Hitchens on Sean Penn

Christopher Hitchens recently accompanied Sean Penn to Venezuela and Cuba...but Hitchens was snubbed in the process...

I asked Christopher Hitchens, who accompanied Penn but was snubbed by Castro, why the actor was in the thrall of Castroism. "A lot of people cannot believe there is no alternative to free-market, bourgeois democracy," Hitchens said. "It would be too bitter a pill for them to swallow if the Cuban Revolution were nothing but a cruel joke on the Cubans. Sometimes David just has to triumph over the American Goliath."