Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Odds and ends

  • Lt. Col. Simmons didn’t impress former Cuban political prisoner Nicolas Perez, who wrote in today’s El Nuevo Herald. He can’t quite figure Simmons out, and wonders if he is, among other things, settling scores between federal agencies, trying “irresponsibly to promote his book,” or promoting “an electoral agenda.” He says Simmons claims there are Cuban agents among the staff of Miami’s Versailles restaurant, something I had missed. Regarding Simmons’ charges against Marifeli Perez-Stable, Perez asks why he singles her out “in this Miami of a million inhabitants, where 950,000 sympathized and cooperated with the Cuban revolution,” and where people who were “until yesterday” ministers, military officers, functionaries, and torturers in Cuba, are on the radio and television constantly.

  • The Czech Republic, one of the few reliable partners of the Bush Cuba policy, broke ranks in June. Now, Costa Rica: President Arias calls on the United States to take the first step toward normalized relations by returning the naval base at Guantanamo to Cuba.

  • The UN Human Rights Council picks its new president, Miguel Alfonso Martinez, a Cuban law professor and former foreign ministry spokesman. [Correction: the post is president of an advisory committee, not of the council itself.]

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh no Alabama... so bad.. ha, good for you, you will exercise the god given right of every american - to freely associate (regardless of teh other regime's record).

We here want to uphold our constitution, while the miami folk think this is cuba and want to tear it down and our rights!

Anonymous said...

"The UN Human Rights Council picks its new president, Miguel Alfonso Martinez, a Cuban law professor and former foreign ministry spokesman."

That's it Peters? No dry witicism? No sarcastic comment? we realize you have to protect your access to Cuba, but you should also protect your integrity...

Anonymous said...

Peter doesn't need to protect anything anon2.

He is free man, he can go and come from cuba whenever he wants.

you sir, anon2 are the one that lacks intergrity... (and family in cuba too... ha).

b/c no one with close family members in Cuba (even rabid anti-fidelistas) would support the right wing mafia. They are divorced from reality and anybody that knows Cuba, knows this.

Anonymous said...

free to come and go to Cuba? what r u smoking amigo?