Posted on 01/26/2009 6:38:51 AM PST by WellyP
http://www.therealcuba.com/ in English:
"...Jan. 24 - Gabriel Salvia, President of the Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL), said on Saturday that "Cuba is a pressure cooker ready to explode," because its citizens keep asking for more freedom..."
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“...because its citizens keep asking for more freedom...”
Oh, knock it off. Castro already gave you a rice cooker, you greedy citizens!
P.S. ‘Freedom’ isn’t ‘Free.’ ;)
Is there a way to support these folks beyond the obvious prayer?
I've often said, the amount of people I hate in this world would fit on an elevator. Castro would be on that elevator.
On the Glorious Day he dies, I will drink a toast to his arrival in Hell.
Lifting the trade and visitation sanctions would probably go a long ways towards helping people out...win-win for everyone except the rulers.
To bad there’s a democrat in the white house. If the people attempt to escape paradise he will most likely send the Marines in to quell the uprising.
Obambi is going to relieve the pressure by allowing American dollars to flow to Cuba via family members.
There is no communist government that O won’t prop up to the detriment of it’s citizens.
Prediction:
—only the media,hollywood and the Democrat party will be mourning castro death........
My uncle who lives in Cuba has asked me countless times why the people here love Che so much. “Uncle, they’re just crazy!” is all I could tell him. As for Obama, he says he sounds just like Fidel did before he “changed” to a commmie bastard. All sweet talk. Before Hussein is done, I predict he will weaken the US embrago (not remove it because the community down here will take to the streets and go crazy), and he will meet with one of the Castro brothers. Thats where I see this going..
I can never understand how/why Americans so blithely say that lifting our trade sanctions will help to liberate Cuba — Cuba has trade in the hundreds of millions with Canada, Mexico, all of Asia, al of Europe. And we are one of its biggest suppliers of food. There is more tourism there now than when it was called “America’s playground” in the 1950s. Yet living conditions and political oppression keep worsening. That’s because spending $ there does no good for the people because there is no private enterprise. The state owns everything.They use the money to reinforce their own power, with one of the most militarized states on the planet. And for those who say that now that brother Raul has taken over the reins, there will be reform, I say this: Cuba is like one of the mafia worlds from a Scorsese (not Coppola) movie, with DeNiro in the lead as Fidel and Joe Pesci in the supporting role as Raul.
So if in Goodfellas or Casino, the DeNiro character were to step aside to be removed from the #1 spot, you’re saying that reform is going to come from the more reasonable Joe Pesci.
I believe it would eventually. What harm would come from US freely trading and traveling? I think capitalism will win out.
OK, thanks for the input.
The question is “What good has come from the entire rest of the world trading and traveling with Cuba?”
Is there something inherently magical in US tourism and dollars to convert communism to a free society that Canadian Mexican French English German Spanish tourism and money doesn’t have?
I don’t know why people like you repeat these buzzwords and phrases that are part of a mystical catechism (”trade will lead to capitalism”)that belongs on a Hallmark greeting card.
Romania under the communist Ceausescu regime had MOST FAVORED NATION trading status with the US for years and it did nothing to improve the lives of the people there. When you trade with a totalitarian state, where there is by definition no private enterprise — that means there are no businesses that are not owned by the state — you aren’t engaging in real commerce with real people in a real country — you are giving money — and credit to a dictator and his family.
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