This week, it’s not gone unnoticed that the BBC have given Fidel Castro’s death a lot of air time and a lot of tributes. As Andrew Roberts noted over the weekend, BBC News described him as ‘one of the world’s longest-serving and most iconic leaders’ only mentioning in the fourth paragraph that ‘Critics saw him as a dictator’.
So, Mr S was unsurprised to hear that a BBC presenter had hit out at the ‘imperialist lies’ being spread about the late Cuban dictator. However, on closer inspection it turned out to be a rather refreshing analysis of Castro’s legacy. On This Week, Andrew Neil attempted to set a few things straight about Castro:
‘Now I realise that there have been reports in the media that the human traffic is in the other direction and that over the years about 20pc of Cuba’s population has fled to America but that’s just an imperialist media lie.
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