The Luis Posada Carriles terrorism case has drawn a consensus in the mainstream media about the guy’s guilt and the need to throw him in jail even if it is, or especially if it is, in Castro’s Cuba or Chavez’s Venezuela. Cuban Americans have a different view, though, and a prominent Cuban-American, Humberto Fontova, writes an essay that Val at Babalu has linked, exploring some of the complicating factors. It all looks very different to Cuban Americans who are united in their struggle against the monstrous Fidel Castro.

The fact that the mainstream media is in glee about having a Castro-resisting Cuban exile to bash is not lost on Cuban Americans. Fontova notes that this is the same crowd that sided with Castro on the Elian Gonzalez case, the people who knew Cuban reality oh so much better than mere Cuban exiles who’ve actually lived there. Fontova rakes pompous, ignorant Ted Koppel over the coals for sucking up to a Castroite minion, and then provides a list of real questions Koppel should have asked if he had the guts to be a real journo instead of a self-congratulating jackass. That in itself is delicious reading!