Charles turns a blind eye to Cuba’s ties to a murderous dictator

Prince Charles and Camilla thumbed their noses at the victims of Venezuelan atrocities last week with an official trip to Cuba — the first by a member of the British royal family. The Castro regime enthusiastically circulated photographs of the British delegation in front of a Che Guevara icon in Havana, a tired and gimmicky invocation of 1960s radical chic that’s even more farcical in the 21st century. Under Castro rule since 1959, Cuba has gone from being one of the most developed countries in Latin America to a low-rent tourist destination famous for child prostitution, crime, poverty and political prisoners. Communists did this in the name of equality. Images of the “revolutionary” military dictatorship’s elite celebrating a pampered Englishman who epitomises birthright privilege are beyond parody. More…