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

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 13 13:46:24 PST 2007


Why don't we let the Cubans live by their own values, and not ours?

--- Michael Pugliese <michael.098762001 at gmail.com> wrote:


> 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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