Fidel Castro takes blame for gay persecution in Cuba
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Fidel Castro is evidently taking the blame for the homophobia that came out of his revolutionary government in the 1960′s. He told a Mexican newspaper that he was preoccupied by other things.
Castro told La Jornada that he wasn’t exactly homophobic himself, but took the full blame.
“If anyone is responsible (for the persecution), it’s me;” the former Cuban leader said. “I’m not going to place the blame on others,” he added.
“We had so many and such terrible problems, problems of life or death,” Castro said.
“In those moments I was not able to deal with that matter (of homosexuals). I found myself immersed, principally, in the Crisis of October (Cuban Missile Crisis), in the war, in policy questions,” he explained.
Despite the fact that official persecution of gays continued into the 1970s before homosexual acts were decriminalized in 1979, gay rights have come a long way in Cuba. Today, the government’s medical service provides free sex-change operations.
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