''This is as far as I go'' - Disgusted by executions, Castro ally cuts ties to Cuba

Miami Herald ^ | April 15, 2003 | MARIKA LYNCH mlynch@herald.com

[Cincinatus' Wife]

``Cuba has won no heroic victory by executing these three men, but it has lost my confidence, damaged my hopes, robbed me of illusions.''

That's what dictators do.

Fidel Castro - Cuba

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[JudgemAll]

In a bitter criticism of the executions carried out last week in Cuba, José Saramago, the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese writer considered Fidel Castro's best friend among European intellectuals, broke with the regime Monday.

''This is as far as I go,'' Saramago wrote in a short but powerful essay printed in Spain's leading newspaper, El País, as the European Union, various countries and organizations around the world continued to offer public repudiations.

Oh, I see, there must be a set amount of murders to be done until liberals wake up... How many more WTCs? What do people expect when people shrug off profit form past murders and call it forgiveness. Forgiveness requires repent, truth, a trial and fact findings. Forgiveness or "moving on" to more important matters does not mean shruggin off things. Truth is the more important matter.

Why do we have to go back to kindergarten with all these so called high level intellectuals? Never has truth been so distorted by the very credentials that were supposed to glorify it.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

So true. How can he (or would he bother) help unshackle the Cuban people?

[LiberationIT]

"..... but it has lost my confidence, damaged my hopes, robbed me of illusions."

Me, me, me, a leftist's priorities. Forget the three dead people, what about my feelings?

[WesternPacific]

Where is Jimmy Carter??

[Justa]

"Cuba... has lost my confidence, damaged my hopes, robbed me of illusions."

Oh, well we wouldn't want a communist robbed of their illusions now would we? What would support the revolution then, brute force and persecution?

/yawn.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Former US President and Nobel peace laureate Jimmy Carter
called on Cuba to free Dissidents(AFP/File/Steve Schaefer)

[nickcarraway]

I find it a little ridiculous that recent actions should change anybodies opinion of Cuba. Couldn't José Saramago have read Against all Hope</> by Armando Valladares or I Will Die Free by Noble Alexander or one of the many other books that reveals what Cuba is?

[nickcarraway]

The United States is losing an ''opportunity to stay quiet,''

The U.S. has taken advantage of too many ``opportunities to stay quiet,'' and should speak up. Not to mention other countries.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag

[risk]

The U.S. has taken advantage of too many ``opportunities to stay quiet,'' and should speak up. Not to mention other countries.

Yes, it's time for regime change in Cuba and Venezuela, for starters. And I want FARC hunted down like rabid dogs.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Venezuela Military Becomes Embroiled in Colombian War - Bombs Village In Support of FARC*** LA GABARRA, Colombia -- Maria, a wizened 57-year-old farmer's wife, lives in a plank-board shack in Santa Isabel, a village on the River of Gold that serves as Colombia's muddy border with Venezuela. Shortly after breakfast one day last month, she and several dozen families watched grimly as Colombia's long war arrived swiftly along Santa Isabel's single dirt street. Violence has washed over the village for years, but never in the way she witnessed that sweltering March 21.

Maria and a dozen frightened neighbors said hundreds of guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attacked their town from Venezuela, crossing the river to engage an anti-guerrilla paramilitary force occupying several riverside villages. Within an hour, Maria saw Venezuelan military aircraft swoop over her village to bomb paramilitary positions inside Colombia supporting the rebel advance.***

[GOP_Raider]

I figured the Cuban Missile Crisis showed what Cuba was all about.

[GBA]

"Where's Jimmy?" Hahahaha! It's so too late for Jimmy. I like the GWB peace plan. How about a little shock and awe all over Castro's sorry butt to save the beleaguered Cuban people. It is way past time to do the right thing.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

..........but if God forbid Cuba should employ the death penalty, for what would be a legitimate crime if it were a legitimate regime, then the human rights community gets upset.

Yes. Because that would mean Castro facing the firing squad.

[laredo44]

Cuba, which withdrew an application two years ago over concerns about its human rights record, reapplied to join the trade accord in January.

What do they have worth trading? Economically, the EU might do better admitting a kindergarten class.