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Cubans are complaining – Loudly
“What changed is that a little more than a year ago, after becoming interim president, Raul Castro actually urged Cubans to openly air their grievances. He even listed some of his own complaints about waste and inefficiencies in the government-controlled economy.
With that as a cue that they were now allowed to speak out, millions of Cubans let loose and registered a long list of criticisms.
They are fed up, they said, with low wages that can’t even cover basics necessities, overcrowded buses, meager supplies in government-run stores and long waits and too few workers in Cuba’s vaunted health care system.”
This is going to break the bleeding hearts of some Fidel fans…
It is so funny to watch the left talking about Fidel… The eternal game of “I love Democracy but I love Fidel too” is just so absurd but these guys never stop trying. Truly pathetic.
Among all the hogwash, Mr.Smarto came up with a great one: “The US should either renounce any form of intervention in Cuba or propose a formal annexation, giving Cubans the rights of citizens”.
Welcome to the Cuban American World. It is not a small one by any means (1.2 million people, about 10% of the whole Cuban population) and they are all regular citizens (a Republican leaning group of citizens by the way). They are also a very successful group as well (look at the economic info for them and compare it to the widespread poverty provided by the Cuban paradise).
So I would say that it would be very easy to annex Cuba. All that Raulzito has to do is to allow people to escape the prison island. I bet the US would have no problems leaving that piece of rock for the old commies as long as they don’t point nuclear missiles to Florida.
Very simple stuff.
UPDATE
M.R. has an interesting post about why anyone might think Cuba is doing OK.
I wonder if the highly educated and critical thinker Cubans, who today paid homage to the 40th anniversary of Che Guevara’s death, have had the chance to read this simple but important book: Exposing the Real Che Guevara.
The author, Humberto Fontova, was in my favorite radio show the other day telling a few not so well known facts about this hero and martyr of the Cuban revolution. Things like his persecution of gays, long-haired rock and roll fans, and religious people; his fantasy of destroying New York City with nuclear missiles; how he promoted book burning and signed death warrants for authors who disagreed with him, and so on.
He also described a few anecdotal examples of Che’s great compassion, like the time when he shot a six months pregnant woman in the stomach just because her family opposed him.
He also mentioned that one of Che’s most famous statements was that “a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.”
Now I also came across this interesting article about another Che book, in which the the author describes:
“The cigar-chomping Guevara went on to become head of the Cuban central bank where he famously signed banknotes with his nickname Che. But his first job after the rebels marched in triumph into Havana in 1959 was running a “purifying commission” and supervising executions at Havana’s La Cabana prison. “He would climb on top of a wall . . . and lie on his back smoking a Havana cigar while watching the executions,” the author quotes Dariel Alarcon Ramirez, one of Guevara’s former comrades in arms, as saying.It was intended as a gesture of moral support for the men in the firing squad, says Machover. “For these men who had never seen Che before, it was something really important. It gave them courage.”
He also talks about how all these fake miths about Che started:
“Machover blames French intellectuals such as Régis Debray, who became an acolyte of Guevara and professor of philosophy at Havana’s university in the 1960s, for the canonisation of this far from saintly figure.
“The legend forged around Che is first and foremost a French creation that became international with time,” says Machover. Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist author who visited Havana with Simone de Beauvoir in 1960, also played a role, describing Guevara as “the most complete man of his epoch”.
So maybe that’s it. Cubans are reaping what Che sow: lies and human misery.
Castro’s tip: Clinton-Obama the winning ticket
He also said his favorite was Jimmy Carter, that Bush “needed fraud” to win Florida in 2000 and that Bill Clinton was “really kind”.
He probably loves Michael Moore and reads the NYT daily.
Travel ban threat for Cuba boxers
“Cuban leader Fidel Castro has threatened to pull his country’s boxing team out of the world championship in the US to prevent fighters defecting.”
“The athlete who abandons his delegation is not unlike the soldier who abandons his fellow men in the midst of combat,” he said.Can you hear the crushing silence coming from the left side of your dial?
That’s right. It’s in a situation like this that you can identify the secret passions of certain “progressive” bloggers.
UPDATE
What a shame.
NOT!
Cuban boxers to be sent home from Brazil
Pretty disgusting, especially coming from a government made of supposedly “political dissidents” who claim heroic status because of persecution suffered from the military.
I am just waiting to hear what the crazy Brazilian left has to say about this.
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
Brazucas se dando mal na terra do Fidel.
E como sempre, o mais engraçado são os comentários:
“Sempre me emociono ao ler o que vcs escrevem. Me orgulho de ser mãe de Milena e Thiago, amiga de Pedro e Lígia. Ver Cuba pelo olhar de vcs me fez sentir muito próxima deste povo; passei a amá-los pelo que ensinaram a mim e a vcs. Carta Maior está de parabéns por permitir a expressão destes jovens.”
Hein?
Fidel e seus red cats protestaram hoje contra um ticker montado pelo governo americano na U.S. mission em Havana. As mensagens mostradas no display vão de notícias (como a da vitória dos conservadores no Canadá) à mensagens gerais sobre liberdade, de MLK à Ghandi.
E ainda tem gente que se diz contra tudo que o Bush faz.
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