Castro acknowledges Cuba's homophobic past, takes responsibility

Fidel Castro, in a recent interview with the Mexican daily La Jornada (as reported by CNN):

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said he acknowledges the persecution of gays and lesbians during the Revolution in his country, according to a newspaper interview published Tuesday. Throughout the 1960s and '70s, Cuba sent openly gay men to labor camps without charge or trial. "They were moments of great injustice, great injustice!" Castro told journalist Carmen Lira Saade from the Mexican daily La Jornada. "If someone is responsible, it's me."

Maybe he has been talking to his niece?

Posted on Wed, September 1, 2010 by B.J. Caldwell filed under

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