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Like many Americans, Cowal and Delahunt said, they paid little attention to U.S. Cuban policy until Juan Miguel Gonzalez waged his battle to return his son Elian to the island. That's when they began questioning why the United States continued to isolate Cuba when, after 40 years, it had yet to achieve its goal.

Sally Grooms Cowal: Back in February of 2001 she was set up with money to head this "Cuba Policy Foundation" by Smith Bagley's pro-Castro Arca Foundation. (Bagley's a BIG DNC fundraiser-remember the "Elian" D.C. fundraisers?) Cowal previously headed Youth for Understanding and "housed" Elian and Cuba's delegation in D.C. until he was returned to Castro. Here is more on Sally Grooms Cowal and the Cuba Policy Foundation. Seven U.S. Representatives arriving with Sally Grooms Cowal

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Left Wing Stooges create another front for Castro--[Excerpt] --In April, the "neutrality" of the CPF was questioned when it was honored by the officialist propaganda organ of the Castro dictatorship, Radio Havana. Radio Havana in its report ended up praising Grooms Cowal's efforts in starting the Cuba Policy Foundation by stating the following: "The Cuba Policy Foundation has challenged the ultra-right-wing Cuban-American National Foundation to a public debate concerning the merits of Washington's blockade of Cuba."

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The CPF is bankrolled by the Arca Foundation. For those of you who don't know about the Arca foundation, it passes itself as a philanthropic organization that gives millions of dollars annually to organizations that fight for social justice around the world. Unfortunately a grand majority of these organizations are of a far leftist nature, like in 1998 when it gave $1,000 to an obscure contingent called Fondo Del Sol which helped surviving members of the Stalinist Abraham Lincoln Brigade view a photo exhibit on the Spanish Civil War! Among the pro Castro groups Arca has funded have been the Pastors for Peace ($10,000 in 1999), Global Exchange ($50,000 in 1999), and the TransAfrica Forum ($100,000).

Communist Cuba is the main focus of Arca's Foreign Policy grants list, and although it gives money to other international and domestic institutions, it annually gives a substantial amount of funds to causes dealing with communist Cuba. In 1999 alone, the Arca Foundation gave to over 19 organizations that are sympathetic to revolutionary Cuba. [End Excerpt]

Some answers. Al Neuharth: Why is China OK, but Cuba 'enemy'?

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Here are the players in the fight for and against a free Cuba: Freedom Advocacy -Promoting freedom and human rights around the world, beginning with Cuba.

Castro still has his grip on the old stuff, but he's not getting a totalitarian grip on the new stuff. When he dies, no replacement for him.
Sample: having an excellent seafood dinner in a "private" home, paid for in dollars, a question was "How'd you get those Amana appliances in your kitchen?"
The answer: "I paid a guy who has a warehouse to deliver and install, just like you do back in America, eh?" "I think he bought them from an Amana factory distributor in Panama."
He said: "So, I pay dollars to the local guys to keep my home safe." "You pay local taxes to your police department to keep your home safe?" "It's the same, no?" "Only I can negotiate and pay in other ways, no?"
He thinks Castro is a doddering old fool, but he can't say so out loud. But he sure can talk out loud about getting a hotel franchise. He'd prefer American, but the Brits and French are there now.
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