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Cuban choir members hit high note for freedom
Globeandmail.com ^ | October 26, 2005 | MARINA JIMÉNEZ

Posted on 10/27/2005 9:49:57 AM PDT by The Bronze Titan

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1 posted on 10/27/2005 9:49:58 AM PDT by The Bronze Titan
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Hmmm, I'm surprised that Martin's liberal socialists didn't immediately round them up and ship them back.


2 posted on 10/27/2005 9:56:30 AM PDT by wvobiwan (Liberal Slogan: "News maganizes don't kill people, Muslims do." - Ann Coulter)
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To: The Bronze Titan

Oliver Stone is deeply saddened


3 posted on 10/27/2005 9:59:06 AM PDT by jbwbubba
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To: The Bronze Titan

Oliver Stone is deeply saddened


4 posted on 10/27/2005 9:59:06 AM PDT by jbwbubba
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To: The Bronze Titan

But I thought Cuba was a workers paradise and ...


5 posted on 10/27/2005 10:00:29 AM PDT by USAFJeeper
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To: wvobiwan

I do as well...as Lefties believe Cuba is a paradise, and think anyone that wants to flee is just a Fascist Mafioso.


6 posted on 10/27/2005 10:01:07 AM PDT by Sometimes A River (Serving on a Meals-on-Wheels program is NOT a qualification for a SC nominee. Call your Senators!)
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To: The Bronze Titan

Why don't they publish Castro's response?


7 posted on 10/27/2005 10:04:09 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: The Bronze Titan
The singer is so worried about the safety of his four-year-old daughter and wife in Havana...

What happens now to the wife and daughter?

8 posted on 10/27/2005 10:04:41 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: The Bronze Titan

"For Canadians, Cuba is a tourist paradise. But for Cubans, it is like a big jail," Mr. Sambra said.



I hear the food is better across the barb wire in Gitmo.


9 posted on 10/27/2005 10:06:47 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Acts 2:38

My wife was born in Cuba but luckily her family escaped when she was an infant. We're always amazed at how ignorant people are about the conditions in Cuba. I'm not sure but I think that they still ration electricity as well as many other things that advanced societies consider necessities. It's also interesting that before Castro, Cuba was considered the most advanced of Latin American countries.

The miracles of Communism.


10 posted on 10/27/2005 10:17:31 AM PDT by phil413
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To: The Bronze Titan

ping


11 posted on 10/27/2005 10:47:26 AM PDT by ocr1
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"the average Cuban is very outspoken, The goverment basicly lets everybody speak their mind". -Portia Ziegelbaum (CBS News Producer)


12 posted on 10/27/2005 10:52:40 AM PDT by ocr1
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My parents were born there...left in March 1961.

I was there a year ago...and the conditions there are deplorable. And that's for people who have access to dollars.

I don't even want to know what it's like for those who do not.


13 posted on 10/27/2005 11:03:03 AM PDT by Sometimes A River (Serving on a Meals-on-Wheels program is NOT a qualification for a SC nominee. Call your Senators!)
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To: Acts 2:38
-"My parents were born there...left in March 1961."

I was 5 yrs old and there when that vermin took over Jan 1, 1959 (I remember the day to this very day). Celebrations broke out throughout Cuba.

I remember my parents driving from Cardenas to Havana that day, and people cheering along the roads, Cuban flags waving everywhere, and my parents along with most Cubans, cheering the end of the Batista regime.

Then the executions started, almost immediately. Under the leadership and direct control of "El Che"!

We departed our homeland on February 22, 1962!

14 posted on 10/27/2005 11:43:23 AM PDT by The Bronze Titan
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Yeah there were lots of initial supporters who quickly turned against it.

Most of my family was against it before it even happened, but many were for it, and became part of the regime.

They are still clinging to the ideal to this day.


15 posted on 10/27/2005 11:49:53 AM PDT by Sometimes A River (Serving on a Meals-on-Wheels program is NOT a qualification for a SC nominee. Call your Senators!)
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To: ALlRightAllTheTime; Angelwood; Apple Blossom; beandog; BillF; bmwcyle; BufordP; Cathy; ...

Ping - defectors flee Cuba...


16 posted on 10/27/2005 12:52:16 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (America will not run, and we will not forget our responsibilities. – George W. Bush)
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That should be priviledged defectors as these people received better treatment than other Cubans.


17 posted on 10/27/2005 2:42:14 PM PDT by Jimmy Valentine's brother ( We need a few more Marines like Lt. Gen. James Mattis)
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To: Albion Wilde; The Bronze Titan

I hope I live to see the day when people are flocking back to a free Cuba.


18 posted on 10/27/2005 3:01:29 PM PDT by PleaDeal (Bill Whittle for Pres. in '08)
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-"...should be priviledged defectors as these people received better treatment than other Cubans."

You mean 'this' type of "treatment"...

"In an emergency meeting, she warned the remaining singers that the Cuban government would retaliate against their family members if they tried to seek asylumhere, according to Mr. Sambra.

19 posted on 10/28/2005 5:23:58 AM PDT by The Bronze Titan
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What I was attempting to express was that these people enjoy a better lifestyle than the majority of their countrymen better housing, better food etc. Yet they still defect. The MSM would have you believe that Cuba is a paridise where all enjoy wonderful health care and education. My favorite intterviews of Castro were conducted by Dan Blather and Barbra WaWa.

BTW Code Pink is arrange a trip to Cuba for Christmas. Now there's a giggle.


20 posted on 10/28/2005 5:58:27 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine's brother ( We need a few more Marines like Lt. Gen. James Mattis)
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