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by David Limbaugh.) Communist Cuba has always been jealous of Red China, and some think Cabrera was Castro’s attempt to gain his own influence over the White House. During the Clinton years, China received permission to buy high-tech militarily relevant technology for its nuclear weapons program. If Castro didn’t get access to our nuclear technology, he at least came tantalizingly close to getting DEA intelligence and technology.
    During his trial, Cabrera was eager to sing about his drug-smuggling arrangements with Castro in exchange for a lighter sentence. But Cabrera’s lawyer, Stephen Bronis, was shocked to discover that Janet Reno’s Justice Department didn’t want to hear about it. “It was pure politics and it stinks,” Bronis told the Miami Herald . 5
    According to Bronis, Castro had told Cabrera, “I know your friends from Cali [the Colombian drug cartel]. I’ve met them. I know they’re here in Cuba. I like doing business with them.” But we don’t need to rely on Bronis’s word. We know from official Justice Department documents that Castro was so close to the Colombian cocaine barons that in 1984 Manuel Noriega visited Cuba, where Castro offered to mediate a spat between the Colombian drug lords and the Panamanian dictator. This information is in the United States’ indictment of Noriega.
    “Cuba was a paradise for us.” said Alejandro Bernal during a December 2001 interview. Bernal was Mexican drug kingpin Amado Carrillo’s contact with the Colombians. Bernal was interviewed in his country club prison in Colombia by Miami’s El Nuevo Herald while awaiting extradition to the United States. “We lived like kings in Cuba, hombre. And this goes way back. All of us knew it. You wanna go to place where nobody bothers you? Five million dollars for Fidel—it’s that easy. He’ll see to it that nobody touches you.”
    But according to Bernal, Carrillo paid Castro considerably more than $5 million. Bernal says Carrillo had houses and hotel suites in Cuba, which he used for drug deals and torrid sessions with his mistress. This confirmed what Mexican authorities reported during an investigation in 1997, when they also discovered that Carrillo laundered hundreds of millions in drug money in Castro’s Cuba. This investigation came right after Carrillo’s death (he died from complications from attempted plastic surgery).
    Hollywood likes to continually to retell the myth of how Castro cleaned up the allegedly gangster-ridden Cuba of Fulgencio Batista. The more interesting truth is that Castro is the dope trafficker next door, running the Cuban leg of the Colombian drug cartel. Funny how you don’t often hear about that.

CHAPTER FIVE
     
    ROCK AGAINST FREEDOM!
     
    Havana hotels are off-limits to most Cubans, especially black Cubans. Cuba practices segregation, but somehow all the liberals who condemned South African apartheid swarm to Cuba’s segregated hotels open the drapes and say, “Ah, will ya look at that beach!” Then they order room service champagne, fire up a Cohiba, and toast the enforcer of tourist apartheid.
    Liberals—and the United Nations—called for economic sanctions against South Africa. The UN General Assembly passed the resolution: “We demand a total and immediate economic break with South Africa.” Yet the UN General Assembly yearly denounces the U.S. “embargo” of Cuba. And so do American liberals.
    “The Cuban embargo is the stupidest law ever passed in the United States,” said Jimmy Carter, who when he was in the White House (recall his “human rights” foreign policy) imposed embargoes against South Africa, Rhodesia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, and Nicaragua. 1 (And unlike these embargoed countries, Cuba trades with every country on earth, and in 2003 the United States was Cuba’s sixth biggest trading partner, despite being “embargoed.”)
    Someone remind me: What terrible threat did Rhodesia—which fought on the Allied side in both world wars