There’s a pretty good article at The New York Inquirer, titled “Leftist Latin America: Waiting For castro To Die.” The first line is music to my ears, but I cant but help hilight the following passage:
Though the seeds of the myth were planted in good soil, a strange fruit has since grown in Cuba. As we find ourselves now in the year 2006, it is painfully clear to see that support for Castro – and the perpetuation of his myth as a freedom fighter and champion of social welfare – has done nothing but damage to the the American left.
For all the attention paid to Castro’s foreign policy, so often we overlook his impact in Cuba. And there is no better barometer of his failure as a leader than the Cuban exiles. The exiles now living in America left Cuba in waves. By measuring these waves, one can get a sense not only of the tightening stranglehold of the embargo, but also of Castro’s deepening authoritarianism.
“…stranglehold of the embargo…”
Funny how all the products anyone needs are found in the Mafia’s ‘tourista’ stores, restaurants, shops But, go to the ‘people’s stores’ and you see nothing but flies and empty shelves.
“…stranglehold of the embargo…”
Funny how all the products anyone needs are found in the Mafia’s ‘tourista’ stores, restaurants, shops But, go to the ‘people’s stores’ and you see nothing but flies and empty shelves.
Just more of the same of course. Even when the left is acknowledging its mistake in backing castro unconditionally all this time they have to make excuses and blame the US.
Fuck them.
“his reign seems as though it will end with a whimper.”
Indeed.
And they say that we don’t have a long memory….
anyone want to go over to the “measuring the waves” link and make some corrections?
” the summer of 1994 that the U.S. experienced a huge wave of immigrants from Cuba. Approximately 33,000 Cubans fled to the U.S. because the Soviet Union which Cuba was heavily dependent upon for trade dissolved and it put Cuba in a tight economic situation. As a result, the government instilled a rationing system to deal with food, electricity and gasoline shortages. ”
I kinda sorta think the “libreta” is a bit older than 12 years old.
“This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but with a whimper.”