RE: [Marxism] New leadership may spark change in Cuba

[Lajany Otum <lajany_otum@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joaquin Bustelo <jbustelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> I finally decided the well had run dry when I came
> to a site where a self-proclaimed Che admirer 
> wanted more information about Che ordering the
> execution of people with AIDS. To be fair, s/he 
> admired Che despite this, not because of it, but 
> understood it in the historical context of those
> days. 
>
> What can I say? You find a lot of really strange 
> stuff about Cuba online, the island is a free-fire 
> zone for allegations.
>

HIV was not isolated and understood to be the cause
of AIDS until the early 1980's. Nor was the disease
known to medicine during the lifetime of Che Guevara, 
though it is possible (or indeed probable) that isolated 
cases had occured in humans in Africa long before the 
disease and the virus that cause it were discovered
by medicine in the 80's. Weird allegations indeed.




                
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