The Route of the Plastic
On the ground, turned over, and with a huge hole in the bottom, lies the dumpster on the corner. It was put there just months ago, with its bulky gray body ready to swallow the garbage. But it didnât resist. Vandalism, coupled with the poor quality of its material, have left it in an almost unusable state. One street farther down another ran into worse luck and disappeared, later being found near the Tulipan station. Two others, with their wheels ripped off and their lids missing, rest a few yards from the train line. According to an official from the Community Corporation, âas many as 50 dumpsters in one dayâ have been stolen. At night you see them full — with their stink, flies and feral cats — and in the morning theyâre not there, all thatâs left are the contents dumped in the street.
There are many ways to measure the physical state of a nation and one of them is listing what people loot from public spaces. I remember when, in the early nineties, we had to guard the light bulbs in the hallways and elevators, almost as if they were gold bars hanging from the ceiling. Pillaging has increasingly become a form of public protest in a gesture that combines predation and social retaliation against a State that has been — for too long — the omni-proprietor. Those raised by parents who lived by diverting resources from their workplaces, rarely hesitate to plunder. Rather, they become adults versed in âexpress theft,â in crimes born of both maliciousness and desperate need.
The dumpsterâs wheels will make their way to the cart that brings waters to neighborhoods where the supply is unreliable. The plastic structure travels a longer route, it is melted down and turned into clothes pins, funnels to transfer fuel, or into orange juicers. In the absence of a wholesale market where raw materials can be bought, any object in the public street can end up transformed into a product to be sold. Not a trace is left, barely a few streaks of gray in a scrub brush recall the dumpster that had been on the other corner.
Mayo 13th, 2012 at 09:53
Damir,
You can say what you want but we in the U.S. and in the rest of world are reading and watching and all you say at Yoanis is inconsequential. It’s clear what makes you angry: even though your favorite dictatorship can control its people, it can’t stop the truth.
I read the story about Gross….it’s funny to me that its a crime to distribute any equipment that might help people communicate, something that induces so much panic in Cuba that it can lead someone to years in jail. And its even funnier that you point to it and say “See! He’s working against us!”. You obviously see things differently than the rest of the world. Basically, you’re out of touch with the world’s perspective.
So, when you tell Yoanis that she’s intellectually disabled, I assume she must be glad to know that you think so. Because if in your world intellect is measured by the ability to prevent communication, I’d want to have a zero IQ.
Rafa
P.S. You obviously don’t understand how the American congressman gets his position. Read a little. Let me know if you’d like me to send you some books, or a copy of the Constitution…you might find it interesting.
Mayo 11th, 2012 at 21:36
And oh, by the way, since you are all so full of it (”democracy” crapper and how Castros are dictators), please explain how is Fidel’s 50 years as a president DIFFERENT to usanian congress members being self-appointed congressmen
FOR LIFE.
How is THAT a democracy, you turds? Hypocrites and nazist imperialists.
Mayo 11th, 2012 at 21:26
Read here what the pro-capitalist, nazists’ own press says about the TRUE nature of Gross spying activities in cuba:
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2.....in-havana/
Bunch of re**ds.
It is cristal clear that you are intellectualy disabled. Not being able to understand the stu***ty of you useless efforts you keep making bigger and bigger I**ts of yourselves and indoing so actually killing your already nano particle-sized chances of any success.
So go on. You make the world laugh at you.
If we were to believe that other bullshift and self-delusion you all repeat here constantly: :the whole world is reading this page”.
(I suggest you take note of rapidly sliding ratings of the page. So much about the “whole world”.)
Mayo 11th, 2012 at 21:16
Helplessly repeating party line on the usanian nazist spie, who idonically is a jew too, poste of the post 66(6) keeps making an I**ot of himself.
Alan Gross was incarcerated for bringing laptops and satellite mobile phones for dissidents in Havana, not some backward village in Cuban hinterland.
Even you losers know that.
And contrary to “there’s not a shred of evidence” bullshift, Jewish Association in Havana have confirmed his attempts to coerce them into co-operation with other dissidents and cia, as per nazist gulag’s plan to UNITE various potentially valuable entities with the goal of creating a perception of widespread dissatisfaction among Cuban population.
Well, his own jews refused to be drawn into a nazist spy game and serve as slaves of capitalist imperialism.
The usanian spy had a plan b and that is where he got caught and thrown in jail where he belongs.
Then there are Cuban five who, contrary to the party ideological line of nazist imperialism, were NOT WORKING AGAINST the usa. They were simply doing their job, which is what EVERY country in the world does in every country in the world where it has diplomatic representation.
They simply collected information on terrorists who were conspiring AGAINST CUBA!!
That, contrary to your bullshift actually IS LEGAL.
That is why you are such a bunch of cr**ns and have NO impact WHATSOEVER, no matter what you do, say or write.
So, go on. You only make yourselves bigger f** ls than you already are.
Since that is the only success you will EVER have, keep doing it. It is good to see that you did find SOMETHING you are good at!!!
: )
Mayo 11th, 2012 at 16:04
ALAN GROSS needs to visit with his ailing mother. That Simple. Cuban authority are some MEAN BASTARDS, with double standards. No wonder why the country is so corrupt and falling apart. Mucho cuento y mucha mentira. HASTA CUANDO
FRY THE FIVE, they had plenty of court cases and found guilty. Spies should be punished as they were trained agents of the CASTRO REGIME unlike ALAN GROSS.
Mayo 11th, 2012 at 09:21
I love how pioneers whose lives revolve around this web page, for there’s NOTHING else in their lives worth time - after all, their “democracy” is a farce, their “some kind of pragmatic capitalism” in shambles - unquestioningly parrot nazist gulag’s ideological propaganda!
It is akin to pretending to be sailing full sails while the boat is sinking FAST!!!
Make that going down to the bottom of the sea like a stone.
http://www.usdebtclock.org
Those who follow the clock have noticed that the deficit has accelerated and grew in the past 12 monts significantly. In layman terms, that means that the country, the nazist concentration camp usa, is drowning faster than ever before. As predicted by many reputable (in capitalism) economists of that failed capitalism, the end is nigh and by 2020 there will be no usa to speak of.
Can’t wait to see it drown and disappear under its’ own excrement!!!!
Why, you ask?
It will take down the team “yoani”, self-confessed liars and traitors who are taking foreign money for destabilising their own country and trying to destroy it.
Hasta la vista baby. There will be NO come back.
Mayo 11th, 2012 at 08:52
I love how CBS and AP unquestioningly print Cuban government propaganda.
Not one shred of evidence has been produced by the Cuban government that Gross committed any crime known to civilized man. On the contrary, all the evidence produced shows full disclosure on his part, and the Cuban government encouraging his entry into Cuba and a planned hostage taking on their part.
Any foreigner who comes to the USA to help a backwoods village connect to the internet will not be put in prison here for “regime change” activities or for anything else.
Although it is beside the point, any person in the world is welcome to practice “regime change” activities in the USA, including known terrorists, as long as they don’t use bombs.
We celebrate “regime change” activities in this country, they’re called elections.
Mayo 11th, 2012 at 00:08
OF COURSE ALAN GROSS IS A HOSTAGE TO TRADE FOR THE CUBAN 5 SPIES!! THATS WHAT YOURE AFTER SPIT IT OUT CASTROFASCIST REPRESENTATIVES!! EXTORTION AT ITS MOST CYNICAL!! WHAT EVIDENCE WOLF BLITZER ASKS!! HE HAD A RECEIPT AND GOT THRU CUSTOMS! THIS IS SOO TRANSPARENT!! SUCH BULL!
CNN THE SITUATION ROOM: Top Cuban official weighs in on detainment of U.S. citizen- Wolf Blitzer talks to top Cuban official Josefina Vidal about Alan Gross, the U.S. citizen being detained in Havana. Watch the full interview above. - May 10th, 2012
situationroom.blogs.cnn.com/category/situation-room/
Mayo 10th, 2012 at 23:35
THE LATEST ON ALAN GROSS! THE US IS NOT PLAYING GAMES ANY MORE!! JUST LIKE ALAN GROSS ON HIS CNN INTERVIEW! JUST LISTEN TO IT, HE IS NO LONGER THE MEEK ONE! TELLING IT LIKE IT IS!
WORLDWATCH: Official: Cuba ready to talk about Gross case - By Portia Siegelbaum
CBS News) HAVANA - The Cuban government got a rare opportunity to put its position on a U.S. contractor jailed in Havana and on hostile U.S.-Cuba relations before an American audience Thursday when CNN’s Wolf Blitzer interviewed a top Foreign Ministry official.
Josefina Vidal, via satellite from Havana, said that while Cuba is ready to dialogue with the U.S. about the case of Alan Gross they are not advancing any formula, such as a prisoner swap. Instead, the head of the Cuban Foreign Ministry’s North America Division declared Havana wants to sit down at the negotiating table with Washington to discuss all outstanding issues in an effort to establish normal relations.
Vidal says that the U.S. demand that Cuba release Gross before it takes any steps to improve relations with the island is just a “pretext” not to do so.
The State Department reacted sharply, saying Vidal’s statements only reinforce the U.S. belief that Gross is being held hostage and that there is no justification for his imprisonment.
There hasn’t been diplomatic relations between the two countries for five decades, although ever since the Carter presidency they have maintained Interests Sections in each other capitals.
Vidal was echoing the position laid out in an official letter sent to Blitzer earlier this week saying Havana has offered to hold a “dialogue to find a humanitarian solution…on a reciprocal basis” to the case of Alan Gross, sentenced to 15 years on charges of trying to subvert the government.
That offer provoked speculation that the Cubans were holding out to swap Gross for five Cuban imprisoned in the U.S. on spying charges for nearly 14 years. Cuba says the men were only seeking information that would help prevent terrorist actions against the island and not U.S. government secrets.
The Gross family has been agitating the media to cover the story and Gross used one of his weekly calls to his family to dial in to Blitzer’s show, The Situation Room. In their conversation broadcast May 4th Gross describes himself as a “hostage”.
Jorge Bolanos, head of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, took umbrage with the way Blitzer and Gross presented the case. A copy of the letter he sent to Blitzer last Tuesday was given to CBS by a Foreign Ministry official. In it, Bolanos insists it is incorrect to say Gross came to Cuba to help the Jewish community connect to the Internet, as claimed by the U.S. State Department. Instead he says Gross concealed from those he met here that he worked for the U.S. government and that he was a paid professional who was “implementing a U.S. government program” aimed at subverting the legal Cuban government.
In an interview with a local CBS station in Baltimore, Gross’ wife Judy said, “We know now that he did break Cuban law. He did not know that until he got to Cuba and was arrested.”
However, leaked documents obtained by The Associated Press, reveal that Gross sent messages from Havana in 2009 expressing concern that he could be arrested and that he knew his task for USAID was risky.
The letter from Bolanos refers to Gross’ “undercover activities” as constituting “crimes in many countries, including in United States”.
Vidal speaking in English stuck to the same points outlined in that letter.
However, the Cuban media is reporting on her statements to CNN in Spanish in which she says that Havana is disappointed with the lack of improvement in relations since Obama took office. They had higher expectations, according to Vidal. According to the local media, she admitted President Obama has taken some positive steps but stressed that Washington’s basic hostile policy toward Cuba remains unchanged.
President Raul Castro has expressed the same opinion on several public occasions over the past year, noting that the U.S. has made only cosmetic changes in its relations with Cuba by somewhat relaxing its restrictions on travel to the island, but he stressed that nothing has been done to ease the more than five decades-old economic and trade embargo of the island.
Gross has served more than two years of a 15-year sentence. His wife has given very few interviews since his arrest, but she told CBS affiliate WJZ this week that she fears for his health and worries that he will never come home.
The Cubans have allowed his wife and a string of political and religious figures to visit Gross in the Havana military hospital where he is being held rather than in a common prison.
Despite this week’s rash of publicity there is no evidence of any movement in the case.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-50.....ross-case/
Mayo 10th, 2012 at 22:09
Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.
âUntil the cities lie ruined
and without inhabitant,
until the houses are left deserted
and the fields ruined and ravaged,
until the Lord has sent everyone far away
and the land is utterly forsaken.
And though a tenth remains in the land,
it will again be laid waste.
But as the terebinth and oak
leave stumps when they are cut down,
so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.â
Mayo 10th, 2012 at 21:41
FELIZ DIA DE LAS CUBAN MOTHERS!! HAPPY CUBAN MOTHERS DAY!! JE JE JE!
YOUTUBE: Cosas que Abuelas y Mamies Cubanas dicen!! Things Cuban Grandmothers & Mothers say Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oEJpfuEO34
Mayo 10th, 2012 at 20:25
MAYBE THE GRAVE…OR THE CUBE SYMBOL…IS CUBA.IT IS NOW… the dumpster on the corner….with a huge hole in the bottom,AS THE GENERATION Y THINK…WROTE HERE
Mayo 10th, 2012 at 20:10
There is a video to about the BIG OWL…GROWE…GRAVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....n&NR=1
Mayo 10th, 2012 at 20:02
WHAT HAPPENED MARIELA? WHY DID YOU KEEP SILENT ON THIS VOTE? HYPOCRITE, LIAR & CYNICAL! AND TRY POSTING A COMMENT ON HER “BLOG”!! GOOD LUCK WITH THAT!
LGBTQ Nation: United Nations vote will lead to more LGBT murders, activists claim- By Mark Singer- November 22, 2010
A vote last week by the United Nations General Assembly Human Rights Committee has LGBT and human rights activists outraged over the decision to remove âsexual orientationâ from a resolution that protects people from arbitrary executions.
The UNâs main assembly normally passes similar resolutions, condemning extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions and other killings every two years, and the most recent resolution in 2008 declaration had contained an specific reference to LGBT killings.
Representatives from the African nations of Morocco and Mali had introduced an amendment on behalf of other African and Islamic nations calling for deletion of the phrase âsexual orientationâ and instead substituting the phrase âdiscriminatory reasons on any basisâ in its place.
Following is the list of countries that voted to remove âsexual orientationâ from the anti-execution resolution:
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Botswana, Brunei Dar-Sala, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, China, Comoros, Congo, Cote dâIvoire, Cuba,…..
LINK NOT WORKING, COPY & PASTE TITLE TO BROWSER TO FIND ORIGINAL ARTICLE!
Mayo 10th, 2012 at 20:00
WHAT HAPPENED MARIELA? WHY DID YOU KEEP SILENT ON THIS VOTE? HYPOCRITE, LIAR & CYNICAL! AND TRY POSTING A COMMENT ON HER “BLOG”!! GOOD LUCK WITH THAT!
LGBTQ Nation: United Nations vote will lead to more LGBT murders, activists claim- By Mark Singer - November 22, 2010
A vote last week by the United Nations General Assembly Human Rights Committee has LGBT and human rights activists outraged over the decision to remove âsexual orientationâ from a resolution that protects people from arbitrary executions.
The UNâs main assembly normally passes similar resolutions, condemning extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions and other killings every two years, and the most recent resolution in 2008 declaration had contained an specific reference to LGBT killings.
Representatives from the African nations of Morocco and Mali had introduced an amendment on behalf of other African and Islamic nations calling for deletion of the phrase âsexual orientationâ and instead substituting the phrase âdiscriminatory reasons on any basisâ in its place.
Following is the list of countries that voted to remove âsexual orientationâ from the anti-execution resolution:
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Botswana, Brunei Dar-Sala, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, China, Comoros, Congo, Cote dâIvoire, Cuba,…..
http://www.lgbtqnation.com/201.....sts-claim/
Mayo 10th, 2012 at 19:56
YOU CANNOT RUN FROM THAT GENE OF HYPOCRISY, LYING AND CYNICISM THAT RUNS RAMPANT IN THE CASTROFASCIST FAMILY!! MARIELA GETS IT FROM HER UNCLE & FATHER, DOUBLE WHAMMY!! JE JE JE!
HUFFINGTON POST: Mariela Castro, Cuba President Raul Castro’s Daughter, Backs Obama On Gay Marriage
HAVANA — Cuban President Raul Castro’s daughter congratulated Barack Obama on Thursday for his support for gay marriage, but said his comments are just a first step toward changing policy.
The U.S. president delivered a message that was “humane, understanding, in which he even recognizes that he too has been changing his opinion in favor of marriage, the free union of same-sex couples,” said Mariela Castro, who is Cuba’s most prominent gay rights activist as head of the National Center for Sex Education, or Cenesex.
“Hopefully his words will be taken seriously in the political and legislative decisions made in different states and in the whole world,” Castro said, adding that such statements by Obama and other politicians must be accompanied by concrete actions if they are to be made into reality.
Castro’s group is pushing a proposal to allow same-sex unions that is under consideration by Cuban legislators.
Cenesex is leading an awareness campaign this month linked to the International Day Against Homophobia on May 17.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....07845.html
Mayo 10th, 2012 at 19:52
Even Rome imported its eagle as its colonies in Europe and in Americas did…but the real symbol of ROME is WOLF….and its eagle originated from east in areas as present Albania,Greece,Turkey,Lebanon,Canaan,Egypt and it did go west,fly like the sun goes from east to west…where it sets down USA…maybe in Cuba and than after that it is all dark,a scary night in the west full of hunters and who is all watching at night?
Not the bats,vampires and ghosts or zombies or rats and the beasts but its the OWL…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InSaDIYluW8
Mayo 10th, 2012 at 19:38
USA was never Rome but just a colony of Rome so why the hell the eagle must live in the colony or jungle when its nest is far way from other animals? So what is the USA symbol is than?…Maybe a bird who can see at night…to whom the future presidents do worship in the woods…in a big statue…so the west is night and eagles dont like night that much but day…because it help to see the land down all lighted from sun
Mayo 10th, 2012 at 19:30
I see it differently; that each time that USA sent or know that someone is going to Cuba…it tells it to Castro,Cuba as closed friends or lowers…a love which is top secret and must show as a hate to the world eyes…and so does Cuba,the prostitute role which help USA and tell to her if some agents from Cuba or from other country enter USA…This is not for all the world idiots to understand and know but just few;
Cuba was never enemy with USA…who put Castro in charge and keep him there for a mission; to make both americas communist as china and russia,corporation continents.
So if USA loved Castro and Che…than why did let Che to die? Maybe he knew the truth and he maybe did not like it…because make him look fool fighting around the world…
So Cuba exported communism was the same as the other side of the medal of the USA…was made not in Cuba but USA as it was made the communism of Russia and China.
So USA is not that lazy to fight or be in one camp but in both camps and run both..
This mean that USA play two roles left and right which are parts of the same team.
So USA is the New Rome…but there is no more eagles there…but just an empty nest…and there are same other strange birds living in it now who are not eagles
Mayo 10th, 2012 at 17:24
AUDIO LINK: DISSIDENT JOSE DANIEL FERRER HAS BEEN RELEASED AT NOON TODAY. ON THIS PHONE CALL HE NARRATES HIS DETENTION IN HAVANA & HIS EXPULSION TO SANTIAGO DE CUBA HANDCUFFED AND UNDER A 6-MAN, ARMED MILITARY ESCORT! HE ALSO TELLS US THAT HE IS UNDER HOUSE ARREST WITH TWO CARS OUTSIDE HIS HOME IN ORDER TO STOP HIM FROM TRAVELING ANYWHERE, THEY HAVE KILLED HIS GUARD DOG WHO WARNED THEM OF ANY INTRUDERS AND HAVE PUT METAL BARS WITH UPRIGHT NAILS IN ORDER TO FLATTEN ANY CAR OR BICYCLE TIRES OF ANYONE TRYING TO VISIT HIM. (Spanish Only)
AUDIO: José Daniel Ferrer narra su detención en La Habana y expulsión hacia Stgo. de #Cuba
http://www.hablalosinmiedo.com.....ncion.html
Mayo 10th, 2012 at 16:57
Griffin, I think it’s more a case of picking on the world’s favorite scapegoat than any personal prejudice. Don’t forget that Castro is an ally of Nazi Iran and other nazi regimes, so an innocent Jew is a good choice for a hostage.
Castro tries to impress his terrorist friends.
Mayo 10th, 2012 at 16:14
Humberto, the Castrofascists are paranoid of America, afraid of allowing their people to communicate and are deeply antisemitic. Alan Gross, an American Jew, was bringing internet equipment to a Cuban Jewish group. The regime’s paranoia went into overdrive. Add to that the chance to grab a pawn to barter for their “Cuban Five” and they couldn’t resist the temptation.
Mayo 10th, 2012 at 15:31
ALAN GROSS HAD A RECEIPT FOR WHAT HE BROUGHT IN AND THAT FACT CAME OUT IN THE TRIAL! THIS WASï»ż SOMETHING THE CASTROFASCISTS WERE NOT PREPARED FOR! THAT IS THE REASON THEY CHANGED HIS CHARGES FROM BRINGING IN A “SATELLITE” PHONE TO “CRIMES AGAINST THE STATE”!! MR. GROSS DOES NOT SPEAK SPANISH! SOME SPY! AN IF THE CASE WAS SUCH A “SLAM DUNK” WHY WAS THE INTERNATIONAL PRESS BARRED FROM HIS TRIAL AND THE SUBSEQUENT APPEALS? JUST ASK YOURSELF THAT SIMPLE QUESTION!
CNN INTERVIEW: Clinton to Cuba: Release Alan Gross - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton comments on the detention of U.S. citizen Alan Gross in Cuba.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA3XO8WmGgQ
Mayo 10th, 2012 at 14:24
HISPANICALLY SPEAKING NEWS: Details Regarding the Arrest of Prominent Cuban Dissident - Suspicious Details Regarding the Arrest of Prominent Cuban Dissident - May 10, 2012
The opposition Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation denounced the fact that dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer, who spent eight years in prison as one of the âGroup of 75,â was arrested on Wednesday in Havana.
The spokesman for the commission, Elizardo Sanchez, told Efe that Ferrer was arrested Wednesday morning in the capital in an operation he called a âvirtual kidnapping.â
Sanchez said that the arrest occurred when Ferrer was going to the Czech Embassy in Havana to âaccess the Internetâ and it was witnessed, from a distance of about 20 meters (yards), by another dissident who was accompanying him.
Sanchez said that Ferrer had been in Havana for several days and on Tuesday he had had a meeting with diplomats representing European Union countries.
âI took him there and then a diplomat took him back to my house,â said Sanchez, explaining that the dissident had been staying at his home and during his activities in Havana âhe was accompanied by somebody at all times.â
Ferrer, the head of the illegal opposition group Patriotic Union of Cuba, was held under arrest for 27 days in April in his home province of Santiago de Cuba and currently is awaiting trial on charges of disturbing the peace.
In the past few months, the 41-year-old dissident was temporarily arrested several other times.
The rights commission added that this âarbitrary arrestâ of Ferrer may be added to the arrests of members of the Ladies in White group and opposition figures in the central province of Villa Clara, all of which occurred earlier this week.
Henry Perales, a member of the Patriotic Union of Cuba who witnessed Ferrerâs arrest on Wednesday, told Efe that people in plainclothes âstopped him on the street, asked him for his identity card and loaded him into a car.â
According to Peralesâ version, someone in another automobile was filming the arrest of Ferrer, who presented his identification and did not resist.
As one of the Group of 75 members sentenced to lengthy prison terms in the spring of 2003, Ferrer was freed on parole in March 2011 and was among the 12 members of the group who refused to travel to Spain as a condition for being allowed to leave prison.
http://www.hispanicallyspeakin.....ent/15742/
Mayo 10th, 2012 at 14:09
FOR YOU BOXING FANS AND CUBAPHILES!!
LA VEGAS JOURNAL: If promising Cuban boxers flame out here, they can’t go home - Ron Kantowski
It was roughly this time three years ago when Luis DeCubas brought a bunch of Cuban defectors - five altogether- just off the boat to fight at Planet Hollywood.
These Cubans were mostly unheard of, though one had a fantastic amateur record. And I remember DeCubas saying that in two years this one with the fantastic amateur record would be world champion.
This is what all boxing promoters say.
But within two years Guillermo Rigondeaux was, indeed, WBA super bantamweight champion. In roughly the time it takes the well-heeled to smoke a fine Cuban Cohiba, Rigondeaux was on top of the division. It took him all of 18 months.
Anyway, now DeCubas is telling me that Jhonson is going to be a world champion, too. Kid can fight, DeCubas says. Not the fastest guy you ever saw. But he has this uncanny knack for punching the other guy in the face a split second sooner than the other guy tries to punch him in the face. This is important in boxing.
Kid won the silver medal at Athens in 2004. Kid’s got a rep. Kid’s 12-0 with eight knockouts. Kid can fight.
Still, most eyes at ringside will be trained upon the Cuban kid who can fight. Unless Tyson shows up signing autographs and posing for photos again.
Boxing people are curious about the Cubans. Have been since Teofilo Stevenson punched out the lights of Big John Tate and Duane Bobick and a bunch of guys with flat noses from Romania and Poland on his way to mining Olympic gold in Munich, Montreal and Moscow.
But unlike Rigondeaux and Jhonson and Joel Casamayor and Yuriorkis Gamboa and Kid Chocolate back in the Depression, Stevenson did not come to America seeking (more) fame and fortune. Perhaps this was because they didn’t have powerboats that could outrun the authorities on the Gulf of Mexico in his day. Or perhaps it was because Castro made him the national boxing coach and built him a mansion on a hill.
I read where 56 Cuban exiles now are practicing the sweet science out of sweaty American and European gymnasiums. Not all have succeeded. Some, like Jhonson, still are working at it.
The pressure on the Cuban fighters to succeed must be incredible. Not only must they leave those near and dear and everything else behind, but when some kid puts them flat on their keister and they flame out, then what do they do? Then where do they go?
CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE ARTICLE!
http://www.lvrj.com/sports/if-.....08085.html
Mayo 10th, 2012 at 13:51
yes…what is with cuba HELL door where were involved big names since year 1959…like Aruppe,Che,Kennedy,Hrushov,Rockefellers,Rothchilds,popes,world bank president and UN?
Maybe cube…cuba is the experiment where you will see the future world like a grave or massmurdering http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joL5jGTdLTw
Mayo 10th, 2012 at 13:45
WOW!! THIS CAUGHT ME OFFGUARD! RIGHT OUT OF LEFT FIELD! (heavy sarcasm)!!
HAVANA TIMES, May 10 â The head of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, Jorge Bolaños, on Saturday proposed an exchange of the âCuban Five,â who are imprisoned in the United States, for the freedom of US citizen Alan Gross, who is being held in Cuba, reported Notimex. The Cuban diplomat expressed his governmentâs position in a letter to journalist Wolf Blitzer on the program âThe Situation Roomâ (CNN), underling the willingness of the islandâs government to enter into dialogue to âfind a humanitarian solution to the case on a reciprocal basis.â Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday called for the unconditional release of the âsubcontractor,â without openly declining the Cuban proposal.
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=69651
Mayo 10th, 2012 at 08:11
There is the possibility that Castro’s Cuba is a large scale experiment in social engineering, a test run of the New World Order before its implementation worldwide. World Bank President James Wolfensohn once, pointed to Cuba as a model to follow…
For more see here …it is old but interesting writting about Cuba;
http://endrtimes.blogspot.ca/2.....r-nwo.html
For more facts,datas,statistics here is another real look of Cuba from inside;
http://www.angelfire.com/pr/re....._order.htm
Mayo 10th, 2012 at 02:02
HABLA JOSE DANIEL FERRER AL SALIR DE LA CARCEL PERO SE ENCUENTRA OTRA VEZ EN LA CARCEL HOY! TODO EL MUNDO ESTA MIRANDO A CUBA! TODO SE SABE! JOSE DANIEL FERRER SPEAKS SHORTLY AFTER BEIGN RELEASED FROM JAIL A FEW DAYS AGO BUT HE HAS BEEN DETAINED AGAIN TODAY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....ature=plcp
Mayo 10th, 2012 at 01:35
PLEASE HELP TO PASS THIS INFORMATION TO FACEBOOK, TWITTER, MEDIA, NGO’S OR ANYONE WHO CARES ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS!
LATIN AMERICA HERALD TRIBUNE: Prominent Cuban Dissident Back in Custody
HAVANA â The opposition Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation denounced the fact that dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer, who spent eight years in prison as one of the âGroup of 75,â was arrested on Wednesday in Havana.
The spokesman for the commission, Elizardo Sanchez, told Efe that Ferrer was arrested Wednesday morning in the capital in an operation he called a âvirtual kidnapping.â
Sanchez said that the arrest occurred when Ferrer was going to the Czech Embassy in Havana to âaccess the Internetâ and it was witnessed, from a distance of about 20 meters (yards), by another dissident who was accompanying him.
Sanchez said that Ferrer had been in Havana for several days and on Tuesday he had had a meeting with diplomats representing European Union countries.
âI took him there and then a diplomat took him back to my house,â said Sanchez, explaining that the dissident had been staying at his home and during his activities in Havana âhe was accompanied by somebody at all times.â
Ferrer, the head of the illegal opposition group Patriotic Union of Cuba, was held under arrest for 27 days in April in his home province of Santiago de Cuba and currently is awaiting trial on charges of disturbing the peace.
In the past few months, the 41-year-old dissident was temporarily arrested several other times.
The rights commission added that this âarbitrary arrestâ of Ferrer may be added to the arrests of members of the Ladies in White group and opposition figures in the central province of Villa Clara, all of which occurred earlier this week.
Henry Perales, a member of the Patriotic Union of Cuba who witnessed Ferrerâs arrest on Wednesday, told Efe that people in plainclothes âstopped him on the street, asked him for his identity card and loaded him into a car.â
According to Peralesâ version, someone in another automobile was filming the arrest of Ferrer, who presented his identification and did not resist.
As one of the Group of 75 members sentenced to lengthy prison terms in the spring of 2003, Ferrer was freed on parole in March 2011 and was among the 12 members of the group who refused to travel to Spain as a condition for being allowed to leave prison. EFE
http://www.laht.com/article.as.....ryId=14510
Mayo 9th, 2012 at 22:47
if the world union will be like cuba,but bigger,a world concentration camp or world prison…than there will be no need for any money,banks but just free labor,long hours and every day…and soup and rice or pasta,a bed,shoes,a suit to wear and maybe daily or weekly showers and hair cuts…so there will be a simple life in the world…not sophisticated like now…women may be separated from men,children and older people too…Many of them may be deleted but who knows how many will be needed for labor. In Georgia Stone is written the number of the world popullation;500 milion
Mayo 9th, 2012 at 22:42
I THINK YOUTUBE IS MY UNIVERSITY OF THE WORLD!
YOUTUBE CHANNEL: Cuba Metal y Rock
http://www.youtube.com/user/ro.....ture=watch
Mayo 9th, 2012 at 22:35
NOT JUST in north america,but also south america and every union or continent will be like cuba…a big concentration camp or prison…where every job will be not paid but done for a soup or rice plate and shelter like in Salvation army or the gulag camps in Soviet Union. So there will be no need for money,homes,cars,private property but one suit like use to be the Mao’s fashion in china or with strips like in ww2,germany
there will be no guns in camps and no one will travel and get out the camps other than for work.But there may be entertainment,concerts,sports,tv,radio but not much.
Work will be more important and not like now; bars,restaurants,cinema,tourism etc…
Mayo 9th, 2012 at 22:26
Marxists in California, sitting on their IKEA furniture…WILL BE made by NAU,USA’s prison labor soon…because it is wrong to send jobs outside when the labor cost zero…and the transportation cost from to bring furniture from cuba…when can be made in usa or canada…where are build so many prisons nd concentration camps that can be put 200 million north americans in them…first the protestors,dissidents,patriots,opposite parties,rich,poor,native,emigrants etc.NAU is just ONE corporation now like Cuba,no more competition
Mayo 9th, 2012 at 21:54
John Two, re #38,
Well said. Yoani’s pieces are not journalism in the sense of news or current affairs. Her pieces are “journal” -ism, moments observed and captured in a journal, personal direct experiences and therefore universal at the points of contact.
My point of contact is the provision of plastic dumpsters by the municipal government to local property owners along with the injunction to sort and dispose of my garbage and recyclables for collection once per week. My point of departure is that nobody has ever thought it worth his while to steal these bins nor have I considered it worth my while to lock them up. That says something about the difference between Havana and Toronto.
Mayo 9th, 2012 at 20:49
I can see the Marxists in California, sitting on their IKEA furniture made by Cuban prison labor, posting something about an “embargo” as they get ready to go on another vacation in Cuba, from where they will no doubt bring back suitcases loaded with Cuban cigars, rum and Che memorabilia.
Mayo 9th, 2012 at 20:18
TODO SE SABE COMPAĂEROS! TARDE O TEMPRANO! HAY TIEMPO PARA CAMBIAR DE EQUIPO!
MIAMI HERALD: STASI records show Cuba deal included IKEA furniture, antiques, rum and guns- Documents of East Germanyâs STASI security agency provide more details of the deal between Cuba and IKEA. - By Juan O. Tamayo
The controversial contract to use Cuban prison labor to build IKEA furniture was part of a broader deal between firms run by the Cuban and East German security services that also involved Cuban antiques, cigars and guns, according to a researcher in Berlin.
Documents on the deal, found in the archives of East Germanyâs notorious STASI security agency, also refer to Cuban prison labor and indicate that former Cuban leader Fidel Castro personally approved the overall deal, said researcher Jorge Luis GarcĂa.
Garcia told El Nuevo Herald on Wednesday he published an article about the deal in 2006 that mentioned the Cuban manufacture of furniture âfor export to Sweden,â and posted a note about it in his blog, STASI-MININT Connection, early last year.
But the deal blossomed into scandal last week after a German newspaper reported that an IKEA subsidiary in Berlin and an East German company had contracted for Cuban prison labor to build 45,000 tables and 4,000 sofa groupings in 1987.
The Berlin Wall fell two years later and East Germany â officially the German Democratic Republic â disappeared in 1990 into the Federal Republic of Germany, also sometimes called West Germany.
It remains unclear how much of the 1987 deal was carried out, said the Cuban-born GarcĂa, who was interrogated in the STASIâs underground cells in East Berlin in 1987. He now guides tours of the cells and researches the agencyâs archives.
It was also unclear if prison labor was used to make Cuban products that were not part of the IKEA contract.
One document Garcia found in the archives show the East German firms involved in the deal were Delta GmbH and Art and Antiquities, known as KuA, both controlled by the Interior Ministry, in charge of domestic security. The STASI, which monitored and repressed domestic dissent, was a much feared part of the ministry.
But the companies were officially branches of the governmentâs foreign trading agency, Kommerzielle Koordinierung. The agency was led by the notorious wheeler-dealer Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, a STASI officer who defected in 1989.
The document shows that the Havana side of the deal was EMIAT, and described the company as owned by Cubaâs Interior Ministry, or MININT. Like its East German counterpart, MININT is in charge of domestic security and runs Cubaâs prisons as well as the General Directory of State Security, which monitors and cracks down on dissidents.
GarcĂa said the German-language document shows that three officials of KuA and Delta visited Cuba and met with MININT and EMIAT officials Sept. 17-26 of 1987 to discuss a broad array of deals.
âThere were visits to production centers. In part, those centers are in penitentiary establishments of the MININT,â Garcia quoted the document as saying. âEMIAT wants to increase the use of those installations for the manufacture of products for export.â
The same document reported that Cuban Foreign Commerce Minister Ricardo Cabrisas had met with the East German visitors and told them âThis cooperation has been authorized by Compañero Fidel Castro.â
GarcĂa added that the document also reported that EMIAT âsupplies the guest houses of the government and the Central Committeeâ of the Cuban Communist Party. âIt is also a commercial branch of the MININT.â
CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE ARTICLE!
http://www.miamiherald.com/201.....luded.html
Mayo 9th, 2012 at 19:26
PICTURES SLIDE SHOW: Buena Vista Anti-Social Club: Inside Cuba’s Hidden Metal Scene
http://www.spin.com/gallery/bu.....etal-scene
Mayo 9th, 2012 at 19:25
I KNOW THIS IS NOT AS INTERESTING AS THE COMMENTS BY red cardinal & american businessmen BUT WHO COULD BEAT THAT! INTERESTING STORY THOUGH! GOT TO FIND THE TRAILER FOR A CUBAN METAL DOCUMENTARY I CAME ACROSS A YEAR OR SO AGO!
SPIN MAGAZINE: Red Menace: Inside the Hidden World of Extreme Cuban Metal - by David Peisner
As the world gets smaller and more connected every day, Cuba remains isolated and repressed, mired in poverty and outdated technology. It’s no wonder that the country is responsible for some of the angriest, most extreme metal on Earth.
The park at the corner of 23rd Avenue and G Street in the Vedado section of Havana isn’t much to look at by the standards of fading, crumbling glory that prevail in Cuba’s capital city. In fact, it’s less a park than a median that bisects the wide expanse of G Street: some patches of green grass, a few paved walkways, and maybe a half-dozen benches, all within about 100 square feet.
At 1 a.m. on a warm, windy Friday night in mid-March, the park is a sea of long, dark hair and black concert T-shirts â Slayer, Bathory, Gorgoroth, Megadeth. I’ve been led here by Amed “Helheim” Olivares, frontman for Abaddon, a young band that, hours earlier, had played a relentless, assaultive 45-minute set at an Art Deco cinema a few blocks away during the first night of the third annual 666 Fest, a weekend-long celebration of Cuban black metal. After wiping the corpse paint from his face and the black, upside-down cross from his arm, and stowing the nail-studded armband he wore onstage, Olivares finds me outside after the show. He claps me on the shoulder and smiles widely.
“For metal in Cuba, you have to see G Street,” he says.
Metalheads have been hanging out on this unremarkable corner most weekend nights since the mid-’90s. Nobody seems to know why they chose this location, but whiling away the nighttime hours outside, hanging with like-minded comrades, is common in Havana. It’s too expensive to frequent bars or clubs, so on Friday and Saturday nights at spots like this, packs of the young and sometimes not-so-young can be seen sharing a few communal bottles of rum, doing not very much.
Almost all of the hundred or so gathered tonight came from the festival, and while they look somewhat intimidating from afar, it’s just an illusion. People here are friendly, quick to pass the rum, and, with the exception of one heavily inebriated man who keeps dropping his shorts and exposing himself, well-behaved.
The 666 Fest isn’t Cuba’s biggest metal festival â tonight’s show drew approximately 200 people; tomorrow night, there will be a few more than that â but its very existence is rather shocking. In a country ruled for more than 50 years by an authoritarian Communist regime known for its intolerance of free expression and resistance to anything that stinks of imperialist capitalist yanquis heavy metal has taken hold over the past two decades in a major way. While its audience is dwarfed by that for salsa or reggaeton, its stylistic leanings and brash, antisocial attitude are eye-opening. Metal here is almost uniformly deafening, punishing, and brutally aggressive. As Michel HernĂĄndez, frontman for a popular thrash-metal outfit called Chlover, puts it, “We don’t listen to Bon Jovi here.”
Joel Kaos, one of the festival’s organizers, is a surprisingly cheery guy who plays bass in Ancestor, an anarchic, thunderous black-metal band which is headlining Saturday’s show. “You need extreme music to match your extreme life,” he says, drawing a direct cause and effect. “You find harder metal in countries that are more oppressed. We have something to scream about.”
That this scene is blossoming seems to indicate an opening up of what has long been the Western Hemisphere’s most repressive society. But like everything in Cuba, the reality is more complicated: A combination of onerous travel restrictions and dire economic conditions means that for most Cubans â and most Cuban metal bands â it’s extremely difficult, if not impossible, to ever leave the island.
And at a time when uprisings against autocratic regimes throughout the Middle East are being fueled by Facebook, Twitter, and other social media, most Cubans have never even used the Internet. Access is restricted to those authorized specifically by the regime, and even people who manage to get online, legally or illegally (often at great personal expense), must cope with governmental monitoring and slow dial-up connections (broadband and Wi-Fi are all but nonexistent). The more interconnected the world becomes, the more pronounced this island’s isolation feels, and the further it’s left behind. While the rest of the globe is undergoing once-in-a-generation political and social changes, Cuba is in many ways conforming to the clichĂ© perpetuated by its beautifully collapsing old-world architecture and the 1950s-era automobiles that rule its streets: It’s frozen in time.
http://www.spin.com/articles/r.....uban-metal
Mayo 9th, 2012 at 18:42
Re #24. I disagree. What sets Yoani’s blog apart is the skill with which she connects ordinary daily events in Cuba happening literally outside her front door(e.g. the de-construction of the dumpster on the corner) with their broader political context and meaning. It’s a rare gift.
Mayo 9th, 2012 at 18:02
PORTION OF INTERVIEW OF SECRETARY OF STATE CLINTON ABOUT ALAN GROSS!
INTERVIEW: Hillary Rodham Clinton- Secretary of State - Jill Dougherty of CNN- May 8, 2012
QUESTION: I want to ask you about Alan Gross. CNNâs Wolf Blitzer did an interview with him. He, of course, is the American who has been held in Cuba. And he â Blitzer, Mr. Blitzer, got an answer from the ambassador, the Cuban ambassador, at the Interests Section saying, look, we have the Cuban Five who are being held in just as if not worse circumstances than Mr. Gross, but we are willing to solve this on a reciprocal basis.
What would have to be done in order to free Alan Gross?
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, first of all, Mr. Gross should not even be incarcerated in Cuba. Mr. Gross was not a spy. Mr. Gross was not an intelligence agent. Mr. Gross worked for a development group that was helping Cubans, principally in their small Jewish community in Cuba, to have access to the internet. And Mr. Gross, in our view, is being held without justification and has been detained already far too long. So there should be a decision by the Cuban Government to release him, and we would like to see that happen as soon as possible.
Now, we are well aware that the Cuban Government wants to see the release of their intelligence agents, five Cuban spies who were lawfully arrested, tried, and convicted for espionage. One has already served his sentence in prison. Heâs continuing to finish out his parole. Another will be up for parole â all within the regular order of our system, a system that provides due process, rule of law protections. It does not have a record of arbitrary arrests or detentions like the Cuban Government does.
I am deeply distressed and unhappy for the Gross family. Iâve met with Judy Gross. People in the State Department stay in close touch with her and with her family. They have been incredibly brave in the face of this injustice. But the Cuban Government has released political prisoners, which is something weâd like to see them do with Mr. Gross.
http://www.state.gov/secretary.....189459.htm
Mayo 9th, 2012 at 11:19
Gnostic…gnost…knowing of good and bad…means also SEX…the destruction in the temple…like snake and Eve story…GARDEN destroyed…and all other destructions of Babel,Babylon,Egypt,Jerusalem,Rome,Europe,America,Cuba etc…but mostly means the destruction of the world,Earth. Yet after the rape,sex…the changes happen,pains and birth…After the new born…the life goes on and changes happen all the time,destructions,births…but they are big and small,but still same process
Mayo 9th, 2012 at 10:47
Gnostic…here you know more about them
http://www.moriel.org/Teaching.....Forms.html
Mayo 9th, 2012 at 10:46
CIMEX to fire employees who request permission to travel outside the country
Beginning this month, the Cuban commercial corporation CIMEX will fire all employees who request permission to travel outside the country for personal matters. The measure is part of the integration process taking place between that entity and the business administration group of the Ministry of Armed Forces (MINFAR) known by the initials GAE.
The new regulation is part of the 42/97 directive from the Minister of the revolutionary armed forces (FAR) that states: “All civil workers belong to the business division of FAR and if any ask for a permit to travel outside the country for personal matters, it will cause harm to the institution. Only employees who seek permission for humanitarian or health reasons will receive authorization and not lose their employment,” according to a note sent on April 27, 2012 to vice-presidents, directors, and general managers from Janet Basnuevo Andreu, vice-president of Human Resources for CIMEX.
http://www.babalublog.com/2012.....e-country/
Well, Cuba Liar didn’t have to wait long to find out just how “free” the rumoured upcoming relaxation of travel restrictions will be. If you work for CEMEX, the largest employer on the island, and you dare to even ask for permission to travel (Wait, you still have to ask for permission? But I thought people were supposed to be free?) …then you get fired from your job.
Note the phrase: “workers belong to the business division of FAR” …on the slave plantation that is Cuba, the workers belong to FAR.
Mayo 9th, 2012 at 10:45
Gnostics still are humans so they may see but not be as sun…lighting,giving energy,life to those who sleepin the dark…and who are blind and dont know…
Still to know doesnt mean that you can light,illuminate with just knowing…
The candles and the fire or volcanos are not enought to make the darkness,change night to day and not even the moon,venus,stars,planets.meteors,comets etc…
So the long night rules until in a short time everything changes,sun returns,rises and night becomes day and all are lighted…That is the knowledge and all know that.
Now the fast changes are happening,sun and day coming but noone can see…so they so called gnostics are blind too…they dont know and yet theycall themselves wise
Mayo 9th, 2012 at 09:21
humanity is all dumb…fool…but most probless in the brain damage was done by the dogma,all kind of faked jobs,loss of time with lies…to much darkness and yet you need a sun to light all the darkness and make the nigh day…
Cuba is an example of the mass liers…working against themselves,fooled,dumbed,but by who?
Maybe the red hat on top of the stick hidden of the group of the sticks.
Who wear a red hat like that;jacobins,youngturks or freemasons.Maybe ghnostics and they run the lazy freemasonswith a G in their symbol tooas the lazy communists with their symbols…So it is the easter ghnostics fooling the west’s darkness but they are just part of the darkness too…but closer tp the rising sun.Yet sun isnt red…
Anyway if there is sun rising…there should be day by now…but to see it you must have eyes.If the humans cant see at least they can feel and notice the fast changes.
Maybe not generation Y but X…can see or feel more but the rest are sleeping,to dum
Mayo 9th, 2012 at 08:35
if all the 10,000 years of human sacrifices…(around 10 billion humans sacrificed for sure in history of the human animals)…will be a failer,a tragedy-comedy,wrong act than the inferior creatures…humans will be considered to lazy,blind,fool but that is an experience of learning the truth…that humans were fool,dumb so they are let to be lighted,see again,grow,perfect,change…be closer to the God who creates…Pain is the secret…you must suffer,record in the brain so you change so you dont experience the pain again…This is formula but the humans love the pain…
Mayo 9th, 2012 at 08:27
fidel was just hired…because cuba=sugar plantation..is run by Newc Yorks wall street who invested in comunism…because is best capitalism = corporation with cheap cost and big profits….
“The real motive behind Communism is not to distribute the world equally, but the Communist Party is just a front for the super-rich as an instrument for gaining and using power. It is not the Communists that run Communism. There is yet another controlling power behind Communism. Communism and socialism are just arms of the more deep conspiracy working behind the public eye that is not being run from Moscow or Peking, but from New York, Paris and London….”
communism=corporation nation…now all the west…north,south america,eu,africa,and also east…east europe,oceania,asia and soon middle east…so NWO,world corporate or the union world kingdom…And that was the whole plan…but when God see their New Babel it will say to humans that they are so stupid to build such a wrong big gift,bloody of human sacrificed temple for him by damaging his true temple…the Earth
Mayo 9th, 2012 at 00:40
FIDEL HAS BEEN MILKING CUBA AND THINKS HE OWNS IT
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Mayo 8th, 2012 at 23:20
Seriously…Start writing about things that are meaningful and that matter again. Your stories are really boring.
Mayo 8th, 2012 at 20:56
What a pathetic tool! Ever since Fidel & Che stole the revolution and robbed the People of their freedom, the regime has been stealing from the people. The Castros are the worst thieves in Cuban history.
Mayo 8th, 2012 at 20:05
When a government starts showing signs of weakness, that is the time that the thiefs and robbers begin to prosper. Ever since “El Maximo Commandante” has passed over power to his brother acts of theft and vandalism have doubled, maybe even trippled. When El Che was still in Cuba, there was no theft because everyone knew what was waiting for them if they got caught.
The more a government shows sign of weakness the more crime flourishes. The more the government of Cuba tolerates the theft of dumpsters or light bulbs, the more the thieves will take advantage, and the more anarchy will take over.
Mayo 8th, 2012 at 19:11
Havana: The New Art of Making Ruins - Part 2 of 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Talking about dumpsters, notice two large dumpsters in front of the deteriorated facade of the Campoamor Theater with the large wooden doors nailed with sloping pieces of wood of what was one of the most important and beautiful theater building of the city, in which great artist used to performed on the 1950âs. The theater collapsed and killed one man in January of this year.
Mayo 8th, 2012 at 16:47
Havana,Cuba… looks better than Detroid,USA
and here is some postcards;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Mayo 8th, 2012 at 16:25
Future of EU and USA SOON will be like Cuba,and here you can see the Havana of USA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....hhJ_49leBw
Mayo 8th, 2012 at 13:20
âI wanted to give back to this country.â
no one is let to give back anything and no one will be anymore educated and work as peasent and slave,smart and stupid because no one will be let giving back,working but asia…east…because the plan is to starve the west…turn it all to africa so is no rivals and competition but just a world feudalism and the despots in every country where peasents and slaves are not even needed anymore…because asia has enough…so the rest is left to starve and if rebelle they will be in jails now built already everywhere in the west…where the smart,intellectuals,disidents go first like in cuba…
Mayo 8th, 2012 at 12:18
ANOTHER INCREDIBLE & INSPIRING STORY OF FLEEING THE “ISLAND PARADISE” THAT IS CUBA!
THE TAMPA TRIBUNE: Cuban athlete’s incredible journey continues at MacDill - By HOWARD ALTMAN
A former star of the Cuban National Judo team, he first had to escape the island. Then he had to survive being in the open water in a small boat buffeted by a nascent Hurricane Katrina, being blown off course to Honduras and surviving a 15-day trek through the jungles of Central America, only to be captured by a Mexican drug cartel and tortured for five days.
When he finally arrived at the U.S. border, famished, weak and clad in the same clothes he had been wearing for weeks, he was able to reach his fiancée and hop a plane to her home in Miami.
A year later, he saw a military recruiting commercial on TV and found a new path.
“I wanted to join the military,” Hernandez said in a recent phone interview. “I wanted to give back to this country.”
For Hernandez, the journey to MacDill started with curiosity. And love.
Hernandez took an early interest in martial arts, first taking classes when he was 5 in a school in his hometown of Camaguey. By the time he was 7, Cuban government officials decided he was such a promising athlete they shipped him off to a special academy.
At first, things were great.
“I felt good,” he said. “I was proud.”
But by the time he turned 13, things began to get a little confusing for the judo star.
He would come in contact with athletes from other countries, where the government did not dictate how they lived. And he fell into a relationship with a fellow athlete, the daughter of a Cuban dissident.
The foreign athletes made him think about what he was missing. His girlfriend, who eventually moved with her family to Miami, made him begin to think about getting out.
By 2003, Hernandez was a star, winning a gold medal for jujitsu in the Central American Championship â Cuba’s first in that sport.
His girlfriend, now his wife, came to visit from Miami.
“We were out and enjoying ourselves together,” he said.
But for Hernandez, those good times were the beginning of his trouble with Cuban authorities.
CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE ARTICLE!
www2.tbo.com/news/breaking-news/2012/may/08/cuban-athletes-incredible-journey-continues-at-mac-ar-401049/
Mayo 8th, 2012 at 11:56
OUR WILLIAM LEVY OF THE OLYMPICS!
ESPN: London next stop on journey for Cuban-born gymnast - By NANCY ARMOUR
MIAMI — On her own with a sickly toddler and his 12-year-old sister, Maria Gonzalez was petrified as she prepared to leave her native Cuba nearly 20 years ago.
Their route to the United States would require a detour of several months in Peru, a country they had never visited and where they knew no one, as well as a brief stop in Venezuela. The only guarantee awaiting them in Miami was more uncertainty.
But there was no other choice. The rest of Gonzalez’s family had already fled Fidel Castro’s communist regime, and the privileges she’d enjoyed as a gymnast on Cuba’s national team had dwindled. It was getting painfully difficult to find the medicine needed to treat her son’s asthma, to say nothing of the money it cost.
“A few people said I was crazy because I was alone with two kids,” Gonzalez recalled. “In my mind, I kept thinking, `I hope what I’m doing today is the right thing.”
Gonzalez can smile when she retells the story now. She and her children made it safely to Miami, where they reunited with her parents and sister. She reconnected with Yin Alvarez, a former Cuban teammate who is now her husband, and together they own and operate a gym — something they consider an impossibility had they remained in Cuba.
And that asthmatic 18-month-old? He is Danell Leyva, the reigning U.S. gymnastics champion and a multi-medal threat at this summer’s London Olympics. Coached by his stepfather, the 20-year-old helped the Americans to the bronze medal at the world championships last fall and then added a gold on parallel bars, the first world title by a U.S. man since 2003.
“I do have a lot of thanks and appreciation to give to the USA,” Leyva said. “I’m not from here originally and they’ve accepted me with such a heartwarming embrace. It’s great to be able to give back by representing them.”
Leyva was too young to remember Cuba, and he adapted to his new home so easily he actually forgot his Spanish one summer a few years after arriving. But his mother and stepfather’s memories of their homeland are vivid, and he is keenly aware of how great their sacrifices have been — and how different his life might be had they not dared to leave.
Cuban children with exceptional athletic ability are singled out at early ages, spending most of their childhoods at national training centers and away from their families. Alvarez, who was 7 when he went to Cuba’s gymnastics school, jokes that he entered wearing “short pants and little boots” and came out shaving.
In return, children have advantages ordinary Cubans do not. There are no food shortages for them, and they don’t have to worry about lighting fires or candles when the power goes out. But freedom and opportunity aren’t part of the package.
CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE ARTICLE!
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn.....id=7904471
Mayo 8th, 2012 at 10:46
YOUTUBE: Las valientes denuncias de la madre de Alberto Lairo Castro - The courageous allegations of the mother of Alberto Lairo Castro (SPANISH ONLY)
In this video, Dr. Darsi Ferrer Ramirez, a Cuban doctor makes a presentation on the current status of Alberto Lairo Castro, a young man from Holguin who was savagely beaten by agents of the Cuban Revolutionary National Police. Also, Alberto Lairo Castro’s mother, Carmen Luisa Castro MasabĂł denounces the state that the police officers left her son and the situation she is facing after four years. Carmen Luisa Castro MasabĂł, seeking the support of the international community and people of good will to help out with her son’s case. She can be reached at Calle 23 No. 5, between Gonzalez Valdez and 2nd, in the neighborhood of El Llano, Holguin.
En este video el Dr. Darsi Ferrer RamĂrez, mĂ©dico cubano realiza una disertaciĂłn sobre el estado en que se encuentra actualmente Alberto Lairo Castro, un joven holguinero que fue golpeado salvajemente por agentes de la PolicĂa Nacional Revolucionaria Cubana. TambiĂ©n, la madre de Lairo, Carmen Luisa Castro MasabĂł denuncia el estado en que los agentes dejaron a su hijo y la situaciĂłn que afronta despuĂ©s de cuatro años. Carmen Luisa Castro MasabĂł, solicita el apoyo de la Comunidad Internacional y de personas de buena voluntad para que la ayuden con su caso. Ella puede ser localizada en Calle 23 No. 5, entre GonzĂĄlez Valdez y 2da, reparto El Llano, HolguĂn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....ture=share
Mayo 8th, 2012 at 10:36
<Cuban Police Arrest OVer 60 “Self-Employed” Cubans
So much for Raul’s “far reaching economic reforms”. The only reaching going on is the Regime, which designed the reforms to reach into the Cuban vendors pockets. The police say the vendors were selling stolen property. By stolen, they mean the vendors didn’t pay the stiff State licence fees or buy their supplies from State suppliers.
http://www.babalublog.com/2012.....ed-cubans/
Mayo 8th, 2012 at 10:28
Griffin !! THATS WHAT YOU CALL “FREE RANGE CATTLE”!! ITS FOR HUMANE REASONS THAT THE FARMERS DO THIS!! THE REST IS PURE ACCIDENT! JE JE JE! HAY QUE RESOLVER!!
Mayo 8th, 2012 at 10:24
I DONT THINK THE CASTROFASCITS ARE SLEEPING WELL AT NIGHT WHILE WILLIAM LEVY REMAINS IN DANCING WITH THE STARS!! THE C.I.A. PLOT IS WORKING!! William Levy & Cheryl - Passodoble - (Double Elimination)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....ature=plcp
Mayo 8th, 2012 at 09:53
Humberto, re: #4,
This is funny,
“collisions with free-ranging cattle is a significant problem that joint efforts with the Agriculture Ministry has yet to solve.”
As every Cuban knows, all cattle are property of the State and the farmer is assigned to raise the State property. When the animal reaches maturity and is ready to be slaughtered, the farmer must obtain a proper permit from the Agriculture Ministry. If he slaughters the animal without the permit he will be in big trouble, and if the animal dies by accident or disease the farmer must get a certificate from the veterinarian or else the farmer is in big trouble. So what’s a starving farmer with 400 lbs of beef on the hoof to do? He could get a permit, have the animal slaughtered and get paid in worthless Cuban pesos and keep on starving…
Or maybe the animal might sort of accidentally wander loose and somehow end up on a rail line where it accidentally gets hit by a train… all by accident you understand.
Mayo 8th, 2012 at 09:52
TODAY MARKS THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE MURDER OF JUAN WILFREDO SOTO FROM A BRUTAL BEATING BY CUBAN POLICE! SOMEDAY SOON, HE WILL GET JUSTICE JUST LIKE ALL THE OTHER VICTIMS OF THE CASTROFASCISTS OVER THE PAST 53+ YEARS!
YOUTUBE: Statements by Baptist Pastor Mario Felix Barroso Lleonart to independent journalist JosĂ© Alberto Ălvarez Bravo - Tuesday May 10, 2011, about the assault by Cuban police that killed the dissident Juan Wilfredo Soto Garcia. DeclaraciĂłn inĂ©dita del Pastor Bautista Mario FĂ©lix Lleonart Barroso al periodista independiente JosĂ© Alberto Ălvarez Bravo, el martes 10 de mayo del 2011, sobre la agresiĂłn policial que costĂł la vida al disidente Juan Wilfredo Soto GarcĂa. (SPANISH ONLY)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....ture=share
BBC NEWS: Cuba dissident Juan Wilfredo Soto ‘dies after arrest’ - 8 May 2011
A Cuban government opponent has died several days after being arrested and allegedly beaten by police, dissidents have said.
Juan Wilfredo Soto, 46, had to receive hospital treatment after being detained during a protest Santa Clara.
One prominent dissident, Elizardo Sanchez, has called for an independent inquiry, saying Mr Soto’s death should not go unpunished.
Cuban authorities have made no immediate comment on the death.
Mr Soto died on Sunday in the central city of Santa Clara, fellow dissident Guillermo Farinas told the Associated Press news agency.
He said Mr Soto had been detained and beaten on Thursday during an anti-government protest.
Mr Soto was among those who supported a 134-day hunger strike by Mr Farinas last year to press for the release of political prisoners.
“If we do not do something, so that the government changes its stand toward peaceful protesters, we are going to be reporting even more deaths,” Mr Farinas told AFP.
Mr Soto is is believed to have had a number of health complaints, including diabetes, heart problems, and gout.
But Mr Sanchez, leader of the dissident Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, said he was convinced Mr Soto’s death was linked his detention.
“We believe that the blows he received were a catalyst,” he said, adding: “We do not think there was a political intent to kill him, but there was a struggle when he was yelling anti-government slogans.”
Cuban authorities generally refer to dissidents as common criminals or mercenaries paid by Washington to destabilise the communist system.
In an unprecedented agreement with the Roman Catholic Church, Cuban President Raul Castro has released dozens of political prisoners over the past year, many going into exile in Spain.
But human rights groups say that there has been an increase harassment, intimidation and violence against opposition voices since then, the BBC’s Michael Voss in Havana says.
Mayo 8th, 2012 at 09:32
It is true that the story or old myth of the eagle and snake ends good but the old snake is shot by the youth…it is told…the new man…who may be also the symbol of the new snake or the young snake,son of the old snake,old man…or Adam…shot..fallen…lost.And what about the young eagle?(of the myths in Euroasia,Egypt,Italy,France,USA)
New Eagle…eaglet is the new Eve…and that is the most interesting to know…it rising…growth…after it is saved from the bite of the old snake now shot dead.
Mayo 8th, 2012 at 08:51
France and Italy changed and are now part of the majority…but USA is now still standing but it is weakened…from inside…its new mix…and those who took over and run it for 100 years as a paid mercenary around the world…to be hated by all.
So now WORLD IS LOOKING ALL TO USA…the Eagle’s nest but there is no eaglets shown.
The snake is in the Eagle’s nest…so who will save the eaglets now that the eagle is far from its nest? Who will shout the snake? That is how the story usually ends.
Mayo 8th, 2012 at 08:37
It seems that Cubas concentration camps were built from Spain…untill USA did destroy the Spain power in the world and it did take over the Spain’s colonies…
Castro took Cuba colony back and build again the concentration camp in it…
http://militaryhistory.about.c.....an-War.htm
The question is who was behind the USA because as we know that all the time powers; England,Spain,Germany and even EU monarchs and Church was against USA? And later Japan and China..and Russia who first was pro USA…!Who else was the USA ’s friend?
It was France and Italy as rebelle free countries in that time…Maybe…it was so.
One thing we know now that Cuba and Russia turned as enemy,but not France and Italy.
They do strugle now as USA between two forces inside them fighting who wants to be friend or stand against the rest,world majority run now mostly from the globalists and UN…(we dont know who really is behind them)…What about Cuba…and Castro?
Castro and his colony,Cuba is with majority against the minority…so he play as a thug’s role and maybe he work…for Spain (as a revensh)against USA to take back old colonies.Cuba has behind the world majority…but USA is with two faces,masks.
Still question is who was behing USA when it took the colonies from Spain? Was Italy or France? When these 3 free countries will lose…who will replace their rebellion…freedom?
This are interesting questions
Mayo 8th, 2012 at 00:06
MORE ON THE CNN INTERVIEW WITH ALAN GROSS! HE MENTIONS ABOUT HAVING HAVING AN OK FROM THE GOVERNMENT AGENTS AT THE AIRPORT & HOW THEY CHANGED HIS CHARGES FROM BRINGING IN “ILLEGAL” EQUIPMENT TO “CRIMES AGAINST THE STATE”!!
YOUTUBE: Alan Gross: “I am a hostage” - Imprisoned American in Cuba, Alan Gross, calls CNN’s Wolf Blitzer to discuss his situation and hardship.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....r_embedded
Mayo 7th, 2012 at 23:50
WILLIAM LEVY IS THE C.I.A. SECRET WEAPON AGAINST THE CASTROFASCISTS! HIS STATEMENTS ABOUT THE REALITY IN CUBA IN FRONT OF 16 MILLION VIEWERS IS MORE POWERFUL THAN FIDEL CASTRO’S “REFLEXIONES”!! AND HIS OTHER ASSETS AINT BAD EITHER!! JE JE JE!
YOUTUBE: William Levy & Cheryl Burke - Foxtrot - Week 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....ature=plcp
Mayo 7th, 2012 at 21:51
PRETTY SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS! THE DESTRUCTION THAT THE CASTROFASCISTS HAVE UNLEASHED DURING THE PAST 53+ YEARS UPON CUBA’S INFRASTRUCTURE, ARCHITECTURE, AGRICULTURE, I CAN GO ON & ON, IS BEYOND BELIEF! AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SOUL OF A NATION & ITS PEOPLE IS UNFORGIVABLE!
COLONIAL CUBA: In 1836 Gaspar Betancourt Cisneros established a horse drawn railway service called Ferrocarril de CamagĂŒey a Nuevitas in CamagĂŒey (Puerto PrĂncipe). Cuba’s railway history began on October 12, 1834 when the regent queen of Spain Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies approved the building of the first line. When the Compania de Caminos de Hierro de La Habana opened the 27.5 km line from Havana to Bejucal on November 19, 1837, it was the first steam railway line in Latin America. At this point Spain did not possess any railroad lines. The 27.5 km long line from Havana was extended by an additional 17 km to Guines on 19 November 1839. By December 1843 the cities San Felipe and Batabano were added to the rail network and further extensions were added in 1847 (17 km), 1848 (21 km), and 1849 (21 km). Havana had its first streetcar (Ferrocarril Urbano de la Habana) when its service commenced on 3 February 1859.
FOX NEWS: Cuba warns of rising rail danger, faster trains
HAVANA â A railroad upgrade project in Cuba has trains traveling faster and that means more danger for careless motorists and pedestrians, authorities said Monday, reporting 33 collisions involving cars and 47 pedestrians hit last year.
An article in labor union newspaper Trabajadores did not say how many of the vehicular crashes were fatal, but 30 of the people hit by trains died. That alone was about 50 percent more than the 19 deaths from all train-related accidents reported the previous year.
The trend appears to be worsening, with 27 pedestrian accidents in just the first three months of 2012, including 10 fatalities.
This Caribbean island’s state-run media are mercifully free of grisly stories about crashes and violent crime that are common in newspapers elsewhere, and accidents generally go unreported until officials give a yearly tally.
But Trabajadores carried accounts of impatient and inattentive drivers being mowed down, including a motorcyclist who tried to race across the tracks and an animal cart that failed to stop for a passenger train.
Many crossings here lack descending barriers, and not all drivers come to a full stop and look both ways as they are supposed to.
Ronald Bofil, director of rail safety and inspection for the Ministry of Transportation, said a national campaign to overhaul Cuban railroads means the trains themselves are operating more safely, but efforts to improve signaling have not resulted in motorists reforming their own bad habits.
“On the tracks today, the (safety) measures must be extreme. With the current revitalization of the railways, the trains are gradually reaching greater velocities,” Bofil told Trabajadores. “Nevertheless, many drivers and pedestrians ignore the danger inherent in crossing train tracks even when they see the locomotive approaching.”
Bofil also said collisions with free-ranging cattle is a significant problem that joint efforts with the Agriculture Ministry has yet to solve.
He did not give numbers on incidents involving livestock.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2.....er-trains/
Mayo 7th, 2012 at 15:41
Cuba, the Socialist Paradise: Will the last person out please turn off the lights… oh, never mind …the bulb was stolen.
Mayo 7th, 2012 at 13:30
Is there anything in Cuba that isn’t stolen?
The communists have been well-trained to become capitalist mafioso.
Is there anyone in Cuba, except for the odd Marxist tourist or journalist, who still believes in socialism?
Mayo 7th, 2012 at 12:36
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Fidel and the communists killed a Cuban economy that wasn’t so bad. They caused poverty and loss of liberty for almost all the people. Only the King and his princes live well. Free Cuba!
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Fidel y las communistas mataban una economia que no fue tan mala. Causaban pobreza y perdida de libertad por casi toda la gente. No mas El Rey y sus principes viven bien. Cuba Libre!
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John Bibb
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