“In the U.S., the extremist embargo has been a sop to the right-wing and Florida electorate….The United States should, on its own, lift the embargo on Cuba..” Jorge Castaneda. (who in 2002 kicked out and returned to Castro, desperate Cubans seeking political asylum in Havana’s Mexican embassy.)
“The Mexican economy cannot put pressure on the U.S. economy–but it can on Arizona’s.” then Castaneda calls for a Mexican tourist boycott of Arizona!
“Innocent people were not executed in significant numbers, (by Che and Castro.) Che presented a Christlike image, with his mortuary gaze it is as if Guevara looks upon his killers and forgives them.” (Jorge Castaneda. Global Distinguished Professor of Politics and Latin American Studies. Visiting professor at Princeton and Berkeley,columnist for The Los Angeles Times, and Newsweek.)
More interesting still: according to recently declassified Mexican intelligence documents studied by Mexico’s El Universal newspaper, Castañeda served as a spy and agent of influence for the Castro regime from 1979 to at least 1985.”
Small wonder then, that Castaneda gave Julia Sweig’s book such a ringing endorsement.
If you boil it down to the basics, all of these people who become apoplectic and want/wanted embargoes against Arizona, the former South Africa, Haiti when it was run by Cedras, etc… but don’t want an embargo against Cuba are telling us that Cubans are crap. Everyone else is worth more than Cubans. To wit, Castaneda is telling the world that the pain of undocumented people in Arizona is more important than the pain of Cubans inside Cuba. After all, he is taking a proactive and aggressive stance against Arizona NOT CUBA.
Sit back. This is now the new cause celebre! I guess that the poor Ladies in White will just have to bear and grin the mob insults, pushing, kicks, punches and jail time.
You’ll see a onslaught of editorials about this pretty soon, but don’t hold your breath for one about the Ladies.
What exactly is the Mexican policy regarding undocumented immigrants in their nation?
And what would Mr. Castaneda’s position be on the 1980s embargo against aprtheid South Africa? Hmmmmm, tough questions Mr. C, tough questions indeed.
-AB
Rob, read this:
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/04/28/police-state-how-mexico-treats-illegal-aliens/