MA, lastly
You have avoided the point entirely, much to my disappointment, and are actually defending Castro.
That is incredible and sad.
If you think anything like a free exchange of ideas occurs anywhwere in Cuba onpenly, you are terribly and tragically ill informed. The only places people are free in Cuba are in places away from his rule.
I will drop this topic with you, and actually I think there is little point, as pleasant and interesting as you are, discussing things like this.
You seem to expect me to prove Castro is a tyrant, and you expect me to disprove Ashcroft is not. That is so backward as to be the equivalent of anomalist belief.
Perhaps your profession has cleansed the library you work in of books that could inform you otherwise?
Ed