Posted on 07/26/2005 3:01:26 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember
For the first time in 46 years there was not going to be an outside mass rally to celebrate the 26 of July, the date in 1953 when Castro and a group of his followers attacked the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba. And now the rumors have been officially confirmed. It seems that Castro is afraid to hold a mass rally under the present conditions in the island, where there have been many protests taking place during the last few days. He feels more secure inside a theatre, where no one can get in without an official invitation.
Record heat and power cuts of 12 hours or more a day led to scattered protests, vandalism and rare anti-Castro graffiti this summer, veteran human rights activist Elizardo Sanchez said. Authorities have responded by mobilising rapid deployment brigades of militant supporters to disperse pockets of protest with batons, he and other dissidents said. "I have not seen such widespread discontent in four decades," said Mr Sanchez, head of the Cuban Commission for Human Rights.
(Excerpt) Read more at therealcuba.com ...
I can see why you wish the very worst for the SOB then. May you and many others who have suffered get what you wish for.
not to worry, chavez and his chinese buddies will prop them up.
Yep, not even drudge.
this is how the left wants us all to live.
BTTT. May freedom someday be a gift to all Cubans!
I hope one of these days, the Cubans have the opportunity to rid Cuba of Castro (and his wicked little brother) once and for all.
good reminder.
I'm happy for them. I hope they overthrow him and we offer 'help' with setting up a democracy. They've suffered far too long. Foodtv ran a 'special' with Mariel Hemingway last Sat nite, let's hope some of them managed to see the Cuban Potemkin village Castro holds up to the world as the fruits of communism while they subsist in squalor. So they can set the world straight and rid themselves of him.
Check this link on Cuban health care
and
this link on the real Cuba. (thanks FormerACLUmember for this one!)
If that happened, it would only cause more Cuban dissidents to gather strength, I think the mainstream media is ignoring it because if they didn't, the media and the world would be begging the cubans to finish the job, this way, ignoring it, it may just die off.
How strange this seems to me! I actually *dreamed* about Cuba last night! I thought it was odd even when I woke up because why would I dream about Cuba?
I dreamed that we were newly able to travel there, but that everything was very run down and looked like it had been ravaged.
Maybe they need a major hurricane (seems like they always bypass Cuba) to bring down all those building, and really get people rebelling,
I know. I think there will even be a castro leading cuba long after this one is dead.
The only way to end this crapstate is to decide to end that regime.
soon, China will be in the mix and that ain't good.
That plane was not over China.
Pictures are an eye opener. Any pictures of Castro's palaces. You would think that years of suppression they would have enough courage to over throw him.
Yeah Bill you are right. Just noted it for time frame as it was right after the spy plane was illegally shot down, China's president was visiting Castro and upping their military ties (Spring 01).
Thank you for posting this. There has been a deliberate attempt to conceal from America what has gone on in Cuba since Castro. The Left in this country, which means the media and academe, has remained silent about this nightmare ninety miles from our shore. Leftist politicians love Castro; their dream man.
The Left went nuts when Armando Valladardes' "Against All Hope" was published on his release from Castro's gulag after ninetten years of imprisonment. They did everything they could to discredit him and to sanctify their idol, el jefe.
French intellectuals threw tantrums, arguing against translating into French "Against All Hope;" they threatened French publishers if they dared to publish this "heresy" this attack on one of their idols. Even in small, out of the way villages in France today, one sees posters of Castro and Che advertising a lecture or play exalting them. They are usually next to a poster announcing a Joan Baez concert. I'm serious. She's still hot there, a real revolutionary.
The author of "Against All Hope" was libelled and slandered by the Left across Europe and the Mediterranean. He sued and won a case in Greece. Read it, if you can find it, and if you can bear it.
It is terrible what Castro, a known coward and bully, has done to that beautiful country. Cubans always had a higher literacy rate than other countries in this hemisphere, including the U.S.
I noted that the "pro-Castro" mob were all wearing military uniforms as they beat the anti-Castro dissidents. Actually they are not anti=Castro but more pro food, pro drinkable water, pro decent housing.
The media will not cover this. When they get wind of this website they will print pictures of the medical facilities reserved for the rulers, and denounce this as "reactionary right-wing propaganda."
Some newscasters dismissed the Cuban exile community in Miami as "die-hard, anti-progressives" and tried to marginalize them as a force in the 2004 election.
The Left will not let the light of truth shine on that desperate island. They are cheering for Castro's takeover of Venezuela. Castro sent in, undercover , over 100,000 of his troops to bolster Chavez, La Primera Dama de Cuba. Of course, all 100,000 or more, are really "doctors and health workers" which is the story told to the NYTimes, and duly printed by them.
It is vain to wish for a citizen uprising there. It is tightly controlled, and even the mildest complaint is savagely suppressed. It is a disgrace that every administration since President Kennedy has allowed this concentration camp to exist ninety miles from Key West.
Thank you again for posting this.
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