In the wake of Fidel Castro’s death, American media and officials are talking about human rights in Cuba while Washington is running a torture camp — Guantanamo Bay — on the island, according to Daniel Patrick Welch, an American writer and political analyst.
Following the death of the revolutionary Cuban leader on Friday, the Western media, particularly BBC and CNN, quickly denounced Castro as a dictator who had oppressed his own people for decades.
BBC talked to British academic Dr. Denise Baden, an associate professor at the University of Southampton, who stood her ground despite the anchor’s loaded questions about Castro. Baden dismissed the news anchor’s assertion that Castro was a brutal tyrant who was loathed by most Cubans. The interview went viral on social media.
Dr. Baden said the majority of Cubans around the world had a very favorable view of Castro. She stated that based on her interviews with Cubans living inside the country and…