Cuba criticizes game that aims to kill Fidel Castro

Cuba criticizes game that aims to kill Fidel Castro

2010-11-11 19:56:13 GMT+7 (ICT)

HAVANA (BNO NEWS) -- Cuban state-run media criticized the video game "Call of Duty: Blacks Ops," that allows players to "kill" the former president and Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, calling it a "new [u.S.] operation" against the island.

"New operation against Cuba: U.S. launches a game whose objective is to assassinate Fidel" said Cubadebate, which stated that "what the United States couldn't accomplish in more than 50 years, they are now trying to do virtually."

According Cubadebate, the game from the U.S. company Activision, allows user to manage virtually weapons and war vehicles to carry out military operations in enemy territory like Cuba.

The article explains that the first operation that offers "Call of Duty: Black Ops" is "to assassinate Fidel" in a virtual war operation that takes place in Cuba before the "missile crisis" of 1962, when John F. Kennedy was the U.S. president.

Cubadebate, the website where Fidel Castro regularly published his "Reflections", said the game is for "entertainment for psychopaths" by offering "virtual war clashes with spectacular assassinations."

"This new video game is doubly perverse," the website says.

"On the one hand, it glorifies the illegal assassination attempts the United States government planned against the Cuban leader, and it stimulates sociopathic attitudes in North American children and adolescents, the main consumers of these virtual games."

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