tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post5154589819266524735..comments2023-11-16T03:57:05.158-05:00Comments on The Cuban Triangle: Odds and endsPhil Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06724525896667349935noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-14226956651179332712009-04-08T19:39:00.000-04:002009-04-08T19:39:00.000-04:00"And by the way I don't think that you can just no..."And by the way I don't think that you can just nominate yourself to any of the assemblies without having your nomination certified by a nominating board controlled by the Cuban Communist Party. That's how they end up with a single canditate for each seat. So the only electoral choice is vote or not vote."<BR/><BR/>Nope, someone else has to nominate you as a delegate in the CDR. You don't need any kind of certification besides being fit to the post, and there are a few members of the national assembly that aren't members of the party.<BR/><BR/>The nomination to the provincial assembly is made from those delegates, and as far as I know is a fairly democratic filter.<BR/><BR/>The same goes for the national assembly, the provincial assembly picks the candidates and some other candidates are picked by some specific institutions.<BR/><BR/>Then the people choose between them (for the first stages) or ratifies them (for the national assembly).<BR/><BR/>And no, I'm not him. Ricardo Alarcon is just another useless puppet and in some respects he has lots of responsibility with the current situation of the country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-2113187901184860012009-04-08T19:26:00.000-04:002009-04-08T19:26:00.000-04:00OK Anonymous 7:16PM,I had to look and see if someo...OK Anonymous 7:16PM,<BR/><BR/>I had to look and see if someone replied to my last posting. Look if they are useless idiots let them be! Don't put them in jail, hound them with screaming mobs, insult them in the official media!<BR/><BR/>And by the way I don't think that you can just nominate yourself to any of the assemblies without having your nomination certified by a nominating board controlled by the Cuban Communist Party. That's how they end up with a single canditate for each seat. So the only electoral choice is vote or not vote.<BR/><BR/>Anyway talk to you soon. You sound awfully like Ricardo Alarcón. Is that you Ricardo? Remember the days of wine and roses in Manhattan? Just kidding! Hope he is OK after Mark Thiessen's chivatazo. He looks so kulturni in his guayabera.<BR/><BR/>Vecino de NFAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-67095978459747977972009-04-08T19:16:00.000-04:002009-04-08T19:16:00.000-04:00We were talking about reforms within the same gove...We were talking about reforms within the same government, and the current government is leaded by the younger castro. <BR/><BR/>If you want a kick-out and restart everything solution, that won't be happening without an external influence.<BR/><BR/>If you want cubans in cuba to really change things, instead of earning money from their dissident activities they should postulate themselves and make a force within the cuban national assembly. But thats not profitable and requires a rock solid personal integrity, thats why you get instead a bunch of useless idiots doing nothing without a camera nearby and spreading gossip and nonsense in the name of whatever ideal they claim to belong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-11127193005860912362009-04-08T19:04:00.000-04:002009-04-08T19:04:00.000-04:00Anonymous 6:56PM,OMG!Who is being condescending no...Anonymous 6:56PM,<BR/><BR/>OMG!<BR/><BR/>Who is being condescending now? So if the Cubans in Cuba can not govern themselves except under the guidance of the Castro brothers, should we set up the giant vats of Kool Aid a-la-Jonestown to be drunk after their demise? Or do we need a crash program on either cloning or spiritualism so we can keep them around forever?<BR/><BR/>Cubans in Cuba are people like everyone else in the world. You got to trust them to find their own solutions not treat them like children with special needs. By the way I thought that the bus or truck would come from Cheo in Miami. He got connections in Miami Dade.<BR/><BR/>It's late and I am signing off for now. I need to go back to my igloo before this global warming melts it. Talk to you later!<BR/><BR/>Vecino de NFAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-13737691762726059422009-04-08T19:03:00.000-04:002009-04-08T19:03:00.000-04:00Yes, but in order to make any kind of reform you M...Yes, but in order to make any kind of reform you MUST surround yourself first with trustworthy people. And Fidel can claims whatever he wants, but the truth is that his followers are being replaced from government, and even his latest great project (the batalla de ideas) is buried down.<BR/><BR/>Ramiro Valdez is an old fool that can't even type in a PC, and I bet he needs a secretary to read his email (if he indeed has email), but the point is, he is a <I>trustworthy</I> old fool, and thats the ONLY requirement for that particular post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-8505554535031452902009-04-08T18:56:00.000-04:002009-04-08T18:56:00.000-04:00Yes, we disagree. What you are saying is just wish...Yes, we disagree. What you are saying is just wishful thinking, and I'm the first to wish things to be that way, but that won't work.<BR/><BR/>When you have a significant percent of the population unemployed or heavily subsidized, even the entrepreneur won't be able to get profitable revenues of the services they might bring. <BR/><BR/>And you are forgetting that the buses are public property in first place (in theory at least), so they first need to STEAL a bus and then do the rest. The same pattern will happens nationwide, there will not be working legal system and the law enforcers will be the first to use the possession of firearms to "secure" public property for themselves.<BR/><BR/>In that situation a domino effect will make to collapse quickly the rest of the economic infrastructure and with that the basic services. In a worst case scenario a civil war is quite possible, and right afterwards we will have an american intervention, which closes the one hundred years cycle and we can start again experimenting the banana republic once again.<BR/><BR/>Oops, I forgot, cubans didn't had a banana republic, they had the chambelona and the liberales del perico instead.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-69407562295630054482009-04-08T18:53:00.000-04:002009-04-08T18:53:00.000-04:00Anonymous 6:43PM,What recent movements from Raul? ...Anonymous 6:43PM,<BR/><BR/>What recent movements from Raul? All he has done is created the basis for a betting pool on who in the leadership will die first! I haven't seen some many old geezers in the leadership of a Communist country since the Brheznev's years. Remember: first Brheznev, then Andropov, then Chernenko, then Gorbachev, and then no more Soviet Union. There is no one under 70 in the Coucil of State. The Central Committee had to retire a couple of people because they had not moved for days since their last luncheon.<BR/><BR/>If we are to believe the NY Times, Lage, Perez Roque and Estenoz were removed because they were joking about Raul's and Machado Ventura's chocherías.<BR/><BR/>Sure I'll wait for the next Party congress but I would bet on a few state funerals before it happens. Although Ramiro Valdez looks fit. Does he use Twitter? After all he is the Minister of Telecommunications and Computers. Is he a Mac or a PC guy? Windows or Linux? Do you have his Facebook address?<BR/><BR/>Vecino de NFAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-88887312021797242562009-04-08T18:43:00.001-04:002009-04-08T18:43:00.001-04:00If real cubans living in Cuba wants change they wi...If real cubans living in Cuba wants change they will have change within the system. It has happened before and it will happen again, the people in power ain't that stupid to oppose the will of the masses.<BR/><BR/>The hint of changes are in the air, the recent movement from Raul paves the way for china-like reforms, and anyways Cuba signed the remaining UN protocols of political and civil freedoms (that anyways they already implemented for the most part).<BR/><BR/>As for structural changes... I fear we must wait until the next party congress, somewhere late this year or early next one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-78608622312771433862009-04-08T18:43:00.000-04:002009-04-08T18:43:00.000-04:00Anonymous 6:30PM,We agree to disagree. I think tha...Anonymous 6:30PM,<BR/><BR/>We agree to disagree. I think that a reordering of the Cuban economy without dismantling the current safety net could be implemented in two to three years. The safety net would need to evolve, and it would require some foreign aid that could be secured through both multilateral and governmental organizations. The question is what do you do with those individuals with no apparent useful skills. I suspect that they would find employment in new sectors of the economy. Let me give you an example. There is no independent transportation sector in Cuba to move goods or people within Cuba in a massive and legal way. The government has proved to be unable to do so in a safe and predictable manner. A couple of guys with a truck or a guagua would provide a service that is not being met by the current economy. They can get the truck or the guagua from their cousin Cheo in Hialeah who all of a sudden just invested in a growth industry in Cuba. But Cheo wants some respect for his rabid ways and some assurances that his cousins are not going to cheat him out of his hard earned cash by some specious political argument. Could it be done? Sure. Can it be done? Sure. Does the Cuban government wants it done? You answer that one.<BR/><BR/>Vecino de NFAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-62935940606189184242009-04-08T18:32:00.000-04:002009-04-08T18:32:00.000-04:00Anonymous 6:18PM,Could you explain a phrase that I...Anonymous 6:18PM,<BR/><BR/>Could you explain a phrase that I keep seeing over and over, "change and reform has to come from within, controlled by the cubans living in cuba..."? Do you mean that all Cubans living in Cuba should have a voice in change and reform or just those that are loyal to Fidel Castro and Raul Castro and therefore would defer to them on all major decisions?<BR/><BR/>Because if it is all Cubans living in Cuba, you will not get an argument from me but right now anyone in Cuba that does not agree with the current social and political order can not offer an alternative by law (see the Constitution).<BR/><BR/>Honestly puzzled Vecino de NFAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-3400084839857590312009-04-08T18:30:00.000-04:002009-04-08T18:30:00.000-04:00Again, you missed the point. No matter how wealthy...Again, you missed the point. No matter how wealthy the cubans abroad are the cannot support a full reestructuration of the system without firing millions of people and worsening the situation for millions of cuban.<BR/><BR/>Besides, even if they had the means they won't put their money in something without return like stabilizing the country until the economy recovers to the point to be self sufficient.<BR/><BR/>What you claim will take years, and at that time someone has to pay for the survival of the millons of people without jobs OR just keep things like they are right now.<BR/><BR/>And sorry if I am blunt, but to show solidarity to a minimum 35% of the population is something that can't be done in the capitalist model.<BR/><BR/>The reason of the low levels of productivity in the socialist cuba is that they must keep the people employed and provide the minimum means of subsistence for all the population. In order to preserve social stability they cannot cut jobs massively, take a look of what they did with the sugar reestructuration... they put hundred of thousands of people to study, paying for that study the same as if they were working.<BR/><BR/>In the personal, I don't consider Ileana Ross and company cubans at all, and I dont want any of them having a voice in a post-castro cuba... with or without all the money they might have.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-30126406973023747152009-04-08T18:18:00.000-04:002009-04-08T18:18:00.000-04:00change and reform has to come from within, control...change and reform has to come from within, controlled by the cubans living in cuba. not imposed by those who think they know best, looking from the outside.<BR/>look at the Commission for Assistance to a Free cuba for insight into what the AMerican govt has in store for Cuba post castro -- including things that are already happening (vaccinations) and the dismantling of the social institutions in favor of neocon free markets. look what that did in the US.<BR/>those who want to destroy the regime instead of reform it are only interested in their own gain, political, social or economic. the energy now is to engage the govt as it is, and with the lifting of the siege foster political advancement through economic security. hope that it will work. just keep the gusanos at bay because they will stop at nothing (Brothers to Rescue) to derail any attempts at normalization.<BR/>all talk and criticism of internal government functions while under the continued American aggression is meaningless.<BR/><BR/>"In a besieged castle all dissent is treason" Ignatius Loyola<BR/><BR/>tell me one society throughout history that has reacted differently when facing real threats to national security -- this level of aggression, terrorism, economic embargo and plans for overthrown. Look at how American society was affected after 9/11. Cuba's protection of patria is wrapped in restrictions, yes repression. End that and then see what happens, but no one has the right to criticize without taking America's 50 years of strangulation of Cuba into account. what a criminal thing to do against such a small country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-64232523091899692692009-04-08T18:10:00.000-04:002009-04-08T18:10:00.000-04:00Anonymous 5:46PMThe Miami Cubans are key because t...Anonymous 5:46PM<BR/><BR/>The Miami Cubans are key because they have money that they can use to invest in Cuba, and to aid other Cubans directly. That's the main reason the Cuban government is well advised to appease them en masse not individually as it has tasked Cuban intelligence over the years to do. (Trust me on this one, every truly rich Cuban American family has been approached directly or indirectly to support the Cuban Revolution sometimes without their knowledge to this day.)<BR/><BR/>As far as the Cuban demographics, you got an excellent point. Cuba has the oldest population in Latin America, and a very unproductive working population. Were there to be a big bang of capitalistic enterprise much of the population would move to more productive work. For example, right now it is illegal to be a middle man in the trade of agricultural goods. This creates huge inefficiencies because the middle man in trade facilitates it and provides for a very efficient allocation of resources. (Don't take my word for it, get Walmart's annual report and see how effective they are in both lowering consumer prices and distributing goods and services!) Once again someone's cousin in Miami can provide the start-up capital while his cousin in Cuba provides the labor. Both could make money, and they would depend on each other to make more. So I go back to why it is important to appease those rabid Miami Cubans. It's their money not their votes that Cuba wants.<BR/><BR/>But those Miami Cubans are not going to put their money in a country that insults them, and makes them feel threatened. Remember how much money they sent in when they went from gusanos to mariposas in the 1970s?<BR/><BR/>That leaves the significant portion of the population that can not provide for itself (13% elderly, another 20% children, a % disabled, etc). For those the Cubans both inside and outside would have to be appealed to show social solidarity. Without political vitriol that could be done. But for that both sides need to start like two stranged old amigos from Hialeah saying to each other "Sorry Bro!". Can they do that? Yes, they can to borrow an slogan but it takes two to tango.<BR/><BR/>In the end to paraphrase someone, Cubans of the World unite, you have nothing to lose but your pasts!<BR/><BR/>Vecino de NFAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-88107790014013575292009-04-08T17:58:00.000-04:002009-04-08T17:58:00.000-04:00"By the way thank you for the reference about Abel..."By the way thank you for the reference about Abel Prieto. Do you have the year and the occassion? (Just for future reference!)"<BR/><BR/>I don't remember exactly, it was several years ago, but I do remember that as an apology Fidel assisted to a rock concert afterwards.<BR/><BR/>Try a google search, it should not be that many. The cuban press didn't comment the incident at that time, just briefly covered his assitance to the concert.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-45506432490045373122009-04-08T17:46:00.000-04:002009-04-08T17:46:00.000-04:00Nope, it is flawed but not to the point of being d...Nope, it is flawed but not to the point of being dysfunctional yet. Besides Raul is a different beast, far more pragmatic than the brother and the good part is that he don't think that he is the ultimate authority in everything. He usually put in charge people that knows what they are doing and he demands results.<BR/><BR/>Besides, the miami cubans can criticize whatever they want, but they don't have a viable platform to solve the main Cuba issue (economy). <BR/><BR/>To make changes outside the system means to bring down all the social infrastructure, that raises lots of questions that no one can answer.<BR/><BR/>For instance, who will pay for the million or so of cuban past the retirement age? From where that money will come? What will happen with circa 80% of the active working population when their employer (the state) is no more? Who will fill the void of power? The anti-cuban guys of miami that have made everything in their hands to make their fellow cubans suffer? Imposing the blockade, creating incidents that may end in military confrontation with the US?<BR/><BR/>Sorry, there are too many questions and they can't give a good answer. The only way i foresee is to ask for a zillonary credit to "stabilize" things out, selling the future of cuba for many many generations... money that most likely will end in the hands of the corrupt and very little in the hands of the cuban people.<BR/><BR/>So, thanks, but no, thanks. What the miami fauna wants is not feasible and their projects (if any) are flimsy at most. <BR/><BR/>I do support change in cuba, but i think that the only possible peaceful change can come from inside the cuban government, other than that is wishful thinking.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-33557079734266046362009-04-08T17:21:00.000-04:002009-04-08T17:21:00.000-04:00Anonymous 4:57PM,So to be clear, the dysfunctional...Anonymous 4:57PM,<BR/><BR/>So to be clear, the dysfunctional state of affairs that you describe in Cuba is what the Miami Cubans are supposed not to criticize? They are supposed to accept it even if it hurts them because it's happening in their native land, and then they are supposed to support it financially either through remittances and aid to their families, or through taxes paid to the US that would in turn support trade with Cuba?<BR/><BR/>By the way thank you for the reference about Abel Prieto. Do you have the year and the occassion? (Just for future reference!)<BR/><BR/>Vecino de NFAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-83329909708188723202009-04-08T16:57:00.000-04:002009-04-08T16:57:00.000-04:00Nope, in Cuba there is too much centralization of ...Nope, in Cuba there is too much centralization of the political discussion, I flavor diversity (but incidentally there is also little diversity in US politics). But from that to what previous poster claimed goes a long way.<BR/><BR/>And yes, in Cuba is not unusual to see people complaining in public places and broad daylight about the government and even sprouting crap about their leaders, and the police rarely intervenes. (I've witnessed people loudly calling Fidel "viejo loco" (old madman) and worse. The people around usually just ignore the stuff.<BR/><BR/>The really troublesome part of the cuban politics is that Fidel surrounded himself with people who unconditionally agrees with whatever nonsense he does, so in the end Fidel was like the old king midas, everything around him suddenly turned gold and the ministries gives a distorted version of the reality just to keep their status.<BR/><BR/>The only time I remember someone criticized Fidel and he admitting his fault and retracting his statements was when he said crap about rockers and the ministry of culture Abel Prieto corrected him in a rather heartedly way.<BR/><BR/>Most of times the other people were wrong by definition and such were removed from his post (like the 10 millions tons zafra, or the lack of vitamins during the worst years of the special period causing blindness. In both instances the ministries were removed from their post, even when they were right).<BR/><BR/>The result of all that? A stupid bureaucracy when people sit idly to get orders "from above" and a whole stratus of hypocrites in middle management more communist than Marx and more fidelists than Fidel that more ofthen than not defect when have a chance and take with them the money of the people.<BR/><BR/>How the old folks say, "all extremes touch each other"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-2855692621344824942009-04-08T15:50:00.000-04:002009-04-08T15:50:00.000-04:00Anonymous 3:36PMJust to be clear are you in favor ...Anonymous 3:36PM<BR/><BR/>Just to be clear are you in favor of applying Cuban rules for political discourse in the US if they are so reasonable? (I don't want to imagine what those rabid Miami Cubans would do if empowered by Cuban government rules. OMG!)<BR/><BR/>I guess you also do not know of a single instance when someone criticize Fidel Castro or Raul Castro in Cuba. Just checking!<BR/><BR/>Vecino de NFAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-13378841771570128652009-04-08T15:36:00.000-04:002009-04-08T15:36:00.000-04:00"Current Cuban law is very explicit in what is all..."Current Cuban law is very explicit in what is allowed (very little) and not allowed (almost all) by independent citizens. This combined with the principle of democratic centralism that articulates the leading role of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) in society and government as detailed in the Constitution prevents any independent investigation of anything in Cuba. Dr. Biscet first got in trouble after he denounced what he felt was an inordinate amount of voluntary abortions in a Cuban Hospital."<BR/><BR/>Again, thats just the usual anti castro propaganda, just read the cuban constitution and see by yourself. The Dr Biscet get in trouble for protest against abortion in several hospitals, he didn't followed any procedure at that respect and he just organized a publicitary stunt recorded in video of how the head of the hospital -a woman- smacked some sense into the idiot. Sorry, but that's not a good example, the guy is just a troblemaker attempting to make a point about abortion.<BR/><BR/>"One glaring example is the Ochoa case. The entire MININT was decimated from the Minister Abrahantes down to the lowest officer. Half of the Ochoa case involved MINFAR officers. Raul Castro was never disciplined for his responsibility as minister of the MINFAR."<BR/><BR/>The MINFAR is unrelated to the MININT, those are two separate bodies and if anything there is rivaltry between them. And the fact that the whole Ochoa scandal exploded is that someone at some level found it and denounced it.<BR/><BR/>Even the party makes a point in criticism and self-criticism, thats a known fact, but it is important how you denounce something. There is a BIG difference between contacting the local authorities about something and calling a press conference in the DINA, the same as to say "we have this problem, we have to do this and that to solve it" and "everything is screwd, lets call quits and elect a new government"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-72824473842653444232009-04-08T15:21:00.000-04:002009-04-08T15:21:00.000-04:00"What the hell do you think happened to the hundre..."What the hell do you think happened to the hundreds of people murdered extrajudicially in La Cabana?"<BR/><BR/>You mean the torturers and murderers from Batista dictatorship? Those were summary executions, not extrajudicial ones and for the most part were well deserved. Did you know those people (together with quite a few who fleed and now live happily in florida) killed <B>thousands</B> of cubans in the years of Batista dictatorship?<BR/><BR/>"Who the hell do you think is buried in the mass graves on the eastern end of the island? The fucking easter bunny?"<BR/><BR/>Again, provide evidence of those mass graves and prove that those were made by revolutionary authorities and not by the previous dictatorships. That would make really good headlines in the news.<BR/><BR/>"I hope you one day get to experience what it's like to have someone knock on your door, drag you out into the street and make you disappear simply because you don't agree with the "government" "<BR/><BR/>Hmmm... whose government you mean? Pinochet? Somoza? Trujillo? There are not missing people in Cuba, just a few <I>dozens</I> of so called "political prisioners", mostly accused of collaborate with a foreign power to overtrhown the government (aka, receive funds from USA)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-54879128959017633692009-04-08T14:52:00.000-04:002009-04-08T14:52:00.000-04:00Anonymous 1:04 PM,Current Cuban law is very explic...Anonymous 1:04 PM,<BR/><BR/>Current Cuban law is very explicit in what is allowed (very little) and not allowed (almost all) by independent citizens. This combined with the principle of democratic centralism that articulates the leading role of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) in society and government as detailed in the Constitution prevents any independent investigation of anything in Cuba. Dr. Biscet first got in trouble after he denounced what he felt was an inordinate amount of voluntary abortions in a Cuban Hospital. Another Dr. was thrown in jail for detailing the spread of a dengue epidemic in Santiago de Cuba in the 1990s. You can denounce whatever you want in Cuba, but you run the risk that the political structures accuse you of being a counter-revolutionary and your life can be turned upside down not to mention jail or worst.<BR/><BR/>One glaring example is the Ochoa case. The entire MININT was decimated from the Minister Abrahantes down to the lowest officer. Half of the Ochoa case involved MINFAR officers. Raul Castro was never disciplined for his responsibility as minister of the MINFAR. Could anyone in Cuba ever brought this up in the press, a Party meeting, etc? I would be interested in knowing of one single event of any criticism in Cuba of any decision taken by Fidel Castro or Raul Castro that did not bring adverse consequences to the critic.<BR/><BR/>The right of criticize belongs to the critic not to the audience or the object of the criticism. That the Cuba people are afraid to criticize the power structures is self-evident.<BR/><BR/>For once I would like to hear a direct recognition from the Cuban side that based on that our wine is sour but it is our wine, might makes right in Cuba. Then a constructive legitimate dialogue could be started if it is truly desired.<BR/><BR/>Vecino de NFAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-28267796256399689552009-04-08T14:39:00.000-04:002009-04-08T14:39:00.000-04:00Death Squads:What the hell do you think happened t...Death Squads:<BR/><BR/>What the hell do you think happened to the hundreds of people murdered extrajudicially in La Cabana? <BR/><BR/>Who the hell do you think is buried in the mass graves on the eastern end of the island? The fucking easter bunny?<BR/><BR/>Go get your head out of your ass and try a little fucking humanity.<BR/><BR/>Gloves are off - you people are sick brutes. I hope you one day get to experience what it's like to have someone knock on your door, drag you out into the street and make you disappear simply because you don't agree with the "government" I pray that day will come for you. Because you absolutely, 100 percent deserve it you heartless fucking bastard.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-78236931735049570912009-04-08T13:04:00.000-04:002009-04-08T13:04:00.000-04:00"Trying to investigate or report on any problem wi..."Trying to investigate or report on any problem without official sanction is illegal in Cuba. So you can never prove any wrongdoing by government officials unless it has been determined by the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party that you are allowed to do it to serve a Central Committee political purpose."<BR/><BR/>No, you are wrong in this. You can do whatever you want without breaking the law and then submit the result to the police. The thing is, corruption is so widespread that that is likely that lots of people cover each other, in that scenario is really hard to gather evidence without breaking the law, but you can submit anonymous calls to the police if you want.<BR/><BR/>BTW, those are the called "chivatos" someone mentioned earlier.<BR/><BR/>"The current Cuban government doesn't want that because it perceives any criticism as subversive."<BR/><BR/>No, they don't. There is a legitimate, constructive criticism that usually is welcomed, but few people makes use of it anyways.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-72669669792707882532009-04-08T13:01:00.000-04:002009-04-08T13:01:00.000-04:00death squads in cuba; please provide proof. just o...death squads in cuba; please provide proof. just once, provide proof instead of continuing the hatred.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-72798469733857044432009-04-08T12:50:00.000-04:002009-04-08T12:50:00.000-04:00Anonymous 12:39 PM,I hate to get in the middle of ...Anonymous 12:39 PM,<BR/><BR/>I hate to get in the middle of another argument, but maybe you are missing a basic point. Trying to investigate or report on any problem without official sanction is illegal in Cuba. So you can never prove any wrongdoing by government officials unless it has been determined by the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party that you are allowed to do it to serve a Central Committee political purpose. This stops the natural evolution of Cuban society. It is not a problem for the Miami Cubans. It is a huge problem for the Cubans in Cuba because every aspect of daily living. Complaining about perceived wrongs is healthy even if the complainer happens to be wrong because it makes the society more capable to determine livable outcomes. The current Cuban government doesn't want that because it perceives any criticism as subversive. Once again I repeat: this is a problem for the Cubans in Cuba. I personally think that it would be to their advantage to change that modus operandi.<BR/><BR/>Unrabidly yours,<BR/><BR/>Vecino de NFAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com