Gloria Estefan Asks Obama Help for Cuban Dissidents

Reuters ^ | 4/16/2010 | Pascal Fletcher

[DLfromthedesert]

Estefan and her musical entrepreneur husband Emilio Estefan hosted a cocktail reception at their Miami home for Obama on Thursday evening, the first of two Democratic Party fundraisers he attended during a visit to Florida.

During the reception, Obama was given a letter from the mother of Cuban dissident Orlando Zapata Tamayo, who died on February 23 after an 85-day hunger strike to protest prison conditions in Cuba, participants in the event said.

[DLfromthedesert]

The Cuban American exiles were upset with the Estefans for hosting this fundraiser, but the Cuban commies were also upset.

Maybe the Estefans thought this was a good way to get Obama to serve the cause of freedom in Cuba; although Obama has never served the cause of freedom in the USA

[Doogle]

Estefan is in full damage control

[nickcarraway]

“Speak truth to power”

[Soothesayer]

Obama might help Cuban rapists and murderers but never never NEVER anti-communism dissidents.

[skr]

Perhaps they did think he cares enough to help; obviously, they haven’t paid attention to what he does as opposed to what he says.

[skeeter]

Yep. I hope the cuban community doesn’t let her off easily.

[skeeter]

Yep. I hope the cuban community doesn’t let her off easily.

[ETL]

GLORIA ESTEFAN

Born in Cuba, raised in Miami Gloria Estefan is at the vanguard of the second generation of the Cuban exile. Like other young exiles she carries the burden of suffering and sacrifice her parents made for freedom.

"My whole family paid a heavy price for freedom. My father not only fought in the Bay of Pigs, he volunteered to fight in Vietnam. He fought for these same freedoms. I watched him die a slow death for 14 years. I was not about to let anyone stomp on those ideals."

Estefan has traveled the world as a Cuban-American musician, and she has been an emissary on behalf of the Cuban Exile. She is its most visible representative, and like the rest of the exile she is very clear about the wrong done to the Cuban people under the Castroite tyranny.

"People don't have a lot of information and when they ask me about it, I tell them about the drama of the exiles, the repression, the firing squads, the horror of communism. I'm very clear about that. I left Cuba when I was two years old. They took away my country, they stole the most intimate thing a human being can have. How could I forget that Fidel Castro was the person who did me so much harm?," said Estefan.

Sometimes, speaking about Cuba is not easy, said Estefan." When they invited me to sing at the Vatican, they asked me what I was going to say," said Estefan. "I told them that I was going to ask the Holy Father for Cuba's freedom. And the Vatican official said, 'Oh no, my daughter, that's political. So I told them that if they didn't let me ask for Cuba's freedom, they would have to get someone else because I wouldn't sing. They gave in and as soon as I grabbed the mike I said it very clearly: Holy Father, do not forget to ask for Cuba's freedom in your prayers."

Character building book about Gloria!

According to Elise Ackerman, "In Cuba, salsa music sung by exiled performers like Willy Chirino or Gloria Estefan is taboo." Their music is not played over Cuban government radio. Additionally, when Gloria Estefan was to sing at the Pan Am games in 1986 the Cuban government was outraged that the Miami Sound Machine had been selected to perform; both Gloria and her husband Emilio Estefan are Cuban exiles. Estefan's music has preserved and expanded upon Cuban musical traditions going back to the 30's and 40's while offering something new for the 1990s. When you listen to songs such as Mi Tierra or Go Away you'll understand why the Cuban government detests her so. She stated that the song "Go Away" was meant for Fidel Castro. A sampling of the lyrics speak for themselves:

Won't you just go away
Go away
Don't you come back one day
Take your stuff
Take all of your precious things
Leave right now
Who knows what tomorrow brings

Stay away
Won't you please stay away
Live your life
But live it real far away
Save yourself
There's no way to get it all
Look around
The writing is on the wall

Nearly ten years later in 1995 Cuban-born celebrities Gloria Estefan and Andy Garcia returned to Cuba to serenade some 16,000 Cuban refugees held at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay. In 1997, Gloria Estefan appeared on CNN defending the Embargo as a moral imperative, and once again exposed the regime in Cuba for what it is: a brutal tyranny. Towards the end of 1997 she spoke out in defense of free speech. She was attacked from some quarters, but defended by many more. In 1998 she released Gloria! with a rousing song calling for Cuban freedom in the track Cuba Libre. She has demonstrated that in Miami freedom of speech and tolerance do exist, and for that she serves the memory of her father and of the historical exile well.

http://www.latinnet.co.uk/Star_Profile/Gloria%20Estefan.htm

[DakotaRed]

Is this Gloria Estafans attempt to rehabiliate her image now?

Obama supports Castro, not freedom.

If this is her real interest, could she not approach dear leader in a way that doesn’t involve gaining Democrats hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations?

[Enchante]

Obozo looks to the Castro brothers as role models

who could think he will do anything about them?

[DLfromthedesert]

That’s why this is very strange that she would host this fundraiser, unless she believed she could actually persuade him to help.

[Dahoser]

Cuban-American pop star Gloria Estefan asked President Barack Obama to work for the freedom of jailed dissidents in Cuba during a political fundraising event that seemed certain to anger the island's communist rulers.

Here's the type of work for freedom you can expect from Obamao, genius, especially when you consider his first White House counsel was scumbag Greg Craig:

[nolongerademocrat]

FUGE, I thought a lot of you and your husband after Hurricane Andrew when the two of you and Andy Garcia personally provided tractor trailers full of food and water and personally helped to unload the supplies. You were good and generous and you helped people in need. Now, F* you.

[kbennkc]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-ju7mQ1m0&feature=related

[ETL]

"Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal".--James (Jim) Cone,
African American Religious Thought: An Anthology (Paperback)
by Cornel West (Editor), Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Editor)

SEAN HANNITY: But Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not backing down and has not for years and in his strong stance on the teaching of black liberation theology is nothing new. He had the same things to say last spring when he appeared on "Hannity & Colmes:"

WRIGHT: If you're not going to talk about theology in context, if you're not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the '60s, systematized black liberation theology that started with Jim Cone in 1968 and the writings of Cone and the writings of Dwight Hopkins and the writings of womynist theologians and Asian theologians and Hispanic theologians, then you can't talk about the black value system.

HANNITY: But I'm a — reverend

WRIGHT: Do you know liberation theology, sir?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
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"formation of the "Black Liberation Front" in Cuba, 1964"

"This is an excerpt from a 1982 CBC documentary ("No Place To Hide") on the KGB activities in North America. This portion concerns the ties between the Weathermen and the DGI (Cuban Intelligence) - By the way take special note of what is said at 1:14, 1:23, and 9:06"
[formation of the "Black Liberation Front" in Cuba, 1964]
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_hPDpOVTE

All six parts of NO PLACE TO HIDE:
No Place To Hide: The Strategy and Tactics of [Marxist-revolutionary] Terrorism (6 parts on youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=%22no+place+to+hide%22%22Grathwohl%22&aq=f
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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
"FBI files from 1976, recently made public under the Freedom of Information Act, confirm the connections between Weatherman, Havana, and Moscow. Weatherman leaders like Mark Rudd traveled illegally to Havana in 1968 to engage in terrorist training. There, camps set up by Soviet KGB Colonel Vadim Kotchergine were educating Westerners both in Marxist philosophy and urban warfare."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808

[ETL]

"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410
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Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright and Dr. William Ayers
are greeted by Rebekah Levin with the Committee
for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine.
(Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune / May 17, 2009)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ayers_wrightmay18,0,6689521.story
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From the New York Times, August 24, 2003

"they [the Weather Underground] employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle and black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."

Article: Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DE1539F937A1575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2

[Frantzie]

She is a POS. She would be singing for and sleeping with Castro if she were in Cuba. Go to h*ll Gloria - your music sucks.

[Touch Not the Cat]

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bttt

[grumpygresh]

Who is going to help American dissidents that oppose the Regime?

[Navy Patriot]

Gloria Estefan is a terrible judge of character.