22 thoughts on “Amazing what you can find on the internet.”

  1. Looks like the desperate commies are trying to pawn-off some of their stolen goods before the party comes to an end soon.

  7. The wife of former French president Francois Mitterand was so enamoured of Marta Abreu’s China(displayed in a Museum in Santa Clara)that castro gave all 175 pieces of the collection as a gift to her.

    This china was donated by Marta Abreu to the city. It BELONGS to the Cuban people. I hope the Mitterands are taking VERY good care of it BECAUSE WE WANT IT BACK!

  8. CagASStro gave a collection of watches to Maradona. They belong to my cousin’s granfather, Andres Gomez-Mena.

  9. CagASStro gave a collection of watches to Maradona. They belong to my cousin’s grandfather, Andres Gomez-Mena.

  10. Jewbana,
    Is that Andres Gomez-Mena the race car driver? Your Cousin should try and get those watches back from Maradona, that druggie does not deserve to wear such distinguished watches.

  11. Did you all take notice of the whitewashed language used by the firm selling this stolen piece of Cuban patrimony? For those who didn’t, please note:

    “Unusual Crystal Basket On Cast Stem, Obtained From A Cuban Estate During the Rise of Castro”

    Please take a note of the word: “OBTAINED”. Stolen, confiscated and robbed is more like it.

    By the way, it’s tragic, but Castro’s penchant for giving away things that don’t belong to him [and the son-of-bitches like the Miterrand’s and the Barbara Walter’s who accept these stolen goods] is going to be one of the worst legacies that his tyranny has wrought on Cuba. He is impoverishing Cuba to the point that when Cuba is finally free one day, it will be a desolate country without any history, architecture, or works-of-art to speak of. It’s horrible beyond words.

    This Gallery should be denounced to the state department in the event that they obtained that work-of-art illegally. One never knows. This needs to be investigated.

    What we Cubans need is some database to document all of these stolen goods. A few years back, Sotheby’s was selling a painting that belonged to the Bacardi’s and the Bacardi’s were able to stop the auction when they found out about it. Who knows if the owner of this chandelier lives in the USA and is unaware of it being sold.

  13. Orgullo:

    I don’t know if that Mr. Gomez-Mena was a race car driver but I do know he was a millonaire. Among his many assets is an entire city block in La Habana close to the Plaza Hotel . It was called La Manzana de Gomez-Mena. I’ll ask my cousin since that’s his mom’s side of the family. She married my uncle who’s a Bay of Pigs veteran.
    No one should be allowed to keep stolen property. I don’t care who it is, but the fact that it’s that despicable figure, makes me sick to my stomach. We should learn from the Jews due to their experience after WWII. We have the advantage of the Information Age. Although I must say that many Holocaust survivors have gone to their deaths with little or no compensation. I see a Cuban version of the Nazi Hunters in our future as well as an organization dedicated to recuperating our nations treasures. Those cockroaches can try to hide, but they can’t hide forever. As I’ve said before, we will never forget the injustices committed against our people. We should know them and teach them to our children, and our children’s children and so on. If these rats think they can lay low after Cuba’s free and wait for us to pass, they have another thing coming.

  14. Class Factorum,

    If you can ask more questions that would be great. One good question is how did they “obtain” that chandelier? If you can, discreetly and “naively” ask how the lamp got out of the country? We know that the regime didn’t/doesn’t allow anyone to take anything of value out of the country, let alone an antique lamp like that. So, the family that that lamp legitimately belonged to, didn’t take it out. I surmise that that lamp got out of the country with the permission of the regime that either sold it to someone visiting Cuba who then was able to get it out of the country, or it was sold in a third country.

    By the way, a friend of mine went to Mexico a few years back and he saw a beautiful Angel in an antique shop. It said on the label, DE LA COLECCION PERSONAL DEL COMANDANTE ALMEIDA. But my friend recognized it as an angel that belonged on top of a tomb on El Cementerio de Colon that was cut off and was being pawned off as belonging to that piece of shit, the uncouth and vulgar Comandante Almeida. So, this is what the regime grandes are doing: stealing left and right and then selling the stolen booty in antique shops.

    But what concerns me the most is that it is happening here in the USA! I mean, I knew that the Helms-Burton bill was full of holes, but this is ridiculous!

  15. Like Jewbana says, we should learn from the Jews many of whom–I would like to add–have successfully sued and regained works of art that was stolen from their families by the Nazis. The Jews have set into place a precedent and we have to follow suit. It won’t be easy, but if we unit, we can succeed. Like the duplicitous and cynical Castro regime that invented the ironically called, “Casa de los bienes malversados” [translation: The House of the ill-obtained goods] in order to steal from the Cuban people their valuables, we need to great some type of institution that will work to get back all of the REAL biens malversados that the regime has stolen from us. By the way, one country that has benefited from our downfall has been Canada. I understand that the Canadadians have not only purchased valuable manuscripts and works for art from the Cuban libraries and museums, but they have also taken ship loads of valuable antique furniture.

    Canada is not my favorite country. Talk about giving credence to the saying: “DE LEN~A CAIDA TODO EL MUNDO COJE MADERA”

  16. Correction: The saying is: DE ARBOL CAIDO TODO EL MUNDO TOMA LEN~A. [Translation: of “fallen trees, everyone takes lumber”].. This is what the Canadians more than anyone else have done to Cuba.

  17. My understanding regarding items in the homes of Cubans exiled in the opening years of the revolutionary governments is as follows: first, an inventory of all items contained within a home was compiled. Next, paperwork, photographs and other personal items were usually burned – often times outside the home, in the yard, etc. Next, items of high value were distributed to a variety of people: party cadres, and often times – Soviets working in Cuba, etc. I spoke with one woman a couple of years back who had been told by an old neighbor who stayed behind – that her grand piano found its way out of Cuba and into the Soviet Union. Very similar to what occurred with the Jews of Europe – the Nazis were (i have heard) methodical in their cataloguing of looted items.

    I emailed a couple of messages to this shop, posing as an interior designer interested in the piece but received no reply. I think I’ll drop them a call on Monday. I’ll keep you all posted.

    -Anatasio

  19. Jewbana,

    You brought back some childhood memories with your comments. My grandfather was a tailor and he worked at La Manzana de Gomez-Mena. My mom and dad would take me there to visit him and I still remember what it looked like. Thanks for bringing those memories back to life for me. And yes you are right, we could learn a thing or two from the Jewish people, who I admire greatly for never forgetting and never giving up. We need to catalog and write down anything those thieves took from hard working Cuban families. It did not matter if they were millionaires or not, those items belonged to them and I am sure were paid for, not stolen as they did. I remember being in church one morning and the milicianos arriving and stealing all the gold items out of the altar while mass was being said. I was only 7 years old, but the memory is still very clear in my mind. They would point their rifles at us as we stood up to take communion, it was very scary for a child, but I remember thinking that I could not show fear, because after all, that was what they wanted. I will always remember their faces….

  20. Orgullo:

    You brought tears to my eyes. I also remember what it’s like to be afraid as a child. I’ll never for get the milicianos that burst into our house before we left the island.

  21. I finally had a chance to go to Graham’s and ask about the Cuban chandelier. The best I could get without being too obvious about it was that they got it from a dealer in Chicago or New York who buys stuff from Europe. The saleslady said she really couldn’t remember and I didn’t want to press for details as I was trying to be very casual about the whole thing.

  22. I finally had a chance to go to Graham’s and ask about the Cuban chandelier. The best I could get without being too obvious about it was that they got it from a dealer in Chicago or New York who buys stuff from Europe. The saleslady said she really couldn’t remember and I didn’t want to press for details as I was trying to be very casual about the whole thing.

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