From: rravelo@asturias.acs.uci.edu (Ray Ravelo)
Subject: Re: Humanitarian, Cuba, Et Al.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 18 Aug 92 19:49:15 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.112826.1@husky1.stmarys.ca> gen4033@husky1.stmarys.ca writes:
>This I found in Soc.Culture.Latin-america:
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>

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>LISTEN:  The economic embargo has done more harm to Cubans than anything
>Castro has done in the past 30 years.  Putting pressure on Latin
>American countries to isolate Cuba or face a cutoff of AMERICAID is
>another example of the US's continuing paranoia of socialist ideology.
>IF, 30 years ago, the embargo was not imposed, then we would hve
>seen by now whether Castro's brand of Socialism would have survived
>in the Global economy.  If nothing else, the embargo in fact added
>to Castro's success.. making him a hero in his people's eyes, and
>forcing him to embrace the Communist east, a choice he did not make
>enthusiastically.

  How could you be so naive or stu...? Castro was always a communist and
  he'd said so many times, so nobody "forced" him to turn to the "communist
  east". He simply betrayed the Cuban revolution where many of our youth
  were killed by the Batista regimen. We got rid of one dictator to fall
  victims to another much worse! What a waste of lives and efforts!
  And then, after all that, here comes an idiot like you telling us all
  that communist bullshit in support of the bloody and sinister dictator
  the Cuban people are desperate to get off their backs!

>By the way.  Consider this point... Why is it that only the USA stands
>against Cuba?  Why have other countries refused to tow the line and
>join the economic blockade?  I hate to break this to you, but it's

 If the other countries don't blockade, then why it's so important to you
 and Castro's friends to get rid of the American blockade?

>not because the U-S is morally superior to the rest of us. It is 
>in fact because the rest of the world is not blinded by the American
>Ego.  For once, just once, consider your position, think about 
>whether or not you are in fact right. 

  Come on, all you Canadians are simply jealous of the USA!

>And look at the exiled Cuban community in Florida for what they are...
>the elite of a country who've been stripped of their social power and
>their wealth, so that the majority of Cubans could benefit.  The greater
>good is always the better good.

 Yeah, sure, 2 million "rich" Cubans who are still risking their lives
 crossing the Florida Strait in inner tubes trying to escape what you
 believe to be a "socialist paradise"!


>Canada stands firm in it's support of Cuban self-determination.  We do
>and will continue to trade with that beautiful country full of friendly
>people.  Not 'godless communists waiting to attack our shores'.

 Canada is supporting the worst dictatorship Latin-America had ever seen!

>Some times you people just turn my stomach.

 Marcus, you're really the one that makes me puke! Get from under that rock
 and smell the winds of freedom blowing all over the world!

 
--
Ray I. Ravelo                 "We're your opposition, Mr. Castro, we 10 million
Office of Academic Computing.  Cubans who look around us in terror"
UC, Irvine.                   from the open letter to Castro by M.E. Cruz-Varela

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