[xsmommy]

thanks for the ping, luis. i found this very interesting. like you, i disagree vehemently with him on Elian and the embargo, but i find his views intriguing.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Post-Castro political ideology in Cuba will be a mixture of the old and the new. The old being communism, or rather Castroism, and the new one being the burgeoning democracy.

I obviously don't agree with some of his views, but I am encouraged by free political thinking, and the signs of the loss of fear of government reprisals by a portion of the Cuban people, who with things like this man's Radio Marti show, and the realization of Project Varela, are starting a quiet revolution in Cuba.

I hope and pray that this quiet defiance becomes a nation-wide roar soon.

Like Willy Chirino sings: "Nuestro dia, ya viene llegando."

Luis