Tyrant “larger than life”

A BBC celeb puff piece about a man who runs political prisons. His presence is “felt across Cuba” like a gun to the head for more than a generation, but when you’re the beeb, you ignore all of that.

They call what is probably a nail-biting cold sweat about a potentially violent political struggle:

For those at the upper echelons of the Cuban government, it will be a novel experience.

As is so often is the case the BBC (and an endless supply of lefty morons) eats up Castro’s PR routine at home without questioning it. Who needs democracy and participatory government when the Lider Maximo is both the government and the “loyal opposition”!

Mr Castro has never tolerated formal opposition to his rule. Instead, he sometimes appears to fulfil the role of opposition leader himself, haranguing government officials on live television.

”Yum, yum, eat ‘em up!”

The fuse is lit!