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Cuban Film Shows Raw Side of Life in Havana
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| July 29, 2003
| Anthony Boadle
Posted on 07/31/2003 3:32:55 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Luis Gonzalez; Cincinatus' Wife
BTTT
To: Cincinatus' Wife
"Eighty percent of Havana lives like this. Many bathe with a bucket, with no running water. I did it for eight years," said Perez, son of a postman who dreamed of being an astrologer.
Anyone can be an astrologer. All you need to do is memorize the 12 zodiac signs and spout gibberish about long journeys and career changes.
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posted on
07/31/2003 11:42:34 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I'll defend to the death your right to stick it)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Huh? How can this be? The Cuba I saw in Die Another Day showed an island full of HAPPY people dancing in the streets and food stalls full of lots and lots of fruit hanging everywhere for the taking. Also the Cuban hospital in the movie was so technologically advanced that people came from all over the world for treatments there. The Cuba I saw in that movie showed Cubans enjoying un GRAN FIESTA!!!
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posted on
07/31/2003 11:43:45 AM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
(He who laughs last was too dumb to figure out the joke first)
To: RoughDobermann
Many. And keep in touch with several. Cubans hate Castro overwhelmingly. There are a few who will support him and the Communists to the end with their voices, but even these will not fight for Communism once Castro is gone. Cuba will be democratic and a good friend of America's within our lifetimes (once Castro is dead). A few decades from now (maybe, much sooner) it will be the most popular destination spot for Americans in the Carribbean.
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posted on
07/31/2003 11:47:17 AM PDT
by
Texas_Dawg
("...They came to hate their party and this president... They have finished by hating their country.")
To: Xenalyte
Anyone can be an astrologer. All you need to do is memorize the 12 zodiac signs and spout gibberish about long journeys and career changes. Of course. This probably means he dreams of being able to do it for money. Like a psychic. The stuff is all bunk to me of course, but what a great country we live in where people can get others to pay them for such nonsense. This man will never get to unless Castro dies in his life.
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posted on
07/31/2003 11:50:56 AM PDT
by
Texas_Dawg
("...They came to hate their party and this president... They have finished by hating their country.")
To: Texas_Dawg
Thanks, that's what I figured. I've never been there, but I remember flying over Havana en route to Grand Cayman. It looks so beautiful from the sky...
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posted on
07/31/2003 11:54:27 AM PDT
by
RoughDobermann
(Who are you tryin' to get crazy with, ese? Don't you know I'm loco?)
To: RoughDobermann
It looks so beautiful from the sky... Geographically it is. Architecturally it once was as well. Now it looks like a hurricane came through and no one cleaned up or fixed anything afterwards. The horrors of communism are impossible to really describe. One has to see them in person and hear the stories just to get a tiny feeling. I still can't even imagine what it must be like for those people to live there. I've seen the slums of Mexico City and I would live there in a heartbeat (and it doesn't get much worse than that in the West) before I would live in the average Cuban situation.
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posted on
07/31/2003 11:58:10 AM PDT
by
Texas_Dawg
("...They came to hate their party and this president... They have finished by hating their country.")
To: Cincinatus' Wife
The Incomparable Raul Capablanca
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posted on
07/31/2003 12:07:38 PM PDT
by
Skooz
(Tagline removed by moderator)
To: dfwgator; Texas_Dawg
Don't forget Pinochet.Pinochet was a true hero. However, his task was a piece of cake compared to what Franco did. I would put Franco and Pinochet in the top 5 leaders of the 20th century along with Reagan, Thatcher and (begrudgingly)Churchill. I base my criteria on defeating communists, improving economic conditions and improving personal freedoms.
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posted on
07/31/2003 12:17:41 PM PDT
by
MattinNJ
(As soon as we could see out of our big black eye, man, we lit up your world like the 4th of July)
To: sgtbono2002
Before you go making arguments, you should take the time to learn at least a bit about what you are talking about.
Do you know what happens when unarmed people take on communists?
Do you have any idea of the history of the Castro "revolution"?
To: Elliott Gigantalope
I remember the days immediately following JFK's assassination. People were wondering even then, did Castro do it. My Dad was convinced that the US government was covering it up, because if the truth was known, then every patriotic man in America would be at the recruiting office demanding that we go to war against Cuba.
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posted on
07/31/2003 8:38:03 PM PDT
by
Ciexyz
To: Luis Gonzalez
I studied Spanish lit in college and remember a particular story by a Fidelista Cuban author, knocking the Americans who came as tourists to Havana, as big fat ignorant Americans throwing around money and humiliating poor Cubans (who had good Communist souls, naturally). Stupid Americans who thought the natives were quaint. This is the propaganda that the Commies call literature.
They didn't appreciate their tourists, so they lost them. I wonder if the new wave of tourists on "education" visas, who are spending 3,000 bucks for a week in Cuba, know about these attitudes which are taught in Cuban schools through their literature.
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posted on
07/31/2003 8:44:42 PM PDT
by
Ciexyz
To: Tom Bombadil
I agree the Cubans are WHOLE lot different than the Iraqi ( not muslim for starters) but do you really think that in 2 yrs there will be a democracy in Iraq? 5yrs? 10yrs? I ignore time magazine by the way, but my lesson from Iraq is that THERE WILL NOT BE anything democratic or favorabile to the West in my lifetime. Just like you know what happens when teenage boys get drunk, you know what happens when Muslims gain power. oppression,murder,lies , terrorisim, jaywalking etc. Show me ONE Mid-East, muslim nation that doesn't do this. I was hoping that the Iraqis would appreciate the opportunity we brought, but they seem willing to let another 100 yanks die rather than stick thier own nose into the fight.I'd pack up today. Not my sons for these people............
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posted on
08/01/2003 12:09:27 PM PDT
by
singletrack
(..............................................................................)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
The documentary returns again and again to a statue of John Lennon sitting on a Havana park bench honoring the Beatle who wrote "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one." Communism is one weird "religion."
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posted on
08/01/2003 12:13:24 PM PDT
by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
To: singletrack
Not my sons for these people..........I certainly can understand your feelings, I have a 21 year-old son and an 18 year-old daughter who, while not in the military, could find themselves there under the right (or wrong) circumstances. I have a son-in-law who helped to clean up the barracks hit by a scud in Gulf1----He refuses to talk about it now. I would have been absolutely galled to have Clinton start a conflict that would have involved my children.
Having said those things, with Saddam and company gone, I feel that the world will be a safer place for much longer than if we had just let things take their course. The thing to be careful of now is to not leave Iraq as a vacuum waiting to be filled by the likes of AlQueda etc. I can't think of a worse insult to those who have given their lives for our safety than to just pull out now.
To: All
To: MattinNJ
For example, Havana is crawling with prostitutes. In the 50's girls were not allowed to go on dates unless their father or brother came along as a chaperone. My father spent time in Cuba when he was a Naval officer in World War II. He told me that small boys there would offer to shine their shoes or find them "a nice girl". My father wasn't the kind of guy to go into details, but I assume that these women were not only available for conversation. It's also hard to believe that there was no prostitution in Cuba when the American mafia was there in the 50's.
To: MattinNJ
Ironic, because Cuba used to be heaven on earth from what I have heard. Are you implying that Castro's Cuba isn't? /sarcasm
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posted on
08/03/2003 4:41:08 AM PDT
by
uglybiker
(I think I drink more beer than anything. Ever try to drink a case of Cokes?)
To: Texas_Dawg
3) The great Cuban Embargo was brought about by the American congress and President Kennedy to force Castro to give back all the American Property and Wealth that he Nationalized(i.e. stold) after he consolidated his power with our help. What the American people don't understand is that Castro could have ended the embargo at any time during the last 40 years by simply returning the Americans' property to them.
To: Desparado
What the American people don't understand is that Castro could have ended the embargo at any time during the last 40 years by simply returning the Americans' property to them. Not to mention he is still free to trade with the entire rest of the world. Communism doesn't fail miserably because one nation doesn't want to trade with you. It fails miserably because it just doesn't work. And seeing that it just doesn't work (as is plainly evident to anyone who's spent even 1 day in a Communist country), people who would continue to support such a system are simply evil.
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posted on
08/03/2003 9:39:21 AM PDT
by
Texas_Dawg
("...They came to hate their party and this president... They have finished by hating their country.")
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