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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Our Prayers are with you Oklahoma!

Our thoughts and prayers are with you Oklahoma! Words can not describe what you are going through!
13 years ago my family survived a tornado that ripped through the Dallas-Forth Worth area and destroying our neighborhood. That day we just got home from the hospital after the birth of our 3rd child. By the grace of God, the baby and my family survived after jumping into the bathroom and covering themselves with mattresses.
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Monday, May 20, 2013
Cuba's Independence
Today is Cuba's Independence Day in which Cuba gained its independence from Spain on May 20, 1902. Sadly today Cuba is NOT free, and for the last 54 years Cuba has suffered under a communist dictatorship.
The day WILL come when Cuba again will be FREE!
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Friday, May 17, 2013
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Shortage of Toilet Paper in Venezuela

Folks I am not making this up! It appears that their is such a shortage of toilet paper in Venezuela, that the Venezuelan dictatorship has to import 50 million rolls! It's the Embargo's fault for this fiasco......wait a minute their is NO embargo, but... but... how is it their is a shortage on butter, milk, coffee, etc???
Is it the CIA's fault?
Is it Bush's fault?
Is it those those pesky Cuban exiles fault?
Could it be 21st century socialism at its best!!!!
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
I thought playing Golf was for the bourgeois?

From the BBC news:
Cuba golf project gets green light
By Sarah Rainsford BBC
News, Carbonera, Cuba
Varadero is currently the only
18-hole course in Cuba, but it will now be joined by others after the government
approved a new multi-million dollar golf project
Five decades after Fidel Castro
ordered Cuba's golf courses to be closed down because he considered them
"elitist", the island's communist government has approved the construction of a
luxury golf resort, complete with an 18-hole course.
The $350m (£227m) Carbonera Club proposed by British firm Esencia is the first of a dozen similar initiatives that have long been under consideration.
The move is a sign of the changing times here, as the government seeks new revenue sources to fund its socialist revolution.
"It will be a major complement to the tourist offering of [the resort town of] Varadero and the start of a whole new policy to increase the presence of golf in Cuba," Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero told the BBC during a visit to Varadero.
Long wait
End Quote Andrew McDonald CEO EsenciaGolfers are renowned for travelling to new places, it's a multi-billion dollar industry”
He confirmed that a formal deal had been reached for a
joint venture between Esencia and the Cuban government to develop the Carbonera
resort, a short distance along the coast.
"We've been working on this for seven years, step by step, so we're very excited it's finally going to happen," Esencia's CEO Andrew McDonald said on a tour of the 170-hectare (420-acre) site.
Mr McDonald said he expected building work to begin next year on a design which would transform the area.
As well as the golf course, the plans include the construction of an exclusive, gated community of some 650 apartments and villas.
There will also be a hotel and a country club, complete with tennis courts, spa and a yacht club.
And Carbonera is not the only project in the pipeline. A second golf project, with Chinese investment, is expected to be approved by the end of this year.
Other resorts will then be rolled out gradually across the island with Spanish, Vietnamese and Russian funding.
Property boom
And it is not just golf that is the novelty here.
Foreigners will be able to buy property on the developments, the first time that has been allowed anywhere in Cuba apart from a short-lived experiment in the 1990s.
Che Guevara and Fidel Castro
tried their hand at golf once, but later dismissed it as "bourgeois"
"People retiring in Canada and Europe often look for a second home," says Gabriel Alvarez, the Cuban official charged with developing the new sector.
"Cuba has all the conditions to be an option for them: safety, nature, culture. So why not come here?", he asks.
The luxury developments will remain, for now, the only place foreigners can buy in Cuba. Early figures suggest high demand for a market that has been off-limits for decades.
Theplan is to turn the island into a golfing destination to rival nearby alternatives.
"Golfers are renowned for travelling to new places; it's a multi-billion dollar industry," says Mr McDonald.
"I think Cuba will fit very well into that jigsaw, and be very popular," he adds.
But for that to become reality, the island needs more courses. Currently, there is just one 18-hole course in Cuba, at the Varadero Golf Club.
The club opened as tourism to Cuba took off in the 1990s, and some 200 rounds are played there each day.
"There's definitely scope for more golf here," said Canadian Daryl Giles during a recent tournament there.
"You go to Florida and there's lots of choice. Here there's just the one," he said.
With more courses, "you could have a helluva good time here," he added.
Slow progress
But it has taken Cuba a long time to come round to the idea.
End Quote Enrique Nunez Cuban golf enthusiast"I think golf could have a good future here. We love baseball, and the swing is similar”
In pre-Communist times, there were at least seven golf
courses on the island, frequented mainly by wealthy residents and US visitors.
locals recall.
Even Fidel Castro famously played a round in Havana once, taking on Che Guevara dressed in military fatigues.
But he was clearly not a convert, ordering Cuba's courses be put to less "bourgeois" use.
Today, one of them lies abandoned just outside Havana; another became a special forces training ground and a third forms the rolling lawns of a city arts school.
But pragmatism has finally overcoming lingering resistance to reversing that move.
Attempts to drill for oil and bring economic independence to Cuba have come up dry and the death of the island's key financial backer, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, has made the future more uncertain.
Democratic game
So once unthinkable things are happening here. Tourism is now the second biggest source of income on an island once closed to the outside world.
Cuban officials are keen to
sell golf as a "democratic sport" benefitting all Cubans Last year, 2.8 million people visited Cuba, mostly opting for all-inclusive hotel deals along palm-lined golden beaches.
But figures suggest golf tourists spend four times more than pure sun-seekers, and Cuba wants to tap into that potential.
The Carbonera Club deal also suggests other foreign investment could pick up pace now .
"I think there's more openness to bringing people like us in. As long as Cubans are in charge of the speed of the process, then anything is possible," he sys.
As for golf, Cuba is keen to re-style the game as a democratic sport, pointing out that the sport has been included in the next Olympic Games.
"Of course it's not for all Cubans at this moment," admits Enrique Nunez, owner of a successful Havana restaurant and recent golf convert.
A round costs five times the average monthly state wage here.
But there is already talk of creating a golf federation for locals, taking advantage of the new tourist facilities.
"I think golf could have a good future here. We love baseball, and the swing is similar," Mr Nunez suggests.
Even though the sport was banned for so long, "we could be naturals," he says.The evolution of the Cuban cigar
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Monday, May 13, 2013
Guillermo Farinas in Miami
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Cuban hunger striker begins tour in Miami
From Staff and Wire Reports
A frequent Cuban hunger striker and dissident arrived Sunday in Miami ahead of Cuban Independence Day, as part of a tour that will include several U.S. stops before going to Europe “I have come to the capital of the Cuban exile,” a smiling Guillermo Fariñas said in Spanish. “We will show that we are one nation.” He is scheduled to meet with community leaders and dissidents in Miami.
Until this year, if Fariñas had been granted permission to leave Cuba, he would have forfeited his right to return. But in January he was told he could leave and return after a new law ended the island’s exit visa requirement.
Read On Monday, another Cuban opposition leader, Berta Soler, co-founder of the Ladies in White, will be joined in Miami by singer Gloria Estefan to celebrate Cuban Independence Day.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/201El Nuevo Herald staff writer Juan Carlos Chavez contributed to this report.
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On Monday, another Cuban opposition leader, Berta Soler, co-founder of the Ladies in White, will be joined in Miami by singer Gloria Estefan to celebrate Cuban Independence Day. El Nuevo Herald staff writer Juan Carlos Chavez contributed to this report.
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Until this year, if Fariñas had been granted permission to leave Cuba, he would have forfeited his right to return. But in January he was told he could leave and return after a new law ended the island’s exit visa requirement.
Read On Monday, another Cuban opposition leader, Berta Soler, co-founder of the Ladies in White, will be joined in Miami by singer Gloria Estefan to celebrate Cuban Independence Day.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/201El Nuevo Herald staff writer Juan Carlos Chavez contributed to this report.
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Read He is scheduled to meet with community leaders and On Monday, another Cuban opposition leader, Berta Soler, co-founder of the Ladies in White, will be joined in Miami by singer Gloria Estefan to celebrate Cuban Independence Day.
El Nuevo Herald staff writer Juan Carlos Chavez contributed El Nuevo Herald staff writer Juan Carlos Chavez El Nuevo Herald staff writer Juan Carlos Chavez contributed El Nuevo Herald staff writer Juan Carlos Chavez contributed to this report.
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Cuan exiles react to Yoani Sánchez’s views
The Cuban exiles in Miami are now confronted with the reality that Cuba’s most famous dissident is firmly against the U.S. trade embargo. Only a few hours into her first ever foreign trip, Yoani Sánchez has already been accused of being a Castro agent by some of Miami’s historic Cuban exiles.Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/12/3394425/cuban-hunger-striker-begins-tour.html#storylink=cpy
Cuan exiles react to Yoani Sánchez’s views
The Cuban exiles in Miami are now confronted with the reality that Cuba’s most famous dissident is firmly against the U.S. trade embargo. Only a few hours into her first ever foreign trip, Yoani Sánchez has already been accused of being a Castro agent by some of Miami’s historic Cuban exiles.Focus on fiscal cliff, Sen. Rubio
Marco Rubio was in North Miami recently spouting his strong support for Israel, trying to get some Jewish votes for his presidential run in 2016.Double standards on Cuba
Re Myriam Marquez’s April 7 column, Beyoncé and Jay-Z in Havana another calibrated Cuba plot: They are not the only Americans to visit Cuba. She mentioned Danny Glover and Sean Penn, but not Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson and Oliver Stone. But there hasn’t been any outrage about their visits. Why?From Staff and Wire Reports
A frequent Cuban hunger striker and dissident arrived Sunday in Miami ahead of Cuban Independence Day, as part of a tour that will include several U.S. stops before going to Europe.
“I have come to the capital of the Cuban exile,” a smiling Guillermo Fariñas said in Spanish. “We will show that we are one nation.”
He is scheduled to meet with community leaders and dissidents in Miami.
Until this year, if Fariñas had been granted permission to leave Cuba, he would have forfeited his right to return. But in January he was told he could leave and return after a new law ended the island’s exit visa requirement.
On Monday, another Cuban opposition leader, Berta Soler, co-founder of the Ladies in White, will be joined in Miami by singer Gloria Estefan to celebrate Cuban Independence Day.
El Nuevo Herald staff writer Juan Carlos Chavez contributed to this report.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/12/3394425/cuban-hunger-striker-begins-tour.html#storylink=cpy
“I have come to the capital of the Cuban exile,” a smiling Guillermo Fariñas said in Spanish. “We will show that we are one nation.”
He is scheduled to meet with community leaders and dissidents in Miami.
Until this year, if Fariñas had been granted permission to leave Cuba, he would have forfeited his right to return. But in January he was told he could leave and return after a new law ended the island’s exit visa requirement.
On Monday, another Cuban opposition leader, Berta Soler, co-founder of the Ladies in White, will be joined in Miami by singer Gloria Estefan to celebrate Cuban Independence Day.
El Nuevo Herald staff writer Juan Carlos Chavez contributed to this report.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/12/3394425/cuban-hunger-striker-begins-tour.html#storylink=cpy
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From Staff and Wire Reports
A frequent Cuban hunger striker and dissident arrived Sunday in Miami ahead of Cuban Independence Day, as part of a tour that will include several U.S. stops before going to Europe.
“I have come to the capital of the Cuban exile,” a smiling Guillermo Fariñas said in Spanish. “We will show that we are one nation.”
He is scheduled to meet with community leaders and dissidents in Miami.
Until this year, if Fariñas had been granted permission to leave Cuba, he would have forfeited his right to return. But in January he was told he could leave and return after a new law ended the island’s exit visa requirement.
On Monday, another Cuban opposition leader, Berta Soler, co-founder of the Ladies in White, will be joined in Miami by singer Gloria Estefan to celebrate Cuban Independence Day.
El Nuevo Herald staff writer Juan Carlos Chavez contributed to
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“I have come to the capital of the Cuban exile,” a smiling Guillermo Fariñas said in Spanish. “We will show that we are one nation.”
He is scheduled to meet with community leaders and dissidents in Miami.
Until this year, if Fariñas had been granted permission to leave Cuba, he would have forfeited his right to return. But in January he was told he could leave and return after a new law ended the island’s exit visa requirement.
On Monday, another Cuban opposition leader, Berta Soler, co-founder of the Ladies in White, will be joined in Miami by singer Gloria Estefan to celebrate Cuban Independence Day.
El Nuevo Herald staff writer Juan Carlos Chavez contributed to
From Staff and Wire Reports
A frequent Cuban hunger striker and dissident arrived Sunday in Miami ahead of Cuban Independence Day, as part of a tour that will include several U.S. stops before going to Europe.
“I have come to the capital of the Cuban exile,” a smiling Guillermo Fariñas said in Spanish. “We will show that we are one nation.”
He is scheduled to meet with community leaders and dissidents in Miami.
Until this year, if Fariñas had been granted permission to leave Cuba, he would have forfeited his right to return. But in January he was told he could leave and return after a new law ended the island’s exit visa requirement.
On Monday, another Cuban opposition leader, Berta Soler, co-founder of the Ladies in White, will be joined in Miami by singer Gloria Estefan to celebrate Cuban Independence Day.
El Nuevo Herald staff writer Juan Carlos Chavez contributed to this report.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/12/3394425/cuban-hunger-striker-begins-tour.html#storylink=cpy
this report.“I have come to the capital of the Cuban exile,” a smiling Guillermo Fariñas said in Spanish. “We will show that we are one nation.”
He is scheduled to meet with community leaders and dissidents in Miami.
Until this year, if Fariñas had been granted permission to leave Cuba, he would have forfeited his right to return. But in January he was told he could leave and return after a new law ended the island’s exit visa requirement.
On Monday, another Cuban opposition leader, Berta Soler, co-founder of the Ladies in White, will be joined in Miami by singer Gloria Estefan to celebrate Cuban Independence Day.
El Nuevo Herald staff writer Juan Carlos Chavez contributed to this report.
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Sunday, May 12, 2013
Happy Mothers Day!!
Happy Mothers Day my dear MOM! It's very hard to put into words how much you have sacrificed and have done for me and I don't know how to express my gratitude and thanks! Growing up we did not have much yet we had everything thanks to your love and hard work. It doesn't matter how many Cuban restaurants we eat in, NOTHING is better than your HOME COOKED CUBAN FOOD! Every Sunday we waited in anticipation for the famous arroz con pollo! I know yo era tremendo, but you always had faith in me and you have never stopped praying for me and my family. I have never forgotten when we were young children all the beautiful songs you used to sing to us in Gallego!
One of most of my treasured memories growing up were simple things like my family sitting at the kitchen table talking (loud!!) and sipping coffee. You would always wake up the house with that sweet aroma of El Café Cubano. To this day, when this viejo goes home to visit, my mom will put on the cafetera and the saying: do you want Café Cubano? OF COURSE!
Thank you God for blessing me with such a wonderful MOM!
Happy Mothers day MOM!
One of most of my treasured memories growing up were simple things like my family sitting at the kitchen table talking (loud!!) and sipping coffee. You would always wake up the house with that sweet aroma of El Café Cubano. To this day, when this viejo goes home to visit, my mom will put on the cafetera and the saying: do you want Café Cubano? OF COURSE!
Thank you God for blessing me with such a wonderful MOM!
Happy Mothers day MOM!
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Friday, May 10, 2013
El ajedrez bolivariano
Dr. Darsi Ferret
Miami, Florida. 9 de mayo de 2013.
¿Cúal es la ruta a seguir por el escúalido guaguero, Nicolás Maduro, al frente del poder en Venezuela? No tiene opción, más allá de las apariencias y piruetas el descalabro del chavismo es un hecho predecible. Así es, no hay posibilidad alguna de que el Socialismo del Siglo XXI sobreviva y pueda consolidarse luego de la muerte de su creador, el lindoro incapaz Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías. Tomemos encuenta que el aberrante régimen de los Castro aún respira gracias a que siempre ha contado con un subvencionador que lo mantenga como hijo bobo, o en el actual caso como chulo. La URSS, enclavada en uno de los territorios más ricos del mundo en recursos naturales, estiró la liga por más de siete décadas hasta que su economía quebró, agotada por la infuncionalidad del modelo estatista centralizado. El derrumbe de ese gigante fue estrepitoso e indetenible. China coletea con cierta aparente estabilidad amenazada por las crecientes contradicciones internas, que genera su dicotomía de sustentarse de una economía francamente capitalista, en su versión más explotadora y arcaica, regida por un desenvolvimiento político de supuesta ideología socialista controlado por la élite gobernante del exclusivo Partido Comunista Chino. El atorrante y esquizofrénico régimen de Corea del Norte baila en la cuerda floja, con tendencia a perder el equilibrio, porque está resultando una carga demasiado onerosa y conflictiva para los intereses geopolíticos de Beijing, que es al final quien le extiende el cheque de la sustentación. Pues el agresivo Pyongyang de la disnastía Kim sigue enfrazcado en aterrorizar a Occidente con su programa nuclear, pero es incapaz de autofinanciarse y ni siquiera de producir alimentos para que su población no muera afligidos por el hambre. Y la corriente populista enrraizada en Latinoamérica durante los últimos años anda desaforada y a golpe de infusiones de Tilo y Paciflora, estresada por el temor no infundado de irse al descalabro y extinción, junto con toda esa madeja de instituciones artificiosas (ALBA, UNASUR, CELAC...) con las que han pretendido legitimarse en la arena internacional. Y sucede que el pequeño problemita que afrontan todos esos gobernantes de izquierda y tendencia antidemocrática (Evo, Ortega, Correa, Kischner, Mujica...) es que tanto sus gobiernos populistas como esa telaraña de instituciones regionales son financiados con los cada vez más escasos petrodólares de PDVSA. ¿A dónde vamos con este recorrido? A la conclusión de que los herederos del Libertador Simón Bolivar tienen que costearse su existencia por sí mismos y, además, sufragar la de sus aliados políticos engachados sobre sus espaldas. ¿De cuánto dinero estamos hablando? De cifras astronómicas, miles de millones de dólares anuales, que no cuentan con el modo de producir ni con la magia del Mago Mandraca. A raiz de los resultados de las pasadas elecciones, Venezuela quedó dividida en dos bandos opuestos y en conflicto. Presenta una situación de parálisis nacional, con riesgos de estallido social e ingobernabilidad, devenida de la profunda crisis política que generó las irregularidades, con sobradas sospechas de fraude electoral e irrespeto de la soberanía popular, que dieron como ganador al heredero Maduro, con una ventaja menor de 1% sobre los votos alcanzados por su contendiente, Henrique Capriles. Para más complicaciones, a ese escenario se le añade el lastre de la alarmante inseguridad ciudadana, que hace a Venezuela uno de los paises más peligrosos del mundo. La sofocante inflación, con pérdida progresiva del poder adquisitivo del dinero, supera el 20% y amenaza con subir a niveles escalofriantes. También es golpeada por el creciente desabastecimiento hasta de productos básicos, que van desde una escaces del 20% hasta el 50% en muchos productos. De la mano del chavismo camina una rampante corrupción, malversación de los recursos del Estado, ineficiencia e improductividad. Pero lo más importante es el estado depauperado de las finanzas venezolanas, sin futuro de mejoría sino todo lo contrario. El chavismo arrastra un enorme gasto público, comprando voluntades mediante programas de subvención social, que ya resultan insostenibles. Su mayor renglón de entrada de divisas, PDVSA, está en franca decadencia y ha disminuido de modo significativo la explotación de pozos petroleros y la cantidad de barriles de petróleo que extraen diariamente. Lo peor de ese sombrió panorama económico es que viene agudizándose con precios históricos del crudo, que superan los 100 dólares el barril. La trampa para el usurpador y gobernante ilegítimo, Nicolás Maduro, es que su falta de carisma le obliga a sostener las costosísimas políticas de subvención implementadas por Chávez para fabricarse liderazgo en el plano nacional, y de cara al exterior requiere de continuar con el desangre económico hacia sus vampirezcos aliados para que le garanticen legitimación internacional. El otro aspecto significativo es que el chavismo ha quedado descabezado tras la muerte del Caudillo, con visibles luchas entre las distintas facciones que lo integran, y con marcado uso de la violencia, desconocimiento de la institucionalidad y de las reglas democráticas del Estado de Derecho. En cambio, la oposición cuenta con el respaldo de algo más de la mitad de la población, tiene una agenda política que reclama respeto por la institucionalidad y la soberanía popular, apelando al cumplimiento de la legalidad. Pero sobre todo, está nucleada entorno al liderazgo unitario de Capriles. Estas son razones que demuestran que por el despeñadero que transita el camarada Maduro encontrará su suicidio muy pronto. La otra ruta que le queda, un poco más objetiva pero casi imposible de materializar, es terminar con el conflicto que lo enfrenta a la oposición, llamar a un diálogo nacional, repartir cuotas de poder a sus adversarios políticos y abrirse a negociaciones con los norteamericanos. Todo esto incluye zafarse de los impresentables Castro cuanto antes, convencer y seducir a los opositores y cuidarse mucho de que sus compañeros de fila no le den un golpe de estado antes de llegar a la meta. ¿Quieren saber mi opnión? Este trozo de ceboruco y manejable bufón va a durar al frente del poder en Venezuela lo que el merengue en la puerta del colegio. Sin él, en la isla el régimen de los Castro menos todavía.
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Updated: Glossary of terms for El Cafe Cubano
Updated: Glossary of terms for El Cafe Cubano
Alfredo, who are you talking about concerning
Mini-me #2 or #3? Well guys here is a Glossary of terms for El Cafe Cubano
speak. Now you can dissect my anti-communist blog with fervor!We Cubans or at
least here at El Cafe Cubano love to use nicknames when describing the colorful
cast of oppressive regimes! We have added a few lately, hey that's the least I
could do because the propaganda of the dictatorship has had the media using
"Mafia" and "gusanao" for the last 54 years! Now would a blog like El Cafe Cubano and
those to my right be responsible if we did not return the
favor?
Glossary(Now repeat after me):
El Cafe Cubano:-- Translation:
Reconciliation-----Term used by those who WANT to forget ALL the atrocities committed by the castro dictatorship, yet blame exiles for everything and paint exiles as bad.
Glossary(Now repeat after me):
El Cafe Cubano:-- Translation:
Reconciliation-----Term used by those who WANT to forget ALL the atrocities committed by the castro dictatorship, yet blame exiles for everything and paint exiles as bad.
Stop the comemierderia-----Jay-Z's Cuban rap and visit to Cuba
The Dictator -----Castro
Mr. Evil----- ----- Castro
Raulita------------Raulita Castro
El mariachi--------Manuel Zelaya
Hispanic Czar-----"Wild" Bill Richardson
The Dictator -----Castro
Mr. Evil----- ----- Castro
Raulita------------Raulita Castro
El mariachi--------Manuel Zelaya
Hispanic Czar-----"Wild" Bill Richardson
Lap Dog-----------Felipe Perez Roque
Tricky Ricky------Ricardo Alarcon
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Mini-me #1 or (thing 1)--- Hugo Chavez, but now replaced with "El Guaguero" Maduro
Mini-me #2----------------- Diego Maradona
Mini-me #3 or (thing 2)------ Evo morales
Cocaine---------------------Evo Morales
Acid Ventura...........................José Ramón Machado Ventura
Commie--------------------- Communist
lefty 666 --------------------play in the communist playbook
Cuber-----------------------Cuba
Anita "snow job"-------------Anita Snow
Jose"can't see you see I am communist"--------Jose Serrano
"Raspy Rangel"--------------Charles Rangel
ramon "el jamon"...............Ramon Castro
Ramiro"cuidado que te voy a dar un tiro"-------Ramiro Valdez
Uncle Buck--------------------Buck
Leche Guevara----------------Che guevara
Pastors for the dictator----------Pastors for Peace
Code Commies------------Code Pink
Michael "el gordo mierda" -------Michael Moore
Matt ‘DQ” -----------------Matt Lauer
Kumbaya concert..............Juanes concert in Cuba
Tricky Ricky------Ricardo Alarcon
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Mini-me #1 or (thing 1)--- Hugo Chavez, but now replaced with "El Guaguero" Maduro
Mini-me #2----------------- Diego Maradona
Mini-me #3 or (thing 2)------ Evo morales
Cocaine---------------------Evo Morales
Acid Ventura...........................José Ramón Machado Ventura
Commie--------------------- Communist
lefty 666 --------------------play in the communist playbook
Cuber-----------------------Cuba
Anita "snow job"-------------Anita Snow
Jose"can't see you see I am communist"--------Jose Serrano
"Raspy Rangel"--------------Charles Rangel
ramon "el jamon"...............Ramon Castro
Ramiro"cuidado que te voy a dar un tiro"-------Ramiro Valdez
Uncle Buck--------------------Buck
Leche Guevara----------------Che guevara
Pastors for the dictator----------Pastors for Peace
Code Commies------------Code Pink
Michael "el gordo mierda" -------Michael Moore
Matt ‘DQ” -----------------Matt Lauer
Kumbaya concert..............Juanes concert in Cuba
El Cafe Cubano slogans:
" If Cuba is so great, why do they all want to vacate."
" Free healthcare, so why all the despair."
"Castro lives like a king, but the Cuban people have nothing."
" Everyone wants to trade, but no one wants to aide"
" Florida recount, Carter is in Venezuela one day and out"
" Castro supporters how you flex, where did you get your rolex."
" Many have tried to shut us up, but we will never give up!"
"Rafters are intercepted at sea, yet are returned to Cuba with glee"
"What happens in Havana, stays in Havana especially if you speak out against the dictator"
"Everyone knows about cuber's trials, except the cuban exiles?"
"so what about the two-way radio, I'm just a collaborator"
" If Cuba is so great, why do they all want to vacate."
" Free healthcare, so why all the despair."
"Castro lives like a king, but the Cuban people have nothing."
" Everyone wants to trade, but no one wants to aide"
" Florida recount, Carter is in Venezuela one day and out"
" Castro supporters how you flex, where did you get your rolex."
" Many have tried to shut us up, but we will never give up!"
"Rafters are intercepted at sea, yet are returned to Cuba with glee"
"What happens in Havana, stays in Havana especially if you speak out against the dictator"
"Everyone knows about cuber's trials, except the cuban exiles?"
"so what about the two-way radio, I'm just a collaborator"
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Thursday, May 09, 2013
Berta Soler con El Papa
From Pedazos de la Isla:
Según la pagina oficial de las Damas de Blanco, al concluir la misa el Papa saludo a todos los que estaban en primera fila, entre ellos a Soler.
La activista estuvo presente con una bandera cubana y la misma le comunico al Papa que vino en nombre de las Damas de Blanco, familiares de los presos políticos y de Cuba.
Tras darle su bendición, el Papa le dijo: “Sigan adelante”.
Palabras simples, pero profundas.
El Papa Francisco ha hecho lo que su predecesor, Benedicto XVI, escogió no hacer cuando estuvo en Cuba en Marzo del 2012: dedicarle un momento a los que luchan por la libertad de la isla.
Berta Soler ha dicho que este encuentro ha sido uno de lo más emotivos que ha tenido durante su estancia fuera de Cuba.
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Monday, May 06, 2013
"Wild" Bill Richardson:"Ted Cruz should not ‘be defined as a Hispanic"
It has come to our attention that 'Wild" Bill Richardson is NOW the self appointed Hispanic Czar. He has the power and the comemierderia to DEEM anyone His PANIC solely by superior intellect. Are those in his Hispanic Club superior to those from certain backgrounds(Cuban) and political persuasion(conservative)?
Never mind that his LAST name is RICHARDSON
Hispanic or Latino is NOT a race.....
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Saturday, May 04, 2013
West Point Alumni Travel Program - Cuba 2013
Here's another head scratcher and WTF moment. Check out the terminology and flowery language to describe not only the program, but to sidestep that Cuba is a brutal communist dictatorship.
Mystery??? Just ask the over millions in exile about Cuba.
Turbulent past? Are we talking about the past 54 years of the mafia dictatorship?
Vintage 1950's cars? Are you saying it's cool, but overlooking it's REALLY SAD that's what the Cuban people are stuck with and have to survive on!
Economic and political heritage? communist dictatorship for the last 54 years and millions prefer to flee BECAUSE of the POLITICAL and ECONOMIC conditions!
Here is the West Point Alumni travel Program:
Mystery??? Just ask the over millions in exile about Cuba.
Turbulent past? Are we talking about the past 54 years of the mafia dictatorship?
Vintage 1950's cars? Are you saying it's cool, but overlooking it's REALLY SAD that's what the Cuban people are stuck with and have to survive on!
Economic and political heritage? communist dictatorship for the last 54 years and millions prefer to flee BECAUSE of the POLITICAL and ECONOMIC conditions!
Here is the West Point Alumni travel Program:
CUBA. Historically rich. Culturally diverse. Environmentally magnificent. For decades, the Caribbean's largest island--roughly 90 miles away from U.S. soil--has been but a mystery, perceived through secondhand sources and beyond the grasp of American travelers.
Embark on a captivating tour of Cuban culture and history, designed to broaden your understanding of a country that has long been inaccessible. Discover a nation of sheer contradictions molded by a turbulent past. Here, time seems to have come to a standstill as you watch vintage 1950s-era automobiles drive past preserved Spanish colonial architecture along cobbled streets. As a hub for economic and political heritage, Havana presents an ideal setting to engage with local citizens and uncover new perspectives.
Gain insight into the country's thriving arts community through discussions with independent artists and visits to performing arts schools and studios. Just beyond the spirited capital, fertile tobacco and sugar can fields permeate the countryside revealing a glimpse into rural Cuban life. Along the southern coastline, lies the beautifully-preserved colonial cities of Trinidad and Cienfuegos--both UNESCO World Heritage sites.
This exclusive opportunity to explore Cuba is organized and operated by Go Next, Inc., who has been issue a People-to-People license by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) that authorizes registered travelers of the educational exchange program to visit Cuba. Go Next invites you to personally experience the people, culture, landscape and architecture of this distinct Caribbean nation on a week-long journey developed for the West Point Association of Graduations Alumni Travel Program.
With an intimate group of only 25 travelers, share enriching activities that illuminate the realities of Cuban citizens and provide an ideal gateway into their daily lives. Through informative and educational People-to-People exchanges, uncover Cuba's sheer beauty, paradoxes and remarkable intrigue on this unforgettable adventure. Space is limited, so sign up now. Don't miss this unique opportunity to unravel the mysteries of a fascinating country through its most candid, inspiring source--its people.
Curious? Take a look at the brochure to read more about this Cuban Discovery. Still more questions? Call Go Next at 800.842.9023 for more information.
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Friday, May 03, 2013
Berta Soler at the Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies
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Berta Soler at the Institute for
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Berta Soler, Head of the Ladies in White in Cuba, is visiting Europe and the U.S. On April 27th, she held a press conference at the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies/Casa Bacardi.
Following are the highlights of Berta Soler’s statement to the media:
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The CTP can be contacted at P.O. Box 248174, Coral Gables, Florida 33124-3010, Tel: 305-284-CUBA (2822), Fax: 305-284-4875, and by email at ctp.iccas@miami.edu. The CTP Website is accessible at http://ctp.iccas.miami.edu.
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Monday, April 29, 2013
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Líder de las Damas de Blanco Berta Soler participará en vigilia y misa en Miami
COMUNICADO DE PRENSA
Líder de las Damas de Blanco Berta Soler participará en vigilia y misa en Miami
Miami, 22 de abril de 2013. Damas de Blanco Laura Pollán. Las Damas de Blanco, a través de su representación en los Estados Unidos, convocan a los medios de comunicación, a la comunidad en general y sus organizaciones a participar en un encuentro-vigilia para honrar la memoria de Laura Pollán Toledo y los mártires y víctimas de la tiranía castrista durante 54 años de totalitarismo en Cuba.
En el encuentro-vigilia participará como oradora principal la líder de nuestro movimiento, Berta Soler quien se encontrará durante dos días en la ciudad de Miami. Durante el evento el alcalde de Coral Gables James Cason entregará la llave de la ciudad a la Sra. Soler y le dará la bienvenida a esta comunidad.
QUE Encuentro- Vigilia junto a Berta Soler en memoria de Laura Pollán y los mártires de la tiranía castrista.
CUANDO Sábado 27 de abril de 2013, 5:30-7:30 PM
DONDE Merrick Park, frente al Ayuntamiento de Coral Gables, Le Jeune Rd y Miracle Mile
Asimismo, el 28 de abril de 2013 Berta Soler participará en la misa de las 12:00 PM en la Ermita de la Caridad en la cual se orará por el alma de los mártires de la Resistencia cubana y por el futuro de la Isla, y que será oficiada por el padre Juan Rumín Domínguez, rector de la Ermita.
Contacto: Yolanda Huerga, representante de las Damas de Blanco en Estados Unidos
(786)302-4537
Thanks to Joseito for this information!
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Conflicto en Corea: ¿crisis en China?
Por Dr. Darsi Ferret
Miami, Florida. 22 de abril de 2013.
China es heredera de un convulso y largo pasado de voluntario aislacionismo imperial y consecuente retraso económico, injerencia colonial, invasiones militares, guerra civil y dosis de Mao Zedon sigiang (pensamiento de Mao) a pulso. Por esa causa llegó tarde a la esfera de la hegemonía mundial. Y probablemente a causa de esa disparidad entre tamaño e influencia, hace apenas cuarenta años se lanzó a dar los pasos económicos necesarios en el intento de imponer su gigantesco peso en la arena mundial.
Sin embargo, esta ofensiva hegemónica viene lastrada en la transición de sus instituciones internas, cargadas de verticalidad, imposición y ausencia de transparencia. Como colofón, el control indiscutido del Estado por el Partido Comunista, con sus nuevas vestiduras empresariales, fue presentado como el único liderazgo posible capaz de mantener la unidad nacional ante el reto de la convocada modernización a marchas forzadas. Esta opción mostró visos de cierta credibilidad mientras el proceso globalizador se iba perfilando a nivel mundial. No obstante, ya no es el caso.
La escalada agresiva del conflicto coreano pone en crisis la política exterior china en pleno traspatio. Basadas en un trasnochado ejercicio de realpolitik heredado de la desaparecida Guerra Fría, las“zonas de influencia periféricas” de Beijing comienzan a salirse de la ruta prefijada. Así, el sistema de sostenimiento de regímenes antidemocráticos, como Birmania y Corea del Norte, muestra desobediencia y dispares rumbos hacia futuro, y todo ello al margen de su tutela.
La primera sorpresa la dio Birmania. De una inamovible y represiva dictadura militar, sostenida económicamente por su gigantesco protector, inesperados pasos la conducen hacia la democratización y el orden civil. El proceso ha contado con el reconocimiento y sólido apoyo de la comunidad internacional. Mas, con el desconcierto del antiguo Imperio Celeste ante la brusca pérdida de influencia en su arquitectura de política exterior. Y no es lo peor.
Corea del Norte ha sido otro caso, pero mucho más grave en díscolo comportamiento, sobre todo por la cercanía y naturaleza del asunto. El agotamiento del modelo totalitario que ha producido la dinastía comunista Kim, ahora en su fatigosa e ininterrumpida tercera parte, ha llegado a un punto de peligrosa ebullición: un inaceptable nivel de desafío a la comunidad internacional, imponiendo el amenazante uso de sus armas atómicas y misiles balísticos.
China le ha tirado de las orejas en dos ocasiones. Primero en un reciente lanzamiento de misil continental. La segunda, por causa de otra explosión atómica subterránea, ocurrida en febrero pasado. Para colmo, la gran potencia confiesa con cierta perplejidad que apenas tiene contactos oficiales con el revoltoso pupilo.
Pero los regaños no han torcido la belicosidad del nuevo líder-heredero Kim Jong-un y su más agresivo círculo de poder. Tampoco frenó su beligerancia la suma de severas sanciones aplicadas por la ONU a consecuencia de la realización de la prueba nuclear y el lanzamiento de misiles.
Esta pertinaz irreverencia ha traído controvertidos conflictos en la dirección china. Algunos analistas recomiendan soltar el lastre norcoreano y apoyar la reunificación de la península. Sin embargo, y pese a los velados reproches a Corea del Norte hechos por el presidente chino Xi Jinping en el foro económico internacional de Boao, en la isla de Hainan, las reacciones oficiales de inmediato han reprimido ese tipo de declaraciones. Esto deja como evidente que una medida tan radical sacudiría demasiado los artríticos parámetros dentro de los cuales aún funciona la rígida política exterior del Partido y gobierno chinos, quizás en una muy lenta transición, alejándose del antiguo formato de protectorado.
A consecuencia de este desapego, prominentes especialistas especulan sobre las graves consecuencias que tendría para China un conflicto bélico en la península coreana. Una parte de estas opiniones alude al peligro de que el conflicto entre las dos Coreas devenga en una conflagración atómica que desestabilice la región. Otras, vaticinan las consecuencias de la presencia de un nuevo rival económico en el Extremo Oriente, emergiendo de una nación unificada bajo la impetuosa economía surcoreana. Y ambas expectativas ponen como factor de peligro la cercanía geográfica.
Mas, de emerger una nueva nación reunificada en Corea, sería en medio de una ruina post-bellum. La nueva Corea sufriría un retraso aún mayor que el que detuvo el vigoroso crecimiento alemán cuando la reunificación con la zona oriental en la década de los 90 del siglo pasado. Es poco probable que una nueva Corea unificada se transforme en un rival económico serio para China en menos de treinta o cuarenta años.
Por otra parte, pese a declaraciones en las que se alude la fortaleza militar de China para repeler cualquier agresión y a la evidente ausencia de un enemigo externo capaz de invadirla, los reales miedos de China son veladamente omitidos. El temor verdadero es otro: un brusco desbalance de su política exterior provocaría consecuencias en su frágil orden interno.
Ya atentos a las consecuencias de las últimas experiencias históricas mundiales, sobre todo el nada tranquilizador para ellos ejemplo de la ola liberadora del Medio Oriente, los mandarines chinos han comprendido la imparable fuerza de cambio que provoca la globalización sobre las estructuras monolíticas de gobierno. Saben que dada la crisis económica que sufren las zonas más desarrolladas de Occidente, su otrora mayor receptor de mercancías y servicios, debe cambiar el formato de maquiladora-exportadora concebido hace décadas para la economía china en un intento de evitar la enorme dependencia externa.
Resulta fácil vislumbrar que una crisis bélica en Corea descompensaría abruptamente el vidrioso orden interno del gigante asiático. El país sufriría un aceleramiento de sus enormes contradicciones sin solucionar: abismal disparidad de crecimiento económico entre el Oriente y Occidente del país; conflictos coloniales internos en territorios fronterizos como el Tíbet o el musulmán Xinjian; corrupción galopante y crisis laborales y sociales con pocas soluciones prácticas....
Una sociedad impaciente e irritada por su bajo nivel de vida buscaría saltarse el obstáculo del férreo control político y legislativo del Partido Comunista. Intentaría emprender una nación más accesible a las decisiones Y como consecuencia de su propio precedente histórico, la reacción de violencia del Partido totalitario sería muy probable. El caos alejaría las ambiciosas posibilidades de transformar a China en una superpotencia mundial.
Así, el vecino más impaciente con la irritante insubordinación norcoreana es China. Quizás la inquietud ante un desastre imparable sea lo que esté cosechando luego de tantas décadas de sostenimiento y pupilaje a una brutal tiranía oriental.
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Korea´s Conflict can provoke a China´s internal crisis?
Dr. Darsi Ferret
Miami, Florida. 22 april, 2013.
China is heiress of a long and convulsive past. Willing imperial isolationism comes together with a consistent cost-reducing delay, colonial interference, military invasion, civil war and high doses of Mao Zedong´s thought. For that reason it got late to the worldwide hegemony's sphere. And probably because of that disparity between size and influence, almost forty years ago set out to take the necessary steps in the attempt of imposing its giant-sized weight in the worldwide sand.
However, this hegemonic offensive comes ballasted in the transition of its internal institutions, weighted by forced political support, impositions and total absence of social transparency. As a sequel, Communist Party´s undisputed state control, with new entrepreneurial clothes, was presented as the only possible capable leadership to maintain the national unit before the challenge of its convoked modernization against the clock. This option evidenced the appearances of certain credibility, at least in the meantime the globalization process kept on coming to worldwide scene. Nevertheless, it´s no longer the case.
Korean conflict´s aggressive climbing had put the Chinese foreign policy´s backyard in a complete crisis. Based in a stale exercise of realpolitik inherited of the missing Cold War, the "peripheral influence zones" of Beijing begin to missing the first-settled way. So, supported antidemocratic regimens like Burma and North Korea now show disobedience and beginning opposed directions toward future, but both outside Chinese´s old tutelage.
The first surprise came from Burma. After China´s economic support and tutelage for years, an apparently unmovable and repressive military dictatorship beginning by its own unexpected political steps to lead the country toward democratization and civil order. This amazing process immediately has acquired serious recognition and solid support from the international community… and also former Celestial Empire´s bewilderment, confronting that sudden influence´s loss in its own foreign policy´s architecture. But that´s no t the worst.
North Korea has been another disobedience recent case, but much more serious in ungovernable behavior, most of all for the geographic proximity and political nature of the subject. In its uninterrupted third edition, the Kim´s communist totalitarian dynasty model has produced country´s exhaustion. It taking it to a dangerous boiling point: an unacceptable level of menace to international community, threatening with the use of its atomic weapons and ballistic missiles.
China has pulled its ears in two very near occasions. First in a recent North-Korean continental missile´s throw. And the second occasion because an underground atomic-explosion test occurred the last February. To add insult to injury, with certain perplexity the great power confesses that almost has official contacts with its unruly pupil.
But scoldings have not reduced the bellicosity of new heir Kim Jong-un and its more aggressive circle of power. He did not rein back his utmost belligerency either at the harsh sanctions applied by the UN as a consequence of Nort-Korean´s nuclear test and missiles´s throw.
This pertinacious irreverence has brought controversial conflicts inside Chinese high ranks. Some analysts recommend to release the North Korean ballast and to back up peninsula´s. unification. But others opinions goes more far. In February, the newspaper Financial Times of China published a column under the title "China should abandon North Korea". In his own words, editor Deng Yuwen even affirm that Beijing should back up a Korean unification However, and in spite of the veiled reproaches to North Korea made by the Chinese president Xi Jinping in the cost-reducing international forum of Boao, Hainan Island: "Nobody should be allowed to put on a region and enclosure to the whole wide world in chaos for account of selfish profits", , official Chinese reactions immediately have repressed further of that kind of declarations.
However, this abrupt reaction precisely reveals that a so radical measure would shake too abruptly the arthritics parameters inside still works Chinese Communist Party and government´s rigid foreign policy, and maybe is now in a very slow forward transition, getting away from its ancient protectorate´s format.
As a consequence of this prickly unglue between both nations, prominent specialists speculate on serious consequences that a Korean peninsula´s warlike conflict would have for China. Part of these opinions refers to the danger that the conflict between the two Koreas happens in an atomic conflagration that destabilizes the region. Others forecast the consequences of a new economic rival´s presence of in the Far East, emerging of a nation united under the impetuous South Korean economy. And both expectations put as a factor of danger the geographic proximity.
But, in case of emerging a new nation reunified in Korea, would be in the middle of damaged country. The new Korea would suffer a still bigger delay than the one that stopped the vigorous German growth when it matches with the Oriental zone´s unification in the las nineties. In that case, it's very unlikely that in less than thirty or forty years a unified Korea turns into an economic serious rival for China.
On the other hand, in spite of authoritative statements in which the military strength of China to repel any aggression ("China does not have fear of being overrun or surrounded by no country", Cheng Xiaohe, Renmin´s University), is declared at the evident absence of an external capable enemy to invade her, the real fears of China´s authorities are hiddenly omitted. The true fear is another one: that a sudden an abrupt unbalance of its foreign policy would provoke consequences in its fragile internal order.
Right now attentive to the consequences of the last historic worldwide experiences, most of all the nothing tranquilizing example of the Near East´s liberating wave. With evident consequences in near Burma, Chinese mandarins have understood the unstoppable change-force that Globalization provokes on monolithic´s government structures. They know that with the economic crisis that suffers the highly developed West, its bigger goods and services´ buyer, China must change its economic format. From an export-components factory model visualized decades ago, it has to change to a more consumer profile, in an attempt of avoiding its enormous external dependence.
Is easy to foresee that a warlike crisis in Korea would abruptly unbalanced the Asiatic giant´s glassy internal order . The country would suffer an acceleration of its enormous contradictions still without solving: economic growth´s abysmal disparity between country´s Orient- West ; colonial internal conflicts in border territories, like Tibet or the Muslim Xinjian; galloping corruption in the middle of labor and social crisis, all with few practical solutions....
Because its generally low standard of living, an impatient and irritated society would seek to skip the obstacle of the unbending Communist Party´s political and legislative control. It would try to undertake a most accessible nation to mayor participative decisions. And as a consequence of its own close historic precedent, a totalitarian Party´s violence reaction would be most than probable. A chaos would drive away the ambitious possibilities of turning China into a worldwide powerful nation.
So, China is the most impatient neighbor with the irritating North Korean insubordination. But perhaps the restlessness before an unstoppable disaster is what it is harvesting right after so many decades of support and pupilage to a brutal Oriental tyranny.
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Los Castro y su maquillaje y difraz del sistema de prisiones
Por más de medio siglo Cuba constituye un estado policiaco. Es un campo de concentración con alambradas, donde la "ley" no es otra cosa que un instrumento de dominación al servicio de los castristas. La élite gobernante controla y es dueña de todos los poderes estatales (ejecutivo-legislativo-judicia l). De hecho, si se analiza lo referente a los tribunales, se tiene la realidad de que los jueces, fiscales y abogados son plantilla y empleados del gobierno, sin ninguna independencia y completamente sometidos a los intereses del régimen. Una curiosidad, que para nada asombra, en todo el territorio de la isla la única cárcel abierta a la opinión pública es la prisión de la Base Naval de Guantánamo, perteneciente a los EEUU. Las cárceles de los Castro han permanecido herméticas a los ojos curiosos de las instituciones internacionales encargadas de supervisar el trato y las condiciones de los reclusos donde quiera que se denuncian irregularidades. En lo que representa una torpe manipulación de la realidad interna y una burla a la comunidad internacional, hace unos días los Castro organizaron una visita dirigida de la prensa extranjera acreditada en el país a varias prisiones escogidas y preparadas con antelación. Esos periodistas no tuvieron acceso a los presos políticos ni a los comunes con opiniones molestas. Y, como es de esperar, esa poco frecuente función circense tiene un propósito malsano. Esta vez pretenden limpiar su imagen ante la próxima Revisión Periódica Universal a la que les toca someterse en el Consejo de Derechos Humanos de la ONU, y a la que llegarán señalados como perpetradores de violaciones de las libertades y derechos fundamentales de los cubanos. En el 2009, como castigo de mi labor opositora, tuve que pasar por el Gulap antillano. Allí pude constatar que las prisiones son antros de torturas físicas y psicológicas. Todas están atestadas de reclusos que sobreviven en condiciones infrahumanas y en un hacinamiento atroz. Los nuevos que van ingresando están obligados a dormir en el suelo durante meses por la falta de camas. Las literas en las galeras son de tres pisos, la falta de espacio y el calor resultan asfixiantes. Estos lugares no tienen prácticamente ventilación y la iluminación es pésima. La falta de higiene e insalubridad favorece la propagación de vectores de enfermedades de todo tipo, como ratas, cucarachas, moscas y mosquitos. El maltrato y las golpizas de los guardias son constantes. La alimentación no satisface las necesidades de nutrientes para sostener la salud y muchas veces los pocos alimentos se sirven descompuestos. Casi no existe asistencia médica y mueren reclusos por causas evitables. O sea, el sistema penitenciario de los Castro, con una población penal superior a los 100 mil reclusos, es medieval y plagado de crueldades. Toda una gran máquina de moler a todo el que les cae en sus manos. Cualquier otro criterio es puro cuento vietnamita.
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
Que Bueno Este Pais
Looks like Boston bomber Dzhokar Tsarnaev quoted Jay-Z on his twitter on Monday evening:
"Ain't no love in the heart of the city."
"stay safe people."
The bomber repays the USA by blowing up innocent people and no matter what the media says(" he was a wrestler, he was a nice guy!")
Funny....Growing up ALL I ever heard and saw by EXAMPLE........Que Bueno este Pais!!!(How great this Country....USA....is!!!!) they came to the U.S. with NOTHING, leaving Cuba because they were persecuted by the communist dictatorship, simply for their beliefs. They have worked their asses off ASKING nothing BUT ALWAYS GRATEFUL TO THIS COUNTRY.
Yet they are vilified by certain sects of the media and HOLLYWOOD.
Others come this country(millions illegally), but they seem only to ask and DEMAND....What can this country GIVE me?
We just simply keep singing.....Que Bueno este pais!!!!!!!!!
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Friday, April 19, 2013
La aceptación del conteo de votos demuestra debilidad
Volvamos a Venezuela, los últimos acontecimientos lo ameritan. Se dio a conocer que en un giro de 180 grados, el poder electoral, por órdenes de la pandilla chavista, decidieron dar marcha atrás y permitir la revisión del 46% de los votos escrutados en las pasadas elecciones, donde es evidente que hubo fraude a tuti tren y desconocimiento de la voluntad popular. ¿Qué demuestra este hecho? Muy fácil, el Sr. Madurito no solo es un personajillo gris, sin carisma, sino que le falta temple, capacidad intelectual y es cobarde. Esta medida de última hora se puede interpretar como un paso atrás ante la presión popular y el rechazo internacional que está generando el golpe institucional y el fraude en los resultados de las elecciones. Al ceder públicamente muestra sus debilidades e inseguridad. Pero sobre todo que, contrario a la imagen que trata de vender, no tiene garantizado el control sobre la situación nacional ni la determinación de asumir las consecuencias de su atraco a la institucionalidad a cualquier precio. Y es que la reacción de protesta masiva en todo el país ha provocado que el oficialismo desate la violencia y el uso indiscriminado de la fuerza contra su propio pueblo. Y toda esa acción ilegal e injustificable tiene el malsano propósito de imponer en el poder a Maduro y continuar con el financiamiento del régimen de los Castro en Cuba, a costa de destruir la democracia y empobrecer mucho más a Venezuela. Esa fórmula no camina para muchos venezolanos y principalmente para los militares que cada día se ven más abocados en la encrucijada de verse en la obligación de reprimir y hasta dispararle a sus compatriotas, sabiendo que no los asiste la razón. O sea, si el pueblo sigue en las calles, enardecido por el golpe de estado chavista, y se incrementan las sanciones y condenas por parte de la comunidad internacional, la posibilidad de un golpe de estado que destrone la pandilla chavista se eleva cada vez más. El golpe de estado del castro-chavismo es ilegitimo y genera rechazo interno y externo, pero un golpe de estado a Maduro por los militares venezolanos, que apele al nacionalismo y a la restauración de la democracia, gozaría de toda la aceptación interna y externa y de legitimidad. Además, los militares podrían sentirse estimulados ante el aislamiento y las sanciones internacionales que comenzará a recibir el gobierno de facto post-Chavez. Capriles no está respondiendo a la altura que require el desafío planteado en esa nación sudamericana, pero eso no es lo más importante. Lo primordial es la reacción del pueblo, y esa parece imparable. Además, tal y como se vio en el Medio Oriente, la represión desesperada ante las acciones populares masivas solo consiguen enardecer aún más el rechazo y la determinación del pueblo frente a la opresión. Más allá de las apariencias, el chavismo sin Chávez no tiene modo de consolidarse. Más temprano que tarde entrará en un franco declive y sera superado por las ansias de libertad y el deseo de vivir en democracia del pueblo venezolano. Y en estas circunstancias, los Castro están perdidos. Se les acaban sus piruetas.
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