Dear Mr. Castro,
My name is Matthew Ansart of St. George, Maine in the United States. I’m 14 and attend St. George Elementary school. I am writing to you because I have always wanted to write to a nation’s leader and I had seen that you had wrote to Theodore Roosevelt as a boy and I thought to do the same and write to you. I first had started learning of communism at age 10 or so and by now at age 14, Socialist society and communism is a great interest to me. I was fascinated by World War II history and started reading about the United Soviet Socialist Republics. I then started reading about the USSR and reading about Communism and had found myself being an avid believer in it. I then started reading about all the communist countries that have existed and still exist and was quite interested in Cuba.
I was interested in Cuba because it’s so close and I had heard about it throughout my childhood and never thought anything about it; until finding out about communism and learning that Cuba is a communist nation. I have had communist propaganda up on my walls, drawn soviet symbols up and down my arms and been preaching communism to my fellow classmates. Many of the teachers most likely do not want me spreading the words of communism throughout the school, but I feel that they should be informed of what communism actually is, not what they hear from parents about the Cuban Missile Crisis and Soviet Russia. I feel they should know what communism actually is and should be able to see that it is a good thing.
I also feel that the government should have control over the people. The people in the government are there for a reason, not because the people listened to their lies or false hope that was given such as President Obama who promises the American people that he would get us out of a recession while all he does is kill our country and our countrymen.
The people of the government should rise through power and deserve it like you, Mr. Castro. Through revolution and pure grit and determination; that’s how you can become a leader, not through telling people what they want to hear.
I also know that you had stepped down from leading Cuba in 2008 and I feel that
you are a wise man for that after 49 years. All leaders must leave their position through
death or through resignation.
I also saw an article about the new video game in America called “Call of Duty: Black Ops” which angered Cuba because of a virtual assassination of you. I have boycotted the game because of that part of the game, for I feel it is an unneeded gesture of aggression towards Cuba.
I sincerely hope that you write back.
Sincerely, Your friend;
Matthew L. Ansart.