Comments on: Europe’s Carrot Meets Castro’s Stick

By: topapito

topapito — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:10:48 +0000

Castro put the supposed dissidents in jail because he needed currency to deal with the world nations confronting him on the democracy issues. It is relatively easy for castro to find this currency, it comes in the form of human lives plucked from the people he claims to serve.

He is willing to kill them all to get his way. It is a game of chicken. And castro always wins, the US and EU always blink and wind up acquiescing. Obama, McCain, neither one will be any better than the last 20 presidents castro has put in his rear view mirror. The Miami exiles will continue to allow castro to sacrifice the Cubans while they live their now great lives in Miami.

Those who say democracy has to come from within are copping out, although I do not mind complete sovereignty. There isn’t much left within, too many have left.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:53:36 +0000

You’re totally right, webloglearner. Spot on. I’m sure in some countries, imprisoning political opponents is the cool thing to do. And hell, if that country should think that murdering them is cool too, who are we to judge, right?
I’m sure the world will be a pretty sweet place once we ditch that ‘moral responsibility’ nonsense that has been holding us back all this time.

By: the webloglearner

the webloglearner — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:41:39 +0000

still behind bars? The only i am curious though is the fact that powerful nations, especially the US and in this case the EU have been meddling/meddles/or will meddle with the affairs of other nations! Only them are correct and those who have ideas not parallel to them are wrong.

By: Henry Gomez

Henry Gomez — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:51:10 +0000

Afina,

I don’t care about any other country you mention. I care about Cuba. Thanks for your comment though, even as ill-informed as it is. I’ll leave you with one question. How can an opinion-based web site be free of bias?

By: afina

afina — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:49:58 +0000

THis is biased article, like everything on this website…I agree that the lifting of teh EU sanctions will do nothing to enourage democracy in Cuba.

At the same time, I think its the moral thing to do. Cuba, dictator or not, is a soverign nation that deserves to be part of world community. Should we also sever all ties with Saudia Arabia, Vietnam, China – and other countries in the Middle east -which by the way are wholly worse off the Cuba.

This person demonizes Cuba, which should be, but exaggerates how bad it is…. you have never been to Cuba in the past 20 years.. its bad (ie. poverty, repressive polices on freedom of speech), but not vietnam or even rural China bad..

Or even go to “democracies” Go to Dominian republic, Hati, even Jamica, – analyze their infrastructe and education system = much worse off than cuba.

OR even Costa Rica, the bastion of western style democracies and strong ally of US has more prostitutes than Cuba, which you always lament. Go to downtown San Jose, you will see with your own eyes. Brazil , a realtively rich country, also has more prostittues.

In my humble opinion, its all about Miami and their desire that Cuba “reflect” their warped view of “freedom”. Freedom will come from within or from nowhere… Cubans are fiercy nationalistic – partly b/c what Batista and prior dictators did to that country.

I am anti-castro, but also anti-exile at once. This puts me with the majority of common Cubans (the ones living and making a life in cuba).

By: Jude

Jude — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:48:20 +0000

Obama would be the person who sees a sign, “Wet Paint”, and then touches it and sees the paint on his fingers and makes the excuse, “Well, I wanted to see if was dry.

Some people will not take direction. Hillary is one of those people. Just about all of elected offices have a staff and or advisors. Think about it. The President has his Cabinet, Congressmen and women, Senators etc. etc. Speeches are prepared for them (think tele-monitors) the audience is salted with people who are going to ask questions that do not embarrass the speaker. The real tough questions are eliminated by the controlling switch. Questions are edited before hand. When the oil CEO’s were questioned by Congress it was a joke. Our Congress hasn’t the intelligence to form a question with relevance to the context of the subject at hand.

Obama is being coached and advised and they are not doing him any justice. Hillary was coached and her ego would not allow their advise.

By: vb

vb — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:13:09 +0000

This is OT but related. The EU has agreed to toughen policies on undocumented immigrants, including extending the time they can be held in detention centers. I think this applies largely to people whose request for asylum has been turned down but for various reasons cannot be deported immediately. The link to this article is that Hugo Chavez has threatened to stop oil sales to Europe because the new regulations violate human rights.