"Communism
Takes a Back Seat in Age of Terrorism"
By
Alex Rivero 11/30/03
While the chilling tragedies that occurred in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001 sparked a worldwide manhunt for suspected terrorists, the scrutiny and potential dangerousness of yet another global calamity, Communism, continues to slip its way around the media microscope. Despite America’s tight trade embargo on Cuba, one of the greatest factors keeping the system alive on the island is the thousands of dollars that flow there every year by ways of tourism or shipments of basic supplies like Tylenol and aspirin. The Bush administration in Washington appears to be taking a lukewarm interest in toppling Fidel Castro financially, calmly assuring the disgruntled Cuban-American community, when he is not busy handling decisions in Iraq, that the trade embargo on the island will remain firmly enforced and that he plans to outlaw traveling to Cuba altogether. However, it does not take a White House correspondent to come to the conclusion that the dilemma of Communism has taken a very quiet back seat to the threat of global terrorism and, in spite of the forty-five year tyranny imposed upon the people of Cuba, there is no clear sign of its downfall in the near future. The cancerous system of government remains prominent and, now that the global eye is focused on capturing Osama bin Laden and his plotting ilk, politically established terrorists like Fidel Castro can rest assured that they aren’t prime targets number one anymore. Now that the America is chasing after those who sponsor terrorism, Castro’s system of government – of legal terrorism – remains tucked away in the blind spot of freedom fighters, safe from the tentacles of democracy, progress, and any thoughts of free elections.
