With Clitoris and With Rights
At times with good intentions – other times with not so good – someone tries to silence my complaints about the machismo in my country, telling me, “Cuban women don’t have it so badly… those in some African nations, where they are subjected to ablation, are worse off.” As an argument it’s a low blow, it hurts me in the groin, connects me to the cry of a defenseless teenager, mutilated, subjected to that ordeal by her own family. But the rights of women should not be reduced only to the power to maintain their physical integrity and to defend their biological capacity to experience pleasure. The clitoris is not the only thing we can lose, there is a long list of social, economic and political possibilities, which are also snatched from us.
As I live in a country where the paths of civic protest have been severed and demonized, I dare to offer in this blog a list of the violations that still persist against women.
- They do not allow us to establish our own women’s organizations, where we can unite and represent ourselves. Groups that are not channels of transmission from the government to the citizens, as sadly happens with the Federation of Cuban Women.
- When they speak of women in the political class, it’s clear that they don’t have any real power but are there to fulfill quotas or assignments by gender.
- The icon of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) – the only organization of this kind permitted by law – shows a figure with a rifle on her shoulder in clear allusion to the mother as soldier, to the female as a piece of the warring conflict cooked up from above.
- The absence in the national press of reporting about domestic violence does not eliminate its real presence. Silence does not stop the aggressor from hitting. In the pages of our newspapers there should also be these stories of abuse, because otherwise we are not going to understand that we have a serious problem of assaults, silenced within the walls of so many homes.
- Where can a wife go when she is beaten by her husband? Why are there no shelters or why doesn’t the media publicize the locations of these refuges for battered women?
- Buying disposable diapers is almost a luxury in this society. Most new mothers still have to spend a good part of their time washing baby clothes by hand. Every emancipation needs a material infrastructure of freedom, otherwise it will remain so only in slogans and mottoes.
- The high prices of all the products needed for motherhood and pregnancy are also a factor that influences the low birth rate. A crib with mattress costs the equivalent of $90 U.S. in a country where the average monthly salary doesn’t exceed $20.
- The child support that a father must provide for his children after a divorce – as stipulated by law – doesn’t exceed, in many cases, the equivalent of $3 monthly, which leaves a woman economically powerless to raise her children.
- The extremely high prices of food relative to wages keep Cuban women chained to the stove while performing economic pirouettes to put a plate of food on the table. It is the women and not the political-economic system that performs a daily miracle so that Cuban families eat, more or less well or more or less badly.
- After so many slogans about emancipation and equality, we Cuban women are left with a double workday and dozens of cumbersome bureaucratic tasks. It’s enough to go outside to see the effects of this excess load: most women over forty have bitter faces, make no plans for the future, do not go out with their women friends to a bar, and have no escape from their family and the tedium.
- When a woman decides to criticize the government, she is immediately reminded who wears the skirt; they accuse her of immorality, infidelity to her husband, being manipulated by some male mind, and call her “prostitute,” “cocky,” “hooker,” as many discriminating cutting insults as they can imagine.
- You can’t try to liberate a specific social group in a society gripped by the lack of rights. To be a woman in the Cuba of today is to suffer these lacks twice.
In short, we want to have a clitoris and rights, to feel pleasure and to speak our opinions, to be known for our skirts, but especially for our ideas.
Abril 5th, 2012 at 19:11
Damir has now taken over this site.
No longer is the lies and propaganda made in cia and nazist gulag usa the main subject here.
Damir is.
Damir has won.
And I haven’t even warmed up yet!!!
Marzo 23rd, 2012 at 03:17
Well, fall apart already then. j.o.h.n.
j erk
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Some losers are just NEVER happy… Who doesn’t like what I think, shouldn’t read what I write.
Simple as that.
I like what the team “yoani” write. They themselves are destroying their own, by now already non-existent credibility.
Marzo 15th, 2012 at 02:15
Poor old D.A.M.I.R. It’s a joke now. I’m splitting my sides.
Marzo 15th, 2012 at 01:01
The team “yoani”, and their pioneers!
Why on earth do you read & write at this site(this is NOT a “blog”, ignorants!!!)? You hate everything in Cuba and what people who like Cuba write. You hate the comments other people post. You get worked up into tantrums and tirades over and over again. Yet you keep coming back! Why do you insist on doing this to yourself? What kind of persons spend so much of their time doing things they hate so much? Wouldn’t you feel better if you spent your time reading & posting at some site you actually like? Or is it that you enjoy the opportunity to express your rage and tell people how much you hate them?
Do you live to hate?
But then, I guess that this site answers some of these questions already, doesn’t it?
Marzo 14th, 2012 at 00:07
Damir is a slave to hatred.
Marzo 13th, 2012 at 13:44
D.A.M.I.R. did you read Griffin’s #106? Read it, think about it.
Marzo 13th, 2012 at 07:53
More noise, more nothings, more ideological delusions.
Still no answers from the team “yoani”.
Still hiding from the truth.
Marzo 13th, 2012 at 07:35
Look D.A.M.I.R., I am not the CIA, I am not American, I do not live in America. OK??
And another thing, the world will NEVER be the way you want it to be, a f…ed up communist hell hole. It’s been tried, it doesn’t work. It’s been a disaster. Get over it.
Marzo 13th, 2012 at 07:24
No content, just bullshift.
Is that the best the team “yoani” and their delusional little servants can do?
No. They cannot even do that. The nazist cia and their apparatchiks write the stuff these blind and deranged slaves then pretend to author here.
And given the poor quality of that material, these cia elements must be almost as deranged…
Marzo 13th, 2012 at 06:28
D.A.M.I.R. is off his meds again. What has the previous ranting and raving got to do with Cuba?
Marzo 13th, 2012 at 06:18
And let us examine the situation these days: First usanian nazists “accidenatlly” burn Koran in the centre of Afghanistan, then a lone and “troubled” usanian loser massacres 16 persons, 9 of them CHILDREN, because he has “marital problems”…
Yeah, right. He volunteered T H R E E times to go to Iraq, and this was his first visit to Afghanistan. Suddenly, he snaps and kills innocents because wife wants a divorce, because he keeps volunteering to go to to war!?!?!?!
Rings Italy all over again. For those who think that sun sets in Melbourne (call them id&&&s, for easier reference) an usanian pilot killed 20 tourists when flying too low with his jet airplane in Northern Italy.
Naturally, the creeps (usanian nazist, imperialist occupation forces, for those id&&&s above) refused requests from Italian Court to hand the criminal over to stand the trial. Took him home and exonerated him from ANY wrongdoing!!!!
Now, the same thing. The creeps (usanian nazist, imperialist occupation forces, for those id&&&s above) took the murderer and freighted him home on the first plane available.
Another farce trial in another farce “military court” will be held, the murderer will be threaten with death penalty for international audience, will receive 20+ years and be released in a couple of years after the trial.
Not to be underestimated, the white “gods”, orders-issuing lot that handles the team “yoani”, invented this Kony video, gave it to some obscure fundamental christian society and created another “internet hit” overnight.
However, these nazist creeps had forgotten that there are billions of people in the world that do not give a shift what the nazist dictatorship usa say or do any more. The good and intelligent people did not fall for the trick and have discovered that, just like 999% of the team “yoani” and their blindfolded, brainwashed and delusional support brigade, these are fundamental religious creeps hiding under the “Invisible children” smokescreen.
Interestingly, unlike the team “yoani” and their blindfolded, delusional and brainwashed pioneers, these “Invisible children” pretenders are heavilly ANTI-gay.
In fact, they are seriously religiously poisoned against gays. And why Kone? Since when this, equally religiously fanatical and delusional individual is NOT the worst human rights violator. There are still free many just like him, only now licking white “gods’” backsides - sounds familiar the team “yoani”? - to protect themselves from prosecution. This creep simply refused to do that and, like every single person before him, fell into dislike with the biggest murdering machine that has ever tortured the Earth.
Bunch of crazy maniacs those nazist dictators. And their servants like the team “yoani”.
Marzo 13th, 2012 at 05:57
Help - are you serious D.A.M.I.R. is a doctor?? That’s beyond scarey. Where has he stated this??
Marzo 13th, 2012 at 05:52
Keep spitting D.A.M.I.R. Eventually you’ll explode.
Marzo 13th, 2012 at 05:50
As I’ve said in previous blogs. D.A.M.I.R. Explanation provided.
Marzo 13th, 2012 at 03:18
Or this pearl of the “north” from equally delusional i&&t, post 90:
“Leroy, before you call someone dumb, take a little more care.I said when it’s 5 AM in London, it’s 4 pm in Melbourne. That’s 11 eleven hours ahead. Dumbo Damir thinks there’s no time difference. What are you all on??”
Damir never said that. This cr** in said that. And s/he also said that the 11 hours of difference can be only in
Melbourne…!!!
And the self-appointed fool still doesn’t understand the size of his/her st***d**y and that of his/her remarks.
Not even team “yoani” are THAT mo**n*c…!!!
This from the “genius”, post 78:
“no I’m not in bed - I’m reading and working the night through. Buy why aren’t you bed - I’m beginning to suspect you’re in the southern hemisphere.”
and post 80:
“It depends on where in the southern hemisphere!!!! The time zones are completely different.”
AND post 83:
“When it’s 5am in London it’s 4pm in Melbourne. That’s in Australia if you don’t know any geography. And that’s in the southern hemisphere which is the opposite to the northern hemisphere. What an unbelievable m..on you are.”
A few people tried to reason with the cre**n, but to no avail… The delusional fool still doesn’t understand the fact that the time difference is NOT tied to a hemisphere!!!
Laughable, brainwashed mo&&n.
Marzo 13th, 2012 at 03:04
Cre ***s and st ***d pioneers of the team “yoani’s” support brigade keep excelling in talking absolute bullshift and rubbish.
A quick look at the posts like the post 121 and “Damir claims that he is a doctor”!!!!
No lesss!!!
Id *** s!!!
So, now I am a doctor from Melbourne…
Mo^^ns!!! Go find where I wrote such a rubbish, you cre ***s!!!
No wonder Castro needed 25 friends to beat the sheet out of similar re^^^^s from the wrong, conservative, wing…
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 23:29
In 1958 women accounted for 46 percent of Cuba’s professionals and semiprofessionals, 45% of the university students and 22 percent of professors. They constituted 82 percent of the teachers, 81 percent of social workers, 68 percent of pharmacists, 25 percent of domestic servants, 20 percent of white-collar workers, 17 percent of lawyers, 15 of doctors, and 10 percent among blue-collar workers. Fewer than 3 percent of Cuban women, however, worked in agricultural, fishing, construction, and transport industries.
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 21:57
HE’S/SHE’S BACK!! Cuba Libre (La MENTIROTA & HOMOPHOBE & CASTROBOOTLICKER)!!
C.L. ! THESE COMMENT SECTIONS WOULD NOT BE AS EXCITING WITHOUT YOU PRESENCE! GRACIAS COMPAĂ‘ERO/RA! YOU BRING A CERTAIN COLOR TO THIS PLACE, MAYBE RED?? AND WE AINT TALKING CHANGO RED!! JE JE JE! MAYBE YOU SHOULD ASK MARIELA CASTRO IF WE COULD COMMENT ON HER BLOG COMMENT SECTION! WHEN WILL THAT HAPPEN C.L.? COULD YOU PASS THAT REQUEST TO DEAR MARIELA? TELL HER IS FROM AN OLD CUBAN QUEEN FROM CALIFORNIA! GRACIAS AMIGO/GA!
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 21:07
Oh, look, a link:
http://www.hrw.org/world-report-2011/cuba
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 20:16
I doubt that Cuban women are the envy of most Latin American female populations. As for the Cuban Constitution, yeah sure. Just because it is written doesn’t make it so. It’s worthless.
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 20:04
http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.....InCuba.pdf
here is the link
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 20:02
Oh it looks like I am allowed back in here. Now for the people who want the real story about women`s rights in Cuba, here are some facts;
“Before 1959 the role of most Cuban women resembled that of other
women in the patriarchal societies of Latin America where there existed rigid
stereotypes and a division of roles between the sexes in the home and in society.
The undisputed role of a woman was that of wife and homemaker in a family
headed by her husband or partner. Women enjoyed few rights and were
expected to sacrifice not just their academic potential and broader interests, but
also their health and happiness in order to ensure the stability and wellbeing of
the family. In cases of maltreatment by men, despite the existence of laws
forbidding such treatment, women were given minimal support by the police and
the legal establishment.
However since the Revolution, which has put gender issues to the
forefront of policy making, Cuban women have seen a fundamental
transformation in almost every aspect of their lives with the result that today they
are the envy of most other female populations in Latin America”
“The Cuban Constitution
The Constitution explicitly guarantees women economic, political, social,
cultural and family rights and opportunities equal to those of men. These
guarantees are found in :
Article 32, which states that women and men enjoy the same economic,
political, cultural, social and family rights;
Article 41, which states that all citizens have equal rights and are subject
to equal duties;
Article 42, which states that sex discrimination, among other forms of
discrimination, is forbidden by law;
Article 43, which states that all citizens have equal access to all provisions
made in Cuban society relating to education, work and career advancement,
housing, transport and public areas.”
“Women’s Legal Rights in Cuba
The rights of women in Cuba are guaranteed by law, equality for women being
one of the fundamental measures taken to achieve social justice, the main
objective of the Revolution.”
Unfortunately for some reason I cannot post the link where these articles are from. It seems the moderator is now blocking posts with links.
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 19:57
Oh it looks like I am allowed back in here. Now for the people who want the real story about women`s rights in Cuba, I suggest you read this article. Please take the time to read the whole article, then you will realize all the lies that are spread in here concerning women`s rights in Cuba
http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.....InCuba.pdf
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 19:54
I wonder why my posts are being blocked in here. I guess the truth was beginning to “disturb” the liars in here.
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 19:47
I am serious that both Venezuela and Cuba may have big trouble this year so the bloggers should be protected if the Cubans decide to do some kind of cleaning,stopping the dissidents..so Yoani should leave Cuba this year if she have that chance
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 17:40
THE VATICAN’S TWITTER ACCOUNT! LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD ABOUT HIS TRIP TO CUBA! NO MORE FASCISM! LA CUENTA DEL VATICANO EN TWITTER! DEJEN QUE SU VOZ SE OIGA DURANTE TO VISITA EN CUBA!
twitter.com/#!/news_va_es
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 17:33
tourist! IM TOTALLY FLATTERED! JE JE JE!
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 17:14
EVEN AUSTRALIA… MY FAVORITE COUNTRY AS TOURIST HAS GONE WILD,WITH BRUTALITY, NOT JUST OTHER COUNTRIES WHO ARE LIKE CUBA NOW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
SO BE CAREFUL TOURISTS AND ALL PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO PROTEST EVERYWHERE.
SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT WITH POLICE WHO IS PAID BY OUR TAXES…TO PROTECT PEOPLE
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 16:33
EVEN OTHER PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WHO HAVE BLOGS OR USE FACEBOOK SHOULD BE CAREFUL NOW;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
IT IS BECOMING TO DANGER TO BE IN ANY COUNTRY NOW. I MAY GO TO SOME ISLAND LIVING WITH CANNIBALS WHERE MAY BE SAFER…
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 16:13
You are right…the bloggers like Yoani Sanchez…should be careful because if in the world will increase the martial law,the same thing may happen in Cuba and all the so called dissidents can be put in jails and called even enemy or terrorist the same as it did happen in Middle East,and even in EU and USA ’s uprising of 2011 where many people were jailed.
Perhaps Cuba will take advantage of some world big economic collapse,crisis and big uprising..and justify its attacks against the present bloggers,its own dissidents even more and maybe by jailing them… seeing that the world,other countries do the same with their dissidents.The same may happen with Cuban prostitutes and even the tourists,the visitors.
I AM NEVER GOING TO CUBA AGAIN BECAUSE IT MAY BE LIKE IN RUMANIA IN TIME OF CAUSHESKU,WHO GAVE ORDER TO START KILLING PEOPLE THE SAME AS IT IS HAPPENING IN SYRIA NOW
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 16:07
Hey, it’s not just Cuban women…
Cuban cops caught on video offering their sexual services for fee to a female tourist:
http://www.babalublog.com/2012.....stituting/
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 15:39
Interesting article by mchangama. Most Cuban girls have sold their bodies or would sell their bodies if they had the chance to make a few dollars or win the big prize, a ticket out of the country. Nowadays, foreign remittances, and black market and tourism opportunities are reducing prostitution levels from the “overwhelming majority” levels of the special period, to today’s “majority” levels.
But the article misses out on local prostitution, which is everything from schoolgirls selling sex for a lift home, to an elderly women selling herself for extra rations. This has existed from the early years of the revolution of course.
You see this everywhere in Cuba, but most tourists are oblivious to it.
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 15:34
REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS: Beset by online surveillance and content filtering, netizens fight on - Monday 12 March 2012.
In Cuba, a pitched battle is in progress between pro-government bloggers and their “alternative” counterparts who criticize the government. The latter, including the blogger Yoani Sanchez, have been the target of a smear campaign in the state-run media and on foreign propaganda sites. Two countries, Bahrain and Belarus, have been moved from the “under surveillance” category to the “Enemies of the Internet” list, joining the ranks of the countries that restrict Internet freedom the most: Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. They combine often drastic content filtering with access restrictions, tracking of cyber-dissidents and online propaganda. Iran and China, in particular, reinforced their technical capacity in 2011 and China stepped up pressure on privately-owned Internet companies in order to secure their collaboration.
http://en.rsf.org/beset-by-onl.....42061.html
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 15:29
Wonder why my posts keep getting blocked in here. But for those who want to know the truth about women`s rights in Cuba, I strongly suggest you read this article.
http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.....InCuba.pdf
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 14:51
tourists should be careful everywhere they go because police can grab and torture and kill even tourists in this days where the governments are all out of control and there is everywhere some kind of martial law…where police or people with all kind of uniforms walk and run and drive around hunting people n every country like in a jungle. It is because there are not many guns bought like in USA so people are consider nothing or insects. The bad people run every country now like despots,Cuba
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 14:47
I did see in Havana also…the Police asking in the street,parks for the Cuban’s ID card…but it did not look strange or unusual to me that… I see this in every country now and even in Europe,North America in the last 20 years…searches and many road patrols,bags and naked or strip search in airports, with an educated way and big brutality everywhere I go. It is a world policing of all the world citizens from the world police who are ruthless all the time. In Egypt and most of the Middle East you have everywhere police with guns pointed to the cars in the streets and to the people
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 14:30
YOUTUBE: Police in Santa Maria Beach, Havana Cuba - Police asking the Cuban’s ID card, while they sit quietly on the beach. Then they noticed that I’m filming and then one of them comes to me asking me if I was filming and to give him my camera. I told him NO. How can they ask such a thing from a tourist, there are a number of tourist filming with cameras. Are they are afraid of what they are doing? Unfortunately the police in general has no culture or knowledge as being professionals in their work. Many are corrupt and really bad people …. I hope that the Cuban government in the future hire people with college education and put them at least one year in school to become a cop ….
YOUTUBE: La Policia en La Playa Santa Maria La habana Cuba - La policia pidiendo carne a los cubanos, sentado tranquilo en la playa. Despues se notan que estoy filmando y uno de ellos vienen a mi preguntando que si estoy filmando pidiendo mi camera. Yo le dije que NO. Oye como pueden decir eso a turista hay unos cantidad de turista con camerea filmando. Tienen miedo de lo que estan haciendo? Lamentablemente La policia en general no tiene cultura ni conocimiento como ser profecionales en su trabajo. Muchos con coruptos y realmente malos…. Espero que el gobierno cubano en el futuro busca gente con eduacion universitaria y les meten minimo un ano en escuela para ser policia….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....e=youtu.be
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 13:54
Griffin! WHY DOES THE SAME PERSON POST THE SAME ARTICLE TWICE IN LESS THAN 5 MINUTES! THERE GOES THAT CONSPIRACY! JE JE JE!
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 13:47
Humberto!
Yes, so excellent it deserves 2 quotes!
Nice timing.
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 13:44
Cuba’s Shame
“He who loses his honor loses everything.” So states one of the propaganda posters, featuring quotations from Fidel Castro, that are ubiquitous in Cuba. How ironic, then, that Castro’s policies are directly responsible for the daily humiliations suffered by the Cuban people, the supposed beneficiaries of Cuban socialism.
One aspect of this humiliation is the lack of basic human rights, not least the systematic violation of freedom of conscience.
Cuban socialism is not just a perverse ideology, it also perverts its victims — forcing them to act against their conscience in order to survive. The best example of this is evident at nighttime, when elderly European men walk around the streets of Havana with young, beautiful Cuban women (sometimes girls). While some of these relationships are based on genuine mutual affection, the vast majority of the girls cozying up to foreigners are jineteras (an informal type of prostitute). Many jineteras are normal girls who go to school or work but need the extra income to supplement the rapidly decreasing rations handed out by the regime.
In Europe, these girls would be dating guys their own age, based on their own preferences, but in Havana “dating” is dictated by the size of the wallet, not looks or personality. I experience this first hand at the Malecón, Havana’s famous coastal esplanade. Since I look like a Cuban — and thus an unlikely source of income — I was spared the attention of the many girls cruising this strip. But the blond Danish photographer accompanying me was constantly besieged by girls and by young men essentially operating as pimps. One local girl — aged 20 — we meet is luckier than most, having been adopted by a European settled in Havana and thus living comfortably compared with most other Cubans. She tells us that most of her classmates have sold sex for cash to foreigners and that the local pimps are often relatives or even the boyfriends of the girls they are trying to sell to tourists. So much for the acclaimed honor of the Cuban revolution, and the governments’ pious lectures to the international community about “social rights.”
Only left-wing American Hollywood actors and authoritarian regimes at the U.N. Human Rights Council could be so blind to these indignities as to characterize Cuba as a success story. The sad truth is that one man’s egoistic pride has resulted in the humiliation of an entire people.
http://www.nationalreview.com/.....-mchangama
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 13:31
EXCELLENT PIECE!!
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE: Cuba’s Shame- A regime both oppresses and humiliates.- By Jacob Mchangama
â€He who loses his honor loses everything.” So states one of the propaganda posters, featuring quotations from Fidel Castro, that are ubiquitous in Cuba. How ironic, then, that Castro’s policies are directly responsible for the daily humiliations suffered by the Cuban people, the supposed beneficiaries of Cuban socialism.
One aspect of this humiliation is the lack of basic human rights, not least the systematic violation of freedom of conscience. The suffocating repression of dissent and pluralism is not immediately visible: A tourist may well enjoy the charming architecture of Old Havana, the cheap rum and cigars, the fabulous weather, the salsa clubs, and the white beaches without encountering any signs of the police state; indeed, European tourists, especially those predisposed by a romantic anti-American admiration for Castro, often come away with positive impressions.
But speak to some of the Island’s dissidents — or earn the trust of ordinary Cubans — and the picture becomes very different. One of the most prominent Cuban dissidents is the blogger Yoani Sánchez, who has used social media to great effect in the cause of dissent. I traveled to Havana to hand Ms. Sánchez the freedom prize my employer, the Center for Political Studies (CEPOS), awarded her last year, since the regime refuses her the right to leave the country and receive the many prizes she has received in places such as Denmark, Spain, and the Netherlands.
The award is a piece of the Berlin Wall framed in metal. Despite its weighing in at 8 kilos, I still managed to get it past Cuban border control and hand it to Ms. Sánchez. She is in many ways an unusual person: a truly independent intellectual. Her bookshelves include not only Mario Vargas Llosa — loathed by many Latin American intellectuals for his opposition to Castro, Chávez, and other caudillos, as well as his defense of capitalism — but also Ayn Rand’s pro-capitalist bible Atlas Shrugged, in both English and Spanish. Because of her increasing international fame, Sánchez has (unlike many other Cuban dissidents) been spared imprisonment and deportation. But she is still closely monitored by the regime, which has people watching her apartment, monitoring her correspondence and mobile phone, and following her around when she ventures outside her flat. She tells me that the Cuban state has successfully managed to silence the vast majority of Cubans through its close but barely visible control of all aspects of Cuban society. More Cubans might defy the official censorship if the consequences were “merely” short-term arrest — a phenomenon that, according to dissidents and human-rights organizations, has increased in the past few years, after the release and deportation of a number of political prisoners.
The repression is not solely legal and official, but also penetrates the social realm. Since almost all Cubans are dependent on the regime for their survival and basic necessities, most are too frightened to speak out, as such dissent can lead to dismissal, loss of benefits, and social isolation. Whole families may be affected by one of their members’ crossing of the blurry red lines of acceptable criticism, and therefore this form of devious social control is very effective. Most criticism of the regime therefore takes place in closed circles, among families or trusted friends, rather than in public.
Another favorite regime tactic against dissidents such as Sánchez is the use of demonization. Sánchez is often portrayed as a CIA-sponsored stooge of imperialism in the national media; because of the regime’s stranglehold on the media — and because Internet access is severely limited and extremely expensive — such narratives are difficult to counter. Accordingly, relatively few Cubans seem to know Sánchez despite her international fame.
http://www.nationalreview.com/.....-mchangama
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 13:09
SCATHING LETTER TO THE CASTROFASCISTS BY THE DIRECTOR OF STATE OF S.A.T.S. IN CUBA, ANTONIO G. RODILLES! AS WE SAY IN CUBAN, LOS PUSIERON COMO UN C*LO!!
STATE OF S.A.T.S.- Who are the real anti-Cuban? by Antonio G. Rodilles - March 8, 2012
Once again, State Security uses the old tactic of trying to discredit, given its inability to come to a public debate of arguments and ideas. A debate that would have a long-awaited end, because absolutely nobody can hide the ruin they have brought to the Cuban nation. They razed it and follow by trying to sweep it up. On this occasion the attacks have been directed at the Estado de Sats project and directly at my person.
I feel the need to contextualize this reply because otherwise we would lose the true perspective of what is happening. It is no coincidence that this barrage of distortions and speculations comes from Cuba Debate, the page of Fidel Castro and his employees.
Who really has defrauded the Cuban people?
Who has despised our rights?
Who are the real traitors?
It’s time to review a little history and to Fidel Castro and company directly, although they refuse to answer us, as they always have.
Who deceived that group of pilots and offended ad nauseum a person of the quality of FĂ©lix Pena, forcing him to commit suicide?
Who crushed the independence of the judiciary a fewe days after January of 1959?
Who lied again and again, in the face of a whole people, saying he was not a Communist and that the revolution was as green as the palm trees?
Who sentenced Huber Matos to 20 years in prison on charges of slandering the Revolution for saying it would impose communism?
Who manipulated the Cuban people saying, “Elections? What for?” in order to remain in power?
Who is responsible for the execution of scores of Cubans?
Who deceived the people into believing that Fidel Castro participated in the combat on April 19 at the Bay of Pigs, where he was not really present?
Who left the extraordinary young man Pedro Luis Boitel to die on hunger strike?
Who has subjected thousands of prisoners, political and common, to inhuman conditions and degrading treatment?
Who stripped the fruits of their labor from thousands of Cuban families promising them a prosperity that has never arrived?
CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE LETTER!
http://www.estadodesats.com/20.....cuban.html
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 13:09
or soon Cuba and the world may go an open cannibalism;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....ure=fvwrel
There are no other future if the world cannibalistic…satanic ritual life continue like now
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 12:19
Soon or later may start happening again this;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....p&NR=1
So no more time to be stupid still..
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 12:04
A call to Cuban idiots and to every country’s idiots. You all are slaves and live in tyrany and controll of themanager who rule your country and work for UN.
UN and worl dmoney are created by agroup of people or a man who own and rule allnations,all planet lands,people and all the world resources.This type of system is evil and antihuman,dangerous,destructiv,suicidal,weak,stupid,inferior,ugly,crazy.
Humans of the world must take back their planet,free it and themselves from the bums,parasite,lower evil human beings who suffer them as despots,tyrants,criminals.
Contact all the Freedom Force International and Edd Griffin (ge.griffin@verizon.net)
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 12:01
Here is what will happen to the Castro Brothers. Just fast-forward 5 minutes in the movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....jTbjq3b5s#!
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 11:11
Cuba misery is never going to change but be like all other countries who are or are all becoming now thirld world countries. UN created by world banks and corporations who may belong to a single group or one men,is for welfare world system where 99% is poor…very poor or a begar ilke most of the Cubans who beag to tourist for MONEY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 10:05
Good question Griffin. Just reading this blog eats up all my spare internet time.
If Damir is real, he’s posting his rants to dozens of other blogs as well. And with all the links he provides, this means he’s glued to the computer all day.
Yet he claims to be a doctor with a family travelling around the world?
Does he post while examining his patients? Or do doctors with families to support have a lot of free time these days?
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 10:00
I can picture the “strategy” meetings they have in Havana where various workers are assigned the tasks of spraying dissident blogs with graffiti - some of the “posts” below.
They get help from the usual fat cat Marxist useful idiots enjoying the fruits of capitalism abroad.
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 07:50
Cuban satanist ceremony live and scary;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbgqYvMKHPk
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 07:36
Cuban Satanists run Cuba now and keep Castros in power
http://www.africaresource.com/.....s-of-cuba/
Cuba is becoming Africa,…going back to Africa
Marzo 12th, 2012 at 07:28
Thank’s Humberto, it works indeed.
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 23:54
Damir… is right,because there are billions of humans,male and female and billions of children in the world who are slaved,raped,beaten,tortured and killed…like in Cuba and all the nations=concentration camps in this planet run by satanists criminals
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 23:06
Cuba back to feudalism now that socialism and capitalism cant both work for Cubans;
http://www.catholicnewsagency......ent-warns/
Same thing is happening with the rest of the world now…going back to feudalism…dark ages
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 22:45
http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.....InCuba.pdf
Maybe this will prove the lies that are spread in here.
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 22:32
76Damir
Marzo 10th, 2012 at 23:22
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Some one can administrate a sedative to this out of control lunatic, please???!!!
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 22:30
58Damir
Marzo 10th, 2012 at 19:44
Again for all the cr%%%ns in the world (the team “yoani” pioneers brigade):
http://www.amnesty.org.au/svaw
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The poor patient of the site believes that by bringing proves of abuse in other countries will cover with a halo of “normality” the exeptional abuses that cuaban women suffer!!!!!!
The more cases of abuses around the world you bring the more readers can compare the difference between the women in Cuba and those in other countries and find the abissmal disadvantages cubans women lives in……… Women in other countries can solve the question of abuse with a single restriction order of a court…… but how can cuban women solve problems like Yoani describes in her wanderful article?????
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 22:26
Griffin said: “What kind of person spends so much of his time doing things he hates so much?”
TO ALL! THE CASTROFASCISTS HAVE BEGUN A CAMPAIGN TO DISCREDIT YOANI! THIS IS NOT REPORTED ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE MEDIA, BUT IS ALREADY HIT THE SPANISH ONE! OF COURSE THERE IS A CONNECTION IN THE UPSURGE OF THE LUNATICS HERE! PLEASE! IM NOT GOING TO TAKE THE TIME TO TRANSLATE IT EXACTLY, YOU WILL GET THE GIST FROM THIS GOOGLE TRANSLATION!
Again malicious conspiracy has been brought into play when the counter Yoani Sánchez, released as vulgar crime reporting reporter sent the news to Radio Martà detractor on a traffic accident on the road from Moron, a town north of the province of Ciego de Avila. According to the liar ex officio, without consulting the news and detail without having the results of the ongoing investigation, three Canadian, from Quebec, died in a car accident that was involved in their rented car and two trucks.
For Yoani poisonous, this serves to create a surtilugio malintecionados deceit, in which his anti-Cuban discourse revolves around the poor state of roads in Cuba, an alleged high rate of vehicular accidents on the island and a blanket of silence invented by government on this. These suggestions were suggested in an unhealthily tweett where the truth was revealed in all its dimensions.
It is regrettable, of course, the death of Mendoza Maikel tourists Prieto, David Tartre and Francis Tremblay, who traveled with the first wife, Ginette Senecal, the only survivor of the painful road accident. He missed, of course, Yoani, highlighting the rapid mobilization of relief to the injured and the painstaking care provided by Ms. Senecal, who is already in your country. But this, nor cares to, or the anti-Cuban parrots of Radio Marti.
Will there be they ever took the time to stand out in your news accident rates in the United States? Of course not. For them the issue of Cuba is the fundamental and if they go to the lie is even better.
According to a report published by Univision on July 11, 2011, the annual costs of traffic accidents in the U.S. totaled $ 299.5 billion, according to a study by the AAA. That same source says that every year about 33,000 people (635 per week) on roads of America. Other offices, to cite another example, in the U.S. at least, there is an accident every 15 seconds. Globally 1.2 million people die annually in traffic accidents.
We believe that an accident always hides behind a responsibility of a driver and modifications to the current Code and Traffic Viavilidad are extremely rigorous in this regard. Weigh upon the world the pain of human loss and injury suffered by millions of people worldwide.
Making these unfortunate incidents breeding ground for unhealthy media manipulation shows the position of Yoani and Radio Marti, willing to do anything dishonorable to profit by lying and deceitful manipulation of the news. This same evil intent was done by the blog-Cuban Coffee Strong.
Nuevamente la confabulaciĂłn malintencionada se ha puesto en juego cuando la contrarrevolucionaria Yoani Sánchez, estrenada como vulgar reportera de la crĂłnica roja, enviĂł la noticia a la detractora Radio MartĂ, sobre un accidente de tránsito ocurrido en la carretera de MorĂłn, una ciudad situada al norte de la actual provincia de Ciego de Ăvila. De acuerdo con la mentirosa de oficio, sin consultar detalladamente la noticia y sin poseer los resultados de la investigaciĂłn en curso, tres turistas canadienses, procedentes de QuĂ©bec, fallecieron en un accidente automovilĂstico en que se viĂł involucrado su vehĂculo rentado y dos camiones.
Para la venenosa Yoani, este hecho sirve para crear un surtilugio de engaños malintecionados, en el que su discurso anticubano gira alrededor del mal estado de las carreteras cubanas, un supuesta alta tasa de accidentalidad vehicular en la Isla y un inventado manto de silencio por parte del gobierno sobre este hecho. Estas sugerencias fueron malsanamente sugeridas en un tweett, donde la verdad no se reveló en toda su dimensión.
Es lamentable, desde luego, la muerte de los turistas Maikel Mendoza Prieto, David Tartre y Francis Tremblay, quienes viajaban junto a la esposa del primero, Ginette SĂ©necal, Ăşnica sobreviviente del penoso accidente vial. Le faltĂł, por supuesto, a Yoani, destacar la rápida movilizaciĂłn del socorro para los accidentados y la esmerada atenciĂłn recibida por la señora SĂ©nĂ©cal, quien ya se encuentra en su paĂs. Pero ello, ni le interesa a ella, ni a las cotorras anticubanas de Radio MartĂ.
ÂżHabrán ellos alguna vez dedicado su tiempo a destacar dentro de sus noticias las tasas de accidentalidad en los Estados Unidos? Claro que no. Para ellos el tema Cuba es lo fundamental y si acuden a la mentira es todavĂa mucho mejor.
De acuerdo con una noticia publicada por UnivisiĂłn el dĂa 11 de julio de 2011, los costos anuales por accidentes de tránsito en EE UU ascienden a $299.5 mil millones, segĂşn un estudio realizado por la AAA. Esa misma fuente señala que cada año mueren cerca de 33,000 personas (635 por semana) en los caminos de Estados Unidos. Otros despachos, por citar otro ejemplo, en Estados Unidos al menos, existe un accidente cada 15 segundos. Mundialmente 1.2 millones de personas mueren anualmente en accidentes de tránsito.
Consideramos que un accidente siempre esconde de tras de sà una responsabilidad de un conductor y las modificaciones al actual Código de Viavilidad y Tránsito son sumamente rigurosas en ese sentido. Pesan sobre el mundo el dolor de las pérdidas humanas y las lesiones sufridas por millones de personas en el planeta.
Hacer de estos lamentables incidentes caldo de cultivo para la manipulaciĂłn mediática muestra la malsana posiciĂłn de Yoani y Radio MartĂ, dispuestos a todo para lucrar deshonrosamente mediante la mentira y la falaz manipulaciĂłn de la noticia. Esta misma mala intenciĂłn la realizĂł el blog anticubano CafĂ© Fuerte.
http://www.tercerainformacion......ticle34677
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 22:22
49Cuba Libre
Marzo 10th, 2012 at 09:51
………. Women can only blame themselves for their situation today………..
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Fascists have same justification for the pain their crimes causes……. Pinochet, Stroesner, Batista, Somoza, PRI in Mexico, every single gorila said always: poors and other people in disgrace are responsible for their situation…… same says them today about the people dying of hunger in africa ….. of course you are no diferent of other fascists just for being castrofascist.
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 22:21
http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.....InCuba.pdf
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 22:18
Once again proof of the lies that are told in here by people who should be shouting out loud the graces that they have in Cuba. But if you don`t believe me, here is some reading that contradicts totally the real condition of women in Cuba compared to the description of the pin0up granny.
“With just under 36% of female deputies in the National Assembly, Cuba ranks
fifth in the world after the Scandinavian countries for the percentage of
parliamentarians who are women. (The average for Latin America was 14.7% in
1999.)”
“However since the Revolution, which has put gender issues to the
forefront of policy making, Cuban women have seen a fundamental
transformation in almost every aspect of their lives with the result that today they
are the envy of most other female populations in Latin America.”
“The rights of women in Cuba are guaranteed by law, equality for women being
one of the fundamental measures taken to achieve social justice, the main
objective of the Revolution.”
But I strongly suggest you read the whole article, and then maybe you will all realize the lies that are spread in here. The truth will be heard.
http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.....InCuba.pdf
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 21:43
Anonimo! THE LINK WORKED FOR ME! TRY USING ANOTHER BROWSER OR BE PATIENT! WE ARE WITH DAMIR, HERE!! ITS A VERY SAD VIDEO I MUST SAY! AS SOMEONE WITH AN ARCHITECTURE BACKGROUND IT BREAKS MY HEART! I WONT GO BACK TILL THINGS CAN BE CHANGED AND RE-BUILT WITHOUT ANY CASTROFASCIST INVOLVED!
YOUTUBE: CUBA - Construcciones en ruinas en guanabo- Construction site in ruins in Guanabo Beach near Havana. Guanabo is a town in the Ciudad de la Habana Province of Cuba. It is located within the municipality of Habana del Este halfway between the centre of Havana and Santa Cruz del Norte, at the mouth of the Guanabo River, between the Atlantic Ocean coast and the Sierra del Canchón (mountain range). Guanabo is a seaside touristic town, with small scale villas and a few low rise hotels. The town was founded in 1800. In 1827 it was the place where the Peñas Altas uprising was crushed by troops from Havana (Peñas Altas is a neighbourhood east of Guanabo).
In the late 1990s it was known as a sexual tourism destination.[who?] Prostitution has since been cracked down by large police interventions, and (as of 2005) it is not uncommon to see police units constantly patrolling the town.[ci
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....ture=share
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 21:12
Damir,
Why on earth do you read & write at this blog? You hate everything Yoani writes. You hate the comments other people post. You get worked up into tantrums and tirades over and over again. Yet you keep coming back? Why do you insist on doing this to yourself? What kind of person spends so much of his time doing things he hates so much? Wouldn’t you feel better if you spent your time reading & posting at some blog you actually like? Or is it that you enjoy the opportunity to express your rage and tell people how much you hate them?
Do you live to hate?
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 20:55
The United Nations Statistics Division yearbook of 1959 shows Cuba having 3.8 university students per 1,000 inhabitants, well above the Latin America median of 2.6. The female percentage, in relation to the total student population, was the highest in the Western Hemisphere including the US. Before 1959 Cuban women entered such professions as pedagogy, medicine, architecture and law with greater frequency than in the US.
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 18:33
Humberto, the link about Guanabo is not working. Please Repost.I’ve been to Hotel Atlantico many times, which is nearby. Last month I took some pics of houses that were left to decay. Shameful, as they are 200 feet from one of the most beautiful beaches in the World, Playas del Este.
I’ve notice many tourists at my hotel and the other hotels were with mulato and black prostitutes that were from Guanabo.
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 17:32
Cuban gays are more advanced now than North American guys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 17:01
Cuba is still in 2012 a big ghetto or a scary violent sex concentration camp…and it is very interesting that inside Cuba now more women are becoming as freemasons. There are 300-400 lodges with 30-40,000 freemasons in Cuba
You should also look their temples which we the tourists found,visited in Cuba;
justamason.blogspot.com/2009/03/short-masonic-look-at-cubain-pictures.html
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 16:57
Humberto… very ugly but interesting video from Cuba and that is the plan to make all Cuba and the world look like that,demolished and maybe soon to get rid of most of the people like in Cuba labor and sex concentration camp or ghetto,destroyed by the Cuban destroyers which were put in power,the communists…(Middle East,USA,EU will look like that too)
Cubans were raped,tortured and killed by millions after 1960…but their number grow again after a mass raping happen of women 13-50 years old everywhere in the island=concentration camp…where many babies,youths of generation Y are a mix of albino Russian rapists.
From 5 million females…2 million women have been slave,property of the Cuban communists,2 million of the Russian people,agents like Damir… who moved to Cuba and now 1 million women are used for the tourism slavery,sex with the tourists…
Cuba is now a mix of atheists,communists,religious,gays,dissidents,prostitution and freemasons
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 16:40
Humberto… very ugly but interesting video from Cuba and that is the plan to make all Cuba and the world look like that,demolished and maybe soon to get rid of most of the people like in Cuba labor and sex concentration camp or ghetto,destroyed by the Cuban destroyers which were put in power,the communists…(Middle East,USA,EU will look like that too)
Cubans were raped,tortured and killed by millions after 1960…but their number grow again after a mass raping happen of women 13-50 years old everywhere in the island=concentration camp…where many babies,youths of generation Y are a mix of albino Russian rapists.
From 5 million females…2 million women have been slave,property of the Cuban communists,2 million of the Russian people,agents like Damir… who moved to Cuba and now 1 million women are used for the tourism slavery,sex with the tourists…
Cuba is still in 2012 a big ghetto or a scary violent sex concentration camp…and it is very interesting that inside Cuba now more women are becoming as freemasons. There are 300-400 lodges with 30-40,000 freemasons in Cuba
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=22538
and
http://freemasonsfordummies.bl.....-cuba.html
You should also look their temples which we the tourists found,visited in Cuba;
http://justamason.blogspot.com.....tures.html
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 16:38
Humberto very ugly but interesting video from Cuba and that is the plan to make all Cuba and the world look like that,demolished and maybe soon get rid of most of the people like in Cuba concentration camp or ghetto,destroyed by the destroyers which were put in power,the communists…(Middle East,USA,EU will look like that too)
Cubans were killed by millions after 1960…but their number grow again after a mass raping happen of women 13-50 years old everywhere in the island=concentration camp…where many babies,youths of generation Y are a mix of albino Russian rapists.
From 5 million females…2 million women have been slave,property of the Cuban communists,2 million of the Russian people,agents like Damir… who moved to Cuba and now 1 million women are used for the tourism slavery,sex with the tourists…
Cuba is still in 2012 a big ghetto or a scary violent sex concentration camp…and it is very interesting that inside Cuba now more women are becoming as freemasons. There are 300-400 lodges with 30-40,000 freemasons in Cuba
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=22538
and
http://freemasonsfordummies.bl.....-cuba.html
You should also look their temples which we the tourists found,visited in Cuba;
http://justamason.blogspot.com.....tures.html
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 14:35
UNITED NATIONS’S INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISM is created by the world banks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA058B7S-Xk
and than all world citizens will live as Cubans today
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 14:13
YOUTUBE: CUBA - Construcciones en ruinas en guanabo- Construction site in ruins in Guanabo Beach near Havana. Guanabo is a town in the Ciudad de la Habana Province of Cuba. It is located within the municipality of Habana del Este halfway between the centre of Havana and Santa Cruz del Norte, at the mouth of the Guanabo River, between the Atlantic Ocean coast and the Sierra del Canchón (mountain range). Guanabo is a seaside touristic town, with small scale villas and a few low rise hotels. The town was founded in 1800. In 1827 it was the place where the Peñas Altas uprising was crushed by troops from Havana (Peñas Altas is a neighbourhood east of Guanabo).
In the late 1990s it was known as a sexual tourism destination.[who?] Prostitution has since been cracked down by large police interventions, and (as of 2005) it is not uncommon to see police units constantly patrolling the town.[ci
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....ture=share
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 14:08
A Comparison: USSR AND CUBA…. WITH USA AND EU TODAY :
http://www.exilemm.com/e-sub-ussr1.shtml
USSR AND CUBA….CHINA,NORTH KOREA,USA AND EU COMMUNISM IS NOW REPLACED BY UNITED NATIONS’S INTERNATIONALCOMMUNISM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zNwOeyuG84
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 13:48
US military leaders don’t expect Cuba’s reforms of its Soviet-style economy to lead to “dramatic change,” a key US general said Wednesday.
“I don’t see a dramatic change happening in the future,” General Douglas Fraser, head of the US Southern Command, told reporters at a press briefing.
He acknowledged that the Havana government “is in transition” but said real change on the Communist island would occur via “evolution.”
“We are just monitoring that situation to help us understand what we’ll see in the future,” he told reporters.
He said that Washington is “preparing,” however, for the unlikely possibility that a change in Cuba’s political regime leads to a mass exodus of Cubans on rafts and rickety boats.
Cuba has been governed since 2006 by President Raul Castro, who took power from his older brother Fidel, 85, after a health crisis forced the revolutionary icon to step aside.
Raul Castro, 80, has introduced various economic reforms during his tenure, but has not made the kind of clean break with Communism that the United States has pressed for.
Fraser’s remarks came a day after his testimony on Capitol Hill warning US lawmakers of “potential geopolitical turbulence” in the region — particularly in Venezuela, because of President Hugo Chavez’s health crisis as he battles a recurrence of cancer.
The 57-year old Chavez underwent surgery in Cuba February 27 to remove a malignant tumor and soon will undergo radiation therapy. He previously had a cancerous tumor removed from his pelvic area in June 2011.
USA IS PLANNING TO CHANGE AND BE LIKE CUBA IN 2012, BUT MOSTLY LIKE SOVIET UNION
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 13:40
Cubans were killed by millions after 1960…but their number grow again after a mass raping happen of women 13-50 years old everywhere in the island=concentration camp…where many babies are mix of albino Russians.
Cuba is still in 2012 a getho or a concentration camp…but inside it women are becoming freemasons.It is not a conspiracy. There are 300-400 lodges with 30-40,000 freemasons in Cuba
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=22538
and
http://freemasonsfordummies.bl.....-cuba.html
You should also look their temples which we the tourists found,visited in Cuba;
http://justamason.blogspot.com.....tures.html
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 12:41
CHECK OUT MEMBERS OF OMNI ZONA FRANCA, THE CUBAN ARTIST COLLECTIVE ON THEIR FIRST U.S. TOURS! THEY KEEP SAYING ON ONE OF THEIR VIDEOS THAT THEY HAVE TAKEN AN ESCAPE FROM “THE SYSTEM” OVER AND OVER! VERY FUNNY! GO TO THE VIDEOS SECTION TO THEIR CHICAGO ARRIVAL!
Omni Zona Franca is a multi-disciplinary Cuban arts collective with members who freely shift between different forms of expression (art, music, poetry, theatre, dance) in the embrace of art as everyday life. As curator Dannys Montes de Oca writes in the 9th Havana Biennial catalogue, Omni “is a group and a life experience emerging from the very entrails of the city; from its streets, scents, cries, music, voices, from its generous and anarchical happiness and its local flavour.” As such, performance in some shape or another is the binding component of their collective actions, and they have been involved in over 200 events during nearly 7 years of organization. Regardless of the form any individual project, performance or event assumes, all members are committed to the collaborative and transformative potential of art.
Omni live (mostly), meet and organize in a small space in the community centre in Alamar, an outlying neighbourhood east of Havana. Activities, either in Alamar or other urban settings, include yearly occurrences such as Poesia Sin Fin (Never-ending Poetry) and their bi-monthly Friday Performance. Despite Omni’s longstanding commitment to art and community, they have until recently received relatively little acknowledgement. 2006 is the first time they were invited to participate in the Havana Biennial.
Members include: Jorge Carlos Acevedo, Adolfo Cabrera PĂ©rez, Yasser Castellanos, David Escalona Carrillo, Nilo Julián Gonzalez, Joel MartĂnez, Amaury Pacheco del Monte, Jorge PĂ©rez González, Luis Eligio Perez Meriño, Olver Reyes RodrĂguez, Natividad Soto Kessel, Damián ValdĂ©s Dilla, Gonzalo Vidal
http://omnizonafranca.blogspot.com/
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 10:49
Cuba=COMMUNISM=…. Satanism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNzoVYNa8Zw
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 09:04
Laughing so much I can hardly type. Yoani, we need a new topic soon
Laughing so much I can hardly type. Yoani, help. We need a new topic soon! How did we get from clitoral mutilation to time zones in Siberia??
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 08:29
Leroy, before you call someone dumb, take a little more care.I said when it’s 5 AM in London, it’s 4 pm in Melbourne. That’s 11 eleven hours ahead. Dumbo Damir thinks there’s no time difference. What are you all on??
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 07:47
John, you are the dumbest of all dumbos in the world.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Worldwide_Time_Zones_%28including_DST%29.png
When it’s 5pm in London, it’s 4pm in Siberia too, and Siberia is on the NORTHERN side of the globe.
What are you on, dude?
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 02:04
“john”, your statement is rediculous.
“When it’s 5am in London it’s 4pm in Melbourne. That’s in Australia if you don’t know any geography. And that’s in the southern hemisphere which is the opposite to the northern hemisphere.”
When it is 5 am in London it is also 4 pm in Siberia, and that is in the NORTHERN hemisphere. You are one confused dude. You are calling someone a moron for a mistake you are unable to work out that you are making.
As I said, you are making a fool of yourself. But, since you insist yo are not done yet, who am I to try an stop you.
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 01:13
Love to see Dumbo hiss and spit and spew. He’s going to explode any moment. His keyboard must be worn out with all that thumping on the keys. It must be the furious angry typing that causes all these spelling errors. No one could be that illiterate….
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 01:10
Whoa Nelly!!! Mrs. Damir (poor dumb b*tch), must have said she has a headache tonight. Who can blame her?
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 01:06
What the team “yoani” “write” about is pure bullshift cia-made imperialist propaganda with no sense, no substance no brain whatsoever.
(Little wonder it attracts all those “well-wishers” with their own mental disorders and emotional issues…)
Haha, this blog sure seems like “catnip” to the likes of you.
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 01:03
I am such a gigant in the intellectual department, I know how to spell gigant.
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 01:03
When it’s 5am in London it’s 4pm in Melbourne. That’s in Australia if you don’t know any geography. And that’s in the southern hemisphere which is the opposite to the northern hemisphere. What an unbelievable m..on you are.
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 00:16
“John”, you are making a fool of yourself. Please stop. Learn about the time zones a little.
Marzo 11th, 2012 at 00:02
Yet again, cr**in!!!
The same goes for northern hemisphere dumbf**k!!!
You are hillarious in your absolute st***ity!!!
Go on I’m listening.
Hell, the whole world is listening! Keep dribbling your black hole and showing to the world what intellectual gigants are supporting the traitors and failures the team “yoani”, cia’s servants destroying their own country just so they can share a bit of brownies falling off their white “gods” bums!!
Go on, entertain us, genius!
Marzo 10th, 2012 at 23:30
You’re st..der than I thought. It depends on where in the southern hemisphere!!!! The time zones are completely different. As for my being in bed or not in bed which nobody could care about - you just ASSUME where everybody is and said that we were now all in bed! And we’re not! M..ON!!!!
Marzo 10th, 2012 at 23:22
How many times have I pointed out that the pioneers are a bunch of cre**s?
Milloions of times!
Did they listen?
Never. Just tonight I warned one such mo**n of his/her obvious and enormous gaps in the intellect sphere.
And the mo***n still wouldn’t listen.
S/he keeps going on and showing us more and more of that intelligence black hole in his/her skull:
“I’m not in bed - I’m reading and working the night through. (Who cares what the mo***n is doing? I didn’t want to know. I’m sure yo didn’t either.) Buy why aren’t you bed - I’m beginning to suspect you’re in the southern hemisphere.”
Now, I know that intelligent readers know where is the stupidity part, but sinde the author, for obvious easons, has NO IDEA how st**id s/he is, here’s why:
“I’m beginning to suspect you’re in the southern hemisphere.”
The Southern hemisphere has got N O T H I N G to do with the local time, you id**t!!!!!!!!!!
If your stu***ty weren’t sad, your self-revelation would have been funny.
Time zones are VERTICAL to Earth rotation, so the time in Italy is exactly the same as in South Africa, while the time in your sewage (somewhere in the usa) is exactly the same as somewhere in the southern hemisphere, as long as you are in the same time zone (same meridian, plus minus 30 minutes left or right).
Cre**n!!!!
No wonder you are on the wrong side, ignorant. And no wonder Fidel only needed 25 friends to beat the shift out of your political brethren.
You are all the same.
Helically revolved around the axis!!!
HAHAHA!!!
Go figure out what did I just wrote. I bet you a million you will never work it out.
Someone will have to tell you…
Marzo 10th, 2012 at 22:50
“Little wonder it attracts all those with their own mental disorders and emotional issues”. You said it again!!
To get back to Cuba, this is Yoani’s blog, she is writing about Cuba, Cubans, life in Cuba. Yoani does not need your demented comments about irelevant nonsense.
And no I’m not in bed - I’m reading and working the night through. Buy why aren’t you bed - I’m beginning to suspect you’re in the southern hemisphere.
Marzo 10th, 2012 at 22:45
Go catch on my typo and spray!!!
27% of all rapes were committed by Serbs, which means that 73% were committed by all other parties in the war. That includes UNPROFOR, which, given the size of the contingent at any given time - 14 000 soldiers, turns out to be the biggest rapists army per capita.
As heir rapes, and other numerous crimes including children abduction and organ traficking, are being “freely and democratically” hushed up, it is hard to tell precisely how many women have been raped by the “peacemakers”. It is known well that Serbian women were killing children conceived through rape, in particular black children.
Long live “some kind of pragmatic capitalism”.
All is fair go. As long as it is by the rules of that “paradisiac” system.
Marzo 10th, 2012 at 22:39
Now that little st***d pioneers are in bed, asleep, dreaming about living in socialist Cuba, let me call upon the team “yoani” and ask them to debate this, in the light of their own post:
youtube.com/watch?v=Scsb5uB1Z7Y&feature=g-logo&context=G263b467FOAAAAAAACAA
Yet ANOTHER story of rape of women in the “paradise on earth”, the “some kind of pragmatic capitalism” the pin up granny reckons is the answer for all Cuban problems.
As one poster said, below the video, if this pandemia is going on IN Defence force of the usa nazist gulag, then how many women have been raped by the soldiers in all those occupied countries the nazist colonisers are “liberating” and “installing democracy” in?
The really stupid movie A. Jolie made about the rape of women in “Bosnia” for example, has blatantly ignored ALL rape cases and only focused on ONE SINGLE SIDE. So, we all know how Serbs a re the rapists, but the cold hard fact is that Serbs have commited 27% of all rape cases in Bosnia.
That leaves us with 33% of crimes that are being IGNORED.
Pure nazist hypocritical politics.
And why is A. Jolie ignoring the rest, because among the rapists in Bosnia are also soldiers of UNPROFOR, and among these rapists are also usanian nazist soldiers.
Two more cold hard facts, if anyone is willing to read Red Cross almanachs (you will have to go to Switzerland for that, it is very hard to find details on the net):
Per capita of soldiers, UNPROFOR crimsons have committed MORE raping than any other warring side. And among the contingents, African combined contingent is the first, the usa is the second biggest violator.
So, returning now back to the above post by the team “yoani”: what is actually your point here?
Apart from the usual obvious ranting over nothing to create a perception of something, while saying nothing.
Because I am seeing nothing specific in the post above to justify the waste of electrons on posting the blabla nonsense above.
TRhs is how you actually write about an issue in Cuba. This lady should be famous, not the team “yoani”.
http :// jurisconsultocuba.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/jineteras-y-chupa-chupas/#comment-40898
This is closer to the life and difficulties of ordinary Cubans that one can read and ponder over, agree or disagree, like or dislike.
But there’s some substance to the posts.
What the team “yoani” “write” about is pure bullshift cia-made imperialist propaganda with no sense, no substance no brain whatsoever.
(Little wonder it attracts all those “well-wishers” with their own mental disorders and emotional issues…)
Marzo 10th, 2012 at 22:27
I believe Damir is the result of some KGB experiment with depleted neurons.
I wonder how many Damirs they created?
Marzo 10th, 2012 at 21:59
And you have more right than anyone else to come here and “bullshift” about Cuba or Cubans? You spew more “bullshift” than anyone else! And just who are you referring to when you talk about religious morons? Who is religious? How do you know whether I am religious or athiest? As for violent mo**ons, we all know who that is. No one I know has let off any nuclear bombs, or napalmed anyone. You’re like an alley cat, just hissing and spraying in the dark.
Marzo 10th, 2012 at 21:41
No matter what one try, the pioneers of the team “yoani” will NEVER have anything of value to say. Below comments, sadly, just confirm that the losers who come here to bullshift about what Cubans and Cuba should do, while their own “paradisiac” counries are drowning deep in their own faeces, just do not understand their own concepts:
“democracy”
“free speech”
It will never occur to those religious and violent mo**ns that there are people who find their own delusions abhorrent and despicable.
And do not want to live in these delusions. Those people, however, are ALWAYS denied the right to make their own choices and live fre from ANY ideology and brainwash, be it capitalism or nazism (both of which are so “passionately” promoted here as the ONLY solutions to EVERY country’s problems.
These are the people who used the nuclear bombs, napalm, depleted uranium, destroyed countless lives and whole generations in tens of countries, all in the name of their own delusional misunderstanding of the above two concepts.
As long as you sing “our” song, it is ok.
Clitoris, penis or whatever that may be.
Says so the above post by the team “yoani”…
Marzo 10th, 2012 at 21:26
Actually there is no sewage outlet to the sea within thousands of miles where I live and who said I lived near sea “with coral or no coral”? Loser.
Marzo 10th, 2012 at 21:12
Take that milk, go to toilet and go to bed.
Nighty night and bad dreams (Cuba socialist and free from scum like you).
Marzo 10th, 2012 at 21:02
Why would anyone answer your questions? You don’t answer ANY. And go shove your booorrring repetition of “some kind of pragmatic capitalism”. Poor, sad, unsuccessful person, how I pity you.
Marzo 10th, 2012 at 20:59
While the pioneer who, st***d as s/he is, posted this in the post 64 is drinking his/her glass of milk before the bed time, let me kick him/her in the balls a little more:
The loser:
““anglo-saxon masonic monstruosity(sic) you call “homeland”. What is that and where is it?” - A VERY good question. We do know it is not Cuba.
“I don’t have a mule, I have a very good car.” - Keep dreaming mule rider.
“I don’t live in a sewer, I live in a particularly beautiful environment with a spectacular water view.” The sewer pipes usually flow into the open sea, but they are underwater, so very flexibly speaking, the loser might have a good view on shift and c*ap accumulating at the end of the pipe, on rocks and what’s left of corals in the sea. Whether that is a fine environment and a view, is highly dubious.
Looser (oh, look!!! Another spelling mistake!!! Go rant!!!) cannot be trusted to provide a reliable information. “some kind of pragmatic capitalists” are losers, draw your own conclusions.