“Putrid Embarrassment”
The Diaz-Balarts' statement on the OAS bending over and inserting Cuba:
“Today we witnessed an example of the Obama Administration’s absolute diplomatic incompetence and its unrestricted appeasement of the enemies of the United States. The OAS is a putrid embarrassment. Today the member States of the OAS, including the Obama Administration, unanimously voted to violate the OAS Charter of 1948 and its Inter-American Democratic Charter of 2001. This action constitutes a grotesque and unmerited betrayal of the oppressed people of Cuba.
Unfortunately, the Obama Administration’s unrestricted appeasement of America’s enemies and its absolute diplomatic incompetence will bring other sad days for the cause of freedom, for America’s true allies throughout the world, and for the American people.”
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen:
“Now we know where the priorities of the OAS lie. Rather than upholding democratic principles and fundamental freedoms, OAS member states, led by the OAS Secretary General, could not move quickly enough to appease their tyrannical idols in Cuba.
“Today’s decision by the OAS is an affront to the Cuban people and to all who struggle for freedom, democracy, and fundamental human rights. Far from strengthening the OAS, today’s resolution flies in the face of the organization’s founding charter. No U.S. taxpayer funds should go towards supporting this sham of an organization that once prided itself on its historic commitment to democracy and human rights.”
Rep. Kendrick Meek:
"The OAS has demonstrated a willingness to overlook Cuba for its misdeeds. It has eased restrictions on a nation that has referred to the hemispheric organization as 'a cadaver,' and unconscionable behavior by a regime that suppresses human rights and personal freedoms was rewarded today. The OAS has lifted the suspension on Cuba but has not readmitted the communist nation into the hemispheric organization and that is a distinction worth making.
For Cuba to be readmitted to the family of nations, the onus of responsibility falls upon the Castro regime to abide by the Inter-American Democratic Charter. The ball is in Cuba's court to forsake a legacy of repression and tyranny and embrace Democratic values and ideals."
Boot licking, money hungry, brown noser Jorge Mas Santos, whose father must be spinning in his grave right now:
"We congratulate President Obama and Secretary Clinton for a courageous stance in the face of enormous diplomatic pressure. If Cuba wishes reinstatement in the OAS, it should fully comply with the principles in its charter. To otherwise allow present-day Cuba readmission into the organization is to betray the democratic ideals upon which the OAS is founded.''
Really, Jorge? Courageous stance?
Asshole.
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What the heck did the Castros' have on Jorge Mas Santos?
Come on Val, I expect better from you...Asshole is just too tame in this case to call him. I'm a lady and I can come up with a few, much better names to call that brown noser. As far as the OAS, it does not surprise me as they are all a bunch of butt kissers and we have known all along how obama feels about America's enemies.
I'm too disgusted to say much. Besides, it's basically like saying vomit is nasty or shit stinks. The OAS is a screaming, disgraceful fraud, but so is the UN, and nobody seems to give a damn. Just another betrayal, for the zillionth time. We've seen it before, ad nauseam, and we'll see it again.
I will say this:
Don't anybody call me or consider me a Latin American. Ever. I have only the deepest contempt for those stupid, corrupt, hypocritical and eternal losers, who NEVER learn from their mistakes, and their mistakes are legion. They have utterly and miserably failed both themselves and Cuba, and that is by no means confined to this current instance. I want nothing to do with them. If they ever want any aid or sympathy from me, they can start by getting on their knees and begging my forgiveness for being such shameless, revolting SOBs for so long.
I urge every Cuban or Cuban-American with an ounce of dignity and self-respect to get not so much angry but EVEN, insofar as it lies within his or her means. Do NOT let a penny of your money go to these perfidious bastards if you can possibly help it. Let them stew in their endless incompetence, backwardness, cluelessness and perversity. BASTA.
As for the current US administration going along with this obscene travesty, well, what is there to say, really? Our current leadership is what it is, what we already knew it was, and we're merely "those people." I'll repeat myself: Cuba will never get out of the hole due to the kindness of strangers. Deal.
I think my mother would say that back in her hometown of Taguasco, Jorgito would have to "Ponerse un cubo en la cabeza" (Wear a bucket over his head, so that Cubans with DIGNITY would be unable to recognize him.) That way he could avoid the shower of rotten tomatoes and eggs that would be hurled at him.
The OAS has done something very stupid and politically inept here. It's akin to inviting someone to dinner at your house who has told you in no uncertain terms that your house stinks, your food tastes horrible and your wife is a whore. That's pretty obvious. But the political and economic reality is that a stable and economically prosperous Latin America is important to us for manifold reasons and engaging in the same silly name-calling and demonization of the OAS that Castro and Chavez have employed as recently as last week against the organization, doesn't help us to advance our agenda. Let's not forget that for 47 years the OAS supported the US position vis-a-vis Cuba. I guess the big question is why are we losing the "war for hearts and minds" and how can we win it again?
All together now, let's sing. "Imagine all the people...."
It is time to cue up the Joan Baez version of "Kumbaya" and hold hands with Raul Castro, Mel Zelaya, Patricia Rodas, Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, Rafael Correa, Danny Ortega, Colom, Kitchner, the worthless space cadet Hillary Clinton, Barack HUSSEIN Obama and Jeremiah Wright!!!
The OAS is a farce...
We should not give them one cent of US taxpayers money and we should send that scumbag Insulza back to Chile and have them move their headquarter to Caracas, Havana or Tegucigalpa.
The people of Cuba are Alone. When the day arrives (and it will) that CUBA is free of the castro despots...It will be a joy to witness the REPRESENTATIVES OF A FREE CUBA telling these worthless where they can go.
Henry,
Unfortunately the actions of the OAS, the current White House administration, many European Union governments and the majority of the governments south of the border will prolong the suffering of the Cuban people.
Plus it adds to the pain the simple fact that most of the Cubans in the island even though they're sick and tired of the regime yet they're still afraid to stand-up to the tyranny.
You see the majority of the new arrivals how they're yearning for traveling back to the island on the first opportunity they get and sending money there.
They want to be here and there, they could care less if the Castro brothers still run the show in the island as they would love to go back to the prison that they just got out of. This fact is sickening to me.
For the most part these new arrivals are more interested in living the good life here as they could care less about the Castro's tyranny abuses and rarely speak against it.
Pardon my negativity, but it is so frustrating and painful to watch the current events and see how low the courage and dignity of the Cuban people have sunk.
Freedom for Cuba,
I have to say that I agree with you in much of what you say.
I want to hope that on the Island of Cuba we have many thousands more with the fibre of love for freedom such as Dr. Oscar Elias Bicset, Artunez, Pedro Luis Boitel etc, etc. who refuse to lie down and die. It is so important to let these Cubanos, who are giants in there own ways, to let them know that in what ever way we can...We stand with them. That we will be a voice for them. That we WILL NOT LET the world forget them.
Lo ultimo que se debe de perder es la esperanza...because without that, we have nothing. The hope of our Cuba is not with the common citizen....its with the Titans amoung those citizens who day in and day out continue to strike the match of discontentment that one day will ignite the length of the island . These Titans within Cuba are why the dictator fears the people. He is right in that fear. He is so right!
"We congratulate President Obama and Secretary Clinton for a courageous stance in the face of enormous diplomatic pressure." What pressure? From whom? "Those people" from Miami who can't get Obama to give them the time of day? The impotent Republicans? The completely pro-Castro Latin American bastards? The spineless, cynical, show-me-the-money European Union? WTF is Jorgito Mas Canosa talking about? Is he really that dim, or just blatantly disingenuous? I mean, please. With pitiful pseudo-leaders like him, we might as well forget it.
And by the way, calling a spade a spade is not "silly," just as stating the idisputable truth is not. It may be undiplomatic, or possibly redundant, like saying ice is cold, but it's hardly silly. Those who have abundantly earned scorn and condemnation always deserve to get it, and giving them "the benefit of the doubt" only tends to perpetuate the problem.