From: beascoea@cs.rpi.edu (Alejandro Beascoechea)
Subject: Re: Are we crazy in Spain?
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Computer Science, Troy NY
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 14:23:06 GMT

In article <29EE056A.8087@noiro.acs.uci.edu> rravelo@asturias.acs.uci.edu (Ray Ravelo) writes:
>In article <1992Apr16.184710.2263@morrow.stanford.edu> puerta@camis.stanford.edu writes:
>>In article <kuqiliINN519@paducah.cs.utexas.edu> cpg@cs.utexas.edu (Carlos M.  
>>Puchol) writes:
>>
>>Instead of feeling ashamed of Spain, you should be proud of belonging to a  
>>civilized country. What Spain is trying to do is to offer a reasonable exit to  
>>Castro, which would most benefit the Cuban People. What the US is trying to do  
>>is to cripple the Cuban economy and foment subversion so as to cause a coup or  
>>a revolution that no doubt will pit Cuban against Cuban with the resulting  
>>blood bath.
>>
>>I believe Castro is still in Cuba THANKS TO THE US!. They have made every  
>>effort to stop the Spanish initiative because there is a lot to gain by  
>>claiming credit for toppling Castro and they want to be the ones to brag about  
>>it and reap the economic benefits.
>
> 
> I'm not sure the US is not as "civilized" as Spain is :-), but as to what
> Spain is trying to do, let me just quote a part of the article written
> by the Cuban-American reporter Enrique Fernandez in the July '91
> Conde' Nast TRAVELER magazine:
> 
>  "Paraiso is only one of several Spanish hotel projects already operating
> or under construction in Cuba. Even during Franco's years, Spain and 
> Cuba had cordial relations (cynics might say that both Fidel and Franco
> were partners in tyranny as well as blood brothers whose families came
> from the same region of Spain). Now that Spain is prosperous, it sees
> Cuba as ripe for tourist-industry exploitation. I think there is even
> more to it than this.
>
>  Cuba was Spain's last colony in the Americas. The year 1898, the date of
> the Spanish-American War, marks the end of the Spanish empire and the
> beginning of Spain's serious economic decline, which hit bottom during
> the grim years of hunger after the Spanish Civil War. Now that Spain is
> back on its feet, celebrating the quincentenary of its empire, and is
> a new member of the European Community, it's ready to reconquer the
> New World. !Mierda! Spaniards must think. The Americans botched up their
> hold on Cuba and lost it. The Soviets didn't do much better and are
> now abandoning the island to its fate. And the Cubans sure as hell
> haven't been very successful at running it. Let's take it back".
> 
> I believe the above to be an exageration but Spain is at least trying to
> regain its influence in the Americas and more directly in Cuba with
> its very large Galician, Asturian, Catalans, Canary Islen~os and
> Basque population and their descendants.
> 
> I think that Spain should regain its influence in the New World, but
> I disagree on how they're trying to accomplish that goal. Being on
> the side of a communist dictator like Castro will, in the long run,
> do more damage than good. It's definitely not making the large and
> wealthy Cuban exile community too happy with our Madre Patria!
>--
>Ray I. Ravelo                 "There's a surefire way to double your money;
>Office of Academic Computing.  fold it in half and put in your pocket".
>UC, Irvine.                  

Ademas de todas estas explicaciones. Yo tengo la impresion de que en Espagna
la gente tiene un carigno especial hacia Cuba y su gente. Quiza porque tus
abuelos todavia te cuentan con nostalgia cosas sobre Cuba? No se, alguien
puede decir algo sobre esto?

Alex.


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