The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 217 - Castro Dies, The Left Weeps

Jill Stein launches a recount in Wisconsin, Hillary Clinton joins the effort, and Ben Shapiro talks about Fidel Castro's passing and why Republicans should all be praying for Hillary Clinton to run for re-election in 2020. Plus, a new piece of news about the death of Fidel Castro, and a look at why the media is wrong about what Fidel Castro actually did, and why it's a good thing he died before he was 90 years old. Ben Shapiro is on The Ben Shapiro Show, wherever you get your news and information, and wherever you listen to your favorite podcast. Use the promo code SHAPIRO for $30 off your first ride with Lyft! Use Promo Code SHAPOKE to get 10% off the entire ride service, up to $30, and you get 10 free rides! Shout out to our sponsor Lyft for sponsoring this post-Thanksgiving post-show show! Enjoy, Ben Shapiro Subscribe, Like, and Share, and Retweet! Subscribe to our new podcast CRITIQUE! and help spread the word to your friends about Ben Shapiro's new podcast, "Ben Shapiro's New York Times bestselling book, "Shapiro's New Book "The Devil Next Door." and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Rate, review and become a supporter of the show on Apple Podcasts and subscribe to our newest episode of "The FiveThirtyEight's New Year's Day Offers" wherever you go! Thank you for listening to the show? Subscribe and review Ben Shapiro says he's cool with Ben Shapiro on The FiveThirtyActress, Ben's new book "The Real Life Story" and much more! Subscribe to his new book, Ben s new episode of The Five Guys is out there on Amazon Prime Day, "The Best Way to Watch Ben s New York Magazine's "The New Day's Best Podcasts" is out now on the Biggest Podcast? and Ben s White House Book Recommendation is out on His New Book is out? Also, check out his new podcast "Ben s New Book: The Real Good Thing Is My Life Story?" is out in the Four Seasons, "Fucking Great Book Is It's Ben s Oldest Book Is Ben s Best Podcast Out, Too Good, Too Bad, He's Good Enough, I'm Gotta Have It All Out, My Story?" and so much More! Subscribe and Subscribe to Ben s Story?

00:00:00.000 So, Hillary Clinton has now joined the Jill Stein quixotic recount effort in swing states including Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

00:00:07.000 Campaign counsel Mark Elias announced that while the Clinton campaign had no evidence of hacked voting systems, they wanted to ensure the veracity of the vote.

00:00:15.000 Because we had not uncovered any actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology, we had not planned to exercise this option ourselves, but now that a recount has been initiated in Wisconsin, we intend to participate in order to ensure the process proceeds in a manner that is fair to all sides."

00:00:31.000 Stein is infamously launching a recount effort, if you missed it, in an obvious effort to raise money for the Green Party.

00:00:37.000 So, what's the goal here?

00:00:38.000 Well, not to overturn election results, clearly, because Hillary lost. 1.00

00:00:41.000 But, Ron Fournier of National Journal raises another awful horrifying possibility, quote, Make some calls.

00:00:47.000 You'll hear the same from her confidants.

00:00:57.000 Or no.

00:00:59.000 Except this would actually be the best-case scenario for Republicans.

00:01:02.000 Hillary was a historically bad candidate. 1.00

00:01:04.000 She was the first female major party candidate in history, and she was somehow unable to beat the guy who was caught on tape talking about grabbing women by the bleep.

00:01:11.000 Her husband was a president with significant blue-collar appeal.

00:01:14.000 She lost a blue-collar white vote in historic fashion. 1.00

00:01:16.000 She didn't even match Barack Obama's numbers among Hispanics. 0.85

00:01:19.000 After Trump openly said a judge of Mexican descent couldn't judge his case fairly, she relied on Hollywood glitz rather than on-the-ground campaigning, and she paid for it with the White House. 0.71

00:01:28.000 Hillary for re-election in 2020 would be incredible for Republicans. 1.00

00:01:31.000 It'd be so great.

00:01:32.000 She'd be back.

00:01:33.000 She'd be twice as annoying, which is almost mathematically impossible. 0.97

00:01:36.000 She'd have half the enthusiasm, again, almost mathematically impossible.

00:01:39.000 And she'd have half the energy level, which means that she would be twice as dead.

00:01:42.000 Meanwhile, she would suck all of the oxygen out of the room, preventing other candidates from rising. 0.99

00:01:47.000 Her corruption would ensure any future Trump corruption would be negated as a campaign issue. 0.99

00:01:52.000 Republicans should pray for more Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:01:55.000 In a way, though, Hillary doesn't really have much of a choice. 0.99

00:01:57.000 Donations to the Clinton Foundation have plummeted since her loss, since there's no pay if there's no pay for play.

00:02:02.000 What happens to her if she merely becomes a failed presidential candidate? 1.00

00:02:06.000 Hillary needs access in order to sell the access. 1.00

00:02:09.000 So,

00:02:10.000 Watch for a Hillary comeback. 1.00

00:02:11.000 We can only hope and pray that once again, Hillary's ego drives her to new lows. 1.00

00:02:15.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:02:15.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:02:21.000 Okay, so much to get to today on this post-Thanksgiving Day show.

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00:03:55.000 Alrighty, so there's some good news over the weekend.

00:03:57.000 Some really good news over the weekend. 1.00

00:03:58.000 An evil piece of crap died. 1.00

00:04:00.000 That's always excellent. 1.00

00:04:01.000 Fidel Castro bit the bullet.

00:04:02.000 90 years too late.

00:04:05.000 I shouldn't say that.

00:04:05.000 Maybe he was a good child.

00:04:06.000 I don't know.

00:04:07.000 But certainly, about 60 years too late, he took over Cuba at age 32.

00:04:11.000 So anytime before that, he could have gone.

00:04:12.000 That would have been alright.

00:04:13.000 He did an enormous amount of damage to people.

00:04:16.000 The media have treated him as though he was a controversial figure, as opposed to a mass murdering

00:04:20.000 Barbaric dictator. 0.89

00:04:22.000 He was basically low-rent Stalin for people who don't know much about Fidel Castro.

00:04:26.000 And I want to go through and talk a little bit about what Fidel Castro actually did.

00:04:30.000 Because the left will never tell you straight exactly what was wrong with Fidel Castro.

00:04:34.000 Because the thing about Fidel Castro for the left is the left is pretty much fine.

00:04:38.000 The left is pretty much okay.

00:04:41.000 With anything that other leftists do.

00:04:44.000 They're not in love with the mass murder, but if mass murder has to get done in order to create the new utopia, they can live with it.

00:04:50.000 So the front page of the New York Times said,

00:04:56.000 Well, he didn't actually hold Cuba in his thrall.

00:04:58.000 He actually created a giant gulag and sentenced everybody in the country to stay in it.

00:05:03.000 And he wasn't a revolutionary so much as he was a socialist dictator who murdered all dissidents.

00:05:08.000 But I think that it's important to go through some of the facts about Fidel Castro.

00:05:11.000 So we will do that today.

00:05:13.000 So first of all,

00:05:14.000 Fidel Castro took over the country in 1959.

00:05:16.000 He took over from a guy named General Bautista.

00:05:18.000 General Bautista was also a dictator, but he was sort of a right-wing dictator.

00:05:22.000 And General Bautista, under Bautista, Cuba was one of the richest countries in Latin America.

00:05:26.000 It was on the upswing.

00:05:27.000 He was sort of like, not a good guy, Bautista, but sort of like Pinochet, except less violent.

00:05:33.000 He was eventually going to end up transitioning into a form of democracy in all likelihood.

00:05:39.000 Instead, there was a violent revolution with Castro at its source.

00:05:42.000 And here is Fidel Castro taking power.

00:05:44.000 Here's what it looked like.

00:05:45.000 Outside Havana's presidential palace, hundreds of thousands rally at the call of revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, who estimated their number at a million.

00:05:53.000 Most of the throng wears the colors of Castro's 26th of July movement.

00:05:58.000 They are in an exultant mood as the man who overthrew the Batista dictatorship calls on them to approve the public trials and executions of pro-Batista figures guilty of war crimes and atrocities.

00:06:09.000 The executions, some 250 to date, have been widely criticized by many as too hasty and summary, even if justified.

00:06:18.000 Says Castro, the Cuban revolutionary government has no reason to offer explanations to America or to anyone except the people of Cuba.

00:06:27.000 Castro asks his audience if it favors the summary court martial.

00:06:32.000 He gets his answer in a roar of approval.

00:06:38.000 All in all, he ended up executing thousands and thousands of people.

00:06:41.000 He conspired with the mass murderer Che Guevara, we'll talk about Che in just a minute, to overthrow Fulgencio Batista, who was that dictator, and then he began a guerrilla campaign resulting in his takeover of the island.

00:06:51.000 He immediately exiled priests, he exiled all religious figures, he destroyed religious schools, he nationalized all businesses, he imprisoned and murdered his enemies.

00:07:00.000 Within the first three months, he had

00:07:02.000 Between 600 and 1100 people shot. 0.99

00:07:05.000 Che Guevara said, this is a direct quote from Che, this piece of crap who you see people walking around with his face on t-shirts. 0.99

00:07:10.000 It's like walking around, again, with a Stalin t-shirt. 0.98

00:07:13.000 He said, to send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary.

00:07:16.000 This is what Che Guevara said.

00:07:17.000 These procedures are an archaic, bourgeois detail.

00:07:20.000 This is a revolution. 0.89

00:07:21.000 And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.

00:07:26.000 We must create a pedagogy of the paradigm.

00:07:28.000 That's the execution wall.

00:07:29.000 So you have to teach people through the execution wall.

00:07:32.000 Castro actually imprisoned more of his citizens by percentage than Hitler or Stalin.

00:07:36.000 By 1961 he had imprisoned 300,000 human beings.

00:07:40.000 He asked the Soviet Union to actually nuke the United States in 1961 during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

00:07:45.000 Castro supported terrorist groups all over the world, ranging from FARC in Colombia to Shining Path in Peru and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.

00:07:52.000 Hundreds of thousands of Cubans fled.

00:07:54.000 Millions, actually.

00:07:55.000 Many drowned in the ocean.

00:07:56.000 Thousands of people drowned in the ocean as they attempted to sail to Florida.

00:07:59.000 Between 1959 and 1992, at least 2 million Cubans fled Cuba.

00:08:05.000 Now, some of the lies that you'll be told is that he didn't impoverish Cuba.

00:08:08.000 He absolutely did.

00:08:09.000 The average GDP per capita in Cuba, when Castro took over, was a little bit over $2,000 per person per year.

00:08:17.000 By 1999, the average GDP per capita—remember, this is a 40-year period—by 1999, the per capita GDP in the nation was $2,300.

00:08:25.000 So it advanced $300 in 40 years.

00:08:28.000 According to Discover the Networks, the average daily wage for agriculture workers in Cuba in 1950 was $3.

00:08:34.000 The average daily wage in France at the time was $2.73.

00:08:39.000 Cuba had in 1958, the year before Castro took over, the highest standard of living of any Latin American country in half of Europe.

00:08:46.000 Here's the Wall Street Journal.

00:08:47.000 The Cuba that Castro inherited was developing but relatively prosperous.

00:08:51.000 It ranks third in Latin America in doctors and dentists and daily calorie consumption per capita.

00:08:55.000 Its infant mortality rate was the lowest in the region and the 13th lowest in the world.

00:09:00.000 Cubans were among the most literate Latins and had a vibrant civic life with private, professional, commercial, religious and charitable organizations.

00:09:06.000 Castro destroyed all of it.

00:09:08.000 He ruined agriculture by imposing collective farms, making Cuba dependent first on the Soviets and later on oil from Hugo Chavez's Venezuela.

00:09:15.000 In the past half century, Cuba's export growth has been less than Haiti's.

00:09:19.000 And now even doctors are scarce because so many are sent abroad to earn foreign currency.

00:09:23.000 Hospitals don't even have sheets or aspirin.

00:09:25.000 The average monthly income is $20.

00:09:27.000 Government food rations are inadequate.

00:09:29.000 As for that, healthcare, you always hear about the Cuban healthcare? 1.00

00:09:32.000 Absolute crap. 0.99

00:09:33.000 There are three systems. 1.00

00:09:34.000 There are the socialist revolutionaries who get good care.

00:09:36.000 There are the foreigners who come and pay with cash, like Fat Michael Moore. 1.00

00:09:39.000 And then there is the actual people of Cuba.

00:09:42.000 This is according to Jay Norlinger of National Review.

00:09:44.000 He said, hospitals and clinics are crumbling.

00:09:46.000 Conditions are so unsanitary, patients may be better off at home, whatever home is.

00:09:50.000 If they do have to go to the hospital, they must bring their own bedsheets, soap, towels, food, light bulbs, even toilet paper.

00:09:57.000 That's how poor healthcare is.

00:09:58.000 Imagine you go to the hospital and you have to bring your own light bulbs and toilet paper.

00:10:02.000 Basic medications are scarce.

00:10:03.000 Doctors have been known to reuse latex gloves.

00:10:06.000 Okay, the whole point of latex gloves is that you don't reuse them.

00:10:09.000 As for the infant mortality rate, they're constantly bragging about the infant mortality rate.

00:10:12.000 That's because they do all sorts of prenatal checkups, so they want to keep that statistic artificially high.

00:10:17.000 And the way that they do that is they do prenatal checkups.

00:10:19.000 If there's any danger to the pregnancy at all, they simply abort the kid.

00:10:22.000 So the abortion rates in Cuba are extraordinarily, extraordinarily high.

00:10:26.000 It really is a horrifying system of government, and that's been brought about by the Castro's. 1.00

00:10:31.000 But look how the media just worshipped the Castro's.

00:10:33.000 This is Ed Sullivan.

00:10:34.000 Ed Sullivan had on Castro.

00:10:37.000 This is 1961, I believe.

00:10:40.000 Or 1959.

00:10:40.000 And here's Ed Sullivan, who's then the most popular television host in the United States, praising Fidel Castro.

00:10:45.000 I know, in school, I understand you were a very fine student, a very fine athlete.

00:10:50.000 Were you a baseball pitcher?

00:10:52.000 Yes.

00:10:52.000 Baseball pitcher.

00:10:54.000 Basketball.

00:10:55.000 Basketball?

00:10:57.000 Soccer and everything, every sport.

00:11:01.000 Well, undoubtedly all of that exercise you did in school prepared you for this role now.

00:11:06.000 Yes, it helped me very much now in this world.

00:11:10.000 You know, this is a fine young man.

00:11:12.000 And a very smart young man.

00:11:15.000 With the help of God and our prayers, and with the help of the American government,

00:11:19.000 He will come up with the sort of democracy down there that America should have.

00:11:25.000 He'll create the sort of democracy America should have?

00:11:27.000 Unbelievable.

00:11:28.000 This is how the media treated Fidel Castro, a mass-murdering dictator. 0.71

00:11:31.000 Mass-murdering dictator.

00:11:32.000 Castro on Face the Nation.

00:11:34.000 Here's Castro appearing on Face the Nation.

00:11:36.000 This is from 1959.

00:11:37.000 Because public opinion in Cuba is now very strong and with a tremendous force.

00:11:45.000 Nobody is enough powerful

00:11:49.000 Opposite now the public opinion of the free country of Cuba.

00:11:54.000 Okay, so he says that public opinion will drive, and this is always what socialist revolutionaries would-be dictators say.

00:12:00.000 Whenever somebody talks about public opinion making might right, that's never a good thing.

00:12:04.000 It's why demagogues are scary, right?

00:12:06.000 People who come up and they say, well, the public says I can do this.

00:12:08.000 Doesn't matter what the law says.

00:12:10.000 Doesn't matter what the Constitution says.

00:12:11.000 The people want it. 0.51

00:12:12.000 We'll have summary executions. 0.97

00:12:13.000 Again, tens of thousands of people

00:12:15.000 As Fidel Castro has said, as long as the concept of sovereignty exists as the prerogative of nations and independent peoples and as the right of all peoples, we will not accept the exclusion of our people from that right.

00:12:42.000 So long as the world is governed by these principles, so long as the world is governed by those concepts that have universal validity, because they are universally accepted and recognized by the peoples, we will not accept the attempt to deprive us of any of those rights, and we will renounce none of those rights.

00:12:56.000 So he's basically saying here's Che Guevara in 1964 in front of the United Nations.

00:13:00.000 Three years later, he was dead, and he was dead because he went into other parts of Latin America and attempted to lead coups there, communist coups there.

00:13:08.000 So he's talking there about how nobody should interfere with Cuba, and then he promptly went to Latin America and attempted to start a revolution in Bolivia and was killed for his trouble.

00:13:16.000 Thank God.

00:13:17.000 Really terrible human being. 0.80

00:13:19.000 Che Guevara.

00:13:20.000 You want to see what it was like for Cubans living in Castro's Cuba. 0.99

00:13:23.000 People still are, by the way, thanks to the incompetence of Barack Obama and this idiotic policy imposed over the last 50 years in the United States. 0.98

00:13:30.000 I've never been in favor of this policy that the United States has. 0.98

00:13:34.000 With regard to non-assassination, it makes no sense to me. 0.99

00:13:38.000 I don't see why literally millions upon millions, generations of people should live in terror and suffering because we have to let an old piece of crap, an old, disgusting, desiccated piece of human debris like Fidel Castro live. 1.00

00:13:50.000 We would have been better off killing him. 1.00

00:13:52.000 But here's what it was like in Cuba and still is like in Cuba. 0.98

00:13:56.000 People can't escape.

00:13:56.000 It's a giant prison.

00:13:58.000 Here is some footage of Cuban refugees.

00:14:00.000 Here's what people were doing just to get out of Castro's Cuba while all of these Westerners were praising Cuba as this halcyon of light and liberty.

00:14:07.000 Here's what it actually looked like for people trying to get out.

00:14:09.000 In 2003, news media the world over broadcast this image.

00:14:14.000 A dozen Cubans sailing for freedom aboard an old green Chevy truck. 0.65

00:14:19.000 Luis and his three-year-old son, Angel, were on board.

00:14:26.000 Luis explained to me that few new cars entered Cuba after the revolution in the 1950s.

00:14:33.000 But his old one worked just fine.

00:14:38.000 He tells me he was scared, building the boat in secret and pushing from shore in the dark of night.

00:14:45.000 But he was willing to risk everything for a better life in America.

00:14:48.000 OK, I mean, this is, again, hundreds of thousands of people attempting to escape Cuba.

00:14:54.000 In the early 1980s, there were so many people trying to escape that Fidel Castro actually said fine.

00:14:59.000 And then he sent a huge number of kind of the Cuban criminal class. 0.72

00:15:04.000 He let them escape.

00:15:05.000 He let all the criminals go to Miami, and that's why you saw a major upsurge in crime and the drug trade in Miami in the early part of the 1980s.

00:15:13.000 But people have been attempting to float in cars.

00:15:14.000 I mean, this is how you ended up with the situation with, what was the name of the kid who was deported back to Cuba after his dad died on the way over from, or his mother died on the way over from Cuba, and then he was deported back to Cuba thanks to the Clinton administration.

00:15:33.000 People have been attempting to get out of Cuba for 50 years, thanks to the Castros. 1.00

00:15:39.000 Here's some footage of Castro's prisoners speaking about what it was like to be a dissident in Castro's Cuba.

00:15:44.000 It was like being in the depths of hell.

00:15:46.000 The suffering made me a little crazy, but my husband and children wrote to me and that kept me going, she said.

00:15:53.000 Callardón and her husband Ángel were arrested at a small anti-government demonstration in May 2014.

00:16:00.000 Their crime, they say, chanting down with Fidel Castro.

00:16:07.000 Education for Cubans has been about fear and how to be afraid, about how to avoid confrontation with the authorities, because they have power. 0.92

00:16:16.000 They teach you what they want you to know, but not really what goes on in the world, he said.

00:16:23.000 Both were released on January 8th, according to their prison papers.

00:16:27.000 The pair spent eight months behind bars in what they say were appalling conditions.

00:16:33.000 Okay, and that's not unusual.

00:16:35.000 Lots of people died and just went missing in Castro's prisons.

00:16:39.000 Castro had a special hatred for homosexuals, so very early in his regime, he basically rounds it up.

00:16:44.000 Homosexuals, here is testimony from some gay folks who were rounded up by Fidel Castro and put in prison camps. 0.72

00:16:50.000 The Youth Union brought a list of those to be purged.

00:16:53.000 Some who knew they were on the list didn't attend.

00:16:55.000 Others only found out at the assembly.

00:16:57.000 The humiliation during these meetings consisted in forcing all those present to hurl every imaginable insult at each person being purged.

00:17:23.000 No one could escape it.

00:17:26.000 There were people who couldn't bear it, who were shocked and killed themselves.

00:17:30.000 Not only because of the public humiliation, but they were ashamed before their families too.

00:17:37.000 They had to go home and say,

00:17:43.000 I was expelled because I was accused of being homosexual.

00:17:47.000 Some killed themselves.

00:17:48.000 Okay, that was not uncommon in Castro's Cuba.

00:17:51.000 And again, this is somebody who mass executions were not uncommon in Castro's Cuba.

00:17:58.000 Here is a footage of one of the original executions.

00:18:01.000 This was released by the Castro regime very early on.

00:18:04.000 This was supposedly a member of Batista's regime.

00:18:15.000 So delightful folks, delightful folks.

00:18:16.000 The reason that I do all of this is because the left in America and in the West glorify people like Castro.

00:18:22.000 They really do. 0.93

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00:20:11.000 Back to our story.

00:20:11.000 The reactions to the Castro death are really quite telling.

00:20:14.000 The difference between right and left on the Castro death is really quite amazing.

00:20:18.000 So Donald Trump gave what I thought is the best thing that he's done this entire campaign.

00:20:22.000 It's the best thing that I've done that I think that Donald Trump has done since he announced.

00:20:26.000 Here was Donald Trump's statement on the death of Fidel Castro.

00:20:30.000 And he didn't write this, but it doesn't matter.

00:20:32.000 He's the president-elect, so he put it out.

00:20:33.000 It says, quote,

00:20:35.000 Today, the world marks the passing of a brutal dictator who oppressed his own people for nearly six decades.

00:20:40.000 Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty, and the denial of fundamental human rights.

00:20:46.000 While Cuba remains a totalitarian island, it is my hope that today marks a move away from the horrors endured for so long and toward a future in which the wonderful Cuban people finally live in the freedom they so richly deserve.

00:20:58.000 Though the tragedies, deaths, and pains caused by Fidel Castro cannot be erased, our administration will do all it can to ensure the Cuban people can finally begin their journey toward prosperity and liberty.

00:21:07.000 I join the many Cuban Americans who supported me so greatly in the presidential campaign, including the Brigade 2506 Veterans Association that endorsed me, with the hope of one day soon seeing a free Cuba.

00:21:17.000 This is the best statement that there was from any world leader on this.

00:21:20.000 That's exactly right.

00:21:21.000 Fidel Castro does not deserve one iota of praise.

00:21:24.000 Reince Priebus came out and he said, look, Obama's famous deal that he did with the Castros, we'll just renege on it.

00:21:30.000 We're not going to do that anymore.

00:21:32.000 Because that deal is a total train wreck, and everybody knows it, and anything that we can do to get rid of it, we will.

00:21:39.000 Now, there's parts of it that may be very difficult to get out of, but we're going to take a fresh look at it, put fresh eyes on that deal, and I can assure you if anyone can renegotiate that deal, or do something about it to make it better for the American people, and not start a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, it's going to be President-elect Trump.

00:21:57.000 Okay, so if he rips up the Cuba deal, that would be a wonderful thing, obviously.

00:22:01.000 Ted Cruz says the Obama administration has strengthened the Cuban regime.

00:22:04.000 Clearly they have.

00:22:06.000 Unfortunately, the policies of the Obama administration have made that less likely.

00:22:11.000 What the Obama administration has done is strengthened Raul Castro.

00:22:14.000 Raul is the dictator now.

00:22:17.000 You know, I asked my dad at dinner last night, well, what do you think happens now that Fidel is dead?

00:22:22.000 And he shrugged and said, Raul's been in charge for years.

00:22:24.000 The system has gotten stronger.

00:22:27.000 And what Obama has done is funneled billions of dollars to Raul Castro, which is being used to oppress dissidents.

00:22:35.000 You know, in 2015, roughly 10,000 political arrests occurred in Cuba.

00:22:42.000 That is five times as many as occurred in 2010, when there were only about 2,000.

00:22:48.000 tyrannical regime has gotten stronger because of a weak president, weak foreign policy.

00:22:53.000 And it is very much my hope and belief that with a new president coming into office in January, President Trump, a new administration, that U.S.

00:23:02.000 foreign policy, not just to Cuba, but towards our enemies, whether they are Iran or North Korea, will no longer be a policy of weakness and appeasement, but instead using U.S.

00:23:13.000 strength to force and press for change.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - November 30, 2016

Ep. 217 - Castro Dies, The Left Weeps

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