Still loving Che

Australian journalist swoons over Che's daughter, who evidently sees herself as the keeper of the flame.

"In Latin America," Guevara says, "capitalism brought poverty to its people."

Now, what is left of the industry and assets are all state-owned. Cubans, once ill-educated and poor, are now almost universally literate and have more doctors per capita than almost anywhere on earth. But they are still poor and they live in a one-party state that abhors opposition. Like the US, it jails dissidents, although Guevara denies that these people are genuine. They are mercenaries, paid by the US to ferment dissent in Cuba, she says. (Via Tim Blair)

Not so, the next generation of Guevaras:

Do you know, or do you not know, that these revolutionaries [in Cuba today] don't have a right to open a library to the public, to broadcast a radio program, to hold meetings without permission, to have their own newspaper or to freely defend their viewpoints within trade unions or within groups focused on young people, neighborhood activism, gender, environmentalism, etc.?