I have a solution that should satisfy everyone. Let her go, just don't let her return. That way she can continue the good fight in the free and open atmosphere of Castro's Cuban utopia.

Why don't Domingo and Esperas talk with Marta Beatriz Roque and perhaps some of the Women in White --among countless ohers-- about female rights in Cuba today?
Qu'e TontAs Utiles!
Julio

Prepare to vomit. Here is the link to their website. It too speaks for itself.

http://www.womenandcuba.org/whywomen.htm

Kathleen that website is sickening! Are these people really that blind or do they just refuse to see what should be so obvious?

Jose, I don't know whether to laugh or cry but as KillCastro said don't get mad, get even. When I get home I'm writing them. Here is their email.

info@womenandcuba.org

Their web-site is so idiotic! They urge it's readers to contact Washington in order to request easing the embargo. If someone in Cuba tried to "contact the goverment" to promote change, they would be punished and thrown in jail. Are these women senile or just Castro lovers?

Defense Guy's idea is brilliant! A one-way trip. Give her a couple months with la libretica, and an inability to shoot her mouth off, and she'll be begging to come back to the evil ole' US of A.

George - Don't you understand it's their "right" as American citizens to travel to Cuba without permission? (sarcasm mode on)

The arrogance of some in the left never fails to amaze me, no matter how many times we experience it.

Must be the lack of sun in Seattle.

No Robert, it's the high mountain air and sulfurous steam from volcanoes that may be causing damge in the "left" side of their brain...

I am from the Seattle area and I know people who have gone on this trip...afterwards they came back preaching to me about boycotting Bacardí, how Cuban women are so happy and taken care of, and that Cuba is so much better than the U.S. because although they can't always say what they want, they always have food and healthcare...Funny, so why aren't Haitians and Dominicans moving to Cuba? Last I checked Haitians don't have running water, a sewer system, any medicine for diseases, and they have a coup every other week with a new leader taking place. I saw the destitute poverty of Haitians in Santo Domingo firsthand last fall...if they could have it all, why don't they move to Cuba instead? Seattle and Portland, as I have mentioned before, is in a bubble all it's own. They are so far removed (ironically they are the farthest states from Cuba) from any kind of real Cubanos that when they read these books and go to liberal colleges, they get brainwashed into thinking there is a way for people to live well without any form of economic oppression. Here is where it's all key for these "feminists" who impose their ignorant rambling ideologies on women all around the world: (from their website)

***Due to an information embargo by the US government and supported by many media outlets, women in the US do not know about the reproductive rights and health advances for women and families in Cuba:

• There are no legal restrictions on abortions for women in Cuba except that they must be performed in a hospital by a medically certified doctor;
• Cuban women alone have the right to determine whether she wishes to have or not have children
• If women choose to have children, access to free health care and pre-natal support have reduced Cuba’s infant and maternal mortality levels to some of the lowest in the world
• Sexuality in Cuba is a part of healthy human development and the National Center for Sexual Education offers age-appropriate programs throughout the country to achieve this goal
• Cuba works toward a pro-active, prevention health care model that aims to reduce the need for abortion and an end to sexual and domestic violence against women, HIV/AIDS and homophobia
• What is negatively impacting Cuban women’s lives are the specific cruelties to Cuban women and children that result directly from the US economic blockade
• The US Senator who wants to tighten the embargo and overthrow the Cuban government is the same one who opposes women’s right to choose and whom to love – Jesse Helms!

***Since when does the United States ban abortions, promote domestic violence (mandatory arrest laws exist in many states) , deny sex education, and tell women when they can and can't have children??? ¡Coñazo! I am going to throw up my lunch....

Ah REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS - what an apropos subject based on what just happened to my wife's 24 year old cousin. Let’s call her “J”.
Holguin (granted maybe the BEST Cuban doctors are NOT there but…) so “J” misses her period one month and goes to the doctor, who without any tests AT ALL recommends a “regulacion” a “regulation” this quaint little aphorism entails sticking a vacuum hose in your vagina and sucking out whatever may be growing up in there, hence “regulating” your period.
Since time is precious, and “J” doesn’t know when she will get another appointment and she lives in “las quimbambas” (That’s the “middle of nowhere” for you non Cubans) she just undresses , lays on a table and BOOM , without any sedatives or anesthesia the “blob” is sucked out ..
But wait … hmmmmm this thing is not coming out as easily as it should ..
“what , what is this ? oh my “J” why are you screaming in such pain, Geez “J” fainted. Okey let’s continue (insert a good HOOVER vacuum sound in here)
So , “J” wakes up to the news that she was NOT ONE month pregnant that in fact she was 3 months pregnant and they had disremembered the fetus and take it out in nice little chucks.
Wipe, wipe, stick a chunk of cloth in “there” and they send “J” home. “If you can get some aspirins, do it” bye, bye.. NEXT!
Four days later “J” is running a 101 fever and is delirious.
They rush her to the hospital near death, oops she has septicemia, hmmm why asks the docs , well maybe it was the “regulacion” we did 4 days ago? Well lets take a look, and low a behold, chunks of the little baby had been left inside “J” to rot away and poison her blood.
So now “J” is sliced open to clean her womb of the rotting corpse, while they do this they just fuck around in there just good enough so her ovaries were removed , saw her up , and .. “let’s see how this turns out”
Being a strong young woman “J” comes through and is better by the 4 th day .. Yeah no fan, no water, no clean sheets but she is ALIVE. Now the news.. “J” will never be able to have children again, good luck compañera and don’t let the door hit ya in the ass on your way out.

Now, why am I being so flippant on such a tragic story that has touched my life so very very close? Because my instincts are telling me that I should go to Kuba find the a doctor ANY motherfucking doctor and stick something sharp and VERY painful down his motherfucking throat.
Now, I SWEAR to GOD, I just heard this about 30 minutes ago when I heard my wife sobbing at her PC as I was reading the Babalu on my PC.
So, although us men will find this tragic and some of us will instinctively want REVENGE (I DO) I will assume that women like Kathleen, Carmen, Stefania & Tremenda, will be just horrified at the barbarism that passes as “medicine” in Kuba , specially when it comes to women.
And the world does NOTHING because after all.. hey! IT IS FREE medicine.
I ask of all of you, your prayers tonight be with little “J” .
Thanks

Barbarism is to kind a word KC. Multiply this story by the million and now we know why Cuba has the highest rate of female suicides in the world. Not only did she suffer cruelly at the hands of these butchers, she lost her baby and the ability to have another. My condolences and prayers to you and your family, this is unspeakably horrible.

THE UNHOLY BITCHES

Now, if these women had an ounce of brains, they would ask sweetly for transportation to one of the smaller towns outside of Havana, then make a sudden visit to a hospital or clinic, so that they would not be victimized by "the grand tour" of Socialist countries, show you the best while hiding the warts.

They would research where the prisons are and try to gain admittance, to see conditions as they actually are.

And poor old Jesse Helms, the scapegoat of ALL American Liberals; if something is wrong, it must be Helm's fault, right?

The estimate of 83,000 people who drowned while attempting to leave Cuba by sea should tell these idiots something, but they ignored the plight of the Boat People in the past, the one million who walked south for days on end to escape Communist North Korea, and those who risked their lives to get through the minefields by the Berlin Wall.

Look at how the Liberals kept after Gen. Pinochet, but ignored the same deeds done by fidelito, the assassinado as well as, for Hollywood, the infamous Baron Munchausen of the Caribbean. I'll go look at the pictures of Healthcare on www.therealcuba.com once more right now. It steels my resolve to write all I can to add to the increasing volume of voices demanding justice for those who died trying to escape this island Gulag. The real crime is calling these people in Cuba doctors, as I would surmise that many of them could not pass their Board exams in any country in this hemisphere or Europe, not all, but many. Liberals never seem to change nor give up, but neither will I!

KC...WHAT A HORRIFIC STORY, MY GOD, THAT IS PURE EVIL! YOUR YOUNG COUSIN IN CUBA,AND YET,THERE ARE SO MANY MORE LIKE HER, AND WE DO NOTHING TO HELP!
I HAVE HEARD STORIES LIKE YOURS AND WORSE, I CAN'T EVEN GET INTO IT, I AM EMOTIONALLY DRAINED RIGHT NOW!!
GOD HAVE MERCY ON THAT ISLAND AND THEIR PEOPLE!!

I would like to offer my apologies to all Cubans for the actions of these imbeciles. I know it isn't my fault, but our country has failed to properly educate people; we have so many who think that Cuba would be better than Disneyland if it weren't for the embargo. I really wish there was some way to show these morons the truth, but they just won't see it. Liberals live in a world where black is white and up is down. I wish we could just hang them all for treason to humanity.

HOLY CRAP KATHLEEN!! I JUST WENT TO THAT LINK WWW.WOMENANDCUBA.ORG!! PUKE!!
LET OUR VOICES BE HEARD AND START WRITING ON THAT LINK. THOSE BITCHES FROM HELL NEED TO HEAR FROM US!! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
WHAT A SLAP IN THE FACE TO THE "WOMEN IN WHITE" SUFFERING IN CUBA!!

You said it Carmen, this is what I wrote to them.
Maybe not my best, but done in rage and tears.

I don't know what planet you live on but here is some truthful information about Cuba.

They have the highest rate of female suicides in the world. Are you aware of this? No, you won't get this information from Cuba. It's a communist state with no freedom of information. No red cross visits to prisoners. No UN or human rights organization visits to verify anything. Castro is a murderous dictator. Out of a population of 6.5 million people in 1959, there have been tens of thousands of executions without trial and no appeal rights. An estimated nine hundred thousand Cubans have been in Castro’s Gulag prisons where there is starvation, and torture under the worse conditions imaginable. Check it out for yourself; it's all documented by Amnesty International and other groups, or try therealcuba.com.

Two million Cubans are in exile. From all economic, religions and races. They are scattered all over the world. An estimated ninety thousand have died in the Florida Straights, risking every thing to leave, even though they know the odds are against them. One in four if you are lucky will make it through the shark-infested waters. The concentration camps, the work camps. The shortages, no sanitary napkins available. You talk about progress for women. Can you imagine the degradation? Please, do some research that does not come from Cuba; there is no freedom of information there. Visitors are not allowed to see what's really going on.
There are NO human rights. The defiance you are displaying against your government, if done by a woman in Cuba would get her a prison sentence or worse. There is a reason our State Department and other groups for the past 45 years has had Cuba on the list of countries sponsoring terrorism. Read what Amnesty International says about Cuba. Fidel Castro seized power on the back of lies and holds power by intimidation and force. He has never been elected. Cuba is a communist totalitarian apartheid state with SS type agents everywhere. Afro Cubans are the majority of the prison population. The longest black political prisoner ever is in Castro's Gulag. Check it out for yourself. www.free-biscet.org He is Dr. Biscet. Serving an inhumane prison sentence for nonviolent civil disobedience. Think about this and the implications. Is this truly the ideal your group aspires to? There is a word for those who witness crimes against humanity and do nothing. It's called collaborators. Think about it.

That WILPF listed as part of these Wimmin and Cuba is a famous Soviet front organization. I guess they found a new godfather in castro.

Thank you guys! My wife had been inconsolable for the last 4 hours. Your wishes have brought a smile to her beautiful face.
THANK YOU!

KC, what a heartwrenching story. We should all pray that the barbaric system that did that to little J will quickly come to an end so no other Cuban women have to suffer such agony.

Kathleen, excellent letter, thank you!

Thanks Jose but to me it will only be an excellent letter if one of those cagastro putas finds a heart beating in her chest and says no more!

KC, my heart goes out to your family and your wife...¡qué monstros! No me puedo imaginar como sería vivir bajo esas condiciones..Kathleen, thank you for that letter you wrote, I'm telling you they are lost in the freakin' sauce. Most of them have NO idea what they're talking about and believe anything anyone who hates America (and Bush) will tell them.

It's amazing how these "so called women" turn the tragedy of the Cuban women into a media festival of accomplishments of "the revolution". I stomached the whole fucking website: NOT a single reference to the "Ladies in White" (TAKE NOTE: those are the real women, along with the list of women whose comments and postings I follow on a daily base and I correspond with on daily base at Babalu, and many other women I have been lucky enough to meet and love in my life) NOT a single reference to the victims of cagastro, the UNDERAGE JINETERAS, not a single mention to the FACT that CUBAN WOMEN are the most SUICIDAL gender-ethnic group in the WHOLE WORLD.
THEY DON'T EVEN QUESTION THE FACT THAT IF EVERY FUCKING SINCLE THING IS SO WONDERFUL FOR THEM WHY ON FREAKING EARTH ELIAN'S MOM DIED BRINGING HER SON HERE? OR WHY DO THESE WOMEN KILL THEMSELVE IN A COUNTRY THAT IS DYING OF SELF INFLICTED CARNAGE?
There are no questions about the fact that twelve years olds are the biggest industry of the country, that filthy bastards are going there to steal the innocence of kids, since CUBA is ALONGSIDE BRAZIL AND THAILAND the paradise of the ttraveling childmolesters of the world.
THEY DON'T QUESTION WHY WE CANNOT ADOPT KIDS FROM CUBA AND BRING THEM TO A BETTER LIFE.
They don't question shit.
In CUBA reproductive rights are an euphemism for mass murder. For the elimination of future anticommunists. Look at the stats. The women who have abortions in CUBA right now are victims. Of their own godless society and their own fucked up country. Ask some of those women (I HAVE ASKED) why they are having an abortiong: I don't want to have any children in this country of shit, is one of the answers. The contraception methods they have in Cuba are from the cave ages. They fail, they fail again. And you cannot ask people who has grown up in a hopeless savage society to abstain. They simply can't forgo the only physical pleasure that is left to them.
I would love to ask this "so called women who praise cagastro" if they will bring Cohibas back to Clinton. AND Y'ALL KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT.
And if they have asked those girls waiting to have the hose stuck up their vaginas if the pregnancy was not ordered terminated because it bothers some motherfucker in the nomenklatura who fucked them in the EVERYDAY BLATANT SEXUAL HARRASSMENT INFERNO to whom every Cuban, female and male is subject on a routine basis.
Ask them how many of those abortions were performed because those girls are prostituting themselves to tourists, and how many of those girls are misguided teens or preteens who are desperate.
By the way, I fired off a letter to those "women" with a few suggestions. It's not publishable in this blog, because Val will have me skin alive for my colorful use of profanity both in English and Habanero. I assume they can speak not only passable Spanish -because of thier surnames- but also that they can understand Habanero and that they can speak looking at the eyes of those Cuban girls. Of course not. They are so much a bunch of fucking condescending leftists.

DefenseGuy, we should not allow them to come back to the States EVEN IF THEY BEG TO BE TAKEN BACK!

That article me da gana de vomitar. What a coven of brujas imbeciles. I can't think of anything vile enough to say about that right now. I am so sick of the stupidity and hypocrisy of the left and their love affair with el barbudo hijo de puta.

KillCastro, Dios mio, la povre! Your poor cousin. My prayers are with her and your family. Que Dios la vendiga.

PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING. I DO NOT RECALL YOU MENTIONING THIS REUNINON IN WASHINGTON. IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO KNOW IF THERE IS GOING TO BE ANOTHER REUNION OF THIS TYPE IN THE FUTURE SO SOME OF US CAN ATTEND AND GIVE A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE. SA.
Cuba Action Day Follow up

April 28, 2005

Mil gracias--a thousand thanks--for helping to make Cuba Action Day such a roaring success! Over 700 people from across this nation who care about positive relations between the United States and Cuba came to Washington, DC, on April 27th to make their voices heard in Congress and to the administration. In addition, hundreds of people called from home to add their voices to those who spoke out in Washington.

Multiple news sources covered the event, including National Public Radio, CBS, NBC, CNN Espanol, the Miami Herald, the Sun-Sentinel, the Seattle Times, and many more. We hope you saw/heard some of the coverage. We will send out more follow-up information in the next couple of weeks, but today we just want to say "Thank you!"

For a copy of the day's final schedule, click here

To see photos of the day, click here

For a copy of the House travel bill click here / Senate version click here

For those of you who attended Cuba Action Day in Washington, there are a couple of "next steps" that we'd request:

1) Complete and return the feedback forms on your congressional meetings. Forms were included in your packet; an click here for an electronic form. Return them to lawg@lawg.org; or mail them to us at Cuba Action Day, Latin America Working Group, 424 C Street NE, Washington, DC 20002. Your feedback is critical to the DC side of this work, as we stay in touch with the offices you visited.

2) Send thank-you letters to the members and staffers who met with you. Remind them of commitments they may have made to you; or follow up with them on any information they requested of you. We are sorry that we didn't include in your packets enough copies of the talking points to be able to leave them with your members of Congress. The talking points are available here; you could print them out and send them to your members' offices along with your thank-you note.

3) Organize visits to your senators' and representative's state/district offices during recess periods. Include constituents from many sectors (academics and students, Cuban Americans, ag and businesspeople, church people, activists, etc.) in your meetings. There is strength in diversity. You could use the talking points that we will send to you in a separate message.

4) Send a Letter to the Editor of your local newspaper; talk about local people impacted by the travel restrictions and about your participation in Cuba Action Day. Please copy us with your letter.

If you have any particularly good digital photos that you took of the event, we would appreciate receiving them by email. Perhaps we can post a photo gallery on our websites.

And, again, thank you for making Cuba Action Day such a successful event. We loved meeting all of you!!

Sincerely,

Mavis Anderson
Philip Schmidt
and the whole Cuba Action Day team
www.lawg.org
www.cubaactionday.org

Now, now...let us all pity this woman! She is clearly not driven (rightfully or wrongly) by any sense of conviction. And probably, not even financial corruption. She simply suffers from an emotional corruption - "another 15 minutes of fame" doing something "anti-something". " Forgive her father, she knows not what she does" maybe to generous! Ignoring her entirely maybe more of a punishment!

KATHLEEN....BIEN DICHO!! NOW WE NEED LIKE A FEW HUNDRED MORE LETTERS LIKE YOURS AND KC, CB ETC... MAKE THEM THINK...THAT'S ALL WE CAN DO REALLY,MAKE THEM THINK.....
KC...TELL YOUR WIFE, THIS TOO SHALL PASS,GOD BE WITH HER FAMILY AND THAT POOR YOUNG VICTIM OF SUCH BARBARIC ACTS IN CUBA.

Has anyone tried to contact this woman from Seattle and have a dialogue over her misinformation?

Entry & exit stamps for the Island Paradise in your passport, but no Treasury Dept. license?

Go to jail, go directly to jail. Do not even smell 200 dollars...