The Queen in Queen Street
Queen Street, our street of balconies and colonnades, of five peso pizzas and sewage running down the sidewalk. Avenue of shady deals and self-employment, with its furtive vendors advertising mattresses outside the stores and a Gothic church pointing to heaven. Along Queen Street children scamper to school in the morning, beggars stretch out their hands with a picture of Saint Lazarus, and prostitutes ply their trade at night. In its doorways there is room for everything, the beautiful and the rotten, the past and this present in halves that never quite come together, the smile and the grimace.
Yesterday, Queen Street’s noisy traffic stopped, the indigents rose from the ground and the food kiosks closed for a while. It was the day of pilgrimage of the Virgin of Charity, whose worship now spreads among Cubans after decades of forced atheism. Agnostics and the curious, devotees and political police, accompanied the entourage of a small image draped in its golden mantle. Many came with candles, sunflowers, dolls dressed as the Orisha deity Oshun, scarves and dresses in the color yellow. Thousands came through conviction and many others joined the procession to nose around. In a country where it’s not allowed to take to the streets as a form of peaceful protest, September 8th in Havana attracts parishioners as well as nonconformists.
Just at the moment when the “Queen” was turning into Queen Street, someone pulled out a poster with the word “Freedom.” It was just a second, but enough to live in anticipation — a biopsy in advance — the horror. People running, the plain clothes cops launching themselves at the hands that grasped that paper, and the contorted face of the priest, fearing the worst. For an instant, the image teetered among the petals placed around her. And then came the calm, the fear, the whispered prayers. One old woman said, almost as a lament, “Don’t politicize the procession, they won’t let Cachita out next year.” Madam — I wanted to say to her, but I kept quiet — if she is, as they say, the Virgin of all Cubans, she will accept us whether rebellious or tranquil, apathetic or protesting, whispering our prayers or shouting our discontent.”
Septiembre 17th, 2011 at 10:38
@#108
perhaps u have lost ur identity if u ever had one … pal.
Let me remind u:
TROLL = “… is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion …”
I think this definition fits some of the “characters” posting in Yoani’s blog; perhaps their contribution (using the term loosely) is not inspired by a desire to look for truth & change, rather by a desire to poke fun & to disrupt serious discussions among people who respects freedom & seeks the improvement of life for all Cubans.
Septiembre 15th, 2011 at 04:58
Let us repeat the FACT:
Vladimiro Roca gave a list of “political prisoners in Cuba that included a bolivian football team, a painter from XVII century and a female voleyball team from Peru.
Those are the real “freedom fighters” and “democrats”. One liar bigger than the next.
Cheap small time crimson wannabes hoping to make it big in the sewerages of Miami. To float up from the rest of the excrement, in clear demonstration that they are the tops and the most successful pieces of shift.
Not every shift can float. Only the white gods’ bum-lickers can. It’s the vitamins in the shift that do that for them, they said…
Septiembre 15th, 2011 at 04:54
I really like the fact that those “freedom” and “democracy” “fighters” lie like there’s no tomorrow, yet when you give them some simple facts that reveal them as plain dirty primitive liars, they cry faul!!!
Losers.
No wonder even Castros managed to beat them with a handful of friends.
Start decorating those tubes of that sewerage in Miami. You’ll be staying there for quite a long time. Until you grow some bawlls (not a typo).
And since women cannot grow them, I’ll leave it to you to calculate the length of eternity.
Is it true that you actually float in that yellow liquid down the sewerage?
Septiembre 14th, 2011 at 11:48
In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory,[2] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[3] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.[4]
Septiembre 14th, 2011 at 09:09
102UnSoricel
Septiembre 14th, 2011 at 03:15
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As said before “the stinker can’t note the own bad odor”.
You, UnChorizon”, are just another patient of mine now on…… I gave you several chances to demonstrate with arguments that you are not a sick person but you did exactly the oposite babling nonsens (most of them offensives on Cubans) as a way to reliefe your deteriorated self esteem…….. I am very sorry for you dude….. your treatment has begining.
Ricarditaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!
Septiembre 14th, 2011 at 07:57
Ridiculous Cubanos … Wonder how u come up with such nice cigars ..cos obviously your politics is still black and white… i suppose Iraq is tooo far from you to register on your over poiliticised anti Castro radar…
Translation: My life is so boring and my intellect so superior and my thinking is so nuanced that I must come on this forum daily as soon as I wake up to refute each and every response. I must point out ON A FORUM ABOUT CUBA that the black and white thinking twerps on here that there is a war going on in Iraq and that other people have arguments too (even though I clearly can’t see this myself).
Septiembre 14th, 2011 at 04:48
Accually hold that … terrrrrrible hermanos sounds better…
Septiembre 14th, 2011 at 03:15
Freud and Albert… You walk in black and white you talk in black and white…. Add some colour to your fustrations with fascism…. Who knows deep in your subcounscious you might be craving for ‘a strong’ leader… Ovbiously if you guys say Castro is all bad and did bad we must believe you just because you say so… Ridiculous Cubanos … Wonder how u come up with such nice cigars ..cos obviously your politics is still black and white… i suppose Iraq is tooo far from you to register on your over poiliticised anti Castro radar… And Freud if European culture is brased only on hate and inf complexes baby …stop borrowing our mistakes…. Cos you guys are still in the middle of a big mistake and about to make a new one…! And Albert did you take a course at the copy and paste school of thought but you stopped when they were about to teach you to read the other’s argument? Yes in deed no wonder Cuban politics is just me me me ..ridiculous hermanos…
Septiembre 13th, 2011 at 19:09
For the record …
Elite: “group of persons who by virtue of position or education exercise much power or influence”
Class: “a social stratum whose members share certain economic, social, or cultural characteristics”
What u learned from ur eastern european education is failing u #90.
Being one & the same as #89 I can add that ur pitiful attempts at sounding knowledgable about the Cuban situation demonstrate not just ur ignorance on the subject but ur lack of respect for urself & others, I feel (only foor a second) sorry for u.
Septiembre 13th, 2011 at 18:59
@#89 & 90, one & the same:
“… intellectuals as class have been dead since the 60s… The main mantras of US capitalism such as liberalism rely on support from professional elites not intellectuals .. Intellectuals may still exist only in the Middle-East and maybe you could locate 1 or 2 in Cuba - they exist where change didn’t happen… for the rest of the world I assure you intellectuals are extinct and have been slowly but surely killed off ‘by progress’ by professional elites and by consumerist ideology.. If you like you can say they’ve been bought off by the system…What I know is test: just put one proeminent intellectual in a BMW and ask an 18 yrs old blonde to sit next to him and he’s never coming home to his books!…”
“… The team “yoani” are already getting rich faster than Castros themselves, so in an unlikely “some kind of pragmatic capitalist” tomorrow in Cuba, they will be already fattened up and able to finance their quest for that ultimate power they so yearn.
Only stupid Cubans do not see that…”
Distraction & insults … the only things to use when u have nothing to say, u have a track record & can’t hide from it u pitiful fools..
Septiembre 13th, 2011 at 16:11
PLEASE VOTE! YOUR VOTE FOR YOANI’S BOOK IS A VOTE FOR THE CUBAN PEOPLE AND AGAINST CASTROFASCISM!
msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2011/09/09/ms-readers-choice-top-100-non-fiction-books/
TOP 100 non-fiction books. I added Yoani and she debuted at #69… my friend voted and she soared to number 21.
Because it’s a pain the ass to vote… you have to set up a GOODREADS account (takes about 5 minutes)… so PLEASE… invest the 5 minutes… 3 votes might get her in the top ten!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Just click that NO you don’t want to give them your address book and NO you don’t want to rate 100 books…. and it doesn’t take very long….)
Septiembre 13th, 2011 at 15:18
Interesting article, Pamela. A Canadian I met who was doing physiotherapy in America said there was nothing in Canada even remotely as good. Some of our clinics our truly the best in the world. I like the idea of universal medical too, but there are always ifs and buts. Monopolies are always dangerous. Setting limits on the number of doctors for instance, is criminal. It keeps doctors salaries high, but it’s terrible for patients and for the economy. Also, the government deciding what treatment patients can and can’t have is also criminal, and keeps costs extremely high. These are big problems in both Canada and the USA.
It’s funny how if we gave all our hospitals to Walmart, Marxists would protest in the streets, but if you change the name from Walmart to “the government,” they all think it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread. We should all learn from Cuba, the worst medical system I have ever seen, about the dangers of monopoly medicine.
Septiembre 13th, 2011 at 13:28
Canadian health care is not always what it is touted to be either, based on Canadians who I have talked to who have to wait too long for urgent medical treatment. This article sheds some light on the situation:
http://www.city-journal.org/ht.....hcare.html
Septiembre 13th, 2011 at 12:46
OH UnSoricel! YOU ARE DEFINETLY NOT CLARVOYANT! FOR IT YOU WERE, YOU WOULD KNOW THAT I AM FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE IN THE U.S.A.!! AND FYI, I VOTED FOR OBAMA AND WILL VOTE FOR HIM AGAIN MOST LIKELY! DONT JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER! YOU AND OTHERS MIGHT WANT TO PAINT ALL US CUBANS WITH THE “MIAMI MAFIA” “HARDLINE REPUBLICAN” LABEL BUT YOU WOULD BE WRONGO!!!
Viewing cable 08HAVANA103, CUBAN HEALTHCARE: “AQUI NADA ES FACIL”- CLICK LINK BELOW FOR ORGININAL WIKILEAK DOCUMENT
– A Cuban woman in her thirties confides, “It’s all about who you know. I’m okay because I am healthy and I have ‘friends’ in the medical field. If I didn’t have my connections, and most Cubans do not, it would be horrible.” She relates that Cubans are increasingly dissatisfied with their medical care. In addition to the general lack of supplies and medicines, and because so many doctors have been sent abroad, the neighborhood family physicians now care for 300-400 families and are overwhelmed by the workload. (Note: Neighborhood doctors are supposed to provide care for only 120 families. End Note.) In the absence of the physicians, patients go to their municipality’s “polyclinic,” but long lines before dawn are common, with an all too common 30-second diagnosis of “it’s a virus.”
– A 40-year old pregnant Cuban woman had a miscarriage. At the OB-Gyn hospital they used a primitive manual vacuum to aspirate the contents of her womb, without any anesthesia or pain medicine. She was offered no emotional support for her ‘loss’ and no pain medication or follow up appointments.
CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE DOCUMENT!
http://www.wikileaks.ch/cable/.....NA103.html
Septiembre 13th, 2011 at 12:42
MODERN DAY SLAVERY PERPETUATED BY “LA CHINA” AND “THE MUMMY” !SLAVERY DURING THE SPANISH PERIOD AND NOW SLAVERY DURING THE CASTROFASCIT PERIOD!
WIKILEAKS : Would-be Cuban defectors from Guyana face tough times
Several Guyana-based Cuban doctors, who wanted to defect to the United States, had fled the airport and gone into hiding, fearing that Guyanese and Cuban officials would have tracked them down and return them to Cuba, a cable released by Wikileaks has revealed.
Having worked for meagre salaries and unable to save enough, they usually have to endure months of waiting to know whether their parole applications are approved, states the cable from the United States embassy in Georgetown.
Six Cuban doctors had gone into the United States embassy and were interviewed for Signficant Public Benefit Parole under the Cuban Medical Personnel program.
“Three of the pending applicants are in hiding, reporting that they cannot move freely for fear that Guyanese police or Cuban embassy personnel may apprehend them and repatriate them to Cuba,” the cable stated back then.
One of the doctors complained that the Cuban government canceled his passport after he refused to board a plane to ostensibly accompany a six doctor back to Cuba. He told the US embassy that he felt that he was being tricked after Cuban authorities might have been informed that he had visited the American embassy here to request parole.
“The applicant refused to board the plane because of a hunch that he was being tricked into repatriating himself. Subsequently, Cuban Embassy authorities told him that his passport would be canceled immediately. They also removed him from the medical brigade and labeled him a deserter,” the cable states.
The Wikileaks cable also reveals that Cuba had dispatched a new manager to Guyana in December 2006, aimed at cracking down on Cuban medical personnel who have intentions to request parole or flee Guyana.The revelation, which is contained in a March 30, 2007 cable from the US embassy here to the State Department, appears to confirm previous news media reports that the Guyana government has taken a policy not to grant citizenship to Cuban doctors who refuse to return to Havana even if they marry Guyanese. The embassy reported to the State Department that the renewal of the doctor’s visa is done done six months prior to the conclusion of their medical mission so that the termination of their legal status will coincide with their repatriation to Cuba.
The cable notes that Cuban medical personnel who apply for parole are ostracized. Any Cuban medical professional who maintains communication with parole applicants is at risk of losing his/her legal status in Guyana and job with the medical brigade.
The embassy said three of the parole applicants told the Consular Officer that upon arrival in Guyana members of the Cuban Medical Brigade are forced to surrender their passports and they are returned just before they are about to board the plane to return to Cuba at the end of their two-year stint. Those who went to the embassy with their passports said they fled the Cheddi Jagan International Airport and went into hiding after they were chased.
“The applicants that came to the Embassy with their passports risked arrest by fleeing from the airport rather than returning to Cuba. They reported that “official-looking” people chased them as they ran to a taxi and drove away from the airport. They went into hiding until they felt safe enough to come to the U.S. Embassy to file an application for parole,” states the cable.
The embassy told the State Department that the Cuban doctor who was approved for parole was hesitant to travel because he feared for the safety of his female colleagues whose applications had been still pending. Three of the pending applicants had been in hiding and had reported that they could not have moved freely for fear that Guyanese police or Cuban embassy personnel might have apprehended them and repatriated them to Cuba.
“All of the parole applicants expect their families in Cuba to be targeted for reprisals because of their failure to return to Cuba after the completion of their mission,” the cable added.
The embassy said that Cuban applicants for parole told them that the only reason that the US embassy in Guyana does not receive many more parole applications is that they are terrified of being seen entering the U.S. Embassy. Consular Officers, according to the cable, sense that Cuban medical personnel are willing to take the risk of requesting parole; however once they do, they are faced with months of delay and uncertainty. “Since many applicants are requesting parole after they have completed the medical mission, they are no longer legally employed and unable to subsist on their meager savings while awaiting a decision from the Department of Homeland Security that can take months to process.
Against the backdrop of meager funds on which to live, the cable states Cuban medical personnel who have applied for parole rely on former colleagues for assistance. “Presently, they rely on the assistance that some former colleagues are willing to give them at much risk to their own status.”
“Local charities can offer very little assistance to political refugees. Moreover, every time the applicants have to leave their hiding place to ask for assistance, they risk detention and deportation because of their lack of status,” the cable adds.
Cuban medical personnel, the cable states, receive very low wages compared to their Guyanese counterparts, and their contracts require them to relinquish fifty percent of any overtime pay to the Central Unit for Medical Cooperation (UCCM) in Havana. The Cuban doctor’s monthly salary is equivalent to US$500 from which US$100 is deducted on a monthly basis and contractually remitted back to the UCCM. Overtime is accumulated at the rate of US$1.25 per hour, and doctors on the overnight shift make US$2.50 per night. In comparison, Guyanese doctors typically make US$1,500 per month.
http://www.demerarawaves.com/i.....leaks.html
Septiembre 13th, 2011 at 12:30
POOR BILL RICHARDSON! JUST LIKE JIMMY CARTER HE IS TRYING TO BE “NICE” TO THE CASTROFASCISTS! BUT HE GOT SLAPPED IN HIS DIPLOMATIC LEFTIST FACE! “THE MUMMY” AND “LA CHINA” KNOW ONLY HOW TO PLAY DIRTY, BUT IT WILL BACKFIRE FOR THEM! ANOTHER OPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO START BOWING OUT SOMEWHAT “GRACEFULLY”!
ASSOCIATED PRESS : Richardson pushes to see jailed American in Cuba - By PAUL HAVEN - September 13, 2011
HAVANA - Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is keeping up his quest to see an American subcontractor jailed in Cuba for nearly two years, despite getting the cold shoulder from Cuban officials.
Richardson, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations with a long history of winning prisoner releases around the world, was hunkered down at the capital’s Nacional hotel on Tuesday, waiting for a response to his demand to visit Maryland native Alan Gross in a military hospital where the 62-year-old is being held.
The U.S. politician, who had previously enjoyed warm relations with Cuban leaders, arrived in Cuba last week amid high hopes he might be able to negotiate Gross’ release. But those were dashed when Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said he could not even meet with the man, let alone take him home.
Richardson has vowed to stay in Cuba until he sees Gross, joking that he is looking forward to watching some of the Cuban baseball season, which begins in November.
Richardson said Monday that he had had no further meetings with Cuban officials. On Tuesday, he said he had no news to share but hoped to have something to say soon.
Gross was sentenced to 15 years in jail for crimes against the state after he was caught bringing communications equipment onto the island illegally while on a USAID-funded democracy building program. Cuba says the programs aim to bring down the government; Gross contends he was only trying to help the island’s tiny Jewish community get Internet access.
Efforts have grown in recent months to seek Gross’ release on humanitarian grounds. Those who have visited him say he has lost 100 pounds (45 kilos) in jail, and his 27-year-old daughter and elderly mother both are battling cancer back in the United States.
The case has crippled attempts to improve relations between Washington and Havana, and the treatment of Richardson by Cuban officials is sure to be a fresh blow to ties.
On Monday, President Barack Obama issued fresh criticism of Cuba for the slowness of its political and economic changes, saying the government of President Raul Castro has “not been aggressive enough when it comes to liberating political prisoners and giving people the opportunity to speak their minds.”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/.....e=business
Septiembre 13th, 2011 at 12:28
DAMIR! DEAR, THE AMOUNT WAS $5000 PER YEAR FOR THE WHOLE “DAMAS DE BLANCO” ORGANIZATION! THE LINK TO THE DOCUMENT IS BELOW AND I AM POSTING A SUMMARY! THIS WAS FOR 2008 WHEN ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE 75 POLITICAL PRISONERS WERE STILL IN CUBA! THE OTHER $3000 WAS FOR AN INDEPENDENT LIBRARY THAT HELPS TEACHERS WHO UNDER THE CASTROFASCIST RULE WERE NOT ALLOWED TO WORK BECASUE OF THEIR POLITICAL VIEWS! AND JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY, WHY NOT PUT LINK? COULD IT BE BECAUSE BY OMMITING INFORMATION YOU MANIPULATE IT TO YOUR BENEFIT?
WIKILEAK DOCUMENT : Request For Hrdf Funds For Cuban Organizations - US Interests Section Havana- Thu, 31 Jul 2008
Las Damas de Blanco:
Post requests approval of Human Rights Defender Fund (HRDF) funds for the following groups/individuals in Cuba. Increased repressive actions by the GOC have made the activities of these organizations and individuals increasingly difficult, but they continue to work with political prisoners and other victims of human rights abuses. Absent efforts by groups like these, there would be no one working directly on issues of civil and human rights on the island. The information below is keyed to the format for the Global HRDF application form. ¶2. (C) The Damas de Blanco.
(A) prison visits (transportation and supplies): $3,600 for one year
(B) medicines and medical supplies: $400 for one year
(C) support to dependents: $1,000 for one year
$5000/YEAR
The Colegio de Pedagogos:
Led by former teacher and political prisoner Roberto de Miranda, the Colegio de Pedagogos is made up of active and unemployed teachers from throughout the island. In addition to proposing changes to the Cuban educational system, Roberto de Miranda and those working with him give classes to children of teachers fired for political beliefs and other victims of human rights abuses. They also provide food and shelter to such teachers while they are in Havana. They have begun working with unemployed teenagers in Centro Habana who otherwise face imprisonment under Cuba’s “dangerousness” statute. (10.) Neither Roberto de Miranda personally nor the Colegio de Pedagogos as a group espouse violence or engage in human rights violations. Humanitarian assistance to them should be allowable under OFAC regulations that govern exports to Cuba.
(A) Support to Human Rights victims: $2,400 for one year (e.g., food and public transportation)
(B) Other $ 600 for one year (e.g., teaching supplies, pens, pencils, paper, art supplies)
TOTAL $3,000/YEAR
http://www.cablegatesearch.net.....8havana613
Septiembre 13th, 2011 at 11:32
90UnSoricel
Septiembre 13th, 2011 at 06:05
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UnChorizon…… if you continue to write a ton of shit that does not counter argument our points I will leave you aside….. my time is too precious dude!!!!
You lost the time writing nonsense to try to justify your inferiority complex but said nothing to the end…. to try to make capitalism responsible for wars is a very weak argument….. communism in its 70 years short life started and waged a lot of wars around the world causing millions of dead …… only in the tiny and almost inhabited Salvador castro and the USSR caused 100.000 dead waging war there….. there are a lot of capitalist countries that never been involved in wart and even has not an army……. You know very well the hate of Europeans on each other, since your comment does not contain a single allusion to this theme you agree with the statement……… you know very well this hate is the real cause of the wars in Europe…. in order to recognize it you surely only need to look inside yourself.
Castro was one of those gangsters trying to control Havana’s University…… he used to collaborate with other gangsters like Rolando Mansferrer…… these 2 even prepared together an invasion to Dominican Republic….. that’s history….. history that you need to study ….. by other side, communism and anti-imperialism are not synonyms…… like fascism and anti-imperialism are not antagonist…… I am too anti-imperialist, you only need to read old entries in this blog to find it, there are other anticastrofascism commenter in this blog that are anti-imperialist……. so, Castro student life does not delete his fascist inclination and his admiration for Hitler that drove him even to copy Hitler’s oratory style and gov type…….. you have big lagoons in your knowledge….. you better study a bit more and then come here to heal your hurt and poor self-esteem.
Septiembre 13th, 2011 at 10:02
89Damir
Septiembre 13th, 2011 at 05:49
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Once upon a time, in 1950 Mississippi, a bunch of racist red neck that accused a black boy of offending the white nation. The sentence of the judge was that the boy had to be buried standing up to his neck in the ground of the local football stadium where a lion would be placed. The whole population was present the day of the execution. The lion entering the football court saw immediately the head of the terrified boy sticking out the ground and run directly on him, the boy turn his head to the right to avoid the lion attack and seeing an opportunity turn back quickly the head on the left and bit one the lion’s back foot….. the infuriated crowd start to yell “Unfair play f**** nigger!!!!”
The little poor patient seems to be one more in the crowd…… according to his little castrofascist mind, the Cuban fighters inside Cuba, whose are economically blocked by regime, hindered to work and get incomes by legal ways, isolated, and discriminated in order to make them weak and vulnerable, can’t receive economical help of abroad…… just because the little poor castrofascist does not want!!!!!!
Dummy, we will keep those fighters well feed, well dressed, well equipped and well connected to the world outside simply because it is the desire of our scrota and ovaries……. and we will do that with or without the help of foreign govs and organizations…….. you and castrofascism don’t like it?????……. f***** you then!!!!!!
Septiembre 13th, 2011 at 06:05
Well guys thank you for opening up… that was the point - at least we’re going beyond the ‘nicey nicey’ facade you guys pretend to have… I couldn’t agree more that Europe is anachronistic in many respects but you shold have included capitalism and not anarchism as part of the anachronisms. It is usually accepted that capitalism and colonialism created wars - anarchism seem closer to creating a sense of community that we dream about having here… Ah, for instance Britain the oldest democracy on the continent ‘invented and tested’ the concentraction camps concept in South-Africa…
@Freud …However it seem that so as we are here in Europe - and my opinion is that Freud doesn’t know the difference between inferiority complex and national historical truma carried in the (sub)counscious by being told one side of history ie. what other did to us not what we did to them too - it seem that you over there are NOT such strangers to these issues either (and yes I buy more what the wikipaedia is saying than a bunch of stories ex-Cubans sell). Our dictator was constantly denigrated for not having gone to school and that he was incarcerated not for political reasons and beliefs but for petty crimes since he had no school.. well we found out after the revolution or what it was.. that actually he the dictator was incarcerated for political activity and he was genuine in his ‘idiotic beliefs that made him a dictator’ … a thing you seem to be in denial about Fidel…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro
University and early political activism: 1945–1947
Grau and Prío, two Cuban presidents whose administrations were marked by corruption, political repression and obediance to U.S. interests. Castro protested against both of them whilst a student. In late 1945, Castro began studying law at the University of Havana.[26][27][28] Here he became immediately embroiled in the student protest movement, which in Cuba at that time was particularly volatile: under the regimes of centre-left Cuban Presidents Gerardo Machado (1925–1933), Fulgencio Batista (1933–1944) and Ramón Grau (1944–1948) there had been a government crackdown on student protesters, with student leaders being killed or terrorized by violent gangs.[29][30][31] This led to a form of gangsterismo culture within the university that was dominated by a variety of violent and often armed student groups who spent much of their time fighting one another and running criminal enterprises rather than opposing the government.[32][33] Becoming surrounded by this gang culture, Castro focused on political objectives, unsuccessfully campaigning for the position of President of the Federation of University Students (FEU). To do so he put forward a platform of “honesty, decency and justice” and emphasized his opposition to political corruption, something that he increasingly associated with the involvement of the U.S. government in Cuban politics.[34][35] He became passionate about anti-imperialism and opposing American intervention in the Caribbean, joining the University Committee for the Independence of Puerto Rico and the Committee for Democracy in the Dominican Republic.[36]
@Albert yes baby only you forget … intellectuals as class have been dead since the 60s… The main mantras of US capitalism such as liberalism rely on support from professional elites not intellectuals .. Intellectuals may still exist only in the Middle-East and maybe you could locate 1 or 2 in Cuba - they exist where change didn’t happen… for the rest of the world I assure you intellectuals are extinct and have been slowly but surely killed off ‘by progress’ by professional elites and by consumerist ideology.. If you like you can say they’ve been bought off by the system…What I know is test: just put one proeminent intellectual in a BMW and ask an 18 yrs old blonde to sit next to him and he’s never coming home to his books!
@Help my experience tells me that tyrants rely on people and are obsessed with loyalty to their cause - actually loyalty to them. What is a tyrant without his people?? nothing! and you seem to make the mistake to think that the crowds do NOT support a tyrant.. my impression is that if Fidel is so un-wanted his regime would have been long gone!! so somehow the guys still manages to convince enough majority to survive!!.. wonder how close to the tipping point Cuba is …???
@Humberto… do yourself a favour and stop selling the west as the place where medical care is perfect (unless you live in Canada of course)… We all know what crap ‘free’ medical care is in the west too - and that we have to invest seriously if we want proper medical care i.e. insurance etc. I benefit from ‘free’ medical care in the UK… i.e. a house doc one the is not a specialist in anything looks at my health problem with a stetoscope in hand… and the service is a joke for everything else I pay!! If I need a specialist he never recommends me (ie you neeed that recommendation) to someone unless he is worried I might sue him and I am in a very bad shape (and that is because of cuts)… if I need an operation I end up on a list and wait… some old people wait 2-3 years for an operation which is common…. etc… So it is better than Cuba here of course but it is better only because or if we pay!!! not for other reasons..
Septiembre 13th, 2011 at 05:49
One for all the copy and paste geniuses. darling little pioneers of the anti-counter-revolution:
Cable from usa Interest Section Office 08-HAVANA-613, sent to us state department confirms what only brave (really? so what are they waiting? why aren’t they “liberating” Cuba right now? coz they have no balls and are hiding under old woman’s skirt, that’s why) pioneers say it is not true.
Delusional as always.
The cable goes on to confirm that Jonathan Farrar, boss in the interest section of the usa, requested $8000 useless usanian dollara are given annualy to Laura Pollan, one of women from Damas en blanco, And Roberto Miranda.
The officer of the interest section urges the state department to support “fighters for human rights” on the island by providing them with money sent to the island clandestinely, through fake “family” connections sending the money via Western Union.Jonathan Farrar cites the legality of these remittances under the laws and regulations OFAC, an agency of the Treasury Department, which literarily says that it is okay to fund and support anyone in Cuba who is hellbent on dethroning the Castros. “They will be sympathetic to the usa and usa interests, once in power”, states the document issued by the OFAC.
Not the first cable from the interest section in Havana.
On 15 Sept. 2008 the section requested money for a group called “Agenda para transicion”, including Martha Beatriz Roque, Elizardo Sanchez and Vladimiro Roca, who gave a list of “political prisoners in Cuba that included a bolivian football team, a painter from XVII century and a female voleyball team from Peru.
Those are the real “freedom fighters” and “democrats”. One liar bigger than the next.
Just as the team “yoani”, who we have already demonstrated are exercising censorship and are using bizarre issues and themes to promote their false agendas and patronising morals completely disconnected from the reality.
And certainly disconnected from the real issues of Cubans people who do not need more liars and criminals usurping the power “in the name of the people”, and their “best interests”.
We all know that no one has the best interest of teh people in their focus. It is just a bullshift that power-hungry liars and criminals have used since the dawn of the time to grab the power and rule over people.
The team “yoani” are already getting rich faster than Castros themselves, so in an unlikely “some kind of pragmatic capitalist” tomorrow in Cuba, they will be already fattened up and able to finance their quest for that ultimate power they so yearn.
Only stupid Cubans do not see that.
Fortunately, nmost of them are on the other side of the sea, living in the sewages of Miami.
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 22:52
UnSoricel! OUCH!!!! DID YOU FEEL THAT HUN? DID IT STING? WHY DONT YOU GOT TO CUBA TO GET SOME OF THAT “GREAT HEALTHCARE”! BETTER BRING BANDAGES, SUTURES, ANESTHESIA, BEDPAN, LINEN ETC, ALL OF THAT TO HEAL YOUR FRAGILE EGO AFTER THAT ONE!OUCH!
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 22:40
68UnSoricel
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 15:08
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Chorizon, I only answer your comment because it gives me the chance to talk about catrofascism or regime’s crimes…….. have you noticed it before?????….. I doubt it, you are too busy pleasing yourself.
Of course castro was is a fascist…… you just show your ignorance about castro when taking him apart from fascism…….. Castro was raised in a fascist home…… his father was not only one of the helpers of the inventor of concentration camps, the Spanish general Valeriano Weyler, but he was a big fan of fascist Spanish dictator and Hitler allied Francisco Franco…… so, castro was risen in a home where the walls was full of portraits of Franco and other leaders of Spanish Phalanges but also other international fascism leaders. As young he was a fervent follower of Hitler and his preferred book was “Mein Kamp” According to castro’s brother in law, Rafael Diaz-Balart, castro was a fascist until fascism were defeated in WWII, then he decided to switch to communism because this new in fashion ideology was very similar to fascism and had a very attractive political keystone: the absolute power as goal, something that castro dreamed since ever…….. it is not a coincidence that castro “composed” a speech to defend himself in the trial of the criminal assault to Moncada quarter that is almost identical to Hitler speech to defend himself in the trial of assault to Reichstag. No coincidence at all, castro was imitating Hitler. castro can say what he want and you can be as dumb as you need to believe him, but the truth is that he is not a communist, otherwise it was not be so easy to him to build a monopolistic capitalism of state with help of international capital in the way he did in nowadays Cuba, a wild monopolistic capitalism that uses Cubans as slave work force and foreigners as investors.
Communism and fascism are not 2 sides of same coin but 2 ends of same circle, both systems declares themselves socialist, nationalist, corporativist, victims of other countries….. Following paragraph can be found in Wikipedia (http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism ):
“……Fascist governments are different from communist ones in that fascists, in theory, support the right of labor representatives (labor union)s and corporate representatives (CEOs, company presidents, etc.) to negotiate - through a system called corporatism- while communism, in theory, calls for complete economic control and ownership of the economy. Most regimes that have been called “communist” or “fascist” were really state capitalist systems. Instead, they usually work closely with people who already manage these things but use the resources to build up the army or other parts of the fascist state. It is very important to fascists that all schools in the country teach children that the state is the most important thing in the world. All adults are expected to either join the fascist party or support it as the government. Some governments considered to be fascist, similar to the Nazis in Germany, pursued racist policies of segregation and/or extermination in opposition to cultural and ethnic pluralism.
It is always a big crime in fascist countries to speak against the leader or ruling party. Fascist leaders almost always give themselves a high military rank, or appear in public in an army or navy uniform, because fascist countries consider the army the most important part of the government…..”
It is only needed to add that racism in Fascism can be compared with ideological discrimination-margination-extermination in communist countries……. but even nowadays regimes like castrofascism uses corporativism and corporate CEOs as intermediates.
As you see you are simply ignorant of historic facts that link fascisms and communism as twins systems.
By other side…….. as European you are incapable to understand why you all suffers of inferiority complex in same way a stinker dirty person can’t note the own disgusting smell…….but I can help you:
Which do you think is the cause that the only 2 (or 3, depending of the historian) WW mankind has suffered started in Europe?????……. Why do you think all extreme ideologies (anarchism, fascism and communism) were created by Europeans??????…… why do you believe most exterminations wars (including Milosevic) and ideologies were started and created in Europe????
I lived in Europe several years……. in the east Europe of Warsaw Pact when student and the west Europe of EU when emigrated…… I’ve seen Serbians beating Bosnians in Tito’s Yugoslavia, I’ve seen Czechs beating gypsies in Czechoslovakian, I’ve seen Lithuanians discriminating Polish in Germany and Germans discriminating Spaniards in Berlin, I’ve seen a couple of Finish terrorizing a group of Swedish in Stockholm metro and explain to me when, I protested, that they did so because all Swedish believed they were better that any other people in the world….. I’ve seen and Norman refusing to sit in same table with Swedish people, I’ve seen French refusing to attend Rumanians in a small cafe in Dijon,……. I could felt the hate Europeans bear in the soul and the competence they perform in a way or another for being best the over the other……… this extreme situation can have only an explanation…… and this is the same explanation psychologist gives to racist behaviors: Poor self esteem, inferiority complex…….. you are a perfect example.
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 21:21
@#76
Alla fine, solo un altro pseudo-intellettuali … che spreco di aria.
In the end, you are just another pseudo intellectual … what a waste of air.
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 21:15
@#76
“… Watch and learn one of those certificates is worth in gold cos you dont pay taxes… so all the old security forces have one… Apparently they were there and not us … See just like you say exactly …”
Talk about incoherence when u have nothing to say, even in attempting to change subjects, it demonstrates how ur arrogance gets in the way of ur brain, for all to see.
I guess that makes u an “nano mentale” eh?
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 21:05
UnSoricel Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 19:01
“… @Albert … Do you want to send some young girls my way to corrupt them …just to prove your point ?? … Please!…”
UnSoricel Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 15:08
“… I love being denigrated on the condition you do it well…. I mean why would any European feel inferior beats me… as I remmber one of your first revolutions was done by naked savages saw a movie about that done in Cuba… ..at least we have evloved and dress for a regime change party! Ciao baby …”
“… Ah and that logo…communism even the good ol Russia of the 1920s didnt manage to produce such arresting logos and poster images…and a big difference that is…”
By ur own words, change subjets, muddle the waters w/all kinds of unimportant facts not germane to the matter at hand, it does not work, besides it is u who denigrate others w/ur arrogant attitude so much so that u to arrogant to admit it even when the fact hits u in the face … tu sei un disco rotto eh?
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 20:56
… to continue, look at the crowds that cheered on Hitler, Mao, or Fidel. Look at the faces in the mob, do you see any difference? They’re just scary brain-dead creatures. After a while the drug wears off and then they either look for another drug or if they’re courageous, decide to embrace reality. Wake up my friend, Charles Manson doesn’t hold the key to our salvation, and neither did Che or Jim Jones.
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 20:47
UnSoricel: I don’t know what that bottom-up vs. top-down mumbo-jumbo is all about. I’ve met many people in my life from both right-wing fascist and left-wing fascist (communist) regimes, and they all lived the same lives. A tyrant is a tyrant. A tyrant doesn’t care what their people think, the people live in fear whatever ideology the tyrant espouses. The tyrant never has to rely on majority support to seize power. The tyrants are happy when they can whip up their supporters into a hysterical frenzy, but the crowds get smaller and less enthusiastic after a time, until another maniac comes along who can turn their crank, or if they’re lucky, a democracy where tolerance is promoted and leaders are elected by the people for the people.
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 20:46
“… You need a rich and educated to a degree nation to build a fascist state …”
Is that u?
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 20:03
YOU GO OBAMA! DONT LISTEN TO UnSoricel! A FASCIST IS A FASCITS, IF THEY FIT THE DEFINITION! ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS OR PROPAGANDA, SPECIALLY THOSE COMING OUT OF “LA CHINA”, “THE MUMMY” and “EL SOLOSORICEL”!
MONSTERS AND CRITICS : Obama: “It’s clearly time for the Cuban regime to change” - Sep 12, 2011,
Washington - US President Barack Obama thinks that recent changes in Cuba have not been ’sufficiently aggressive’ and that more substantial transformations are needed on the communist island, in line with what is happening elsewhere in the world.
The policies of his own administration, in turn, are creating ‘more space inside Cuba for freedom and civil liberties,’
Obama told a small group of news agencies, including the German Press Agency dpa, Monday.
‘The Cuban government has said that it wants to transition, to loosen up the economy, so that businesses can operate more freely,’ Obama said at a White House round-table discussion with Hispanic reporters.
‘We have not seen enough evidence that they have been sufficiently aggressive in changing their policies economically, and they certainly have not been aggressive enough when it comes to freeing political prisoners and giving people the opportunity to speak their minds.’
This is particularly disappointing in the current international context, Obama said.
‘Everywhere people are crying out for freedom, you are seeing enormous changes taking place in the Middle East just in the span of six months, you are seeing there are almost no authoritarian communist countries left in the world, and here you have this small island that is a throwback to the 60s.’
‘Obviously it’s not working for them. The standards of living have not improved significantly, in fact they are deteriorating in many cases, people’s liberties continue to be constrained at a time when the world is more open and people have more information than ever before,’ Obama said.
In this setting, he stressed, ‘it’s clearly time for the Cuban regime to change.’
‘Whether they are going to seize that opportunity, so far we have not seen the kind of evidence that we’d like to see, but that change is going to take place,’ Obama said.
The US strategy of offering Cuba a slightly more outstretched hand, by freeing up remittances and allowing Cuban-Americans to more freely travel to the island, is appropriate in this context, he said.
‘It empowers Cubans inside of Cuba who then are able to have other sources of income, meet their families, get new ideas and exposure to what is going on outside of Cuba.’
‘We think it creates more space inside Cuba for freedom and civil liberties,’ Obama insisted.
As to the situation of US contractor Alan Gross, who is serving a 15-year jail sentence in Cuba for espionage, Obama repeated the US demand for his release.
‘We’ve said repeatedly that Mr Gross should be free, that the conviction was not based on evidence or rule of law, also that there’s an humanitarian issue here involved given Gross’ precarious health.’
Still, he highlighted the ‘private’ nature of the ongoing trip to Cuba of former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, who is meeting with officials to secure Gross’ release.
‘Richardson is acting as a private citizen on an humanitarian mission to try to free Gross.’
‘Anything to get Mr Gross free we will support, although Mr Richardson does not represent the US government in his actions there,’ Obama said.
Cuban courts found Gross, 62, an employee of a firm working for the US State Department, guilty for handing out satellite telecommunications equipment in defiance of laws on the Caribbean island.
The court said he had created secret networks to provide access to the internet to help opposition groups organize against the government of President Raul Castro. The US government has said Gross was not a spy, but was involved in distributing equipment and access to the internet for Jewish groups in Cuba.
Gross has been detained on the communist island since December 2009. The case is regarded as a serious obstacle to dialogue between the two countries.
http://www.monstersandcritics......662553.php
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 19:09
UnSoricel! I THINK PINOCHET LOOKS LIKE A WALLFLOWER COMPARED TO THE CASTROFASCISTS, DONT YOU THINK? 17 Yrs IN POWERS FOR HIM vs. 52 YEARS FOR THE CASTROFASCISTS WHICH IS ABOUT 3 TIMES THE YEARS IN POWER AND COUNTING! THE CUBAN PEOPLE WOULD HAVE COME OUT AHEAD IF THEY HAD THE CHILEAN EXPERIENCE! AS FAR AS THE NUMBERS KILLLED BY PINOCHET AT AROUND 3,200 PALES IN COMPARISON TO THE ALMOST 100,00 THAT PERISHED EITHER BY CASTROFASCISTS OWN HANDS OR PERISHED AT SEA TRYING TO FLEE THE PRISON KNOWN AS CUBA!
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte[note 1] (25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean army general and leader of a military dictatorship that assumed power in a coup d’état on 11 September 1973. Among his titles, he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean army from 1973 to 1998, president of the Government Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1974 and President of the Republic from 1974 until transferring power to a democratically elected president in 1990.[2]
By early 1972, Pinochet was answering to General Chief of Staff of the Army. In 23 August 1973, he was promoted to Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army by president Salvador Allende.[3] On 11 September 1973, Pinochet led a coup d’état which overthrew Allende’s democratically elected socialist government. In December 1974, the military junta appointed Pinochet as President by a joint decree, with which Air Force General Gustavo Leigh disagreed.[4] From the beginning, the government implemented harsh measures against its political opponents.[5] According to various reports and investigations 1,200–3,200 people were killed, up to 80,000 were interned, and up to 30,000 were tortured by his regime including women and children.
VICTIMS OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION - February 19, 2008 Update on Findings
This work documents loss of life and disappearances of a political or military nature attributed to the Cuban Revolution. Each documented case is available for review at http://www.CubaArchive.org and substantiated by bibliographic/historic data and reports from direct sources. Due to the ongoing nature of the work and the difficulty of obtaining and verifying data from Cuba, the following totals change as research progresses and are considered far from exhaustive. Cuba Archive is currently examining additional cases -most are expected to be added to this table. Experience has shown that as additional outreach efforts are undertaken, many more cases are likely to be uncovered.
Non-Combat Victims of the Castro Regime:
January 1, 1959 to December 31, 2007
Work-in-progress
Documented Cases
Firing squad executions = 4,074
Extrajudicial killings not in prison = 1,334
Missing and disappeared = 219
Other, including deaths in prison = 2,215
Estimate
“Balseros” (estimate to 2003) = 77,833
TOTAL 85,675
Cuba Archive - Free Society Project, Inc.
P.O. Box 529 / Summit, NJ 07902 - Tel. 973.701-0520
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 19:03
UnSoricel! I THINK PINOCHET LOOKS LIKE A WALLFLOWER COMPARED TO THE CASTROFASCISTS, DONT YOU THINK? 17 Yrs IN POWERS FOR HIM vs. 52 YEARS FOR THE CASTROFASCISTS WHICH IS ABOUT 3 TIMES THE YEARS IN POWER AND COUNTING! THE CUBAN PEOPLE WOULD HAVE COME OUT AHEAD IF THEY HAD THE CHILEAN EXPERIENCE! AS FAR AS THE NUMBERS KILLLED BY PINOCHET AT AROUND 3,200 PALES IN COMPARISON TO THE ALMOST 100,00 THAT PERISHED EITHER BY CASTROFASCISTS OWN HANDS OR PERISHED AT SEA TRYING TO FLEE THE PRISON KNOWN AS CUBA!
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte[note 1] (25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean army general and leader of a military dictatorship that assumed power in a coup d’état on 11 September 1973. Among his titles, he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean army from 1973 to 1998, president of the Government Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1974 and President of the Republic from 1974 until transferring power to a democratically elected president in 1990.[2]
By early 1972, Pinochet was answering to General Chief of Staff of the Army. In 23 August 1973, he was promoted to Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army by president Salvador Allende.[3] On 11 September 1973, Pinochet led a coup d’état which overthrew Allende’s democratically elected socialist government. In December 1974, the military junta appointed Pinochet as President by a joint decree, with which Air Force General Gustavo Leigh disagreed.[4] From the beginning, the government implemented harsh measures against its political opponents.[5] According to various reports and investigations 1,200–3,200 people were killed, up to 80,000 were interned, and up to 30,000 were tortured by his regime including women and children.
VICTIMS OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION - February 19, 2008 Update on Findings
This work documents loss of life and disappearances of a political or military nature attributed to the Cuban Revolution. Each documented case is available for review at http://www.CubaArchive.org and substantiated by bibliographic/historic data and reports from direct sources. Due to the ongoing nature of the work and the difficulty of obtaining and verifying data from Cuba, the following totals change as research progresses and are considered far from exhaustive. Cuba Archive is currently examining additional cases -most are expected to be added to this table. Experience has shown that as additional outreach efforts are undertaken, many more cases are likely to be uncovered.
Non-Combat Victims of the Castro Regime:
January 1, 1959 to December 31, 2007
Work-in-progress
Documented Cases
Firing squad executions = 4,074
Extrajudicial killings not in prison = 1,334
Missing and disappeared = 219
Other, including deaths in prison = 2,215
Estimate
“Balseros” (estimate to 2003) = 77,833
TOTAL 85,675
Cuba Archive - Free Society Project, Inc.
P.O. Box 529 / Summit, NJ 07902 - Tel. 973.701-0520
http://www.CubaArchive.org
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 19:01
@Albert … Do you want to send some young girls my way to corrupt them …just to prove your point ??… Please! In my opinion only Castro talks about revolution and says I did this and I did that… I assure you 1 thing I dont have a certificate that I was a revolutionary in 89 …. i leave that for I did this I did that guys like you… Watch and learn one of those certificates is worth in gold cos you dont pay taxes… so all the old security forces have one… Apparently they were there and not us … See just like you say exactly…
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 18:53
…and since I had to endure another actually the same definition from Humberto…one more thing .. If you like communsim is the poor relative of fascism … You need a rich and educated to a degree nation to build a fascist state… Communism is for poor nations it is fascism on the cheap….it thrives on poverty .. Fascism needs money reources…. So darlings Cuba is poor cannot be fascist! Good night little anti fascists worrirors….
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 18:44
@Humberto and Help… On your planet maybe.. But even on that there should be some traces of Gen Pinochet?? That’s fascism darlings…fascsim was and is the marriage of big business with the working class under one party rule and dictator …. Communism never worked or managed to work as a marriage between apparently two opposing sides…communism is the dictatorship of the proletariat under the leadership of one ‘visionary’ who knows it all. The twist of Cuban communism is that Castro didnt come from a ‘healthy origin’ meaning to have been a peasant or worker at first generation or second… Lastly fascist societies are build from bottom up …the masses are convinced by the nationalistic message the dictator is keen to sell… Communism was imposed always from top down this is why so often the claim is that they stole a revolution or committed electoral fraud….this is also why a big part of the population considers it alien or unnatural…. Does these ring any bells boys??? or if you like my opinion - fascism was the first (nation) corporation and brand.. And it is still going strong ….not nationalism is at the core now a similar set of values and loyalty to the brand values, obedience hierarcy are still the norm…. Ah and that logo…communism even the good ol Russia of the 1920s didnt manage to produce such arresting logos and poster images…and a big difference that is..
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 17:24
BE CAREFUL of COMMUNISTS, they can not be trusted. Word to the WISE.
VIVA LAS DAMAS DE BLANCO
Viva ZAPATA TAMAYO.
The shit is hitting the fan in Cuba mucha mentiras and the people have heard and suffered enough.
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 17:09
@#69
u just described urself, UnSoricel
“… Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 15:14
@Albert for the sake of talk ..so where did you here this kind of talk many many time ??? Cos your kind of gravitas I have met with in university….usually communist academics out to discourage any dissent with the words that it is not chisled and clever enough … They smelled of cowardice from a far … No worry though they are stil around as parlamentarians … So you know what you know!…”
The only thing u have done is pontificate w/ur (in ur mind) superiour education which does not help u to deliver ur messages in any other way than w/the arrogance comun to an ideologue who sels appoints himself as the only one who knows what the “people” needs/wants … does that sound familiar to u eh?
Ur tales of experience about ur quest for freedom come across as borrowed experiences … the “we” u claim on how “ur” dictator was brought down just for one example, I have talked w/more than a few people who have gone thru experiences of that kind & never once someone used the “we” in relating their experience, not from my Chilean, Uruguayan, Argentinian or Paraguayan, nor from my Algerian friends or my friends from West Germany.
WE all had similar experiences derived from similar situations. we all suffered a dictator,& their supporters all at the top, these individuals were mostly “college” educated ideologues, masterful demagogs like u who manipulated the minions in to protecting their hold on power if nothing else w/the gift of gab. You don’t fool me & I doubt anyone else when u “talk” about freedom & her price then again why not since u r after all one & the same as #23.
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 16:50
Looks like fascism to me, Humberto. I don’t pay much attention to what people claim they are, more at what they are.
UnSoricel: Hitler made a lot of big speeches claiming to want peace. Did that make him a pacifist? He also said a lot and did a lot of other things that his fans in the West wanted to ignore. Same thing for Che. No evidence of him ever getting through medical school or saving human beings. But he made a lot of dramatic speeches claiming to be for the underdog, and he executed at least a few hundred innocent people. Look at the big picture my friend.
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 15:22
BIG GUSANO HUGS AND KISSES FOR YOU HUN UnSoricel! WE SHOULD LET THE READERS HERE FIGURE THINGS OUT, DON’T YOU THINK SO HONEY! SWEETIE! SUGARPLUM!
fas·cism-(sometimes initial capital letter) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
dic·ta·tor·ship-1. a country, government, or the form of government in which absolute power is exercised by a dictator. 2. absolute, imperious, or overbearing power or control. 3. the office or position held by a dictator.
“If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck”
“IF IT WALKS LIKE A FASCIST, QUACKS LIKE A FASCIST, LOOKS LIKE A FASCIST (check out the uniforms), IT MUST BE A FASCIST GOVERNMENT! IN THIS CASE A CASTROFASCIST ONE!
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 15:17
@Humberto.. Dont wait too long darling reality might bite you ass… But maybe you like that hon!
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 15:14
@Albert for the sake of talk ..so where did you here this kind of talk many many time ??? Cos your kind of gravitas I have met with in university….usually communist academics out to discourage any dissent with the words that it is not chisled and clever enough … They smelled of cowardice from a far … No worry though they are stil around as parlamentarians … So you know what you know!
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 15:08
@Freud… Unexpect as it seem to me it so I am more and more here to dig into your subconscious…. Nice.. by the way Castro is not a fascist … He stated clearly he is a communist.. fascist and communism may be the two sides of the same coin but a coin has two sides…not one! And next time you choose to descibe my ‘inforiority complexes’ please put a bit of meat on it…I love being denigrated on the condition you do it well…. I mean why would any European feel inferior beats me… as I remmber one of your first revolutions was done by naked savages saw a movie about that done in Cuba… ..at least we have evloved and dress for a regime change party! Ciao baby
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 14:23
@hairy Anonimo… grow a name first maybe you’ll grow a moustache conscience later
when you grow a face and a country.
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 13:25
Freud! AMEN!
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 12:22
60UnSoricel
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 06:19
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“……….I personally think you should let or focus on people who have the moral high ground to condemn Castro…….”
“………I personally feel you are not better than Michael Moore or Oliver Stone….”
“…….I expect the right wing bias you guys have tons of……..”
“………You guys are a bit like jackals the guys out there to ‘give advice’ and tell the people in Cuba what they are doing wrong from the western moral high ground which is actually just the materialistic high ground - since you have more than a poor Cuban…….”
“………I prefer my arrogance to you hipocrisy since I know I was there you will be in the west watching it on tv and commenting about what they are not doing right of course……”
“………Obviously you guys are fat cats………”
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This guy writes just a lot of things that have nothing to do with Cuba, castrofascism or the theme in this blog ornamented with a lot of hate against Cubans………. this can have only 2 causes:
1) The guy is a castrofascist agent with the express task of discrediting Yoani by discrediting her followers and by extension all who writes something against castrofascism.
2) The guy is one of those full of hate Europeans that fights their inferiority complex by trying by all means to feel superior to everything and everyone.
My suggestion …….. do like him, give answers that have nothing to do with his comment and use the occasion to write things that illustrates our readers about castrofascism criminal nature…… any way it is not useful to lose our time fighting elusive agents or incurable haters…… our main goal is to counter fight castrofascism propaganda in the cyber…… let’s do it.
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 12:08
MORE REPRESSION WILL YIELD MORE DISSIDENTS LIKE IT HAPPENED IN SYRIA, EGYPT, LIBYA AND OTHERS IN THE ARAB SPRING! AS THE QUEEN ROCK SONG SAID “DONT STOP ME NOW”!
ASSOCIATED PRESS : Cuba dissidents freed after weekend detention
HAVANA — The wife of one of two prominent Cuban dissidents who were arrested and held over the weekend says both men are now free.
Berta Soler says her husband, Angel Moya, and opposition activist Jose Daniel Ferrer were released earlier Monday. The men were detained Friday as they prepared to hold a protest march in the eastern Cuban town of Palma Soriano.
The arrests were the first involving members of a group of 75 former political prisoners since the last of the group was freed earlier this year. The men were arrested in a notorious 2003 sweep against intellectuals and social commentators.
Cuban human rights leader Elizardo Sanchez says the arrests are meant to intimidate the opposition.
Cuba considers all dissidents to be mercenaries sent by Washington.
http://www.google.com/hostedne.....d66d88750a
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 12:02
UnSoricel! I will take your “RECOMENDATIONS” under “CONSIDERATION”!FUACATAAA!
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 11:33
…. so I am sure you still expect someone to invade Cuba to get rid of Castro… newsflash: it ain’t gonna happen!
Again … how do u know what “u” guys expect?
“… and so I prefer my arrogance to you hipocrisy since I know I was there you will be in the west watching it on tv and commenting about what they are not doing right of course.
No u were not, u talk a good game but u r just that talk, I have seen & heard the likes of u many times.
“… maybe you should have read that he took revenge on Rome.. and not invade it…invasion and war against Rome he begged but was part of what his fellow Cartageans declined to help him with… he was on his own with his army he had no place left to go to at the end but Turkey… any parallel?? …”
Read again, this time slowly … Hannibal begged? Cartageans declined to help?
As I have stated before … al talk, just because the air is free …
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 08:24
In all the movies about Che - but he was never described as a killer, even in his journal in Bolivia you could see he relied on traitors and yet he didnt do anything about it hoping those guys would see the error of their ways… It must be true it it wasn’t in a movie about Che.
For the rest of the abuses I think they are documented and being part of the system - he was as ruthless as any communist trying to grab power and destroy the enemy in the ‘name of progress’.. Yeah blame it on the system and just insert any person or government in the blank.. Copout.
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 06:19
@Humberto Capiro (El Cibergues@) #50 … man I bothered to watch your doc… that is exactly what I meant you guys have a point of view we all know about… expected some shocking revelations got a set of facts most of us know… and then some interpretation of the facts that is far from bias.. We all know baby that Castro didn’t call it a communist revolution !! and I really do believe it wasn’t intended as such … that happened under pressure from the US and Russia… so what else is new?? the execution of a traitor in the jungle?? Che died by the same token so? Obviously you guys are fat cats…just get out more and find out what the true Cubano thinks now today!
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 05:38
@Albert … as if I can be more smug than you guys… but first of all I don’t have to do any action… I did my action or according to you I didn’t do anything I just talk… fair enough… but regardless, one of the goals of my generation was to end a divided by a wall Europe.. to some extent we have achieved that. Most countries and the country I come from are now part of the European Union superstate… and I am a big fan of Europe and EuropeanUnion regardless of the bureaucracy and traffic of influnence that is pervasise not to mention that is not quite a democratic institution. So it is your turn baby !!… You guys didn’t ride the wave 20 yrs ago when communism was dropped… you don’t seem to rode it again 3-4 yrs back when ‘really screwed up communist countries’ such as Moldova and Ukraine did something about it…. so I am sure you still expect someone to invade Cuba to get rid of Castro… newsflash: it ain’t gonna happen!
As we all know who at least saw the fall of communism… it is not from the exterior that help would come but from the interior and only… As they are afraid here now about Libya this is what would happen there in Cuba the moment after regime change.. they would be afraid the Cubans would go too far with the change and stop them, not support them - and you might be one of those guys that want just little regime change not much else. You guys are a bit like jackals the guys out there to ‘give advice’ and tell the people in Cuba what they are doing wrong from the western moral high ground which is actually just the materialistic high ground - since you have more than a poor Cuban… You know one thing I learnt on the street those days… it didn’t matter how educated you were or not since change is something that touches some who want it and some who don’t even education intelligence doesn’t change… and so I prefer my arrogance to you hipocrisy since I know I was there you will be in the west watching it on tv and commenting about what they are not doing right of course.
About Hannibal.. maybe you should have read that he took revenge on Rome.. and not invade it…invasion and war against Rome he begged but was part of what his fellow Cartageans declined to help him with… he was on his own with his army he had no place left to go to at the end but Turkey… any parallel??
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 05:06
@Help #40… I personally think you should let or focus on people who have the moral high ground to condemn Castro and not governements who have interests and just interests. People like Y who lives under ‘his rule’ have all the moral high ground to criticise him… while you guys who live abroad can help, I personally feel you are not better than Michael Moore or Oliver Stone who are, regardless of what they say and are entitled to say it as artist, talented film-makers for my money and cannot be so deluded as you claim since you live in the same country as them! After all what has the US promised you but just regime change… have they ever promised a weathy Cuba, free visas to the US for all Cubans, no restiution or retribution for the past… free motorways and infrastructure to help you out of the ’social coma’?? no they never promised that or discussed that…
To answer you argument.. yes you should call the police if you see a rape… but the policeman may come and arrest you or be paid by the rapist to tell you to mind your own business… this is the world we live in.. so if you decide to intervene in a rape maybe you should do it yourself - be prepared to stop the guy perpetrating the crime, and make sure you tell first your solicitor/lawyer (cos the rapist might sue you) and then ultimately rely on the police!! The Strauss-Khan trial proved that consistently…
@hairy Anonimo… grow a name first maybe you’ll grow a moustache conscience later - can tell you women smell better than men and have nicer legs!! I will check the doc you sent but I expect the right wing bias you guys have tons of… In all the movies about Che - but he was never described as a killer, even in his journal in Bolivia you could see he relied on traitors and yet he didnt do anything about it hoping those guys would see the error of their ways… For the rest of the abuses I think they are documented and being part of the system - he was as ruthless as any communist trying to grab power and destroy the enemy in the ‘name of progress’.. according to them of course… and Russian communists were paranoid about the enemy within.
Septiembre 12th, 2011 at 00:16
All quiet on the eastern front. After a night of drinking and smoking, perhaps the brain found something soft that smells good. Poor girl.
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 22:19
Hey #39 say something smug eh?
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 18:11
Isaiah 30:1
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1 ¡Ay de los hijos que se apartan, dice Jehová, para tomar consejo, y no de mí; para cobijarse con cubierta, y no de mi Espíritu, añadiendo pecado a pecado
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VEN A JESUS PUEBLOS TODOS, EL TIENE VERDADERA VIDA Y TODAS SUS PROMESAS SON BUENAS PARA LOS QUE LE BUSCAN A EL, PIDE CONSEJO A DIOS Y NO A LOS IDOLOS, ESOS IDOLOS TE TIENEN EN LA MISERIA CON SUS MENTIRAS, ARREPIENTETE PUEBLO Y VEN A DIOS PARA QUE TE BENDIGA !!!!
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 15:41
WASHINGTON POST : Richardson rebuffed in effort to free Alan Gross - By Mary Beth Sheridan
The Cuban government has rebuffed a mission by former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson to free a U.S. government contractor jailed in Havana, even ruling out a visit with the man, Richardson said Sunday.
Richardson vowed to remain in Cuba until he was allowed to see jailed American Alan P. Gross.
“We were supposed to leave yesterday. We’ve extended our stay in the hotel. My position is, I’m not planning to leave until I get a chance to visit Alan Gross,” Richardson said in a telephone interview from Havana.
Cuba’s action appeared to be an extraordinary snub of the prominent, Spanish-speaking Democrat and former U.N. ambassador who has had cordial relations with the island’s government. There was no word from the Cuban government on why Richardson couldn’t see Gross, who has routinely received visits from U.S. diplomats and members of Congress.
Gross, 62, was arrested in December 2009 while working on a secretive democracy program in Cuba for the U.S. Agency for International Development. His detention has grown into a major impediment to President Obama’s goal of improving relations with Cuba.
Richardson, who has long supported improved relations with Cuba, said he was “flabbergasted” by his treatment. He was invited to Havana by the Cuban government to discuss the Gross case, he said, leading to hopes of a breakthrough. Cuban parliament leader Ricardo Alarcon last week described Richardson’s trip as “noble.”
But Richardson said there appeared to be disagreements within the Cuban government on what to do with Gross.
“My sense is, there are some elements in their government that don’t want to improve relations with the U.S.,” Richardson said.
While Richardson traveled as a private citizen, his trip was welcomed by the State Department, which briefed him before he set out on Sept. 7. In a meeting Thursday, Richardson conveyed to Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez the U.S. position that “if you release Alan Gross, there are a number of areas of cooperation we can talk about,” Richardson said.
But “their inclination is not to do that,” he said.
The Obama administration has eased some Cuba travel and financial restrictions imposed by President George W. Bush. But further cooperation on matters such as immigration, the environment and drug trafficking has stalled, officials say. In addition, Cuba is unlikely to get its wish to be removed from the U.S. list of terror-sponsoring countries while Gross is held, American officials say.
American diplomats had hoped Cuba would deport Gross after he was sentenced in March to 15 years in prison. They say Cuban authorities have never explicitly asked for anything in exchange for his release. But Cuban authorities have been angered by the Obama administration’s continuation of the secretive democracy program on the island, which had grown significantly under Bush, analysts say.
The Obama administration defends the program as part of a global effort to support basic freedoms. The 2011 budget provides $20 million for the Cuba effort, up from $15 million the previous year.
Cuba considers the democracy-promotion activities illegal, since they fall under the Helms-Burton law, which calls for regime change on the island.
Gross was providing satellite phone and computer equipment to the island’s Jewish community, under a $6 million contract won by his employer, Development Alternatives Inc. of Bethesda.
Richardson, a former U.N. ambassador, has spent his career traveling to hot spots such as Iraq, North Korea and Sudan to negotiate the release of jailed Americans.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....story.html
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 15:23
I DONT LIKE TO CHANGE SUBJECTS HERE OFTEN BUT TODAY IS A VERY SIGNIFICANT DATE FOR US AMERICANS AND THE WORLD! I FEEL VERY SAD TODAY, BUT NOT AS SAD AS I FELT FOR WEEKS AFTER 9-11! THANK GOD THAT MY COUSIN DANNY, WHO WORKS AS PSYZER’S REP IN THE EAST COAST CHANGED HIS SCHEDULE SO NOT TO BE AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER THAT DAY AND THAT THE TIME OF THE PRESENTATION FOR HIS CO-WORKER WHO HE SWITCHED TASKS WITH WAS MUCH LATER! I RECALLED THAT MORNING SO VIVIDLY! I HAD GONE TO AN INCREDIBLE CONCERT BY CUBAN SINGER ISSAC DELGADO THE NIGHT BEFORE AND SAW MANY OLD TIMERS FROM CUBA THAT WERE THERE FOR THE FIRST LATIN GRAMMYS! A NIGHT OF FUN AND MUSIC AND THEN WEEKS OF MOURNING! GOD BLESS AND CONSOLE ALL THE FAMILIES WHO LOST LOVE ONES THIS DAY, 10 YEARS AGO!
The 9/11 attacks began at 8:46 a.m., when the first plane slammed into the north tower at the World Trade Center. Ten years later, the victims’ families gathered in Lower Manhattan, where more than 2,700 people died in the collapse of the twin towers, as well as at the Pentagon, which was hit by a third jet, and in a Pennsylvania field, where a fourth hijacked plane went down after a passenger rebellion. Mourners on Sunday at the memorial pool built in the footprint of the World Trade Center’s south tower.
MOVING PHOTOS HERE OF THE N.Y. CITY MEMORIAL TODAY BY THE N.Y. TIMES!
http://www.nytimes.com/interac.....-nytimes#1
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 15:06
“Cachita-Ochun”
Cachita” es la Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre, in the Santeria faith “Cachita” is also referred to as the Orisha “Ochun.” (Orishas are manifestations of God).
“…Recordando una peticion a la Cahita o la Virgencita:
” …Virgen de la Caridad tú que eres milagrosa solo te pido una cosa no nos dejes de amparar, que el esfuerzo no sea en vano, nos tenemos que ayudar al final somos hermanos y juntos vamos a luchar por volver … otra vez … a pisar suelo cubano…”
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 14:51
WOW! LOOKS LIKE THE LINKS WORK! I ANYONE IS HAVING TROUBLE POSTING, I SUGGEST TO OMIT E-MAIL AND IF PUTTING LINKS, DELETE THE HTTP:// AND JUST GO WITH http://WWW. ! I LEARNED THIS TRICK FROM LADY PAMELA!
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 14:44
UnSoricel said :”Not one of you has come up with any arguments that say Che was not what he is remembered for yet you all contest him ..”
ANY MORE REQUESTS MR. UnSoricel! AND YOU BETTER GET THEM INTELLECTUAL SCISSORS OUT!
THE HISTORY CHANNEL’S “The True Story of Che Guevar” based on the book by Jon Anderson
The executions were in the dozens by Che Guevara while in Sierra Maestra. He became “ruthless” They called him “Dr. Sacamuelas” due to his harsh punishments for disobedinece. Fidel stayed back while Che pushed forward after Santa Clara victory. “If the rebels knew they were fighting a communist rebellion they would have all left.” Fidel was not a Marxist in the beginning.
COPY AND PASTE LINK TO BROWSER, SYSTEM WONT ACCEPT ACTIVATED ONES FOR SOME REASON!
The True Story of Che Guevara Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 14:37
SELECTED CASES OF EXTRAJUDICIAL ASSASSINATIONS, EXECUTIONS, AND DISAPPEARANCES ATTRIBUTED TO THE CASTRO REGIME OF CUBA
Report of 4-7-2005.
The following cases represent a fraction of the thousands of documented cases by the Truth Recovery Project on Cuba and are meant to illustrate the nature of some of the crimes and the sources of the information. A full bibliography is available on request:
CIPRIANO (Age 21), EUGENIO (Age 25), and VENTURA (Age 19) GARCÍA-MARÍN THOMPSON
Presumed exectuted, 01-02-1981. Location: La Cabaña Fortress, Havana.
Members of a Jehova’s Witness congregation. At least one of the brothers was a former political
prisoner.
SISTER AIDA ROSA PÉREZ - Age 42.
Heart failure due to torture/hard labor. 12-12-67. Location: G-2 Cuban State Security pavilion at
the Military Hospital in Havana.
Daughter of the owner of the “Aida” theater in the city of Pinar del Rio and Catholic nun who had in
1964 reportedly left
OWEN DELGADO TEMPRANA. Age 15.
Assassinated on 23-03-81 in an exit attempt. Location: G-2 State Security police headquarters at
Villa Marista, Havana.
Entered the embassy of Ecuador on 13-02-81 with his family to ask for political asylum. Seven days later,
on 21-02-81, Cuban Special Forces stormed the embassy and took the entire family into custody. At
State Security headquarters, as members of his family endured beatings, Owen yelled for them to stop.
He was then brutally beaten, suffering severe blows to the face and head and had one ear nearly
severed. Transported to the Pinar del Rio hospital he lapsed into a coma and died two days later. His
body was not returned to the family for burial.
THE LIST GOES ON AND ON! BUT WE WILL SEEK JUSTICE FOR THEM VERY SOON! ITS ALL DOCUMENTED AND READY FOR THE HAGE! FOR THE CULPURATES WILL BE CHARGED WITH CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY!
COPY AND PASTE LINK TO BROWSER, SYSTEM WONT ACCEPT ACTIVATED ONES FOR SOME REASON!
http://www.cubainfolinks.org/a....._04_07.pdf
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 14:29
UnSoricel said :”Not one of you has come up with any arguments that say Che was not what he is remembered for yet you all contest him ..”
THANKS FOR THE INTRODUCTION UnSoricel MY “GOOD” MAN!!
216 DOCUMENTED VICTIMS OF CHÉ GUEVARA IN CUBA: 1957 TO 1959
From Armando M. Lago, Ph.D.´s
Cuba: The Human Cost of Social Revolution
Manuscript Pending Publication
The exact number of Che’s victims in Cuba is unknown. Guevara is said to have acknowledged ordering many executions -all carried out without affording the victims due process of law. Combat deaths caused by Che in Cuba or other countries where he led guerrilla operations have yet to be tallied. The following list is not exhaustive and includes only cases for which historic reference is known -those he personally executed as well as those killed under his orders. Names are cited as reported. Additional details, including bibliographic information, are available for most cases.
COPY AND PASTE LINK TO BROWSER, SYSTEM WONT ACCEPT ACTIVATED ONES FOR SOME REASON!
http://www.cubaarchive.org/downloads/CA08.pdf
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 14:22
@#46
good one! LOL
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 14:15
UnSoricel said: ” I let Humberto pass threats and brilliant remarks about me being paid by others and eventually I had to cut him down to his copy and paste size….”
UnSoricel, can you refresh my memory and show me the comment where I “threatened you”? and as for cutting me “down to size”! YOU BETTER HAVE SOME BIG INTELLECTUAL SCISSORS FOR THAT!
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 13:48
@#39
so u understand how I know who & what u r: “… as I was telling Albert who thinks like most bs-ers in the west that freedom should be an earned human right that the rich could probably ..” Now u read thoughts eh? LOL
Ur arrogance by definition is an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions does, U to a tee LMAO !
I guess in ur greatness (that u belive u have) perhaps ur knowledge of history is short so why not chew on this eh?
“… Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent…”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 13:29
117UnSoricel Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 10:55
“…as I was telling Albert who thinks like most bs-ers in the west that freedom should be an earned human right that the rich could probably buy & Did USA had anything to do with the fall of the Roman empire… ?
& to Pamela’s: “… That proves exactly how deluded you are in thinking you are great! … just to tease you darling the Roman empire managed to locate Hannibal in less time than your ’saving innocent life’ drones did … Ciao…”
Show me where I have manifested such thoughts … purposely misquoting does not make something to be true.
Ur manifested arrogance & patronizing attitude (a proven fact by now) does not evel lend humor to ur statements yet … what does the Roman empire’s location of Hannibal have to do w/any other fact?
By the way Hannibal’s was the invader of Rome so, he was “hardly located” by the Romans, perhaps a good reading about the Second Punic War & Hannibal’s subsequent actions (start w/The Battle of Trebia) will educate u before u use history to give credence to ur statements. I am sure ur immense ego will look for minutiae to defend ur point yet it will only prove how ur greatness is suspect.
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 11:54
@#39
“… Intellectual legerdemain won’t help u lend legitimacy to ur “points” but further proves ur selfish arrogance & intent, it also shows ur interest in agrandizing urself w/ur pronouncements which contribute so litte in spite of ur (in ur mind) immense knowledge…”
Read again slowly & while at it:
What have u done for ur freedom?
Better yet, have u given thanks & the people of their time, to ur parents & grand parents for whay u enjoy today? Remember what u think is ur entitlement was paid for by their sacrifice, not just at ur place of birth but in other countries in “ur” eastern Europe.
U diminish their accomplishments with ur arrogant & selfishness attitude whith wich u come across by being so insulting & blase towards other people’s struggle.
Perhaps u think “ur” struggle was more worthy than others which is another way of proving ur arrogance.
So as I said before: “… it would be proper for those people to just shut up & say thank u to the ones that sacrificed for ur ‘entitlement” …” (this means u)
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 11:35
@#39
talk about bs … still waiting for an answer for this one …
“…@Albert … Well like Pam the historian you said it all eventually … In your op we get freedom for free in the west …”
“… And for my money and my brain .. I have proved my point… You guys like many bs-ers in the west you think that freedom is an earned right …”
It is u who proves the point as well as the point I make: u r all talk no action.
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 11:31
UnSoricel
…with all the arrogance you assert that I am guilty of I bet that Castro thinks too that freedom should be earned… And knows that very few are prepared to earn it but many such as yourself think they would. Ciao
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Classic reaction of the one that run out arguments: to write something that the subject believes can be uncomfortable for the contender, preferable something that can be simply a personal attack (damir preffers to call us “emmigrants”…… chorizon is happy calling us cowards…… same kind of personalities at the end)……… of course, like the betrayed husband, the subject is the last one to learn what everyone knows is happening and all readers feels a great pity for the argument less dummy.
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 11:15
UnSoricel:
Here’s your logic: If I visit London or wherever you live and I see a woman being raped on the street I should just walk on by and not call the police. Why? Because there are rapists in the USA so I have no right to criticize.
It really doesn’t make sense, does it? I understand that the web is a sea of anti-American pro-Castro propaganda, but try to ignore it for a while and think straight. If we should condemn a rapist in London we should condemn Castro.
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 11:05
@Albert … In the words of your mate Humberto ….knock yourself out .. In my words… And for my money and my brain .. I have proved my point… You guys like many bs-ers in the west you think that freedom is an earned right…. Well you know what …with all the arrogance you assert that I am guilty of I bet that Castro thinks too that freedom should be earned… And knows that very few are prepared to earn it but many such as yourself think they would. Ciao
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 10:54
@#34
show me where I said this …
“…@Albert … Well like Pam the historian you said it all eventually … In your op we get freedom for free in the west …”
Intellectual legerdemain won’t help u lend legitimacy to ur “points” but further proves ur selfish arrogance & intent, it also shows ur interest in agrandizing urself w/ur pronouncements which contribute so litte in spite of ur (in ur mind) immense knowledge.
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 10:41
@#34
I doubt u’ve done anything more than talk if that much, as u come across w/ur arrogance chances r u were/r to good & intellectually superior to get ur self dirty in any struggle. Perhaps ur “experiences” r nothing more than ur wishful thinking, borrowing from the actions/sacrifices of others. Mean while keep on enjoying the ‘entitlements” u think urs.
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 10:30
@#31
In my life I have encountered many a person full of words & knowledge. These r the people who claim to have participated in struggles for freedom or at least change within the community & country; the ones that talk about their actions & bravery yet I have learned that those r individuals who in reality benefited & enjoy today the result of the sacrifices of others having done nothing but claiming credit perhps to cover their cowardice or selfishness.
These r the people who feels “entitled”, specially when the sacrifices to get there were no theirs but other’s. So: it would be proper for those people to just shut up & say thank u to the ones that sacrificed for ur ‘entitlement”
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 10:23
To the Armchair Revolutionary:
That you could not envision that “middle class” could include caring about humanity just about says it all about how blind you really are. You have zero knowledge of what my “middle class” a** has done personally to improve humanity. I would not be so arrogant as to pretend that I knew that about you, because I don’t. I speak my own mind on a daily basis, thank you, I don’t have to speak through Bertolt Brecht quotes. I would not only forgive you for not playing, as you call it, the “parrot game” with you, I would LOVE IT, if you never responded to one of my comments again. But I already know that that is an impossibility for those of imagined superior intellect who feel that they must always have the last word.
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 10:18
@Albert… Well like Pam the historian you said it all eventually …. In your op we get freedom for free in the west…. How does that sit with the fact the Freedom is a human right??? no worry Albert guys like me have learnt the hard way what Orwell said and never thought it would apply so well in the west too (to paraphrase): we’re all equal in the west but westerners are more equal….. Lovely…ciao
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 10:13
“that want to change to world so it is closer to their view and grants them little privileges.. ”
This describes Che Guevara very succinctly.
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 10:11
@#23
Once again proof of how easly u can be manipulated, all it takes is to push the right buttons & voila … here u r poor fool.
@#24
” …@Albert what do you know about EasternEurope? ….if you guys are so serious about your cause and raising awareness maybe you could start with a history lesson …”
& ur point is? How do u know what I know about history or about eastern europe specially when it is u who keeps mentioning it?
U talk because the breaths of air u take r free & u take it for granted … while comming across as if the freedom u enjoy is ur entitlement whithout u having earned or contributed to it.
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 10:09
@Pamela maybe you and we all should aspire to improve our humanity and not aspire to be middle class…. So there you have it…in your own words … Unfortunately too many of us aspire to be middle class …. Forget humanity …. My point proven… And forgive me if from now on I won’t play so often the parrot game with you.. The game where I say something you twist it in a mirror and mock it back like a parrot…. And with my ‘arrogant’ signature I’d say… a parrot speaks only what he has heard… A man speaks his mind… You can try it too!
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 10:03
@Albert.. Not one of you has come up with any arguments that say Che was not what he is remembered for yet you all contest him .. So forgive my arrogance since I know I am dealing with small fry Sunday revolutionaries…that want to change to world so it is closer to their view and grants them little privileges.. in other words I don’t suffer bs and butt kissers gladly.. But I am sure your approach has a great future in the Cuba to come….
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 09:53
@UnSoricel
“The other option is you might be blinded because you have been wearing middle class horse blinds for too long ….”
For large portions of my life, I could only aspire to be “middle class.” Another prime example of you don’t know what you are talking about. But keep guessing away.
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 09:40
@#23
Perhaps u should follow ur sage advise pitiful fool …
“… Abstinenece is good. I urge the rest of the support brigade of pioneers to exercise the same abstinence. Won’t make them better persons, that is impossible. But it will make the net a cleaner place…”
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 09:38
@#24
is not what I know about estern europe that matters but what u know claim to know about it let alone what u claim to know about Cuba; ur arrogance belays who or what u think u r.
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 09:34
@Pamela, if you are so blinded…try some designer sunglasses you have options …as opposes to you i dont pretend nor imply to represent common sense that would serve everybody just gecause i say so…and my mates do too.. The other option is you might be blinded because you have been wearing middle class horse blinds for too long …. but I am sure you are not prepared to consider that option….we cleared that yesterday…
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 09:20
@Damir
Realising futility of comments for the comments sake, fighting for a failed ideologies, like “some kind of pragmatic capitalism” and religion that are guilty of killing more people than anyone else put all together in the last 2000 years.
Is this not the best comment ever? It’s so good I have to repeat it, realising futility of comments for the comments sake,fighting for a failed ideologies, yes Damir I 100 percent agree with you. Now take your own advice.
I’m blinded by the stellar and superior knowledge of the “Eastern Europeans” on here who have first hand knowledge of everyone in the world’s struggles, unlike us ignorant Westerners who can only read and then not understand anything. We’re all dazzled and humbled in the face of such critical thinking skills, guys, really. And your ability to look right through cyberspace to ascertain where in the world we have or have not traveled, amazing. I can’t wait until the day when we get history books, passports, and airplanes in the “west.”
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 07:00
@Albert what do you know about EasternEurope? Nada…nothing ….beside that Russia is there… I let Humberto pass threats and brilliant remarks about me being paid by others and eventually I had to cut him down to his copy and paste size…. if you guys are so serious about your cause and raising awareness maybe you could start with a history lesson…cos some of us are not that western read ignorant of other people’s struggle not to see that this is where your comments stop and even Humberto is quiet.
Septiembre 11th, 2011 at 03:09
There is no such thing as a “virgin of all Cubans”.
And, there is no such thing as “god” either. Religion is just a form of schizofrenia, well documented in clinical psychology as a belief in an invisible “friend”.
And how about the pin-up grandmother admitting that she abstained from making comments. Realising futility of comments for the comments sake, fighting for a failed ideologies, like “some kind of pragmatic capitalism” and religion that are guilty of killing more people than anyone else put all together in the last 2000 years.
Abstinenece is good. I urge the rest of the support brigade of pioneers to exercise the same abstinence.
Won’t make them better persons, that is impossible. But it will make the net a cleaner place.
Septiembre 10th, 2011 at 22:50
DRAMATIC UPSURGE IN ARTICLES WORLDWIDE ON THE CUBAN 5 SPIES AND THEIR RELEASE! NOW BILL RICHARDSON IN CUBA, UNABLE TO SEE ALAN GROSS EVENTHOUGH HE WAS “INVITED” BY THE CASTROFASCISTS !! IF YOU THINK THIS A COINCIDENCE, THINK AGAIN! FINALLY RICHARDSON CALLED ALAN GROSS BY THE CORRECT LABEL “A HOSTAGE”, A CHIP TO GET THE CONVICTED CUBAN 5 SPIES BACK TO CUBA!
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Septiembre 10th, 2011 at 17:51
@#19
Ur “tales” r giving u away, ur accent, ur use of colloquialisms, ur claims of being from the “east” & all.
Why don’t u use ur name or did ur use of it while insulting & being a pitiful fool got u sensored?
Septiembre 10th, 2011 at 16:19
AND COMING IN AT # 4 ON THE LIST!!! DRUM ROLE PLEASE! IT’S “LA CHINA” ALSO KNOWN AS RAUL CASTRO! HE WANT TO THANK ALL THE LITTLE DISSIDENTS, LIKE THE LADIES IN WHITE AND YOANI SANCHEZ FOR MAKING THIS “HONOR” POSSIBLE!
FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE : The Worst of the Worst Dictators: Revisited - Who will be the next coconut to fall? - BY GEORGE B.N. AYITTEY | SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
When I listed the “Worst of the Worst” dictators — or coconut heads, as I like to call them — in Foreign Policy last summer, bemoaning their “ignoble qualities of perfidy, cultural betrayal, and economic devastation,” few people thought the tyrants would fall any time soon. Then on Jan. 14, 2011, came a loud “THUD!” in Tunisia. A coconut dropped and smashed! Then another in Egypt on Feb. 11! Then on Aug. 24, rebels in Libya seized the “Brother Leader’s” compound, forcing the rat to flee into his underground tunnels and disappear. Pro-democracy activists are now vigorously shaking coconut trees in Africa and the Middle East, hoping that their leaders’ rickety autocracies will also come crashing down.
The so-called experts in the Western media were caught napping. These people are not ready for democracy, they once told us. Fox News couldn’t even find Egypt on the map, and seemed befuddled by the “senile and paranoid autocrat,” as I called Hosni Mubarak last year.
More pathetic and clueless than anyone else, however, were — and still are — the hardened coconuts themselves. They never saw it coming and never knew what hit them. With cobwebs dangling from their ears, they remain stone deaf and impervious to reason. With an abiding faith in their security forces to protect and save them, they have spent inordinate amounts of time and money erecting layer upon layer of security between themselves and their people — just in case one fails.
Under increasing pressure to reform their abominable political systems, dictators across Africa and the Middle East are resorting to some bizarre antics. One after another, they perform the same “coconut boogie”:
4. RAÚL CASTRO - Cuba
After 52 years under the rule of the Castro brothers, Cubans are stirring. On Aug. 23, a group of four women took to the steps of the capitol building in Havana chanting “freedom.” The Castro security goons pounced, raining rocks and using iron bars on the unarmed ladies. The crowd that had gathered booed, hissed, and insulted the agents.
Things were already getting hot for Raúl prior to the Arab Spring. Cuba’s socialist economy has been in the doldrums. On Sept. 13, 2010, Cuba announced it would lay off “at least” half a million state workers over the next six months and simultaneously allow more jobs to be created in the private sector as the socialist economy struggled to get back on its feet. The plan was part of a pledge to shed some one million state jobs, a full fifth of the official workforce. It increasingly looks like Raúl’s plan is akin to Mikhail Gorbachev’s “perestroika” — sans “glasnost.”
“Our state cannot and should not continue maintaining companies, productive entities and services with inflated payrolls and losses that damage our economy and result counterproductive, create bad habits and distort workers’ conduct,” the CTC, Cuba’s official labor union, announced. The Castro regime, which has for decades relied on its relatively generous welfare state to retain autocratic rule, will now have to rely entirely on state repression. It’s a very fragile arrangement.
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Septiembre 10th, 2011 at 13:37
@Humerto when your nose would be pink and not red and blue I would be clairvoyant too… I thought you gay guys do more than drink dance travel.. But don’t look the type from la mal education from almodovar.. You sound straight as a rock if not a cross
Septiembre 10th, 2011 at 13:28
UnSoricel! Thanks for the invitation! BUT, first of all Im GAY, love my countries USA and CUBA more than men and you apparently ARE NOT CLAIRVOYANT as I THOUGHT! Lived abroad, traveled, danced, drank and still do! Dont worry about me! I do VERY WELL in the ENTERTAINMENT FIELD!
MIAMI HERALD :Jim Cason’s work in Cuba offered ‘refreshing approach’ - by JOE CARDONA
I have always been amazed at the lengths some U.S. elected officials and diplomats (present administration included) will go to justify the totalitarian regime in Havana.
The left-leaning intelligentsia (though it is difficult to determine right from left anymore, particularly when it comes to foreign affairs) holds onto the notion that the U.S. economic embargo has been a complete failure. This claim has become gospel for policy wonks at American think tanks. If the ultimate barometer of U.S. policy towards Cuba over the last half century has been how effective American initiatives have been in helping the Cuban people attain democracy, then one must recognize that the “softer” method — reflected through talks (dialogue) and cultural exchange has also been an abject failure.
This week I shared some thoughts on Cuba with Coral Gables Mayor Jim Cason, the former head of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana. I find his views on U.S.-Cuba relations refreshing. He speaks with a great deal of common sense. His convictions have been shaped by four decades of foreign service in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is precisely his experience in dealing with Latin American regimes both on the right and left that prevents him from tainting his views with the unfortunate, self-loathing American complex that plagues many U.S. diplomats in our hemisphere.
“The difference between Cuba and the other dictatorial regimes that I experienced in Latin America is that Cuba’s government is totalitarian,” said Cason, who arrived in Havana as chief of the U.S. Mission, in the fall of 2002. Upon his arrival, the Cubans were in no hurry to meet with the Bush administration’s appointee, so Cason took the opportunity to get to know the people of Cuba, particularly the dissidents and human rights activists who at that time were growing in number.
“These people were nothing like the ‘elitist, mercenaries’ the Cuban government had made them out to be,” Cason told me. “They were humble people. Many of them were living in dire economic conditions and yet no one asked for money. They sought moral support and supplies but no one asked for money.”
Those very same “humble people” comprised the majority of the 75 dissenters arrested by the regime in the spring of 2003 — now known as Cuba’s Black Spring. Fortunately for the opposition leaders imprisoned under bogus charges, Cason did not stand pat. “I needed to do something to prompt the attention of the international press,” he said. And sure enough, Jim Cason’s response to the unjust imprisonments was unorthodox, thought provoking, and courageous.
He proceeded to go on a publicity blitz like no foreign diplomat had dared to do in Fidel Castro’s Cuba. The campaign included putting up a scrolling electronic billboard outside the Interests Section with messages that challenged the government’s unlawful detentions. As you can imagine, Castro was fit to be tied. The Cubans retaliated by putting up a wall of flagpoles to cover Cason’s billboard.
They also made Cason the butt of all jokes, including an animated cartoon series featuring “ el Cabo Cason” (Corporal Cason) portraying the American diplomat as an evil wizard that eventually morphs into a rat. “I was honored and thought it was hysterical,” Cason said. “I really knew then that I was getting to them.”
“Getting to them” he did. Cason’s dogged insistence on speaking out for the jailed 75 drew attention to their cause. All of the 75 have now been released due to pressure from the international community, especially after last year’s death of Orlando Zapata Tamayo in prison.
“I didn’t go to Cuba to make friends. I went there to stand up for what is right and to defend those people against the totalitarian regime,” Cason pointed out.
Jim Cason chose to support vulnerable victims rather than to gain favor with a dictatorial regime — an approach that won him no friends among U.S. intellectuals but gave comfort to Cuban dissidents who risked their lives.
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Septiembre 10th, 2011 at 13:16
@Humberto … Well you know there is a world out there… With drink, smoke and counter parts with nice smell and soft skin…called women… Apparently every man has one from God ….that is his pair … I don’t believe it since I want more than one … Though even at times one is too much…. So now you know … And I think you should get out there and forget about Gooooogle…cos autumn is coming and winter too… And women drink and smoke don’t wait too long and you get old!
Septiembre 10th, 2011 at 13:05
UnSoricel! YES! THEY KEEP ME LOCKED UP WITH A LAPTOP AND GOOGLE! HE HE HE! DONT YOU HATE IT?
Septiembre 10th, 2011 at 12:50
@Humberto…. Immm I see… You don’t go out much…. Do they keep you locked at night? Too..
Septiembre 10th, 2011 at 12:33
UnSoricel! I do what I do and you dont like it! THAT IS MY AIM! ORIGINAL OR NOT!
Septiembre 10th, 2011 at 12:31
THE CASTROFASCIST CONTINUE TO TRY TO HANG TO POWER! IS USELESS, THE PEOPLE WANT CHANGE AND IT WILL HAPPEN SOON!
SACRAMENTO BEE : Cuban dissidents detained ahead of protest Share - By ANNE-MARIE GARCIA
HAVANA — A leading human rights worker said Friday that authorities have detained two former political prisoners in eastern Cuba, the first arrests involving members of a group of 75 intellectuals and social commentators since they were freed after a 2003 crackdown on dissent.
The detention of Angel Moya and Jose Daniel Ferrer occurred as the men were preparing to march in the town of Palma Soriano, said Elizardo Sanchez, a prominent human rights activist on the island. Moya is the husband of Berta Soler, a leader of the Ladies in White dissident group.
The last of the prisoners from 2003 were freed earlier this year under an agreement between Roman Catholic Cardinal Jaime Ortega and President Raul Castro, but the Ladies in White have kept up their opposition activities.
Sanchez said the detentions occurred a day after a march by the Ladies in White in Santiago at which nearly two dozen people were detained, including another of the group’s leaders, Laura Pollan. But all of those people were quickly released, he said.
A similar march Thursday in Havana also resulted in arrests, though Soler told The Associated Press that those detained in the capital were not linked to her group.
Soler said Thursday’s arrests were the result of “provocations by a small group with which we have nothing to do.”
Dissidents have complained of increasing harassment in recent weeks as they seek to expand their activities outside the capital.
On Monday, the Cuban Roman Catholic Church denounced acts of abuse by pro-government crowds against the Ladies and said it had received assurances from Castro’s government that officials were not behind the violence.
Cuban officials insist that the counter-protests at the Ladies’ marches are spontaneous, though state security officials are normally present. State media have claimed the uptick in reports of alleged harassment is part of a foreign news media campaign being orchestrated by exiles and other political opponents.
The government considers the opposition to be common criminals and mercenaries paid by Washington to stir up trouble.
In its statement Monday, the church called on both sides to lower the tension level, saying any behavior that “could hurt peaceful existence and harm the good of the nation will never receive any support from those with a Christian view of the world.”
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Septiembre 10th, 2011 at 12:29
@ no Humberto but Iam beginning to think Iam at least not in denial… Meaning .. you find it so hard to be an original ??? Or is it your religious upbringing that makes you follow a leader ???
Septiembre 10th, 2011 at 12:20
UnSoricel is now A PSYCHIC AND EXPERT ANTHROPOLOGIST! KNOWS THE FUTURE, KNOWS THE CUBAN CULTURE INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF CUBA BETTER THAN ANYONE! I WANT TO SEND MY NEPHEWS TO THE SCHOOL YOU ATTENDED FOR SURE DUDE!
Septiembre 10th, 2011 at 12:17
CURRENT STATE OF CUBAN ARCHITECTURE AND INFRASTRUCTURE - IMAGES ARE WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS! ANYTHING WOULD BE AN IMPROVEMENT AFTER HURRICANE “LA CHINA” & “LA MOMIA”!
VIMEO VIDEO : Paraiso (The Cuban Paradise)- by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
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