The Castros and their kind are talking scared in Cuba

Cut through the bullshit of the Castro dictatorship's pronouncements that dissidents are trying to foment conflict between Cuba and the United States, and what you hear is fear.

The fear of a regime that knows in what passes for its heart that its time — like that of its comrades in terror and fear in Libya, Syria and other countries like it — is up.

Their time is up, and they fear and they know that history will not absolve.

There is nothing left for the Castros and their regime to do but to turn up that fear, under the delusion that it is fear that gives them strength.

Just listen to their words, as transmitted by Granma-brand toilet paper and reported by the Latin American Herald Tribune:

HAVANA – Cuba’s internal opposition is seeking “pretexts,” such as the recent death of dissident Juan Wilfredo Soto Garcia, to spur conflict between the island and the United States, the newspaper of the ruling Communist Party said Monday.

The death of Soto Garcia has become the latest “disinformation campaign” against Cuba, Granma said in an editorial taking up the entire front page of Monday’s edition.

Juan Soto Garcia died May 8 at a hospital in the central city of Santa Clara. While representatives of Cuba’s opposition said he perished from injuries received two days earlier at the hands of State Security police, the official autopsy said death was solely caused by “multiple organ failure due to pancreatitis.”

“Our country will not be confused by these domestic counterrevolutionaries who seek any media pretext to foment conflict with the United States, and will respond calmly but firmly against the actions of these mercenaries,” Granma said, using the Castro regime’s standard epithet for the dissidents.

“What are they after with these campaigns? Just to vilify us or something worse? Is it that the ones who are pulling the strings and the people on their payroll here would love to pretend they are ‘protecting civilians’ by bombing Havana?” the newspaper said, alluding to the stated rationale for NATO’s ongoing military intervention in Libya.

The fear in their voice is deafening.

We can only hope it is warranted.