Can ‘people-to-dictatorship’ travel to Cuba be more obvious?

In an article on Omaha.com praising University of Nebraska at Omaha professor Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado for his many “educational” trips to Cuba with the university, they publish this very telling photo and caption of the good professor posing with one of the regular Cubans he gets to interact with during his visits to the island:

http://www.omaha.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=OW&Date=20120717&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=707179945&Ref=AR&Profile=1694&maxw=598&maxh=400
UNO political science professor Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado has visited Cuba 26 times since the early 1990s, including a 2006 research trip when he met then-Cuban President Fidel Castro. Benjamin-Alvarado is now taking a group of students to the island nation to help renovate a theater.

Really… can it be any more obvious?

10 thoughts on “Can ‘people-to-dictatorship’ travel to Cuba be more obvious?”

  1. Can you say useful idiot? Excuse me, he may know exactly what he’s doing. But he’s still useful, and you know to what and to whom.

  2. “Help renovate a theater”…

    I don’t think Cubans need foreigners to invigorate desire for renovation. Yet Castro, like a good communist, needs a lot of lies coupled with repression to continue suppressing that desire in order to continue ruining, slaving, lying, and destroying the republic under what is perhaps the most economically inept, egotistical, governmentally slavish, aberrant, and fraudulent political system in modern history.

    By the way, is that Castro writing him the check in public?

  3. As a native of Omaha, I take this as a sign that my hometown has hit the big-time! All you ever hear about with these totalitarian sycophants is that they inhabit places like Berkeley and Boulder and numerous Ivy-League faculty lounges. They are rather rare on the ground in flyover country.

    Yes, I’ve heard many people from out-of-state comment on the sane good sense of my fellow Nebraskans, but we are a diverse state and we have useful idiots, too! We can produce intellectual clods with the best of them! This is great news!

    Or perhaps it’s just incredibly depressing.

    Either way, pass me a drink.

  4. Not meaning to brag, but I’ve been more or less immune to it from birth.

    I was 11 years old when I saw president-elect Clinton get asked by some fluffhead reporter what he would say if Fidel Castro entered the room. Clinton bit his lip and said “Haven’t you learned? Give the Cuban people their freedom.”

    It was a hilariously phony statement and I never forgot it. It shaped my views from there on out. I was certain that he was an unbelievably insincere and shameless liar, and I judged his words accordingly. Which is to say, I laughed at him and never stopped.

    In college, eight years later, I read a newspaper account about how Clinton met Castro at a party and engaged him in some light, friendly banter. Human rights were not even broached.

    For me, it was like one of those moments that mystics talk about, when time stops and you see the truth from some kind of higher-dimensional vantage point. I was shaking hands with my 11-year old self and saying “Well done! You had this guy figured out!”

  5. Shame on you pitbull! lol.

    I have never voted for a Democrat. Never bought their bullshit values.

  6. So about three weekends ago, I met one of my friends that said he wanted to introduce me to a buddy of his that was going to Cuba. I don’t really recall his name now, but he was an older student, going for his Phd I think. He was one of the students on this trip and when I asked him why he was going to Cuba, he said, he did not know. I told him that he was not supposed to be going there unless they had some educational reason, he said he was not sure and said all he knew was that he was going with this professor. We had about a 20 minute conversation about how bad Castro was and also about how ashame it was about the idolization of Che. So I know that he is of “like” mind as me, but never the less, he’s there with that professor. I told him about the Ladies in White, and about all the other oppression that was going on and to even come an look at what Babalu Blog was saying. I think the building renovation was a second thought and decided on once they were there, just in case and to cover their asses! These trips are a joke and you have to wonder about who is teaching our kids. I had a conversation with a younger hip person recently, and he was talking about how he thought Che was great. Well, of course he did, after all, he did graduated from UNO and problabaly took a class from this professor. The thing that most Americans don’t understand it how smart Castro is in manipulation. He’s influenced our young, by placing his people in our education system to teach our young about the greatness of Castro’s Cuba. Funny that Castro’s got our young thinking that Castro freed the Cuban people and that their lives were in shmable until the great Che and Fidel freed them. They really have no clue that what they’ve got in Cuba now is a king with his many slaves!

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