The Tugboat Massacre for Dummies
"My old friend Fidel Castro is a committed egalitarian. He brought superb systems of health care and education to his people."
"MI HIJO! MI HIJO!" Maria screamed as the water jet slammed into her, ripping half the clothes off her body and ripping Juan's arm from her grasp. "JUANITO! JUANITO!" She fumbled frantically around her, still blinded by the water blast. Juan had gone spinning across the deck and now clung desperately to the tug's railing 10 feet behind Maria as huge waves lapped his legs.
WHACK! Another of the steel patrol boats turned sharply and rammed the tug from the other side. Then - CRACK! another from the front! WHACK! The one from behind slammed them again. The tug was surrounded. It was obvious now: The ramming was NO accident. And in Cuba you don't do something like this without strict orders from WAY above.
"We have women and children aboard!" The men yelled. "We'll turn around! OK?!"
WHACK! the Castroites answered the plea by ramming them again. And this time the blow from the steel prow was followed by a sharp snapping sound from the wooden tug. In seconds the tug started coming apart and sinking. Muffled yells and cries came from below. Turns out the women and children who had scrambled into the hold for safety after the first whack had in fact scrambled into a watery tomb.
Let Jimmy Carter hail the “egalitarian society” fashioned by “his old friend, Fidel Castro,” let Jack Nicholson hail their captive homeland "a paradise!" Let Bonnie Raitt rasp out her ditty calling it a "Happy Little Island!" Let Ted Turner hail their slavemaster as a "Helluva guy!" Let Democratic party honcho Frank Mankiewics proclaim Castro "one of the most charming men I've ever met!" Let Michael Moore hail the glories of Cuba's healthcare in Sicko. Let Barbara Walters add gravitas while soft-soaping Castro during an "interview": "you have brought great health to your country." (In fact pre-Castro Cuba enjoyed lower infant-mortality rates and higher per-capita income than half of Europe--along with a higher influx of immigrants per-capita than the U.S.)
The people boarding that tug on July 13th 1994 tug knew better than the above-mentioned celebrities. And for a simple reason: the cruel hand of fate had slated them to live under Fidel Castro and Che Guevara’s handiwork.
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Unreal
Well, terrible as this was and remains, there are even worse cases that have gone unpunished, such as, for instance, the massacre of thousands at Paracuellos del Jarama by Spanish communists during the Spanish Civil War. The chief perpetrator, or at least someone clearly implicated in that horror, is Santiago Carrillo, who's been living quite nicely in Spain for years now and will almost certainly die of old age. Of course he denies guilt, but that's to be expected; the point is he's essentially been let off the hook as if he'd only been accused of some misdemeanor, while the Spanish judiciary went after a foreigner, Pinochet, like a shark after blood. Ideological affiliation, obviously, makes a HUGE difference as to the eagerness for, and interest in, justice being done. Cubans who have run afoul of Castro, Inc. simply don't make the cut, no matter how appalling the circumstances of the crime may be, and there are all too many examples of that. Have Soviet or Maoist atrocities ever been treated with the same revulsion and indignation as Nazi ones? Absolutely not, even though they are numerically much greater. It's the same basic problem. "Right-wing" criminals are unequivocally condemned as indisputably and unconditionally abhorrent; leftist ones not so much, if at all.
Humberto, You are a great writer and you can express yourself very well!! I am sure it helps to write about topics like this or know about them and feel your head is going to explode because it seems there is nothing you can do about it.
It bothers me so much to read about all of the atrocities that castro and his cronies have done and how we have intelligent U.S. Presidents that call themselves his old friend and ignore the truth.
Incredible.
Jose.
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[...] was a different story for the tens of thousands of dead Cuban rafters. Most of these desperate rafters probably died like captives of the Apaches, staked in the sun and dying slowly of sunburn and thirst. Others [...]
[...] was a opposite story for a tens of thousands of passed Cuban rafters. Most of these desperate rafters substantially died like captives of a Apaches, staked in a object and failing solemnly of sunburn and thirst. Others [...]
[...] was a opposite story for a tens of thousands of passed Cuban rafters. Most of these desperate rafters substantially died like captives of a Apaches, staked in a object and failing solemnly of sunburn and thirst. Others [...]
[...] was a opposite story for a tens of thousands of passed Cuban rafters. Most of these desperate rafters substantially died like captives of a Apaches, staked in a object and failing solemnly of sunburn and thirst. Others [...]
[...] was a opposite story for a tens of thousands of passed Cuban rafters. Most of these desperate rafters substantially died like captives of a Apaches, staked in a object and failing solemnly of sunburn and thirst. Others [...]