a figure who is a symbol, albeit of an obsolete world, of an ideology that survives only in a handful of corners of the Earth (terrible for their populations), a utopia that was defeated by reality even inside Fidel Castro's Cuba. The measures being implemented by Raul Castro's regime refute all the fixations that transformed the revolution of 1959 into a dictatorship. Yes, it was a dictatorship. Maybe it had a good public health system, but it also carried out 5,600 executions and 1,200 assassinations.
According to the Cuba Archive database, the Castro regime is directly responsible for 10,723 deaths. Another 78,000 people died at sea between Cuba and Miami. None, however, drowned trying to get from Miami to Cuba, to the paradise described by Tsipras...
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