Talk politics.

Every mention of the name Castro always stirs the spirits in the US - probably more than the subject about gays and lesbians, and certainly even more than the name Obama. And it was these days that a special Castro visited the United States. Mariela Castro, the daughter of the Cuban leader Raul Castro. She participated at a conference in San Francisco where in her speech she defended the equal rights of homosexuals, which is quite timely, given president Obama's recent statement about his stance on the issue. "As a citizen of the world, I would like him to win", she also said about Obama. Which of course confirms that Obama is a communist! =)

In fact, Fidel's niece is a sexologist, and is among the leaders of a movement whose mission is to break all taboos on the "Island of Freedom". And this is no easy task, given the conservative character of the Cuban society. She is 50 years old, she was born 3 years after the Revolution, when sexual freedom in Cuba was non-existent. Her uncle's rebels believed that the labour camps were the only proper place for gays and lesbians. The leadership of the communist party considered the homosexuals to be deluded and useless - as much as the Catholic priests and political dissidents. Those were the times of what could be called Machism-Leninism. "That was a big mistake", Mariela Castro now says. Unlike the rest of her family, she often gives interviews and uses Twitter and Facebook. In a country where cell phones had been banned until very recently. A modern lady indeed.

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