Re: Apartheid Cuba

On Feb 6, 3:39 am, PL <P...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 6 fév, 00:03, Dan Christensen <dch...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



On Feb 5, 10:19 am, PL <P...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The fifties leave a shadowing influence over any visit to Cuba, and
not just because of the old American cars. This was the decade in
which second term president Fulgencia Batista lost all reason. He
assumed power second time around by military coup in 1952, and lasted
until January 1, 1959, when he bolted for the Dominican Republic,
leaving Castro's forces to Havana. (Batista, the mixed race son of
sugar plantation workers moved to permanent exile in Portugal and
Spain, dying in 1973).

Cuba has had Fidel Castro's leadership since then. Between 1960 and
1962 there was an exodus of some 200 000 professionals. Lawyers.
Doctors etc. (A brain drain).

In 1961 the USA under Kennedy's government proceeded with the CIA
backed 'Bay of Pigs Invasion'. An unrivalled masterpiece of US foreign
policy that saw fit to send around 2,000 semi amateur soldiers, with
no back up from US military, up against a well trained home advantage
army of 200 000. For good measure this hopeless invasion force,
relying on local popular opposition support for success, chose the one
place where Castro enjoyed the most support. (El bayo de Piggo,
Castro's favorite holiday destination). This was Castro's finest hour
in relations with the US. And for the US, a low in foreign policy that
would do credit even to the standards of the current ruling
Idiocracy.

Unrestrained since then by any form of opposition, ruthlessly and
systematically exterminated through the years, Castro's rule has
achieved totalitarian extremes I would not have imagined possible in
the year 2004 on Planet Earth. Dissent is not now, was not then, and
most probably never will be again in Castro's lifetime, allowed.

Even the mainstream media these days has been abuzz with accounts of
ongoing debates at all levels in Cuban society about very fundamental
political questions. And only last month, the Cuban people voted in
national elections.

That were neither free nor fair but totally controlled by the regime
that prs-selects the candidates at the local level, uses the CDR
(neighborhood watch schemes) to get them on the "ballot" from where on
the rest of the "elections" are completely controlled by the regime.

[snip more of the same bull***]

Repeatedly debunked. See recent postings on this topic over the past
week. Also see "Democracy in Cuba" at my website.


the assment of the UN by it's rapporteur on Cuba sums it up quite
well:
 "the electoral process is so tightly controlled that the final phase,
the voting itself, could be dispensed with without the final result
being substantially affected"
See:http://www.hri.ca/fortherecord1998/vol4/cubachr.htm

I did. As this link shows, this report was rejected, and the author
sacked, by the UN body that commissioned this report.

http://www.cubaverdad.net/elections_in_cuba.htm


But this is just your lying website, Mr. Lobbyist.

BTW, when can we expect you to remove this lie from your website about
this report being a supposed "UN assessment?" We are STILL waiting.


But then again Dan back to the issue: do you support apartheid - in
all its forms - in Cuba or do you consider it an aberration and a
violation of human rights?


It seems you would like to see apartheid based on money, to create
more social divisions in Cuban society so that you may divide and
conquer. Sadly for you, the Cuban people are as united as ever --
perhaps even more so because of your genocidal embargo! In elections
last month, they once again thumbed their noses at the Empire, telling
you and your political masters in Miaimi and Washtington to go to
hell! I guess this is one of the reasons you believe you must use
these cruel sanctions to force your hateful ideology upon them. (See
"What is the real purpose of the US embargo?" at my website.)

Dan
Visit my CUBA: Issues & Answers website at http://www.netcom.ca/~dchris/CubaFAQ.html


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