From: lazaro@riemann.math.mun.ca (Lazaro Nunez)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: Cuba: Torricelli bill passed!!!
Date: 28 Sep 92 21:07:28 GMT
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland

In article <17612@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> ez007856@othello.ucdavis.edu writes:
>Lazaro Nun~ez writes:
>
[Comments about the Torricelli bill, Bush, Clinton and how both candidates
to the presidency backed the bill deleted]
>
[Me] >>Need I say more?
>
[Edelmiro]:
>Sure you should.  You should include the details of the bill which specify the 
>sanctions which are to be imposed on particular corporations with foreign 
>subsidiaries doing buisiness with Cuba, as well as the ships which dock in 
>Cuban port which will be condemned for all pratical purposes, since they will 
>never be allowed entry into U.S. ports.  Such implementation of this soon to 
>become law is very concrete and seems to be much more than a mere "political 
>statement".  If it were simply such, and we were only presencing a Castro 
>bashing frenzy in Congress, the bill would have passed unanimously and would 
>not have counted with oppostion from within certain members of the Republican 
>Party, as well as the remaining hyppocrites which were stomped along with Mr. 
>Rangel at voting time.  
>
>In fact, the clip you quote also mentions a Republican congresswoman from 
>Conetticut claiming the legislation would hurt corporations which contribute to
>her campaign chest.  So, it seems there is much more at stake than simply 
>making a "statement" and paying lip service to the Cuban American community.  
>In fact, this soon to become law is so threatening to Castro that his 
>government promptly condemed it as "diabolical".  Pretty soon, the full force 
>of the Law's detailed sanctions will be implemented by the Federal government 
>and the most significant action against communism in Cuba will begin to take 
>place.  Simmultaneously, others who claim be doing great progress for the 
>reconciliation of  Cubans will be left alone in Madrid conducting press 
>conferences and making "political statements" about their imminent "success" in
>their efforts to bring down communism.in Cuba.
>
>*************************-------------------------****************************
>Edelmiro Salas           |\.                     | "Estimo a quien de un reves
>easalas@ucdavis.edu      |  \--------------------| 
>Dept. of Spanish         |    \.                 | Echa por tierra a un tirano
>University of California |../\..\----------------| 
>Davis, CA 95616          | \../  >               | Lo estimo si es un cubano
>"Puerto Rico y Cuba son  | //\\./----------------| 
>de un pajaro las dos alas|   ./                  | Lo estimo si aragones"
>reciben flores o balas   | ./--------------------| 
>sobre un mismo corazon"  |/                      | --Jose' Marti'
>*************************-------------------------****************************

Since you ask me for more Edelmiro, I should tell you then that this is 
election year in the U.S.; and in an election year everything, no matter 
what, goes, if you don't know that by now. Neither Bush nor Clinton give a
damn about the Cuban people. The ticket to the White House is the only
thing in their minds right now.
   But if you ask me to continue, I could tell you that I'm sure Castro would 
starve the people to death before conceding an inch to such policies as the
Torricelli Bill. And again, I repeat from one of my previous postings,
the U.S. policy towards Cuba and that bill in particular, is designed to
force the Cuban people to a bloody confrontation with Castro's army, to
later go into Cuba, declare victory and collect the crop. I'm not saying
that my people shouldn't rebel against Castro. They have the right and
nobody should stop them when they choose to do so. But we shouldn't force them!
   To add more, I may tell you that the Cuban American National
Foundation (the main promoter of the bill), does NOT, as somebody said
before, represent the exile community. They conduct "polls" in the best
and right wing Cuban neighborhoods of Miami to come to the conclusion
that they are our leaders. They launch campaigns, reminiscing of Castro,
against newspapers just because they don't represent their point of
view. They never mention the leader of the inside-the-island "Comision de 
derechos humanos and reconciliacion nacional" (Commission for human rights 
and national reconciliation) Elizardo Sanchez in their supposedly
impartial transmissions of Radio Marti because they consider him a
communist Castro puppit. They think money can buy power (a sad truth),
and have already prepared a "constitution" for the new Cuba, expecting
Mas Canosa to be our next president. There is saying in Miami, New
Jersey, Canada and Europe. Do you want to hear it? "Fidel y Mas Canosa
son la misma cosa" (Fidel and Mas Canosa are the same thing).
   About the groups that look for other ways to bring democracy to Cuba 
from Europe, Canada, the U.S. and anti-Castro groups operating in Cuba, 
I don't think anybody has the right to dismiss their effort. They are doing 
as much, if not more, as the other groups that want to stick to the same old 
options. At least we try to keep the doors open for a change.
   And if you want to know the names of some of the people who oppose
the bill and are fighting against Castro inside the island, I'll give
you Elizardo Sanchez, Gustavo Arcos, Maria Elena Cruz Varela among
others.
   Marti! All very beautiful, but unfortunately since "independence" from
Spain, everybody has used him as their symbol; from Machado, Batista and
Castro to Alpha 66 and Mas Canosa. It's a shame. How we really need a
Marti these days!

   Sincerely,

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| Lazaro Nun~ez Figueiral         ||  !Lloran sobre el Mar de Cuba	     |
| Memorial University of Nfld.    ||  enormes flores bermejas;	             |
| St. John's, Terranova, Canada.  ||  sobre la isla perdida	   	     |
| lazaro@odie.cs.mun.ca           ||  el aire amarillo tiembla! - F.G. Lorca |
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