castro's daughter

[huisache]

wants to visit the US and the anti castro cubans are whining about it. Another example of how US policy is held hostage by a bunch of "Americans" who maintain a special interest in another country.

Her old man is a stinking pile of ordure and I hope he has a long and painful ride into the sunset.

But.............I don't see how letting some daughter into the country does us any harm.

In fact, I would be in favor of letting any Cuban who wants to into the country for a visit. It only emphasizes the problems her vicious commie old man has created in what was once the gem of the islands.

But "our" government is so enthralled with its own power to control that it not only excludes Cubans but also limits which Americans can go visit there. You and I, unless we are ex-Cubans or on a phoney humanitarian mission, can't go there.

Why should the pack of no good terdz in DC get to decide where I can and cannot go? When did I give them permission to act in this outrageous fashion? Never.

The Beltway scumbags just assume more and more power over more and more areas of our lives.

Today they are trying to send that former DC sack of pus John Edwards to the pen for funding his girlfriend on a trumped up claim that he was diverting campaign funds.

Who is next?

In a world where you and I are ignored and the Al Sharptons and Jerry Falwells of the world get audiences with various presidents, things are seriously horrible.

And don't fall for the smoke and mirrors game that says Obama is so much better than W or that Mitt the Plastic Man Romney is going to be better than the Obama who was going to shut down Guantanamo and loosen up on the obscene war on drugs.

 

[ShinerTX]

Yeah, I do not understand why I can buy all varieties of Chinese junk from Walmart or anywhere else for that matter but I cannot buy Cuban cigars anywhere in this country or bring them in from anywhere else for that matter. Makes no sense. Politically I'm usually aligned with Cuban-Americans but not in this case.

 

[majorwhiteapples]

I stand with Kennedy on this one.....

 

[Gadfly]

I have studied this subject (rise of extreme forms of government), and I truly believe our foreign policy with Cuba is the reason Castro remains in power.

When you consider the history of countries where popular uprising leads to communism and fascism (China, Korea, Spain, Vietnam, Italy, Germany, and Russia), you see they all have the same things in common. The first thing is a popular and charismatic leader (Tito - Yugoslavia, Lenin - Russia, Hitler-Germany, Mussolini-Italy, Franco-Spain, Mao-China, Kim Il-sung-NK, Ho Chi Minh-Vietnam, Hitler-Germany, Castro-Cuba). You will also see the populations of all these countries at the time of their political moves towards totalitarianism/authoritarianism were full of very poor, rural, and/or uneducated people. Essentially, they had no buffering force against extreme ideology: the middleclass. In countries like France, Czechoslovakia, UK, and the US, there was no movement towards the extreme (particularly during the Great Depression) because there was a very large middleclass.

Our policy against regimes in Cuba and North Korea essentially keep the majority population poor. This doesn’t allow for the natural growth of a professional middleclass to gain power and overthrow or change the oppressive governments. Only a country that has a ruling upper-class and a servant lower-class trends towards extremism. The circumstances in Germany were a little different, but the statement still largely applies. Our goal of keeping the poor so poor that they revolt does not work. The poor cannot revolt. They have no power. The fall of Communism in Russia was not because the people were so poor.

There was a rise of a professional class in Russia which the Soviet Union needed to keep up with the West. With the rise of that professional class came the power to institute things like perestroika and glasnost.

Cold War is over. Domino theory was true, but not for the reasons we thought.

 

[dheiman]

Castro's daughter visiting the US is like a bear farting in the woods. As long as they don't leave **** for me to step in, I couldn't care less.

yawn.

 

[Mr. Deez]

I don't like Castro any more than the next guy. However, the embargo is dumb. All it has done is put high fructose corn syrup in our sodas (because cane sugar is expensive) and keep us from getting respectable cigars. I don't think it has done much to harm the regime, because other countries don't honor the embargo. In a global economy, if you really want your embargo to work, you have to sanction (or even embargo) the countries that don't honor your embargo. We're not willing go that far.

 

[l00p]

Pictures? Or don't bother?

 

[l00p]

Is it his daughter or a niece or other relative? I know he has one daughter who opposed his rule and actions and I think she is living in the States or Europe somewhere having fled the country. Is she trying to come here from Europe? Why would the anti-Castro people have a problem with one of his relatives who opposed him?

I am corn-fused.

Edit: It's Raul's daughter, not Fidel's. Raul is still a putz. The title and post lead one to believe it is Fidel Castro's daughter who indeed fled Cuba to Spain and then to Miami where she lives now, happily. She very much opposes her father and his rule which would make her acceptable to the Cubans in Miami.

Mariela, Raul's daughter, openly supports gay rights and issues in Cuba as well as Latin America. That cannot be a very popular stance. She's in San Fran for some meeting or to speak at something. Sorry, did not read further once I realized it was not Fidel's.

 

[BigWill]

she also visited this county a couple of times during the W. Bush administration, so there is a bit of selective outrage among the AM radio folks.

 

[Longhorny630]

can she throw a baseball 100+ mph? otherwise i dont care