Cáemgen wrote:
In "cahoots" eh? If you just replaced the word Cuba with the word U.S., you would be right on almost all this issues. Ironic isn't it? No illegal drugs to speak of on the streets of Cuba, which is nothing short of amazing. Sure some people have a little weed or I've seen cocaine there, but it's very very rare.

huh. granted, my experience was not the normal tourist experience, but it seemed to me that drugs were extremely easy to come by.

>>Yeah, so he has access to money. Are you saying he spends it lavishly? Wine, women and cars? That's what I'd be doing, but not him. He certainly hasn't used it for vacations in the last 40 years. And what is this fleet of limos you keep bring up? Where do they drive to? Noone has ever seen them. The streets in Havana aren't exactly limo freindly. Maybe he loans his personal fleet of limos out to visiting diplomats? This is silly Miami propaganda as usual.<<

Of course he spends it lavishly: a 100 million dollar personal jet isn't lavish? And yes, he does have a fleet of limos. How do you think that he travels around Havana? Fidel Castro paints a very different picture of himself than the reality. Until recently, people didn't even know that he was married and has 5 grown sons with a woman by the name of Dalia. If he hides something like that from the world, do you think that he is going to admit that he lives a lavish life? You can discard it as silly Miami propaganda, but I don't think that Forbes Magazine is published in Miami by Cuban exiles and it claim that Castro has a multi-billion dollar fortune.

>>Oh yeah, his daughter Alina. She has made a good business out of politics. 50 mansions? There are more then that the government took over. They are mostly used for government affairs, or do you (and Alina) think he sits in them all by himself secretly plooting how to accumulate more wealth? Come on, you can come up with better stuff than this can't you?<<

I would think that Alina Fernandez Revuelta knows more about her own father than you do.



>>Id say it's the other way around. The U.S. thinks Cubans are incapable of running a country, as well as most Latin American countries. Have you ever been inside the U.S. interest section in Havana? I have. What do you think goes on in there? A lot of meetings in small rooms between U.S. officials and Cuban nationals. Oh they would love the opportunity to use the press in Cuba to put out their propaganda which would be very similar to what you 've been spouting on thse lists. It has nothing to do with the U.S.? Don't make me laugh.<<

First of all, if the USA wanted, they could have overthrown Castro a long time ago. The USA hasn't overthrown Castro because there is not vested interest in doing so. Cuba is not oil-rich Iraq. It overthrown Saddam Hussein a much more formidable foe under the pretext that he had arms of mass destruction, so don't give me this baloney about the USA trying to overthrow Castro's 48 year long tyranny out of their interest section. I know that they help dissidents and I know about the band around the U.S Interest Section Building that emits the news, but that is so lame compared to what they could do if they wanted to. By the way, I understand that there are quite a few convicted Cuban moles in the USA. Does Ana Maria Belen ring a bell? Do a google search on her. And then of course, there are the famous or shall I say infamous 5 spies that are now serving time, and let's not forget the psychology professor working out of Florida International University who was convicted along with his wife just a few months ago. Do you think that the Cuban government sits around in its intersest section twiddling it's thumbs? They seem pretty active if you ask me. But wait, I know what you are going to say, they are defending themselves yadda, yadda, yadda.



>>Paint it anyway you like but the fact is that Castro came here in 59 and the American president refused to meet with him. We are doing this very thing right now to other leaders of countries we don't agree with. Don't give me this Spanish-American war crap.<<

I'm not painting it anyway. You have a right to your opinions, but not to your facts. The USA recognized Castro in record time and it helped usher him into power by denying Batista arms with which to fight the rebel forces, and Castro's father Angel Castro was indeed a soldier in the Imperialistic Spanish Army who went to Cuba to fight the freedom fighters struggling against the Spanish crown.



>>In "cahoots" eh? If you just replaced the word Cuba with the word U.S., you would be right on almost all this issues. Ironic isn't it? No illegal drugs to speak of on the streets of Cuba, which is nothing short of amazing. Sure some people have a little weed or I've seen cocaine there, but it's very very rare.<<

Well, I never said that the drugs that go into Cuba end up in the hands of the Cuban people. I said that according to Carlos Lehder, former Colombian Drug King Pin, the regime was in cahoots with the Colombian Drug Cartels. In exchange for allowing Cuba to be a safe haven, a stop over for drug traffickers, Castro gets paid millions. The drugs are then smuggled into the USA and sold in the streets of American cities. It's a way to make money and harm the American people.



>>Rual is old, how long can he rule the country? It will be interesting to see who they put in next. By that time everyone in Miami will be speaking English anyway and won't have much interest in that little island.<<

That's a pretty flippant and vile way of looking at things. To the Cuban people who have been suffering under a totalitarian Stalinist regime for the last 48 years, Raul's longevity is indeed a matter of concern. To you its not because you live in a fairly democratic country [and notice that I am aware of the shortcomings of the USA, so I don't say a democracy] where you and I can have this open debate on the Internet and we can criticize the USA government without the fear of some government apparachik knocking on our doors. Obviously, you really don't care about the Cuban people, otherwise you would be advocating for a democratic transition in Cuba. I'm sure that if Bush, Sr., decided to take over the presidency after his son's term is over, you wouldn't just sit back and twittle your thumbs and say, ho-hum how much longer can he rule?










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