Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello has declared tyrant Fidel Castro a "huge hero throughout the third world" following his death last Friday.  

In a post on Instagram, the famed guitarist side-stepped Castro's objective evils by creating a moral equivalency between the tyrant's island gulag and the free United States.

"There is ample reason why he is vilified in the US and yet remains a huge hero throughout the Third World," said Morello as went on to fondly recall playing with his band Audioslave live in Cuba. 

"Audioslave was the first US rock band to ever play in Cuba and that experience will be one I will always treasure, especially the trip we took to a former country club of the wealthy that had been turned into a free college for gifted musicians," he wrote.

By defying Yankee imperialism for 50 years, instituting the best healthcare, child immunization and literacy systems in the Western Hemisphere (surpassing the US and Canada), exporting doctors to countries in need all over the globe (the Bush administration turned down his offer to send medical teams to New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina), and being an unrepentant advocate of the poor and exploited it is no surprise that millions will mourn his passing.

All of Morello's claims about Cuba's great advancements have been thoroughly debunked, as anyone with an internet connection could plainly see. Tom Morello should consider the irony of a band calling itself "Rage Against the Machine" supporting Castro's regime.