Long Embraces
The same thing is happening with the blogosphere as happens with other phenomena of our reality: they try to divide and separate us, throwing out epithets of “pro-government” here and “mercenaries” there, failing to realize that a common factor unites us all: the desire to express ourselves. I dream of the time when Elaine Diaz can come and give a class at the Blogger Academy without losing her job, and when Claudia Cadelo — spared from a repudiation rally — gives a seminar in Twitter at the Journalism School. I imagine the discussion table where independent journalist sit together with those affiliated with the state media, if the first would have their very existence recognized and the second would not pay, with their jobs, for such a gesture.
Can you imagine Esteban Morales, the academic who some weeks ago wrote an article against corruption debating with Oscar Espinosa Chepe how to find solutions to the Cuban economic catastrophe? Think for a minute if Alfredo Guevara himself, who gave a lecture to university students, sat on a panel discussion next to Rafael Rojas or Emilio Ichikawa. Or I could go even further and place Ricardo Alarcon face-to-face once more with the young man Eliecer Avila to hear how the national situation has advanced — or regressed — since January 2008 when they had their famous dialog. All of this — I’m starting to become delirious — could be enlivened by a song from Pablo Milanes with a montuno refrain in the warm voice of Albita Rodriguez.
You will think I’m delusional, but I feel that this slice of land we inhabit cannot tolerate too many divisions. Grids, fences, parcels, fractions, have ended up jeopardizing and marking a space and time that belongs to all of us. I don’t know what others are waiting for, but at least Yoani Sanchez has put the coffee pot on and set the table for a conversation that must start somewhere.
Junio 15th, 2010 at 09:05
Post 166, the deranged debil has finally realised the only contribution he is capable of.
Years later, still unable to make a coherent coment on Yoani’s team article.
That is due to absence of brain, the organ required for a conversation and other highly powered intellectual functions.
But shit-maister can always offer his unabated stupidity and senseless comments to anyone with nothing better to do but to listen to his crap.
Some say it’s the water in Miami that does that to people. Doubtful…
Junio 10th, 2010 at 21:16
165Barbara Curbelo
Junio 9th, 2010 at 22:05
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Personal attacks, personal offenses……. it is the only argument castrofacism has to “fight” the “ideas battle” in the internet and information world……… inside Cuba verbal violence is convoyed with physical violence, jailing, torture and killing
Junio 9th, 2010 at 22:05
#164 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Junio 9th, 2010 at 21:56
163Barbara Curbelo
Junio 9th, 2010 at 19:05
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Haha……. brigade comrades comes to the rescue of the retarded one…….. Darko was too much for your deficient subordinated…… hahahahaha……. poor dummy must be right now looking for anyone that can help him to write some croatians words….. hahahaha……… until right now has gone a whole day and dummy damir continue vanished……. you castrofascist brigade must be in a very deep crisis when you can’t find someone that can help de retarded……… well……. let\s forget the dummy and concentrate in your new roll in this blog….. now it seems you are the substitute of damir….. your lasts comment only contain personal offenses……. we let you with arguments????….. no silly thug….. you were without arguments since the very beginning………. you, as I stated in comment #1 in today’s post, are the only and imperfect weapon castrofascism have to opose Yoani and the new era freedom fighters…… a weapon that shows regime incapacity to confront the new army of freedom fighters…. an army with control of the battle field and armament…….. castrofascism is being defeated ……… and you bears responsability……….. so……. watch your back…….. your mistakes and failures can regime’s death.
Junio 9th, 2010 at 19:05
#162-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Junio 9th, 2010 at 11:27
160Damir
Junio 9th, 2010 at 07:43
159, oh, what an innocence,
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The difference between you and me is that I can stop immediately writing rude and limit my comment to prove and facts….. but you can’t….. you can’t present any prove or fact for your lies………. you are in need of rude language each time your stupid comment are refuted with undeniable proves, each time your archaic knowledge of the world is showed as the product of a retarded mind….. you simply can’t……
This was a place where people of all ideological leaning came and debated with elegance until the losada brigade dived up. and I hope our moderator enforces the site rules to save the blog of the attack of dirty agents like you.
Junio 9th, 2010 at 07:49
And 157, well, just a lot of self-pleasuring…Couldn’t find his micro pecker, so the keyboard had to do…He too soils his nappies daily.
No wonder such a violent frustration. Life’s a bitch when peeing in nappies and washing them after is easier than detecting the peckie and peeing in the bowl.
Junio 9th, 2010 at 07:43
159, oh, what an innocence, what a grace! The Cuban virgin speaking. The same one who attacks everyone who post something against his/her will.
Rudely of course. The foul mouth full of mental sewerage, yet still limited with own lingustical deficiencies that spill out of the sewerage outlets both upper and lower, soiling the only pair of the nappies he’s got.
Junio 8th, 2010 at 11:50
153Conrado
Junio 7th, 2010 at 23:38
After 152 “responses” to this latest
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Dear Conrado……. you are right but it is not Yubano, Humbert or me who are interested in rude language and offenses….. since arriving of castro agents to this page all scaled up…… before the arriving of curbelo brigade with their retarded member everything changed…..they are not interested in finding the truth or argumentum with reasons but in personal attacks against Yoani and antifascist commenter, personal discredit of Cuban freedom fighters, they have their agenda, their plan and only the moderation can make them change…… this not a new thing…… in the Spanish site they implemented same “tactic” hoping to transform the site in a field of offenses and rude language exchange……. the Spanish site was in danger to be transformed in a horrible site like the comment site in Sin Evasion or Octavo Cerco where cyber thugs makes comment with very rude style……. The Spanish site of this blog saved the comment section because implemented severe participation rules and made them effective no matter who is the commenter…… I believe it is time the friendly translator to become less friendly and start to make effective the site rules….. to me no matter if the rules are hard or soft I would adapt…… personally I prefer the rational and polite way of debate but it is something castrofascism can’t afford…… they always uses confrontational style in order to make no debate……. if this site wore not virtual but real we would see curbelo and damir brigade transformed in an angry mob beating us, jailing us….. including the friendly moderator.
Junio 8th, 2010 at 11:22
155Damir
Junio 8th, 2010 at 03:08
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Hehe….. This what is talking the retarded thug about:
Objective of espionage network in jail now in USA.
The civilian targets have been identified as follows: Penetration of exile organizations to accomplish a campaign of disinformation, confusion, animosity and disunion among targeted groups. Another objective was to encourage and to facilitate the commission of hostile actions against Cuba in violation the Neutrality Act of the United States. Also, alleged was the sending of threatening letters to members of Congress impersonating members of Cuban exile organizations. It has not been reported that the 10 had committed any act of violence against the US, although there are documents that mention the preparation of terrorist acts against US Air Force bases in the US. ( 5 )
Here is the complete history:
http://www.jonathanpollard.org/1998/090098a.htm
Junio 8th, 2010 at 03:41
dumir
Go back to school and take a 4th grade english class you illiterate goon. Where did you see the word apology in anything I’ve written. I make no apologies for anything I’ve written. You are clueless shmuck living in a non-existent communist lala land.
You are a desperate fool who has to make up facts about other blog contributors without knowing anything about that person.
Junio 8th, 2010 at 03:35
Vultures already having plans in place. Just a matter of time before Cuba is cut into pieces and divided between the hyenas:
http://romanticpoet.wordpress&.....m-to-cuba/
Junio 8th, 2010 at 03:08
Post 152, no amount of apologies will change the fact that yours was actually a threat. And not once only, but several times already and to a few people.
It only goes to show what you find a “satirical” to no one else seems funny. The lack of basic civilised behaviour, is typical for a terrorist.
There’s punishment in your religion for that: death in hell. THAT is a real threat you are facing, and your ilk. Not from me, of course. From your “god”.
For it is obvious that you would bring the guns and use them in any such debate that even Yoani is advocating. Maybe you would like to actually read the article above.
We all know that you and your ilk are not here to read what Yoani thinks anyway. You are here to spread the hatred, pump up the passions and start the new cycle of violence.
That is all you are interested in.
Sorry, I am forgetting the desire to reign in Havana as the emperors of Cuba. In the “free Cuba Inc paradise” for the few chosen ones.
Just like dictator Batista did.
Junio 8th, 2010 at 00:29
Conrado
Yours is the latest attempt at moderating this forum. I can only speak for myself but your call for civility is all well and good in it’s proper context and if all commentators took a civil tone. That of course is not the case and probably never will be as long as there are defenders of castro regime posting misinformation, propaganda, outright lies and constantly attempting to disqualify and slander the “civil” posters. I for one feel compelled to respond to these posts in my way and that is to reply with an equally heavy (if not heavier)hand. You are of course free to take a different tact or just ignore the comments that offend you.
I read the posts on this forum for quite some time before ever posting my first comment and I don’t recall the commentary ever being restricted to just the topics that Yoani chooses to address. While I count myself as a supporter of Yoani and her expressions and defense of free speech I believe the intent of this forum is to be a venue for a free flow ideas about Cuba, not restricted to specific topics or issues. You are free to express your opinions about whatever you wish and in whatever manner you wish. Despite your “plea” I’m sure everyone else will continue to do the same.
Junio 7th, 2010 at 23:38
After 152 “responses” to this latest post I would like to make a plea to all participants.
The button below says “Enviar comentario” I does not says “rant, rave, insult, treathen, etc.
Yoani’s post are a personal and intimate observations about life around her. I do not know the lady but I am sure she will be apalled at the level of discurs used here; although I am sure she is totally against censoring any of these comments.
Supporters of her ideas should offer comments enhancing or praising her position, offer comments learn from other sources that support her, or offer personal information relevant to her posts.
This is not an intent to restrain or limit what we can post in here but there is nothing to be gained, or will increase her credibility, by making personal offenses or name calling to those who disagree with Yoani.
And for those that are writing in here, calling her a paid agent of the CIA, recognize that it will be very easy for the translators to block or restrict your comments, something completely against Yoani’s philosophy of fighting also for your right to express your own opinions.
Let us all celebrate the ability to express ourselves freely without fear but with civility.
Junio 7th, 2010 at 21:31
English Translator
You need to know the difference between a real threat and a tongue and cheek dig at a pro-castro poster making allegations of another poster (me) being a terrorist. Anyone reading what you called a “threat” can see that it was nothing but a satirical dig at this moron. I have seen much more serious stuff posted here that was not intended to be funny and could have been interpretted as a threat. With all due respect translator use a little common sense and don’t be so rigid in your interpretation, what I wrote was clearly satire and intended to be a humorous and not an actual threat.
Junio 7th, 2010 at 21:29
Damierda, your link does not get to any article related to your RANT! Cant you “REVOLUTIONARY RATS” do anything but RAT, I mean RANT?
Junio 7th, 2010 at 21:25
Damierda! You are quite prolific today! What did you think about Fidel caught on film saying “he was not a communist”! Quite a leader you got! similar to Hitler!
Junio 7th, 2010 at 21:22
Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations, a terrorist group dedicated to armed revolution in Cuba at any cost, so to dare others to mention terrorist anti-cuban entities is a stupid, stupid move. Self-destructive really.
Let us see, there is also a terrorist group called Cuban American National Foundation, hellbent on violent overthrow of the current government, then Posada who nowadays from prison directs the training of his newest group, then there was Orlando Bosch branded as a terrorist evenwith Miami New Times, http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2…..rists/full, and how abbout the Accion Cubana O. Bosch’s group? Isn’t that a charity shining through their bloody eyes and fat pedophile lips and glass frames…?
Then there are the CIA, NSA and the usanian government who are openly financing and protecting the groups. usa is a terrorist dictatorship well known for its’ massive and numerous crimes against the humanity, that needs no futher elaboration. Just look at its’ latest reaction on Israel’s completely unjustified attack on the turkish ship the other day. Or, closer to your heart, the refusal to honour the the 1971 Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation which obliges the usa to either extradict all the Cuban terrorists currently under its’ protection from the law, or prosecute them for their crimes, which they themselves confessed many times so far, believing that they will be safe under usanian wing.
And they are, as we can see. Even the group of operatives caught in Havana after the hotel bombing in 1997 confirmed the names of the masterminds, yet the usa is refusing to extradite them.
Do you know how many countries are asking for Bosch’s extradiction?
Of course you do. 12, twelve. For terrorist crimes committed either in those countries or against them.
He’s a free man in Miami. So are Guillermo Novo Sampoll, Gaspar Jiménez Escobedo, Secundino Carrera who admitted that CORU was responsible for killing 73 passengers on board of Cubana light from Barbados to Jamaica in 1976, and the list goes on and on, and on, and on, and it is still going on…
Still pretending that it is all bullshit (it is all your own, you know)? Still claiming that no such thing exists?
Well, here’s your own organisation “Cuba Rebelde”, another terrorist organisation in Miami, which has published the list of all Cuban exile terrorist organisations. They even grade them into liberal terrorists,moderate terrorists, hard line terrorists and others…
http://cuban-exile.com/menu1/!group.html
There’s a nice armed revolution handbook for all budding anti-cuban terrorists, but you have it already memorised, don’t you?
What makes me laugh is how all these terrorists are getting old and frail, not many young people are joining to keep the torch burning, and there’s a lot of disunity among the terrorists themselves.
To the point where you dickheads are killing each other!!!
Bunch of retarded idiots. (not me insulting anyone. These are scientific definitions of people who behave in a certain way.)
So yumbo, there is your exaustive list of terrorist organisations in Miami. For a good measure of your hypocrisy a few from other cities are added.
And the information is from your own anticubanfascist sources.
So, what was your point again?
Ah, you never had one.
Of course.
Junio 7th, 2010 at 21:19
Posting stolen articles from Miami Herald is, as some fraud said just the other day, as posting prrof about Hitler from Hitler’s own daily.
Not surprising given your nazist nature.
Junio 7th, 2010 at 21:17
Post141, counting your nicks and alter-egos makes you look even more deperate.
Remeber, the world is a lot bigger than your little dark rented basement in the slums of Miami, where you belong.
You know what the creatures that live in dark, dump and dirt basements eat.
And you are what you eat, as the saying goes…
Junio 7th, 2010 at 21:01
MIAMI HERALD: U.S. funds for democracy programs in Cuba get green light-BY JUAN O. TAMAYO-Tuesday, 06.08.10
Two members of Congress have freed $15 million for pro-democracy programs in Cuba, but are still blocking $2.6 million for a contractor whose employee is jailed in Havana, according to Washington officials.
“I am pleased the State Department has finally released these important funds,” Sen. George Lemieux, R-Fla., said in a statement Monday revealing the release of the $15 million.
The State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) are expected to distribute the funds over the next months to Cuban civil society groups in the form of supplies such as computers, medicines and aid to the families of jailed dissidents.
The release of the funds, help up since early 2009, is likely to anger the Cuban government but brought quick praise from supporters of the dissidents.
“At a time when dissidents are under siege, they need to know that the U.S. stands on their side,” said Mauricio Claver-Carone, director of the pro-embargo U.S.-Cuba Democracy political action committee.
State Department and USAID officials did not comment on the funds’ release, but Lemieux staffers said his office was verbally informed of the change last week.
Congress appropriated $20 million for Cuba Democracy Assistance funds in the fiscal year that ends in September, but the funds were not released. Scandals hit the handling of the $20 million appropriated for the previous fiscal year, the Obama administration took months before it appointed a new USAID chief, and then it launched a review of the programs’ effectiveness.
The process hit another bump when Cuban authorities arrested Alan P. Gross, a Potomac, Md., subcontractor for USAID on Dec. 3 after he delivered a satellite telephone system to Jewish groups. He remains in prison, though no charges have been filed against him.
In its final year, the Bush administration shifted some of the Cuba money away from non-government organizations and toward contractors like Gross’ employer, Development Alternatives Inc., arguing that the contractors could better handle the money and avoid other scandals.
But when the State Department and USAID notified Congress earlier this year that they were ready to release the $20 million for this fiscal year, Sen. John Kerry D-Mass and a House member put a “hold” on the money until they could get more information on the programs to be funded.
The two members of Congress lifted their hold on $15 million last week but are continuing to block the other $5 million, according to two Washington officials who asked for anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. The $5 million includes $2.6 million for Gross’ DAI.
“Contractors were a bad idea from the git-go,” Claver-Carone said, arguing that private firms like DAI have little experience with totalitarian communist regimes like Cuba’s.
Cuba regularly alleges that any U.S. assistance to civil society and dissident groups on the island amounts to an effort to undermine the government, and brands recipients of the aid as “mercenaries.”
Washington officials said Kerry agreed to lift part of his hold after contacts with Cuban-American Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J.
“The idea is that at a time when the repression in Cuba has increased so dramatically, it would send a bad message for the U.S. to stand back and let things happen,” said one of the officials.
Asked if they expected Cuban to react angrily to the resumption of U.S. funding for democracy programs, one congressional staffer said, “ If they hated the programs before, they will hate them now.”
http://www.miamiherald.com/201.....grams.html
Junio 7th, 2010 at 20:55
Yesterday Darko, today Robert Perez. Playing a game of musical names Dumir? Who do you think your fooling? Almost mess up and type in the wrong name?
BOOO…. watch out there’s a yankee capitalist lurking around the corner waiting to exploit you.
Junio 7th, 2010 at 20:50
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero better do a BETTER SHOE DANCE!(could not resist pun!)
LATIN AMERICAN HERLALD TRIBUNE-Spain Sees EU Position on Cuba Remaining Unchanged-By Carlos Perez Gil-Caracas,
Monday,June 7,2010
MADRID – During its six-month presidency of the European Union, Spain will try hard up until the end of its term to attempt to soften the bloc’s common policy toward Cuba, although Madrid assumes that it will not be possible to change the stance that has prevailed since 1996 and pegs top-level dialogue with the Castro regime to advances toward democracy on the island.
The lack of sufficient gestures in favor of its political prisoners on the part of the Raul Castro regime and the rejection by several European partners of the attempt to make more flexible the current framework of bilateral relations are the main obstacles toward changing the common position, Spanish government officials said.
Before the Spanish presidency began, Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos had set as a goal opening a new phase in the relationship between the EU and Cuba.
The common position, which was established 14 years ago at the urging of then-Spanish conservative Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, conditions dialogue with the communist island’s government on moves to promote democracy and respect for human rights in Cuba, and it defends direct contact with the dissidents there.
The idea of the current Socialist Spanish government was to replace the unilateral stance, which was rejected from the start by Havana, with a bilateral relationship favoring dialogue with all sectors of Cuban society, including the dissidents.
The Spanish EU presidential office, whose tenure ends on June 30, believes that the decision taken this past week by the Castro regime with the mediation of the Catholic Church to transfer six political prisoners to prisons closer to their cities of residence is a first step, although it is insufficient if other more significant moves are not also made, sources said.
The European leaders will make their annual review of the relationship with the island at the Brussels summit on June 17, a meeting that – for all practical purposes – marks the end of the Spanish mandate.
Despite the fact that it has not been possible to obtain unanimity among the 27 member states to eliminate the common position, the Spanish government intends to include in the EU declaration that will be approved regarding Cuba a clear reference favoring the normalization of dialogue with the island.
Spain has been reiterating that the current policy is not producing results, that it is causing the EU to lag behind other countries vis-a-vis their stances toward Cuba and that only through greater proximity with the regime can better results be obtained in the situation of the political prisoners.
The Spanish government in June 2008 proposed that the EU lift the sanctions it had imposed against the Castro regime five years before over the imprisonment of 75 opposition figures and open a dialogue with the government with the aim of improving the political situation.
In the debate last year in Brussels, the lack of progress on the part of the regime in moving toward democracy was verified, although the Europeans continued to press for keeping lines of cooperation open with the island.
The EU Committee on Latin America, or COLAT, a forum made up of the top officials for Latin America from all the European bloc partners, will meet on Tuesday in Brussels to discuss the case of Cuba and adopt recommendations on what should be approved at the June 17 summit.
http://www.laht.com/article.as.....ryId=14510
Junio 7th, 2010 at 20:40
Dumir you self-delusional moron anyone can make up “facts”. You can make up all the horseshit stories about terrorist groups in Miami but it’s all a communist wet dream. A fantasy just like all your other fairytale stories from the land of Oz. You live in a delusional world inhabited by morons like you and conservatives/yankees under every bed. You write like a 3rd grader and think like a two demensional cartoon character. Anyone can accuse you dimwit. Proving is a different story. You’ve now gone to the hilarious extreme of directly accusing me of being a member of a Miami based “terrorist” group. How did you find me out? Did you check the membership rolls under the Freedom of Infoemation Act and find Yubano on the list? You are such a schmuck it’s laughable.
Junio 7th, 2010 at 20:28
“THE MUMMY” (Fidel Castro)caught LYING TROUGH HIS TEETH on film! He is ready for a close up Mr. Demille!! THE WORLD IS GETTING A GOOD CLOSE UP OF “THE MUMMY” NOW!!WAIT A MINUTE? HE HAS NOT BEEN SEEN LIVE IN ALMOST 5 YEARS!! ALIVE OR A MUMMY?
YOUTUBE: Mentiras de Fidel Castro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....A&NR=1
YOUTUBE:FIDEL CASTRO MIENTE AL PUEBLO DE CUBA EN 1959
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....eature=fvw
Junio 7th, 2010 at 20:22
Well boys! The “REVOLUTIONARY RATS” are coming out of the woodwork! THIS IS A GOOD SIGN! It means that this blog MATTERS!! Let’s hold down the fort or in this case “the blog”!! Yubano, Freedom, Freedom Rings, Andy and all of the other MAMBISES! Let’s get to work and bring down all these LIES and PROPAGANDA coming from the den of “LA CHINA” & “THE MUMMY”!!
Junio 7th, 2010 at 20:19
Robert, the truth is the first victim in war and in politics. One just needs to wrap themseves with a “democracy” banner and they think that everything and everyone will jump on the bandwagon and rumpet with them their versions of the truth.
May heavens be on side of those who should try to fall out of their tune.
As you said, the prizes awarded to this blog are questionable to say the least. Excellent pick up on the value of the issues. Anyone objective has to wonder what relevance holds architecture from 1960’s in the politics of today. Or, how are the rude and sexual predators taxi drivers relevant to failures in economy. Not to mention the obsessive rants about the internet and gadgetry of the “modern” world.
And a great point about the twitter!!! How simple and needy one needs to be to think that twitter is a “serious technology”. Self-inflicted depravation today when people are running away from it all and are looking for a life without technology to control our lives.
hat is underlined with these desires is a need for Cuban society to grow in certain directions, but as with all societies before them, they seem to be interested in superficial, simple and hedonistic rather than on growth with substance. Science, education, sustainable and environmentally responsible growth.
Junio 7th, 2010 at 19:11
Amir, I guess you are right. It seem this is just another case of a media-bloated loud-sounding emptiness. Still, it is hard to believe that this got the Ortega y Gasset and the Maria Moors Cabot. I can smell the festering politics behind it, but the cynicism remains surprising. I truly wonder if there is people who actually think that comments like mine are payed by anyone. It seems quite evident: the blog is cheaply sentimental, repetitive ad nauseam, poorly written, unabashedly biased, and, to keep the list short, plainly unimaginative… criticism comes easy!
Junio 7th, 2010 at 18:38
Post 136, Robert Perez, well said. But resident fascists will now declare you a “silly thug” and a “Castro spy sitting somewhere in Havana, living on rations of cans and beans”.
They do lack imagination and vocabulary so do not take them for real. They are not. Behind a number of various “nicknames” are the same few (two, maybe three) oldtimers, probably posada, bosch, and alikes, still living in hteir drems that the world is about to join and invade Cuba somehow and install them as undisputed emperors of Havana.
Junio 7th, 2010 at 18:33
Post 128, you should curse your stupidity anticastrofascist. You are among the members of the Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations, a terrorist group dedicated to armed revolution in Cuba at any cost, so to dare others to mention terrorist anti-cuban entities is a stupid, stupid move. Self-destructive really.
Let us see, there is also a terrorist group called Cuban American National Foundation, hellbent on violent overthrow of the current government, then Posada who nowadays from prison directs the training of his newest group, then there was Orlando Bosch branded as a terrorist evenwith Miami New Times, http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2.....rists/full, and how abbout the Accion Cubana O. Bosch’s group? Isn’t that a charity shining through their bloody eyes and fat pedophile lips and glass frames…?
Then there are the CIA, NSA and the usanian government who are openly financing and protecting the groups. usa is a terrorist dictatorship well known for its’ massive and numerous crimes against the humanity, that needs no futher elaboration. Just look at its’ latest reaction on Israel’s completely unjustified attack on the turkish ship the other day. Or, closer to your heart, the refusal to honour the the 1971 Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation which obliges the usa to either extradict all the Cuban terrorists currently under its’ protection from the law, or prosecute them for their crimes, which they themselves confessed many times so far, believing that they will be safe under usanian wing.
And they are, as we can see. Even the group of operatives caught in Havana after the hotel bombing in 1997 confirmed the names of the masterminds, yet the usa is refusing to extradite them.
Do you know how many countries are asking for Bosch’s extradiction?
Of course you do. 12, twelve. For terrorist crimes committed either in those countries or against them.
He’s a free man in Miami. So are Guillermo Novo Sampoll, Gaspar Jiménez Escobedo, Secundino Carrera who admitted that CORU was responsible for killing 73 passengers on board of Cubana light from Barbados to Jamaica in 1976, and the list goes on and on, and on, and on, and it is still going on…
Still pretending that it is all bullshit (it is all your own, you know)? Still claiming that no such thing exists?
Well, here’s your own organisation “Cuba Rebelde”, another terrorist organisation in Miami, which has published the list of all Cuban exile terrorist organisations. They even grade them into liberal terrorists,moderate terrorists, hard line terrorists and others…
http://cuban-exile.com/menu1/!group.html
There’s a nice armed revolution handbook for all budding anti-cuban terrorists, but you have it already memorised, don’t you?
What makes me laugh is how all these terrorists are getting old and frail, not many young people are joining to keep the torch burning, and there’s a lot of disunity among the terrorists themselves.
To the point where you dickheads are killing each other!!!
Bunch of retarded idiots. (not me insulting anyone. These are scientific definitions of people who behave in a certain way.)
So yumbo, there is your exaustive list of terrorist organisations in Miami. For a good measure of your hypocrisy a few from other cities are added.
And the information is from your own anticubanfascist sources.
So, what was your point again?
Ah, you never had one.
Of course.
Junio 7th, 2010 at 18:29
I can’t see what all the excitement with this blog is all about! “The desire to express ourselves”??? This probably is one of the worst clichés today! “I dream of the time… when Claudia Cadelo gives a seminar in Twitter…”. I do not know how good Miss Cadelo’s seminars are… but, coming from Latin America, this kind of dreaming seems quite limited, small, almost meaningless, bordering ridiculous. So many urgencies, so much misery, and so many other truly grounded sources of hope… “I dream of Twitter”, for God sake!
It is hard to believe that a blog this banal has received so many prices!!! In my opinion, its a bit of a disappointment…
Junio 7th, 2010 at 15:39
130Barbara Curbelo
Junio 7th, 2010 at 12:39
The jury accused GERARDO, who had no contact with Cuban Authorities about the decision of the latter to shoot at the planes.
In US law it is well established that if someone violates a law in order to prevent something worse, by necessity, that person is excused of criminal conduct because society recognizes the need and benefit of such a determination.
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In the trial was proven that all those assasins were comploting to kill inocent people and to perform terrorist actions that could be used to accuse cuban exiles of terrorism….. the same does castrofascism usualy in Cuba to lure the Cuban people to believe cuban exiles are terrorists……. the bombing of daycare, hotels and planes in Cuba and Barbados are examples of those crimes practiced by regimen.
Junio 7th, 2010 at 15:36
129Barbara Curbelo
Junio 7th, 2010 at 12:21
#128-
Tomado del Diario La Estrella de Texas
WASHINGTON — Defensores de los cinco cubanos presos en Estados Unidos por espionaje denunciaron hoy pagos a periodistas que cubrieron el caso en Miami entre diciembre de 1999 y diciembre de 2001.
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but those assasins are not in jail for journalist doing their job but the confesions and colaboration of all them under trial…… those confesions and collaboration let the true come up and they were found guilty….. it is public record thug.
Junio 7th, 2010 at 15:32
124Damir
Junio 7th, 2010 at 10:31
Post 123, give some proofs for your stupid claims of children and tehir mothers being killed by Cuban government.
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You retarded commies doesn’t want to work……. work dummy, work…… I already posted a lot of proves about castrofascism killing children…… work and find them by your self
Junio 7th, 2010 at 14:36
MIAMI NEW TIMES: Your Week In Fidel Castro Fantasies: U.S. Sank South Korean Ship, Wants Nuclear War With Iran -Tim Elfrink, Monday, Jun. 7 2010
Fidel Castro may indeed be 83 percent dead, based on our crack team of unpaid but enthusiastic scientists’ latest calculations, but that 17 percent still kickin’ can spin a better conspiracy theory than Rush Limbaugh.
(On second thought, isn’t Castro basically Cuba’s Rush at this point? He spends his days spouting insane rhetoric on horribly unreliable media that somehow garner gigantic audiences. And he secretly runs the country in his free time. This is actually too depressing a thought to continue.)
Anyway, Castro just had himself a doozy of a week dreaming up imperialist plots.
First, after Israel’s botched raid on a Palestinian aid flotilla, Castro declared that the disaster proved Obama could only win a second term by attacking Iran with nuclear weapons.
“Could Obama enjoy the emotions of a second presidential election without having the Pentagon or the State of Israel, whose conduct does not in the least obey the decisions of the United States, use nuclear weapons against Iran?” he asked in a column, according to AP.
Yes, if there’s one thing U.S. voters are really looking for at the moment, it’s another military conflict.
To that end, Fidel on Saturday offered an even bolder assessment of Obama’s secret strategery. The Bearded One writes that the U.S. sank a South Korean warship in March to spark a conflict with North Korea.
Castro says Navy SEALS bombed the South Korean ship, killing several dozen sailors and bringing the peninsula to the brink of war, to convince Japan to allow the U.S. base at Okinawa to stay open.
That sounds logical and not at all like something your crazy Uncle Joe in the nursing home tells you between rambling tales of why life was better when Ovaltine was more popular.
In a final touch fitting for such an inspired bout of creative writing, Castro then turns the tables and accuses Obama of being out of touch with reality.
“(Obama) makes concessions to personalities and groups totally lacking in ethics and draws fantasy worlds that only fit in his head and that unscrupulous advisers, knowing his tendencies, plant in his mind,” he writes.
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com.....o_fant.php
Junio 7th, 2010 at 13:29
Travesty of justice takes place on a daily basis in Cuba. Just in the last few days 37 people who’s only crime is to belong to groups wanting democracy for Cuba were rounded up and arrested. No culero, the US is not Cuba where people are arrested for “dangerousness”. A ludicrous excuse for arresting someone under the pretext they might commit a crime. This of course comes from the gulag form of soviet justice where someone voicing an opinion contrary to the party line could be arrested for anti-social behavior. The banana republic’s justice system is setup to make determinations based on the caprice or what side of the bed whatever decrepit castro brother is making decisions wakes up on.
The five will remain in jail for criminal not political reasons. As in the case of Jonathan Pollard, an American citizen who spied for Israel and was convicted, and despite pressures from Israel (an American alley)and the Jewish-American lobby, he has not been released and will serve his sentence until at least 2015 when is eligible for parole. culero you and the rest of your cynical, politically motivated, misinformed and naive crowd can cry and agitate all you want for the 5 criminals but they will remain in their cells as they deservedly should.
Junio 7th, 2010 at 12:39
The jury accused GERARDO, who had no contact with Cuban Authorities about the decision of the latter to shoot at the planes.
In US law it is well established that if someone violates a law in order to prevent something worse, by necessity, that person is excused of criminal conduct because society recognizes the need and benefit of such a determination.
Three of the 5 admitted to having used false identifications. The other two were US citizens and did not lie about theirs. They violated the law by presenting false documentation, in order to infiltrate terrorists groups and prevent acts of terror against US citizens; such as the blowing up of a plane headed for Cuba, which was in the works. They turned all the info gathered (drug trafficking by Brothers to the Rescue, plans to blow up a plane fuull of civilians travelling to Cuba, etc.) to their government, which in turn met with the head of the FBI and gave it all to him.
“They were convicted in an American court with all the rights they were due.” - No that is incorrect, but they will be released, and they will return to Cuba, because the trial was a travesty of justice having taken place in Miami, having had the US Government pay the press to influence negatively during the process, and for having precluded vital evidence from being presented on their behalf, such as th thousands of documents the FBI found on them at the time of their arrests. As for example, terrorist plans by those “CIVILIAN” planes.
Junio 7th, 2010 at 12:21
#128-
Tomado del Diario La Estrella de Texas
WASHINGTON — Defensores de los cinco cubanos presos en Estados Unidos por espionaje denunciaron hoy pagos a periodistas que cubrieron el caso en Miami entre diciembre de 1999 y diciembre de 2001.
La directora del Gremio Nacional de Abogados (National Lawyers Guild), Heidi Boghosian, denunció en una conferencia de prensa un plan concertado para “manchar los procedimientos judiciales” e influir en los veredictos.
De esa manera, “se privó a los acusados del celebrado derecho” a la Sexta Enmienda de la Constitución estadunidense, que garantiza el derecho a un juicio justo y a un jurado imparcial, señaló.
“No cabe duda que los artículos engañosos y despectivos escritos por reporteros pagados por el gobierno tuvieron un impacto directo en la opinión pública, el tribunal” y en la corte de apelaciones en el caso de los cubanos, anotó.
Gloria de la Riva, coordinadora del Comité Nacional para la Liberación de los Cinco Cubanos, señaló que el pago a los periodistas por parte del gobierno constituye “una violación a la ley que prohíbe la propaganda doméstica”.
Indicó que los pagos a periodistas de Miami los hicieron la Junta de Transmisiones a Cuba y la Junta de Gobernadores para las Transmisiones de Estados Unidos (BBG), por medio de Radio y TV Martí.
“Lo que hace los pagos secretos más flagrantes es que los hizo el mismo gobierno (estadounidense) que procesó a los cinco cubanos”, aseveró.
Señaló que la mayor audiencia de TV y Radio Martí “está dentro de Estados Unidos, en Miami, Florida”, de donde fue seleccionado el jurado en el caso de los cubanos que luego fueron condenados a penas de 15 años hasta doble cadena perpetua.
“Aunque solicitamos información que se remontaba hasta 1996, la BBG solamente nos dio información desde noviembre de 1999” bajo la ley de Libertad de Información (FOIA), sostuvo De la Riva.
Mencionó al periodista Wilfredo Cancio, reportero del diario El Nuevo Herald, quien recibió cuatro mil 725 dólares entre el 30 de septiembre de 2000 y el 3 de diciembre de 2001.
De la Riva citó también pagos entre 1999 y 2001 de 11 mil 700 dólares a Ariel Remos, del Diario de las Américas; 58 mil 600 al periodista Pablo Alfonso; Cinco mil 200 dólares a Enrique Encinosa, director de Radio Mambí; y mil 125 dólares a Helen Ferré, editora de la página de opinión del Diario de las Américas.
Los cubanos presos Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González y René González, fueron “perjudicados irreparablemente por el mar de prejuicios generados en la prensa de Miami”, indicó.
Agregó que “la función del gobierno en financiar mucha de la mordaz cobertura de prensa significa que el gobierno tiene la obligación de remediar inmediatamente este error. Los cinco cubanos deben ser liberados”.
Mara Verheyden-Hillard, de Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) informó que su organización ha presentado una demanda federal en Nombre del Comité Nacional para la Liberación de los Cinco Cubanos para que la BBG y la Junta de Transmisiones a Cuba divulguen información sobre los pagos a los periodistas.
Los participantes en la rueda de prensa anunciaron una campaña por parte de una coalición de organizaciones para pedir al procurador general de Estados Unidos, Eric Holder, que tome “acción inmediata” para liberar a los cinco cubanos por las malas acciones del gobierno
Junio 7th, 2010 at 11:43
BC, Robin to Dumir’s Batman… hahahaha, what a pair of half-wits. BC save your breath, the criminals will serve out their sentences in US jails. They were convicted for among other things, espionage and having a hand in the pre-meditated murder of American citizens in CIVILIAN airplanes. No amount of agitating, disinformation and misrepresentations will change a thing. They will not be exchanged, paroled or let off the hook. They will serve their sentences. They were convicted in an American court with all the rights they were due. They were not convicted in the kangaroo courts of the banana republic of cuba where the regime can trump-up and railroiad anyone it wished to throw in jail. By-the-way BC, who are these terrorist groups in Miami that your heros where defending you from? Who are these evil people and lets hear what terrorist acts they have committed.
Junio 7th, 2010 at 11:39
#126 - The rats have been out spreading their lies since 01/01/’59
Junio 7th, 2010 at 11:34
The rats are out spreading their lies and disinformation. Dumir the Mensa member and Tjudman’s chief cocksucker and propaganda minsiter without portfolio is again spasmodically vomiting all over the blog with his own particular brand of leftwing fantasy and communist, anti-yankee nonsense. Dumir you are foul-mouthed anacronism just like your vegetating hero at punto zero. Dumir you are a clueless douchebag and phoney bolshevik elitist. Your pathetic attempts at disinformation and personnal insults are childish and futile. Your rhetorical popgun is the equivalent of your tiny intellect and puny little pecker.
Junio 7th, 2010 at 11:11
PRESIDENT OBAMA -
Your war on terror is ambiguous, at best, while 5 Cuban nationals remain in US Federal prisons after risking their lives for averting actions by terrorist groups in Miami, that enjoy absolute impunity despite the fact that they have been consistently public about their terror.
Junio 7th, 2010 at 10:31
Post 123, give some proofs for your stupid claims of children and tehir mothers being killed by Cuban government.
Also, while your stupidity knows no boundaries, let me educate you on what is not a racism. Calling someone lazy is NOT racism. That Indians are lazy people, is a fact well known to anyone who had to do anything with them. ou, being a small time crimson appentice couldn’t possibly know anything about Indians. Had I called them dirty negros, or stinking Indian primitives, that would be racism.
But then, while they are lazy, that certainly doesn’t mean that I hate them.
It takes on primitive and empty primate scull, like yours for example, to start crying foul in a vain hope that someone might actually believe you.
The good thing is that if someone does claim to agree with you or simply believe you, we can safely conclude that such a person is severely mentally disadvantaged. Because that is what it is needed in order to agree with someone like yourself.
But I am seriously impressed with your ability to scew yourself up and down, and still behave as if you are on a winning streak.
Fascinating!
It takes an enormous lack of intelligence to be able to do that.
Junio 7th, 2010 at 09:46
121Barbara Curbelo
Junio 6th, 2010 at 23:56
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Thanks for the intention silly thug but you seems to need more those artificial way to find peace……. the very fact that you spend time looking for this soul medicine confirm that you are in need…….. I can understand it….. with all castrofascism crimes, with all those souls of children killed by castrofascism, with all those souls of mothers whose children were killed by castrofascism spoking around your concience and dark soul it is comprehensible you should have a great need of relief.
By the way….. you never answered my question about what do you think on damir’s rasism and hate on Indians?????…… do you have same stupid feelings????
Junio 7th, 2010 at 00:07
Cubans are now speaking up and demanding more rights.The people are tired of the MENTIRAS. The regime is under pressure with is back up against the wall. When the news about FIDEL BREAKS, the SHIT IS GOING TO HIT THE FAN. Lo que se va Formar.
Junio 6th, 2010 at 23:56
FREEDOM - enjoy the freedom to enjoy some beauty, and expansion of your cultural horizons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Junio 6th, 2010 at 23:52
FREUD - respira profundo y escucha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oa2JrO5_3k
Junio 6th, 2010 at 23:10
117 what you are talking about sounds like what pingueros do to their white yankee masters…
Junio 6th, 2010 at 23:09
fraudster reckons he lives in communism… (post 108). Has something happened to Miami that no one knows about?
What a retard!!!!
Junio 6th, 2010 at 23:07
I am the opposite of Communism, I am Freedom, I tasted it, I muttered it and I threw it, I can’t swallow it.
Junio 6th, 2010 at 23:05
110 and 112, wishful thinking from a couple of geniuses.
How come yor lives are so unsuccessful and empty that all the rage and frustration for your own failure can only be remediated by spitting it out here?
No life, no future, huh?
Junio 6th, 2010 at 23:02
Even Ypoani’s team is “offering to discuss around the coffee table” symbolically insinuating they are all for a civilised debate about the problems.
The anticastristafaschists posting here are hell bent on domination by force.
Well, primates, to rule by force you ned to have the force.
Currently you are just a bunch of cowardly emigrants hiding behind the foreigners. And here’s the most accurate prophecy ever: that is who you are and will be forever.
I know that you would never have the courage to call a Jugoslav/Croat/Serb/Montenegrin/anyone stupid in their face.
Show us some substance in your debate. SOME intelligence and SOME “democratic” understanding.
Anticastristafaschist, That makes you even worse than your opponents.
Junio 6th, 2010 at 22:51
PURE SCHIZOFRENIC PARANOIA:
to understand what I am saying to the retarded thug you must to read old comment……. but you said you has been reading a lot before…. so…. how do you explain you do not understand what I am writing about??????/….. you lies about your reading or you lies about your identity…… I will explain nothing to you because it is not my style to explain my self…. I just bring facts…. proves…. testimonies ….. and documental proves that help me to demonstarte what I state…… you better start to do same if you want to be credible…… but….. but…… I see a great similarity between your and the retarded thug styles…. you debuted here spiting offenses over everyone…. and you seems to have same dislexic condition than damir!!!!!!!……… huuuuuummmmmm,,, rare, very rare!!!
We are after you… We will find you…We know who you are…
Booooh!!!!
fraud, take those litle red pills now. You are ranting mad.
Junio 6th, 2010 at 22:19
Darko, You can see how the vultures congregate to insult, no matter what one says. If it is NOT what they like, you are a castrofascist. End of story.
The intelligence and the reason have got nothing to do with anything here.
A da ih iziritiram jos malo, evo nesto na nasem. Sada zivim u Italiji. Engleski sam naucio u Splitu, ali kad radis kao programer, engleski brzo dostigne visi stupanj.
Freedom “j prekrasno panimaiu” is Russian, you closet communist. You do not understand much at all, but Freudian slips like that tell us a lot about you.
Care to drop these childlish “mine is bigger” and say something about the actual article?
IF you have anything to say bout the article that is, of course. I am yet to see one anit castrista say something coherent about the issues your Yoani-tema is offering here.
Hollow debate the one where one makes a comment and the other attacks by insulting him/her for having an opinion.
That is how you would rule Cuba if you anticastristafascists managed to grab the power.
How is that really any better?
Junio 6th, 2010 at 18:09
110Freedom
Junio 6th, 2010 at 17:32
Darko, vi iz zagreba, ja prekrasno panimaiu (Darko, you are from Zagreb, former Yugoslavia, I perfectly understand your labguage)
It is a rare coincidence that you and Damir are more less from the same place, that’s a weird coincidence, don’t you think?
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Dear Freedom……. damir is a very unskilled thug that has comminted several stupid mistakes since the very begining of its disgusting life as commenter in this site……. I predicted his vanishing of the blog because those mistakes made him a undesired element for his superiors….. one of the prefered “vanishing” methods of the cyber foolish brigade is to change the nicks of thugs…… that’s what they are cooking now with this naive and infantile presentation of another retarded “croat”!!!!!!!
Junio 6th, 2010 at 18:04
109PROBLEMS POSTING COMMENTS
Junio 6th, 2010 at 17:13
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A million comment!!!!……. millions of readers!!!!!!…….. castrofascism inoperant estrategies performed by inefective thugs!!!!!……. world condemn to castro’s crimes……… tyranny negotiating with Catholic Church!!!!!……
Good news ……. only good news ultimately!!!!!
Junio 6th, 2010 at 17:32
Darko, vi iz zagreba, ja prekrasno panimaiu (Darko, you are from Zagreb, former Yugoslavia, I perfectly understand your labguage)
It is a rare coincidence that you and Damir are more less from the same place, that’s a weird coincidence, don’t you think?
Anyway, about private market in Cuba. The so call private and free market in Cuba is so insignificant that it hardly can provide enough, scarcely can meet the demand for food. Why? Simply because 95% of the cultivable land in Cuba belongs to the State, and those who were part of a Communist regimes, as former Yugoslavia was, know that it is a fact. The Government confiscated farms, and “fincas”, which produced tons of food before the revolution. Those lands now produce only Marabu, a plant that cannot be eaten even by animals, it only has thorns and a great proportion of our lands are covered with that. So there’s no such a strong free market in Cuba, hence the prices out of pocket for an average citizen.
You keep on saying that you have friends in Cuba that can afford these prices, ok, then those friends of yours belong to the selected elite of Cubans who have either; someone abroad that provides for them remittances, or have a business there (rent house to foreigners, work in tourism were they receive some tips, or simply are “pingueros” who do the favor to some foreign homosexuals that come to Cuba for this purpose, or prostitutes who sell their body to foreigners. For the rest of the people, the vast majority who have to work for a salary on Cuban pesos, the Doctors, Teachers, Engineers, Lawyers, for these people the prices of the “free market” are out of pocket.
Junio 6th, 2010 at 17:13
Hello Dear Readers,
There have been problems posting comments on the whole blog for a day or two now. The blog helpers are working hard on it. I haven’t heard any suggestions that it’s an attack, just that the blog is getting so huge it’s hard to manage. The total number of comments is approaching a million — that’s a lot!
Your Friendly English Translator
Junio 6th, 2010 at 16:30
107Darko
Junio 6th, 2010 at 15:00
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So, I lived 20 years more than you under communism tyranny and despite it you are sure I don’t know nothing about it????…… you know best????……. you are trying to make us all believe all people from Yugoslavia likes to believe they are better and smarter than any one in the world?????…… you castrofascist thug are pathetic in your intents to create antagonism !!!!!!!
Do you believe , as damir does, that Indians are lazy and corrupts????
Junio 6th, 2010 at 15:00
First of all i’m not spiting offenses at no one. second english is not my native language but i’m trying - if that is what you meant by dislexic. I just didn’t understand what did you meant by Damir hiding his identity. With this name it is obvious. If you think I’m actually Damir you are very wrong but we are obviously of the same nationality. And I don’t have to prove credibility to no one especially when offending without any common sense like you do.
And if it helps I lived in communism for 20 years so don’t you talk to me about socialism and communism cause you don’t know anything about it.
Junio 6th, 2010 at 14:33
102Darko
Junio 6th, 2010 at 14:11
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darko (note that you already lost your capitals in the name)……. to understand what I am saying to the retarded thug you must to read old comment……. but you said you has been reading a lot before…. so…. how do you explain you do not understand what I am writing about??????/….. you lies about your reading or you lies about your identity…… I will explain nothing to you because it is not my style to explain my self…. I just bring facts…. proves…. testimonies ….. and documental proves that help me to demonstarte what I state…… you better start to do same if you want to be credible…… but….. but…… I see a great similarity between your and the retarded thug styles…. you debuted here spiting offenses over everyone…. and you seems to have same dislexic condition than damir!!!!!!!……… huuuuuummmmmm,,, rare, very rare!!!
Junio 6th, 2010 at 14:27
69Darko
Junio 5th, 2010 at 09:32
Well dear friends, I’ve been reading this blog for quite a long time and I have to say it has reached limits of really absurd skirmishing.
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Darko, welcome…… if you lived under communism ever then you must know communism and all other extreme ideologies have only a concern: to keep the power as long as possible…. that’s why they implements in all life’s spheres something called in theory books “Society polarization”….. this polarization have as goal to drive society to extremes in all aspect…. that’s why they absolute fight all kind of manifestation against regime even if this manifestation is simply not to collaborate…. you don’t collaborate you are out of society and you don’t get job, you will not study, you can even go to jail……. polarization is the strategy of create extremes, antagonist extremes…….. people get amazed when they see regime to sink a boat full of children, people cannot understand that, people says “but those guys are stupid, their only achievement with such actions is to create hate on them”….. yes, it is exactly the goal, to create hate…… that’s why you see agents in the cyber like damir or curbelo that tries to create that hate also in this site by using offensive language or lies, this is society polarization….. if you lived under commies you surely study that in a class named “Scientific Communism and Class Fight”
Junio 6th, 2010 at 14:25
46Barbara Curbelo
Junio 4th, 2010 at 16:35
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alvarez-cambra got an oportunity to become an elite member because he developed a thug carrier….. but he owes all his knoledge and skills to pre castro wanderful educational system. He copied some inventions of soviets doctors, made some modifications and got a lot of propaganda because regime needed desperately some flag scientist to make more propaganda about the supposed achievements of tyranny. So you can take him of the list because he study in democracy, he is a cheater like you and he is a rich thug like Silvio Rodriguez.
The mummy alicia alonso was already a mummy and his Cuban National Ballet was already a international famous institution when castrofascism arrived.
Why do you pretend to cheat with such evident cases of democracy success?????…… are you drunk or weed influenced?????
Camilo???? which Camilo do you talk about?????…. Camilo Cienfuegos, the victim of castro brother?????…….. what have him to do in this list?????…..
You tried to cheat producing a list where all professionals were educated under the excellent educational system we had before castrofascism…… now you say you can produce a lot of names of prominent scientists and professionals educated under castrofascism….. well the same you did before and you came with the cheating list, with a list of names of people older than Matusalen….. please, don’t cheat this time and bring the list you say you have…… please make it soon….. I am sure readers are anxious for see your list…….. don’t put athletes and natural talents in the list please….. in the future we can make a comparison between athletes and talents produced under both regimes…….. now fulfill your promises and bring your list…….. cheater.
Junio 6th, 2010 at 14:19
100Barbara Curbelo
Junio 6th, 2010 at 13:50
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The silly thug present a castrofascist official site where a chore of trained castrofascist agents recitates slogans as a site that “proves” something!!!!!
Also present a “commitee” integrated by castrofascist thug at all levels and nationalities as something of value!!!!!!
Thug…… who do you pretend to lure with such lies??????
It is like german nazis presenting Goering, Hess and Himler as “wittnesses” of nazism inocense on olocaust…… and a commity formed by Mussolinni, Franco and KKK to support this inocense!!!!!!
Junio 6th, 2010 at 14:11
Oh, Oh………. little dirty thug damir…….. you better run and find some one that can help you continue your lie about your nationality!!!!!!!!
I suspect we lost damierda!!!!!!
I don’t know what lie are you talking about. Damir wrote in perfect english that he is from Split but of course you are ignorant as every american - with name Damir and from Split everyone can conclude where Damir is from. Maybe you think we are Indians or something?
Come on you brigh Americans - WHERE ARE WE FROM????
Junio 6th, 2010 at 13:57
#93 - POST #100 WAS IN RESPONSE TO YOUR INQUIRY, NOT hUMBERTO’S BECAUSE HE IS A SCAT MOUTH. NOW, YOU COULD HAVE EASILY FOUND IT HAD YOU CARED TO, BUT YOU JUST WANTED TO LEAVE THE IMPRESSION THAT IT WAS MADE UP. YOU’LL PROBABLY DISCREDIT THE SOURCE BECAUSE IT IS POSTED ON THE SITE OF A COMMITTEE ADVOCATING THEIR CAUSE. YOU DON’T EXPECT TO FIND IT IN ANY US PRESS, RIGHT? THE MEDIA PRETENDS THE CASE OF 5 CUBAN NATIONALS ADVERTING TERRORISM IN OUR COUNTRY AND TERRORISTS GROUPS IN MIAMI DURING A WAR AGAINST TERROR THAT HAS TAKEN QUITE A TOLL THUS FAR; IS NOT NEWS WORTHY…
Junio 6th, 2010 at 13:50
…At a press conference held on June 2 in Washington DC, the NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO FREE THE CUBAN FIVE and other organizations announced a coalition and national campaign to call on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to take immediate action for “remedy and relief” by freeing the Cuban Five, based on the government misconduct and covert operations that denied the Five their elemental right to a fair trial.
In the press conference, for the first time, the National Committee presented new evidence that the U.S. government — through Radio and TV Martí — had secretly paid tens of thousands of dollars to journalists in Miami, who, during the politically-charged prosecution of the Five, published provocative articles about Cuba and against the Five. The evidence is the result of an 18-month investigation by the National Committee, and two Freedom of Information Act petitions (FOIA). The Committee members are continuing this vital research (see link below).
Besides Gloria La Riva, coordinator of the National Committee, the speakers were Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, attorney and co-founder of the Partnership for Civil Justice (PCJ), Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director of the National Lawyers Guild, and Brian Becker, Director of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition. The PCJ is pursuing a federal lawsuit on behalf of the National Committee, to force the U.S. government to disclose all the information that it is withholding…The people’s mobilization is more important than ever!
…This new revelation and continuing battle to force full government disclosure can help tremendously in the freedom struggle of Gerardo, Ramón, Antonio, Fernando and René…
(FROM THE COMMITTEE’S NEWS LETTER)IF YOU GO TO THEIR SITE YOU CAN READ THE ACTUAL BRIEF FILED, AND GET MORE INFO. ABOUT THESE AMOUNTS PAID. tHEY ARE PURSUING MORE INFO ON THE MATTER, PRESENTLY. http://www.freethefive.org/
yOU CAN ALSO VISIT THIS OTHER SITE FOR MORE INFO ON THEIR CASE: http://www.thecuban5.org/
Junio 6th, 2010 at 12:03
87Barbara Curbelo
Junio 6th, 2010 at 00:23
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Castrofascism is always trying to associate journalists job with political and even penal issues like the thug curbelo does in this case….. journalist work is to inform and they get paid for do that…….. what yo have to do (if you like so much FOIA and other freedom of information institutions) is to go to the public records where those 14 (not 5 but 14 criminals) criminals acts and recorded trial sessions are stored and learn there the confesions of the crimes made by 5 self and the the other 9 criminals…… go there and learn they are common criminals in a mafia like assosiation for cause the death to other people and to perform terrorist acts that could be used for accusing exile cubans……. that’s the true easy to find.
Junio 6th, 2010 at 11:54
97Darko
Junio 6th, 2010 at 10:24
Ja sam iz Zagreba. Mislio sam da živiš vani po odličnom engleskom. A znam sve… veseli me ponekad napisazti par riječi pa čitati reakcije. I ja sam već pisao prije nekog vremena ali vidim da tu puno pomoći nema…
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Oh, Oh………. little dirty thug damir…….. you better run and find some one that can help you continue your lie about your nationality!!!!!!!!
I suspect we lost damierda!!!!!!
Junio 6th, 2010 at 10:24
Ja sam iz Zagreba. Mislio sam da živiš vani po odličnom engleskom. A znam sve… veseli me ponekad napisazti par riječi pa čitati reakcije. I ja sam već pisao prije nekog vremena ali vidim da tu puno pomoći nema…
Junio 6th, 2010 at 09:30
Rick Viera, that may be the case, but can yo prove your accusations too? Do you have a link or two to support your own claims?
The need for supporting evidence goes both ways.
Junio 6th, 2010 at 09:30
ick, that may be the case, but can yo prove your accusations too? Do you have a link or two to support your own claims?
The need for supporting evidence goes both ways.
Junio 6th, 2010 at 09:25
Darko, I am from Split. As for “insulting”, the character deserves it abundantly. You will see why very soon if you hang around. I posted a couple of times things that were similar to what you said, in a very moderated tone. Even more than your first post/ But that did not deter the persons from accusing me of being a castrofascist spie somewhere in Havana.
More insults followed despite my efforts to ignore and avoid direct confrontation with these deranged individuals.
But they only debate with you on their terms, so from time to time I indulge them. It is only a matter of time when you will be declared much the same as the rest who share similar views as you do.
Where are you from?
Junio 6th, 2010 at 09:23
#90 The obvious conclusion if there is no factual verification posted along with your statements as to the specific payments of moneys to anyone is that you are simply spreading misinformation and slandering these individual journalists for an ethical violation that is untrue.
If you verify your accusations with links to the information then everyone reading this will have to accept your premise if not you are guilty of slander and would possibly be liable for your actions in civil law.
After all the apparent research done to publicize your claims and assertions anyone who has legitimate evidence of the facts would be more than happy to publicize them so that appropriate action could be taken, if not it shows that your insinuations and accusations are nothing but more lies directed by the Castro regime against any one who goes against its dictatorship and further proves that the five Cuban spies are deservedly imprisoned for their crimes.
Junio 6th, 2010 at 09:18
Post 72, freedom, your comments are a summary of general negative sentimenttowards everything Cuban that is so prevalent among the wannabe democrats.
So what if the produce on the free markets are expensive? That is the whole point of the FREE market. Demand and supply. Surely you would want to see those private sellers to be paid a fair price for their work.
The most simplistic and primitive approach of many self-gratifying and engranding creatures is to moralise about the perceived opponent in most derogatory ways they can come up with.
It is quite a hard work being constructive in such a dialogue. Anti-communists seem to suffer from the same delusional feel of “power” as their communist friends. Who is not with them, is a priori against them. Schizofrenic paranoia, clearly.
But at some point the choice will become clear even to such characters: either grab the arms, or embrace the dialogue and cope with difference in opinions because that is what democracy is.
And as Darko mentions too, local Cubans are for change but very very few are interested in what the capitalist world offers.
The Cubans happen to want changes within the system they currently have. In my experiences with the locals in the past five years, I’d say that 80% of people I talked to do not want Cuba to turn capitalist. Just more freedom within their current system. And, obviously, better salaries and conditions of life.
They want to achieve that in their Cuba, not the Cuba those Cubans who ahd left want to impose on them. And, again from what Isaw in Cuba, there are many people who are now benfiting from those changes taking place, even if these changes are slow and seemingly not radical. Yet, there is no casa particular without an air condition, coton linen, variety of food available to tourists every day. Indirectly, farmers are benfitting too because owners of casas are buying directly from them their products. So the money is starting to trickle into the economy. It is getting more and more into all levels of society. Many Cubans are buying computers, DVD players, gadgets of every kind, clothes, you name it.
The changes have taken the place and the improvements are on the way. Busses maybe chinese, but they are new and quite comfortable. Not to mention a fraction of the price of european or usanian busses. Drivers are renting the busses operating in the cities, and hte services have improved in the last year or so tenfold.
Cars are newer too. And not all that buy european cars are the party officials or secret spies and collaborators, as yoani and some here suggest. My good friends in Cienfuegos are far from falling into any of those categories yet they now have a little Skoda. And Skodas nowadays are not cheap not they are crap any more, being Volkswagen product.
Or, to suggesst that Vietnamese rice is of lower quality than the usanian one is a pure political propaganda of the worst kind. Vietnamese rice is among the best in the world. It has been cultivated with much less chemicals and is definitely NOT GM either. Coupled with superior payment options, who would be that stupid to go and buy from usa for upfront payment?
And let us remember that Vietnamese have thousands of years of experience in rice cultivation too, so the only reason to speak ill of their product is a political ideologically tainted propaganda. Nothing else.
Everyone objective knows that.
Junio 6th, 2010 at 09:04
Damir - where are you from?
I can agree with some of yoor points but don’t be so insulting…
Junio 6th, 2010 at 08:40
SCATOLOGIST (your brain has brown matter instead of grey, and it shows in your speech) HUMBERTO:
The evidence is the result of an 18-month investigation, and two Freedom of Information Act petitions (FOIA).
Look up the site yourself - you’re lazy besides being full of scat.
Junio 6th, 2010 at 08:22
Post 88, such a dirty primitive character doesn’t deserve to have his work done for him. Find the links yourself. Be a man for once in your life.
I understand that with such a dispostirion it will be a huge challenge for you, but try at least…
Junio 6th, 2010 at 00:34
Culero! Links please for the second time!
Junio 6th, 2010 at 00:23
U.S. government — through Radio and TV Martí — had secretly paid tens of thousands of dollars to journalists in Miami, who, during the politically-charged prosecution of the Five, published provocative articles about Cuba and against the Five.
1. Pablo Alfonso Of El Nuevo Herald
Payment - Pago: $58,600 during the trial
Total: $252,325 (11/1/99-8/22/07)
2. Wilfredo Cancio del Nuevo Herald (The Miami Herald)
Was paid $4,725 during trial
$21,800 (9/30/2000 - 11/20/2006)
3. Ariel Remos - Diario Las Americas
$4,725 during trial
TOTAL $24,350 (11/1/1999- 11/20/2006)
4. Enrique Encinosa - Comentarista Radio Mambi WAQI por mucho tiempo que dedico mucha cobertura al caso de LOS CINCO desde suarresto.
Longtime news commentatoon Radio Mambi WAQI, which covered the Cuban 5 extensively, from the time of their arrest
TOTAL (during trial) Durante Juicio - $5,200.00
TOTAL (12/07/2000 – 11/04/2003) - $21,800.00
5. Helen Ferre - Editor of Editorial Page of Diario Las Americas
Paid - $1,125.00 - during trial (durante el juicio)
Paid - TOTAL - $6,025 (2/21/01 - 9/25/03)
1. Pablo Alfonso Of El Nuevo Herald
Payment - Pago: $58,600 during the trial
Total: $252,325 (11/1/99-8/22/07)
2. Wilfredo Cancio del Nuevo Herald (The Miami Herald)
Was paid $4,725 during trial
$21,800 (9/30/2000 - 11/20/2006)
3. Ariel Remos - Diario Las Americas
$4,725 during trial
TOTAL $24,350 (11/1/1999- 11/20/2006)
4. Enrique Encinosa - Comentarista Radio Mambi WAQI por mucho tiempo que dedico mucha cobertura al caso de LOS CINCO desde suarresto.
Longtime news commentatoon Radio Mambi WAQI, which covered the Cuban 5 extensively, from the time of their arrest
TOTAL (during trial) Durante Juicio - $5,200.00
TOTAL (12/07/2000 – 11/04/2003) - $21,800.00
5. Helen Ferre - Editor of Editorial Page of Diario Las Americas
Paid - $1,125.00 - during trial (durante el juicio)
Paid - TOTAL - $6,025 (2/21/01 - 9/25/03)
Junio 6th, 2010 at 00:03
Freedom,
I’m hardly a HERO! More like a PISSED OFF CUBAN tired of seeing THE LIES and DISTORTION of CUBA’S REALITY propagated by “LA CHINA”, “THE MUMMY” and their “REVOLUTIONARY RAT-FASCIST” allies!
Junio 5th, 2010 at 23:43
Thank you Freedom.
Junio 5th, 2010 at 22:05
Thanks Yubano, Thanks Humberto Capiro, as a song that Silvito el Libre and Aldeanos sing: D’pga asere, you’re are my heroes! Here is the link to the song, enjoy it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6KxqANZTzI
Junio 5th, 2010 at 22:02
Gracias Yubano, gracias Humberto Capiro, como dice el inicio de una cancion que cantan Silvito el Libre y Aldeanos: D’pga asere, ustedes son mis heroes!
Junio 5th, 2010 at 21:41
Culero,
Please provide links to these accusations please!
Junio 5th, 2010 at 21:12
I based my comments solely on what you wrote on your posts. Your bias is not subtly stated but quite obvious for anyone to see. When you make claims that nothing good comes from US policy you are making a politically motivated and clearly biased argument. You are doing exactly what you accuse us of and that is not looking at every angle. Your interpretation of the last 50 years of history are so distorted that I will not debate with you the pros and cons of US policy. By-the-way, I am glad to hear your intellectual friends in Cuba agree with your opinions on Cuba but whatever the price of fruit is the conditions for the common citizen are quite apalling. Lastly,I find it instructive that you classify the pro-democracy, anti-dictarship comments made on this forum to be a form of propaganda.
Junio 5th, 2010 at 21:07
En Miami, donde el “Exilio” tanto añora una “prensa libre” para CUBA, el gobierno de EEUU le pagó en secreto a periodistas durante el proceso político de acusación de LOS CINCO CUBANOS. Los pagaditos publicaron artículos provocativos acerca de Cuba y de los Cinco:
The US Government secretly paid reporters in Miami during the arrest and trial process of the THE CUBAN FIVE - arrested for infiltrating terrorist organizations in Miami, in order to avert acts terrorism.
1. Pablo Alfonso Of El Nuevo Herald
Payment - Pago: $58,600 during the trial
Total: $252,325 (11/1/99-8/22/07)
Articles written before period of documented payment:
(We are working to obtain payment data from 1996 to 1999 for these and the other journalists through a second FOIA.)
No Aparecen Pruebas Contra Hermanos al Rescate, El Nuevo Herald, March 9, 1996, PABLO ALFONSO
(English Translation: No Proof Has Appeared Against Brothers to the Rescue)
Abre Pesquia: La OEA Sobre Derribo de Aviones, El Nuevo Herald, March 9, 1996, PABLO ALFONSO
¿Dió Raúl Castro la Orden?, El Nuevo Herald, May 10, 1996, PABLO ALFONSO
U.S. Turns Over Tapes of Brothers Drowning. Raul Castro May Have Spoken to Jet Pilots, Miami Herald, May 10, 1996, PABLO ALFONSO
Inteligencia de EU no Sabe Si Raúl Castro Habla, El Nuevo Herald, May 12, 1996, PABLO ALFONSO
Preocupa Supuesta Proximidad a EU de Cazas Cubanos Perseguidores de Avioneta, El Nuevo Herald, July 3, 1996, PABLO ALFONSO
(English Translation: Cuban Fighter Jets’ Alleged Proximity to U.S. While Pursuing Small Aircraft is Worrisome)
Cae Red de Espionaje de Cuba, Arrestan a 10 en Miami, El Nuevo Herald, Sept. 15, 1998 (PABLO ALFONSO co-written by Rui Ferreira)
(English Translation: Cuba’s Espionage Network Falls, 10 Arrested in Miami)
Posible Alianza con Terrorismo, El Nuevo Herald, Sept. 16, 1998, PABLO ALFONSO
(English Translation: Possible Alliance with Terrorism)
Espías: Un Viejo Consejo de Krushchev, El Nuevo Herald, Sept. 20, 1998, PABLO ALFONSO
(English Translation: Spies: Old advice from Krushchev)
Fundación apoya pedido de Helms sobre espías, El Nuevo Herald, Oct. 1, 1998, PABLO ALFONSO
(English Translation: Foundation supports Helms request concerning spies)
Cuba en cimero puesto en la ONU, El Nuevo Herald, Oct. 17, 1998, PABLO ALFONSO
(English Translation: Cuba in top position at the UN)
Frente, El Nuevo Herald, Oct. 21, 1998, PABLO ALFONSO
(English Translation: Front)
Cortina de humo sobre espionaje, El Nuevo Herald, Oct. 21, 1998, PABLO ALFONSO
(English Translation: Smokescreen Over Espionage)
Analizarán infiltración de espías entre anticastristas, El Nuevo Herald, Oct. 27, 1998, PABLO ALFONSO
(English Translation: Infiltration of Spies Amongst those that are Anti-Castro to be Analyzed)
Sentencia de Juez Genera Conflicto entre Cuba y EU, El Nuevo Herald, Febrary 14, 1999, PABLO ALFONSO
(English Translation: Judge’s Sentence Generates Conflict Between Cuba and US)
Hermanos al Rescate volará al punto del derribo, El Nuevo Herald, Feb. 23, 1999, PABLO ALFONSO
(English Translation: Brothers to the Rescue Will Fly over Shootdown Point)
2. Wilfredo Cancio del Nuevo Herald (The Miami Herald)
Was paid $4,725 during trial
$21,800 (9/30/2000 - 11/20/2006)
Articles written during period of documented payment:
La fiscalía teme que Cuba controle el juicio a espías ‘Cuba prepara una versión arreglada de los hechos’, dijo, El Nuevo Herald, April 19, 2001, WILFREDO CANCIO ISLA
(English Translation: The prosecution fears Cuban control in spy trial “Cuba is preparing a fabricated version of the facts”)
Llaman Patriota a Acusado de Espía, El Nuevo Herald, May 31, 2001, WILFREDO CANCIO ISLA
(English Translation: Accused Spy called Patriot)
Califican a los Espías de ‘Protectores’ de EU, El Nuevo Herald,
3. Ariel Remos - Diario Las Americas
$4,725 during trial
TOTAL $24,350 (11/1/1999- 11/20/2006)
Articles written before period of documented payment:
(We are working to obtain payment data from 1996 to 1999 for these and the other journalists through a second FOIA.)
Ataca a la seguridad nacional la descubierta red de espionaje cubana, Diario las Américas, September 15, 1998. ARIEL REMOS
(English Translation: Discovered Cuban Espionage Network Constitutes an Attack on National Security)
Espías y agentes de influencia castrista, Diario las Américas, September 20, 1998. ARIEL REMOS
(English Translation: Castro-Influenced Spies and Agents)
¡Arresten a Castro!, Diario las Américas, October 21, 1998. ARIEL REMOS
(English Translation: Arrest Castro!)
Demandan arresto de Castro, Diario las Américas, October 22, 1998. ARIEL REMOS
(English Translation: Castro’s arrest is demanded)
Insiste Basulto en que la Administración pudo evitar el derribo de las avionetas, Diario las Américas, October 24, 1998. ARIEL REMOS
(English Translation: Basulto Insists That the Administration Could Have Prevented the Shootdown of the Planes)
Articles written during period of documented payment:
Volará Hermanos al Rescate a “Punto Mártires” durante la Cumbre, Diario las Américas, November 12, 1999. ARIEL REMOS
(English Translation: Brothers to the Rescue Will Fly to “Martyr’s Point” During the Summit)
Castro podría ser arrestado y enjuiciado en Estados Unidos, Diario las Américas, November 28, 1999. ARIEL REMOS
(English Translation: Castro could be arrested and prosecuted in the United States)
Castro representa un reto continuo a la seguridad de EE.UU., Diario las Américas, January 16, 2001. ARIEL REMOS
(English Translation: Castro represents a continuous challenge to the security of the US)
Castro planeó el asesinato en EE.UU. de Jesús Cruza Flor, Diario las Américas, January 19, 2001. ARIEL REMOS
(English Translation: Castro planned the assassination of Jesus Cruza Flor in the USA)
$93 millones para familiares de Hermanos al Rescate, Diario las Américas, February 14, 2001. ARIEL REMOS
(English Translation: $93 million for families’ members of brothers to the rescue)
Recibe Jeb Bush y llevará al Presidente carta pidiendo enjuiciamiento a Fidel Castro, Diario las Américas, February 27, 2001. ARIEL REMOS
(English Translation: Jeb Bush Receives and Will Take to the President a Letter Asking for Legal Proceedings against Fidel Castro)
Jeane Kirkpatrick pide a Aschcroft encausar por terrorismo internacional a funcionarios cubanos, Diario las Américas, February 27, 2001. ARIEL REMOS
(English Translation: Jeane Kirkpatrick asks Ashcroft to prosecute Cuban
Officials for international terrorism)
4. Enrique Encinosa -Longtime news commentatoon Radio Mambi WAQI, which covered the Cuban 5 extensively, from the time of their arrest
Paid Amount - $5,200 during trial
- $10,410 (12/07/2000 - 11/04/2003)
The National Committee is continuing research on Encinosa’s radio broadcasts about the Cuban Five, and about the 1996 plane shootdown. The following is information on his terrorist history, as well as his commentary after the arrest of the Five.
Relevant articles:
Alpha 66 Celebra Cumpleaños con Nuevo Campamento, El Nuevo Herald, November 20, 1996, ARMANDO CORREA
(Enrique Encinosa is keynote speaker at Alpha 66’s 35th anniversary meeting to inaugurate a new military training camp)
Overthrow on the Radio, Miami New Times, February 13, 1997, KATHY GLASGOW
(An article about Miami Radio featuring Enrique Encinosa
Interview in documentary: “638 Ways to Kill Castro,” late 2005, Miami Beach. YouTube video of interview
Abdala, Terrorismo made in U.S.A. en las Américas: Una enciclopedia básica
(English translation: Terrorism made in the U.S.A. in the Americas: a basic encyclopedia) From: http://www.terrorfileonline.or.....php/Abdala, last modified January 18, 2006
Payment details: 12/7/00 - $1,200.00
2/08/01 - $4,000.00
Total during trial - $5,200.00
Total (12/07/2000 - 11/04/2003) - $21,800
5. Helen Ferre - Editor of Editorial Page of Diario Las Americas
Paid - $1,125.00 during trial
Paid - $6,025 TOTAL (2/21/01 - 9/25/03)
Articles written before period of documented payment:
(We are working to obtain payment data from 1996 to 1999 for these and the other journalists through a second FOIA.)
La Trascendencia de la Captura de los Espías de Castro en la Florida, Diario las Américas, September 16 1998. [STAFF EDITORIAL]
(English version also appeared in original paper: The Importance of the Arrest of 10 Castro Spies
Articles written during period of documented payment:
La Tiranía Totalitaria de Castro Sí Es Una Amenaza Para Los Estados Unidos de América, Diario las Américas, February 16, 2001. [STAFF EDITORIAL]
(English version also appeared in original paper: The totalitarian tyranny of Fidel Castro is indeed a danger for the U.S.)
El Rayo, Diario las Américas, May 15, 2001, ORLANDO BOSCH [From editorial page; as editor of the editorial page, Helen Ferre is responsible for its content]
(English translation: The lightning bolt)
Junio 5th, 2010 at 21:00
WASHINGTON POST: Cuba sharply reduces US food imports amid hardship
By PAUL HAVENThe Associated Press
Wednesday, February 10, 2010; 4:31 PM
HAVANA — “Cuba has slashed food and agriculture imports from the United States - its largest food supplier despite decades of sour relations - as the communist government tightens its belt in the face of a crippling economic malaise.
Imports fell 26 percent in 2009 to $528 million, after peaking at $710 million the year before, according to a report Wednesday by the New York-based U.S.-Cuba Economic Trade Council, which provides nonpartisan commercial and economic information about the island and claims to have no position on policy.
“The decrease has nothing to do with U.S. regulations, U.S. law or U.S. policy,” said John Kavulich, a senior policy analyst at the council. “It is a function of Cuba not having the resources.”
Kavulich said Cuba has increasingly turned to other countries like Vietnam that will sell it lower-quality food and not ask for payment for as long as two years.
Despite the half-century feud across the Straits of Florida, the United States is the largest seller of food to Cuba: Food and agriculture products have been exempted from the 48-year embargo since 2000.
Cuba waited more than a year after that to start importing U.S. food - angered by a provision requiring it to pay cash upfront before delivery.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....02843.html
Junio 5th, 2010 at 20:53
Socio-Economic Conditions in Pre-Castro Cuba* Introduction
In the 1950’s Cuba was, socially and economically, a relatively advanced country, certainly by Latin American standards and, in some areas, by world standards.
Cuba’s infant mortality rate was the best in Latin America — and the 13th lowest in the world.
Cuba also had an excellent educational system and impressive literacy rates in the 1950’s.
Pre-Castro Cuba ranked third in Latin America in per capita food consumption.
Cuba ranked first in Latin America and fifth in the world in television sets per capita.
Pre-Castro Cuba had 58 daily newspapers of differing political hues and ranked eighth in the world in number of radio stations.
Health
Cuba’s infant mortality rate of 32 per 1,000 live births in 1957 was the lowest in Latin America and the 13th lowest in the world, according to UN data. Cuba ranked ahead of France, Belgium, West Germany, Japan, Austria, Italy, and Spain.
In 1955, life expectancy in Cuba was among the highest at 63 years of age; compared to 52 in other Latin American countries, 43 in Asia, and 37 in Africa.
In terms of physicians and dentists per capita, Cuba in 1957 ranked third in Latin America, behind only Uruguay and Argentina — both of which were more advanced than the United States in this measure. Cuba’s 128 physicians and dentists per 100,000 people in 1957 was the same as the Netherlands, and ahead of the United Kingdom (122 per 100,000 people) and Finland.
http://ctp.iccas.miami.edu/FAC.....cember.htm
Junio 5th, 2010 at 20:01
and youbano called me “obsessive and irrational anti-americanism” - and that is called insulting without even trying to understand arguments from other parts of the world.
Junio 5th, 2010 at 19:55
well, i can understand all your point of view. I just wanted to ground things a little bit.
First of all i talked to many cubans i haven’t fall from sky and talking what i think is some imaginary reallity but talking from my experience and contacts.
I explicitly asked them if agromercado is expensive for them and they told me it is NOT. I my self went there to buy some fruits for me and the prices are not high even for cubans and i know what salaries are on cuba.
i just wanted to present you all there are also some other kinds of vision and i have to tell you that almost all of the cubans (ok they are mostly intelectuals) shared my point of view. first of all you cannot wipe out some facts with spunge and pretend there will be something totally different overnight. only possible way for cuba in my opinion is some kind of peaceful transition or opening to other kind of initiatives.
All over passionate argument which speak from emotions or personal experiences are not real objective arguments you know.
You have to know and accept there are a lot of people on cuba which think different.
And I’m not some kind of anti-american idiot you take me for. I listen to american music, i read many american literature, i watch many great american movies and so on.
i’m just telling you that american politics and policies are deeply wrong and i just won’t list all examples here cause it makes no sense. But these policies made many suffering in the world in past 50 years and really very little good things.
of course you want accept this but even americans (specially artists) will agree with that.
in every country of the world people desire to live better and every thinking individual is critical of the society he lives in. and you can not look at things black and white. i agree that barbara curbelo arguments maybe propaganda and point of view just from one angle but so is yours believe me.
i adore cuba and cuban people and adore their pride and awareness. and it is much much different from koreas and chinas, believe me.
and i will tell something very heretic - cuban revolution have and had some very positive aspects whatever you think or won’t accept.
Junio 5th, 2010 at 17:49
Andy
I appreciate your comments. I find constructive conversations about a new Cuba moving forward a much more interesting topic than arguing with or insulting the propaganda merchants. The future possibilies for Cuba are limitless and make for interesting speculation. However, I am guilty of often hurling the verbal hand grenade, but I reserve those kinds of comments for those who attempt to justify castroism and/or communism. I can no more have a rational conversation with one of those people than I could with a nazi or fascist. These are discredited ideologies, guilty of ignomineous crimes with agendas that cannot be justified under any circumstance. I respect those who wish to attempt rational discourse with the dictatorship’s defenders but I can only address these parrots with scorn and derision for they serve an immoral and totally destructive purpose. Unfortunately we are frequently bogged down with commentary from the dumir, bc and juans of the world making it difficult to carry on a constructive dialogue without getting side-tracked. Having spent many years in the medical community they remind me opportunistic bacteria always looking for ways to insinuate themselves.
Junio 5th, 2010 at 16:45
@Yubano #73
Whether I agree or disagree with you is, for the moment, completely irrelevant.
I just want to say I appreciate the way you’ve expressed yourself. A LOT!!!!!!!
(And I can say the same about a few other comments here… but, alas, not all.)
It’s so much easier to concentrate on the arguments and think about what people are saying when the entire comment is not laced with infantile insults.
Junio 5th, 2010 at 16:11
Darko
You make many valid points about the situation in Cuba and about there being a “third way” or alternative. As I have stated before, and others here as well, I do not want to see a future Cuba as a political and economic dependency of any country, including the US, Venezuela, Russia, China, Brazil or any other potential sugar daddy. And I concur with your assessment of the blockade and it’s actual impact on the Cuban economy. But you are afflicted with that disease that effects so may people on both sides of the arguement. You allow your anti-american sentiments to taint your argument. You state: ” All debates on Cuba are always flourished with Cuba - USA relationship and trying to impose Cuba USA as model and tutor.” This is the statement of a biased anti-american who can never see anything positive coming from the US. You can be as “irritated” as you wish with Cuban-Americans for their political points (plural) points of view. But if you were a bit more open-minded, less dogatic and less inclined to take the knee-jerk anti-US, easy broad-brush approach you would discover that there is a abroad spectrum of opinions within the Cuban-American community. The one thing most of us do agree on is that we want a representative, open-market democracy for Cuba. If the model is European, Indian, American, parlimentary or federalist so be it. Demonize the US all you wish but in the end those of us who have lived in that country and benefitted from it’s form of government, it’s culture and society will have something valid to contribute to a future Cuba. We will not be disqualified or deterred by obsessive and irrational anit-americanism.
Junio 5th, 2010 at 15:49
post 69 (..)First of all i’ve found some posts of Yoani very honest and truthful, but some of them really very manipulative and full of incorrections and even lies, on some really stupid levels. For eg she wrote one post how there is lack of platanos and other vegetables and she intensified feeling of people starving and so on and at the smae time i’ve been there and agromercados were full of evetrything
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It’s true that on private agromercados there are many things, but at what price? A “platano macho” 1 for 3 pesos, avocado 1 for 10 to 20 pesos (depends on the size), corn 1 for 2 to 3 pesos each, pork meat 30 pesos per pound, and so on. When you take these prices against the average salary in Cuban, which is more less 20 dollars a month, some 400 pesos, you find out that these prices are abusive, most Cubans can’t afford it. You not only eat, you must pay for electricity, clothes, shoes, water, transportation, maintenance; well everybody that has runs a house knows what I am talking about. Now, there are things that from time to time get lost and you won’t find anywhere, like rice, its price jumped from 3 pesos/pound to 18 pesos/pound, salt, milk, etc. What Yoani meant is this, and also the state run agromercados where people could buy vegetables for a more affordable price, but they are empty most of the time. So she is not a lier,… you Darko, seem not to have the whole picture.
Junio 5th, 2010 at 13:03
Well I absolutely think embargo is hypocritical as all US policy which is only led by THEIR interests - just look at China wich has MUCH MUCH bigger human rights problems then Cuba. And I absolutely believe that there should be total freedom of travel. But also believe that Cubans should travel freely too - and I definetly have to say about all this confusion about traveling - Cuban government won’t allow free travel for professionals - doctors, engineers etc which they need and are afraid they would all emigrate. And that is absolutely stupid too.
But honestly I don’t thinka the economy would improve much with lifting of embargo. Problems are systematical and organizational and - FREE market. My friend from Pinal receive for his annual crop of tobacco 2000 $ and of his tobacoo can be made 250 000 $ worth of cigars!!! Embargo is not responsible for that.
But it is absolute true that it would improve certain aspects of economy.
Junio 5th, 2010 at 12:07
DARKO #69
“Cuba is country with NO economy, functioning on improvisations and meaningless economic measures. People live very hard and have to fight from day to day for their elemental existence. And that is my absolute stance from the position of somebody who visited Cuba for 5 times - last being traveling around for 1 month in May.”
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Do you believe that the US Congress should lift the unilateral embargo, and would that improve the economic woes there?
Do you believe ALL US citizens should have the same right to go to Cuba as you do?
Junio 5th, 2010 at 09:32
Well dear friends, I’ve been reading this blog for quite a long time and I have to say it has reached limits of really absurd skirmishing. First of all let me be clear: Cuba is socialist dictatorship with sinificant restrictions in personal freedoms (the problem is not that it is socialist but that it is dictatorship-somebody will say that this two doesn’t exclude itself). Cuba is country with NO economy, functioning on improvisations and meaningless economic measures. People live very hard and have to fight from day to day for their elemental existence. And that is my absolute stance from the position of somebody who visited Cuba for 5 times - last being traveling around for 1 month in May.
But Cuba is also living in some environment, Carribean, Latin America, near USA, world in general. And as it always was, is and will be, things are not black and white.
First of all i’ve found some posts of Yoani very honest and truthful, but some of them really very manipulative and full of incorrections and even lies, on some really stupid levels. For eg she wrote one post how there is lack of platanos and other vegetables and she intensified feeling of people starving and so on and at the smae time i’ve been there and agromercados were full of evetrything.
On the other level people who write their comments are really weird and with tolerance ZERO for any exchange of experiences, thoughts and theories.
Very wrong are the ones who idealize this system but equally wrong are those who really fill this blog comments with nonsense and insults.
All debates on Cuba are always flourished with Cuba - USA relationship and trying to impose Cuba USA as model and tutor. But my friends there is also third way for Cuba and I really hope it will go that way.
I’m really irritated with Cuban USA emigrants who pathetically idolize USA society and politics.
Well there are some other models in the world if you didn’t know. There is something called Europe if you didn’t know and even Asia. And some counties there and some people living there and if you think that we all look at USA as grand daddy you are very very very wrong.
I almost throw up when I saw this video of Gloria Esteban and Andy Gracia pathetically defending American policy and NOT saying about Cuba one proper word except it should follow USA and it’s great example of freedom (?!).
I just hope whatever will happen in the future that Cuba will stay absolutely INDEPENDENT and that American so called democracy will not destroy all values as it did in lot of countries of Latin America.
And me personally experienced in most of Cuban people feelings that are nationalistic in positive way and that they DON’T want to go back to USA dominance NEVER EVER.
Maybe that is that bothers you too much.
Junio 5th, 2010 at 02:36
MIAMI HERALD: 37 arrested in Cuba crackdown-Two major Cuban dissident groups have been raided in Havana in the past two days and 37 members were arrested, group leaders said.-BY JUAN CARLOS CHAVEZ
The Cuban government harassed and detained dozens of opponents in the past two days, signaling a new wave of repression that deals a serious blow to its attempts in recent weeks to show compassion toward jailed dissidents.
Two major Cuban dissident groups — Agenda para la Transición (Transition Agenda) and Unidad Liberal de la República de Cuba (Liberal Unity of the Republic of Cuba) — were raided in Havana in the past 48 hours and 37 members arrested, group leaders said.
The temporary detentions were part ofan unsuccessful government attempt to prevent two meetings scheduled at activist Héctor Palacios’ home in El Vedado neighborhood.
“It was like a war,” Palacios said. “The government says it’s making concessions, but no one believes there will be a dialogue between the Church and the Cuban government.”
Palacios told El Nuevo Herald that the police arrested 14 people on Thursday and 23 more on Friday. The operations started Tuesday shortly after six inmates who are jailed for conscientious beliefs were relocated to prisons closer to their homes after historic negotiations between Cuban leader Raúl Castro and the hierarchy of the Cuban Catholic Church.
Palacios said that during the week Cuban State Security agents and police forces had mounted a strict watch around his house, harassing independent activists and detaining various opposition leaders at police headquarters in Havana.
Those who live outside the capital were sent back to their homes. Others were dropped far from their hometowns. The maneuvers against the opposition included a mobilization of police patrol cars and motorized forces, Palacios and others said.
“It has been a very logical reaction of the Cuban government,” said Palacios’ wife, Gisela Delgado Sablón, who participated in the meetings. “Once again, it manifests its incompetence before those who want dialogue and the flexibility to be reasonable. They treat us with the typical ruthlessness of all totalitarian regimes.”
At least 19 opposition leaders were arrested on Friday before they reached the meetings. Meanwhile, other law-enforcement operatives sealed off the neighborhood to avoid traffic of people who did not live in the area.
“They began arresting people following a list the police had,” Delgado said. “Then they put them in a bus and police cars. We know of four or five people from Clara and Villafuegos who were taken this way.”
The meetings were called to address the island’s political and economic crisis and opposition leader Guillermo Fariñas’ hunger strike. A vote was also taken in solidarity with the Ladies in White, and they discussed the legacy of dissident Orlando Zapata Tamayo, who died in February after an 83-day hunger strike.
The repression against the opposition could not prevent 60 activists and leaders demanding political changes in the island from meeting Thursday and Friday.
Ana Margarita Perdigón Brito, spokeswoman of the Transition Agenda and the Liberal Unity of the Republic of Cuba, said Havana continues to use a hard fist to silence the people’s demands and minimize the actions of leaders like Fariñas.
“This is very worrying to us. This is why the situation pushes us to express our full support to the Ladies in White and Fariñas,” Perdigón said.
The activist added that other dissidents had been held in their houses to prevent them from attending the monthly meeting.
“There were various arrests close to activist Francisco Chaviano’s house,” Perdigón said. The house had been under watch since the beginning of the week.
In another case, dissidents from Santa Clara who were staying in the house of opposition leader Martha Crespo in El Vedado neighborhood, were “visited” by state security agents who photographed the property to intimidate its residents, opponents said.
Repression against the opposition has remained unchanged despite the government’s agreements with the Catholic Church, said Elizardo Sánchez, activist and spokesman for the Cuban Commission of Human Rights Commission and National Reconciliation.
Sánchez said that early in May there were arrests and acts of repression in Santiago de Cuba against members of the Eastern Democratic Alliance. In a separate incident, there was also a wave of temporary detentions in Camagüey and Villa Clara against the Central Opposition Coalition.
“It’s our daily bread to contain all opposition activity,” Sánchez said. “But none of this was discussed with the Catholic Church. The topic of prisoners was discussed but the issue of political repression never came up.”
http://www.miamiherald.com/201.....kdown.html