Diplomatic incidents

For a bit of fun at the start of the working week ...

First, I recommend you have a look at this column by Miranda Devine, a widely-read columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald, in which she had the temerity to describe Cuba in passing, as a "Communist dictatorship".

Then, read this very serious reply from the Cuban consul-general in Sydney, published in this week's edition of Green Left, a pro-Castro Australian publication that describes itself as "a proudly independent voice committed to human and civil rights, global peace and environmental sustainability, democracy and equality."

Shameless.