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Of course Santana knew! He knew before the Oscars and he knew when his buddy Emilio invited him on the album. Emilio also knew all about it but still decided to go with Che loving Santana and arrogantly ignore what all of us would think. That's what can happen when you become rich and famous; you lose touch with all the little people. I agree with other posters that it would be a mistake to just wait for the album to come out. That's like Biscet just waiting for castro to fall. Just waiting for the album is exactly what the E$stefans would want us to do.

Santana speaks and thinks like a high school dropout.

SATANA - I MEAN SANTANA IS LEFTIST SCUM.

THE ESTEFANS SHOULD BE ASHAMED.

I never doubted from the beginning that the Estefans knew what Santana said and just chose to overlook it in favor of the CHAAAA CHINGGGG that his presence on 90 Millas would bring in. I'd like to say Emilio is above it, but I think he was counting on people forgetting about Santana and his love of che or on people brushing it off as the ramblings of a pothead but since this is not the case, it's making him and Gloria look like money is more important. Emilio did not get where is today by being naive-he knows what he is doing, he just misunderstood the passion of the "little people." He may still be a castro-loathing Cuban-American but he hasn't been a "little person" in a longgggg time.

Claudia

Here is another quote from the same statement by santana "En algunas ciudades del mundo los perros comen mejor que los habitantes de Chiapas", señaló Santana al rotativo.
Añadió que "por eso no me gusta el Papa ni El Vaticano. Me invitaron cinco veces a tocar en El Vaticano. Jamás voy a ir. Me duele la gente pobre: no puedo tolerar que una institución como El Vaticano tenga valores por tres trillones de dólares".

So Santana doesn't compromise HIS principals, but we should compromise ours to "understand" Glorita and Company?

Santana isn't tolerant and understanding when HE believes in something, but we have to tolerate all sorts of insults and contempt towards our suffering.

Santana vehemently defends HIS idols, but we can't contradict him or display our disgust.

If the Estefans were indeed good friends with this lowlife, then they knew what he was about. They (Estefans and Santana) can piss on an entire community, but WE are attacking "our own" when we hit back. Please spare me the double standard.

This whole thing gets rottener and rottener by the day.

There is absolutely nothing to justify this behavior.

They deserve everything they get and more.

Workin' in a factory for 20 hours a day,
all the money you've earned being handed
to the state, no freedom to speak your
mind. With all those pluses I still can't
understand how you guys maintain your
anti-Che stance, and condemn the shining
Utopia he created.

I keep hearing don't attack one of our own. Well one of our own attacked us, face it. We seem to have a double standard here. One of our own would not have put the Cuban American community in this position. If we just look past what "one of our own did" we will not have the moral right to criticize other things. We must be careful as our credibility is at stake when we turn a blind, or at least squinting, eye at one of our own.

That's really a shame, because musically (although not on this issue), Santana is a huge influence on me musically; a pioneer of latin rock. But there's no justification for the bloodshed of innocents, regardless of how "noble" you think the cause may be.

Dave,

You see what I mean. This guy isn't a college student who thinks Guevara is Jim Morrison. He is a true believer. So the question remains, why ask him to appear on THIS RECORD about Cuba unless he renounces that?

Why don't we sponsor a forum about Che and invite Carlos Santana and Fontova?

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