WHAT IF CASTRO HAD FAILED, OR IF THE BAY OF PIGS INVASION HAD SUCCEEDED?

The brilliant Babalublog linked to an idiotic promo for a restaurant in RI which glorifies and romanticizes Castro and Che - two totalitarian mass murderers.

Here's an excerpt:

Borne of a desire to rid Cuba of the US supported dictator Fulgencio Batista who ran Cuba as a Mafia-controlled "Latin Las Vegas," the Cuban Revolution was a popular rebellion of the masses led by the charismatic Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.

They're essentially saying, "Havana: the Cuban Las Vegas" and meaning it in a bad way.

IS THAT RATIONAL!? After all, Las Vegas is one of the fastest growing cities in the USA and has a high standard of living and low unemployment. It's also one of the FREEST most liberated places to live in the whole entire world. Anything goes in Vegas. And it stays there, too. (How do they do that, exactly!?)

And what is Havana now, after 50 years of Marxist tyranny? A poor Third World nation. One that can trade with every single country in the world EXCEPT the USA, and uses that as an excuse for its poverty. A place where you cannot read or write or worship freely. Or emigrate from legally.

I'd say Cuba would be A LOT better off if it still were the Vegas of the Carribean!

"RE-VIVA LA LATIN LAS VEGAS!"