Re: [lbo-talk] (Guardian) Comment is free: Should egalitarians support Chávez?

Michael Pugliese michael.098762001 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 13 13:38:12 PST 2007


From someone connected to a journal that thinks this a good piece, instead of a stalinoid apologia. http://www.sdonline.org/37/11-consolidated.html
>...Rosa Miriam Elizalde and Luis Báez Hernández, "THE DISSIDENTS":
Cuban State Security Agents Reveal the True Story. Havana: Editora Política [edit63 at enet.cu], 2003.

This is an important and persuasive book. It should be brought to the attention of all those who are inclined to support Cuba but are not fully informed about the "dissidents" who were tried and imprisoned by the Cuban government in 2003. "Progressive Cuba-bashers," to use Richard Levins's apt term, mistakenly believe like David Finkel, writing in the September/October 2004 issue of Against the Current that those who were imprisoned were victimized "for non-violent expression of views the regime can't tolerate." This is not the case, as this book proves...

http://www.cubanlibrariessolidaritygroup.org.uk/articles.asp?ID=4 Go to a Cuban library. Can you find the works of Susan Sontag, who wrote a poem eulogizing Che for Ramparts? Nope.

http://www.cjonline.org/rLevinsCubaBashing.cfm Progressive Cuba-Bashing By Richard Levins

On 1/13/07, george snedeker <snedekerg at verizon.net> wrote:

Michael Pugliese



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