Dilma’s Agenda
Image taken from http://somoslanoticia.com/
“I prefer a million critical voices
before the silence of the dictatorships.”
Dilma Rousseff
Choosing the time for a presidential visit can be an exceedingly thankless task in this so unpredictable and changeable world. When the date of the visit of a head of state is placed on the agenda, announced, and reconciled with the hosts, life commonly offers up the unexpected. The government palaces don’t control chance, nor anticipate the surprising events that strain the arrival of a dignitary. Dilma Rousseff knows this well. Her presence in Havana was coordinated for weeks and was even preceded by that of the foreign minister, Antonio de Aguiar Patriota. Everything seemed neatly tied up: a fast timeframe, efficient, protocol, focused on economic themes, ending with her boarding her flight to Haiti. But something complicated it.
Several days before the Brazilian economist and politician landed at Jose Marti Airport, a young Cuban died after a prolonged hunger strike. The official media threw itself into presenting him as a common criminal, although he had been arrested at an opposition march through the streets of Contramaestre. The radicalized discourse of power and the political temperature reached those levels where our rulers perform so well. In that context, the recently concluded Conference of the Cuban Communist Party became more an act of reaffirmation than of change, a statement of unity rather than an opening. Many who were waiting for an announcement of political transformations of great significance, realized that the event was, instead, the ultimate lost opportunity for the generation in power. One day after its closure, Raul Castro — General Secretary of the only permitted party — received Dilma Rousseff, the former guerrilla who today leads a country with diverse political forces and a highly critical press.
Dilma’s Cuban agenda includes inspecting the construction work at the Port of Mariel and the possible granting of new bank credits. Brazil is our second largest trading partner in Latin America, but it’s not just a question of resources. The Raul regime also has the urge, at this time, to be legitimized by other presidents in the region. So there will be smiles, handshakes, commitments to “eternal friendship” and photos, lots of photos. The civic activists, for their part, will attempt a meeting with the woman who was tortured and imprisoned during a military government, though there is little chance that she will receive them. Dilma Rousseff will converse with Raul Castro, she will be very close to him at exactly this delicate juncture in which chance has placed her. We hope she will not miss the opportunity and will comport herself consistent with the clamor for democracy, instead of opting for a complicit silence before a dictatorship.
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Note: I will not know until Friday, February 3, whether the Cuban authorities will finally allow me to travel for the presentation of the documentary “Cuba-Honduras Connection” in Jequie, Bahia, in Brazil. Thanks in advance to all who have done something so that I might make it to Brazil. Special thanks to Senator Eduardo Suplicy, to the filmmaker Dado Galvao, to @xeniantunes, and to other Brazilian citizens.
ConexĂŁo Cuba Honduras - trailer
Febrero 8th, 2012 at 14:41
289 prior posts makes this the BEST BLOG on PLANET EARTH. Yoani Sanchez and her BLOG will be part of CUBAS history forever. Thanks to everyone here for making this Historic BLOG possible. GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 22:40
Buenas Yoanis y a todos los demas activistas y blogers en la isla:
“La revolte contre le pĂ©re”,un libro que por su extensiĂłn no se puede leer rapidamente.
“Esta calle es de Fidel”.??? Que significa eso?
Fidel alimenta a la poblaciĂłn solo hace falta gritar “esta calle es Fidel” y cuatro idioteses más que nunca nos han llevado a ninguna parte,le ronca el tallo como le dirĂan los jĂłvenes o como decĂan en Cuba los guajiros hace un tiempo atras.
Mientras mas pobreza y miseria menos probable una soluciĂłn pacĂfica.Los hermanos Castro quieren seguir chupando a los trabajadores cubanos que despues seran obligados a cantar “esta calle es de Fidel” sin nada de comer en la casa, hay que tener una resistencia tremenda o una locura temporal que no se acaba, PorquĂ©?
Hay que volver a lo que los cubanos-americanos añoran; los tiempos donde al menos la comida era diaria aunque no con calidad.La salud y la sanidad de la sociedad cubana es impresendible.
SĂ tenemos una sociedad enferma; hay que curarla de la mejor forma que sea posible, hay muchos tratando de encontrar la sanidad social y eso no va a ser facil.
Sinceramente,
Julio Gonzalez Jr.
Muchos estan sin comer pero por una lasca de queso y jamĂłn (muy finas)y un vaso de wachipupa ya es suficiente para esperar por el prĂłximo acto de repudio en contra de las Damas de Blanco que pueden llegar a ser de hierro.
Yo no lo puedo creer.La realidad es tan dura que no podemos pasarnos el dĂa deprimidos hasta que nos molestemos. Pero algunos retirados del Minint no tienen comida suficiente en casa y entonces limpian las oficinas con el objetivo de un almuerzo mediocre y algo de comer durante la noche.
Esa señora era Coronel del Minint y tenĂa cierta autoridad antes del perĂodo especial.A ese punto hemos llegado.No le dicto pautas a nadie ni quiero que todos piensen como yo, pero solo sentados todo el dĂa vamos “encubando” una depresiĂłn peligrosa.
Piensen como les parezca, decidan hacer lo que crean mas factible pero no se les olvide por favor que en ambos lados hay niños y viejos en esta trifulca ideológica pero no podemos ser tan guaposos ni ser tan bravucones.Los niños y ancianos necesitan mas de alimentos que de torturas.
Esta es una trifulca econĂłmica en especial una guerra de las monedas que nadie entiende pero esta ahi muy cerca y no nos hemos dado cuenta que entre el euro, el dolar y el oro como las reservas monetarias de los paĂses mas avanzados y los demas?: ese pudiera ser un tĂłpico a discutir sin manipulaciones del rĂ©gimen.
Sinceramente,
Julio Gonzalez Jr
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 19:02
Cuba Libre (La MENTIROTA & HOMOPHOBE) said: “256 Anonimo, Whats with the obsession of your dirty underwear?? I mean we all have our preferences and we all know that “El Ciber Raton” is a faggott, and that Yoani is a sado-masochist, she keeps on begging her government keep on mistreating her. It`s all good. My moto is if it turns you on do it”, as long as you keep it in your own bedroom. But as far as your scatological tendencies are concerned, I don`t think anyone here is interested.”
C.L.! NOW WE SEE YOUR TRUE COLORS! JE JE JE! JUST LIKE YOUR MASTERS THE CASTROFASCISTS WHO PUT THE GAYS, DISSIDENTS, WRITERS AND JEHOVAH WITNESS’ IN THE UMAP CAMPS! YOU LIKE THEM ARE PURE TRASH!
Mauvaise Conduite or Improper Conduct is the title of a 1984 documentary film directed by NĂ©stor Almendros and Orlando JimĂ©nez Leal. The documentary interviews Cuban refugees to explore the Cuban government’s imprisonment of homosexuals, political dissidents, and Jehovah’s Witnesses into concentration camps under its policy of Military Units to Aid Protection. The documentary was produced with the support of French television Antenne 2 and won the Best Documentary Audience Award at the 1984 San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
Conducta Impropria - Improper Conduct (Part 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 18:58
meant Miramar post 286
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 18:43
John, Cuba Libre cannot afford Mirabar. Maybe Guanabo, but there too many poor people living in this town, so I am not sure if he will consider moving there
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 18:20
Cuba Libre #280! Hey, you’re still here!! I thought you’d be house hunting in Miramar by now. Tell us when you’ve moved in. If you’ve got a spare room we’ll come and stay.
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 18:02
Cuba Libre, Soopermouse - Unsoricel is a declared bisexual, ( JE JE JE as I fat lesbian I still have a chance with her) so please start calling her a faggot too. And FYI I have no obsesion with dirty underwear. Unsoricel offered to mail me her dirty underwear. Here is Unsoricel’s contact information…feel free to go over for a tea flat 2 ,37 springfield road, Leicester, leics LE2 3BB, GB phone 44.07742394232
PS: please respond to my challenge of taking a trip to Havana into a luxurios hotel for 2 weeks that only serves breakfast and then live off with only (1 CUC a day that is still more then Cubans make). You’ve stayed in Cayo Guillermo where there are no cuban cities, just resort. You could learn more about Cuba from TV then you learn from your Cayo Guillermo stay.
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 17:57
Cuba Libre
Go. Back. And. Read. The. Post. To. Which. You. Are. Referring. S-L-O-W-L-Y.
I was quoting your friend UnSoricel.
Wow, the unbridled stupidity.
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 17:08
Glad to see that there is no denigrating from the likes of UnSoricel, Cuba Libre and Damir.
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 16:56
An(al)omino @273 …I think that making threats says it all about who’s who…and what are you… reverse psychology worked again… keep at it see where it gets you!!! To tell you to learn to use a computer if you really want to call yourself snitch is a waste of my time !!! you are justBS…and incompetent in that department too… So much for putting your nose where you mouth is again….the…proof from a little poof that you just denigrate since that’s what your kind does… .. From now on you get no quarter from me too for you BS and cheap skate character!
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 16:38
256 Anonimo,
Whats with the obsession of your dirty underwear?? I mean we all have our preferences and we all know that “El Ciber Raton” is a faggott, and that Yoani is a sado-masochist, she keeps on begging her government keep on mistreating her. It`s all good. My moto is if it turns you on do it”, as long as you keep it in your own bedroom. But as far as your scatological tendencies are concerned, I don`t think anyone here is interested.
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 14:28
I think Fidel had his colon cancer because he only used Granma, so it should NOT be used as toilet paper
John you are right, although people with mental problems ( Unsoricel, Damir )should be taken care of. The other one seems normal living the canadian hell, being oppresed here in Canada thinks he could have a better life in Cuba. He still has to respond my challenge of going into a luxurios Havana hotel for 2 weeks that only serves breakfast and then live off with only (1 CUC a day that is still more then Cubans make).
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 14:16
Granma is a bias news source. Its a tool of the Dictatorship, used to manipulate ideas and sell Castro propaganda. Not a reliable source by any means. Best use is toilet paper or a liner for a bird cage.
Las Damas de Blanco and Yoani are Whats happening in Cuba today.
What happens in Cuba and how Cubans are treated is SHAMEFUL.
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 14:13
Anonimo et al, I think the best thing to do with Unsorical is to completely ignore her, because she is completely bonkers. It’s a waste of time responding to her nonsense. I would also suggest ignoring Cuba Libre and Damir. Damir is deranged and dangerous. As for Cuba Libre, nobody could be that stupid. I’m beginning to think he’s joking with us all, just to get everybody fired up. IGNORE!
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 14:01
Unsoricel, please stop projecting your feelings in the online environment. WTF is wrong with you and your scatology, anal sex, lesbians, dirty underwear and so on ? I thought that you will come oyu your senses. I will make your real identity, names, addresses, phone number known on ALL blogs and websites were you bother people.
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 13:54
Humberto, Raul and the other party liders are afraid that if the mummy dies there will be an uprising at his funeral, as he nation is expect to gather ( maybe forced to go ) for his funeral. On the 21st of dec 1989, Ceausescu had the idea of organizing a huge rally to condemn the revolution that started in other cities. Well, that rally marked the begining of Ceausescu’s last 24 hours in power, cause 24 hours after that meeting both Ceausescu and his wife were prisoners.
So, you can bet that Fidel will “live” as long Chavez is in power. When Chavez is gone, Cuba will be free as well.
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 13:40
FINANCIAL TIMES: Cuban blogger riles with her weapon of words- By John Paul Rathbone in Havana
Yoani Sánchez is Cuba’s best-known blogger and, for many outside the island, also its opposition’s most important voice. She is also, however, a philologist whose refusal to mangle the Spanish language is matched only by her love of 140 character tweets.
Resolving that contradiction is one of the lesser challenges Ms Sánchez faces as an internet-based activist in a country that, by some metrics, has less internet connectivity than even Haiti.
“I try to tweet with the brevity and elegance of classical Spanish, while only using whole words,” she jokes of herself on a recent evening in Havana.
Such humour is characteristic of the 36-year-old, whose mordant and highly personal vignettes of Cuba’s quotidian drabness have long angered the regime – even as her writings’ literary and political merits have turned her into an international star.
Her blog Generation Y, begun on a whim in 2007 but now visited up to 14m times a month, ranges from piquant observations about lemon shortages to the human rights implications of the visit to Havana by Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff last week. She has 200,000 followers on Twitter. Last year, Foreign Policy magazine voted her one of the world’s Top 100 Thinkers.
Cuba’s state-run media meanwhile accuses Ms Sánchez of conducting cyberwar. Fidel Castro has called her the leader of a group of “special envoys of neo-colonialism, sent to undermine” the Castro brothers’ rule.
Sitting in a Havana state-run restaurant with independent journalist Reinaldo Escobar, her longtime partner and collaborator, Ms Sánchez, with her slight frame and toothy grin, hardly cuts a typical figure of a counter-revolutionary agent.
“I consider myself an independent citizen,” she says, pointing out that in Cuba’s one-party system there are “no crimes against thinking or opinion – only against the state”.
Precise attention to language is a hallmark of her conversation. Ms Sánchez puns that Cuba’s irregular Communist party congresses are “less a parley-ment than a listening-ment: there’s not been a single “No” vote in 50 years”.
But perhaps the greatest puzzle about her work is technology. How does social media operate in Cuba given the state’s information monopoly, only 2 per cent of people have access to the internet and sending a single Tweet can cost up to $1 – a fifth of the average weekly state wage?
Critics say that explains why Cuba’s fragmented opposition movement is better known outside the island than inside. Even a copybook Facebook site is a government-run intranet.
Ms Sánchez, who earns her living from a bi-weekly column in El PaĂs, the highest-circulation newspaper in Spain, says mobile phone technology, and the “echo chamber of abroad”, amplify social media’s local impact.
“I send an SMS text to 70 people, they send to 70 more, and so on. Texts can also be uploaded directly on to the internet. It is tweeting blind, but the tweets get mentioned in news stories abroad, which are broadcast by Hispanic TV and watched by Cubans on illegal satellite dishes here. The echo chamber is crucial.”
She writes the blog only once a week, she adds, “to let myself breathe”.
This ingenious network works both for incoming and outgoing news. “We were the first to learn of Gaddafi’s death,” she says. “My phone was red-hot with texts.” As Etecsa, the state telephone company, has just cut phone charges, she adds her “text newspaper” may get more effective still.
Even so, the system has limits. Ms Sánchez rolls her eyes at suggestions made by Republican party candidates campaigning in the Florida primaries last month that they wanted to reverse President Barack Obama’s loosening of travel restrictions, tighten the US embargo and promote a “Cuban spring”.
“It is far too early for that,” she says. The Arab world “spent years integrating technology into their lives. We are still in an embryonic state”. About 10 per cent of Cubans use a mobile phone; in Tunisia, it is more than 75 per cent.
“I’ve also learnt that the more restrictions there are, the less people have and the more subservient they become to who dispenses it – the state,” she adds. “We are a long way from the banality of internet ubiquity – although I am all for a bit more frivolity.”
Pope Benedict XVI’s scheduled visit in March, Havana’s recent freeing of political prisoners and her own international profile help protect Ms Sánchez. Pluck and a sense of humour meanwhile seem to keep her spirits up.
She says she was not realistically expecting Ms Rousseff to voice any human rights concerns while in Cuba – or for Havana to allow her an exit visa to visit Brazil, the 19th time permission has been denied.
“I never want to become bitter,” says Ms Sánchez. “I tweet, I blog, I write. I wake happier than most. Everyday is a new scenario.”
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0.....z1libx75si
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 13:25
Cuba Libre (La MENTIROTA) said: “Hola “El Ciber Raton, JE JE JE! Is CNN a trustworthy source for you?? I know you get your posts from there once in a while. So read it and weep “raton”. JE,, JE, JE”
C.L.! IM WAYYYYY AHEAD OF YOU BABY! SAW IT LAST NIGHT! SAME OLD NEWS AS I POSTED BEFORE! MAYBE YOU DID NO READ IT! WILL POST AGAIN! JE JE JE! THAT’S NOT WEEPING! JUST REALIZING HOW LATE YOU ARE TO THE GAME! AND WE AINT TALKING SUNDAY’S SUPERBOWL! JE JE JE!
Humberto Capiro (El Ciberguenz@) said:
“U.H.! ANYONE WITH ANY SENSE CAN SEE THAT THE CASTROFASCISTS ARE HIDING SOMETHING! NO FIDEL LIVE? NO INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISTS INVITED TO THE BOOK LAUNCHING EVENT? INTERESTING! NO VIDEO SHOWING PROOF OF THE REAL DATE? HMMMM! WITH THEIR LYING TRACK RECORD I WOULD NOT BELIEVE THEM ON ANYTHING THEY SAY LITTLE LESS WHAT THEY SHOW ON THE PARTY DOMINATED MEDIA. THE PLAN IS MOST LIKELY TO KEEP FIDEL’S HEALTH, MIND CONDITION OR EVEN DEATH (my bet) STRETCHED OUT TO SEE IF THEY CAN GET MORE MONEY AND DUMP FORE PEOPLE INTO THE PRIVATE MARKET WHILE INCREASING REPRESSION ON DISSIDENTS! WONT WORK, THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG AND INFORMATIOM IS FLOWING IN AND OUT OF CUBA! THAT’S WHY YOU CASTRO AGENTS/APOLOGISTS ARE HERE, TRYING TO DIFUSE ALL THIS ENERGY BY CUBANS IN AND OUT OF THE ISLAND AND THEIR FRIENDS ! JE JE JE!”
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 13:18
Un Hinged said: “Anonimo.. I guess no chance for me that you would put your NOSE where you mouth was then! I wish you WAS a big fat lesbian the ones Bob Crumb draw - so my victory was even sweeter!”
U.H.!! REMEMBER THAT IM GAY AND GOT LOTS OF LESBIAN FRIENDS! YOU BETTER WATCH WHAT YOU SAY OR I WILL GIVE THEM YOUR INFORMATION THAT Anonimo SO GRACIOUSLY POSTED HERE!!
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 13:14
Un Hinged said: “Griffin ..Truth according to Humberto… NO contest there!! haha… I can imagine the doc he sent… done by American gringos for gringo Americanos… commie bad had nukes, old days good… Batista nice man with no luck… Castro evil lurking… Che.. silly boy who couldn’t be a doc… ahh!!”
U.H.! SINCE Cuba Libre (La MENTIROTA) DOES NOT WANT TO BE MY “MINNIE MOUSE” WILL YOU CONSIDER IT?? JE JE JE! YOU GUYS ARE JUST PRACTICE FOR WHEN THE CASTROFASCIST OLIGARCHY/MAFIA START SENDING THEIR “BIG GUNS” TO THIS SITE! O.M.G!!!!!!! MAYBE YOU ARE THEIR “BIG GUNS”!! JE JE JE! OR SHOULD I SAY FLECHAS Y PIEDRECITAS!! JE JE!
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 13:12
Anonimo, I am sorry then if I offended you and I wish you the best.
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 13:06
Cuba Libre (La MENTIROTA) said: “Un Soricel, I admire most of your posts and the way you manage to discredit the 4 or 5 extreme Yoani brown noses that keep posting continuous false slanders in here. Did you notice that every time either I or you prove them wrong or contradict any of their stupidity, they change subject and come back with a post completely irrelevant to the subject at matter. As long as there are a few of us in here who can detect and deny their falseties and slanders, I rest assured. The truth will be heard. Here is but yet another example of the wonders the Revolutionary Government has done.”
C.L. !! ME ESTOY MEANDOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! GRANMAN AS YOUR SOURCE???? PRICELESS!
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: RESTRICTIONS ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN CUBA- Amnesty International Publications 2010
STATE MONOPOLY OF THE MEDIA
The media is a key arena in which the right to freedom of expression is exercised. It plays a
critical role in any society, for example raising awareness of human rights and exposing
human rights violations. The media has the potential to help shape public opinion and to
monitor and assess the performance of those holding public office at all levels; it is an
important tool for scrutinizing government practices in all societies no matter their political
ideology. The absence of an independent media is a serious obstacle to the enjoyment of
freedom of expression and the adequate review of corrupt and abusive official practices.
Restrictions on the Cuban media are stringent and pervasive and clearly stop those in the
country from enjoying their right to freedom of opinion and expression, including freedom to
seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of
frontiers.8 The state maintains a total monopoly on television, radio, the press, internet
service providers, and other electronic means of communication.9 According to official
figures, there are currently 723 publications (406 print and 317 digital), 88 radio stations,
four national TV channels (two devoted to educational programming), 16 regional TV stations
and an international TV channel. All are financed and controlled by the government.10 Three
newspapers provide national coverage: Granma, which is the organ of the Cuban Communist
Party, Juventud Rebelde and Trabajadores.
http://www.amnesty.org/en/libr.....2010en.pdf
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 12:12
Men are too evolved and mature for that sort of thing instead they use phrases like dicktater and offer to send their smelly underwear through the mail.
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 12:11
Men are never anal revenge takers.
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 12:04
Griffin… no I am not a serious person, you are right… I left that behind… and it is the biggest achievment in my little pointless life..
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 12:02
An(al)omino, as I was saying put your NOSE and MONEY where your MOUTH so to clarify if I am the person who you actually try to slander here… You sound a lot like a girl in how anal you are and take revenge on people you do not know without discerning scrupules - Someone pointed that below just as well that you use soemone’s identity without approval… In many respects you feel a bit like Pamela that’s how I recall her style!… I didn’t take Cubanos for vengeful liars and stupid for that but there is always the exception that ‘helps’ the rule!
Nevermind from my side.. a sour loser is a sour loser..is a sour loser!… so go for it girl if that makes you happy… !!
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 11:10
Un Soricel,
You are not a serious person. There is no point even attempting to discuss something with you.
Good bye.
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 11:04
Indeed, Cuba Libre please admire Unsoricel for her brightness. But she also wrote the following 6 years ago. We all know she is mentally unbalanced, her facebook profiel ann her neverending online rants on hundreds of other blogs are a good proof. I just hope one day somebody will take her to the laughing academy.
We remembered the pain and the cold. The lack of any choice, empty shops,lack of electricity, fear. We remembered growing up wit it, the terror present at each step, parents begging the children to never ever tell anyone what was being talked at home. The children who did talk too much… their parent(s) would one day disappear. How can I explain to anyone who hasn’t developped his/her own consciousness under these auspices what it was like? How can I tell anyone how I felt after our revolution when the shops actually had food? How can I tell anyone about the enjoyment I felt when I could buy eggs- until a week before a luxury product, and brought them home like the most sacred thing? How can I explain to anyone the Transition- from terror to poverty? I was 14 in 1989. I grew up hard, in a highly dysfunctional environment. I learned things no child should ever learn.
I have been out of Romania for 7 years now. But communism is still with me. I still have nightmares at night, I remember it.
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 10:57
There you go, adolescent.
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 10:52
Anonimo.. I guess no chance for me that you would put your NOSE where you mouth was then! I wish you WAS a big fat lesbian the ones Bob Crumb draw - so my victory was even sweeter!
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 10:46
Griffin ..Truth according to Humberto… NO contest there!! haha… I can imagine the doc he sent… done by American gringos for gringo Americanos… commie bad had nukes, old days good… Batista nice man with no luck… Castro evil lurking… Che.. silly boy who couldn’t be a doc… ahh!!
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 10:24
Huberto,
I just watched the documentary, “Las Torturas de Castro” …a truly horrific account of the evil Castro regime. Thank you for posting that link. I will be forwarding it to the many useful idiots I know who admire Castro.
Truth is a powerful weapon.
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 10:03
Cuba Libre,
You are an idiot if you take the word of a “blogger close to the Cuban government”.
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 09:35
Right Cuba Libre, an(al)nomino and dicktater and I’ll send you my smelly underwear are the marks of someone who has a lot of credibility, of an adolescent that is.
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 09:34
Here’s Fidel at the latest book signing, his English is still good. Hope I’m not violating Granma copyrights by posting this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkYfmRwryQo
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 09:15
And here is but more reading for all you who still doubt the wonders Mr. Castro has accomplished as far as health care is concerned. Maybe if I keep flooding in here with the real truth of Cuba today, the “Generation Y” might open their eyes and see how lucky they are with a government with such few ressources manages to perform miracles.
http://english.pravda.ru/healt.....natural-0/
And here is some more reading if any will dare to read, JE, JE, JE
http://english.pravda.ru/opini.....nd_Rice-0/
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 09:06
Hola “El Ciber Raton, JE JE JE
Is CNN a trustworthy source for you?? I know you get your posts from there once in a while. So read it and weep “raton”. JE,, JE, JE
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/06/.....index.html
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 09:00
Un Soricel,
I admire most of your posts and the way you manage to discredit the 4 or 5 extreme Yoani brown noses that keep posting continuous false slanders in here. Did you notice that every time either I or you prove them wrong or contradict any of their stupidity, they change subject and come back with a post completely irrelevant to the subject at matter.
As long as there are a few of us in here who can detect and deny their falseties and slanders, I rest assured. The truth will be heard. Here is but yet another example of the wonders the Revolutionary Government has done.
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/cu.....nefit.html
Oh yes I forgot to ask, who is it that`s treating the dissidents as terrorists at Guantanamo Bay. Not the Revolutionary Government for sure. They are being treated as terrorists by the U.S. Navy. Now who is to doubt U.S. Intelligence, maybe they are terrorists.
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 08:55
Un Hinged said: “As I was saying Fidel slum dunked you again… man that energy at 85 …. better than a rapper, the old mummy was Madonna at the ’superbowl’… Now it is the screen of words you use just to forget he kicked (your) ass… Again … !!!”
U.H.! ANYONE WITH ANY SENSE CAN SEE THAT THE CASTROFASCISTS ARE HIDING SOMETHING! NO FIDEL LIVE? NO INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISTS INVITED TO THE BOOK LAUNCHING EVENT? INTERESTING! NO VIDEO SHOWING PROOF OF THE REAL DATE? HMMMM! WITH THEIR LYING TRACK RECORD I WOULD NOT BELIEVE THEM ON ANYTHING THEY SAY LITTLE LESS WHAT THEY SHOW ON THE PARTY DOMINATED MEDIA. THE PLAN IS MOST LIKELY TO KEEP FIDEL’S HEALTH, MIND CONDITION OR EVEN DEATH (my bet) STRETCHED OUT TO SEE IF THEY CAN GET MORE MONEY AND DUMP FORE PEOPLE INTO THE PRIVATE MARKET WHILE INCREASING REPRESSION ON DISSIDENTS! WONT WORK, THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG AND INFORMATIOM IS FLOWING IN AND OUT OF CUBA! THAT’S WHY YOU CASTRO AGENTS/APOLOGISTS ARE HERE, TRYING TO DIFUSE ALL THIS ENERGY BY CUBANS IN AND OUT OF THE ISLAND AND THEIR FRIENDS ! JE JE JE!
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 07:34
I don’t live in the U.S. so not sure what your last comment was about. You make no sense.
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 06:45
An(al)onimo, that coming from you is like throwing stones at Fidel when you live in a ‘huge’ glasshouse… no surprise! no condo then!!
Apparenlty in NewOrleans if the flood doesn’t kill you, and the government doesn’t care if you are alive or dead (since it is their freedom not to care), then the teenagers get you!!! Curfew anyone??
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 06:23
I guess some people are too dumb to recognize when they are being made fun of. Oh well.
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 06:05
So An(al)onimo, no invite for me ‘to visit’ your 200k condo in Cuba then !
I am sure Fidel is a slum-dunk GLOBAL icon… that Cuba has to put up with… for the rest of the world we can have fun watching him in sporty fashionable gear! It seem you guys even lack the humour to take the mickey out of that.. ‘old guy looking like a rapper with young babes around him’ come on, easy peasy! If MrO catches flies apparently he is cool…
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 05:16
Yes Fidel and his “slum dunking” it’s a national sport in Cuba, don’t you know?
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 03:22
#283 As usual completely unintelligible.
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 02:59
@… Humbertito…+ …. Still none of you offered us shelter if we want to go to Cuba….. I mean we know that you talk a lot …. Say little …. Claim to know it all…. Yet such a banal little thing you cannot do… You must have gone completely USAnian… This is a trait you easily recognise in your kind of westener that cannot come out of his ownAss who.. Knows it all but is not capable of offering nothing… Or capable of really sharing…
So whose got a condo there??? Or a little villa ??? Ah … None of you - OK darlings… After all you have all the reasons to buy there and invest there and if you were really smart you would use the commie Mafia … It is no different than any Ameircan Mafia …
As I was saying Fidel slum dunked you again… man that energy at 85 …. better than a rapper, the old mummy was Madonna at the ’superbowl’… Now it is the screen of words you use just to forget he kicked (your) ass… Again … !!!
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 02:53
Simba Sez: All minefields on the Guantanamo Bay Base were cleared by Presidential order in 1996. The base is now protected by motion detectors and other electronic gear. However, the minefields on Cuban soil outside the Base perimeter yet remain. If the Castro Government disagrees with the Guantanamo Bay land lease why don’t they take the issue to the World Court?
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 01:18
Cuba Libre (La MENTIROTA)! DO YOU KNOW THIS “YOHANDRY” FELLOW? LOOKS LIKE HE STOLE YOUR SCRIPT!! SIMILAR TO THE SCRIPT THAT Dilma Rousseff USED WHILE IN CUBA! JE JE JE! LETS JUST WAIT TILL WE HEAR FROM THESE DISSIDENTS, AS THEY SAY “FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH”!
AFP: 10 Cuban dissidents at US Guantanamo base: flogger
HAVANA — Ten Cuban dissidents are seeking asylum at the US naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba, but “are being treated like terrorists,” a blogger close to the Cuban government charged Monday.
The 10 including dissident journalists Olienny Valladares Capote and Adolfo Pablo Borraza Chaple, have been at the US base on Cuba’s southeastern tip, for three months and started a hunger strike February 3, blogger Yohandry wrote.
The blogger did not say how the group arrived at the tightly secured US base, which Cuba says the United States operates on its territory against its will. The United States claims it has a valid lease.
“Both journalists have said that at the Guantanamo Bay naval base refugees are treated like terrorists,” the blogger added, alluding to the US holding terror suspects there.
Referring to their reported hunger strike, Yohandry said it was not clear if US authorities were force-feeding the group “as Americans usually do in such cases.”
After the 1959 revolution that brought ex-president Fidel Castro to power in Havana many Cubans tried to make it to the base, which is surrounded by mine fields, in a bid to emigrate to the United States.
Cuba — the Americas’ only one-party Communist regime — does not have full diplomatic relations with the United States.
http://www.google.com/hostedne.....554bcc.9f1
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 01:00
Cuba Libre (la mentirita) said: “And I can state with certainty that there are almost as many followers of Miss Sanchez that disapprove of her constant whining as their are brown noses like you who bow down to her so called self-inflicted emprisonment in her country.”
C.L.! I HAVE TO PROMOTE YOU TO Cuba Libre (La MENTIROTA) WITH THIS CLAIM!! JE JE JE!
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 00:57
Cuba Libre (la mentirita) said: “Oh by the way the article comes from one of your favourite sources of information “Raton”, The New York Post. JE JE JE JE”
C.L.!! YOU WANT TO BE MY MINNIE MOUSE? JABA JABA!! WINK! I GOT LOTS OF CHEESE FOR YOU!! JE JE JE! MAYBE I CAN BE JFK AND YOU CAN BE MY MISTRESS MINNIE, I MEAN “MIMI” AS IN YOUR “HAVING NOTHING TO DO WITH CUBA” ARTICLE!! JE JE JE!
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 00:51
Cuba libre (la mentirita) said: “#230 El Ciber Rata. I also am a follower of Miss Sanchez on Twitter, I do so to keep track of her constant defamation of the Government that has been feeding her and her family since the day they were born. I follow her so I can contradict her defamtion with proof of the contrary to many of her posts.And I can state with certainty that there are almost as many followers of Miss Sanchez that disapprove of her constant whining as their are brown noses like you who bow down to her so called self-inflicted emprisonment in her country.”
C.L.! I AM TOTALLY FLATTERED BY YOUR ATTACKS! I NEVER THOUGHT I GET SOME MUCH ATTENTION! JE JE JE! AND KEEP DOING YOUR “JOB” OF CONTRADICTING THE “DEFAMATION” AGAINST THOSE POOR, INNOCENT AND KIND CASTRO BROTHERS, WHO HAVE BEEN RULING FROM THEIR HUMBLE THRONES FOR OVER 53 YEARS! THEY DESERVE YOUR TOTAL SUPPORT! JE JE JE!
YOUTUBE : Documentary : “Las Torturas de Castro” ( The Tortures of Castro )- in Spanish with English sub-titles- “The Tortures of Castro” , is one of the most comprehensive documentary ever made ​​in the Cuban exile community, which includes a brief summary of torture carried out by the regime of Fidel Castro in Cuba through the voice of its own victims. These testimonies deserves to be seen and shared with the world. “The Tortures of Castro” has been under the direction of Luis Guardia and Pedro Corzo production.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....MAq5joSUsc
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 00:33
Cuba Libre (la mentirita) said: “Hola “El Ciber Rata” Either you are trying to prove you know as little about Mafia operations as you know about Cuban politics, or you are just being the good journalist that you are in search of continous sensationalism as most journalists are by making such statements as comparing the Castro brothers to the mob.”
C.L.! YOU HAVE A CRUSH ON ME, DONT YOU! AND BABY, I DONT HAVE TO MAKE ANY “SENSATIONALIST” STATEMENTS! YOU DO THAT FOR ME! MI AMORCITO!! GRACIAS!! JE JE JE!
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 00:11
Ah yes another capitalist country that seems very intolerant to communism. After Brazil showing solidarity with Cuba, now we have Canada who wants to strengthen trade with China. Seems like communist and socialist countries are doing something right to attract all this overwhejming love from capitalist countries.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politic.....ml?cmp=rss
The almighty dollar paves the way once again.
Febrero 7th, 2012 at 00:03
I couldn`t hold myself back from posting this article, JE JE JE. Another example of how your presidents were and are busy in the back rooms of the White House instead of seeing to their countries needs. No wonder the U.S. is in shambles nowadays. And then you have the audacity to critisize Mr. Castro.
http://www.thestar.com/news/ar.....ports?bn=1
Oh by the way the article comes from one of your favourite sources of information “Raton”, The New York Post. JE JE JE JE
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 23:54
#230 El Ciber Rata
I also am a follower of Miss Sanchez on Twitter, I do so to keep track of her constant defamation of the Government that has been feeding her and her family since the day they were born. I follow her so I can contradict her defamtion with proof of the contrary to many of her posts.And I can state with certainty that there are almost as many followers of Miss Sanchez that disapprove of her constant whining as their are brown noses like you who bow down to her so called self-inflicted emprisonment in her country.
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 23:54
He’s just held the gun to the head of dissidents. By the way, “invest their” should read “invest there”. Have you started packing yet?
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 23:46
Hola “El Ciber Rata”
Either you are trying to prove you know as little about Mafia operations as you know about Cuban politics, or you are just being the good journalist that you are in search of continous sensationalism as most journalists are by making such
statements as comparing the Castro brothers to the mob.
The mob forces you to pay dues and imposes their laws on existing businesses or rackets you have no choice. As for the Castro brothers they do not force anyone to open businesses in Cuba. Businessmen who open hotels or other commerces know the laws in Cuba before they invest their. They do it by their own will and voluntarily pay the Cuban Governement its dues. I don`t recall Mr. Castro holding a gun to the head of any businessman to force him into opening a commerce in Cuba.
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 23:19
Humberto! I had the same reaction to CL’s post! I did not even see your post till after I posted mine. Without knowing it, CL has defined the mafia and how it operates! The castro clan is nothing more than a bunch of mafia thugs and they even go so far as to admit it — in prime time!
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 22:48
Wow. There you have it folks. This is how the Mafiosi who run Cuba and Venezuela justify expropriations and how they have run their economies into the ground. To them, they are “intelligent businessmen.” To the rest of the world, they are thieves. CL’s posts are extraordinary on a number of levels. The first, most obvious level, is the absolute hypocrisy of it all. First you invite people to build, then you steal what they have built without a qualm in the world? CL, you are a fake and an advocate of parasitism. Go and move to Cuba, have the courage of your convictions you coward. Go there, throw your passport away and live the dream. Help — great job exposing this fraud.
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 22:30
YOANI SANCHEZ TWITTER FOLLOWERS = 211,615 (+523 yesterday, +1,030 on average)
FIDEL (The Mummy) CASTRO FOLLOWERS = 179,438 (+265 yesterday, +265 on average)
LA FLACA HAS INCREASED HER LEAD BY 32,177 FOLLOWERS!!
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT! Damir, Cuba Libre (la mentirita), Un Soricel??? JE JE JE!
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 21:37
Mr. Cuba Libre:
All those foreigners are not living on the street. But let’s say you’re right and can’t buy property for now. What’s wrong with renting?
Now that you know you can stay in Cuba indefinitely, are you going to find a cheap rental and live there full-time?
By the way, the visa is 180 days, not 90, as visa extensions are almost never turned down.
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 21:07
Cuba Libre (la mentirita) said : “You see how wise the Castro brothers are?? You invest money there to build hotels. You hire and pay Cubans to do the job which creates work for the Cuban people. You bring in the tourists to your hotels so they can spend money in Cuba thus encouraging Cuban economy, and at the end of the day when you start making some profit from your labour, next thing you know you have to hand 51% of the benefits to the Revolutionary Government. They get 51% without lifting a finger or investing a penny. And yet new hotels are springing up everywhere in tourist areas. How can you not admire the Castro brothers for being such intelligent businessmen.”
C.L.!! THANK YOU FOR GIVING US A DEFINITION OF “MAFIA”!! OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF CASTROFASCIST AGENTS BABES! JE JE JE! THE CASTRO ARE AN OLIGARCHY/MAFIA CLAN AND YOUR EXAMPLE HELPS US UNDERSTAND THAT! THEY SURE GIVE Meyer Lansky A RUN FOR HIS MONEY!! JE JE JE! (could not resist the pun!)
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 20:52
#207 Help,
Thank you very much for enlightening me on this subject, I stand corrected, and have taken good note that my visa is good for 90 days and not 30 like the travel agent tells us. I will consider it on my next trip there.
However, contrary to you I did not consult either canadian nor italian nor greek friends for that matter on buying property in Cuba. I have a secretary at work who married a cuban and also a niece who married a cuban. I am friends with both of them and have stayed a couple of days at my niece`s husband`s house in Camaguey before he moved to Canada. Both will tell you foreigners cannot buy housing there. You can buy or build tourist hotels thoughat your risk, which even that the Government can confiscate if it feels the need. Take the example of Serge Savard, a well known ex hockey player from the Montreal Canadiens who about 15 years ago built a hotel “El Senador” in Cayo Coco. Wonder why he didn`t stay there long?
You see how wise the Castro brothers are?? You invest money there to build hotels. You hire and pay Cubans to do the job which creates work for the Cuban people. You bring in the tourists to your hotels so they can spend money in Cuba thus encouraging Cuban economy, and at the end of the day when you start making some profit from your labour, next thing you know you have to hand 51% of the benefits to the Revolutionary Government. They get 51% without lifting a finger or investing a penny. And yet new hotels are springing up everywhere in tourist areas. How can you not admire the Castro brothers for being such intelligent businessmen.
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 20:37
WELL DONE Helprlock Holmes!
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 20:29
Infelizmente algumas pessoas continuam vivendo subjugadas pelos seus governantes, e nós estamos no século XXI, felizmente nós brasileiros temos está liberdade de ir e vir, nossas crianças crescem sabendo o que ser livre tanto na questão de opinião, quanto de decisão. Mas espero que o povo cubano conquistem essa etapa na sua história para saberem o que é ser livre.
Yoani Sánchez continue tentado que a luta é sempre árdua, mas os sonhos tem que permanecer em nossas vidas para que um dia se tornem realidades.
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 20:13
It is a beautiful country which never intend to visit while you endure this garbage dictatorship, where his masters behave like owners of the country, owned by people in total disregard for basic human rights, life and freedom, including locomotion. Out this dirty bunch of dictators. No use to provide health education and his people would deny them the most sacred right. Freedom!
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 20:06
É um belo paĂs o qual jamais pretendo visitar enquanto perdurar este lixo ditatorial, onde seus capitĂŁes se comportam como donos do paĂs, como dono das pessoas em total desrespeito aos mais elementares direitos humanos, a vida e a liberdade, inclusive de locomoção. Fora esta cambada de ditadores sujos. NĂŁo adianta conceder educação e saĂşde ao seu povo se lhes negam o mais sagrado direito. A liberdade!
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 19:57
Well done Help! There’s no excuse for Cuba Libre now. We should go and help him pack!
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 19:33
The back and forth here is like watching tennis or another sport!
It is interesting to put debate and for everyone to have an opinions, but to write addresses down? I do not like that, I guess it is not your address Anonimo, if it is someone elses here or by mistake an unrelated person it is in the public domain now.
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 19:26
Hey everybody, heard back from some more friends about immigrating to Cuba. I want to thank Cuba Libre for getting me educated.
Here’s the scoop:
Any Canadian can live in Cuba full-time. It’s this easy: buy a plane ticket. Your tourist visa is valid for up to six months. You step out twice a year, buy another plane ticket, and step back in. Total expense: a few hundred a year.
Some Canadian businessmen get temporary residencies, which can be continually renewed. If you want a temporary permit and have the money, any Canadian can head down to Cuba and investigate business opportunities, get a partner, get a lawyer, invest some money, and stay for the second coming of Fidel.
But they said for most cases, it’s a lot cheaper and more convenient to just live there on a tourist visa, including for many Canadians and Europeans who do business in Cuba on the black market.
There are also Europeans living as tourists in Cuba, but they have to step out of the country six times a year, their visas are only good for 60 days.
The worst option is the permanent residency permit, they all said you have to be mentally insane, or an internationally wanted terrorist or drug-lord to apply for one.
A Canadian friend added the following: Canadians who live in Cuba full time are idiots because you can lose Canadian benefits like health-care if you leave the country for most of the year. He said most stay only for the winter, which he suggests Cuba Libre do, if he really exists.
He also said Cuba Libre, if he really exists, never thought about moving to Cuba, or else he would have known all of this.
Thanks to my Canadian and Italian friends for clearing all this up for me.
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 18:49
Un Soricel!! IM BATHING IN YOUR ANGER/INSULTS AND LAUGHING AT YOUR STRAW GRASPING! JE JE JE! AQUI ESTAMOS PARA TODOS USTEDES AGENTES DE LOS CASTROS! JE JE JE!
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 17:53
Humbertito… Mammy you have a long way to go before you equal the energy of el Comdante ….. Dictators sleep little eat good do not screw and work a lot … Can you pull that … Nooooo you are too lazy …. Bet you fridge is a mess mammy… Haha
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 17:47
Anonimo, for the sake of argument ….is a condo in CUBA of all places worth 200k??????? Capitalism or not common sense was first…. In Scotland 150k buys you a nice place .. Maybe in Brazil too…
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 17:20
And 200k I am not paying to live under a dicktator again.. But for free I would try it..
So, it’s all about the money with you armchair socialists? Isn’t that what you accuse capitalists of?
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 17:06
Un Soricel ! FUACATAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JE JE JE! KEEP PULLING AT THAT STRAW!! JE JE JE! I DID NOT PUT THIS INFORMATION TO CONVINCE YOU HONEY BUNS! IS FOR THE THOUSANDS OF READERS HERE!! JE JE JE! THEY CAN DO THE MATH! JE JE JE!
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 17:00
@209 Humbertito, I dont know man … Obviously he is playing a game…. And he is better than you guys are at it…. he looked in shape rapping almost all he needed was a gold chain cos his biatch was next to him … He looked more American than Mr O … Can you read lips …. He was definitely speaking Spanish… And even the BBC didn’t contest it was real… So??? .. Are you buying a condo on the beach ? Cos I need a place to stay… And 200k I am not paying to live under a dicktator again.. But for free I would try it..
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 13:06
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Cuban blogger blocked from travelling to film premiere in Brazil - February 6, 2012
The Cuban government must reform an arbitrary exit permit scheme that affects all Cubans and is used to punish freedom of expression, Amnesty International said today after a prominent blogger was again blocked from travelling abroad.
On Friday, Cuba’s migration authorities denied blogger and activist Yoani Sánchez an exit permit (white card or tarjeta blanca) for the 19th time in four years. As on previous occasions, no reason was given for the decision.
The well-known author of GeneraciĂłn Y had been invited to speak at the premiere screening in Brazil’s BahĂa state on 10 February of a documentary on freedom of expression in Cuba and Honduras. Brazil had already issued her a visa to enter the country.
“The Cuban government’s repeated denial of exit permits to critics like Yoani Sánchez can only be seen as retaliation for the expression of their legitimate political views and activism,” said Javier Zúñiga, Special Advisor to Amnesty International.
“Those fighting for freedom of expression, association, and movement must be authorized to leave and re-enter the country without arbitrary restrictions, and the Cuban authorities must end other tactics used to clamp down on peaceful dissent.”
Cuban President RaĂşl Castro has yet to follow through on changes to migration policies promised as part of a series of reforms announced in 2011.
Yoanà Sánchez’s blog covers daily life on the island and the many restrictions placed on Cubans’ enjoyment of political and civil rights.
Her peaceful political activism is highlighted in Brazilian filmmaker Dado Galvão’s new documentary Connection Cuba-Honduras.
After the Cuban authorities’ most recent decision to prevent her from travelling, Yoani Sánchez expressed her frustration via Twitter:
“I feel like a hostage kidnapped by someone who won’t listen or give explanations. If all this effort helps to shine a light on the migratory absurdity we Cubans are trapped in, then it was worth it.”
The blogger’s work has earned her numerous prizes overseas, but the Cuban authorities have repeatedly blocked her from attending the award ceremonies.
On 20 January, Amnesty International wrote to Brazil’s Minister of External Relations, urging him to intervene to ensure Yoani Sánchez would be allowed to leave Cuba.
On a state visit to Cuba last week, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff mentioned that the blogger had been granted a visa to enter Brazil, but fell short of pressing the Cuban government to allow her to leave.
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news.....2012-02-06
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 12:22
Cuba Libre (la mentirita) said: “And here are some sunflower seeds for you to Help being the parrot that you are. You keep posting the same article over and over and over again. And I keep telling you that article was posted almost a year ago from a phony website and there is no such company building condos.”
C.L.! DO I HAVE TO MAKE YOU LOOK BAD AGAIN!! AND AGAIN! AND AGAIN! JE JE JE!
N.Y. TIMES: Revolutionary Cuba Now Lays Sand Traps for the Bourgeoisie- By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
MEXICO CITY — One of Fidel Castro’s first acts upon taking power was to get rid of Cuba’s golf courses, seeking to stamp out a sport he and other socialist revolutionaries saw as the epitome of bourgeois excess.
Now, 50 years later, foreign developers say the Cuban government has swung in nearly the opposite direction, giving preliminary approval in recent weeks for four large luxury golf resorts on the island, the first in an expected wave of more than a dozen that the government anticipates will lure free-spending tourists to a nation hungry for cash.
The four initial projects total more than $1.5 billion, with the government’s cut of the profits about half. Plans for the developments include residences that foreigners will be permitted to buy — a rare opportunity from a government that all but banned private property in its push for social equality.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05......html?_r=1
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 12:19
Cuba Libre (la mentirita) said :”I`ll take the opportunity to quote some of Miss Dilma Rousseff`s speaches during her visit to Cuba. Team Yoani were so desperate for her arrival, now they are fulfilles, lol.”
C.L.! QUOTING GRANMA??? HA HA HA HA! CAN YOU DO BETTER THAN THAT? JE JE JE! SCRAPING THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL I SEE!
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 12:15
Un Soricel ! WHAT HAPPENED TO THE “SLAM DUNK”? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE THAT THEY DID NOT PUT THE AUDIO ON TV OF THE MUMMY? NOR DID THEY INVITED THE INTERNATIONAL PRESS TO SUCH AN IMPORTANT EVENT? CAN YOU EXPLAIN PLEASE!
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 11:17
Quoting Cuba Libre:
“Mr. Fidel Castro still alive and kicking…” …the Cuban people under his jackboot.
FTFY!
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 11:13
Cuba Libre,
Your moral relativism is disgusting. You wrote “all countries have laws” and then use that to paper over, excuse or ignore the fact that in Canada, you have freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, labour rights, human rights and freedom of movement. In Cuba the people have none of those things. To demand rights is a crime, punishable by imprisonment, beatings torture and death. But it’s all relative, right, so it’s ok and no different than Canada or America?
Oh, and there is no “blockade” of Cuba. The US maintains a limited embargo, which quite frankly, suits the Castro regime just fine.
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 10:57
C. Libre, so you’re telling us that:
1) You want to move to Cuba
2) You are Canadian
3) You don’t know how long Canadian tourist visas last? (you said they last 30 days)
What are you, some sort of pathetic, compulsive liar? Admit you are a complete ignoramus and Marxist troll who knows nothing about Cuba.
Here’s the information from your own government, is the Canadian government a phony site too?
Canadian tourists who were born in Canada may stay in Cuba for up to six months, but must check in with immigration authorities or with a tourism office in Cuba prior to the 90th day of their stay to apply for an extension.
http://www.voyage.gc.ca/countr.....p?id=69000
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 10:50
Hey, good news, C. Libre.
I went on google and discovered the following:
Canadians can get 90 day tourist visas for Cuba, but they can be extended to 180 DAYS while in Cuba.
You get that? You can live full time in Cuba on just a tourist visa, as long as you leave the island twice a year. How easy is that?
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 10:09
C. Libre says that the hundreds of foreigners I’ve talked to who live in Havana full-time do not exist.
On a plane from Mexico I met a single American kid in his 20s who lives there most of the year. He loves it, the women, the booze, the beach.
In Varadero, we met lots of Canadians who have bought houses from Cubans.
Were they all planted by the CIA to deceive me?
Parrots are intelligent, C. Libre is not.
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 09:58
C. Libre, let’s move on. If you don’t want to buy or rent a condo from another foreigner, do like most of the foreigners who have moved to Havana and rent long-term from a Cuban. There are some nice houses in the back streets of Nuevo Vedado, and of course as you head west in Miramar and beyond.
I suggest you rent a taxi next time you are in Havana and ask the driver to take you to the foreign condo complexes near 5th avenue. Talk to the residents about how easy it is to move to Cuba. Or head up to Nuevo Vedado and pass some of the houses rented by foreigners and ask them.
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 09:56
And here are some sunflower seeds for you to Help being the parrot that you are. You keep posting the same article over and over and over again. And I keep telling you that article was posted almost a year ago from a phony website and there is no such company building condos.
“We regret that all units in the above mentioned projects were sold and that, for the time being, we are unable to accept investment requests in the residential real estate sector”
This comes from the phony website you posted Help, lol. Man what a laugh I had reading those stupidities. How can you be so naive to believe such nonsense. Did it cross your mind to try and reach anyone from that phony website?? I did. Don`t believe everything you read on internet.
And by the way, here are some more bird seeds, sunflower seeds, parrots love them.
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 09:53
Nice to have you back Unsoricel…I thought you were gone trolling other blogs.
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 09:45
I`ll take the opportunity to quote some of Miss Dilma Rousseff`s speaches during her visit to Cuba. Team Yoani were so desperate for her arrival, now they are fulfilles, lol.
“She condemned the blockade policy, “which does not generate any benefits,” and stated that her government is committed to helping the economic updating process in which Cuba is immersed.”
And to go a little further and turn the knife in its wound,
“We are going to begin to talk about human rights in Brazil, we are going to talk about human rights in the United States, in relation to Guantánamo (in reference to the prison on the illegally occupied naval base). We are going to talk about human rights everywhere,” she commented.
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/cu.....marti.html
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 09:40
C. Libre, Havana is full of foreigners who live there full-time. Foreigners buy complete buildings, or have buildings built for them, and then they sell condos off or rent them to other foreigners.
Law 77 was implemented specifically to get foreigners like you to move to Cuba.
The new laws make it even more attractive. They’ve changed the 99 year lease agreements to ownership in perpetuity. Contact the Canadian company that is building houses and villas in Cuba and buy one now. Here’s the link, you have no excuse:
http://www.cubastandard.com/20.....ownership/
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 09:32
C. Libre, repeating the same lies won’t make them come true.
As John mentioned, here it is from the Cuban horse’s mouth:
The foreign investment Law No.77, approved in September of 1995, specifically refers to investments in REAL STATE by foreigners… owning property in Cuba is identical to the same ownership rights available in the world.
… from the site I posted:
http://www.cuba-condos.com/foreign/index.html
Anyone can buy a condo in Cuba and move there, what are you waiting for?
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 09:27
I knew it John, lol. You really are just like Help. You seem to be able to read english but it seems the words just don`t register in your head. Yes you can visit Cuba with 30 day visas, which I do 2 or 3 times a year. But you can`t get permanent residence there.
I think I`m gonna head out to buy some sunflower seeds, parrots really love sunflower seeds. Come on little parrot, repeat after me, “So when are you emigrating there”. That a boy, good bird. JE JE JE JE
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 09:12
Cuba Libre - For a start, you don’t write “eye-opening” statements. You write garbage. Secondly, for the 100th time, you CAN live in Cuba. I know foreigners who do. So when are you going?
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 09:09
John,
Now you and your twin are starting to sound like parrots, “when are you emigrating to cuba”? 2 Posts later “so if you like Cuba so much why don`t you throw away your passport and move there”? And yet after reading another eye-opening statement from Un Soricel or me, you say “so give up everything you have and go live amongst the Cubans”.
I`ll say it for the 100th time, maybe you`ll understand this time. YOU CAN`T EMIGRATE TO CUBA, THEY DON`T ALLOW IT, CUBA IS FOR CUBANS. And if you still don`t understand, I give up its useless, maybe if your copy and paste god, that you keep on brown nosing, posts it then and only then you might understand. But I still have my doubts.
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 08:52
193 - You’re not funny, you are not amusing, you are not clever. You are pathetic.
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 08:41
Yeah right.. as I remeber I wasnt talking to you… you were talking to me… so maybe you should do the decent thing and keep quiet if you cannot speak my English….
‘humanitarian job’… does ahandjobTobankers qualify as humanitarian??? haha
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 08:35
Post 191, you don’t have me anywhere. I am not American. I work in a humanitarian job. (What do you do?) I know more about Cuba than you do. Go away. I’m not interested in conversation with a lunatic who can’t string a decent sentence together.
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 08:24
John like An(al)onimo, reverse psychology always works with you great!!!!… I have you where I want you anytime…
Just in case you don’t know what a chip on your shoulder is and what it is for..that chip is usually your identity!! that you are afraid of it and a coward, it is no shame, shame is to think that my chip is from the same BSas yours is and to think I should carry yours or envy yours! I don’t!… There are some of us who woke up to the fact that being born American is not the greatest thing since sliced bread, in this world… being born human is!
Put your money where your mouth is and then maybe maybe you will feel and learn something new about Cuba… it is called YOUR humanity…
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 06:37
Post 189, when you are going to join Cuba Libre and emigrate to Cuba? Who says you should own a condo? Go and live in a hovel like millions of Cubans. Just make sure you get rid of your passport and live like they do. You have a massive chip on your shoulder, little Roma peasant. Would I take you home to meet mother? Not in your wildest dreams.
Febrero 6th, 2012 at 06:14
Help –> am surprised you who understand capitalism so well, approve of what bankers are doing and of the 1% who own everything including toilet paper …You of all people fail to understand that Castros (wanna) play the same (ruthless) game…
For the 1% who would pay and not look around them i.e. don’t ask questions… you can get a condo on a pristine beach… just like the rich guys in the west who go to Jamaica…or Mauritius… etc. Thought a condo in Cuba would be 50k-60k to turn a blind eye, keep quiet and be there! Now this was a blow to my dreams!!! Better buy a place in Portugal… a country I really love! Cuba’s just gone outta the window! you’ve punctured my bubble! Man, I can work for the rest of my life and wouldn’t afford even a condo in Cuba!!!! I’d better start stealing cos I have no chance to become a banker!!! honesty doesn’t pay - banking does!
Funnily enough I see bankers strolling down in Havana, looking for pretty girls to buy them out… your kind of capitalism I guess…