Well said Roberto!

History repeats itself. During the Cuban War of Independence, no Latin American country sided with Cuba. Nobody came to our aid. In fact, countries like Argentina--I hear--went as far as offering Spain soldiers. Now, we see ourselves in a situation where we need help and again Latin America is working against us.

Contrast that to the way that Latin America united to embargo Pinochet. By the way, not even Pinochet was friendly to Cuban Americans!

This is not a request by all Latin American countries, but by the few leftists down there, with Venezuela, Bolivia and Guatemala leading the charge. It's AP story, read between the lines.

From memory I think Eloy Alfaro of Ecuador did provide some suppot,

Claude,

It's actually a Reuters article, and while it's true that the biggest support for castro, inc. comes primarily from a handful of countries, the others (with maybe one or two exceptions) have not exactly stepped it up that much with regards to supporting dissidents and freedom efforts in Cuba. Therefore, I don't feel we need to make much of a distinction between countries when it comes to the Cuba issue.

This reminds me of the recent post with a photo of Cristina Kirchner of Argentina having a gay old time (no pun intended) with Raul Castro.

I expect she sees herself as a cross between Evita and Lady Di, but despite the fortune she undoubtedly spends on clothes, hairstylists and so forth, she still looks like a piece of burnt toast with too much makeup.

Still, in all fairness, far weightier and presumably more serious world figures (I've lost count) have done the same or worse with the Castro boys. The photo is nothing next to the recent one of Raul next to a beaming Cardinal Bertone smiling from ear to ear like a demented Cheshire cat. A silly bitch like Kirchner is one thing, but the Vatican's Secretary of State is quite another. We're talking different orders of magnitude.

In other words, the question is not who's treated the Cuban people like shit and mocked or ignored their tragedy, but rather, who hasn't? And please, don't EVER talk to me about our Latin or Hispanic brothers. If it weren't so painful, it'd just make me laugh.

The number of media outlets running with this story really pisses me off. They are downright titillated with the anti-Americanism of it. Meanwhile Dr. Biscet is still dying in the Gulag, Cubans are facing horrific shortages, have no human rights, and the rafts still only go one way, but let us all just drink the kool-aide and celebrate flipping off Uncle Sam. Disgusting.

Ziva,

All that Prensa Latina [Cuba's official news agency] has to do is submit a press release and AP, Reuters, CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post will be tripping ALL over themselves to see who's first to print it! Doesn't matter how outrageous, misleading or outright non-factual the statements contained in the press release are!

Like I always say, fidel and raul have no need to distribute Gramma in the USA, our news agencies do a much better job!