DUMBlomacy: As Cuba Smuggles Guns, U.S. Sails A Ship Of Fools

As Paris Hilton whooped it up with Havana's princelings to applaud U.S.-Cuba ties, Colombia detained a Chinese ship full of illegal weapons bound for Cuba in what may be a new violation of U.N. sanctions. Castro is playing us for fools.

Socialite Paris Hilton shoots a selfie with Fidel Castro 
Diaz-Balart at a cigar festival in Havana.

Even though tourism remains illegal for Americans in Cuba, it doesn't stop B-List celebrities from going to Havana, partying hearty, snapping and posting selfies, popping flashbulbs, swigging mojitos and buying cigars by the cartload, as Hilton's Instagram pictures showed.

Communism-ravaged Cuba is about as poor as Ethiopia or Zimbabwe. So it wasn't the locals partying down, but the communist elites — such as Fidel's son, Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, with whom Hilton and model Naomi Campbell posed for selfies.

This is a preview of who will benefit from the opening to Cuba — its wealthy Communist Party elites, not ordinary folks.

But in this grotesque fantasyland of vulgar Third World dictators and equally vulgar Hollywood reality stars, an even uglier reality was emerging 600 miles to the south on the very same Sunday.

Colombia port officials near Cartagena discovered a huge cache of weapons buried in the hull of the Dan Dan Xia, a Chinese ship stopping on the way to Cuba, which was supposedly shipping grain.

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