Friday’s Raleigh News & Observer carried yet another story about a performer who claims to be a human rights activist but who doesn’t seem to appreciate the horrors of Fidel Castro’s Cuba. Miriam Makeba held a news conference last week in Havana, where she was performing, and, predictably, blasted the United States, not Cuba. The Associated Press reported it this way:
She criticized the U.S. government’s response to black communities after Hurricane Katrina and praised Cuba for its cooperation with African nations, particularly in healthcare.
Clearly, Ms. Makeba is ignorant of Eusebio Penalver, who served 30 years in a Castro prison, and according to author Humberto Fontova, as recounted in this interview with FrontPageMag.com, is “the longest serving black political prisoner OF THE CENTURY, by the way. He served longer in prison than Nelson Mandela. So where’s the Congressional Black Caucus, Jesse Jackson, Charlie Rangel, Maxine Waters, etc? I’ll tell you where: they were hugging and hoisting the arm of Penalver’s jailer, Fidel Castro!”
