mongo wrote:
I must agree. Breaking the chains on communistic countries has always been the american dream.
Well, that's always been the dream of the NWO... (The American dream has always been whatever Americans are being sold at the time.)
But Cuba is still wearing those chains my friend... Nothing's changed there, they are still essentially communist, the people there still get free medical and free education etc. The chains that have actually been broken are the sanctions that we forged where we would not let ANY country in the world trade with Cuba. Any country that did would not be allowed to trade with us and our 3.5 million consumers.
mongo wrote:
We can sit down and have a couple of cervasas with them, then get escorted to our new diggs...in prison.
Why? The Stones didn't go to prison. I'm sure they had a few beers too.
mongo wrote:
Maybe you don't remember who they support or what they did to all of their educators.
Why don't you fill me in?
mongo wrote:
Before Castro, it was a resort country that made money on tourism.
They *did* make a lot of money on tourism, but there was a lot of other fortunes being made there too, from things like sugar and oil. That's why the U.S. tried to control their industries after the Spanish left. Did you forget that part or did you miss it entirely? The Cubans were screwed. They fought the Spanish to be free and they thought the U.S. was helping them. They even wrote a constitution modeled after ours, but Teddy Roosevelt basically said... "Screw that shit. I got friends that want to own your sugar so we're going to make you another banana republic controlled by our "free-market" empire and if you don't like it... say hello to my Big Stick.
mongo wrote:
That changed after the coup to terrorism. They can keep him for all I care, he's worthless anyways.
Well... just so you know... the Castro that led that "coup" as you call it (actually it was a popular revolution but whatever) yeah... he's dead. So... I guess update your mental notes on that one. The guy in charge now is his brother.
Yes, Pre-Castro days were great - for the relatively few privileged folks with connections to big money; but for the vast majority of Cubans, it was pretty screwed up and that led to the same animosity among the masses that led to every communist revolution there ever was.
I know a few Cubans myself and they hold a special distaste for Castro. But both of them come from families that had some Pre-Castro connection to the affluent class, which explains why they're here and not in Cuba. I have a Nicaraguan friend with the exact same kind of story.
I know you've been trained to hate the whole Castro thing... Not sure what to say about that other than the fact that I can tell. Maybe one day you'll see things differently.
Peace and love