PINAR DEL RIO


support babalú


Your donations help fund
our continued operation

do you babalú?




activism


ozt_bilingual



buclbanner

what they’re saying


bestlatinosmall.jpg

quotes.gif

recommended reading






recent comments


  • asombra: After Gross’s recent rapturous praises for Obama and company, without even a hint of reproof, I...

  • asombra: And remember: screwing over “those people” is safe as houses and utterly “correct.”

  • asombra: Expediency is always dangerously attractive, even when it’s immoral.

  • asombra: Yes, Morgan was a chivato, a stool pigeon, just like Eloy Gutiérrez Menoyo.

  • asombra: The “gay rights” thing is a PR ploy, but gay or straight, people in Cuba have no HUMAN...

  • asombra: And maybe Phil Peters speaks in good faith. Or maybe not. Maybe he’s got ulterior motives that he cannot...

  • jorge: Huberto, If I undertand your comment, the guy was a “chivato”, that was instrumental in putting...

search babalu

babalú archives

frequent topics

visitor map


Creative Commons License

More World Opinion on the Cuban Blogger Beatings

From Ian O'Doherty of the Irish Independent:

BUT IT'S A SOCIALIST PARADISE?

One of the funniest things about listening to unreconstructed Lefties is their declaration that Cuba is some sort of proletarian paradise.

It's all complete rot, of course -- it has a rigid class system largely based on colour; they have exported their best health care workers to Venezuela in return for oil; and the people are starving.

Oh, and they also have a problem with that whole pesky freedom-of-speech thing.

The most recent example comes with the news that Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez was recently kidnapped and assaulted by Cuban security police -- ironically, when she was on her way to participate in an anti-violence march. According to Sanchez, she was left "black and blue, punches, pulled hairs, blows to the head, the kidneys, knees and chest, they applied judo or karate to us as the punches kept raining down."

Now, will we hear our Castro-loving friends come out and condemn that?

Don't hold your breath.

1 comment to More World Opinion on the Cuban Blogger Beatings

  • theCardinal

    I have not followed enough of your posts on the Yoani beating but I have not really noticed you all drawing the connection between the Spanish bootlicking and the incident. For me it is apparent that the appeasement of the Spaniards only emboldened the regime.