From: cpg@cs.utexas.edu (Carlos M. Puchol)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.spain,soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Are we crazy in Spain?
Followup-To: soc.culture.spain
Date: 16 Apr 1992 04:36:50 -0500
Organization: Computer Sciences, UT Austin
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: paducah.cs.utexas.edu
Summary: What the Hell is Felipe doing?
Keywords: cuba

[I am posting this message in spanish and english because I would
like to get some input from non-spanish speaking people in order to
share the views of more diverse people]

Buenaaaassss,			    Helloooooo,

Ayer por la noche  me  entere  que  Last   night   I   learned	  that
parece	 ser   que   el	  gobierno  apparently the Spanish  government
espanyol  ha  invitado	 de  forma  has	 invited  Fidel	 Castro to the
oficial	 a Fidel  Castro a la Expo  World Expo in Seville  and to some
de   Sevilla  y	 a  varios   otros  other  events  taking  place  over
eventos	 que se	 estan	celebrando  there.
alli.
				    To say the	least,	this is	 quite
Ni  que	  decir	  tiene	 que  esto  surprising, if true.  If anyone in
resulta	  sorprendente,	 si  fuese  Spain  would be willing to feed us
verdad.	 Si  alguien   en  Espanya  with some  information  about this
tiene mas noticias  sobre esto, le  weird  news,  we would  appreciate
agradeceria  que las comunicara al  it.	 Apparently,  he has also been
personal.  Parece ser tambien  que  invited to make public speeches.
se le va a invitar a dar discursos
publicos.			    
				    Once again,	 unfortunately,	 I was
				    ashamed of my Spanish  origin  and
Una vez mas,  lamentablemente,	he  the	 kinds of  things  that	 occur
sentido verguenza por ser espanyol  there.  In particular, when I meet
y por  las  cosas  que	pasan  por  someone  here and I	 mention  I am
alli.  En  concreto,  cuando a uno  from Spain,	 everyone says "Ooohh,
se lo  encuentran  por aqui y dice  nice  country,  Spain  ..."	 and I
que es de  espanya,  todo el mundo  feel  happy and  satisfied;	 well,
le comenta  "Ooohhh, nice country,  the	   conversation	   cannot   go
Spain ..."  y queda uno satisfecho  further, without topics popping up
y    contento;	  claro	  que	la  which  make me  feel  sad for  not
conversacion no puede ir mucho mas  being  able to do  anything	 about
alla sin que  surjan  temas  que a  the	   goings-on	over	there.
uno le	hacen  sentir  pena  de no  Moreover,	this  year  news  from
poder  hacer nada al  respecto	de  Spain  is  surfacing  much	faster
las  situaciones  que se  dan  por  than usual.
aquellos lares.	 Mas este anyo, en
que las noticias vuelan.	    I THOUGHT Castro was a dictator, a
				    murderer.  I have no doubts	 about
Yo  CREIA   que	  Castro   era	un  this  fact, as well as about  some
dictador,  un asesino.	No me cabe  other  dictators, who are fascists
duda de esto, como tampoco algunos  most of  them,  and	 unfortunately
otros dictadores,  fascistas en su  ruling  much of Latin  America.  I
mayoria,  que hay  lamentablemnete  THOUGHT  that we  Spaniards	 had a
en  hispanoamerica.  Yo CREIA  que  democracy,	   and	   that,    by
en  Espanya  teniamos  un  regimen  definition,	 in a democracy	 there
democratico, y que por definicion,  exists   no	  room	 for   backing
no  cabe   ninguna   apologia	de  dictatorships,  terrorism,	or any
dictaduras,  ni terrorismo,  ni de  other	  organization/country
ninguna	 organizacion  o pais  que  violating human rights.
viole los  derechos  humanos.  Hay
momentos  en que  dudo	si esto es  I can't  recall  the date in which
una realidad total.		    Felipe and Castro  last met.  I do
				    remember,  though,	the  newspaper
Me falla la memoria cuando intento  images  of	Felipe	 hugging   and
recordar la fecha de la ultima vez  shaking  hands with Castro.	 I can
que Felipe se encontro con Castro.  imagine similar  actings this time
Pero  recuerdo las imagenes en los  time.  Deplorable.	Shameful.
periodicos  de Felipe  abrazando y
dando la mano  sonriente a Castro. 
Me  imagino  mas o menos lo  mismo
ahora.	Denigrante.  Vergonzoso.

-- Carlos
cpg@cs.utexas.edu