Mario Diaz-Balart on Castro: ‘Hard to Believe’ Anyone Could Mourn Loss of One of the Most ‘Blood Thirsty’ Murderers Ever

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DIAZ-BAALRT: "But again, I will tell you that to me it’s rather strange that anybody could celebrate the life of a person who, again, was a dictator for close to six decades, who murdered and tortured, who has a record of, again, not only a corruption and murder and blood but also terrorism. So, you know, I see even some heads of state who are saying oh, you know, mourning his loss, it’s frankly hard to believe that anybody could mourn the loss of a person who has a very distinct record, a clear record of being one of the most savage, blood thirsty murderers, tyrants that this world has ever seen, clearly the most savage dictatorship away seen in the Americas in the history of this hemisphere. So some may have this false image of what Fidel Castro was. But the history speaks for itself. He was a person who asked for a nuclear strike against the United States. This is a person who shot down two American airplanes, civilian airplanes in international airspace. This is a dictator ship that today still harbors about 80 fugitives from U.S. Law including murderers and terrorists. That’s the legacy of Fidel Castro. That’s what the Cuban people have suffered for close to 60 years. For anybody to romanticize that frankly is clueless of the situation that the Cuban people have had to suffer for, again, a 60-year-old dictatorship that unfortunately, as you know, still persists today."