July 16, 2004
Let me reiterate
When you leave Cuba for the U.S. and apply for political asylum, you are thus a political exile. This means that you do not agree with the politics of Cuba and that you made a decision to not support her government.
It's just that simple.
You knew you would be leaving family behind when you left. Yet you still made the decision to leave. That's what being an exile is. If you could not live without seeing your family in Cuba then you should have stayed.
It's just that simple.
If you say that family comes first, then you should have stayed with your family. They come first after all.
It's just that simple.
Unless of course, you came to the US not as a political refugee but as an economic refugee, in which case you should not have applied for political asylum and you should not have been allowed to stay in the US.
It's just that simple.
Your family will just have to make due with what their government provides them. The more US dollars you send to your family in Cuba, the more economic assistance you provide to the very government that is responsible for your family's plight.
It's just that heartbreakingly simple.
Posted by Val Prieto at July 16, 2004 06:29 AM
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It is heartbreaking.
Posted by: Jane at July 16, 2004 08:28 AM
Val: Aunque la situación económica en Cuba está de yuca y ñame(Even though the economic situation in Cuba is very difficult), hay que ser un grán come gofio (you have to be a great fool)para no darse cuenta que Fidel no tiene gandinga(not to realize that Fidel has no scruples)y la verguenza de éste tipo era verde y se la comió un chivo(and this guy has no shame).
How simple is that?
Posted by: Mercedes at July 16, 2004 08:59 AM
Valentín, virtually all of us who've come here since the 1960s have been political refugees first and economic refugees second. The political system we so despise is also an economic catastrophe.
Posted by: Yoan Gustavo at July 16, 2004 11:08 AM
Good call, Val.
If only people would listen.
Posted by: WB at July 16, 2004 11:09 AM
