September 19, 2005
The Beast in full barbaric flower
I am speechless. This wetfoot-dryfoot garbage has got to go. castro is an absolute animal who can be trusted on no counts. Any Cuban who tries to get here, by right, should be allowed to stay here. The result of not doing it is this. Cubanet reports:
Five-year-old penalized because mother tried to leave Cuba
HAVANA, September 12 (José Antonio Fornaris, Cuba Verdad / www.cubanet.org) - Because her mother was caught trying to leave Cuba, Jessica Sánchez Lorenzo, aged 5, has been unable to register for grade one.
Four years ago the political police seized the identity card of Bárbara Lorenzo de Armas. Without this document, Lorenzo de Armas cannot obtain a minor's identify card which the Adolfo del Castillo school requires in order to register her daughter.
Even if the school allowed Jessica to register, her mother couldn't buy the required uniform because this comes from a government store that requires a document to buy there, which was also seized four years ago.
The school advised Lorenzo de Armas that the case has been turned over to the municipal education board. The school is located in the Managua district of Havana.
Posted by Mora at September 19, 2005 04:02 PM
Comments
I was hoping, naively no doubt, that James Cason would address this issue last week. It's obvious that Bush has no intention of rescinding this brutal policy. We need to make a lot more noise about this.
Posted by: Kathleen at September 19, 2005 04:59 PM
How right you are, Kathleen! Not doing it monstrous to our national image. What do the people thrown back to communism have to say about us? It's unconscionable.
Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at September 20, 2005 12:09 AM
We need a real "CNN", broadcast 24/7 telling it like it is. This just makes me nuts.
Posted by: Kathleen at September 20, 2005 03:56 PM
Not only has President Bush not rescinded Clinton's wet foot-dry foot policy, but like his predecesor, he has never put into effect Title III and Title IV of the Helms-Burton Act. Remember that much ballyhooed law that was going to bring down Castro? Narf.
Posted by: de la Cova at September 22, 2005 12:59 AM