Top 5 failed socialist promises: From Lenin to Chavez | Fox News

Top 5 failed socialist promises: From Lenin to Chavez | Fox News: 

• "...Castro promises freedom of the press

Fidel Castro, in a 1959 speech on the progress of his revolution, announced that he was certain the new leader of Cuba would “decree the re-establishment of all rights and freedoms, including the absolute freedom of the press, of all individual rights.”
But the opposite happened. 
Today, Freedom House’s ranking of press freedoms states that “Cuba has the most repressive media environment in the Americas. ... The Cuban news media are owned and controlled by the state and the independent press is considered illegal.”
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