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1. DavidN:

I think the double standard with regards to Cuba has something to do with the idea that most American liberals, and even those not particularly liberal, have the impression that the Cuban regime prior to Castro wasn’t particularly Democratic. I have read elsewhere that Cuba’s population, still in Cuba, dreads Castro’s death and the presumed fall of the communist government there, because while they will enjoy the freedom, most of them live in homes that would be repossessed by the exiles from Miami, who would wind up owning most of the country. Those exiles, of course, despise Castro and those who’ve stolen their property, but the reality is that *some* Cubans support Castro, because the country has never had anything better.

I’m not saying I don’t support democracy in Cuba; of course I do. What I’m saying is that the exiles from Miami, at least in terms of Batista’s regime, wasn’t exactly a paragon of virtue either, and whether we’re willing to acknowledge that or not, people in Cuba know it for a fact.

Sep 7, 2009 - 1:26 am 2. vivo:

H Gomez makes spurious assumptions about Juanes and smears his credibility. Typical Miami-Cuban hate. Many Americans don’t know who Batista was 50 years ago and why the Cubans revolted against a very corrupt and criminal tyranny.

Miami Cubans are worst than foreigners in Cuba. They don’t belong there anymore since all they talk about is hatred for their own people.

Sep 7, 2009 - 4:46 am 3. Mongoose:

David: the Miami exiles are a tiny bunch of people. They do not “own” Cuba. This is absurd as saying the Russians feared the fall of the Soviets because the White Russians will come back and take back “their property”. The Russian, ike the Cubans have much moe pressing existential problems than so odd notion of returning exiles.

More to the point, there are no real property rights in Cuba–it is all under the formal control of the state, or the informal control of the Party. They need not wait for returning exiles to steal their “property”, there are villains much closer to home that will steal it. It is a Socialist, totalitarian Hell-hole. Castro and his henchmen are dictators and mass murders. You indulge here in the standard moral relativism of the left. You are attempting to justify evil things with it. You should actually go live in places like Cuba, and not live there with the Prty elites either. This will open your mind.

The American Left;s regard for Castro, et al., has absolutely nothing to do with “concern” for the plight of the average Cuban. That is just rhetoric. Their regard for Cuba is purely Ideological. They are Marxist; the Cuban Regime is Marxist.

Nothing in the prior, non-communist regime can equal the plunder of Cuba under the Communists. Please stop mouthing Communist agitprop from years gone by. The Left always lies, and they always substitute propaganda for truth. Communism is slavery to the absolute power of the state. There is no way around this

Sep 7, 2009 - 4:57 am 4. Mongoose:

The Russian, Like the Cubans have much moRe pressing existential problems than soME odd notion of returning exiles.

Sep 7, 2009 - 4:58 am 5. mac:

Mr Gomez, when will you realize that all you need to do to get away with brutality is say you are for peace, equality, and free health care. It is what you intend to do not what actually happens that matters to the progressive apologists. More blood has been spilled in the name of ‘correcting systemic injustice’ over the last century by authoritarian regimes on their own people than the 2 world wars in the same century.

Sep 7, 2009 - 7:23 am 6. vito:

z,

as someone said before you make a lot of assumtioms regarding Juanes. Juanes is a great guy. He has a foundation that helps those in colombia victims of land mines. I do not agree with him performing in Cuba, but you are just trying to trash the guy. Get your facts first.

Sep 7, 2009 - 7:39 am 7. karen:

He must be okay Look he is wearing a “freedom scarf” the fashion statement of terrorists and wanna be’s.

Sep 7, 2009 - 8:05 am 8. marc:

I lived in Venezuela for several years and I remember Juanes giving free concerts in shopping malls. Juanes, never spoke against Mr. Chavez, though his upper-middle class teenage fan base was at risk to Bolivarian Bolshevism. Juanes, appears to be ideologically socialist/marxist but relies on a free-market system to live in luxury in Miami. Juanes is a whore, for lack of a better word. Women in Cuba whore themselves for chocolates, stockings and food, it seems that Juanes is no better.

Sep 7, 2009 - 9:15 am 9. Robert:

David makes several assumptions that are blatantly false. One, the vast majority of Cuban exiles in Miami and elsewhere have no interest whatsoever in reclaiming any property in Cuba, that is if they had any to begin with. Two, while Cuba pre-castro had its share of problems with political stability, it by no means can even begin to compare with the disaster of the last 50 years. Cuba pre-castro enjoyed one of the most productive economies in Latin America, even surpassing some European countries: http://ctp.iccas.miami.edu/FACTS_Web/Cuba%20Facts%20Issue%2043%20December.htm

Three, it may be convenient for the sake or argument to label Cuban exiles as lacking virtue, but anyone with even a shred of knowledge of Cuban exiles knows that’s just plain generalizing BS. Not all, or even a significant majority, of exiles were pro-Batista (a common American mis-perception). Many who initially supported fidel bailed seeking freedom once it became obvious what Cuba was becoming. If seeking freedom isn’t virtuous, then nothing is.

Sep 7, 2009 - 9:20 am 10. Felix:

I am extremely tired of people like vivo, “Miami Cubans” as if we were a parasitic group of people. I’ll get to this later. How small does your brain have to be in order to not comprehend that it is the regime and its radical supporters we are against, not the regular citizen. Come on, how many more times do we have to shout Libertad for you to get the point that maybe Castro is not the good guy you thought after all? That there ARE Human Rights Abuses, political prisoners, prisoners of conscience, unjust beatings of peaceful protesters by government thugs? Jesus Christ! 50 freaking years and nobody gets it yet? Oh Fidel and his brother a swell guys, oh look he misses Che Guevara therefore having the whole island idolize him…even though he was the one who sent him to his well-deserved death.

Now back to Vivo…I’d like to propose a question. Where do most exiled Cubans flee to? Risk their lives to reach? which Cubans are closer to the island? Who is on the frontlines when it comes to matters pertaining Cuba? It’s not that hard. You fail to realize that only in Miami will you find the authentic Cuban culture. Many first generation Cubans have arrived here and made a life for themselves here, infact Miami Cubans made Miami what it is today. How dare you put down a people who’ve had to struggle more than you probably will in a life time? All because of a tyrannical regime which still has Cuba in a stranglehold. Juanes get the criticism (NOT HATE) he deserves because he doesn’t get that he is preaching to the choir, he cannot tell us that he is doing an honest and noble thing all the while paying tribute to a ruthless dictatorship, and fraternizing with it’s staunch supporters. Art, once on the island, becomes politics.

Now, I don’t know the future. Probably he is really apolitical, and does his concert without any political messages (highly doubt it since he’s got Castro’s stooges surrounding him, Olga Tanion, and Victor Manuel that will probably shout “VIVA FIDEL!” ) although that is just wishful thinking. If anything I’d like to see him sing ES TIEMPO DE CAMBIAR/IT’S TIME TO CHANGE song and see how long it takes before they pull the plug on him.

Sep 7, 2009 - 9:26 am 11. Poor Citizen:

I think its time to put the toys away in the shed and buy some new ones. The age of the Bay of Pigs…is now passed and Kennedy is now long gone. The world has changed. We should re visit this issue and at least start melting more of the ice between our two countries. Nixon did it with China in ‘72 and we should at least consider a way forward. We should be preparing to move forward.

Sep 7, 2009 - 9:33 am 12. defiant1:

Yes! Lets censor Juanes! They do that in Cuba when they dont like what their musicians say or play.Lets black list him,like they do in Cuba.Get him out of our radio stations,like they do in Cuba.Lets burn his records,like they do in Cuba.Lets trash talk him and make sure he does’nt play,like they do in Cuba. Lets take away his rights,like they do in Cuba….BLA,BLA,BLA!!! Juanes tarde Henry.

Sep 7, 2009 - 9:48 am 13. arhooley:

Poor Citizen, vivo

How about applying your ideas to the American Civil War? Those abolitionists should have moved beyond their differences with slaveholders and attempted to make peace and achieve understanding, eh? Frederick Douglass should have shaken hands with any Simon Legree — in front of a plantation full of slaves — and maybe we could have avoided that awful bloodshed.

Sep 7, 2009 - 10:36 am 14. whyyeseyec:

No doubt should Castro die during BHO`s regime the marxists in DC will call for Coo-bah to become our 51st state. Or should I say 58th?

Sep 7, 2009 - 11:44 am 15. Alex:

- How does having to get permission to play amounts to an endorsement of the regime by Juanes? I had to get permission of the Cuban government to leave. Was I endorsing them?

- A technical point in response to a gross generalization. Juanes did not refused to play in Chile during Pinochet or South Africa during apartheid. It’s pure speculation to accuse him of hypocrisy. Maybe he would have played for the people of Chile like many other artists did. How do you know? And he is not playing in Cuba in a venue equivalent to a Sun City, a resort for wealthy afrikaaners and tourists in a segregated bantustan.

- If one puts on a scale the pain of the historical exiles against the desire of the Cuban people for the concert to go on, why should one matter more than the other? Why the need for a scale anyway? One can acknowledge that pain –and Juanes has definitely gone out of his way to acknowledge it and meet with exile representatives– while still believing his course of action is the right one.

Sep 7, 2009 - 11:56 am 16. Fantomas:

9 out 10 Cubans in Miami support Juanes concert

Sep 7, 2009 - 12:37 pm 17. DavidN:

Mongoose: I actually know someone who would be surprised at your assertions about the Soviet Union, or at least Eastern Europe. His in-laws recovered substantial real estate (essentially a city block in the capitol city’s business district) after the fall of communism. It *does* or *did* happen.

Robert: Economic stability and political freedom are two different things. And economic numbers, and stability, say nothing about what life is like for the common people. If you have a group of 100 people, 99 make nothing for a decade, and the last makes $100 million a year, the group is rich (they average $1 million a year each in income) and the whole thing is very stable. That doesn’t mean the 99 people enjoy their lives. I realize this is crude, but pre-Castro Cuba wasn’t that different from other Latin American countries in the region during the period, with widespread poverty and a few wealthy people.

Lastly, I didn’t precisely say that Cubans actually had reason to fear that their houses would be taken from them if the Miami Cubans returned. I said that they *feared* this would happen. Also, whether they actually own the houses or flats, or have just lived there for years, is irrelevant: when people live someplace for a long period of time, it’s their home. Having someone show up claiming to be the owner after decades would be disconcerting, don’t you think? Having to wonder if something like this is *going* to happen, at some point in the future? Yeah, I’m sure they’re all completely unconcerned.

Again, Castro is a monster (a minor one, but still a monster) and deserves to be executed, or at least sent into exile. I’m sure the anti-Castro community contains people who are worthwhile and have reasonable agendas. I’m also sure that many of them are neither of these. The problem is that I just don’t believe that a wealthy aristocrat who was deprived of his rightful place in society will now accept that his return to his country doesn’t mean that he gets all of his land and power back. It might not happen, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t think it will.

Sep 7, 2009 - 1:07 pm 18. misanthopicus:

As a public service, I will re-post Vivo’s tirade @ #2; please remark the Komintern-type of vocabulary & turn of phrases used by it/him/her:

[...] H Gomez makes spurious assumptions about Juanes and smears his credibility. Typical Miami-Cuban hate. Many Americans don’t know who Batista was 50 years ago and why the Cubans revolted against a very corrupt and criminal tyranny. Miami Cubans are worst than foreigners in Cuba. They don’t belong there anymore since all they talk about is hatred for their own people. [...]

Sep 7, 2009 - 1:42 pm 19. Chileno:

Hmmm… Would Juanes extend his “peace” tour to a sate-approved venue in Honduras?

Does Juanes, who has called for peace in his own war-torn Colombia, not see the irony of playing in a venue approved by the very people who would rather see the Colombian civil war continue?

It’s ironic how Left-leaning actors/singers, whose status is largely due to our consumerist, capitalist society, flock to the impoverished island prison that is Cuba, make movies glorifying murderous rebels like Che Guevara, or sing in a Cuban state-sanctiouned venue. But they would never dare live in Cuba, as they probably realize their liberal yet consumerist attitudes would never be tolerated.

Sep 7, 2009 - 2:53 pm 20. Mark G:

When I was in High School in the 70’s in Denver, Colorado… one of the students stood up in World History class and told us that her family had owned a lumber mill in Cuba and that the Communists had seized it. She was implying that communism sucked and that Castro really was a jerk. It was too much for my young mind to process. I think I can see her point now.

Sep 7, 2009 - 6:47 pm 21. Ziva:

Alex said, “One can acknowledge that pain –and Juanes has definitely gone out of his way to acknowledge it…”

It’s not the exile community’s pain he needs to address; it is that of Cubans living in Castro’s hellhole. Is he going to use that stage in Revolutionary Square to acknowledge the pain of living on a ration card with no human rights while sharing the stage with Castro’s goons? Only a fool would think so. No matter the feel good moment that may come comes from this, it is a tacit endorsement of the regime.

Sep 7, 2009 - 9:01 pm 22. Ziva:

DavidN: Do you honest believe that the exile community in Miami are mostly aristocrats seeking to regain their property in Cuba? The revolution was 50 years ago, most of the original exiles are quite elderly or have passed on, and the majority of them were middle class, not aristocrats. Read Enrique Encinsosas “Unvanquished, Cuba’s Resisitance to Fidel Castro” or Armando Valladares “Against All Hope.” Learn the truth about Cuba, and Cubans.

Sep 7, 2009 - 9:08 pm 23. vivo:

10. Felix:

“50 freaking years and nobody gets it yet?”

That’s the whole point. Miami Cubans don’t get it.

“Who is on the frontlines when it comes to matters pertaining Cuba?”

What have they done in 50 years? If you were 40 in 1960, you’re 90 now. That means that most ‘young’ Miami Cubans never lived there and can car less (Few exceptions, of course).

“Juanes . . . cannot tell us that he is doing an honest and noble thing all the while paying tribute to a ruthless dictatorship”

Here’s your paranoia. He’s an artist, he’s Latin, mingling with Latin people, not like some of the Miami Cuban agringados. He’s not paying tribute. Were Madonna and Michael Jackson paying tribute to the English, Japanese and what-have-you?

See 16. Fantomas:

“9 out 10 Cubans in Miami support Juanes concert.”

Wake up, Felix!

Sep 8, 2009 - 2:23 am 24. Sebastian Shaw:

The irony is if Juanes became a Cuban resident, he would be stripped of all of his wealth from the Castro regime, put on a stipend, & be told specifically by Castro’s Communist government what songs to sing. Really, Juanes is a fool, an idiot, & truly I am dumbstruck he would support Communism in any form, including the beloved Fidel Castro. Above all else, Juanes is a hypocrite using capitalism to gain his wealth & become a recording artist, yet he stands by Communism where his dreams would be dust. Nimrod. He reads from the same Hollywood script as other musicians & celebutants. He’s not very original.

Sep 8, 2009 - 6:53 am 25. linnilu:

12. defiant1,

Obviously you haven’t read the 1st Amendment. People not agreeing with Juanes is not censorship. They are not taking away his rights. If radio stations don’t play him it’s because their listeners do not want to hear him. It affects their ratings if they don’t pay attention to their listeners. It affects their bottom line. Most radio stations I know are not non-profits. If people who have bought his records want to burn them, that’s their property they are burning. He has a right to play in Cuba; people have a right to trash talk him. The 1st Amendment is a two way road. He can do as he pleases with his music and his stances, but people do have a right to disagree with him regardless of your rant. Get over it.

Sep 8, 2009 - 10:04 am 26. Burrrbank:

Juanes, like many international celebrities, misuse America’s generosity to their own purpose. The very fact that he’s announcing the concert from America is a political statement. He’s too blind, naive and surrounded by slathering groupies to see his own hypocrisy. Ask him these questions: Why do you choose to live in America and not your own country of Colombia? Do you intend to become an American citizen? Will you be moving to Cuba and calling that country “home”? When will you perform a concert extolling the greatness of America, it’s political system and social atmosphere which you choose to live under? Will you announce during your concert in Cuba that they should become more like America so that those in the crowd (and off of whom you make a living) can enjoy the same freedoms and choices you do?

Sep 8, 2009 - 10:26 am 27. deguello:

Juanes is another contemptible useful idiot,who likes to enjoy capitalism, while endorsing.communism forCuban people.VIVIOT, like this jerk ,use their support of Castro,to salve their bad consciences, about living well in the USA. despicable!

Sep 8, 2009 - 3:09 pm 28. Alex:

Ziva said: “It’s not the exile community’s pain he needs to address; it is that of Cubans living in Castro’s hellhole.”

I agree with you in the sense that Juanes’ concern should not be with the exile’s feelings but with the people of Cuba. Perhaps your problem is with Henry’s article then, as he is the one who talks about “Despite claiming to be aware of how hurtful such a concert in Havana will be to his Cuban-American neighbors in Miami” and “adding insult to injury”.

Juanes believes, and I also believe, that his concert will be a palliative to that pain, a message of hope and a clear sign to everyday Cubans that they are not alone in their plight, not just a “feel good moment”. I believe this based mostly on my personal experience and a belief that pragmatism and inclusion undermine the regime where it counts, inside the minds of Cubans. No one has said, much less Juanes, that it will be the final solution. For that matter neither has 50 years of isolationism.

But even if you believe it’s “just a feel good moment”, it’s quite telling that you would deny a scarce feel good moment to Cubans in order to score a minor political point. The concert is not going to free Cuba but neither is not giving the concert. Where exactly is the harm?

Sep 9, 2009 - 6:43 am 29. Henry Gomez:

Where exactly is the harm?

Here’s the harm. The totalitarian regime in Cuba remains in power because of the international support it receives, mainly based on its propagandistic capabilities. Concerts like the one planned for Sept 20th give the impression that Cuba is a country like any other country whose citizens have simply chosen a different form of government. Any act like this one that “normalizes” Cuba’s reputation in the world helps the regime. Period. Artists refused to play in South Africa because they found the government there reprehensible. Playing in Sun City was tantamount to supporting Apartheid. Same is true about Cuba and it’s fidelista regime. But they don’t want to see it that way. Why? Because in their eyes not all dictatorships are equal. There’s a double standard. Left wing dictatorships get a pass. Well that’s simply not right. Accepting an invitation from the Castro brothers is an endorsement.

Sep 9, 2009 - 10:44 am 30. deguello:

AMEN HERMANO! VIAV CUBA LIBRE!

Sep 9, 2009 - 12:16 pm 31. Jsebast:

A reporter visits Havana and asks a man in the street how has the revolution worked for him.
“I can’t complain,” the man said.
“Oh, you mean it hasn’t been so bad?” asked the reporter.
“No, I mean ‘I can’t complain’,” said the man.

Juanes, say hi to the “coma-andante” for me.

Sep 9, 2009 - 1:36 pm 32. Gusano Stomper:

Usual Gusano Babalu-blog inspired claptrap.

Viva Fidel Castro & El Che Vive !

Sep 9, 2009 - 4:33 pm 33. deguello:

GUSANO STOMPER#32 Great arguments,those:”Viva Fidel!& El Che vive!How many days did it take you to make them up?You,and your mother may have missed a visit to the VD clinic.You’d better check before resuming incest.Mutual re-infection can lead to Che worship you know.

Sep 9, 2009 - 6:43 pm 34. Gusano Stomper:

—> Miami Gusanos are pure scum.

They fled Cuba like manginas after their Mafia ran Casino Whore House Island under Batista was overthrown.

These white Reich-wing “exiles” have now turned Miami into a 3rd world slum. They backed the BRAC Gestapo under Batista that killed, raped, and tortured 20,000 of their fellow Cubans … until the heroic Che and Fidel arrived and brought the people JUSTICE !

Hasta la Victoria Siempre !

Sep 9, 2009 - 7:08 pm 35. Gusano Stomper:

The hypocrisy of the Anti-Castro crowd, is never to be underestimated. It’s the blockade, not Castro, which has created the majority of the misery for the Cuban people. Yet a tiny minority of so called “exiles” and former Batista goons have unfairly controlled U.S. policy towards Cuba like a 5th column, thanks to votes they provide their Republican masters in Florida. In a very ugly and ironic way, they promote the starving and suffering of the Cuban people by insisting that no change in US policy occur.

Exiles don’t care at all about the Cuban people. They would starve everyone in order to have their mansion back.

Sep 9, 2009 - 7:09 pm 36. deguello:

Listen,filth,the only hypocrisy is that of sympathizers of Stalinist murderers like yourself,who safe in the comfortable embrace of capitalist freedom ,dare to criticize those who won’t live under brutal oppression. Why don’t YOU go and help Castro out if you believe so much in the Revolution.Your support is needed to help Castro continue to kill,torture,and starve the Cuban people.Besides,you desperately need to partake of Cuban medical/psychological “care”to cure your syphillis,and persuade to stop committing incest with your parents.Garbage like you don’t care about the Cuban people;they need the fantasy of Stalinism to sustain,their contemptible little lives,even if it means that innocent people die and suffer in the killing fields of the Cuban socialist dystopia.

Sep 10, 2009 - 6:39 am 37. Alex:

“Here’s the harm. The totalitarian regime in Cuba remains in power because of the international support it receives, mainly based on its propagandistic capabilities.”

If that’s your concern, then advocate for lifting the embargo. Nothing has given Castro more ammunition for propaganda purposes around the world than the embargo. If you ask people around the world why Cuba is a dictatorship, 9.9 times out of 10 their answer will include a reference to the embargo. It’s what gives credence to his claim that Cuba is a small country at war with an imperialist giant. Period.

“Concerts like the one planned for Sept 20th give the impression that Cuba is a country like any other country whose citizens have simply chosen a different form of government.”

This premise makes no sense. To use your South Africa parallel, if some artists had not boycotted apartheid, would that make the world accept it? Plenty of other artists played in Sun City. Did that give anybody the impression that apartheid was “a different system of government”?

“Accepting an invitation from the Castro brothers is an endorsement.”

Now we went from “receiving permission” to “accepting an invitation”, and that’s not just semantics. You have any proof that was the regime who asked Juanes to perform? Of course you haven’t because that’s not what happened.

Your argument amounts to saying that in Cuba the people and the regime are one and the same, since playing in Cuba is playing for the regime. That’s simply not true.

Sep 10, 2009 - 3:43 pm 38. catlee:

He’s young and stupid.

Sep 10, 2009 - 7:48 pm 39. deguello:

ALEX#37 You win my nomination for useful idiot prize.Your embargo argument is specious .Cuba is free to trade withthe rest of the world;it can’t because Castriote economics have ruined it,leaving little it can profitably sell. The reason for Cuba’s misery and poverty,is not the embargo which only affects trade with the US,it is communism.

Sep 10, 2009 - 8:42 pm 40. deguello:

ALEX#37 You win my nomination for useful idiot prize.Your embargo argument is specious .Cuba is free to trade withthe rest of the world;it can’t because Castroite economics have ruined it,leaving little it can profitably sell. The reason for Cuba’s misery and poverty,is not the embargo which only affects trade with the US,it is communism.

Sep 10, 2009 - 8:43 pm 41. Fidel 1 --- Worms 0:

‘deguello’ must be spanglish for ‘douchebag’

Sep 11, 2009 - 6:50 am 42. deguello:

#41 Fidel !—-Worms O must be retardese for “syphillitic Stalinist”.

Sep 11, 2009 - 10:04 am 43. Alex:

Actually, “deguello” is spanglish for useless idiot. I happen to agree with him that the reason for Cuba’s misery is not the embargo. Which makes more puzzling why he wants to keep in place something that doesn’t work except as a propaganda tool for Castro

Sep 11, 2009 - 1:22 pm 44. deguello:

Actually Alex,deguello is spanish,for, well, deguello;Don’t be lazy:look up what it means in A Spanish English dictionary;it describes what will happen in this country to libtards,if Obama and his commissars don’t stop attempting to impersonate Castro and his goons.’Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. As for ending the embargo,where did I say I favored its continuation?I merely objected to Juanes’ politically irresponsible,and harmful behavior.I was expecting something better than “useless idiot”,as a riposte,yes I see how you reversed meanings,useful to useless,very clever of your special needs teacher,but it ultimately fails you because it doesn’t refute the subtext of the insult:that you are being useful to a stalinist mass murderer. Viva Cuba Libre!

Sep 11, 2009 - 2:01 pm 45. deguello:

#12:DEFIANT 1 : No,let’s just call him out on his criminally irresponsible behavior,and boycott his music.love your handle;you must be a legend in your own mind!

Sep 11, 2009 - 2:05 pm 46. deguello:

12 Fantomas: A citation please,otherwise your “fact” will remain phantasmagorical.BTW are you”cantinflas” unsuccessful brother?

Sep 11, 2009 - 2:09 pm 47. deguello:

#2VIVO;I just got finished reading your anti-cuban drivel .3/4 0f Cuba’s population would be Miami Cubans ,were it not for Castro’s murderers,and their morally degenerate supporters here.You are a reincarnation of a 1930’s American nazi viciously trashing jewish refugees from Nazi germany.Different time, different people;same need to hate,same need to lickspittle totalitarianism. What happened,Vivo?Did a Miami Cuban beat the daylights out of you when he caught you sodomizing his dog? Get over it!

Sep 11, 2009 - 2:20 pm 48. deguello:

#6 VITO: Maybe the political retard Juanes can start another foundation to help Cubans killed by Castro’s machine guns, rockets and bombs when they try to flee the Stalinist hellhole, you Jackass!BTW: are you VIVO’S retarded italian brother?

Sep 11, 2009 - 2:25 pm 49. Alex:

Deguello, dude, take a chill pill, you are not going to decapitate liberals or anybody. (Yes, I know what deguello means, créeme que te puedo dar lecciones de español.) Talk about being a “legend in your own mind”. All you are doing is sullying the forum and by extension Henry’s piece –what’s your obsession with rape and mental retardation anyway?– with infantile rants. If you are really such a mambí, when are you going to start your insurrection in Cuba? Time’s a wastin’!

But nice to know you are against the embargo.

Sep 12, 2009 - 6:46 am 50. Juan:

Fidel and Che took Cuba with less than 16 remaining Granma members.

So hey deguello, grab 16 of those geriatric Miami gusanos and try your luck. Then again Fidel and Che were 2 of the greatest men of the last 1,000 years – and you on the other hand are probably only qualified to cut some gringos lawn.

Sep 12, 2009 - 9:45 am

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