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11 months ago
in People's Weekly World - Billboard demands freedom for Cuban 5 on People's Weekly World Newspaper
Nice blog and photo. You can never have too much coverage of Cuba in the PWW!
1 year ago
in Lighten up on Cuba? Try on January 21, 2009… on Intelligent Discontent
Just last week we saw the New York Philharmonic performing in Pyongyang, North Korea. Cuba remains the only country on earth where orginary people from the US need a permission slip from the Federal Government to go for a visit.
Is that ridiculous, or what?
And now internet domains with the word Cuba in it are being blocked all over the world by the United States government. They really, REALLY don't want people learning about or going to see Cuba for themselves.
Cuba and the United States are not and cannot be equal. Cuba’s government certainly does limit democratic rights. But in a situation like David and Goliath, Cuba does what it feels it must to defend itself. Look at Iraq today and you can see what Cuba would look like if it were “liberated” by Washington.
In Guantanamo, the world can see what legal system Washington would impose on the rest of Cuba if only it could. In Guantanamo, which is United States occupied territory, prisoners are held without trial for years, and are told they could be held indefinitely even if not found guilty there. In this context, Cuba’s defensive measures should surprise no one.
My father and his parents lived in Cuba from 1939 to 1942. They were German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, and not political left-wingers. That family history is where my own interest in Cuba comes from. My dad met my mom in the United States and that's how I came into this world.
Cuban society today represents an effort to build an alternative to the way life was under the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, who ran Cuba before Fidel Castro led a revolution there. No one complained about a lack of human rights and democracy in those days, but U.S. businesses were protected.
Some things work, some don’t. Like any society, Cuba its flaws and contradictions, as well as having solid achievements. No society is perfect. But we can certainly learn a few things from Cuba’s experience.
We should all be free to visit Cuba. We can visit China and Vietnam, even North Korea, Syria and Iran, why can't we visit Cuba and see it for ourselves? Cuba is our neighbor and we should simply normalized relations with the island.
Is that ridiculous, or what?
And now internet domains with the word Cuba in it are being blocked all over the world by the United States government. They really, REALLY don't want people learning about or going to see Cuba for themselves.
Cuba and the United States are not and cannot be equal. Cuba’s government certainly does limit democratic rights. But in a situation like David and Goliath, Cuba does what it feels it must to defend itself. Look at Iraq today and you can see what Cuba would look like if it were “liberated” by Washington.
In Guantanamo, the world can see what legal system Washington would impose on the rest of Cuba if only it could. In Guantanamo, which is United States occupied territory, prisoners are held without trial for years, and are told they could be held indefinitely even if not found guilty there. In this context, Cuba’s defensive measures should surprise no one.
My father and his parents lived in Cuba from 1939 to 1942. They were German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, and not political left-wingers. That family history is where my own interest in Cuba comes from. My dad met my mom in the United States and that's how I came into this world.
Cuban society today represents an effort to build an alternative to the way life was under the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, who ran Cuba before Fidel Castro led a revolution there. No one complained about a lack of human rights and democracy in those days, but U.S. businesses were protected.
Some things work, some don’t. Like any society, Cuba its flaws and contradictions, as well as having solid achievements. No society is perfect. But we can certainly learn a few things from Cuba’s experience.
We should all be free to visit Cuba. We can visit China and Vietnam, even North Korea, Syria and Iran, why can't we visit Cuba and see it for ourselves? Cuba is our neighbor and we should simply normalized relations with the island.
1 year ago
in SOTU Cuba Watch on OpenMarket.org
On your masthead I read, "We believe that people improve their lives not through government regulation, but by making their own choices in a free marketplace."
Therefore I take it you are completely opposed to government regulations here in the United States which prevent people from the United States from visiting Cuba if they want to.
Thanks,
Walter Lippmann
Los Angeles, California
Therefore I take it you are completely opposed to government regulations here in the United States which prevent people from the United States from visiting Cuba if they want to.
Thanks,
Walter Lippmann
Los Angeles, California
5 years ago
in Thread on Inc.com
Thanks for this comment on Cuba. The story of small US busineess have shown a willingness to work with Cuba on a mutually-beneficial basis, and has profited thereby, has lots to teach us, in my opinion.
If the foreign policy of our country weren`t beholden to the fading minority of Cuban exiles in Miami, there would be many more business opportunities on the island of Cuba. With all of its troubles, I think Cuba has a few important things we could even learn from.
Cubans on the island are very fond of the United States, its people, movies and culture. Cuban TV
features American programming all the time, particularly classes teaching the English language.
Today, even the Miami Herald, of all places, has an article showing how Cuba, a poor third world country, has been able to accomplish in providing inexpensive medicines for its citizens. Some of these have now begun to find their way into Florida as the Herald explains.
I wouldn`t want to have the Cuban political system in the United States, but there are some things like these where I think we have a few things to learn.
Check this out:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/hea...
If the foreign policy of our country weren`t beholden to the fading minority of Cuban exiles in Miami, there would be many more business opportunities on the island of Cuba. With all of its troubles, I think Cuba has a few important things we could even learn from.
Cubans on the island are very fond of the United States, its people, movies and culture. Cuban TV
features American programming all the time, particularly classes teaching the English language.
Today, even the Miami Herald, of all places, has an article showing how Cuba, a poor third world country, has been able to accomplish in providing inexpensive medicines for its citizens. Some of these have now begun to find their way into Florida as the Herald explains.
I wouldn`t want to have the Cuban political system in the United States, but there are some things like these where I think we have a few things to learn.
Check this out:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/hea...
