"I want to see who they blame now for the economic collapse and lack of freedoms that we have in Cuba," dissident activist Yoani Sanchez wrote on Twitter following the White House announcement.
"For a government that denies economic freedom and property rights it seems clear that the changes proposed will first benefit the state apparatus," said Jose Daniel Ferrer, leader of the Cuban Patriotic Union dissident group in Santiago, the island's second largest city. "Only in the medium or long term will we know the effect on the Cuban people."
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Fidel Castro is worth nearly $1 billion, according to this Forbes article.
His wealth is money confiscated from the Cuban people, who he has relegated to poverty via the hoax of his Revalucion. His dictatorship has been little more than a scheme to keep himself wealthy and in power, while keeping those who might stand against him either powerless, or dead.
The question of who benefits most from the easing or relations between Cuba and the US is simple to answer: Castro, whether Fidel or Raoul.
Just think of the casino owners lining up to give Castro a piece of the deal in exchange for developing palatial resorts in Cuba.
The impoverished peasants will still get their $20 per month.
The only Cuban people who will probably benefit from this is the Communist party people. The ones who have run this poor country into the ground.
The only thing I feel good about is that Hugo Chavez is no longer around to gloat over this.
My old man spent WW2 bouncing between Cuba and New Orleans. His 2 brothers got combat duties in Europe and Japan. My old man lucked out. He was the flight mechanic for the admiral in charge of the Gulf and Caribbean. He LOVED Cuba and said if we ever got rid of Castro to make it a point to go there. He loved the people, food, booze, cigars and beaches. They apparently have taken care of their beaches.
Our prez is a horrible negotiator. The guy has probably negotiated nothing in his life. Did he even own a car in Chicago? I think his wife would be much better. He's looking for a legacy DESPERATELY.
My Uncle Dom damn near died in the Battle of the Bulge. He spent months in a UK hospital. Today is the 70th anniversary.
Thousands of Christians are being raped, murdered and driven from their homes. Why isn't the Pope shouting from the rooftops every day? Why isn't he publicly pressuring Obama in the strongest possible way to protect those Christians being persecuted and being turned into slaves in the Middle East?
Why is bailing out Castro so important?
Rubio always me parece tan sen-see-blay.
Know what I mean?
By the time he gets to be eighty years old his ears will sag down to his jawline. I betchya.
The Democrat cuban expat said similar things but with far less acuity. (suffer ad on mute, skip to 1 minute)
Because the pope is a pussy who wants to avoid a religious war instead of engaging one.
He read that last book in the Bible instead of ripping it out like Jesus told him to.
Surely, any sensible reader, in any language at all, can tell the difference in voices underlined in red in that miserable last book and all the previous books of new testament, the books of good news. Its inclusion is offensive.
Here's the thing. Read the old testament starting with the Prophets. Notice how hard-assed they are in the beginning. And I mean HARD. How their "visions" are so rough. Then they get shorter and shorter and nicer and nicer as they proceed until finally Malachi, who doesn't sound so bad at all. Then a gap of 400 years where all sorts of things were going on in the area involving Babylonia, Alexander the great, the Ptolemy line that followed in Alexandria, and crucially the Maccabees in Israel.
Then, astoundingly, as you read along from Malachi to Matthew it is as if the air lifts from hot dusty thick dark cloud to lightness. As if a light from above strikes the pages of the book in your hand. A pin light from above directly to you and your book. An excruciatingly delightful lightness of being. A brand new voice, a set of brand new voices saying the same thing, the synoptic gospels, so friendly, so kind, it is as if you've entered a whole new world. It is truly astonishing to step into the new after laboring through the old testament. Quite extraordinary.
And it makes so much sense all the way through to the end.
Too the penultimate end, that is. Then Revelations tacked on like aching purulent pus-filled bleeding sore, a turd in the punchbowl. It's awful. The words underlined in red, the rubric depicting the voice of Jesus as remembered by his followers, so sweet thoughout suddenly changes to blood red. It's terrible. A nightmare. Any reader, even a child reader will recognize that is NOT the voice of Jesus made familiar in previous books, rather, the voice of some interloper, and a demented interloper at that.
Therefore it is rejected.
And that so much time is spent analyzing that rotten book is depressing. When I see on teevee a televangelist overanalyzing Revelations, superanalyzing Revelations, extraanalyzing Revelations, with chalkboard covered with pure crap I know, I MUST know I am listening to a crackpot in its most broken destroyed state, shards cannot be reassembled.
Jesus told me to go ahead and rip that book out.
So I did.
Some people think the book of Revelations has to do with the three Roman-Jewish wars in the first century AD (CE). These wars resulted in the destruction of Jerusalem and the Jewish diaspora, which included many Jewish Christians. To them, that book has nothing to do with the future of the world--it is part of the past.
I couldn't find a picture to illustrate my point, but some time back I saw a picture of the Cuban politburo. They were all men,and they were all white. I can't find a picture of the present group, but my guess is that they are mostly white and mostly male. Obama should demand to negotiate with a Politburo that looks like Cuba.
The Lamb's Supper - The Mass As Heaven On Earth by Scott Hahn. The Book of Revelation = Revealing and understanding the mysteries of the Mass. Interesting read.
Need a Fr. Fox intervention here because I DO NOT UNDERSTAND this Pope. I want to like him but over time it is starting to seem like he is more interested in easy good publicity (sucking up to the world leaders and the media) than in actual good deeds.
Amartel:
Here's the problem with understanding Pope Francis. The media in the west wants to impose their beliefs onto his theology. The translations form Italian to English are highly suspect. Don't believe them, but look for translations done directly by the Vatican.
Western media, especially American media, seems to believe that whatever the Pops says becomes, or can become, official teachings of the Church.
that ain't how it works; not even close.
Pope, not Pops.
Okay, I'll hold off on the judginess for now.
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