On the Media: How Not to Cover Cuba

Talking points on the story, identifying basic meaning.

• US Citizens were on a hinge that if Fidel Castro died they could vacation in Cuba
• "People still can't say with real authority whether or not Castro was a communist at the time in 1957 when he had the interview" 
• Cuba is not defined by 1 thing but 4 things: Vintage Cars, Rum, Cigars, and Music
• Cuba is the forbidden fruit of the Caribbean. 

My position on the story providing a supporting or opposing argument supported with evidence. 

As far as I know and have researched there is no veracity if Fidel Castro was a communist before he became president. There are very good assumptions regarding that Fidel Castro was a communist.

Mr. Castro’s university days earned him the image of rabble-rouser and seemed to support the view that he had had Communist leanings all along. But in an interview in 1981, quoted in Tad Szulc’s 1986 biography, “Fidel,” Mr. Castro said that he had flirted with Communist ideas but did not join the party.

“I had entered into contact with Marxist literature,” Mr. Castro said. “At that time, there were some Communist students at the University of Havana, and I had friendly relations with them, but I was not in the Socialist Youth, I was not a militant in the Communist Party.”

Mr. Castro was not a communist in the beginning

I think one of the issues is that we need to work on our relations with Cuba. Obama visited Cuba with no success, but now that Fidel Castro has passed away and that his brother is in his place we may have other opportunities to work with. I think another barrier is that a lot of Americans don't know how much Cuba is a part of our History. We need to stop relying solely on the media to do our research and start doing our own