From: rravelo@asturias.acs.uci.edu (Ray Ravelo)
Subject: Re: Human Rights in Cuba
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 6 Jan 93 00:42:44 GMT
Distribution: usa

In article <103778@netnews.upenn.edu> julio@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Julio Gonzalez) writes:
>In article <2B48B4C2.28088@news.service.uci.edu>, rravelo@asturias.acs.uci.edu (Ray Ravelo) writes:
>
>> 
>>  Talking about Castro's health care, I have an uncle who's presently visiting
>>  his son here in California. He's a communist and he likes "almost everything"
>>  Castro had done there, but you should see his teeth and the melanoma-like
>>  stuff on his face.
>	
>	Could we know what he thinks about the Cuban situation ?
>	Of course if he doesn't hate it he may be deported back to Cuba.
 
       Well, as a well schooled "socialist" that he is he does not say much
       but sometimes he forgets and when asked how he spends his time, he said
       in lines waiting for food. He used to go to the beach sometimes, but
       now there are no bus lines to go there ....
       He's not too happy with Castro's policy about not allowing any privately
       Cuban-own small businesses as he said all his friends that had business
       left the country long time ago and that "was no good"


       As far as being deported:
       I don't think so since guys like you gravitate freely around here.

>
>>    Needless to say, my uncle is seriously considering my nephew's offer
>>  to stay here in the US with him!
>
>	I hope he stays. But will he be allowed to visit the Island
>	once he starts being a USA citizen ? Remember "Americans" are
>	not allowed visits there unless they can prove some "good"
>	reasons to do so.

    Cuban-Americans or people with relatives there can go freely provided
    they're willing to pay Castro's extortion prices. After a year here the
    "wicked" US government will give him welfare and free medical care, so he
    could save his money to go visit Castro if he wishes.
    Not too bad, eh?

>>  Did you know that for every extra month my uncle stays here my nephew has to
>>  pay $150.00 per month to Castro's government so his dad's few belongings in Cuba
>>  are not confiscated and he won't lose his apartment? Should we call that
>>  extortion or what? .......
>
>	That seems a pretty cheap storage price. How much is it to store
>	things here ? Does he have to pay rent also ? If I go to Chile
>	I have to pay for the rent in my place. $400 per month.
 
   He left a sister there paying the rent* and taking care of the place as
   several times thieves had attented to break into the place, but I'm sure
   you don't believe there are thieves in your paradise, do you?

 *paying rent to Castro's government who confiscated all the private property
 in Cuba years ago. He promised that after 10 years people would own the
 apartments, but after more than 30 years his government had not have the
 time to implement that promise. Oh well, you'll say, that's just a small price
 to pay for living in paradise!
--
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