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Quo Vadis, Cuba?

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Socialist Worker Avatar
Socialist Worker
Posts: 1
Posted: 08.17.11, 05:27 PM
The United States holds five Cuban political prisoners. Every few months we read about a police force shooting unarmed persons dead.In one of the most recent ones the accused was accused of evading a Mass transit fare of seventy five cents. Cuba has a large tourist industry with the rest of the world. Tourists carry cameras. Do you think that for one moment if this sort of thing went on in Cuba we would not see it on TV. Does the United States take measures to stop mass murder in countries like Columbia when mass graves are uncovered? No! They actually provided the training for the Cops in Columbia. The US Department of State says that Cuba is a totalitarian police state. Yet it is here that the police shoot down who ever they feel like. It is here that millions languish in jail for non violent drug crimes. We have the largest percentage of people in jail for the industrial world. Now that the television standards have changed Cuban's can no longer see Miami TV but they have no problem hearing commercial US radio. Do you listen to Cuban Radio? Or internet Cuban Radio? Those Cuban dissidents are paid traitors financed by the US government. The most recent one was hired by US AID, a US government agency, try to import electronic equipment into the US without FCC approval and see how far you get. Take a look at the inside of your cellphone and see if it has FCC approval.
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TheKid
Posts: 27
Posted: 11.01.06, 04:53 AM
McGruff: I understand what you're saying, but it still seems rather odd that it's been so long, and there's been no progress on Cuba. America should always be the country that takes the high road. We see that human rights there are faltering, right? Then, if we're so concerned, why don't we help the country out? Is it because there's a dictator we dislike and had, basically, a huge falling out in the past (pouting) or is it because we don't care about people around the world in general? You'd think such a powerful country with such high morals would help the Cuban people out regardless of their leader. What harm could Castro do to America today? Nothing. Yet America, and all neighboring countries, sit and watch. Again, who's the one continuing the Cold War? Cuba has no power in the scheme of things. So I point the finger towards the other direction.
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McGruff
Posts: 24
Posted: 10.27.06, 03:54 PM
TheKid: Cuba is ranked 165 out of 168 in the 2006 edition of Reporters sans Frontieres' annual Press Freedom rankings (the only worse countries for press freedom are Etrieria, Turkmenistan and North Korea). (Link here.) Also numerous articles on Cuba's human rights abuses can be found through Human Rights Watch (humanrightswatch.org) and Amnesty International (amnesty.org). As you can see, the issues at stake are far more serious than the whining of "pouting children." Also, keep in mind that whatever opinions the Cuban people may have about their leader, it must be taken into consideration that they live in a country with a strictly pro-Castro state-controlled media and harsh punishment for dissenters. I imagine there is little room for critical debate of Castro's policies in such a climate.
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TheKid
Posts: 27
Posted: 10.26.06, 09:47 AM
What I find really fascinating is that the leaders or "important" people from countries like America and Cuba's neighbors, they make Castro out to be this devil. But the a lot of the audience points out that the Cuban people love what Castro did with the country and that a lot of the people even love Castro. I don't know how to look at this issue when my own country says the Cuban dictator is evil, but his own people don't seem to mind. It's not like the people are forced to like him either. We didn't read a poll that Castro forced on the people to check "I Love Castro!" They're talking about people one on one and their love for Castro and how he has led their country. I understand that they threatened America, and that's definitely wrong. But who is continuing the Cold War, America or Cuba? I think there is a diplomatic way to get things back on track, but like Falcoff says, it's more beneficial to keep Cuba the way it is. So I don't know if anyone here is really in the right. The way our world has been going lately it just seems like all of our countries are led by children who are pouting about things that happened in the past.
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RoyalWe
Posts: 50
Posted: 10.25.06, 07:07 PM
It may be that Hugo Chavez and "Castroated" Venezuala will be Castro's real legacy in the region.
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FORA.tv Staff
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Posted: 10.25.06, 07:02 PM
Seems like it would be hard to overstate the impact of Cuba on international relations in the past fifty years. The real nature of the Castro regime and the Cuba it built (or destroyed) is one of the last hot holdover topics from the Cold War.
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