Odds and ends
- Granma:
56,500 Cubans have registered and updated their property titles since new
procedures went into effect last November. The benefit, the article explains, is
that the owner is “recognized before the law as legitimate owner of his
property and gains legal protection in exercising any transfer of the
property.”
- Sun-Sentinel:
The offshore oil exploration rig continues to work in Cuban waters in the
Gulf of Mexico, shifting westward to sites that would be, if something went
wrong, more dangerous for Florida.
- La
Jornada reviews a series of reforms approved and not yet implemented.
- El
Mundo: Spain’s new ruling party rejects a 2.5 million Euro appropriation
to pay for extended aid to former Cuban political prisoners and their
families who now reside there.
- The New York Times on anti-AIDS efforts in Cuba, here
and here.
I think that the decision by the Spanish conservative party not to continue funding for Cuban political refugees is a clear case where their political ingratitude is being paid with the same coin.
ReplyDeleteThe Spanish socialist Party mediated with the Cuban government to have the political refugees and their families freed from Cuban jails and paid for them and their families to travel to Spain and to provide them with aid once they arrived there.
In return the refugees bit the hand that aided them and allied themselves with the Spanish conservative party.
For that reason the Conservative party, when it came to power, decided not to do them any favors so as not to give them a reason to be ungrateful to them.
This seems to me to be a logical reaction.
It is very hard to feel compassion for someone that might bite your hand when you extend it to aid them.
Cantaclaro