Schools and Schools
Cuban children at morning assembly reciting, "Pioneers for Communism, we will be like Che" REUTERS/Desmond Boylan. (Image: http://www.noticias24.com)
Last week I ran into an Italian friend on the street who has lived in Cuba for a decade. It occurred to me to ask after his children, two teenagers born in Milan but now growing up in Havana. “Here I have them in a French school,” he confirmed, smiling. At first I did not understand why he had chosen this Francophone education, but he clarified for me. “What do you want, that I send them to a public school? With the terrible education here!” Inquiring, I learned that they share the classroom with the children of diplomats, foreign correspondents, and figures of our culture who have married an immigrant. For an annual fee of 5,550 CUC ($5,800 USD), both offspring of the rotund Italian are well cared for and educated.
The first impression of that encounter was that my friend was exaggerating, but I immediately reviewed my own experience as the mother of a student. I visualized the number of floor mops, bags of detergent, and brooms we had donated to make sure the hallways and bathrooms of the school were at least presentable. Also on this list was a lock for the classroom door we replaced on several occasions and a fan all the parents bought because the suffocating heat made it hard for the children to pay attention. Nor did I forget the infinite number of times that the exams were printed in our house because the school had no paper, no ink, no working printer. The snack that we gave to the teacher so many days, because the food in the dining room was simply unpresentable. I recalled the folios, tubes of glue, the tempura and colored paper that we also provided for the mural that would hang on the wall with an image of a magnanimous and smiling Fidel Castro.
I didn’t stop with just the high material cost of those school years, but continued connecting memories. I recapitulated those times when they implemented the so-called tele-classes, that filled over 60% of the teaching hours with television. The great teachers who decided to return home to paint nails, sell coffee, or relocate to the tourism sector, because the combination of high responsibility and low wages was unbearable. And I even took a minute to count all the primary and secondary teachers who had left their jobs. I enumerated, one by one, all the atrocities voiced to so many adolescents by the “emerging teachers” (they should have been called “instant teachers”): from the reason that the Cuban flag has a five-pointed start is because there are five Interior Ministry agents confined in U.S. prisons, or that New Zealand is in the Caribbean Sea. I also reconstructed the afternoon that a teacher announced in front of our son, that very nearby there was an act of repudiation underway against “dangerous counterrevolutionaries” and little Teo got a lump in his throat, since he knew that his mother and father were among the victims of the harassment. The teachers’ assistants with their tight clothes and their navels hanging out paraded in front of my eyes, or a teacher with a gold tooth and an eagle on his shirt criticizing the students’ long hair and not letting them into the classroom.
My evocative waterfall that afternoon didn’t lack the slogans repeated to the point of exhaustion, the endless and monotonous morning assemblies, the cult of personality of some men who appear in history books as saviors and in science books as scientists. At the end of my reflection, all this helped me to understand why my Italian friend prefers the “little French school” of Havana. But I also know that his children will grow up with a very different idea of what education is on this Island. They will believe that the bright and well equipped places where they receive each assignment, a balanced lunch, a caring teacher, and quality school materials, are characteristics inherent in our education system. I can’t rule out that some day — on returning to Europe — they will participate in some street protests so that their public education will look like ours, so that their children can enjoy what they “knew” in Cuba.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 18:53
Cuba Libre (La MENTIROTA & HOMOPHOBE & CASTROBOOTLICKER) said: “But just to prove you wrong once again, here is a list of hundreds of baseball players that were born in Cuba, and several of them are still active today. And if you click on their names, you will have all their statistics in the Major League. How does that shut your lieng mouths huh. Imbeciles.”
SO, C.L.! HOW ARE THESE STATISTICS COMMENT ON THE FACT THAT THE CASTROFASCISTS CRUSHES ANYONE WHO TRIES TO DEFECT, DOCTORS OR BASEBALL PLAYERS?? I THINK YOU GOT HIT WITH A FUACATAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND YOUR ARE YELLING FROM THE BOTTOM OF THAT BARREL!! AND THIS STORY FITS PERFECTLY WITH THE CUBA & CUBAN TOPICS! PUTS YOUR BAD OLD U.S.A. COMMENTS DOWN BY THE WASTE SIDE!! JE JE JE!
Abril 6th, 2012 at 18:50
Pope said http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....AAAAAAABAA
and the Cubans should not be to dumb proud…like the Humberto rainbow organization.
Brain is to delicate to be destroyed in the early age…specially for creating the proud children,patriots,religious or any kind of ideology and mass brainwashing of the proud lazy community…Cuba is to proud and to flat-brain damage to let the humans brain be free…and that is the reason of the embargo.Not just the brain energy from the USA but also the proud flat brain from Cuba create the borders,keep the embargo going on.Still USA makes more money with Cuba via other countries who rob Cuba for 50 years,mostly as company branches of USA
Abril 6th, 2012 at 18:47
If you haven’t read it I can recommend a beautiful book called “Havana Dreams, a story of Cuba” by Wendy Gimbel. “an elegant narrative of Cuba’s past and its present, its good and its bad. Its genesis is the Cuban-American author’s own memories of a pre-Castro Cuba of the nineteen forties and fifties, still steeped in its colonial miasma, redolent of family, traditions, and a certain indolence that was reserved for those who lived the life of patrones.” It’s also a portrait of Castro’s mistress Naty Revuleta and their daughter Alina. Well worth the read.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 18:46
YOUTUBE: Yoani Sanchez and Jose Luis Antunez on SATS - ABOUT Jose Luis Antunez, EBE Ideologue and cofounder of the main event of the social web in our country. It all started in March 2006 following the presentation in Seville I did with Octavio Rojas ‘Blogs’. A few days later, I propose to Jose Luis Perdomo Luis Rull, and Benito Castro organize what is now known as BSE. EBE11 was my last issue as co-organizer. I left it to redesign and create new web products.State of SATS project hopes to create a plural space for participation and debate, where open and frank debate is exchanged. The project sponsors panel discussions, forums and other events that are filmed and broadcasted on the Internet. Opinions or points of view expressed on this site by individual participants do not necessarily represent the position of the rest of contributors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbQhhz8Jpn0
Abril 6th, 2012 at 18:45
It is hard to stop feeding trolls, isn’t it? They’re just so cute and cuddly.
But I recommend we don’t overfeed them or they’ll get clogged arteries to go with their clogged brain cells.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 18:40
So Fidel wasn’t a ball player? Well, I’m as shocked as when I found out Che wasn’t a doctor.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 18:36
#147 Cuba Libre/Impostor “Nah it ain`t even worth trying to debate anything with anyone who doesn`t have an open mind and is willing to see things as they are.”
But you don’t debate. You just accuse, one accusation after the other, telling people what they are. As if you’d know. Like telling people they’re blonde, that they’re a jinetera, and constantly telling people that they’ve obviously never been to Cuba. The best example telling Freud he’s never been there when he was born and raised there for 44 years for godsake! You need to pull yourself into line Cuba Libre and not make assumptions about people you know nothing about. Debate the point they’re making but stop assuming how they live.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 18:36
Anonimo: “I wonder why some of Fidel’s own family, including his sister and his daughter, chose to live in the big bad United States, instead of the island paradise of Cuba.”
I recommend his daughter’s book for the answer, “Castro’s Daughter: An Exile’s Memoir of Cuba” And that is the life of a dictator’s daughter, imagine how hard life is for a poor Cuban.
She was a hero to a friend of mine, who could only hear her voice a few minutes at a time because Castro jams signals from the States. He would spend hours trying to tune into VOA for a few minutes. He had to keep his radio hidden and the volume very low to avoid being denounced to the police.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 18:21
Nah it ain`t even worth trying to debate anything with anyone who doesn`t have an open mind and is willing to see things as they are. It`s like trying to explain to a blind person what the coulour red looks like. The whole wold recognizes the effectiveness of the education system in Cuba, but you Yoani ass-lickers won`t. The whole world recognizes the harm the US blockade is doing to Cubans, but you won`t recognize it. The whole world recognizes that the blockade only affects every day Cubans, and not the revolutionary government, but you won`t recognize that. And then as usual you will try to divert attention to baseball players instead of the subject at hand.
But just to prove you wrong once again, here is a list of hundreds of baseball players that were born in Cuba, and several of them are still active today.
http://www.baseball-almanac.co.....p?loc=Cuba
And if you click on their names, you will have all their statistics in the Major League. How does that shut your lieng mouths huh. Imbeciles.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 18:02
Ha! Or should I say Je!
Yeah, I followed the link and figured it out.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 17:39
Griffin!!! IM AN OLD QUEEN FROM CALIFORNIA, MY BOOK WOULD BE ABOUT HOW COLOR COORDINATED THE CUBAN BASEBALL TEAMS HAVE BEEN THROUGH THE YEARS! JE JE JE!
Abril 6th, 2012 at 17:33
Humberto,
Did you say you wrote a book about Cuban baseball? If so, I would love to read it!!! Umm… Is it in English? And where can I buy it?
But while we’re on the topic, it’s a shame Fidel never signed with a US pro ball team. He could have played half a season with a lower ranked team and then be sent down to the Minors. Maybe play few seasons with the Boise Hawks or the Deluthe Dirt Devils or whatever. It may not have fulfilled Fidel’s dreams, but it sure would have worked out better for Cuba.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 17:30
Humberto,
Did you say you wrote a book about Cuban baseball? If so, I would love to read it. Umm… Is it in English? And where can I buy it?
But while we’re on the topic, it’s a shame Fidel never signed with a US pro ball team. He could have played half a season with a lower ranked team and then sent down to the Minors. Maybe play acre seasons with the Boise Hawks or the Deluth Devils or whatever. It may not have fulfilled Fidel’s dreams, but it sure as sh*t would have worked out better for Cuba.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 17:20
Griffin!ONE OF OUR GREATEST EXPORTS! BUT OF COURSE THE CASTROFASCISTS DONT WANT TO TRADE WITH THE USA ANYWAY! THEY COULD HAVE HAD A PIECE OF THE BASEBALL ACTION, BUT THAT WOULD HAVE NOT BEEN “REVOLUTIONARY”!!BUT HECK, THEY DO IT WITH THE DOCTORS (see my video on #120)!I THINK IS A MATTER OF PRIDE WITH “THE MUMMY” AS IT IS OUR NATIONAL SPORT AND TIES IN WITH THE RUMOR THAT HE PLAYED BASEBALL PROFESSIONALLY, WHICH IS A LIE! JE JE JE!
Although this legend has an aura of plausibility to Americans in that baseball has long flourished in Cuba (only the Dominican Republic has supplied more foreign-born players to the North American-based major leagues) and Castro has been a very visible supporter of (and pseudo-participant in) the sport, it is neither true nor credible, as Cubans have always been aware. Castro never had a tryout with a major-league baseball team, never played the sport professionally, and didn’t come close to possessing skills which would attract the interest of a big-league team, as Yale professor Roberto González EchevarrĂa noted in his history of Cuban baseball:
I have written a book that I hope will correct some of the views Americans and others have of Cuban baseball. To me, the most vexing example of how lightly and condescendingly the history of Latin baseball is dealt with in the United States involves a story about Fidel Castro that I would like to set straight here once and for all. Every time I mentioned that I was writing a book about Cuban baseball, the first thing Americans said had to do with Fidel’s (which is how we Cubans call him, never “Castro”) alleged prowess in the sport, and the irony that, had he been signed by the Senators or the Giants, there would have been no Cuban Revolution.
The whole thing is a fabrication by an American journalist whose name is now lost, and it is never told in Cuba because everyone would know it to be false. Let it be
known here that Fidel Castro was never scouted by any major-league team, and is not known to have enjoyed the kind of success in baseball that could have brought a scout’s attention to him. In a country where sports coverage was broad and thorough, in a city such as Havana with a half-dozen major newspapers (plus
dozens of minor ones) and with organized leagues at all levels, there is no record that Fidel Castro ever played, much less starred, on any team. No one has produced even one team picture with Fidel Castro in it. I have found the box score of an intramural game played between the Law and the Business Schools at the University of Havana where a certain F. Castro pitched and lost, 5-4, in late November 1946; this is likely to be the only published box score in which the futuredictator appears (El Mundo, November 28, 1946). Cubans know that Fidel Castro was no ballplayer, though he dressed himself in the uniform of a spurious, tonguein-cheek team called Barbudos (Bearded Ones) after he came to power in 1959 and played a few exhibition games. There was no doubt then about his making any team in Cuba. Given a whole country to toy with, Fidel Castro realized the dream of most middle-aged Cuban men by pulling on a uniform and “playing” a few innings.
http://www.snopes.com/sports/baseball/castro.asp
Abril 6th, 2012 at 17:14
Symbol of the key in Cuba shows that Cuba is communism=community where the individual is nothing…and the pope flag when he visited Cuba did show the symbol of the two keys,the two gates…That is not extreme as Cuba and USA but in an universal position
Like it or not…Vatican,Church with symbols of the two keys is maybe the ruler of the world…both east and west holding the two keys of the gates in the east and west.
Yet the sun rises in the east…and there should we look…but where is the sun?
Communism did come from east but it was the same as capitalism…full of inquisition from the left hand path…the same as the right hand path. The two paths unite now because they are as one,as twins…so Communism + Capitalism = something new…born.
Time maybe to unite all the lunatics of Cuba with those of USA…and get rid of the embargo…I dont think that Castros and Cuba libre will refuse a union with USA and NAU
Abril 6th, 2012 at 17:00
Hey Humberto, I guess the US embargo doesn’t ban all Cuban products. They still import great baseball players from Cuba!
Abril 6th, 2012 at 16:56
“Blonde” jokes and calling someone that you don’t know a jinetera just put Cuba Libre’s stupidity on parade for all to see. He is Castro’s executive bootlicker.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 16:55
GREAT STORY OF ANOTHER CUBAN ATHLETE DENIED HIS RIGHT BY THE CASTROFASCISTS & TRIUMPH IN THE BAD OLD U.S.A. EVEN AFTER A MAJOR SETBACK. PUN INTENDED! JE JE JE! YOU LIKE BASEBALL C.L.?? WHAT IS YOUR OPINION OF THIS “FREE EDUCATION” OR IN THIS CASE “FREE TRAINING”?? NOTHING IS LIFE IS FREE, EVEN IN THE “ISLAND PARADISE” OF CUBA! YOU EVENTUALLY HAVE TO PAY THE REAPER (in this case “The Mummy” Fidel & “La China” Raul), UNLESS YOU CAN OUTSMART HIM/THEM! JE JE JE! YOU SEE C.L., MY POST IS ABOUT A CUBAN! FOLLOW MY LEAD! JE JE JE!
ESPN: Kendrys Morales will wait no longer-The Angels’ Cuban import is back from injury and ready to hammer away- By Jim Caple
Morales was born in Cuba and was one of the country’s best players when still just a teenager, hitting home runs at the plate and occasionally striking out batters on the mound. He was the first teenager to make the national team in the previous 20 years. But as ESPN Deportes’ Enrique Rojas reported, in 2003 the Cubans dropped him from the team under suspicion of contacting an agent. Morales told Rojas the suspicions were unfounded, but it didn’t matter. He never played for the Cuban team again.
Denied the chance of playing for Cuba, Morales spent the next year or so attempting to escape the island. Unfortunately, his first attempt failed. So did his second. And his third. And his fourth. And many others. Rojas reported that Morales attempted 12 escapes — he was jailed at least once — before he was ultimately successful at age 20 in 2004 when his raft washed ashore the United States.
As is now the custom for Cuban emigres, Morales applied for residency in the Dominican Republic, which allowed him to become a free agent and sign with the Angels for $4.5 million.
Morales says he knew as soon as he landed on the ankle, “It was bad because of the pain.” It was very bad. The bone was broken and dislocated, and six screws and a pin had to be inserted to fuse the bones together. He says doctors told him the injury would take time to heal, but after the first surgery that June, he was hopeful he would return relatively soon, perhaps by the time the Angels once again reached the playoffs.
Morales finally returned to games in mid-March with at-bats in minor league games. He started his first Cactus League game a week later. In his first 16 at-bats he had 10 hits and two home runs; he finished the Cactus League season with a .435 average. “I’d been sitting at home watching them for a long time, and I couldn’t support my teammates,” Morales told reporters. “To finally be out there with them and interact with them felt really good.”
“He seems happy. He’s cracking jokes. I think he’s seeing he has a chance of coming back,” Hunter says. “Last year he was hurting and quiet. You could see the expression on his face. The disappointment. But this year, he’s happy.
“He looks like he never had an injury. We need him in the lineup. He doesn’t have to run, he can just jog. If he hit a ground ball, even if he was healthy, he was out anyway. A guy like that, he hits a ground ball, he’s out. Hopefully we can get him where he can run without any pain.”
espn.go.com/los-angeles/story/_/id/7781737/kendrys-morales-comeback
Abril 6th, 2012 at 16:54
I wonder why some of Fidel’s own family, including his sister and his daughter, chose to live in the big bad United States, instead of the island paradise of Cuba.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 16:41
Cuba Libre (La MENTIROTA & HOMOPHOBE & CASTROBOOTLICKER)! FAIR ENOUGH! YOU PUT YOUR CASE & I PUT MINE! UNFORTUNATELY YOUR RESPONSE IS LACKING ANY CONCRETE INFORMATION & LINKS ON HOW THE “BLOCKADE” IS DIRECTLY AFFECTING THE CUBAN PEOPLE! CAN YOU DO THAT FOR ME DEAR?? IN MY COMMENTS I MENTION SPECIFIC THINGS ON HOW THIS “EMBARGO/BLOCKADE” REALLY DOES NOT EXIST! ALSO CAN YOU EXPLAIN HOW THIS DATA BELOW TAKEN FROM THE CUBA WEB SITE MEETS THE DEFINITION OF A “BLOCKADE”?? JE JE JE!
SECTOR EXTERNO / EXTERNAL SECTOR - 8.4 - Intercambio comercial de mercancĂas por paĂses seleccionados y áreas geográficas (ConclusiĂłn) Trade in goods in selected countries and geographical areas (Conclusion) -in thousand of pesos (added the last four zeros)- The rate of change of the Cuban Peso (CUP) with the USD or the Convertible Peso is of 1/26.
Estados Unidos de América (USA)
2004 = $443,900,000
2005 = $476,311,000
2006 = $483,591,000
2007 = $581,657,000
2008 = $962,767,000
2009 = $675,420,000
http://www.one.cu/aec2009/esp/08_tabla_cuadro.htm
Abril 6th, 2012 at 16:24
So to sum up: Cuba Liar is a homophobic, women hating, Castro loving Leftist. Oh man, the other Lefties in Vancouver (with so many gays and feminists) must really hate his guts. Poor CL, he must be very lonelyb
Abril 6th, 2012 at 16:19
If the UNGA voted to condemn the US “Blockade” of Cuba, then the UNGA are idiots. The US maintains a partial embargo, banning Americans from buying Cuban goods. There is no blockade. In fact, Cuba imported over $300 million in goods from the US in 2011. How could that be if there was a blockade?
Abril 6th, 2012 at 16:13
“…my Italian friend prefers the “little French school” of Havana. But I also know that his children will grow up with a very different idea of what education is on this Island. They will believe that the bright and well equipped places where they receive each assignment, a balanced lunch, a caring teacher, and quality school materials, are characteristics inherent in our education system. I can’t rule out that some day — on returning to Europe — they will participate in some street protests so that their public education will look like ours, so that their children can enjoy what they “knew” in Cuba”…
The Cuba communism is spreading in the world like the USA’s democracy…but one is a big country and the other is small…one has symbols of the Rome’s eagle and fascia and the other has a symbol of the red hat and sun and a key…Maybe is missing the other key because as we know there are two keys…in the Church,Vatican’s symbol…position between the two world gates in east and west.
Church somehow created their democracy and communism and the pope visit both these countries in the west where the people of the old Atlantis maybe were located.
Yet the sun was told..rises in the east…so the west living in the darkness of the old capitalism,democracy,communism,socialism may be all outdated or out of time…
The children of the west must be the children of the Moon…or the west lunatics…
Abril 6th, 2012 at 16:12
130Cuba Libre
Abril 6th, 2012 at 15:39
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Hey dude, you have serious problems with women, out there in the Spanish site you called pig to Yoani and spited other offenses to females commenter…. you got to fly the site because everyone went on you because your way to trait women…… here you call Latina jinetera…… are you impotent dude?????…….. only a guy that can’t handle intimate relations with woman has such evident hate for them……. be careful and get professional help because you can end killing girls by dozens……. think that no women out your mother is responsible for the kind of life your mother lived and the kind of life she gave you as child.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 15:44
And the blonde jokes are from another century. Get with it Cuba Liar/Impostor.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 15:41
Cuba Liar/Impostor You’re hilarious. Pathetic is probably a better word.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 15:39
latina (la jinetera)
Ok being a dumb blonde would have excused your stupidity, if neither is the case, what`s your excuse for it then? Probably the fact that your father beat you on the head too often when you were young, lol.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 15:36
I did follow the posts and it was you. I haven’t noticed anyone else saying they know who it is. And just for the record, I’m not dumb and I’m not blonde either.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 15:33
# 128 latina (la jinetera)
If you had any intelligence whatsoever you would have followed all the posts to see who accidentally revealed himself as the impostor. Everyone here seems to know now who the impostor is except you, being the dumb blonde that you are.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 15:15
Cuba Libre #86. “slightest bit of intelligence to see that, which obviously you don`t have.”
I had the intelligence to work out that you were the impostor behind my name and Pamela’s in the last thread.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 15:14
Humbertito (El Ciber raton)
Just in case you missed it the first time I`ll post it again, and again
Quote;”In the last UN General Assembly vote condemning the U.S. blockade of Cuba, only the U.S., Israel, and Uzbekistan shamefully rejected the voice of world opinion.”
http://www.cubasolidarity.net/blockade.html
You can keep your head buried in the ground like the ostrich that you are, but world opinion is stronger than your continous lies.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 15:12
Humbertito (El Ciber raton)
Just in case you missed it the first time I`ll post it again,
Quote;”In the last UN General Assembly vote condemning the U.S. blockade of Cuba, only the U.S., Israel, and Uzbekistan shamefully rejected the voice of world opinion.”
http://www.cubasolidarity.net/blockade.html
You can keep your head buried in the ground like the ostrich that you are, but world opinion is stronger than your continous lies.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 15:06
Humberto (aka El Ciber Rata)
Even the Vatican is against the US blockade on Cuba, and yet you still have the audacity to deny it.
http://en.cubadebate.cu/news/2.....inst-cuba/
Even the United Nations condemn the blockade.
Quote;”The U.S. government is now almost alone in the world with its blockade of Cuba. In the last UN General Assembly vote condemning the U.S. blockade of Cuba, only the U.S., Israel, and Uzbekistan shamefully rejected the voice of world opinion. (And while there are three countries in the world that have not condemned the U.S. blockade, as a practical matter, the United States stands alone with Uzbekistan, as Israel continues to actively trade with Cuba).
http://www.cubasolidarity.net/blockade.html
And yet you still deny.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 14:58
I wonder why some of Fidel’s own family, including his sister and his daughter, chose to live in the big bad United States, instead of the island paradise of Cuba.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 14:20
Another link to the riot of Pakistani students. This page has a video of the incident.
http://www.babalublog.com/2010.....niversity/
It seems Cuban schools are not as good as the propagandists will have you believe. By way of comparison, the US has produced more Nobel Prize winners than all other countries combined. And tiny Israel, with a population less than Cuba has produced several Nobel Prize winners. As yet, Cuba has produced none.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 14:15
“Pioneers for Communism, we will be like Che”
Interesting title…if Yoani did put that with purpose…but it shows that X…future leader will be like Che who was consider as Christ from the suffering people and slaves of the South America and most of the world rebelles or heretics…
Now word heretic does look like some sin or heresy in the Church eye…and the banks and corporations of the world who may be running around doing business with the Church money…or the money which the world people gave to the Church for 1800 years and to Rome which was an empire for more than 2000 years…
The question is to be with Church or Che…where the good and bad are mixed and it must be separated to chose the best of the two,the capitalism of the Rome and Church …and the communism of Che or Marx who were Jewish…so it is a choice between Gentiles and Jewish people and the best is to chose from both…what is from God…Maybe in the begining they were one people,one family in the Noah’s time…as Bible told us.So if they were branches of one bark of the old tree than the seed must the same to get the new tree
Abril 6th, 2012 at 13:45
Cuba Libre (La MENTIROTA & HOMOPHOBE & CASTROBOOTLICKER) said on #115: “If it weren`t for the US blockade, imagine how much better their health system would be.”
C.L.! I REALLY THINK THAT YOUR ARE SUFFERING FROM DIMENTIA! I HAVE ADDRESSED THIS ARTICLE TO YOU IN THE PAST AS A RESPONSE TO YOUR CLAIM THAT THERE IS AN “EMBARGO/BLOCKADE” AGAINST CUBA BUT MAYBE THE DIMENTIA MADE YOU “CLAM UP” FOR YOU DID NOT RESPOND! IM GIVING YOU ANOTHER CHANCE!! JE JE JE!
LIFT THE CUBAN “EMBARGO” ? WHAT “EMBARGO” By Humberto (Bert) Corzo*
In this article I analyze the arguments of lifting the Cuba embargo, which are more rhetorical than real, answering each one of the specific considerations of those that support the end of it.
“Fidel Castro and Human Rights”, book published by the “Editora PolĂtica” of the Cuban regime in 1988, states in the introduction that this reflected the philosophical thought of Fidel Castro. The book is without doubt an “I plead guilty”, where Castro affirms: “It is necessary to impose financial, economic and material restrictions to dictatorships, so that they will not take roots for long years….Diplomatic and morals measures do not work against dictatorships, because these make fun of the Governments and the population”. The international community must apply effective diplomatic and trade sanctions without more delays and subterfuges. What better justification of the embargo than his own words.
The United States Government has always exempted from the embargo medicine and humanitarian supplies to the Cuban people, as long as such aid is distributed by independent non-governmental organizations (NGO) such as the Catholic Church and international organizations such as Pastors for Peace.
Since 1992, the U.S. has approved 36 of 38 license requests for commercial sales of medicines and medical equipment to Cuba. During the period from 1993 to 1996, the U.S. has licensed over $150 million in humanitarian assistance, more than the total worldwide foreign aid received by Cuba in those years. This total does not include the millions of dollars in medicine and food sent to Cuba in the form of “care packages” from relatives living in the U.S. [1]
In the year 2000 the Department of Commerce approved the export to Cuba of approximately $550 million in medicines, medical equipment, cash remittances, gift parcels and food (cash remittances and gift parcels account for about 75% of the total amount).
The United States government’s embargo has had little effect on the Cuban economy, since it only represents 5 % of Cuba’s commerce with the rest of the world. The embargo only affects the American companies and their subsidiaries. The rest of the countries, 180 since the last count in 2007, are free to conduct business with Cuba and are doing so, as confirmed by imports surpassing $13.78 billions during 2007 [2]. In reality there is not such embargo since in the year 2000 the United States Congress lifted the prohibition of the sale of agricultural products and medicines to Cuba, thereby allowing Castro’s regime to buy everything it needs by paying in cash.
“Cuba will not buy even an aspirin, nor a single grain of rice. A lot of restrictions have been placed (to the lifting of the prohibition of the sale of agricultural products and medicines included in the modification of the bill) which make it humiliating for the Country and also impossible to put into practice”, said Castro during the demonstration that took place on October 18, 2000 across from the U.S. Interests Section to protest the legislation approved by the U.S. Senate lifting the prohibition of the sale of agricultural products and medicines.
From December 2001 up to December 2008, the Castro’s regime had signed contracts for more than $3.2 billions with American companies for the purchases of their products.
The Foreign Trade Statistics of the U.S. Census Bureau [3], based on the shipment of goods data, has estimated the export of U.S. products to Cuba at $447.5 millions during 2007 and $717.9 millions in 2008. These figures include only the price of the goods. Cuba’s National Statistics Office placed the United States as Cuba’s fifth business partner at $581.8 million in 2007 (this figure include shipping and financial costs).[4]
How it is possible that the fifth business partner and biggest food supplier can keeps an embargo on Cuba? The lies of Castro’s agents mimic Joseph Goebbels propaganda technique, “A lie repeated a thousand times eventually becomes truth”, or this other one “The bigger the lie, the more people will be believe it”.
The remittance of the exile community in 2007 has been estimated in $1.00 billion and in $240 million the humanitarian assistance sends through NGO. The $1.00 billion send by the exiles to Cuba, added to the $240 million in humanitarian assistance, the $3.7 billions of the island exports, the $2.24 billions in tourism, and the $5.66 billions in professional services in health care, education and sports, joint ventures abroad, pharmaceutical and training of foreign students account for $12.84 billions revenues during 2007. The remittance and humanitarian assistance correspond to 9.7 % of Cuba annual gross revenues.
What the Castro’s tyranny really wants are loans and lines of credit guaranteed by the U.S. Treasury Department, since it doesn’t have hard currency to pay the interests on the lines of credit for the importation of merchandise. The European Union has suspended credits to Castro’s regime due to lack of payment of the $500 millions in loans. The US “bail-out” of Cuba through loans and lines of credit will not be pay back and the American taxpayers will be ones to pick up the debt, as it happens at the present time with the taxpayers of Spain, Venezuela, Argentina, Canada and other countries.
http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y.....9_O_3.html
Abril 6th, 2012 at 13:36
OH C.L.! ALL THAT FREE EDUCATION FOR THE PAKISTANI STUDENTS IS JUST A P.R. PLOY BY THE CASTROFASCISTS TO SAVE FACE! IS CALLED P R O P A G A N D A !! JE JE JE!
Video: Cuban Doctors Defection Comes at a Price - The Wall Street Journal’s Joel Millman reports on Cuba’s program of sending doctors abroad as missionaries—and the
The video tells the story of one Cuban doctor working in Gambia who took nine months to escape and now lives in Florida. His wife and child are still in Cuba and she lost her job at a hospital as a result of being blacklisted for five years because of his defection. Another downside is that, without their medical records and certifications (held by the Cuban government), Cuban doctors in the United States can only work as nurses or surgical assistants.
And even though Cuba lets 20,000 people emigrate annually, doctors rarely get permission to leave. Still, almost 1,600 doctors have defected since 2006 as a result of:
Cuba has been sending medical “brigades” to foreign countries since 1973, helping it to win friends abroad, to back “revolutionary” regimes in places like Ethiopia, Angola, and Nicaragua, and perhaps most importantly, to earn hard currency. Communist Party newspaper Granma reported in June that Cuba had 37,041 doctors and other health workers in 77 countries. Estimates of what Cuba earns from its medical teams—revenue that Cuba’s central bank counts as “exports of services”—vary widely, running to as much as $8 billion a year. Many Cubans complain that the brigades have undermined Cuba’s ability to maintain a high standard of health care at home
http://www.good.is/post/video-.....t-a-price/
Abril 6th, 2012 at 13:32
NATIONAL REVIEW: National Review- The Myth of Cuban Health Care- July 30 , 2007
SEPARATE AND UNEQUAL
To be sure, there is excellent health care on Cuba — just not for ordinary Cubans. Dr. Jaime Suchlicki of the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies explains that there is not just one system, or even two: There are three. The first is for foreigners who come to Cuba specifically for medical care. This is known as “medical tourism.” The tourists pay in hard currency, which provides oxygen to the regime. And the facilities in which they are treated are First World: clean, well supplied, state-of-the-art.
The foreigners-only facilities do a big business in what you might call vanity treatments: Botox, liposuction, and breast implants. Remember, too, that there are many separate, or segregated, facilities on Cuba. People speak of “tourism apartheid.” For example, there are separate hotels, separate beaches, separate restaurants — separate everything. As you can well imagine, this causes widespread resentment in the general population.
The second health-care system is for Cuban elites — the Party, the military, official artists and writers, and so on. In the Soviet Union, these people were called the “nomenklatura.” And their system, like the one for medical tourists, is top-notch.
Then there is the real Cuban system, the one that ordinary people must use — and it is wretched. Testimony and documentation on the subject are vast. Hospitals and clinics are crumbling. Conditions are so unsanitary, patients may be better off at home, whatever home is. If they do have to go to the hospital, they must bring their own bedsheets, soap, towels, food, light bulbs — even toilet paper. And basic medications are scarce. In Sicko, even sophisticated medications are plentiful and cheap. In the real Cuba, finding an aspirin can be a chore. And an antibiotic will fetch a fortune on the black market.
A nurse spoke to Isabel Vincent of Canada’s National Post. “We have nothing,” said the nurse. “I haven’t seen aspirin in a Cuban store here for more than a year. If you have any pills in your purse, I’ll take them. Even if they have passed their expiry date.”
The equipment that doctors have to work with is either antiquated or nonexistent. Doctors have been known to reuse latex gloves — there is no choice. When they travel to the island, on errands of mercy, American doctors make sure to take as much equipment and as many supplies as they can carry. One told the Associated Press, “The [Cuban] doctors are pretty well trained, but they have nothing to work with. It’s like operating with knives and spoons.”
CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE REPORT!
http://www.latinamericanstudie.....h-myth.htm
Abril 6th, 2012 at 13:29
OH C.L.! THE EDUCATION IN CUBA IS NOT FREE! IF YOU ARE A DOCTOR & ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TRAVEL OUTSIDE OF YOUR OWN COUNTRY UNLESS YOU “PAY BACK” THE CASTROFASCISTS FOR YOUR EDUCATION, THEN THE TERM “FREE EDUCATION” IS AN OXYMORON DONT YOU THINK! JE JE JE!
HAVANA TIMES : The (Non) Right of Cubans to Travel -Haroldo Dilla Alfonso-February 1, 2010-
As someone who is leaving on an official assignment (officials, academics, artists and technicians). These individuals require an official institution to authorize and sponsor their trip, and in each case the person’s passport must be revalidated by Cuban authorities for each trip abroad. If the person who leaves on one of these trips decides not to return to Cuba —if they “desert”— they then lose all rights of citizenship and cannot return to the country for several years (up to five); nor are their family members allowed to leave the island, which means the family is condemned to several years of separation. Needless to say, if some academic demonstrates themselves to be particularly critical while on their trip, it’s possible that they will not see the inside of international airport terminal for quite some time.
The most dramatic case of denying the right to travel was that of Hilda Molina. By then an elderly scientist, she had previously broken with the official party machine —to which she had once passionately adhered— and therefore her reunion with all of her family living in Argentina was denied for years, until the Cuban government finally conceded to a petition by Buenos Aires.What is particularly negative is that people who want to travel temporarily cannot take their children (those below legal age). This is only possible when the person decides to emigrate “definitively.”
CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE ARTICLE!
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=18972
Abril 6th, 2012 at 13:28
Cuba Libre (La MENTIROTA & HOMOPHOBE & CASTROBOOTLICKER) said: “The truth is she would be nowhere close to where she is today had it not been for the education she received in Cuba. The truth will be spoken.”
OH C.L.! THE EDUCATION IN CUBA IS NOT FREE! IF YOU ARE A DOCTOR & ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TRAVEL OUTSIDE OF YOUR OWN COUNTRY UNLESS YOU “PAY BACK” THE CASTROFASCISTS FOR YOUR EDUCATION, THEN THE TERM “FREE EDUCATION” IS AN OXYMORON DONT YOU THINK! JE JE JE!
HAVANA TIMES : The (Non) Right of Cubans to Travel -Haroldo Dilla Alfonso-February 1, 2010-
As someone who is leaving on an official assignment (officials, academics, artists and technicians). These individuals require an official institution to authorize and sponsor their trip, and in each case the person’s passport must be revalidated by Cuban authorities for each trip abroad. If the person who leaves on one of these trips decides not to return to Cuba —if they “desert”— they then lose all rights of citizenship and cannot return to the country for several years (up to five); nor are their family members allowed to leave the island, which means the family is condemned to several years of separation. Needless to say, if some academic demonstrates themselves to be particularly critical while on their trip, it’s possible that they will not see the inside of international airport terminal for quite some time.
The most dramatic case of denying the right to travel was that of Hilda Molina. By then an elderly scientist, she had previously broken with the official party machine —to which she had once passionately adhered— and therefore her reunion with all of her family living in Argentina was denied for years, until the Cuban government finally conceded to a petition by Buenos Aires.What is particularly negative is that people who want to travel temporarily cannot take their children (those below legal age). This is only possible when the person decides to emigrate “definitively.”
CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE ARTICLE!
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=18972
Abril 6th, 2012 at 13:25
Sorry raton, here is the correct link.
http://www.pakistantoday.com.p.....ormance-2/
Abril 6th, 2012 at 13:23
Humberto (aka El Ciber Rata)
how funny you dismissed my article on how good the Pakistani students did in Cuba. How funny you only comment the videos and posts that do justice to your slandering cause. You disappoint me cause a good journalist usually posts the pros and cons of a debate.
Check out here on this link how grateful the Pakistani students were, and as you can see it is much more recent.
http://www.pakistantoday.com.p…..ormance-2/
Abril 6th, 2012 at 13:04
Cuba Libre (La MENTIROTA & HOMOPHOBE & CASTROBOOTLICKER) said on #98: “By the way did you notice who signed the article you posted, no one else but Juan Tamayo himself, one of the biggest admirers of the pin-up granny. Besides, did you take the time to follow the links?? There is no video, only a picture that could have been taken anywhere in the world where you have riot police. I suggest you read this article on the achievements of Pakistani students in Cuba.”
YOU KNOW BETTER C.L. THANT TO TRY TO DISMISS INFORMATION WHILE IM AROUND! YOU WANT VIDEO OF THE PAKISTANI STUDENTS RIOT! I WILL GIVE YOU SOME VIDEOS! OPEN UP YOUR MOUTH AND STICK THIS VIDEO IN IT! IM SURE IT WILL PLAY OK! FUNNY, I HAVE ON RECORD THAT ON 3/17 I POSTED THIS SAME VIDEO WITH A COMMENT ADDRESSED TO YOU! IF YOU SUFFER FROM DEMENTIA GET HELP PLEASE, A SOON AS POSSIBLE! JE JE JE!
Cuba Libre (La MENTIROTA & HOMOPHOBE & CASTROBOOTLICKER) said: “Imagine this, American medical students are studying in Cuba!!! All for free. Ah man how cruel can this Cuban government be?”
Humberto Capiro said: “C.L.! EVENTHOUGH I AM NOT FEELING “WELL” WITH THIS “COPY AND PASTE” DIARRHEA I AM STILL WILLING TO SMACK YOU WITH A FEW ARTICLES AND IN THIS CASE A GREAT VIDEO!! JE JE JE!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Abril 6th, 2012 at 13:01
# 113 Humberto (El Ciber Rata)
I am inclined to agree with you on this post. However, the subject in this article is the quality of education in Cuba. Now based on your article which I will quote: “The [Cuban] doctors are pretty well trained, but they have nothing to work with. It’s like operating with knives and spoons.”
You see? The doctors are well educated and trained. If it weren`t for the US blockade, imagine how much better their health system would be.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 12:56
Humberto (El Ciber Rata)
Did you notice in the video filmed at Yoani`s house, the poor conditions she lives in? She live in a cozier house than I have for crying out loud. Where is the misery she so often speaks of? Where are the poor living conditions she so often talks about. Where is the famine and hunger she so often speaks about? She seems in pretty good health if you ask me.
But then again we all know she lives in the richer area of Havana. The area she so often criticizes as an injustice to Cubans.
The truth is she would be nowhere close to where she is today had it not been for the education she received in Cuba. The truth will be spoken.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 12:50
Cuba Libre (La MENTIROTA & HOMOPHOBE & CASTROBOOTLICKER) said on #87: “So What if people also go to Colombia for health treatment. Does that deny the fact that foreigners go to Cuba also for treatment? No. I have a cousin of mine who got a hip replacement in Havana, with a one month all inclusive recovery at a 5 star hotel all for $6000. Here where I live you have up to 2 years of waiting list for hip replacements.”
C.L.!! ITS ALL ABOUT YOU AND YOUR COUSIN & HOW CHEAP SHE CAN GET HER HIP REPLACEMENT! BUT OF COURSE, THE EVERYDAY CUBAN COUNTS FOR NAUGHT! HYPOCRITE!
NATIONAL REVIEW: National Review- The Myth of Cuban Health Care- July 30 , 2007
SEPARATE AND UNEQUAL
To be sure, there is excellent health care on Cuba — just not for ordinary Cubans. Dr. Jaime Suchlicki of the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies explains that there is not just one system, or even two: There are three. The first is for foreigners who come to Cuba specifically for medical care. This is known as “medical tourism.” The tourists pay in hard currency, which provides oxygen to the regime. And the facilities in which they are treated are First World: clean, well supplied, state-of-the-art.
The foreigners-only facilities do a big business in what you might call vanity treatments: Botox, liposuction, and breast implants. Remember, too, that there are many separate, or segregated, facilities on Cuba. People speak of “tourism apartheid.” For example, there are separate hotels, separate beaches, separate restaurants — separate everything. As you can well imagine, this causes widespread resentment in the general population.
The second health-care system is for Cuban elites — the Party, the military, official artists and writers, and so on. In the Soviet Union, these people were called the “nomenklatura.” And their system, like the one for medical tourists, is top-notch.
Then there is the real Cuban system, the one that ordinary people must use — and it is wretched. Testimony and documentation on the subject are vast. Hospitals and clinics are crumbling. Conditions are so unsanitary, patients may be better off at home, whatever home is. If they do have to go to the hospital, they must bring their own bedsheets, soap, towels, food, light bulbs — even toilet paper. And basic medications are scarce. In Sicko, even sophisticated medications are plentiful and cheap. In the real Cuba, finding an aspirin can be a chore. And an antibiotic will fetch a fortune on the black market.
A nurse spoke to Isabel Vincent of Canada’s National Post. “We have nothing,” said the nurse. “I haven’t seen aspirin in a Cuban store here for more than a year. If you have any pills in your purse, I’ll take them. Even if they have passed their expiry date.”
The equipment that doctors have to work with is either antiquated or nonexistent. Doctors have been known to reuse latex gloves — there is no choice. When they travel to the island, on errands of mercy, American doctors make sure to take as much equipment and as many supplies as they can carry. One told the Associated Press, “The [Cuban] doctors are pretty well trained, but they have nothing to work with. It’s like operating with knives and spoons.”
CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE REPORT!
http://www.latinamericanstudie.....h-myth.htm
Abril 6th, 2012 at 12:37
I POSTED THIS VIDEO ON THE PREVIOUS BLOG ENTRY BUT IS WORTH TO POST IT AGAIN! WILL SEE IF IT COMES OUT WITH SUB TITLES! FOR THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND SPANISH, ITS A TREAT TO HEAR AND SEE OUR YOANI SO ELOQUENT, FUNNY & DEFIANT! JE JE JE!
YOUTUBE: Yoani Sánchez habló con la Voz de América - Yoani Sanchez speaks to Voice of America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....ture=share
Abril 6th, 2012 at 12:37
MORE & MORE ARE LEAVING THE “ISLAND PARADISE” OF CUBA, EVEN IF THEY MIGHT PERISH AT SEA! THE IMMIGRNATS THAT GO THRU LAND BORDERS DONT HAVE IT THIS TOUGH!
YOUTUBE: Refugee Rescue - 23 boat people picked up by the world’s longest cruise “Oasis of the Seas” near Cozumel Mexico, including 19 men and four women, this video was put on “youtube” by one of the crew.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VarD_B3vGI8
Abril 6th, 2012 at 12:34
The photo with student reminde me the east Europe…insanity in the communism time where people were like now in Cuba…acting as in army,all asone under the same comand…from the trainer or commander or teacher or leader who acted as a dog trainer with punishments and food for good rewardsor treatment. China,Midle East has also this kind of the dog training for the humans since they are children,but it is most interesting to see the west learning now the teckniques from the vulgar east labs and using them or the eastern trainers,scientist killers in the west labs,countries starting with West Germany naziland,Cuba-land,Canada,USA and all EU today. You see the brutal training dog teckniques;punishment,treatments,rewards and brainwashing…against the children,youths,adults and even seniors.Horrible games; hungry,fear,paranoia,slavery,abusive,division,spying,hating,corrupting,confusing games,tricks and teckniques….exsperimentin with all the westerners…and after get the food treatment changed,work,jobs,homes,toys taken all from them as punishment. I think pope who fight against materialism must be involved with this as Castros are involved with the Cuban human - dog training…a big cruelty but profitable business
Abril 6th, 2012 at 11:05
If you don’t enter a username the comment will appear as Anonimo. This is how this blog comment section was set up by default. Cuba Libre’s lack of intelligence could not figure this out.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 10:29
Yoani may have been created, programed in the Cuba lab for a different purpose… or it is deprogramed and used to do the same to hekp Cubans robots…If she is controll by the dr monroes of Cuba…than she does serve as a hook…to catch fish dissidents or rebeles,Cuban heretics. Same we can say for many posters here or blogs
Abril 6th, 2012 at 10:29
I guess CL is too stupid to consider that many people post as Anomino, not just one.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 10:25
103Cuba Libre
Abril 6th, 2012 at 10:17
Ok lets make this short and simple. Where did Yoani Sanchez go to school??
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Abril 6th, 2012 at 10:24
102Freud
Abril 6th, 2012 at 10:12
97AnĂłnimo
Abril 6th, 2012 at 10:02
So Cuba Libre thinks that people having to leave Cuba on rafts, thereby risking their lives, is laugh out loud funny. Pathetic.
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This rat-soul, would laugh too when castro said, regarding a lot of Haitians rafters arriving to Cuba’s coasts in 1985 asking for protection: ” I have enough with cuban niggers, give a little water to them and send them back to the sea”……. all thugs around the tyrant celebrated the “joke” with a lot of laughs.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 10:22
Still humans may be just victims of the aliens experiment from distance,controlling,manipulating,using the humans brains to create in the lab same kind of robot artificial creatures,human monsters…or the aliens have turn their look to human look and they are experimenting for a long time in the Earth lab wnich we are not sure was created by them also or they just came to visit and work.
Movie Matrix tells the rest of the story in the programmed robot h7mans who need a rebellion,a world deprograming…now to stop all the evil antihuman experiments….
Abril 6th, 2012 at 10:17
Ok lets make this short and simple. Where did Yoani Sanchez go to school?? Answer; Cuba. Where did Yoani Sanchez get her degree in philology? Answer; Cuba. Nothing more to add, end of discussion.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 10:12
97AnĂłnimo
Abril 6th, 2012 at 10:02
So Cuba Libre thinks that people having to leave Cuba on rafts, thereby risking their lives, is laugh out loud funny. Pathetic.
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It shows the real nature of this fascist……
Abril 6th, 2012 at 10:11
Cuba la experiments as created by the free masonry which you see as symbol in Cuba’s seal…which created also many world lab experiments in the last centuries,decades in England,Germany,Russia and many othe Europe countries against different people…Most horrible experiments were made in Americas where you find all kind of mix…people used as different rats to get different resultand compare,but of course Asia,Africa and Middle East are biggest victims. Still the fact is that 6 billion people are used as rat experimental lab material or resource
If freemasons are run by religious orders orconnected with them…than there may be some satanic sects or cult who run the experiments in the planet Earth used as a lab
Abril 6th, 2012 at 10:11
98Cuba Libre
Abril 6th, 2012 at 10:04
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Everyone knows that those foreign students in Cuba are part of castrofascist propaganda to lure people in the world to think the wonderful educational system castrofascism inherited of democracy still works as before…… furthermore most of those foreign student are fanatical Islamic or “revolutionaries” that are trained by castrofascist army forces with a student coverage.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 10:08
# 97
Whoever you are posting, the truth has come out and you have lost all credibility. Everyone in here now knows you suffer from multi-personality disorder. How can anyone stoop so low as to take sides on both parts of a debate, arguing and insulting his own several impersonations??
Abril 6th, 2012 at 10:04
# 94 Griffin,
I have a completely different and more recent view of Pakistani students in Cuba.
“The scholarship of Pakistani students includes tuition fee, books, free laundry, halal food, lodging, health insurance and other miscellaneous expenditures. In addition, the government of Pakistan is providing a monthly stipend of 50 euros per month to all the students and return air ticket.”
By the way did you notice who signed the article you posted, no one else but Juan Tamayo himself, one of the biggest admirers of the pin-up granny. Besides, did you take the time to follow the links?? There is no video, only a picture that could have been taken anywhere in the world where you have riot police. I suggest you read this article on the achievements of Pakistani students in Cuba.
http://www.pakistantoday.com.p.....ormance-2/
Abril 6th, 2012 at 10:02
So Cuba Libre thinks that people having to leave Cuba on rafts, thereby risking their lives, is laugh out loud funny. Pathetic.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 09:50
Pakistani students in Cuba’s lab experiment are nztural made humans,visitors and different from the Cuban rats in the island-lab full of nazis and communists experiments. In Asia…China is the biggest rat lab where are produced and programed masive armies of the destroyers…but India and Pakistanis are more democratic and God freedom and prolife and nature. The other people from the evil north and Asia…albino and yellow,pale people are like the destroyers or death horse,robot killers who have killed each others but also killed,destroy the natives of other countries,i Americas,Africa,Middle East,Oceania and most of the south Asians. From the albino evil humans are many dr monroes born,created,produced in the lab countries like Russia,Germany,Nordics,England,Canada,USA,Australia andfrom yellow,pale death evil race…can be consider China,Koreas,Japan.So is not just Cuba
Abril 6th, 2012 at 09:34
Cuba is an island lab for new dr Monroe …Castros experiment…where these in the photo are the lab creatures…produced by different experiments mostly done in the western lab countries..in Europe,Canada and USA…in the past and present.
Hospitals and doctor killers are still experimenting with people..considered as rats in their labs and the food,drink,medicine,water,air are used to change the God’s creature,as his image to the Satan one..from natural born real humans to artificial,human made in the lab programed to destroy other robot humans or each other.This is the world destruction…done by destroying or programing humans to the destroyers of their planet..It is possible the world leaders and other dr monroes of the world are controlled from distance from aliens to act as destroyers who create and controll and lead their armies,divisions of the robot humans to destroy all the Earth,the God’s Temple..or abeautiful planet which is for the inferior race of humans…eady to be taken and wanted by the advanced aliens now
Abril 6th, 2012 at 09:24
Cuban riot police break up protest by Pakistani students at Cuban medical school. The protest was over poor education standards and harsh living conditions.
http://www.miamiherald.typepad.....otest.html
Abril 6th, 2012 at 09:12
What pu see in he pictute…shows that Cuba’s black and white magic are really strong. The chldren and parents there look brainwashed,scary as members of a sect or cult or in religious orders or secret society movies…
Children are trained to be like Children of the Satan ,as little antichrists…They do change to lookas nice normal children,of God when pope shows there…in the revolution plaza of little antichrists gathering as hypocrite two faces sect or cult little monsters.
They are traned to be against other sects and cults of other country,other antichrist communities,monster people and children…in the Evil world kingdom full of sects,cults,orders,killers,assasins,brainwashed,programed as robot killers.
USAand EU, Russia and China,North Korea,Middle East is full of zombies armies like this robot humans in the picture. Yoani,Humberto were like them butbthey were deprogramed or who knows…but other robots who post here talk as robot assasins…
Abril 6th, 2012 at 09:01
Average Cuban die after a hip replacement, most of them due infections acquired under operation or while staying in the filthy hospitals regime reserves for common Cubans ……. old hospitals all of them built in democracy 6-7 decades ago
Abril 6th, 2012 at 08:56
87Cuba Libre
Abril 6th, 2012 at 08:36
# 82 Freud,
So I guess you must have been one of the people on the rafts that left Cuba, lol.
So what if the show Tropicana was invented in the 50`s, it sure isn`t the same artists that are there now that were there 60 years ago. My point was to prove you wrong when you state there are no talented artists there. Cuba is full of very talented artists, musicians, and dancers.
So What if people also go to Colombia for health treatment. Does that deny the fact that foreigners go to Cuba also for treatment? No. I have a cousin of mine who got a hip replacement in Havana, with a one month all inclusive recovery at a 5 star hotel all for $6000. Here where I live you have up to 2 years of waiting list for hip replacements.
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Yes I escaped castrofascist “paradise” risking my life in a raft with 13 friends….. I did like millions of Cubans that preffered a dead in the sea than suffer a life of privations, abuses, repression and violence…….
Of course there are artists in Cuba but not talented ones, not creative ones……… democracy is the only estate where humans develops their talents and capacities in a creative way, that’s why humanity greats talents have develops their works while living in democracy……… Cuba is not the exception, never more where created something like Tropicana under castrofascism, never more the country produced so many artist of international rename like democracy produced…….. the Cuban nation continue to produce talented people in exile, under democracy and freedom.
You will pay a lot less for same medical procedure in Colombia or Costa Rica. Mexico gives universal medical coverage for 101 millions of Mexicans, in Costa Rica, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina is the same….. furthermore the people of these countries enjoys democracy and never saw their democratic elected presidents implement an economical system that destroyed the country and gave away all major national industries, 20% of the population and killed 5% of the men in the country…… all this in spite of castrofascism effort to destabilize the region in favor of USA that used the poverty, dependence and division caused by castrofascism wars in the area to enhance its dominium on the affected countries.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 08:51
The doctor and the nurse in Cuba make aprox 250-CUC / year each . In Canada a doctor makes over 100 000 $ / year and a nurse over 50 000 $ / year. It is a matter of economics. Also I want to see how many Cubans are waiting for the hip replacement. I guess they will wait in vain forever cause for the Casrto’s it is better to sell their healthcare to Canadians than to offer it for free to Cubans. Your # 87 post proves that you ( Cuba Libre ) are not only a mo r on but also a hypocrite. You and many other Canadians that praise Cuba as a place where they have their old junk su ck ed by a young mulato girl or boy for 5 dollars.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 08:41
Cuba Liar,
You are clueless. The hospitals & healthcare that cash paying foreigners use in Cuba are not the same healthcare that the average Cuba’s get.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 08:37
#71 by “american businessmen” is the same person who posts as “redcardinal”, as “tourist”, as “anton” and several other nics. All his posts have the same run-on sentences & same obsessions.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 08:36
# 82 Freud,
So I guess you must have been one of the people on the rafts that left Cuba, lol.
So what if the show Tropicana was invented in the 50`s, it sure isn`t the same artists that are there now that were there 60 years ago. My point was to prove you wrong when you state there are no talented artists there. Cuba is full of very talented artists, musicians, and dancers.
So What if people also go to Colombia for health treatment. Does that deny the fact that foreigners go to Cuba also for treatment? No. I have a cousin of mine who got a hip replacement in Havana, with a one month all inclusive recovery at a 5 star hotel all for $6000. Here where I live you have up to 2 years of waiting list for hip replacements.
And my point for the cars was to prove the ingenuity of Cuban mechanics. The ideas they come up with to keep those 1950`s cars still in working conditions. There are more cars and motorcycles that date back from the 50`s in Cuba than there is in all of USA.
And for your information, there are also brand new cars, buses, and motorcycles in Cuba. on my last visit to Varadero, there were construction workers paving the main street there. They had the latest models of pavers, asphalt rollers, and utility trucks. So don`t talk about the government being incapable of renewing its vehicle park.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 08:22
latina (jinetera #1)
If you took the time to read posts 73 and 71, you would see something is fishy. Nah but you would have to have the slightest bit of intelligence to see that, which obviously you don`t have.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 07:01
Please don’t feed the trolls. They are not here to discuss or debate or learn. Their intention is to disrupt. Scroll over their comments.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 02:58
GUESS THE CASTROFASCISTS AGENTS ARE THROWING EVERYTHING BUT THE KITCHEN SINK INTO THIS BLOG’S COMMENT SECTION!! MUST BE VERY IMPORTANT TO THEM FOR ALL THIS EFFORT! IT IS NOT A COINCIDENCE THAT THERE HAS BEEN AN UPSURGE IN POLITICAL ARRESTS OF DISSIDENTS AND AN UPSURGE HERE OF IRRELEVANT POSTINGS AND RANTS! THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT CRAZY, THEY ARE DESPERATE TO TAKE OVER THIS COMMENT SECTION! OVER THIS OLD QUEEN FROM CALIFORNIA’S DEAD BODY! JE JE JE!
Abril 6th, 2012 at 01:45
#81 Cuba Libre
I can’t make sense of your post. Are you accusing your friend Damir of being an impostor now?? I know it’s not Damir and I know it’s not Anonimo.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 01:21
80Cuba Libre
Abril 6th, 2012 at 00:55
# 57 Freud,
You definitely have never been to Cuba. Let me quote you: “that’s why the lack of technicians, professionals, good artists today in Cuba……. most capable people are in exile.”
All you have to do is go into any night club in Havana to witness all the talented artists there. Did you ever go see the “Tropicana show”?
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I was born, arisen and lived in Cuba 44 years until 1999 …….. Tropicana was a creation of capitalist democratic Cuba as well as the other cabarets, night clubs and theater that exists in nowadays Cuba…… castrofascism has been even incapable to create a new show in Tropicana, it is the same show and style that created the cabaret artists in 1950…….. musician there are in Cuba a lot but no one of international rename as the bunch of them in exile…….much more people goes to Colombia to get surgery of all kind then people that risk their life in the hands of deficient trained and bad learned cuban doctors…….. american old cars????/ …. it is a shame for any regime to make their citizens to use same old cars for 60 years, the whole world smiles at the sight of those junks thinking the monstrous economic incapacity of a regime that can renew country’s car park.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 01:08
Panic all round. frAud is doing the only thing a slave does, barks like crazy - little wonder - while helples loser is now even plagiarising MY OWN posts. Heavens will know what for. To prove a point I am making no doubt.
Here. DAMIR said in post 49:
“Damir
Abril 5th, 2012 at 22:59
There is an INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL in Havana that has been founded by the ambassadors of foreign countries who wanted their kids to have non-communist education. They did not want their kids to go to Cuban schools and learn about communism, so they organised their own. As the school is stil funded by the foreign embassies, it is far from private. And certainly not French.
Interesting fact is that majority of teachers are CUBAN TEACHERS!!!”
And this from helpless, post 67:
“Helpless
Abril 5th, 2012 at 23:54
For those who can’t understand French, here is an English private school any foreign businessman in Havana can send their kids to full time:
http://www.ishav.org/
Here is a brief description:
International School of Havana is a private, coeducational day school which offers an academic program from preschool education (age 2 1/2) through grade 12 for students of all nationalities - 53 currently.”
Please also note that helpless is also lying about the nature of the school:
“International School of Havana is a private, coeducational day school”
There’s no such text on any of the pages under the link helples posted. And both the school’s web site and usanian nazist gulag state site http://www.state.gov/m/a/os/126479.htm make it perfectly clear that it is a COMMUNITY SCHOOL, organised and funded by foreign embassies, thus making it trully a COMMUNIST SCHOOL, even though they would never admit that.
It is definitely NOT private property.
Just as the French school is a SUPPLEMENTARY school with the main objective being FRENCH LANGUAGE. ANd I DID say explicitly that the school DOES have a curriculum similar to that of a regular school in FRANCE, but modified to cater for the fact that a student in such a French school is usually expected to attend a regular domicile school first and foremost. This concept is naturally foreign to usanian ignorants who don’t really understand even the regular school concept, being so alienated from it courtesy of their educational system and well known policies of government that consider ignorant population obedient an manageable population.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 01:01
# 73 and 71
I don`t know which of the 2 is the imposter Damir or Anonimo, but I will say that I don`t approve such actions as posting as someone else. Even though I don`t agree with some of the posts on here, I don`t approve such behaviour.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 00:55
# 57 Freud,
You definitely have never been to Cuba. Let me quote you: “that’s why the lack of technicians, professionals, good artists today in Cuba……. most capable people are in exile.”
All you have to do is go into any night club in Havana to witness all the talented artists there. Did you ever go see the “Tropicana show”? as for technicians, didn`t you notice how many 1950`s american cars and motorcycles are still in running condition? Definitely not due to the US supplying replacement parts for them, but to the ingenuity of the Cuban people. And as far as professionals are concerned, the best doctors are there thus explaining why so many foreigners go there for surgeries and other treatments.
What planet do you live on not being able to see these things??
Abril 6th, 2012 at 00:33
In the picture the children look like robot killers…and maybe some chinese or russian teknology has made them look like humans…but perhaps Cuba’s brainwashing and magic is advanced too,to exsperiment with humans turning them to robots same as north korea and chinese armies marching…and looking scary…as robots armies.
Yoani must have been like these kids before but maybe one day she saw the light or the wind changed her…so the brain started activating, changing,developing morethat it suppose to be inCuba where the thoughts,words,brain energy is an enemy
Abril 6th, 2012 at 00:21
try this Humberto
Hotel Gaviota Cayo Santa Maria Brides
Abril 6th, 2012 at 00:20
#65 “This site is now MINE. You are now in a hard battle to fight and neutralise EVERYTHING I SAY. It has become your nightmare to come up with ANYTHING that may blunt the sharpness of my comments. But, you know you have lost that battle LOOOOOOOOONG time ago.Damir has won.And I haven’t even started yet.Wait until I start warming up. You will be all over the place.”
When are you going to start?? You’ve been issuing the same threat for a long time!
I think it is now clear that this unfortunate person has mental issues and it would be kinder to just let him say whatever nonsense comes into his head without attacking, biting or refuting.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 00:14
for centuries and decades the humans were feed with trash so their brain doesnt work properly but is infected since when they are child…same as their parents…but still there somehow are some wise men who rebelle and tell to the dummies what is going on. Most of the dummies continue their rutine and they dont want to be destructed but when you remove the food from the table than they rebelle like beasts,like hungry animals or beasts in the jungle…later as pets and dogs in the streets looking hungry,scary and dangerous…
Wiser men know what has happen with the masses which they brainwashed with all king of ideologies,gods,statues,colors….images,names,land parcels which they call; My country,my land…and even they die for it. That is =100% brainwashing and big tragedy comedy not just to see but even to listen or read as you do here in this blog… posts, Yes the wise men are guilty for being dumb and not known what they are doing…self destroying or leading the planet destruction which they think they own..So the dummies lead the dummies…the beasts lead the beasts,blind lead the blind
Abril 6th, 2012 at 00:08
68Damir
Abril 5th, 2012 at 23:59
……..Capitalism will make communism look GOOD!
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You see???….. sometimes you say something that is true…….. communism is defeated, it is a dead ideology (this is really an ideology ChickenBrain)……. capitalism is what exists……. forever!!!!!!!
That’s why the losers turned from communism to castrofascism delivering for free all they once claimed to fight for: sovereignty, independence, the nation, the people!!!!
Abril 6th, 2012 at 00:07
I hope I am not feeding the troll by posting what I did, just providing evidence that everything Yoani writes is on the up and up. And everything her detractors write are lies.
Just to make it clear that the “French School of Havana” is exactly as specified, a full-time French private school offering the same education as one would get in France to any businessman in Cuba.
And likewise for the other private schools in Havana. I know there are others than those I mentioned, in particular for Russians which a friend pointed out, but I don’t know their names.
The bottom line is that foreigners don’t have to live like Cubans, and are very glad their kids aren’t subjected to a cuban “education”
Abril 6th, 2012 at 00:03
:anonimo comes up by default and I pressed accidentally “send” button.
But yo all knew that it WAS me who wrote belovw message.
here’s again, just so you know:
Damir has taken over this site.
It is no longer about what the traitors and sold out fifth column of Cuba wants to talk about.
It is about what Damir said.
Damir has won.
And I haven’t even started yet.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 00:01
65Damir
Abril 5th, 2012 at 23:49
You are now in a hard battle to fight and neutralise EVERYTHING I SAY.
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Dear ChickenBrain…… we just having fun…… you funny ……. you stupid funny……. that’s it…… don’t take your self so seriously….. you just funny!!!!!
Abril 6th, 2012 at 00:01
Damir has taken over this site.
It is no longer about what the traitors and sold out fifth column of Cuba wants to talk about.
It is about what Damir said.
Damir has won.
And I haven’t even started yet.
Abril 6th, 2012 at 00:01
2012 is the year of the world war where the monkeys of every size,shape,color and kind must fight,kill each other so the planet is not anymore destroyed by them…This is the plan of the wiser monkeys who know that problem and want to fix it but they know that now is to late because it is imposible to deal with all the killer monkeys hungry and very angry not just against each other but the monkey who are called gods, or master monkeys.Yellow monkey will fight against each other and than will be in the war the other colored monkeys. Cuba has ready its army and even many divisions of the new generations of the killers…ready to destroy in the name of their color,flag or what ever god and statue they worship in their brain turn to vegetable brain or ameba brain. they are going to kill the other monkeys who are even more lazy but big,thick vegetables different from the thin one.For 60 years they were feed with dog food so they can be as dogs,but more agresive like gorillas
Abril 5th, 2012 at 23:59
63Damir
Abril 5th, 2012 at 23:43
I have, strangely, to say thank you to heklpless loonie for posting this:
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In the site stated clearly the school is a kinder and elementary school with the learning style and standard of any french elementary school………. so, you better take a 30 years long therapy session to fight out your dyslexia problem that don’t allow you to understand what you read.
Abril 5th, 2012 at 23:59
While the losers are licking their wounds, encouraging each other and even share a “laugh or two”, trying to pick up their pieces left around, let me draw your attention to a quiet admission of defeat by the team “yoani”:
“I also know that his children will GROW UP with a VERY DIFFERENT IDEA OF WHAT EDUCATION IS ON THIS ISLAND. THEY WILL BELIEVE (actually they will KNOW, for that is what they SAW. NOTHING to believe, everything to know.) that the BRIGHT AND WELL EQUIPPED PLACES WHERE THEY RECEIVE EACH ASSIGNMENT (lesson, ignorants. assignment is a task, usually a homework), a BALANCED LUNCH, a CARING TEACHER, and QUALITY SCHOOL MATERIAL, ARE CHARACTERISTICS INHERENT IN OUR (CUBAN) EDUCATION SYSTEM. I CAN’T RULE OUT that some day — on returning to Europe — THEY WILL PARTICIPATE IN SOME STREET PROTESTS SO THAT THEIR PUBLIC EDUCATION WILL LOOK LIKE OURS, SO THAT THEIR CHILDREN ENJOY WHAT THEY ‘KNEW’ IN CUBA.”
And you will have to blame “some kind of pragmatic capitalism” for THAT!!!! Not communism. Capitalism will make communism look GOOD!
Game over.
Abril 5th, 2012 at 23:54
For those who can’t understand French, here is an English private school any foreign businessman in Havana can send their kids to full time:
http://www.ishav.org/
Here is a brief description:
International School of Havana is a private, coeducational day school which offers an academic program from preschool education (age 2 1/2) through grade 12 for students of all nationalities - 53 currently. The school has been in existence in various forms since 1965. The school was founded and exists with the intention of offering high quality education to the children of foreign diplomats and members of the expatriate business community in Havana. The school year comprises 3 academic terms extending from late August to late June in whole.
Abril 5th, 2012 at 23:50
Yes ..the education in the world today=brainwashing in every country where the people must be vegetables and dummies so they dont rebelle,be smart to know that they are slaved. Education is like destruction of the human natural brain…for not known what is going on around and to be lazy to blind just looking to food.drink,cloths,sex,sports,tv and computer and games specially videos with wars
The whole purpose is to put the brainwashed idiots of every country and system against each other to fight and destroy,kill and annihilate everything; humans civilization which is to primitive and the planet now full of the zombies like these who are like divisions ready for war under different flag,worshiping their statues…
The people who post here are the same children like the Cuba sect or cult in the photo but their bodies are bigger…but the brain more flat. Humberto is different creature…a step up in the monkey human who is not a human yet,but the rest are in the steps below but the good news is that they are not 100% monkeys..Yes in Canada and USA many people specially children dont know what country they live in and they have no clue where are other countries of Americas,Europe and the rest of the parcels which have separated the God’s temple to their own lands,private properties just for dummies who called themselves different people and nations or divisions,flags,sects,cults,like the monkeys that are of all kind,but still are one family
Abril 5th, 2012 at 23:49
They actually call the one language speaker S***D usanian, but since the two go hand in hand, as long as you say usanian, the other follows by default.
As is confirmed here by every post that tries to prove Damir wrong somehow.
But keep going losers.
This site is now MINE.
You are now in a hard battle to fight and neutralise EVERYTHING I SAY.
It has become your nightmare to come up with ANYTHING that may blunt the sharpness of my comments.
But, you know you have lost that battle LOOOOOOOOONG time ago.
Damir has won.
And I haven’t even started yet.
Wait until I start warming up. You will be all over the place.
And none of them will be Cuba!!!!!
JE JE JE…
(not really a laugh.)
(just irony.)
Abril 5th, 2012 at 23:47
59latina
Abril 5th, 2012 at 23:30
#53 Freud “definitively you (Damir) must be completely nuts.” He is, so why not ignore him.
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Because the guy brings stupid issues that are excellent pretexts to explain Cuba and castrofascism to the non informed reader…… as I use to say Dumbir-chicken-brain, UnSorryBrainCell and Cuba-Pitbull-brain are our best assets………. without them we will have it little hard to place themes about castrofascism crimes, stupid mistakes, archaic ideology, and national destruction……. I believe they are necessary too because the irrational hate them drops illustrate the reader the nature of the people supporting castrofascism…….. finally…… you can deny we have a lot of fun with them!!!!!!
Abril 5th, 2012 at 23:43
I have, strangely, to say thank you to heklpless loonie for posting this:
So just google “French School of Havana” and you’ll find their web site: http://www.ecolehavane.org.”
The school in question is NOT a full time school. It is a French GOVERNMENTAL INITIATIVE for spreading the FRENCH language.
It is, what we EUROPEANS call a SUPPLEMENTARY school for French nationals to keep their kids in touch with the language and French curriculum, and for foreign children to learn french.
I am going to REPEAT AGAIN for the st**d ignorants made in usa educational system:
It is a SUPPLEMENTARY school. It does NOT replace the regular school. It does have a small curriculum, as noted above, but the primary aim is the LANGUAGE
As teh school’s first page says itself:
L’Ecole Française de la Havane, Ă©tablissement conventionnĂ© par l’AGENCE D L’ENSEIGNEMENT DU FRANCAIS Ă L’ETRANGER.
Lemme translate that for you “best education in the world” products:
French School of Havana, registered establishment by the AGENCY OF EDUCATION (government of FRANCE) of FRENCH (as in LANGUAGE) ABROAD.
That is word by word.
The actual meaning is the registered institution established by the French Agency of Education for teaching the French language abroad.
Bunch of arrogant ignorants.
What do they call a person that speaks three languages?
Trilingual.
What do they call a person that speaks two languages?
Bilingual.
What do they call a person that speaks only ONE language?
usanian.
Abril 5th, 2012 at 23:38
Ecole Française de la Havane
Calle 15 N° 18004 entre 180 y 182 Siboney,
La Habana, Cuba
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Siboney is one of the Havana’s quarters that belonged to rich people in democracy….. now this area is occupied by elite and foreign capitalists exploiting Cuba.
Abril 5th, 2012 at 23:35
#55 “Your kids will have grown in usa, will barely speak Spanish and will have no emotional connection with a foreign counry their parents came from. ” So what?? That’s what happens with migration. The first generation are torn between the two, the second couldn’t care less. They become the country they live in. This is nothing new.