Certainly a never ending subject. I have two examples for you. The two happened while I was living in Miami, and about the same time. First I saw an article in the Miami Herald where the author (certainly a Cuban-American) was making the comparison of El Clarin's front pages in previous weeks. First, the headline showed the ruling of an Argentinian court, issuing warrants to a group of military officials, from the late dictatorship, accused of crimes against humanity. The headline read something like “Que abran las jaulas!”, referring of course to the imprisonment of these ex-officials. Weeks later when Castro was visiting Buenos Aires ( I think it was about the time Kirchner was being sworn into office) El Clarin posted in its front page something like “Bienvenido Fidel!”. The Cuban journalist only pointed out the fact that how could the top selling newspaper in Argentina have such different stand on what for me are just two Dictatorships. My guess is of course that El Clarin probably suffered heavily from the Argentinian regime... and so they know exactly who to blame.
Days later I was listening to a radio talk-show where the subject was of course Fidel. A Cuban woman called (an old one who left Cuba during the “revolution” and probably lost everything in between), she said: “ The problem in Cuba was that not a single military officer at the time had the balls Pinochet had, in order to overthrow Castro. I wish to have had a Pinochet in Cuba... that way we could happily be living over there now...”. I must say the show's host was furious at the woman's comment and didn't share her views at all. Neither did I.
In any case, it seems people tend to critic extremism with the complete opposite stand, instead of thinking rationally.
