The AP's "Cynical" Havana Bureau

at 10:20 AM Saturday, November 5, 2011

Yesterday, the AP's Havana bureau released the following insulting headline and story:

"Cuba reforms convincing island's cynics"

It implies that Cubans weary of Castro's 52-year dictatorship and its so-called "reforms" are "cynics."

After all -- why should Cubans be so distrusting of Castro's brutal regime, which has been lying, stealing, torturing, imprisoning and murdering its own people for over five decades?

Does the AP feel the same about Syrians that are incredulous of the "reforms" of dictator Bashir al-Assad?

Or did it feel the same about Libyans that were incredulous about "reformist" Saif al-Gaddafi?

After all, Syrians and Libyans have been allowed to buy and sell property for decades.

The only "cynics" here are the AP's Havana bureau, which 52-years later still give the Cuban dictatorship the benefit of the doubt.