March 21, 2005
Gusanas
Female worms. That's the official government connotation for the Ladies in White - mothers, wives, daughters and sisters of imprisoned dissidents in Cuba.
Every Sunday, despite the consequences and possible retribution from castro's regime, these women march in peaceful protest of the incarceration of their loved ones and their inhuman treatment by the hand of their jailers.
Yesterday, Palm Sunday, fidel castro launched an organized counter-protest against these women. Paxety Pages has the details.
All I can say is that I commend the Ladies in White for their strength and their courage to voice opposition in a country where only one official voice is allowed.
Posted by Val Prieto at March 21, 2005 08:44 AM
Comments
They had the stupidity to interrupt a procession on Palm Sunday? You know, the time when Christ the King entered Jerusalem in white garments on a humble donkey? The religious symbolism of this echo in Havana is amazing. With the screaming of witches and demons at the sidelines. Who are these old bags? They sure weren't the Babes of Lebanon, that is for sure. More biblical echoes there, in Lebanon. Eeerie.
Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at March 21, 2005 09:41 AM
They are showing the world what cagastro and his henchwenches and henchdemons are all about, cagastro is a modern day antichrist protected by horders of devils. The white robes, the symbolism as you say, A.M. Mora y Leon, is evident. The purity of a free society against the vociferous and blasphemous roar of a monster. A monster who is not a living being!
One day an expert on Satanism or a scholar on Exorcism will be able to study cagastro, hopefuly on a dissection table. Probably a good explaination for his demonic behaviour is going to be found in a rapidly rotting corpse. He is already rotten and non-living, since a demon is a not living entity.
White is the color of purity, the color that is most hated by all forms of evil. My prayers and my heart are with those brave women!
Posted by: CB at March 21, 2005 09:51 AM
My father says this, and I'm going to say it to because the Cubans on the island are fucking cruel. "El Cubano es Malo" I'm referring of course to the Castro sympathizing cubans within the island. I mean, they're friggin' dying of hunger and still they Blindly support the tyrant. Oyeme, what they did to the "Damas en Blanco" Shamed me. I heart it all on radio mambi. They we spit upon by their own people, egged, and trampled. Por eso se meresen 46 año mas de Fidel. Me cago en el come mierda. I hate hearing about lambs being terrorized by Wolves. Something has to be done to end this Stupidity, cowardice, Tyranny, and most of all Ignorance.
Posted by: Felix Ricardo at March 21, 2005 01:00 PM
Wow. Looks like this year is turning out really interesting for Cuba news. Fidel won't dare sic his police goons on the white angels because that's bad intl. press. So instead, he unleashes a contingent of easily manipulated old hags to harrass them. I guess they get a bonus stale, tasteless chicken for that piece of work.
Man, this is perverse! I saw for myself how dysfunctional Cuba is during several visits over the past few years but this incident really takes the cake.
Just goes to show how a JINETERO like Castro can take something like an embargo and twist it to his advantage. The powers that be in Miami squeeze his balls harder. . .Fidel in turn squeezes the people even harder. . .the people in turn behave even more cannibalistic, i.e., the "jineterismo," the "resolviendo," the "chivatos," the scams, the stealing, the skimming, etc.
That's the crazy part of the whole embargo thing. Supposedly, an embargo is supposed to starve the regime which will bring about a popular uprising, or so I'm told. But most cubanos are too busy in "survival mode" to be thinking about protesting in the streets. Besides, they know Fidel's getting really old, so best just to wait. Of course, Fidel is playing a time-based game as well. As long as he keeps "stalling" the inevitable, as long as he can neutralize his enemies, he unofficially "wins."
Too bad the neocons didn't try their idea on Cuba first. But they don't really care about a poor Latin-American country. And now that we're stuck in MESS-opotamia, the U.S. will continue to wag its fingers safely from afar, but not really do anything about it.
Meanwhile the islanders are turning more against each other in the struggle for survival. And on the other side of the Florida straits, the older generation of Cuban-Americans is cracking down on the younger generation in terms of limiting visits and remittances. It's cubano vs. cubano everywhere you look.
It seems the only way out of this bizarre farce will be the long-awaited death of a certain bearded dictator. If that turns out to be the case, shame on ALL sides, including the U.S.!!
Posted by: yuma-guy at March 21, 2005 03:18 PM
I would like to add something to "El Cubano es malo" not because I think that WE as Cubans can NOT be BAD (‘cause there’s a lot of SOBs of ANY nationality) but because I think something else is at play here.
"El Cubano" is egoist, especially in Cuba.
As I have said before, Cubans in the island are under a CULT spell, there are no ifs thens or buts. Castrism is a CULT. If a Jim Jones can get people to drink Poisoned Kool Aid, Castro can easily get people to behave like animals. If Charles Manson got people to kill for him, EASILY Castro can get people to desecrate “Palm Sunday”
If Rev Sun Moon , can get millions of people to write off their assets and willingly give it to the “Rev” , what can Castro NOT do?
46 years of Cultist inculcation is a bitch! Ad to that the FEAR of reprisal if you do not perform as the Cult leader expects and you have this mass of beasts frothing at the mouth.
Just sit down and talk to ANY “cult follower” in Cuba, their reasoning is so convoluted that when you get them in any incongruence they literally look as if they are having a short circuit.
I asked a “Fidelista” (to the bone) why the sudden need for the “Miami” dollar, how did we go from “escoria” to “comunidad en el extranjero” . Especially the Mariel people, who went through a living hell of insults, abuses and just plain inhumane torture to get out of Cuba,.
The Fidelista’s eyes seem to wander for a second as if waiting for an official response…. The answer was “well yeah there have been SOME mistakes in the past”
“Mistakes?” calling your neighbor a whore, foggot, spitting at children, defacing property and ALL without an apparent control of the government but under their own free will?? Turning into a BEAST, you call a mistake?
The typical “huma-na –huma-na” ensued. I then asked “Don’t you think that the Cuban government at least OWES these Cubans an apology?, Without blinking she said “That is NOT going to happen. An apology is a sign of weakness”.
In a climate like Castro’s Cuba the enemy changes just as it did in Orwell’s 1984 , today’s friends are tomorrows biggest threats and the day after they all recant and noone admits to having made a mistake.
These Cubans have 46 years of a simple mode of life: lie, cheat, whatever you need NOT to get on anyone’s crosshairs. What better way than being more revolutionary than Castro himself.
A LOT of tears will be shed when THE BEAST goes.. a LOT of “I am sorry I didn’t mean it.. I was just “following orders”
What will the people who are now the victims, will do then? . Do they forgive or seek revenge?
I personally have not reached the level of evolution that will allow me to FORGIVE – I want VENGANCE. I want to see these beasts on the defending side. But; is that the BEST we can do for Cuba? How long do we prolong this inhumanity against our own brothers and sisters?
Tough decision. I am glad I KNOW I will not be involved in any post-Castro governmental post ‘cause I would already be planning where to set up the gallows.
Posted by: KillCastro at March 21, 2005 04:01 PM
Cuba--The Land of Opportunists.
I wouldn't doubt that alot of the women organized against the ladies in white are receiving dollars from family members abroad.
There is great duality in Cubans that I believe is a result of Castro's cult of personality.
In La Habana in the basement of the Ministry of Finance is an almost psychedelic mural depicting the evil US dollar. This is the same dollar that Cubans secretly covet. It is not unheard of to know of Party members fanning out their dollars in front of their "compañeros", or die-hard Santiaguero fidelistas that blame the US and its embargo for their problems but certainly don't resist when their family members send them money or medicines. Why don't they ask Fidel for it?
All this makes me distance myself from the "down with Fidel" Cuban-Americans. They're wasting alot of energy. It's up to the Cubans themselves to fight for regime change, however painful it may be.
Posted by: hello63 at March 21, 2005 07:00 PM
And the "MALOS" see their behaviour reinforced by the fawning and adoration that the hollywood weirdos and the media useful idiots demonstrate all the time.
The Cubans there have a limited view of the world, one that is always censored and controlled. The only feedback they get from abroad is one that supports, approves of such a society if that's what it can be called. You have basically a country which is full of subjects which have been conditioned "a la Pavlov" by castro and his goons and by positive conditioning from abroad.
This reward comes the form of European renewal of ties for Cuba and other rogue states, American indiference to past and present expansionism, the departure being BFD Grenada, and with the willingness of the UN to recognize all ridiculous claims and lies as truth and turn a bling eye to all the brutality. In addition, all the aid from the exile community in the form of over a billion greenbacks a year, which we view rightfully as a helping to keep loved ones alive, in a subliminal way may support a belief that everyone, even the Miami mafia, is silently hoping that they spit defiantly in the eye of the great and mighty foe to the north.
Hell, here I am, unwittingly as I type, watching a show about the marvelous 6o's music on PBS, My Music" and here comes the aging jerk of the band "The Animals" wearing a che shirt.
My wife is now wondering why I just shouted an obscenity in front of the kids and changed the channel.
It is this "moral support" from outside that keeps reenforcing the people over there into thinking that what's happening in Cuba is a struggle for the good and that they have been the vanguard all along and that the world is cheering them on.
Like killcastro said, a cultlike atmosphere where the little voice in the back of the head says, "Its OK, just do whatever it takes, the reward is that everybody approves. Even if you bite the hand that feeds you and wag your tail at the man holding the whip. Remember the meaningless reward always, the reward which turned a long time ago into the ringing bell of slogans and banners".
Sad...
Posted by: cohetedude at March 21, 2005 08:47 PM
KillCastro and the NYC crowd if anyone else...
Humberto Fontova will be signing his book on Thurdsay March 24, from 7:30 to 9:00 pm at las Palmas Restaurant, 6153 Bergenline Avenue, West New York, New Jersey 07093
Contact person: Rafael Fabre 908 8989
CB
Posted by: CB at March 21, 2005 09:19 PM
Sorry, the telephone number is 908 377 8989
Posted by: CB at March 21, 2005 09:20 PM
Good to hear that. Can't wait to hear to result of people that show up to the signing. I mean, don't get me wrong I know there's a large Cuban community there, but that community is over shadowed by a bunch of Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Jews, & Italians. I wonder Humberto will be heard in New York. I also await a Miami book signing.
Posted by: Felix Ricardo at March 22, 2005 07:50 AM
You write this as if this were a bad thing. Your comment is egotistical and immature.
"I mean, don't get me wrong I know there's a large Cuban community there, but that community is over shadowed by a bunch of Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Jews, & Italians."
Posted by: Anonymous at March 22, 2005 08:13 AM
Egotistical and Immature, lol I'm turning into Maddox from www.maddox.xmission.com Heh sorry to come off like that, I don't know what came over me. I guess I'm a little bitter that WE Cubans don't get any help to air out our opression. It's like if you say you're Cuban, suddenly the world turns it back on you, especially latins in NY. OH and don't be ashamed to state your name, no one is gonna harm you for something retarded.
Posted by: Felix Ricardo at March 22, 2005 10:37 AM
Felix,
I appreciate your response & sense of humour. Not living in the New York area, I cannot truthfully address the lack of support you receive after stating that you're Cuban or Cuban-American. As to the anonymous id, let me just say that I used my main email id once on a different blog only to be inundated with emails of Extend your Penis, Low Rate Refinancing, Help Me Retrive $25 Million from The Bank of Nigeria, and Viagra -Thanks but no thanks!
Posted by: anonymous at March 22, 2005 12:34 PM
Ha.. So that's why I'm getting that kinda mail... CURSES!!!!
Posted by: Felix Ricardo at March 22, 2005 12:42 PM
For Castro Palm Sunday is just like nothing.The
Castro regime is using de same methods.First,movilize the "intelligentsia"give
some money,of course,nothing is for free,just the
super-naive,could think that is just political
cohesion feelings,it is that and also Money,the
second method is the Populacho' a la calle a
provocar,to intimidate,to restrain the dignity
and wishes of Freedom of many cubans,third method
is coming here,in Europe,el sangrón de Perez Roqueta,WIth strict advices from The Coma-andante.
Posted by: Ralph kakoma at March 22, 2005 03:36 PM
