May 25, 2006

Debunking canards about Miami Cubans - in photos

The castroite left loves to dismiss the Miami Cuban community as just "older Cuban men" who are simply not 'with it' enough to adjust to the real world outside Calle Ocho or Hialeah.

It's basura.

I posted a photo essay on Cuba Nostalgia on Publius Pundit last night from Julio Zagroniz's beautiful photo album to show otherwise, and attracted the most interesting, intelligent discussion from the international readers at Publius.

Lovely young Cubanitas are part of Miami's democratic revolution in the glowing city's permanent rebuke to castro, but, the very idea of denouncing people for being old is utterly foreign to Cubans. I noticed from Julio's pictures that the young and old mix it up quite happily and there's no preposterous "stigma" to being an "older Cuban man" as the left - and castro, too, by the way - would try to convince us. Miami's diversity includes old, middle, young, very young men and women, with no leftist-invented exclusions.

Publius is a blog dedicated to chronicling international democracy revolutions around the world. One part of the blog's collective philosophy is - if the babes show up, it's a real democracy revolution. Babes are essential. If it's just angry young men in masks breaking windows and setting fires, it's a fake and a loser.

Anyway, decide for yourself from this group of Julio's photos here.

Posted by Mora at May 25, 2006 11:13 AM



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Mora you are so right! Good things are always where the babes are. That dictum should be taught in school.

Posted by: Louis [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 25, 2006 11:43 AM

Con~o Val I almost had a heart attack looking at the HOT cornucopia of Cuban women - all types, all colors and all sizes and muy caliente! The type like when los viejitos back in the day used to watch El Show de Iris Chacon on TV and the next day they would all find themselves in the waiting room of la clinica because their blood pressures went up and they felt like a patatoon was coming ! That is why the left hates us so. Because we have slamming mamis who are proud to be Cuban and hate smelly old kkkastro and his Alicia Lonso brigade. I mean I have protested a lot of Commie Cuban things in New York City and the Commie chicks maybe one or two are OK - but they are commies and who wants them anyway, but the rest of the Angela Davis/Rosa Luxenberg crowd are real mean looking dogs who don't bathe and have hair under their arms - and they smell too! YES, The left always tries to make us look like a bunch of geriatric Mafia dons with one leg in the grave and another controlling US foreign policy! The same thing happened in Lebanon last year when all the hot Mediterranean looking Christian and secular Lebanese BABES - shapely and elegant, swanky and busty - Frency-fied (in a good cosmopolitan way) drinking red wine and dancing in the discos of Beirut took to the streets to demand justice. Democracy in action. If you want to see DOGS look at any demo in an Islamic dictatorship where the moustache women come out in their burkas to support their favorite tyrant.

Posted by: mandingo [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 25, 2006 12:10 PM

A few words from your CubaNostalgia photographer...
Mora, first and foremost, thanks for posting my images at Publius Pundit so a wider audience can enjoy them.
Nothing gratifies a photographer more than having his --or her-- images distributed to larger and larger audiences!
For the record, I did NOT go to CubaNostalgia with any sort of "photographic agenda." I wasn't there looking for black people, or for white people, or for young people, for for old people, or for any sort of in-between.
I simply wanted to try to capture an impression of what the *entire* event is like.
I am well aware that it's nearly an impossible mission, because regardless of where I, the photographer, may be at any particular moment in time, about 99% percent of CubaNostalgia is happening ELSEWHERE, all over the two large buildings that house the event.
Therefore, I took a lot of "instant energy" stuff with me, stuff that would keep me "on the go" most of the time that CubaNostalgia was on, and I photographed like crazy.
Counting the "invitation-only" Thursday evening event, I ended up with something like 1,200-1,500 images, which obviously will have to be edited before they are posted.
Already, we have close to 400 imates are on display at: http://wwww.zphotos.smugmug.com and about 200-300 more will follow as soon as I gather up enough energy and willpower to put them on display (I just returned home from Florida this afternoon, Monday, May 29 folks, so I hope you'll be patient).
I think that it's fairly safe to make the assumption that Zangroniz Photography captured the single, most complete collection of CubaNostalgia images available anywhere.
We are very proud of that.
And, God willing, we will be able to bring them to the public at large in the near future.
Thanks to one and all for your comments.
Keep them coming... we are not afraid of criticism, because it *helps* us improve.
Julio

Posted by: Jzangroniz [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 29, 2006 09:04 PM

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