Red Sox's Lowell: I hope Castro dies
Third baseman says ailing Cuban dictator caused death of family members
MSNBC News Services
Updated: 2:37 p.m. ET Aug 2, 2006
Boston Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell, saying that ailing Cuban dictator is responsible for the deaths of members of his family, said “I hope he does die” Tuesday night, the Boston Herald said.
“Castro killed members of my family,” Lowell told the Herald before the game against the Cleveland Indians at Fenway.
News reports have said Castro, nearly 80 years old, is gravely ill after undergoing surgery for intestinal bleeding. He handed power temporarily to his brother, Raul Castro.
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“My dad had to pack up his suitcase at 10 years old with his three brothers, who had nothing. And my mother was 11 years old and my grandfather, who’d been a dentist for 15 or 20 years, had to go back to school to be (politically) re-educated,” said Lowell, 30.
“My cousins were political prisoners. My father-in-law was a political prisoner for 15 years because, at 19, they asked him if he agreed with communism and he said, 'No,' so they sentenced him to death. That’s not the way to live. I know it’s terrible to say, but I think of all of that and I hope he (Castro) passes away.
“I don’t care if he dies,” Lowell said. “There are so many people who have died because of him and there’s been so much wrongdoing and so many human rights violations that I hope he does die. That sounds bad, but it’s the truth.”
After leaving Cuba, Lowell’s parents settled in Puerto Rico, where Lowell was born in 1974...
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