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Cuba is a pressure cooker ready to explode
http://www.therealcuba.com/ ^ | 24 Jan. 20095 | Gabriel Salvia

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..."

(Excerpt) Read more at infobae.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cubalibre
We must support these oppressed people!
1 posted on 01/26/2009 6:38:51 AM PST by WellyP
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To: WellyP

“...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.’ ;)


2 posted on 01/26/2009 6:41:09 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: WellyP
Can you give us a rundown of the article, if there's anything pending (I speak no Spanish).

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.

3 posted on 01/26/2009 6:43:03 AM PST by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: WellyP
I don't understand. I thought Hollywood ‘intelligentsia’ decreed that Cuba was an Eden - a real Utopia on earth???!!!
4 posted on 01/26/2009 6:47:05 AM PST by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else" Lucius Septimus Severus)
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To: WellyP

Lifting the trade and visitation sanctions would probably go a long ways towards helping people out...win-win for everyone except the rulers.


5 posted on 01/26/2009 6:52:12 AM PST by stuartcr (If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
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To: WellyP

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.


6 posted on 01/26/2009 6:55:42 AM PST by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: Owl_Eagle

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.


7 posted on 01/26/2009 7:00:48 AM PST by Carley (Remember when we had a real President)
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To: WellyP

Prediction:
—only the media,hollywood and the Democrat party will be mourning castro death........


8 posted on 01/26/2009 7:10:14 AM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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To: WellyP

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..


9 posted on 01/26/2009 7:23:08 AM PST by FreeManWhoCan
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To: FreeManWhoCan
The Messiah is making a big economic speech this morning....I turned off CNBC ...the supposed business channel...so I wouldn't fall under the spell...of the flowery words...
10 posted on 01/26/2009 7:39:17 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: stuartcr

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.


11 posted on 01/26/2009 7:56:03 AM PST by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: kabumpo

I believe it would eventually. What harm would come from US freely trading and traveling? I think capitalism will win out.


12 posted on 01/26/2009 9:09:54 AM PST by stuartcr (If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
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To: stuartcr
The only reason that Cuba wants to lift the embargo is so that they can have access and credit with US banks. They will take the money and never repay it. This is their m.o. They do it all over the world. Then your money will be used to pay off the debt in the US banks. Is this what you want? Always remember that. Cuba can trade freely with anyone else in the world.
13 posted on 01/26/2009 2:11:51 PM PST by FreeManWhoCan
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To: FreeManWhoCan

OK, thanks for the input.


14 posted on 01/27/2009 8:49:51 AM PST by stuartcr (If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
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To: stuartcr

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.


15 posted on 01/27/2009 9:57:10 AM PST by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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