Open letter to Señorita Condoleezza Rice

Many other Cuba-related articles at the same site. http://www.progresoweekly.com/index.php?progreso=main_body&otherweek=1155186000

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August 7, 2006 A.D.

Open letter to Señorita Condoleezza Rice
U.S. Secretary of State
Washington, D.C., USA


Honorable Señorita Rice:

My courteous greetings to you.

I just read your plea to us Cubans who live in the Republic of Cuba that we not abandon the Island and take ourselves to the United States, according to what the Associated Press has published, due to a supposed uncertainty among Cubans because of the illness of President Fidel Castro.

I also have read an untruth on the part of your government, made public outside President Bush's ranch in Texas by spokesperson Tony Snow, saying that the United States does not have plans to invade Cuba.

Señorita Secretary, with regard to these two statements, permit me, with all due respect, to make two things known to you:

1) The overwhelming majority of the Cuban people – I am not exaggerating if I say 97% of them: 10,767,000 Cuban men and women – have no intention to leave Cuba, and we are conscious that we live in the midst of this revolutionary project of liberty, independence, and socialist democracy, which we are not going to renounce. We do not deny that the remaining 3% -- 333,000 citizens – could wish to leave Cuba, due to 333,000 different reasons. If you wish, you could double that number and say that there are 666,000; which wouldn't make any difference. At the same time, it is not we Cubans who have encouraged abandoning the Island in order to create difficulties for anyone, but rather, on the contrary, it is the United States which for decades, has stimulated this with its migratory policies, which favor Cubans for political reasons while discriminating against other nationalities.

http://www.progresoweekly.com/index.php?progreso=Carta_abierta&otherweek=1155272400

I have already recommended this and thanks for doing it. Now lets get it on the greatest page asap..ha! I want as many folks as possible to read this. I have been to Cuba a number of times and this is the true picture of how Cubans feel about their country.

government provides for the poorest and the aged and the children. The US government ...

Recommended.

is that the cuban govt. holds its subjects as prisoners and criminalizes the act of trying to leave

in the usa, any citizen is free to leave if they don't like it

this letter is classic. it blames the (alleged) small %age of people who want to leave on the US unfairly making immigration to our country too enticing

cuba is a dictatorship. that they care for their poor is admirable. but it's still a dictatorship. and of course, that's care for the poor as long as they don't say a single word against el jefe, in which case they get mandatory re-education and imprisonment

is only half-hearted sarcasm because we are currently living under a neocon dictatorship and the poor/middle class foot the bills.

if u can show me where you get imprisoned for criticizing bush i';ll agree with you

that would mean every single person in DU would be in prison

there is no comparison

this is not a dictatorship

cuba is

you diminish the strength of the word when u apply it to bush

bush sux (in oh so many ways) but he is metric @#$(#$loads better than fidel

and as i said, if u don't like bush, you can criticize him... and u can leave

can't do that in cuba. so, imo there is no comparison

But there are still 3 months till the election.

that you think people still believe. Get over it, the MiamiGusanos dictating foreign policy to Cuba is over.

Americans have slowly been finding out the truth about the island--the rest of the planet has known for decades because they're allowed to travel to the island and find out for themselves. In 2005 for the 14th year in a row, the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for an end to the 41-year-old commercial, economic and financial embargo by the United States against Cuba and objecting to laws and regulations compelling third countries to adhere to it. Despite the overwhelming hardships cause by the embargo the Cuban government manages to feed, educate, and provide their citizens with healthcare and other basic neccessities for living.

When the MiamiGusanos and their apologists hysterically scream: *dictator*, *island prison*, *tyrant*, and the other LIES they fed the US public for decades it underlines the hypocrisy on the world's longest embargo and shines a light on US supported military dictatorships all over the world who ruled (and still rule) by intimidation, torture, thousands disappeared and murdered. (Pinochet, Montt, Banzer, Batista, Duvalier, Noriega, etc, etc, etc,).

So please, back up your bullshit with some credible links. Hint: MiamiGusano links are not considered credible.

Here's a few links. Get yourself an education:

http://www.omnicenter.org/warpeacecollection/dictators.htm

http://historyofcuba.com/cuba.htm

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/cu.html#People

http://www.who.int/countries/cub/en/

Not a brat in the bunch. How often do you see THAT?

I mean, there are lots of other differences.

For instance, * doesn't (yet) throw you in jail if you refuse to attend one of his speeches.

Ex CANF Leader Interrogated

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Washington, Aug 11 (Prensa Latina) Federal investigators questioned Jose Antonio Llama (Toñin), former head of the Cuban-American National Foundation (CANF), who recently admitted his participation in terrorist plans against Cuba.

The agents, from the Florida special antiterrorist group, inquired into his role in subversive projects he publicly referred to in June.

The questioning is part of a federal investigation undertaken after Llama told The Miami Herald daily about the creation and financing of a CANF paramilitary body in 1992.

In his declaration, Llama revealed a terrorist plan organized from the US to encourage subversion in the island and kill President Fidel Castro with an arsenal of 10 ultra light remote control planes, a cargo helicopter, seven boats and a great deal of explosives.

http://www.plenglish.com/Default.asp

Also, from the article:

Preparations were thwarted in 1997 after he and four other terrorists were arrested and tried in Puerto Rico for organizing another attack against Fidel Castro at the Ibero-American Summit in Margarita Island, Venezuela.

Despite the evidence against them, the quintet was exonerated from charges and released in 1999, the same year Llama resigned from his post because CANF leaders refused to pay for the legal defense in the Puerto Rican trial.

The current federal investigation appears to concern his possible link with terrorists Santiago Alvarez and Osvaldo Mitat, whose trial is scheduled for September 11.

Alavarez and Mitat were arrested in November after federal agents found arms and explosive devices in their fridge.
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If their Puerto Rico assassination hadn't been thwarted, they would have killed a HUGE number of people who would have attended the planned speech by Fidel Castro.

No big deal, thanks to Puerto Rican pResident Mireya Moscoso, friend of _Bush and now resident of Miami, who pulled off another dirty trick by pardoning them, and calling Miami "exiles" to tell them they had been sprung. Nasty people.

The assassins never had to pay the consequences. Had they tried this against a right-wing American scum, they would have been thrown in prison for the rest of their lives, if not executed.