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The former president told the Mexican newspaper La Jornada that there were moments of great injustice against the gay community.
"If someone is responsible, it's me," he said.
In the 1960s and 70s, many homosexuals in Cuba were fired, imprisoned or sent to "re-education camps".
Ah yes, the great Communist Utopian society, that is not so Utopian after all. I'm glad to see Castro taking responsibility for what he did, but the damage is done. Turns out that, in some ways, Cuba is not unlike Iran, the old Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, or even.....
Fred Phelps and his minions, which is why we must pay extraordinary attention to what is going on in our own back yard, so that there won't ever be a chance of us becoming like them. Democracy is not something that just comes along and plops down in our laps. It must constantly be fought for, lest we one day lose it.
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