Monday, September 29, 2008

Odds and ends

  • Cubaencuentro has an interview with Eliecer Avila, the student at the information technology university who challenged National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon at a question-and-answer session earlier this year.

  • The Cuban American National Foundation says its license to provide hurricane relief aid was renewed, but with a new condition: donors cannot earmark contributions for specific individuals in Cuba, such as family members.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I read the interview with that young guy, Eliecer. Very intelligent and precise when describing Cuba's problems, including the terribe situation in many hospitals and lack of good medical care, with so many doctors abroad. And Fidel giving away meds. to other countries as hurricane relief!

Anonymous said...

Why the stipulation on CANAF?

whats the deal about not for specific family members?

more insanity?

Anonymous said...

it's a political stunt by CANF, trying to turn U.S. policy all up in knots to help their candidate Joe Garcia try to beat Mario Diaz-Balart. It's all exile politics.

Anonymous said...

it's a political stunt by CANF, trying to turn U.S. policy all up in knots to help their candidate Joe Garcia try to beat Mario Diaz-Balart. It's all exile politics.

leftside said...

I actually think the US Government (appropriately) realized CANF was targeting a lot of money to a certain sector of people and that it had nothing to do with need or providing effective relief (ie. their favorite dissidents). It would not hold up or look good in any kind of audit. The Feds are a little more sensitive of this sort of thing nowadays (after all the fraud scandals).