This kind of high-minded social democracy never addresses how to deal with the U.S. breathing down Cuba's neck. Our government is at least as responsible for repression in Cuba as is Cuba's own.
Doug
On Jan 13, 2007, at 7:46 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote:
> Cuba is not Stalinist, or even Stalinoid. There aren't show trials,
> routine executions, and massive numbers of people in prison. So drop
> the epithets.
>
> Doug
>
> The Padilla affair?
> See http://www.nybooks.com/articles/10580
> An Open Letter to Fidel Castro signed by Sartre, J. Semprun a Spanish
> Communist who was imprisoned in a Nazi camp. (see his, "Literature or
> Life? Wrote the screenplay for Z.)
> The show trial of General Ochoa, hero of the intervention in Angola
> including the battle of Cuito Cuanavale which delivered a hammer blow
> to the South African apartheid regime?
> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=3816
> The Trial that Shook Cuba
> The treatment of Carlos Franqui, a M-26 guerilla w/Fidel and
> numerous other revolutionary artists of the 60's? (See Franqui's
> memoir as well as the memoir of Allende's Amb. to Cuba, J. edwards,
> "Persona Non Grata, " reissued by Nation Books.)
> The turbas divinas (divine mobs) organized by CDR's to harass
> democratic dissidents?
> http://www.therealcuba.com/Page7.htm
> The documentary, "No One Listened, " by Cuban Nestor Almendros,
> which was a recipient of a prize from HRW, has much on the repression
> of Cuban leftists during the 60's and 70's. See it.
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