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CNN’s Alan Dershowitz Parrots Castroite LiesHumberto FontovaPosted: Mar 18, 2017 12:01 AM...After his recent Potemkim visit to Cuba Dershowitz felt obligated to bad-mouth the Cuba that preceded the hell-hole created by his terror-sponsoring, mass-murdering hosts. Well, the “exploitative” pre-Castro Cuba Dershowtiz disparaged in fact offered its citizens a higher per-capita income than half of Europe, the lowest inflation rate in the Western Hemisphere and the 13th lowest infant-mortality on earth. At the time about the same number of Americans lived in Cuba as Cubans in the U.S.In fact,in 1958 the Cuban Embassy in Rome had a backlog of 12,000 applications for immigrant visas from Italians clamoring to immigrate to Cuba. "A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in -- and how many want out," famously quipped Tony Blair. Well, millions of people “voted with their feet” in favor of pre-socialist Cuba.The media and Hollywood love to dwell on how a few U.S. mobsters once bribed a few Cuban politicians to allow a few casinos in Havana. To hear them tell it, this tiny sideline of an economy that was overwhelmingly Cuban-owned, export and manufacturing-oriented, and provided Cubans with a per capita income higher than that of most Europeans made Cuba a hopelessly wretched place screaming for a communist revolution. Continued: https://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2017/03/18/cnns-alan-dershowitz-parrots-castroite-lies-n2300686