Fidel and Cuba

Bernard D’Mello writes:

Big media in the United States (US) gave ample coverage to a few hundred reactionary, right-wing Cuban exiles in the Little Havana quarter of Miami celebrating the passing away of Fidel Castro. The sombre mourning of a majority of the Cuban population not far from the US coast did not seem to matter. But what was utterly disgraceful was the Indian media’s copycat journalism, reproducing the dancing in the streets in the Little Havana quarter of Miami, but caring little in its coverage for the feelings and sentiments of the people in Cuba. Perhaps this too is understandable, for, in the minds of those schooled in the culture of imperialism, the Cuban exiles represent the “Dance of Democracy.” But, leaving aside big-media coverage, we need to talk of the life and legacy of Fidel Castro and the new Cuba he had a big hand in creating.