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Friday August 18, 2006

US steps up anti-Castro TV. Meanwhile, Cuban exiles wage war of terror? Yikes! (thanks KH)

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  1. Robert    Fri Aug 18, 11:41 AM #  

    Wow. The terrorist article couldn’t have been more biased if fidel wrote it (come to think of it, he probably did).

    Brothers to the Rescue being part of an “Al-Qaeda” like organization? It’s too funny to even begin to get upset about it.

    One can have reasonable suspicions about Luis Posada Carriles, as I do. However, the article erroneously states that he was convicted of blowing up the airliner, when in fact he was acquitted TWICE in Venezuela. After the ruling, he was then thrown in jail. How’s that for justice?



  2. alesh    Fri Aug 18, 02:30 PM #  

    yeah, it’s a pretty fucked-up article. Worth observing, though, is that the distinction between “freedom fighter” and “terrorist” is in the side which the observer is on, not in any observable behavior.



  3. J-J    Fri Aug 18, 05:14 PM #  

    I liked the article, most people in Latin Ameica and Europe feel this way and talk openly about it. Only in Miami its imposible to say or publish an article like this one. Just imagine what would happen if the Miami New Times would print a piecee such as this one? We are very restricted in what we can say in Miami as far as Cuban issues go. I do hope the Cuban 5 get a FAIR trial. I just wish I could go to Washington in September for the White House demonstration for the Cuban 5.



  4. Robert    Sat Aug 19, 10:51 AM #  

    J-J,

    The Cuban Five already got a fair trail, one which a hypothetical “American Five” would never receive in Cuba.

    As far as different views prevented from being heard in Miami, what do you make of people like Francisco Aruca and his cadre at Radio Progreso? They constantly bash conservative Cuban-Americans and Miami in general while apologizing for the castro regime, on-air every day in the capital of intolerance…Miami.

    Last I heard, Aruca’s pro-business-with-Cuba company was doing quite well.