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Cuban TV personality flees Castro’s “workers’ paradise”

This is certain to make leftist heads explode!  From al-Reuters via Hot Air:

One of Cuba’s most popular television personalities, humorist Carlos Otero, defected to the United States with his family, Miami’s Nuevo Herald newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Otero, 49, asked for political asylum on Monday at the U.S. border with Canada, where he was producing a television show in Toronto. He was traveling with his wife and two children.

His interview show on Sunday evenings was one of the most viewed in Communist Cuba.

“I hope to earn a living in exile and see my children grow up with the opportunity to study what they want, without having to agree with the system,” Otero told the Nuevo Herald.

Otero said Cuba was “frozen in time” and Cubans lived in great uncertainty over their country’s future since Cuban leader Fidel Castro fell ill and dropped from public view 16 months ago. 

Why, this ingrate never had it so good, what with the “free” health care and whatnot!  Now he’ll have to actually pay to go see a quality health care professional!  Sure, he’ll also get earning (and learning) opportunity far beyond his wildest dreams.  And sure, he’ll get all kinds of rights that all humans should have.  (Sidebar: for those of you on the left, said “rights” can be found in that document we affectionately call a “Constitution”, m’kay?  Google it.)  But what good are rights, freedoms, property, money, etc., if you don’t have “free” health care, right?  For those of you on the left, the prior sentence was both rhetorical and sarcasm.

December 12, 2007 - Posted by crushliberalism | Cuba, socialism