Alberto,

What are you talking about? Don't you read the New York Times, the Washington Post, hear the news on CBS, ABC, NBC and CNN [the Castro News Network] just to name a few "impartial" main stream media news agencies.

Cuba used to have a golden era, yes indeed she did, and it's only been since the fall of the Soviet Union that things have gotten bad.

You're right Ray, my bad.

My God - can't you guys just accept one article, one editorial written by someone anyone that says Cuba is seriously messed up and just let it go? No wonder the rest of the world is tired of us, we sound like a bunch of whiners. First of all the article appears in Forbes but was not originally published by Forbes. Stop your bitching and be happy someone agrees with us.

Cardinal,

Sorry, dude. You miss Alberto's point.

i understood and I also understand that I went over the top myself - to which I apologize. I should have given credit for actually typing in all 50 years and left it at that. still seems to me like he's whining.

I'm sorry my post offended your sensibilities, Cardinal. You are right, we should be very grateful that Forbes published an article criticizing the regime, no matter how lacking it is in historical perspective. We Cubans should be "good little Cubans" and accept the crumb that fell off the table and be happy we at least got a crumb. Maybe, in another fifty years, they'll let another crumb fall and we can all throw a feast, Noche Buena style, to commemorate the occasion.

We Cubans should refrain from whining and complaining and instead take our place amongst the other minorities and hope that our obedience and our meekness will win over the rest of the world. I am sure that once we prove to them that we are willing to be submissive and subservient, they will allow us one day to sit at the table with them.

Sounds like a great plan, Cardinal!

Why should I be happy one damned article was published?

I want it screamed from roof tops! I want it to be common knowledge that the castros are dictators and worse dictators than Batista ever was. I want it to be common knowledge that che was an unscrupulous murderer and not a hero.

I want it to be common knowledge that Cuba was much better off 50 years ago, and that regardless of who's been tube feeding that regime there hasn't been a time when Cubans in all these fifty years, have been better off than prior to 1959.

I want it to be common knowledge that the "advances" of that regime are nothing but smoke screans and double talk.

I want it to be commoon knowledge that the kings of bullshit and evil reside and are in power 90 miles South of the United States!

I want it too be as taboo to publish an article praising the castros as it would be to publish an article praising Hitler.

Alberto,

I for one congratulate you and the rest of the guys for exposing the mainstream media's bia. It's not whining [ talk about self-hatred! It's tragic when a Cuban American internalizes anti-Cuban bigotry] to continue exposing the omissions, half-truths, and out-right lies that the media ceaselessly perpetuates. I'm glad that you're documenting it, becuase if you don't do it nobody else will. Unlike the American Jews, we don't have a B'nai Birth or an Anti-Defamation League, unlike gays, we don't have a Gay National Task Force, unlike blacks, we don't have an NAACP and unlike other Hispanics, we don't have a MALDEF or a National Council of La Raza.

You guys are it! Thanks for your excellent work! I love these exposes on media bias! Please keep it up!

Thank you Ray, but if you and I keep acting like uppity migrants, we're not going to get invited to the next party. Of course, the only reason they invite us to to serve the cocktails and park the cars, but being there is what it's all about, isn't it?

Alberto,

True! We better shut our traps and stay in our place! After all, it really is arrogrant [and whiny] of us to expect journalists not to shill for the Castro brothers after only 50 years of brutality and the destruction of an entire country.

Bravo Alberto!