tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80211354616222641242024-03-09T21:45:43.822-05:00Review of Cuban-American BlogsTo tell the unconventional truth, respecting no one who does not respect Cuba or the Cuban people's right to freedom.Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.comBlogger981125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-54921718811285612842012-11-06T16:33:00.001-05:002012-11-06T16:33:54.336-05:00The Failure of HopeHope in nothing is not hope. Four years ago Americans founded their hopes on nothing and got nothing. We can only hope that they have learned one lesson since then: failure has no color. Or, rather, it comes in all colors and all combinations thereof.<br />
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You can't whitewash failure with rhetoric; you can't hang curtains of hubris around it; and you can't stamp a new expiration date on it. Failure is final.<br />
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One must be shameless beyond the common type, indeed, shameless beyond any previous conception of what shameless means, to betray the hopes of millions and yet expect them to sanction that betrayal and embrace that failure.<br />
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The only thing that would be even more shameless is a people that surrenders its future because it cannot or will not learn from its past.<br />
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We Cubans, of course, are the resident experts on that subject.<br />
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One would think that if nothing else we would be an object lesson to the world. But no; our failure, as much ours as imposed upon us, is denied by the same people that do not acknowledge Barack Obama's. They regard Fidel Castro as a boon unto our country and all nations, and we must pay with our grim realities for their fond illusions.<br />
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If Barack Obama is re-elected president today, the same fate awaits this country: to be a byword for failure without even the pity that failure amounting to national suicide should inspire. Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com60tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-57251112080081758982012-11-05T09:21:00.000-05:002012-11-05T09:21:03.629-05:00Willard "Mitt" Romney for PresidentThe best thing that can be said about Barack Obama's presidency is that, horrible as these last four years have been, they could have been much worse if the prospect of re-election had not contained to some small but still significant degree his socialist tendencies and radical agenda. Were he re-elected, however, he would not labor even under this restraint and we should see "the hope that failed" fail again, with still more calamitous consequences for this country and the world. We have no great faith in the constancy of Mitt Romney's conservative principles; but even admitting that he is something of a chameleon, his colors, at this moment at least, are not a cause of concern to us, as we have less apprehension of possible apostasies than rampant heresy. If this seems a half-hearted endorsement of "Mitt" Romney, it is not. I have never desired anything more in my life than his election, if not for the good that it will do then for the good that it will not undo.<br />
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I have no illusions, however, about what Romney's election would mean for the future of Cuba. As he demonstrated 4 years ago when he spoke to a gathering of Cuban-Americans in Miami and concluded his prepared remarks with Castro's cry of "¡Venceremos. Patria o Muerte!," Mitt Romney may be on our side but he knows nothing about our history or about us. Still, even that is better than someone who knows all the wrong things and has no respect for our struggle. The cancellation of the annual Cuban Independence Day celebration at the White House, and the failure to mark in any official way the 50th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs, which was this country's first Vietnam and will not disappear from history because it is ignored or denigrated, carry far deeper symbolism than Romney's fatuous gaffe because they represent an attempt to erase the collective memory of our two countries' shared history, which is the prelude to rewriting that history with the villains as heroes and the heroes as villains. <br />
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This, ultimately, is Barack Obama's intention. It may not be his personal obsession; but it is certainly that of the advisers who have steered his Cuba policy over the last four years and made the U.S. an active partner in promoting regime conservation in Cuba. By eliminating all restrictions on cash remittances and facilitating (even promoting) U.S. tourism to the island -- a "stimulus" package worth more than all of Cuba's exports combined -- the Obama administration has in effect circumvented the trade embargo, which cannot be rescinded until Communist Cuba has met certain conditions stipulated in U.S. law, which it has not and never will. <em>This</em> Obama stimulus actually has worked if strengthening the hand of Raúl Castro, the sham reformer, was its object, and whether it was or no such has been its effect: it has emboldened him to undertake the biggest crackdown on dissidents since the inception of the Revolution, culminating in the assassination of their most prominent leaders. For the consolidation of Raulism in Cuba, which resulted in these human rights outrages, Barack Obama shares the responsibility and should be held accountable.<br />
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Now for some real politik. Every Republican president from Nixon to Bush II -- including Ronald Reagan -- initiated secret talks with the Castro regime aimed at "normalizing" relations with an abnormality, which failed not because the U.S. did not negotiate in good faith but because it expected the other side to do likewise, having assumed, incorrectly, that since Communist Cuba had the most to gain in the bargain, it would be at least as accommodating as the U.S. which, by the mere act of engaging in such negotiations, had already signalled its disposition to be duped. But as every man believes that he is too smart to be duped, it is inevitable that Mitt Romney too will reach out to Communist Cuba, and just as inevitable that he too will fail. Barack Obama would not fail because there are no conditions that he would insist upon or concessions that he would not make. Negotiations carried forth upon such terms cannot fail to succeed: there has never been a capitulation that did not succeed. Because we don't want these negotiations to succeed and are confident that they won't succeed if a Republican is president, we are endorsing Willard "Mitt" Romney.Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-20386133446154117612010-07-24T12:37:00.018-04:002010-07-29T16:06:08.765-04:00GENERAL INDEX<div class="widget-content"> <div id="ArchiveList"> <div id="BlogArchive1_ArchiveList"> <div class="widget-content"> <div id="ArchiveList"> <div id="BlogArchive1_ArchiveList"> <ul class="hierarchy"><li class="archivedate expanded"> <a class="toggle" href="javascript:void(0)"> <span class="zippy toggle-open"> </span> </a> <a class="post-count-link" href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2009-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-05%3A00&updated-max=2010-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-05%3A00&max-results=18">2009</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(18)</span> <ul class="hierarchy"><li 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href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/who-will-be-responsible-if-barack-obama.html">Who Will Be Responsible If Barack Obama Wins This Election?<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/rcab-linked-to-rick-and-alex.html">RCAB: Linked to Rick and Alex</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/last-days-of-rcab-and-cuban-american.html">The Last Days of RCAB and the Cuban-American Blogosphere</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/notable-quotable-didnt-i-eat-breakfast.html">Notable & Quotable: "Didn't I Eat Lunch There Yesterday?"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/unsinkable-sarah-palin.html">The Unsinkable Sarah Palin</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/castros-pressure-cooker-is-at-full.html">Castro's Pressure Cooker Is At Full Throttle While Babalú's Barely Hisses</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul class="hierarchy"><li class="archivedate expanded"> <a class="toggle" href="javascript:void(0)"> <span class="zippy toggle-open"> </span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008_09_01_archive.html">September</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(34)</span> <ul class="posts"><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/from-tellechea-newspaper-archives.html">From the Tellechea Newspaper Archives: Charity for the Poor Versus Charity for the Rich</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/celebrity-compatibility-with-fidel.html">Celebrity Compatibility with Fidel Castro</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/marc-msferrer-resigns-from-babal.html">Marc Másferrer Resigns from Babalú</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/strange-but-strangely-accurate.html">Strange But Strangely Accurate: Compatibility of Fidel Castro and Paul Newman<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/mccain-obama-debate-speaking-of-shallow.html">The McCain-Obama Debate: Speaking of Shallow Impressions</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/humberto-fontova-and-anatasio-blanco.html">Humberto Fontova and Anatasio Blanco Take Opposite Sides on Remittances<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/castro-steals-tuna-from-cuban-people.html">Castro Steals Tuna from Cuban People and Babalú Rejoices</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/coast-guard-kills-another-cuban-at.html">The Coast Guard Kills Another Cuban at Bush's Orders</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/we-dont-want-to-give-them-lot-of.html">Notable & Opportunistic: "¡Viva Cuba Libre!"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/blood-famine-will-bring-freedom-to-cuba.html">Blood & Famine Will Bring Freedom to Cuba, Says Babalú</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/are-remittances-same-as-paying-castro.html">Are Remittances the Same as Paying Castro Ransom?<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/trial-of-marc-msferrer-continues-at.html">The Trial of Marc Másferrer Continues</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/babal-forms-united-front-with-castro.html">Babalú Forms United Front with Castro Regime Against the Cuban People</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/deconstructing-henry-gomz-perverse.html">Deconstructing Henry Gómez's "Perverse" Attack on Marc Másferrer<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/babal-continues-auto-da-f-against-marc.html">Babalú Continues Auto-da-Fé Against Marc Másferrer</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/rcab-news-unexpected-visitor-from-cuba.html">RCAB News: An Unexpected Visitor from Cuba</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/val-prieto-visits-rcab-for-last-time.html">Val Prieto Visits RCAB for the Last Time</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/babal-silent-on-val-prietos-greatest.html">Babalú Silent on Val Prieto's Greatest Triumph</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/val-prietos-victory-over-cuban-people.html">Val Prieto's "Victory" Over the Cuban People</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/schism-at-babal-over-remittances.html">The Schism at Babalú Over Remittances</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/meeting-of-minds.html">A Meeting of Minds</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/our-country-is-dying.html">Our Country Is Dying: "Apártame Este Cáliz"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-is-your-aunt-marta-lincoln.html">"How Is Your Aunt Marta, Lincoln?"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/do-remittances-benefit-cuban-people.html">Do Remittances Benefit the Cuban People More Than They Do Castro?<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/val-prieto-to-new-york-times-cuban.html">Val Prieto to The New York Times: Cuban Hurricane Survivors Don't Need Money<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/enigmatic-death-of-abel-and-celia-hart.html">The Enigmatic Death of Abel and Celia Hart</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/babal-to-cuban-people-let-them-eat-cake.html">Babalú to the Cuban People: "Let Them Eat Cake"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/notable-despicable-gorki-is-no-havel.html">Notable & Despicable: "Gorki Is No Havel"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/on-provision-of-humanitarian-aid-to.html">On the Provision of Humanitarian Aid to Cuba</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/75th-anniversary-of-4th-of-september.html">75th Anniversary of "4th of September 1933"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-palins-speech.html">Sarah Palin's Speech</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/galveston-hurricane-1900-how-cuba.html">The Galveston Hurricane (1900): How Cuba Nearly Saved the U.S. from the Worst Natural Disaster in Its 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href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/cuban-revolutions-one-undeniable.html">The Cuban Revolution's One Undeniable Success</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/about-gorki-and-our-best-years.html">About Gorki and "Our Best Years"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/babals-deleted-post-about-gorki.html">Babalú's Deleted Post About Gorki</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/lyndon-baines-johnson-1908-2008.html">Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-2008)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/beacon-street-irregular-is-out.html">Beacon Street Irregular is Out</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/open-letter-to-pablo-milans-and-other.html">"Open Letter to Pablo Milanés and Other Cuban Musicians Concerning the Arrest of Gorki Aguila"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/from-black-sheep-of-exile-gorki-is.html">From Black Sheep of Exile: Gorki Is Arrested</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/fidel-blasts-miami-mafia-for-sabotaging.html">Fidel Blasts Miami Mafia for "Sabotaging" Cuban Athletes at Olympics</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/anyone-but-mitt-romney-please.html">Anyone But Mitt Romney, Please</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-picks-biden.html">Obama Picks Biden</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/notable-unexpected-pressure-cooker-as.html">Notable & Unexpected: "Pressure Cooker" As a Kitchen Appliance Not a Metaphor<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/cnn-reporter-discover-his-jewish-roots.html">CNN Reporter Discover His Jewish Roots In Cuba</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/fidel-gets-homer-that-he-deserves.html">Fidel Gets the "Homer" that He Deserves</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/cuban-santeros-join-fidel-castros.html">Cuban Santeros Join Fidel Castro's Spirit to a Ceiba Tree</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/nothing-to-cheer-about-in-beijing-for.html">Nothing to Cheer About in Beijing for Cubans</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/whether-georgian-republic-or-posada.html">Whether the Georgian Republic or Posada Carriles, Betraying Allies Is the New American Doctrine<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/miami-herald-perpetuates-anti-cuban.html">The Miami Herald Perpetuates Anti-Cuban Stereotypes</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/submitted-for-your-consideration.html">Submitted for Your Consideration</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/christian-science-monitor-reports-te.html">The Christian Science Monitor Reports the End of Socialism in Cuba</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/myriam-mrquez-cloning-of-ana-menndez.html">Myriam Márquez: The Cloning of Ana Menéndez</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/what-if-national-enquirer-is-also-right.html">What If the National Enquirer Is Also Right About Obama?<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/fantomas-saves-gorillas-from-extinction.html">Fantomas Saves Gorillas from Extinction</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/beijing-olympics-berlin-in-our-times.html">The Beijing Olympics: Berlin In Our Times</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/peligrosidad-american-style.html">Peligrosidad American Style</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/from-tellechea-newspaper-archives.html">From the Tellechea Newspaper Archives: Castro's Pet Author Lends His Nobel Credentials to Marxist Cuba (1988)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/is-american-democracy-imperilled-by.html">Is American Democracy Imperilled by Barack Obama?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/importance-of-disappearing.html">The Importance of Disappearing</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-1919-2008-rip.html">Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), R.I.P.</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/fidel-rewarded-for-defection-of-cuban.html">Fidel Rewarded for the Defection of Cuban Athletes in Edmonton</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/marriage-of-fantomas.html">The Marriage of Fantomas</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/rcab-hacked-this-morning.html">RCAB Hacked This Morning</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul class="hierarchy"><li class="archivedate expanded"> <a class="toggle" href="javascript:void(0)"> <span class="zippy toggle-open"> </span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html">July</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(30)</span> <ul class="posts"><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/judge-jeri-beth-cohen-is-up-for.html">Judge Jeri Beth Cohen Is Up for Reelection: "Remember Elenita!"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/honoring-revolutions-martyrs.html">Honoring the Revolution's "Martyrs"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/leftist-blogger-slams-babal-and-we-are.html">A Leftist Blogger Slams Babalú And We Are Not Amused</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/notable-larcenous-fidelismo-sin-fidel.html">Notable & Larcenous: Fidelismo Sin Fidel</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/another-babalunian-weighs-in-on.html">Another Babalunian Weighs In On the Question of Cuban Balls</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/notable-ballsy-defending-nation-of.html">Notable & Ballsy: Defending a Nation of Heroes</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/fantomas-returns-to-madhouse.html">Fantomas Returns to The Madhouse</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/notable-emasculating-2-cubans-have-no.html">Notable & Emasculating 2: "Cubans Have No Balls"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/will-henry-now-stop-merchandising-che-t.html">Will Henry Now Stop Merchandising "Che" T-Shirts?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/prime-of-reverend-al-sharpton.html">The Prime of Reverend Al Sharpton</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/henry-catches-fire-in-australia.html">Henry Catches Fire in Australia</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/posthumous-blog-review-estancia-cubana.html">Posthumous Blog Review: Estancia Cubana</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/fidel-castros-first-resignation.html">Fidel Castro's First Resignation</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/babals-1-friend.html">Babalú's #1 Friend</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/question-from-ms-calabaza-about-babals.html">A Question from Ms. Calabaza About Babalú's Flag Desecration</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/controversial-cartoons-in-new-yorker.html">Controversial Cartoons in the New Yorker and Babalú</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/eliezer-aronowskys-tribute-to-cuban.html">Eliezer Aronowsky's Tribute to the Cuban Flag</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/babals-deletes-all-comments-on-new.html">Babalú's Deletes All Comments on "The New Cuban Flag"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/babal-makes-present-to-me-of-its.html">Babalú Makes a Present to Me of Its Readers</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/babals-new-flag.html">Babalú's New Flag</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/cuban-flag-desecrated-at-babal.html">Cuban Flag Desecrated at Babalú</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/spains-new-law-of-return-lambasted-in.html">Spain's New "Law of Return" Lambasted in Racist Cartoon in "Granma"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/observation-from-sr-cohiba.html">An Observation from Sr. Cohiba</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/to-val-cuenta-cuentos.html">Tío Val Cuenta Cuentos (Uncle Val's Tales)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/jesse-helms-1921-2008-rip.html">Jesse Helms (1921-2008), R.I.P.</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/thomas-jefferson-all-men-are-created.html">Thomas Jefferson: "All Men Are Created Equal" Was Never a "Self-Evident" Truth to Him<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/babaloos-waterloos-old-stand-bys.html">Babaloo's Waterloos: The Old Stand Bys</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/notable-emasculating-cubans-are-cowards.html">Notable & Emasculating: Cubans Are "Cowards"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/real-enemies-of-cuban-people.html">The Real Enemies of the Cuban People</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/musical-interlude.html">A Musical Interlude</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul class="hierarchy"><li class="archivedate expanded"> <a class="toggle" href="javascript:void(0)"> <span class="zippy toggle-open"> </span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.html">June</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(36)</span> <ul class="posts"><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/06/val-tries-again-to-write-5th.html">Val Tries Again to Write a 5th Anniversary Post</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/06/are-cubans-resentful-unforgiving.html">Are Cubans "Resentful" & "Unforgiving?" 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href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/06/is-this-guy-episcopalian.html">Is This Guy an Episcopalian?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/06/carlos-manuel-de-cspedes-iii.html">Carlos Manuel de Céspedes III</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/06/elin-is-still-victim.html">Elián Is Still a Victim</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/06/elins-never-ending-saga.html">Elián's Never-Ending Saga</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/06/fidel-castro-is-now-deaf-and-mute.html">Fidel Castro Is Now Deaf and Mute</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/06/notable-not-me-babal-admonished-on.html">Notable & Not Me: Babalú Admonished on Babalú for 2nd Outing of Killcastro<br /></a></li><li><a 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class="posts"><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/05/obama-quits-church.html">Obama Quits Church</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/06/obamas-message-to-fidel.html">Obama's "Message to Fidel"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/05/damas-de-blanco-reach-down-to-obama.html">The Damas de Blanco Reach Down to Obama</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/05/what-no-drug-tests.html">What, No Drug Tests?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/05/meltdown-at-babal.html">The Meltdown at Babalú</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/05/notable-and-always-despicable-starving.html">Notable and Always Despicable: Starving Cubans Without a Pressure Cooker</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/05/fidel-castro-endorses-barack-obama.html">Fidel Castro 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Fidel</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/05/cry-me-river-val.html">Cry Me a River, Val</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/05/of-men-and-crabs.html">Of Crabs and Men</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/05/veinte-de-mayo.html">Veinte de Mayo</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/05/may-20th-speech-that-matters.html">The May 20th Speech that Matters</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/05/will-cuba-ever-be-free-part-ii.html">Will Cuba Ever Be Free Again? 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Wright</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/promise-of-barack-obama.html">The Promise of Barack Obama</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/joe-papps-cuban-odyssey.html">Joe Papp's Cuban Odyssey</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/notable-naive-no-monica-we-are-all.html">Notable & Naive: No, Monica, We Are All "Cuban Nationals"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/jaime-cardinal-ortega-dorian-gray-of.html">Jaime Cardinal Ortega: The "Dorian Gray" of Cuba</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/notable-hypocritical-two-birds-of.html">Notable & Hypocritical: Two Birds of a Feather that Don't Fly Together</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/what-now-babal.html">What Now, Babalú?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/notable-sadistic-val-says-let-them-eat.html">Notable & Sadistic: Val Says, "Let Them Eat Goldfish"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/rarest-thing-happened-today-debate.html">The Rarest Thing Happened Today: A Debate Broke Out at Babalú</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/is-babul-dead-again.html">Is Babulú Dead Again?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/round-8-with-henry.html">Round 8 With Henry (He Says "¡No más!")</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/ral-is-taking-rice-out-of-mouths-of.html">Raúl Is Taking the Rice Out of the Mouths of Cubans</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/round-7-with-henry.html">Round 7 With Henry</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/vaticans-unholy-alliance-with-castro.html">The Vatican's Unholy Alliance With the Castro Regime Has Its Roots in Pederasty<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/nightly-tally_18.html">The Nightly Tally</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/round-6-with-henry.html">Round 6 With Henry</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/shielding-pedophiles-and-defending.html">Shielding Pedophiles and Defending Communists, the Pope's Mission in America</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/new-kultur-commissar-joins-cap.html">New Kultur Commissar Joins CAP</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/round-5-with-henry.html">Round 5 With Henry</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/bay-of-pigs-fiasco-that-wasnt-fiasco.html">The Bay of Pigs: The "Fiasco" that Wasn't a Fiasco</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/round-4-with-henry.html">Round 4 With Henry</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/round-3-with-henry.html">Round 3 With Henry</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/round-2-with-henry.html">Round 2 With Henry</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/visit-from-henry-to-rcab.html">A Visit From Henry to RCAB (Round 1)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/breaking-news-henry-louis-gmez-endorses.html">Breaking News!!! Henry Louis Gómez Endorses Raúl Castro's "Reforms"<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/notable-almost-quotable-helping-henry.html">Notable & Almost Quotable: Helping Henry Make Sense</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/of-toasters-and-men.html">Of Toasters and Cubans</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/death-and-rebirth-of-cuban-american.html">The Death and Rebirth of "Cuban-American Pundits"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/end-of-story.html">The End of the Story</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/notable-quotable-root-of-problem.html">Notable & Quotable: The Root of the Problem</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/nightly-tally.html">The Nightly Tally</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/chivato-and-procurer.html">The Chivato and the Procurer</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/babals-magnificent-cadres-are-in.html">Babalú's "Magnificent Cadres" Are In Disarray As Yet Another Dissenter Breaks Ranks</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/question-of-day.html">Question of the Day</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/two-things-that-threaten-to-destroy.html">The Two Things that Threaten to Destroy Babalú Sooner Than Later<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/notable-regimented-lament-for-lost.html">Notable & Regimented: A Lament for Lost Conformity</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/good-news-castro-is-nearer-to-death.html">Good News: Castro Is Nearer to Death</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/henry-is-just-man-he-says.html">Henry Is "Just a Man," He Says</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/henry-baits-me-about-gandhi-and-gets.html">Henry Baits Me About Gandhi and Gets Hooked</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/pillaging-frozen-assets-of-cuban-people.html">Pillaging the Frozen Assets of the Cuban People</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/does-cuba-have-government-it-deserves.html">Does Cuba Have the Government It Deserves?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/quo-babal.html">Quo Babalú?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/notable-optimistic-cubans-have.html">Notable & Optimistic: Cubans Have "Substantial Disposable Income"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/killcastros-family-is-safe-for-now.html">Killcastro's Family Is Safe (For Now)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/see-no-che-evil-hear-no-che-evil.html">"See No 'Che' Evil, Hear No 'Che' Evil"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/drinking-at-our-springs-and-detoxifying.html">Drinking at Our Springs and Detoxifying from Babalú</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/potts-and-kettles-are-both-prieto.html">Potts and Kettles Are Both Prieto</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/potts-calling-kettle-black.html">Potts Calling the Kettle Black</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/bringing-ice-to-india-or-is-novelty.html">Bringing Ice to India: Or, Is a Novelty a "Reform?"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/killcastro-tells-inside-story-of-his.html">Killcastro Tells the Inside Story of His Outing</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/04/vals-kitchen.html">The Villa Valentina</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/at-247-am-call-for-you-he-says-his-name.html">At 2:47 AM: "A Call For You. He Says His Name Is 'Val'"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/their-worst-enemy-babals-self-inflicted.html">Their Worst Enemy: Babalú's Self-Inflicted Defeat</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/val-plays-fool-to-hide-villain.html">Val Plays the Fool to Hide the Villain</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul class="hierarchy"><li class="archivedate expanded"> <a class="toggle" href="javascript:void(0)"> <span class="zippy toggle-open"> </span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html">March</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(46)</span> <ul class="posts"><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/killcastro-speaks-to-rcab.html">Guest Post: Killcastro Speaks to RCAB</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/babaloos-waterloos-its-putrid-carnival.html">Babaloo's Waterloos: Its Putrid Carnival</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/babals-disappearing-lies.html">Babalú's Disappearing Lies</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/notable-ironic-cubas-obscure-provinces.html">Notable & Ironic: Cuba's "Obscure" Provinces</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/notable-quotable-where-are-you-my-enemy.html">Notable & Quotable: "Where Are You, My Enemy?"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/vana-banned-from-babal.html">Vana Banned from Babalú</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/henry-caricaturist.html">Henry the Caricaturist</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/sr-cohiba-joins-babal.html">Sr Cohiba Joins Babalú</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/important-new-developments-in.html">Important New Developments in Killcastro Affaire</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/el-chivato-val-prieto-comedy-bashin.html">"El Chivato Val Prieto Comedy Bashin' Hour"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/bunker-babal.html">Bunker Babalú</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/apology-from-val.html">An Apology from Val?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/killcastro-responds-to-vals-aggression.html">Killcastro Responds to Val's Aggression on His Family</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/silence-of-lambs.html">The Silence of the Lambs</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/babaloos-waterloos-val-prieto-condemns.html">Babaloo's Waterloos: Val Prieto Condemns Himself</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/many-colors-of-val-prieto.html">The Many Colors of Val Prieto</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/congratulations-to-black-sheep-of-exile.html">Congratulations to "Black Sheep of Exile"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/spring-break-at-babal.html">Spring Break at Babalú</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/birth-of-rcab-its-foundational.html">The Birth of RCAB: Its Foundational Documents</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/notable-fascinating-is-henry-easter.html">Notable & Fascinating: Is Henry the Easter Bunny?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/what-easter-means-to-cubans.html">What Easter Means to Cubans</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/pope-condemns-violations-of-human.html">The Pope Condemns Violations of Human Rights (in Ancient Rome)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-addition-to-our-blogroll-obalesque.html">A New Addition to Our Blogroll: "Obalesque"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/notable-cretinous-cubans-have-enemies.html">Notable & Cretinous: Cubans Have Enemies in Their Backyard, Too<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/notable-absent-what-val-knows-about.html">Notable & Absent: What Val Knows About History</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/notable-indifferent-henry-shows-how-to.html">Notable & Indifferent: Henry Shows How to Be a "Winner"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/5th-anniversary-of-cubas-black-spring.html">The 5th Anniversary of Cuba's "Black Spring"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/cubans-too-have-bit-of-blarney.html">Cubans Too Have a Bit of the Blarney</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/chance-for-bush-to-be-good-samaritan-of.html">A Chance for Bush to Be a Good Samaritan of Deeds</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/rcabs-first-righteous-american-award.html">RCAB's First "Righteous American Award"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/tibetans-rise-up-against-communist-rule.html">Tibetans Rise Up Against Communist Rule</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/pope-invents-7-new-deadly-sins.html">The Pope Invents 7 New Deadly Sins</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/notable-delusional-val-claims-blog.html">Notable & Delusional: Val Claims "Blog Children" in Cuba</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/notable-marie-antoinettetish-let-them.html">Notable & Marie Antoinette-ish: "Let Them Eat Pan con Bistec"<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/notable-shameless-ms-labia-de-bush.html">Notable & Shameless: Más Labia de Bush</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/zapatero-wins-spanish-elections.html">Zapatero Wins Spanish Elections</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/babal-praises-george-wills-bigotted.html">Babalú Praises George Will's Bigotted Attack on Cubans</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/good-samaritan-of-words.html">The Good Samaritan of Words</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/mambo-watch-calls-it-quit.html">"Mambo Watch" Calls It Quit</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/quo-vadis.html">Quo Vadis?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/notable-cosmopolitan-babal-embraces.html">Notable & Cosmopolitan: Babalú Embraces Haute Culture</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/notable-disillusioned-henry-dumps-obama.html">Notable & Disillusioned: Henry Dumps Obama</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/recetas-de-la-abuela-mayra.html">Communist Cuba Has a Blog Devoted to Cooking</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/notable-brave-as-only-words-can-be.html">Notable & Brave: As Only Words Can Be</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/note-to-our-readers.html">A Note to Our Readers</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/esquire-article-that-rocked-cuba-in.html">The "Esquire" Article that Rocked Cuba in 1936</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul class="hierarchy"><li class="archivedate expanded"> <a class="toggle" href="javascript:void(0)"> <span class="zippy toggle-open"> </span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html">February</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(73)</span> <ul class="posts"><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/john-paul-ii-and-che-guevara-honored-in.html">John Paul II and "Che" Guevara Honored In One Monument</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-cheap-promise-us-2-billion-ral.html">Notable & Cheap: "Promise Us $2 Billion, Raúl, and We'll Call It a Deal"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/robber-barons-were-never-this-greedy.html">The Robber Barons Were Never This Greedy</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/what-moneo-affaire-can-teach-babal.html">What the Moneo Affaire Can Teach Babalú</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-cretinous-george-moneo-grovels.html">Notable & Cretinous: George Moneo Grovels</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/william-f-buckley-and-i.html">William F. Buckley and I</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-declamatory-henry-tells-us-what.html">Notable & Declamatory: Henry Tells Us What "It's About"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/old-babal-is-back-not-that-we-are.html">The Old Babalú is Back (Not that We Are Celebrating)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-long-in-coming-civil-war-erupts.html">Notable & Long In Coming: Civil War Erupts At Babalú</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-still-apropos-catholic-church.html">Notable & Still Apropos: The Catholic Church vs. Cubans</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-and-laudable-condemning-tyranny.html">Notable & Laudable: Condemning Tyranny in Cuba</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/flash-george-moneo-has-resigned-or-been.html">FLASH!!! George Moneo Has Resigned Or Been Ousted from Babalú<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-apocalyptic-george-moneo.html">Notable & Apocalyptic: George Moneo Predicts End of Western Civilization<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/habemus-tyrannus.html">"Habemus Tyrannus!"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/fidelito-lite-horse-candidate.html">Fidelito: The Lite-Horse Candidate</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/el-grito-de-baire.html">El Grito de Baire</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-grotesque-political-animal.html">Notable & Grotesque: Political Animal Compares John McCain to Jeffrey Dahmer</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-to-point-fidel-castro-should-be.html">Notable & to the Point: Fidel Castro Should Be Dead</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/is-castros-so-called-resignation-ruse.html">Is Castro's So-Called "Resignation" A Ruse?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-proud-at-last-michelle-obama.html">Notable & Proud At Last: Michelle Obama</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-ivied-frederick-dougglas-and.html">Notable & Ivied: Frederick Douglass and "Nas" Show the Way to Obama</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/fidels-retirement-causes-canadians-to.html">Fidel's Retirement Causes Canadians to Lament Their Support of Him</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-exposed-how-great-was-my-fidel.html">Notable & Exposed: "How Great Was My Fidel!"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/what-if-hitler-had-retired-like-fidel.html">What If Hitler Had "Retired" Like Fidel</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/fidel-relinquishes-presidency-of-cuba.html">Fidel Relinquishes the "Presidency" of Cuba</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/truth-about-barack-obama-finally.html">The Truth About Barack Obama Finally Revealed</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/babalunians-go-on-vaudeville-circuit.html">The Babalunians Go on the Vaudeville Circuit</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/next-years-presidents-day-may-be.html">Next Year's "Presidents Day" May Be Different</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/che-guevara-importance-of-being-earnest.html">"Che" Guevara: The Importance of Being Earnest</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/economist-sets-up-academy-at-babal.html">"The Economist" Sets Up Academy at Babalú</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/barack-obama-jesus-also-had-woolly-hair.html">Barack Obama: Jesus Also Had Woolly Hair</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/obama-and-chicagoanswer.html">Obama and ChicagoAnswer</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/claudia-fanelli-joins-babals-staff.html">Claudia Fanelli Joins Babalú's Staff</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/babaloos-waterloos-henry-is-now.html">Babaloo's Waterloos: Henry Is Now Suggesting that Obama Is Reagan's Organic Heir<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/fidel-henry-agree-mccains-not-ethical.html">Fidel & Henry Agree: McCain's Not "Ethical" Enough to be President</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/barack-obama-gets-daniel-ortegas.html">Barack Obama Gets Daniel Ortega's Endorsement</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/henry-he-can-pick-loser-but-he-sure.html">Henry: He Can Pick a Loser, But He Sure Can't Pick a Winner</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-and-ominous-carter-is-going-up.html">Notable and Ominous: Carter Is Going Up One Notch</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/henry-to-mccain-will-you-please-oblige.html">Henry to McCain: Will You Please Oblige Me and Die</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/babaloos-waterloos-flash-henry.html">Babaloo's Waterloos: FLASH! Henry Discovers that Obama's Campaign is Run by Commies</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-bathetic-henry-pleads-with.html">Notable & Bathetic: Henry Pleads With Obama</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/babaloos-waterloos-fanning-flames-of.html">Babaloo's Waterloos: Fanning the Flames of Xenophobia at Refugee Blog<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/little-gator-takes-bite-out-of-henrys.html">"Little Gator" Takes a Bite Out of Henry's Ass In Val's House<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/che-obama-connection-courtesy-of.html">The Che-Obama Connection (Courtesy of Killcastro)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-vindictive-aint-gonna-happen.html">Notable & Vindictive: Ain't Gonna Happen, Vulture</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/babaloos-new-oath-of-allegiance.html">Babaloo's New Oath of Allegiance</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/glad-to-be-able-to-keep-promise-to.html">Glad to Be Able to Keep a Promise to George</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/coneheadcon-strikes-again.html">"ConeheadCon" Strikes Again</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-hard-to-swallow-mccain-is.html">Notable & Hard to Swallow: McCain Is Leading</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-predictable-henry-praises-ron.html">Notable & Predictable: Henry Praises Ron Paul</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/henry-obsessed-with-obamas-youth-and.html">Still Obsessed With Obama's Youth and Repulsed by "U-G-L-Y" McCain<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/fred-thompson-endorses-john-mccain.html">Fred Thompson Endorses John McCain</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/cuba-art-how-revolution-broke-it-in-and.html">Cuba Art: How the Revolution Broke It In and Harnessed It</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/does-mccain-excite-you.html">Does McCain Excite You?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/and-val-said-stop-and-they-stopped.html">And Val said "Stop!" And They Stopped</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/mitt-romney-gone-like-his-father-and.html">Mitt Romney: Gone Like His Father and Hopefully Never to Return</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-lonely-babals-voice-of-reason.html">Notable & Lonely: Babalú's Voice of Reason</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/babaloos-waterloos-when-ideology-trumps.html">Babaloo's Waterloos: When Ideology Trumps Common Sense</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/ok-here-are-my-thousand-words-for-today.html">OK, Here Are My Thousand Words For Today</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-maybe-final-george-moneo-quits.html">Notable & Maybe Final : George Moneo Quits the Republican Party (Again)<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-resigned-henry-ends-33-year.html">Notable & Resigned: Henry Ends 33-Year Career As a Political Animal</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-dignified-israels-un-ambassador.html">Notable & Dignified: Israel's U.N. Ambassador In a Dual with Castro's</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-more-inverted-what-does-henry.html">Notable & More Inverted: What Does Henry Want In a President?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/emilo-estefan-comes-to-rescue-of.html">Emilo Estefan Comes to the Rescue of Stranded Balseros</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/solution-to-migrant-question-let-robots.html">The Solution to the "Migrant Problem:" Let Robots Pick the Fruit<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-inverted-henry-thinks-mccain.html">Notable & Inverted: Now Henry Thinks McCain Can't Win Because He's "U-G-L-Y"<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-desperate-henry-loves-huckster.html">Notable & Desperate: Henry Loves the "Huckster"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/truth-about-shoot-down-its-about.html">The Truth About "Shoot Down:" It's About Payback, Not Truth</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-prideful-henry-is-now-official.html">Notable & Prideful: Henry Is Now an "Official Writer"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/hillary-ist-nicht-hitler.html">Hillary Ist Nicht Hitler</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/why-john-mccain-is-unbeatable.html">Why John McCain Is Unbeatable</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/notable-desperate-how-would-you-like-to.html">Notable & Desperate: How Would You Like to Write a Guest Post on Babalú?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/why-cuban-exiles-supported-mccain.html">Why Cuban Exiles Supported McCain</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul class="hierarchy"><li class="archivedate expanded"> <a class="toggle" href="javascript:void(0)"> <span class="zippy toggle-open"> </span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html">January</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(53)</span> <ul class="posts"><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/notable-poetical-with-rue-vals-heart-is.html">Notable & Poetical: "With Rue [Val's] Heart is Laden"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/something-for-all-to-consider-yes-that.html">Something for All to Consider (Yes, that Means You)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/nobody-philanders-like-newt.html">Nobody Philanders Like Newt</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/notable-pueristic-its-my-party-and-ill.html">Notable & Puerile: "It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/giuliani-got-what-he-deserved-in.html">Giuliani Got What He Deserved In Florida</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/best-choice-in-florida-primaries-today.html">The Best Choice in the Florida Primaries Today</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/on-155th-anniversary-of-jos-marts-birth.html">On the 155th Anniversary of José Martí's Birth</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/notable-quotable-jfk-jr-endorses.html">Notable & Quotable: JFK Jr. Endorses the Clintons Posthumously</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/caroline-kennedy-anointed-al-gore-as.html">Caroline Kennedy Anointed Al Gore As JFK's Successor</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/just-like-her-daddy-and-worse.html">Just Like Her Daddy and Worse</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/gracias-michelle.html">"¡Gracias, Michelle!"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/babal-shoots-down-another-comment.html">Babalú Shoots Down Another Comment</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/republicans-snub-cuban-american.html">The Republicans Snub the Cuban-American National Foundation</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/mitt-romneys-ten-biggest-gaffes.html">Mitt Romney's Ten Biggest Gaffes</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/notable-and-sycophantic-bush-did-it.html">Notable and Sycophantic: Bush Did It Because He Loves Us</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/henry-muses.html">Henry Muses</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/val-prieto-receives-invitation-from.html">Val Prieto Receives an Invitation from Archbishop Theodore McCarrick<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/notable-still-unforgettable-pope-john.html">Notable & Still Unforgettable: Pope John Paul II Praises Che Guevara</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/is-there-mole-on-granma.html">Is There a Mole On Granma?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/good-bye-fred.html">Good-bye, Fred</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/happy-birthday-val.html">Happy Birthday, Val</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/notable-quotable-theory-of-pressure.html">Notable & Quotable: The Theory of the Pressure Cooker</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/notable-and-machiavellian-mccain-and.html">Notable and Machiavellian: McCain and Henry Agree, Send Cubans to Hell</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/notable-and-haughty-henry-takes-credit.html">Notable and Haughty: Henry Takes Credit for RCAB</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/cubans-are-not-even-cubans-on-cuban.html">Cubans Are Not Even Cubans on Cuban Territory</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/bacards-for-giuliani.html">Bacardís for Giuliani</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/tonto-says-good-bye-to-lone-ranger.html">Tonto Says Good-Bye to the Lone Ranger</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/who-is-biggest-anti-cuban-xenophobe-in.html">Who Is the Biggest Anti-Cuban Xenophobe in the Race (You'll Be Surprised)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/note-to-cuban-archive-project-there-are.html">Note to the Cuban Archive Project: There Are No "Common Prisoners" In Cuba's Jails</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/henry-defeats-evolution.html">Henry Defeats Evolution</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/miami-new-times-honors-bay-of-pigs.html">The Miami New Times "Honors" the Bay of Pigs Veterans</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/continuing-saga-of-mitt-romney-mexican.html">The Continuing Saga of Mitt Romney, Mexican Anchor Baby</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/henry-backslider-still-warming-pressure.html">Henry the Backslider: Still Warming the Pressure Cooker</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/salon-coddles-tyrant-fidel-castro-and.html">Salon Coddles the Tyrant Fidel Castro and Defames Cuba's Freedom Fighters<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/notable-undecided-dilemma-easily.html">Notable & Undecided: A Dilemma Easily Resolved</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/fred-thompson-eats-his-bistec.html">Fred Thompson Eats His Bistec Empanizado</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/obama-needs-this-like-he-needs-another.html">Obama Needs This Like He Needs Another Cigarette: "Muslims for Obama '08"<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/notable-and-darwidian-evolution-of.html">Notable and Darwinian: The Evolution of Henry Gómez</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/codepink-protests-posada-carriles-in.html">CodePink Protests Posada Carriles in Miami (All Four of Them)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/ron-paul-wheres-my-hood-wheres-my-hood.html">Ron Paul: "Where's My Hood At, Where's My Hood At?...</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/what-happened-to-henry-on-christmas-eve.html">What Happened to Henry on Christmas Eve?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/guess-which-presidential-candidate-was.html">Guess Which Presidential Candidate Was a Mexican Anchor Baby?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/notable-commendable-henry-gmez-on-side.html">Notable & Commendable: Henry Gómez on the Side of the Angels</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/mike-huckabee-suffer-little-children-to.html">Mike Huckabee: "Suffer the Little Children to Suffer"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/barack-obama-future-is-past.html">Barack Obama: The Future Is the Past</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/cuban-american-voters-between-rock-and.html">Cuban-American Voters: Between a Rock and a Hard Place</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/500th-post.html">500th Post</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/notable-and-odd-future-performance-as.html">Notable & Odd: Future Performance As an Indicator of Past Performance?<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/henry-gmez-george-moneo-for-bill.html">Henry Gómez & George Moneo for Bill Richardson (By Default)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/notable-fanatical-val-oils-up-gw-again.html">Notable & Fanatical: Val Oils Up GW Again</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/notable-and-scabby-scrap-unions.html">Notable & Scabby: Scrap the Unions</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/cubas-santeros-issue-their-annual.html">Cuba's Santeros Issue Their Annual Predictions: "It's the Climate, Stupid, It's the Climate"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/remarkable-discovery-less-of-me-is-more.html">A Remarkable Discovery: Less of Me Is More</a></li></ul></li></ul> </li></ul></div></div></div> <ul class="hierarchy"><li class="archivedate expanded"> <a class="toggle" href="javascript:void(0)"> <span class="zippy toggle-open"> </span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2007-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-05%3A00&updated-max=2008-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-05%3A00&max-results=50">2007</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(493)</span> <ul class="hierarchy"><li class="archivedate expanded"> <a class="toggle" href="javascript:void(0)"> <span class="zippy toggle-open"> </span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.html">December</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(58)</span> <ul class="posts"><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/happy-new-year.html">Happy New Year!</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/val-at-his-best.html">Val At His Best</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/to-cling-to-power-or-not-to-cling-to.html">"To Cling to Power, Or Not to Cling to Power, That Is the Question"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/widgets-and-guayaba.html">Wickets and Guayaba</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-to-stop-wanton-killing-of-cubans-on.html">How to Stop the Wanton Killing of Cubans on the High Seas</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/rcabs-funniest-posts-for-2007.html">RCAB's Funniest Posts for 2007</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/herald-watch-is-watching-you.html">Herald Watch Is Watching You</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-torch-will-be-passed-in-cuba.html">How the Torch Will Be Passed: Or, Cuba and Its "Two Parties"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/notable-historic-seed-of-obsession.html">Notable & Historic: The Seed of an Obsession</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/los-tres-reyes-magos-three-kings.html">Los Tres Reyes Magos (The Three Kings)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/cuba-issued-first-postage-stamp.html">Cuba Issued the World's First Postage Stamp Depicting Santa Claus</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/forgiveness.html">Forgiveness</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/first-non-biased-article-about-cuba-and.html">A First for the MSM: A Non-Biased Article About Cuba and Cuban-Americans</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/ron-paul-stirs-mutiny-in-babalunian.html">Ron Paul Stirs Mutiny in the Babalunian Galaxy</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/notable-inflated-henry-economist-and.html">Notable & Inflated: Henry the "Economist" and Val the "Architect"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/notable-hilarious-val-accuses-us-of.html">Notable & Hilarious: Val Accuses Us of "Condescension"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/notable-ironic-fidel-is-cuban-x-man.html">Notable & Ironic: Fidel Is "A Cuban X-Man"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/killing-oscar-biscet-with-love.html">Killing Oscar Biscet With Love</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/tancredo-is-out.html">Tancredo Is Out</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/notable-quotable-blog-eat-blog-world.html">Notable & Quotable: "Blog-Eat-Blog-World"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/prospects-not-good-for-happy-blogger.html">Prospects Not Good for the "Happy Blogger"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/miami-herald-gives-rick-what-he-didnt.html">The Miami Herald Gives Rick What He Didn't Want</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/poor-poor-alex-formerly-of-stuck-on.html">Poor, Poor Alex (formerly of Stuck On the Palmetto)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/if-you-never-read-anything-else-on-cuba.html">If You Never Read Anything Else on Cuba, Read This</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/who-shall-succeed-sotp-as-south.html">Who Shall Succeed SotP As South Florida's Most Visible Blog?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/ricks-defenders-and-apologists-gather.html">Rick's Defenders and Apologists Gather to Mourn Stuck on the Palmetto's Demise</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/notable-quotable-proud-enemy-of-ricks.html">Notable & Quotable: A Proud Enemy of Rick's</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/stuck-on-palmetto-is-dead.html">FLASH!!! Stuck on the Palmetto Is Dead</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/babaloo-to-its-readers-shut-up.html">Babaloo to Its Readers: Shut Up!</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/fort-lauderdale-officer-fired-for.html">Fort Lauderdale Officer Fired for Playing Bagpipes on Taxpayer's Dime</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/scotland-brave.html">Scotland the Brave</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/stopped-on-palmetto-ruminations-on-rick.html">Stopped on the Palmetto: Ruminations on Rick</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/notable-unprophetic-one-of-us-was.html">Notable & Unprophetic: One of Us Was Leaving, Anyway</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/far-away-and-long-ago-at-sotp.html">Far Away and Long Ago at SotP</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/with-bagpipes-ricky-we-hardly-knew-ye.html">With Bagpipes: Ricky, We Hardly Knew Ye (And What We Knew We Didn't Like)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/meditations-of-hamlet-prieto.html">Meditations of Hamlet Prieto</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/critique-that-requires-your-attention.html">A "Critique" that Requires Your Attention</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/notable-optimistic-bucls-fine-work.html">Notable & Optimistic: BUCL's "Fine Work" Foments Protests in Cuba</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/spain-of-catalan-ladies-is-marts-spain.html">The Spain of the Catalan Ladies Is Martí's Spain</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/will-cuba-lose-its-canadian-sex.html">Will Cuba Lose Its Canadian Sex Tourists to Kenya?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/val-abolitionist-vs-henry-slaver.html">Val the Abolitionist vs. Henry the Slaver</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/notable-late-in-coming-henry-gmez.html">Notable & Late in Coming: Henry Gómez Learns the History of Man</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/blogs-sobre-cuba-300-links-to-cuban.html">Blogs Sobre Cuba (300 Links to Cuban Blogs)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/university-students-re-assume-historic.html">University Students Re-Assume Historic Role As the Vanguard of All Cuban Revolutions</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/on-anniversary-of-antonio-maceos-death.html">On the Anniversary of Antonio Maceo's Death (1896-2007)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/cuban-memorial-day-remembering-heroic.html">Cuban Memorial Day: Remembering the Heroic Defenders of the Republic</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/mitch-romney-buck-stops-with-landscaper.html">Mitt Romney: The Buck Stops With the Landscaper</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/last-observation-on-elenita-case.html">A Last Observation on the Elenita Case</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/what-can-you-do-for-me-baby.html">"What Can You Do for Me, Baby?"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/notable-venting-henry-among-freaks.html">Notable & Venting: Henry Among the Freaks</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/well-this-is-nice.html">Well, This Is Nice</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/babaloos-waterloos-shilling-for.html">Babaloo's Waterloos: Shilling for the Republican Party</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/fidel-castro-no-elections-in-interest.html">Fidel Castro: No Elections in the Interest of Fairness</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/real-results-of-venezuelan-election.html">The Real Results of the Venezuelan Election</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/babal-brands-castros-victims-as-the.html">Babalú Brands Castro's Victims as the "The Cuban Problem"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/prophet.html">A Prophet</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/bellman-tolls-death-of-democracy-in.html">The Bellman Tolls the Death of Democracy in the Americas</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/heredias-exiles-hymn.html">Heredia's "The Exile's Hymn"</a></li></ul> </li></ul> <ul class="hierarchy"><li class="archivedate expanded"> <a class="toggle" href="javascript:void(0)"> <span class="zippy toggle-open"> </span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html">November</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(49)</span> <ul class="posts"><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/and-shall-fishes-have-no-vote-in.html">And Shall the Fishes Have No Vote In Venezuela?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/precolombian-rites-of-babalunians.html">The Precolombian Rites of the Babalunians</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/quotable-reprehensible-alex-of-sotp.html">Quotable & Reprehensible: Alex of SotP Mourns Freedom for Elenita</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/in-elenitas-case-freedom-wins.html">In Elenita's Case, Freedom Wins</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/venezuela-to-go-on-castro-time.html">Venezuela to Go on "Castro Time"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/un-raporteur-jean-ziegler-on-art-of-not.html">UN Rapporteur Jean Ziegler: On the Art of Not Giving Offense to Castro</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/what-do-henry-gmez-and-fidel-castro.html">What Do Henry Gómez and Fidel Castro Have in Common? The Exploitation of Elián González<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/tweedledum-and-tweedledee.html">Tweedledum and Tweedledee</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/castro-regime-exploits-british-woman.html">The Castro Regime Exploits a British Woman Disabled in Cuba</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/human-rights-activists-and-pastor.html">Human Rights Activists Detained in Cuba After House Invasion</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/juventud-rebelde-hails-metrosexuality.html">Juventud Rebelde Hails Metrosexuality in Cuba</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/babaloos-waterloos-still-beating-old.html">Notable & Redundant: Still Beating Old Rocinante</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/notable-suicidal-rcab-makes-him-want-to.html">Notable & Suicidal: RCAB Makes Him Want to Kill Himself</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/canadian-herbert-matthews-returns-to.html">The Canadian "Herbert Matthews" Returns to Cuba 47 Years Later</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/barack-obama-admits-to-drug-use-kids.html">Barack Obama Admits to Drug Use: "Kids, You Can Be Me, Too</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/fidel-castros-heritage.html">Fidel Castro's Heritage</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/rcab-responds-to-rebirth-of-bucl.html">The RCAB Responds to the Rebirth of BUCL</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/am-i-not-man-and-brother.html">"Am I Not a Man and a Brother?"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/daz-balart-vs-mcgovern-lincoln-douglas.html">Díaz-Balart vs. McGovern: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates It Wasn't</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/in-what-has-been-described-rightly-or.html">A New Poll of Cubans Shows Their Rejection of the Castro Regime</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/for-first-time-hispanic-surnames-among.html">For the First Time, Hispanic Surnames Among the Top in the U.S.</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/should-we-cheer-for-cuban-athletes-at.html">Should We Cheer for Cuban Athletes At International Competitions? Only If We Revel in Their Degradation</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/in-happier-times-seeds-of-discord-were.html">In Happier Times the Seeds of Discord Were Sown</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/notable-ominous-i-dont-want-king-to.html">Notable & Ominous: "I Don't Want the King to Kneel Before Me"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/notable-inevitable-fidel-calls-zapatero.html">Notable & Inevitable: Fidel Calls Zapatero a "Coward</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/barry-bonds-reviving-salem-witch-trials.html">Barry Bonds: Reviving the Salem Witch Trials or Castro's Purges</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/dignidad-ante-dinero-82-of-spaniards-in.html">"Dignidad Ante Dinero": 82% of Spaniards In Favor of Severing Relations with Chávez's Venezuela.</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/notable-risible-castro-excoriates.html">Notable & Risible: Castro Excoriates Spanish Colonialism and Warns Chávez to Beware the Ides of November</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/aznar-as-chvez-sees-him.html">Aznar as Chávez Sees Him (Can You See This Picture)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/chvez-threatens-to-nationalize-spanish.html">Chávez Threatens to Nationalize Spanish Banks In Venezuela: Sounds Familiar?<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/notable-pedantic-cubans-are-now-cubands.html">Notable & Pedantic: Cubans Are Now "Cubands"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/oscar-corral-return-of-prodigal.html">Oscar Corral: The Return of The Prodigal</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/notable-deranged-venezuelans-its.html">Notable & Deranged: Venezuelans, It's Already Too Late<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/notable-expendable-veep-and-creep-opine.html">Notable & Expendable: The Veep and The Creep Opine<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/notable-unmanned-hugo-chvez-reponds-to.html">Notable & Unmanned: Hugo Chávez Reponds to Royal Rebuke<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/chvez-is-given-strawberry-at-ibero.html">Chávez Is Given the Raspberry at Ibero-American Summit by Spain's King and President (While Castro Is Cheered Wildly)<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/norman-mailer-1923-2007.html">Norman Mailer (1923-2007)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/notable-quotable-cuba-is-exporting-best.html">Notable & Quotable: Cuba is Exporting the Best and Consuming the Worst (As Usual)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/blog-review-el-gicho-crnico.html">Blog Review: El Güicho Crónico</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/fred-thompson-shoots-himself-in-foot.html">Fred Thompson Shoots Himself in the Foot (And Cuban "Suitcase Bombers" Have Nothing To Do With It This Time)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/another-satisfied-foreign-customer-of.html">Another Satisfied (Foreign) Customer of Cuba's Health Care System</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/what-is-answer.html">What is the Answer?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/notable-demonic-disagreement-at-babal.html">Notable & Demonic: A Disagreement at Babalú on Whether Cubans Should Commit Collective Suicide</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/1936-berlin-olympics-redux-or-when-in.html">The 1936 Berlin Olympics Redux: Or When In China Do As the Chinese Tell You to Do</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/jimmy-carter-filler-his-biggest-secret.html">Jimmy Carter Filler: His Biggest Secret and Greatest Claim to Fame</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/prayer-to-blessed-fray-jos-lpez-pitiera.html">A Prayer to Blessed Fray José López Piteira</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/stuck-on-palmettos-rick-is-deleting.html">Stuck on the Palmetto's Rick is Deleting Posts and Cannibalizing His Readers</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/from-tellechea-newspaper-archives.html">From the Tellechea Newspaper Archives: Alicia in Wonderland (1987)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/alicia-alonso-cuban-sphinx.html">Alicia Alonso: The Cuban Sphinx</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul class="hierarchy"><li class="archivedate expanded"> <a class="toggle" href="javascript:void(0)"> <span class="zippy toggle-open"> </span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html">October</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(60)</span> <ul class="posts"><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/cuban-ambassador-puts-on-fashion-show.html">Cuban Ambassador Puts On Fashion Show In Jamaica to Mark "Cuba Day" There</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/notable-reprehensible-liberty-is-not.html">Notable & Reprehensible: Liberty Is Not for All, Says Ron Paul</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/oscar-biscet-awarded-presidential-medal.html">Oscar Biscet Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/judge-jeri-b-cohen-stopped-dead-in-her.html">Judge Jeri B. Cohen Stopped Dead in Her Tracks By Appellate Court.</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/notable-quotable-message-to-al-gore.html">Notable & Quotable: A Message to Al Gore</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/notable-quotable-hipster-blasts-val.html">More Horrible Than You Imagined: The Poetry of Jimmy Carter</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/notable-quotable-hipster-blasts-val.html">Notable & Quotable: A Hipster Blasts Val & Henry</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/saint-louis-redux.html">"Saint Louis" Redux</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/notable-quotable-george-bushs.html">Notable & Quotable: George Bush's Contribution to Bilingual Education.</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/first-cuban-martyr-fray-jos-lpez.html">First Cuban Martyr, Fray José López Piteira, Beatified in Rome Today<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/blog-review-claudia4liberty.html">Blog Review: Claudia4Liberty</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/rcab-news-we-are-1-in-france.html">RCAB News: We are #1 in France</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/why-father-flix-varela-has-not-been.html">Why Father Félix Varela Has Not Been Elevated to Sainthood and Never Will Be<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/anyone-leary-of-jimmy-carters-leary-ufo.html">Anyone Leary of Jimmy Carter's "Leary UFO?"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/of-che-guevaras-hair-and-napoleons.html">Of "Che" Guevara's Hair and Napoleon's Penis</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/fierce-and-fiery-me.html">Fierce and Fiery Me</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/notable-stupid-did-you-know-granma.html">Notable & Stupid: Did You Know "Granma" Ignores the Opposition</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/notable-more-delusional-still-patrick.html">Notable & More Delusional Still: "Patrick Henry" Prieto Rides Again<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/more-notable-delusion-george-bush-is.html">Notable & More Delusional: George Bush Is the Greatest "Cuban" Patriot</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/notable-delusional-how-rare-was-your.html">Notable & Delusional: "How Rare Was Your Presidency"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/notable-quotable-when-popularity.html">Notable & Quotable: When Popularity Supplants Humanity</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/last-quackeries-of-lame-duck-president.html">The Last Quackeries of a Lame Duck President</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/notable-stupefying-antonio-maceo.html">Notable & Stupefying: Antonio Maceo Demoted to Colonel by Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/blessed-fray-jos-lopz-piteira-catholic.html">Blessed Fray José López Piteira, Catholic Martyr and Cuban</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/voyage-of-st-louis-1939-fdrs-hour-of.html">The Voyage of the "St. Louis" (1939): FDR's "Hour of Infamy"<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/judge-jeri-b-cohen-seeks-spotlight.html">Judge Jeri B. Cohen Seeks the Spotlight Again</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/art-exhibit-worth-seeing.html">An Art Exhibit Worth Seeing</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/castro-and-stalin-parallel-lives.html">Castro and Stalin: Parallel Lives</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/notable-delusional-jimmy-carter-could.html">Notable & Delusional: Jimmy Carter Could Have Done for Cuba What He Did for North Korea</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/miranda-returns-hugo-chvezs-debut-as.html">"Miranda Returns:" Hugo Chávez's Debut as a Sponsor of the Cinematic Arts</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/blog-review-cuban-american-pundits.html">Blog Review: Cuban-American Pundits</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/venezuelans-shatter-glass-monument-to.html">Venezuelans Shatter Glass Monument to "Che" Guevara</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/blog-review-26th-parallel.html">Blog Review: The "26th Parallel"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/judge-jeri-b-cohen-awaits-her-report.html">Judge Jeri B. Cohen Awaits Her Report Card</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/castros-peon-wants-to-rewrite-american.html">Castro's Peon Wants to Rewrite U.S. Laws to Favor the Purposes of Tyranny</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/notable-and-ominous-cuba-and-venezuela.html">Notable and Ominous: Cuba and Venezuela Melding</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/fidel-hugo-two-song-and-dance-men.html">Fidel & Hugo: Two Song and Dance Men</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/notable-quotable-what-spaniards-really.html">Notable & Quotable: What Spaniards Really Think About "Che" Guevara</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/spaniards-in-solidarity-with-cuba.html">Spaniards in Solidarity With Cuba</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/carlos-victoria-1950-2007-rip.html">Carlos Victoria (1950-2007) RIP</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/al-gore-wins-nobel-peace-prize-cuban.html">Al Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize; Cuban Dissidents Again Ignored</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/query.html">Query</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/social-progress-under-castro-lie-that.html">Social Progress Under Castro: The Lie that Will Not Die</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/selection-of-quotations-by-jos-mart.html">A Selection of Quotations by José Martí (Translated Into English)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/communist-party-in-post-castro-cuba.html">The Communist Party in a Post-Castro Cuba</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/ex-post-facto-laws-are-unconstitutional.html">Ex Post Facto Laws Are Unconstitutional</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/christopher-columbus-was-cuban.html">Christopher Columbus Was a Cuban</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/notable-diabolical-che-compared-to.html">Notable & Diabolical: "Che" Compared to St. Francis of Assisi</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/cuban-shorts.html">Cuban Shorts</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/another-cuban-american-blogger-comes-to.html">Another Cuban-American Blogger Comes to Elenita's Defense<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/ready-for-some-really-bad-news.html">Ready for Some Really Bad News?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/judge-cohen-little-girl-is-lying.html">Judge Cohen: The Little Girl Is Lying</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/now-judge-cohen-officially-banishes.html">Now Judge Cohen Officially Banishes the Truth from her Courtroom</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/letter-to-florida-governor-crist.html">A Letter to Florida Governor Crist Appealing for Elenita's Life</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/new-republic-takes-on-val-prieto.html">The New Republic Takes on Val Prieto</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/more-fabricated-evidence-and-c-word.html">More Fabricated Evidence Exposed and the "C Word" Banned from Judge Cohen's Courtroom</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/who-is-elenita-going-to-sleep-with-in.html">"Who Is Elenita Going to Sleep With In Cuba?"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/notable-delusional-dont-sully-castros.html">Notable & Delusional: Don't Sully Castro's Pristine Legacy</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/americanization-of-val-prieto.html">The Americanization of Val Prieto</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/elenitas-story-grimm-was-never-this.html">Elenita's Fairy Tale: Grimm Was Never This Grimm</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul class="hierarchy"><li class="archivedate expanded"> <a class="toggle" href="javascript:void(0)"> <span class="zippy toggle-open"> </span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html">September</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(68)</span> <ul class="posts"><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/notable-nationalistic-you-go-for-it.html">Notable & Nationalistic: You Go for It, Jesús!!!</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-judge-jeri-b-cohen-should-take-to.html">What Judge Jeri B. Cohen Should Take to Bed Every Night<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/does-henry-want-to-resurrect-undead.html">Does Henry Want to Resurrect the Undead BUCL?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/henry-gmez-crushed-newt-gingrich-will.html">Henry Gómez Crushed: Newt Gingrich Will Not Run in 2008</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/linked-unlinked-and-relinked-rcab-and.html">Linked, Unlinked and Relinked: RCAB and Uncommon Sense</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/notable-quotable-they-also-are-traitors.html">Notable & Quotable: They Also Are Traitors Who Only Stand and Wait</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/notable-variable-well-well-henry.html">Notable & Variable: Well, Well, Henry</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/judge-jeri-b-cohens-decision-we-should.html">Judge Jeri B. Cohen's Decision: We Should All Want "Marginal" Fathers</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/alfonso-chardy-is-new-oscar-corral.html">Alfonso Chardy is the New Oscar Corral</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/babaloos-waterloos-mark-of-cain.html">Babaloo's Waterloos: The Mark of "Cain"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/guantnamo-naval-base-playground-for.html">Guantánamo Naval Base, Playground for Pedophiles</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/ana-menndez-psychoanalyzes-cuban-exiles.html">Ana Menéndez Psychoanalyzes Cuban Exiles</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/ches-children-are-fasting-for-ramadan.html">"Che's" Children Are Fasting for Ramadan Like Good Muslims</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/notable-quotable-marc-is-sorry-too.html">Notable & Quotable: Marc is Sorry, Too</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-creature-do-i-despise-most-in.html">What Creature Do I Despise the Most in the World?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/hag-and-gelding.html">Ana Menéndez & Robert Molleda: The Hag and the Gelding</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/we-love-you-val-even-if-you-are.html">"We Love You, Val, Even If You Are Completely Unreliable</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/notable-and-inspirational-what-eduardo.html">Notable and Inspirational: What Eduardo Chibás Has to Teach Val Prieto</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/notable-and-delusional-henry-claims-val.html">Notable and Delusional: Henry Claims Val Never Said "Fidel Is Dead"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/babaloos-waterloos-val-admits-that.html">Babaloo's Waterloos: Val Admits that Fidel Is Not Dead, Claims to Have Been "Duped Again"<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/mamey-banned-from-babal-after-refusing.html">Mamey Banned From Babalú After Refusing Teabagging Request from Henry</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/notable-and-quotable-no-mercy-for.html">Notable and Hateful: No Mercy for Children Who Straggle from Castro's Knee</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/babaloos-waterloos-fridays-scheduled.html">Babaloo's Waterloos: Friday's Scheduled "Fidel is Dead" Announcement Preempted by New Video</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/notable-and-quotable_21.html">Notable and Hateful: No [Cuban] Child Left Behind</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/elenitas-keep-multiplying.html">The "Elenitas" Keep Multiplying</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/judge-jeri-b-cohen-just-hates-it-hates.html">Judge Jeri B. Cohen Just "Hates It; Hates It; Hates It"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/re-conquest-of-florida.html">The Re-Conquest of Florida</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-fantomas-on-grassy-knoll.html">Is Fantomas on the Grassy Knoll?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/tostones-pa-los-tostados.html">Tostones pa' los tostados</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/babal-blog-of-repetitions.html">Babalú: The Blog of Repetitions</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/no-common-criminals-in-castros-jails.html">No "Common Criminals" in Castro's Jails</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/same-old-tired-hypothetical.html">The Same Old Tired Hypothetical</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/cubas-political-prisoners-forgetfulness.html">Cuba's Political Prisoners: Forgetfulness Is Never Acceptable</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-fidel-castro-dead-babal-again-has.html">Is Fidel Castro Dead? Babalú Again Has the (Wrong) Answer</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/can-val-measure-up-to-porfirio-rubirosa.html">Can Val Measure Up to Porfirio Rubirosa?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/val-prieto-sues-for-peace-in-babal.html">Val Prieto Sues for Peace in Babalú-Palmetto Blogwar</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/notable-and-quotable.html">Notable and Quotable</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/rick-prick-visits.html">Rick the Prick Visits</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/babal-deleting-its-way-to-sanity.html">Babalú: Deleting Its Way to Sanity</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/henry-gmez-tries-to-drag-me-into-babal.html">Henry Gómez Tries to Drag Me Into the "Babalú-Palmetto War</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/real-parents-joe-and-mara-cubas.html">The Real Parents — Joe and María Cubas</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/judge-jeri-beth-cohen-gets-her-man-off.html">Judge Jeri Beth Cohen Gets Her Man (Off)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/wonderful-news-joy-abounding.html">Wonderful News: Joy Abounding!</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/henry-gmez-liberates-red-china.html">Henry Gómez Liberates Red China</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/white-dade.html">White Dade R.I.P.</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/bay-of-pigs-museum-on-biscayne-bay.html">The Bay of Pigs Museum on Biscayne Bay</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/henry-gmez-elins-return-to-cuba-helped.html">Henry Gómez: Elián's Return to Cuba Helped Elect George W. Bush and Saved Western Civilization in the Aftermath of 9/11, As Was God's Plan</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/censorship-and-class-at-babal-on.html">Censorship and Class at Babalú on September 11, 2005</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/saga-of-babals-henry-gmez-alex-of-sotp.html">The Saga of Babalú's Henry Gómez & Alex of SotP</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/are-you-sure-henry.html">Are You Sure, Henry?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/elins-father-was-adopted-too.html">Elián's Father was "Adopted" Too</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/el-bitongo.html">El Bitongo</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/it-girl.html">The "It" Girl</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/guajiro-hamlet-rafael-izquiedo.html">The Guajiro Hamlet: Rafael Izquiedo</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/henry-gmez-feels-compassionate-today.html">Henry Gómez Feels Compassionate Today</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-oscar-corral-in-cabaigun-cuba.html">Is Oscar Corral In Cabaiguán, Cuba?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/first-anniversary-of-oscar-corrals-miam.html">First Anniversary of Oscar Corral's "Miami Moonlighters" Story</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/babalunians-fear-of-me-is-my-strength.html">The Babalunians' Fear of Me Is My Strength</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/more-i-read-about-this-case-less-of.html">"The more I read about this case ... " the less of an idiot you will be</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/last-deboubt-of-magical-realism-judge.html">The Last Redoubt of Magical Realism: Judge Jeri Beth Cohen's Courtroom</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/luciano-pavarotti-1935-2007-rip.html">Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007), R.I.P.</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/babaloos-waterloos-poll-mocking.html">Babaloo's Waterloos: A Poll Mocking the Suffering of an Abused Cuban Child<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/no-common-sense-at-uncommon-sense.html">No Common Sense at Uncommon Sense</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/by-their-scars-you-will-know-them.html">By Their Scars You Will Know Them: The Ordeal of Elenita and Her Brother</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/babal-and-stuck-on-palmetto-birds-of.html">Babalú and Stuck on the Palmetto: Birds of a Feather</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/vox-populi-vox-dei.html">Vox Populi, Vox Dei</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/sticking-by-his-sugar-daddy.html">Sticking by his Sugar Daddy</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/ten-part-series-on-che-guevaras-life-to.html">Ten-Part Series on "Che" Guevara's Life to Air on PBS Affiliate "V-Me" TV</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul class="hierarchy"><li class="archivedate expanded"> <a class="toggle" href="javascript:void(0)"> <span class="zippy toggle-open"> </span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html">August</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(69)</span> <ul class="posts"><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/vote-in-name-of-god.html">Vote in the Name of God!</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/prince-of-darkness-or-king-of-fools.html">The Prince of Darkness or The King of Fools?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/castros-lawyers-kurzban-davis-face.html">Castro's Lawyers Kurzban & Davis Face Disbarment iin Cubas-Izquierdo Custody Battle</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/pot-calls-kettle-prieto.html">The Pot Calls the Kettle Prieto</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/senator-larry-craigs-dalliances-in.html">Senator Larry Craig's Dalliances in Castro's Boy Brothel<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/when-public-men-commit-private-acts-in.html">Sumner Welles: When Public Men Commit Private Acts in Public Places<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/cui-bono.html">Cui Bono: The Unasked Question in Judge Cohen's Courtroom</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/cuban-tom-tancredo-he-doesnt-want-to.html">One Man's Obsession: The Smugglers Who Risk All to Free Castro's Slaves</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/fellow-cubiches-i-come-to-chastise-val.html">"Fellow Cubiches: I Come To Chastise Val, Not to Praise Him"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/fidel-castro-undergoes-tracheotomy.html">Fidel Castro Undergoes Tracheostomy</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/elena-prez-her-life-as-mother-and.html">Elena Pérez: Her Life As a Mother and a Mistress (Or, Chasing Cod in Cabaiguan)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/when-shall-we-know-that-fidel-castro-is.html">When Shall We Know that Fidel Castro Is Dead?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/death-of-fidel-castro-redux.html">The Death of Fidel Castro Redux</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/letter-to-elena-prez-birth-mother-of.html">Letter to Elena Pérez: Birth Mother of the Cuban Refugee Girl</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/joe-cubas-castros-worst-nightmare-and.html">Joe Cubas: Castro's Worst Nightmare (and Henry's)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/peculiar-kind-of-conspiracy-and-more.html">A Peculiar Kind of "Conspiracy" and a More Peculiar Kind of Conspiracy Theorist</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/from-tellechea-digital-archives-carl.html">From the Tellechea Digital Archives: Carl Hiaasen and Jesús Díaz Battle Over the "Miami Moonlighters" Story</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/rcab-news-british-are-coming.html">RCAB News: The British Are Coming!</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/cuban-american-misfits-review-of-dead.html">The Cuban-American Misfits Review: Of Dead Blogs and Other Irrelevancies</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/judas-gets-judas-kiss.html">A Judas Gets the Judas Kiss</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/cubaverdad-valuable-internet-archive.html">CubaVerdad: A Valuable Internet Archive</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/from-tellechea-digital-archives-oscar.html">From the Tellechea Digital Archives: Oscar Corral's "Martí Moonlighters" Story Revisited<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/crash-of-titans-and-truth-prevails.html">A Crash of Titans and the Truth Prevails</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/enrique-rubio-aka-fantomas-is-john.html">Enrique Rubio (aka "Fantomas") Is "John Longfellow"<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/sun-posts-rebecca-wakefield-polishes.html">The Sun-Post's Rebecca Wakefield Polishes Oscar Corral's Apple</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/reflection-on-fidel-castros-death.html">Reflection on Fidel Castro's Death</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/mart-and-fidel-apostle-and-pharisee.html">Martí and Fidel: The Apostle and the Pharisee</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/val-prieto-wants-to-give-ral-castro.html">Val Prieto Wants to Give Raúl Castro the Business</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/world-awaits-with-bated-breath.html">The World Awaits With Bated Breath: "The Tellechea Hour" on the Fantomas Blog Radio Show</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/all-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-oscar.html">All You Ever Wanted to Know About Oscar Corral But Didn't Know Where to Ask</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/deserving-of-pulitzer-for-best.html">Deserving of the Pulitzer for Best Cartoonist</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/miami-medias-reaction-to-oscar-corral.html">The Miami Media's Reaction to the Oscar Corral Affaire</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/che-guevaras-progeny-to-fly-argentine.html">"Che" Guevara's Progeny to Fly Argentine Way</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/rcab-news-us-coast-guard-makes-rcab.html">RCAB News: The U.S. Coast Guard Makes the RCAB a Port of Call</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/fidel-castros-double-in-time-of-his.html">Fidel Castro's Double in the Time of His Moribundity</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/fidel-castro-awarded-nobel-prize-for.html">Fidel Castro Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/rcab-news-what-hell-knight-ridder.html">RCAB News: What the Hell? "Knight-Ridder?"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/ah-poor-henry-misses-me-at-herald-watch.html">Ah, Poor Henry Misses Me at Herald Watch</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/judge-jeri-b-cohen-love-child-of-janet.html">Judge Jeri B. Cohen: Love Child of Janet Reno and Doris Meissner</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/rcab-news.html">RCAB News: Cornering the Market on Oscar Corral</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/el-nuevo-herald-buckles-to-miami-herald.html">El Nuevo Herald Buckles to The Miami Herald While Granma Comes to Oscar Corral's Defense</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/poll-for-ages.html">A Poll for the Ages</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/beyond-babalunian-pale.html">Beyond the Babalunian Pale!</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/discussion-of-oscar-corral-affaire.html">Discussion of Oscar Corral Affaire Banned at Babalú</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/message-to-prieto.html">A Message to Prieto</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/corgiguy-protests-rcabs-treatment-of.html">Corgiguy Protests RCAB's Treatment of Oscar Corral</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/oscar-corral-rescuer-of-lost-souls.html">Oscar Corral: Rescuer of Lost Souls</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/oscar-corral-gloats-about-arthur-teele.html">Schadenfreude: Oscar Corral Gloats About Arthur Teele Jr.'s Downfall<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/yamilet-lpez-girl-whom-oscar-corral.html">Yamilet López: The Girl Whom Oscar Corral Propositioned</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/oscar-corrals-alleged-homosexuality.html">Oscar Corral's Alleged Homosexuality: Slander or Libel?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/regarding-val-prietos-public-service.html">Regarding Val Prieto's "Public Service Announcement"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/worst-babal-faux-radio-hour-to-date.html">The Worst Babalú [Faux] Radio Hour to Date</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/oscar-corral-deletes-comments-critical.html">Oscar Corral Deletes Comments Critical of Him at "Miami's Cuban Connection"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/re-oscar-corral-is-prostitution.html">Re Oscar Corral: Is Prostitution a "Victimless Crime?"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/oscar-corral-and-divine-finger.html">Oscar Corral and the Divine Finger</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/in-miamis-fair-citywhere-girls-are-so.html">"In Miami's Fair City/Where the Girls Are So Pretty"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/what-american-cuban-bloggers-really.html">What "American-Cuban" Bloggers Really Think About "Eliana"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/poor-little-cuban-girl-that-they-call.html">The Poor Little Cuban Girl that They Call "Eliana"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/henry-gmez-at-review-of-cuban-american.html">Henry Gómez at the Review of Cuban-American Blogs</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/val-prieto-at-review-of-cuban-american.html">Val Prieto At the "Review of Cuban-American Blogs"<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/rcabs-proud-history-babaloos-waterloos.html">The RCAB's Proud History: "Babaloo's Waterloos"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/rcabs-proud-history-coinage-of.html">The RCAB's Proud History: The Coinage of "Babalunians"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/words-of-reassurance-to-cuban-boxers.html">Words of Reassurance to the Cuban Boxers from Fidel</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/angels-who-smuggle-men-to-freedom.html">Angels Who Smuggle Men to Freedom</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/real-brazil-shows-its-true-colors.html">The Real Brazil Shows Its True Colors</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/george-moneo-proposes-to-use-condoms-to.html">George Moneo Proposes to Use Condoms to Kill Off His Blogger Enemies</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/insanity-homoeroticism-and-xenophobia.html">Insanity, Homoeroticism and Xenophobia on "The Babalú Radio Hour"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/important-alert-announcement.html">Important Alert: Announcement Forthcoming</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/debate-over-cojones-at-babal.html">A Debate Over "Cojones" At Babalú</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul class="hierarchy"><li class="archivedate expanded"> <a class="toggle" href="javascript:void(0)"> <span class="zippy toggle-open"> </span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html">July</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(52)</span> <ul class="posts"><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/babals-real-agenda-annexation-of-cuba.html">Babalú's Real Agenda: The Annexation of Cuba to the U.S.</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/visit-from-joe-papp.html">A Visit from Joe Papp</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/you-cannot-love-cuba-and-hate-cubans.html">You Cannot Love Cuba and Hate Cubans</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/babaloos-waterloos-some-spaniards-are.html">Babaloos' Waterloos: "Some Spaniards Are OK"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/babalunians-are-running-scared-as-their.html">The Babalunians Are Running Scared as Their Numbers Plummet</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/val-asks-his-readers-to-guess-his.html">Val Asks His Readers to Guess His Position on the "Wet Foot/Dry Foot Policy"<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/would-val-remodel-stings-27-bathrooms.html">Would Val Remodel Sting's 27 Bathrooms?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/dialogue-with-andy.html">A Dialogue With Andy</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/on-art-of-making-val-prieto-work-for-me.html">On the Art of Making Val Prieto Work for Me</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/im-cocksucker-dont-ya-know-yes-we-do.html">"I'm a Cocksucker, Don't Ya Know?" Yes We Do, Val.</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/cuban-american-misfits-review.html">The Cuban American Misfits Review</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/babal-all-purpose-blog.html">Babalú: The All-Purpose Blog</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/exchange-between-castro-and-our-editor.html">An Exchange Between Castro and Our Editor</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/do-you-know-who-this-man-is.html">Do You Know Who This Man Is?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/babaloos-waterloos-dancing-with-john.html">Babaloo's Waterloos: Dancing With "The John Birch Society"<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/on-babals-disdain-for-new-refugees.html">On Babalú's Disdain for the New Refugees</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/victory.html">Victory?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/steve-klotz-true-friend-of-cuban-people.html">Steve Klotz: A True Friend of the Cuban People</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/unfunny-joke-of-day.html">Unfunny Joke of the Day</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/truth-in-season.html">The Truth In Season</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/they-say-i-waste-my-time-and-squader-my.html">They Say I Waste My Time And Squander My Talents</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/cubamania-how-acquainted-are-you-with.html">Cubamania: How Acquainted Are You with Pure Evil?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/final-days-of-babaloo-are-here.html">The Final Days of Babaloo Are Here</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/has-there-been-coup-at-babal.html">Babaloo's Waterloos: Has There Been a Coup at Babalú?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/val-praises-fidels-charisma-and-moneo.html">Val Praises Fidel's "Charisma" and Moneo Calls Him "One of the Smartest Politicians Who Ever Lived"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/observation-re-babal.html">Observation Re Babalú</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/mambo-watch-honors-victims-of-13th-of.html">"Mambo" Watch "Honors" the Victims of the "13th of March" Tugboat</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/madhouse-for-stupidly-insane-and.html">Madhouse for the Stupid and Obnoxious</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/tocororo-speaks-again.html">Tocororo Speaks Again</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/another-lost-post-by-tocarero.html">Another "Lost" Post by Tocororo</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-low-in-babals-decline.html">A New Low in Babalú's Decline</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/tocororo-libre-died-hero.html">Tocororo Libre Died A Hero</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/madhouse.html">The Madhouse</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/bucl-2007-2007.html">BUCL (2007-2007)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/bucls-last-hurrah.html">BUCL's Last Hurrah</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/lady-bird-johnson-1913-2007.html">Lady Bird Johnson (1913-2007)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/bucl-is-killing-babal-val-is-fiddling.html">BUCL Is Killing Babalú</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/2-for-2-i-think-it-is-fair-to-say-that.html">2 For 2</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/dissent-comes-at-last-to-babal-maybe.html">Dissent Comes At Long Last to Babalú</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/chimera-in-sky-of-course-it-was-no.html">A Chimera in the Sky</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/r.html">Tocororo Libre (1974-2007)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/el-grito-de-versailles-vigil-recap.html">El Grito de "Versailles"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/at-birth-of-new-word-babalunian-it-is.html">At the Birth of a New Word: "Babalunian"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/bucls-bizarreries-to-end-at-versailles.html">BUCL's Bizarreries to End at Versailles Restaurant</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/my-favorite-daily-affirmation-by-val.html">My Favorite Daily Affirmation (by Val Prieto)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/why-hillary-clinton-wouldnt-be-so-bad.html">Why Hillary Clinton Wouldn't Be So Bad After All</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/manuel.html">ஹொசே மார்த்தியின் எளிய கவிதைகள் - முன்னுரை</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/has-bubble-burst-at-babaloo.html">Has the Bubble Burst At Babaloo?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/babaloo-radio-hour-honors-johnny-carson.html">"The Babaloo Radio Hour" Honors Johnny Carson on Independence Day</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/henry-explains-fred-thompson-to-us.html">Henry Explains Fred Thompson to Us</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/no-cuban-exile-has-ever-burnt-american.html">No Cuban Exile Has Ever Burnt an American Flag</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/abortion-is-in-retreat-all-over-land.html">Abortion Is in Retreat All Over the Land</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul class="hierarchy"><li class="archivedate expanded"> <a class="toggle" href="javascript:void(0)"> <span class="zippy toggle-open"> </span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html">June</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(46)</span> <ul class="posts"><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/bucl-belt-henry-imagination-strikes.html">The BUCL Belt: Henry's Imagination Strikes Again</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/fred-thompson-cuban-immigrants-are.html">Fred Thompson: Cuban "Immigrants" Are Suitcase Bombers</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/george-moneo-wants-and-needs-val.html">George Moneo Wants and Needs Val-idation.</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/emilio-millo-ochoa-1907-2007.html">Emilio "Millo" Ochoa (1907-2007)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/val-prietos-apologia-pro-babal.html">Val Prieto's "Apologia Pro Babaloo"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/cuba-island-paradise-island-prison.html">Cuba: Island Paradise, Island Prison</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/lyndon-baines-johnson-our-statue-of.html">Lyndon Baines Johnson: Our "Statue of Liberty"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/bucl-again.html">BUCL Again</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/rals-backside-attention-must-be-paid.html">Raúl's Backside: Attention Must Be Paid</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/preview-of-coming-attractions-rcabs.html">RCAB's Review of "SiCKO"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/henry-henry-aldrich.html">"Henry, Henry Aldrich!"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/sin-of-cameron-daz.html">The "Sin" of Cameron Díaz</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/killcastro-attacked-by-cyber-terrorists.html">Killcastro Attacked by Cyber Terrorists from Cuba</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/long-awaited-and-much-requested.html">The Long-Awaited and Much-Requested Fantomas Review</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/history-of-cuban-republic-part-ii-1940.html">The History of The Cuban Republic, Part II (1940-1958)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/from-tellechea-archives-nadias.html">From the Tellechea Archives: Nadia's Defection Signalled Ceausescu's End (1990)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/george-oils-val.html">George Oils Val</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/henrys-grapes-of-wrath.html">Henry's Grapes of Wrath</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/bucls-siren-song.html">BUCL's Siren Song</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/real-olympics.html">The Real Olympics</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/mind-of-minder.html">The Mind of the "Minder"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/vilma-espn-is-dead.html">Vilma Espín Is Dead: One Down and Two Bastards to Go<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/please-please-with-sugar-on-it.html">"Please, pretty please with sugar on it."</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/marts-father.html">Martí's Father</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/regarding-yesterdays-monster-post.html">Regarding Yesterday's Monster Post</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/fantomas-brought-to-carpet.html">Fantomas Brought to the Carpet</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/babaloo-radio-hours-pays-tribute-to-me.html">The Babaloo Radio Hour Pays Tribute to Me</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/val-goes-after-younger-generation.html">Val Goes After the Younger Generation</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/val-visits-for-second-time.html">Val Visits for a Second Time</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/anita-snow-hunger-artist-or-anita-snows.html">Anita Snow the Hunger Artist, or The New York Times' "Snow Job"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/best-of-manuel-tellechea.html">The Best of Manuel A. 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The Moral Conscience of Babalu Blog</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul class="hierarchy"><li class="archivedate expanded"> <a class="toggle" href="javascript:void(0)"> <span class="zippy toggle-open"> </span></a><a class="post-count-link" href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html">March</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span> <ul class="posts"><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/03/henry-gomez-is-no-machiavelli.html">Henry Gomez Is No Machiavelli</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/03/biggest-cocksucking-in-cuban-american.html">The Biggest Cocksucking In Cuban-American Blog History</a></li></ul></li></ul> </li></ul></div></div></div>Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-3585855706748687562009-02-24T22:21:00.006-05:002010-07-29T14:07:06.522-04:00José Martí Blog<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >I am pleased to announce that I have relaunched the <strong>José Martí Blog,</strong> which originally appeared in 2006.</span><br /><br /><div id="ArchiveList"> <div id="BlogArchive1_ArchiveList"> <ul class="hierarchy"><li class="archivedate expanded"> <a class="toggle" href="javascript:void(0)"> <span class="zippy toggle-open"> </span> </a> <a class="post-count-link" href="http://josemartiblog.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2010-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-05%3A00&updated-max=2011-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-05%3A00&max-results=3">2010</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span> <ul class="hierarchy"><li class="archivedate expanded"> <a class="toggle" href="javascript:void(0)"> <span class="zippy toggle-open"> </span> </a> <a class="post-count-link" href="http://josemartiblog.blogspot.com/2010_05_01_archive.html">May</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span> <ul class="posts"><li><a href="http://josemartiblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/jose-marti-and-arizonas-immigration-law.html">José Martí and Arizona's Immigration Law</a></li></ul> </li></ul> <ul class="hierarchy"><li class="archivedate expanded"> <a class="toggle" href="javascript:void(0)"> <span class="zippy toggle-open"> </span> </a> <a class="post-count-link" href="http://josemartiblog.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html">February</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span> <ul class="posts"><li><a href="http://josemartiblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/jose-marti-was-not-all-things-to-all.html">José Martí Was Not "All Things to All Men"</a></li></ul> </li></ul> <ul class="hierarchy"><li class="archivedate expanded"> <a class="toggle" href="javascript:void(0)"> <span class="zippy toggle-open"> </span> </a> <a class="post-count-link" href="http://josemartiblog.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html">January</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span> <ul class="posts"><li><a 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At the same time, my own determination to do so was strengthened daily by the events leading up to Inauguration Day. Bush may not have listened to Cubans, but Obama listens to the wrong Cubans. As soon as it is possible for him to do so, and sooner even than most of us expect, the juggernaut of normalization will roll over every Cuban on the island, leaving them parallel with their surroundings. There is nothing that can be done to stop him and much that we must do to prepare ourselves, as best as we can, for the greatest defeat we have ever sustained in our struggle against tyranny in our country.<br /><br />In 1959, the United States installed Castro in power and it has been the guarantor of Communism in Cuba since 1962. What it has not done, however, is to underwrite the enterprise. That was a task left to America's enemies. This is going to change now. Cuba will remain the only Communist state under U.S. military protection but now it will also enjoy all the benefits of commerce with this nation, or leastwise its oppressors will. After defaulting on every foreign creditor and exhausting every line of credit while amassing the largest per <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">capita</span> indebtedness in the world, the Castro regime expects and has probably already received assurances that Obama will rescue it, ignoring the floating corpses of all previous "saviors" who have ever extended a lifeline to it.<br /><br />Since there can be no resumption of diplomatic relations with Communist Cuba until it settles U.S. claims against it, Obama will float the regime a loan so that it can pay pennies on the dollar for the properties it confiscated and nationalized before Obama was born, receiving in return clear title to them, which will enable it to sell those same properties at market value to a new generation of greedy and ignorant American investors, who will pour billions into the island with the assurance that the U.S. government will bail them out when the regime decides again that seizing American assets is more beneficial than trading with the enemy.<br /><br />The biggest losers in this arrangement will be the Cuban people, who will not regain their liberty, but become subject to the exploitation of even more foreigners. Their masters will multiply but the quality of their lives will not improve. A prosperous tyranny is always to be more feared than one on the verge of economic collapse. The means of repression will expand and be fortified with the profits that the regime will reap from trade with the U.S. There will be no sharing of the wealth, however, because economic rights always anticipate political rights, and a regime that has always regarded both as anathema will not open the door to one knowing that it leads to the other.<br /><br />The result of "normalization" (what a quaint word as if any relationship with a regime like Castro's could ever be anything but abnormal!) will prove detrimental to all parties except Castro and his henchmen. Those who espouse <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">rapprochement</span> do so because they hope to profit from the suffering of the Cuban people. Obama, besides acting on his ideological affinities with Castro, hopes to score a cheap coup <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">de</span> theatre by renewing relations with Communist Cuba, which the media are sure to represent as the greatest diplomatic feat in history, surpassing the opening of Japan by Perry or of China by either Marco Polo or Nixon. American businessmen, industrialists and agronomists, who have spent 8 years drooling about the prospects of trade with Cuba as Bush dangled that putrid carrot before them, will trample one another like elephants even before they reach the cliff.<br /><br />To do business with Cuba will become more important than to do justice to Cubans. Human rights there will become as irrelevant as human rights in China without the Cuban people ever being compensated with an extra bowl of porridge for surrendering to the stomach what rightly belongs to the spirit.<br /><br />This is what the election of Barack Obama means to Cubans and why tomorrow will always be a day of mourning for our country.<br /><br />For my part, I prefer to mourn in private, which is the reason that I have decided to close the <strong>Review of Cuban-Americans Blogs</strong> tomorrow.<br /><br />Related post:<br /><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/bell-does-not-toll-for-rcab-alone.html">The Bell Does Not Toll for RCAB Alone</a>Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com2473tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-64261068389931497432009-01-18T19:27:00.003-05:002009-01-18T20:14:16.705-05:00Val's Birthday Present<strong><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">RCAB</span> </strong>will not be here to congratulate Val <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Prieto</span> on his birthday this Thursday. So with some anticipation we wish him a Happy Birthday and many returns of the day (he will need them if he's ever to outgrow his <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">puerilities</span></span>). I'm giving him the best present he ever got and the one he most wanted. His ordeal is over. It lasted 22 months, exactly as long as Castro's stay at the Model Prison, though Val's experience was not as pleasant. Batista amnestied Castro to celebrate his re-election in 1955, and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Obama's</span></span></span> election in November has secured Val's release. Now he has at least one reason to be grateful for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Obama's</span></span></span> victory. For my part, I am fairly certain that my act of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">benevolence</span> will not have the same outcome as Batista's.<br /><br />Sometimes when you step on a man's toe the whole universe crashes around you. I hope Val remembers that lesson whenever he is tempted to test <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">another</span> man's patience and forbearance. If so he may yet be able to turn this experience to good account. But whether he profits or not from it is up to him.<br /><br />In any case, effective January 20th, Val is no longer the star exhibit in my menagerie. Jumbo has been cashiered. I don't need to annotate his inanities anymore and I am glad of it. I have exhausted the subject of Val <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Prieto</span></span> beyond my sufferance, and, I suspect, everybody <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">else's</span></span>. Hundreds of posts devoted to someone who should be tied to one. I am almost ashamed of myself for having focused my talents on such a subject, but true patriotism demands that we sacrifice even our pride for our country's good.<br /><br />For a time Val was clear and present danger to Cuba's future: when a cabinet secretary quoted him as the "voice of Cubans on the island" who supposedly "didn't need money because there is nothing to buy there;" when <em>The Wall Street Journal</em> quoted his doubts about <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Yoani</span>; or when the president invited him to the White House so that an aide could feed <em>him</em> a quote about Bush being "the first Cuban-American president."<br /><br />Val's stint in the footlights was short-lived and not especially rewarding, though he tried everything in his power to make it as calamitous as possible for our long-suffering people and as embarrassing as could be for his fellow Cuban-Americans. Given an inch of rope, he <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">stretched</span> it as much as possible. If anybody had actually confided in him or entrusted him with any real responsibility, I shudder to think what harm he might have done. But the greater danger that Obama poses has preempted the slight danger posed by Val.<br /><br />I did not want to take on this uneven contest but was forced to because nobody else would. Now, at last, I can lay down the cudgel because Val is again as irrelevant as his "Human Pressure Cooker" is obsolete. He is no longer in a position to harm our country and our people. Others better situated than him will take his place and complete his work, with results even more ominous. I am far from certain that he won't eventually endorse those results. But Val himself is a spent force. No resistance to him is necessary anymore. So I give him back his peace of mind. No longer need he fear this blog; no longer shall it set the tenor of his day. My pen will not scratch the fibrous tendrils of his spongy brain again. He can be a carefree fool once more. This is what I believe he was destined to be anyway.<br /><br />Happy Birthday, Val.Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com55tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-13174372096873022392009-01-18T13:05:00.008-05:002009-01-18T18:49:09.749-05:00Notable & Tardy: Henry's "Nightly Prayer"<span style="font-size:130%;">"I</span> pray that Fidel Castro should die of a painful heart attack. My prayer morphs into a meditation as if I could cause this event to happen. I concentrate on it. I envision him alone in a plain bed. He’s wearing boxer shorts and a sleeveless <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">camiseta</span>. A ceiling fan spins on the ceiling. I envision his heart and the blood vessels that provide blood to it. I imagine myself clamping those vessels shut with my fingers. Sometimes I just envision crushing his heart with my bare hands." — <strong>Henry Louis <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Gómez</span></strong>, "A Nightly Prayer," <em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Babalú</span></em>, January 18, 2009<br /><br />A "painful heart attack?"<br /><br />Really, there are worse ways to go.<br /><br />Since nothing is impossible for God, why not ask that Fidel be struck by lightning or that the earth open up and swallow him? Hackneyed, granted, but still quite lyrical and no more than he deserves.<br /><br />Or perhaps implore God to turn Fidel's anus inward so he can drown in his own excrement<em>?</em> Well, that prayer has been answered anyway, for whomever it was that made it. Still, the successful supplicant did not take into account Castro's almost inexhaustible ability to assimilate shit, so the world still waits for him to reach his limit.<br /><br />Perhaps Henry is right — a quick heart attack might have been best. As for his fantasy about carrying out God's sentence on Fidel, though the sentiment does Henry credit, his technique is far too complicated for the task at hand. We are talking about an 82-year old man who may weigh at most 140 lbs. A pillow over his face should do the trick, or, if Henry insists on laying hands on him, it shouldn't be too difficult to snap his neck or twist it like a chicken's.<br /><br />The problem is not killing Castro; it never has been. He is as mortal as any man and surely more people want him dead than not. The problem is getting close enough to Castro to do it. The only man outside Castro's immediate circle to have had that opportunity was Ted Turner when he went <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">quail</span> hunting with Castro 20 years ago. Fidel actually used to load his rifle for him. Too bad that Ted is not the shot that Vice President Cheney is.<br /><br />I should advise Henry to forget about the small details in his mind's eye (e.g. the boxer shorts and sleeveless <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><em>camiseta</em>)</span> and the "ceiling fan spinning in the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">ceiling" (where else?)</span> and concentrate instead on how he's going to get pass Castro's security detail. There's the rub since even his own sons don't have unrestricted access to Fidel. So, definitely, Henry's fantasy needs a prequel which explains how he evaded Castro's praetorian guard to carry out this mission of mercy (for all Cubans, except Fidel). Perhaps there is a clue in Nostradamus <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Dorshner's</span> Prophecies; he should consider plumbing these some more.<br /><br />To make Henry's "meditation" more historically accurate, I should let him know that Fidel wears pajamas, the old-fashioned kind with a belt (yes, swimming suits had belts once, too). There's a famous picture of him arrayed in that attire and maybe I can find it for him.<br /><br />I only regret that Henry did not make the <em>ajusticiamiento</em> of Fidel Castro his first BUCL Campaign.Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-55724096271982329702009-01-18T10:09:00.006-05:002009-01-18T11:47:56.162-05:00Highlights of RCAB: The Rescue of "Elenita"The proudest chapter in the history of the <strong>Review of Cuban-American Blogs</strong> was its struggle to save the life of "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Elenita</span>," the much-abused 4-year old refugee girl whose absent-for-life father wanted to return her to Cuba so that Castro might have a matched set of juvenile captives stolen from freedom and returned to Cuba to be raised in slavery.<br /><br /><em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Babalú</span> </em>and its satellites refused to say even one word on her behalf because they feared a repeat of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Elián</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">affaire</span>, as if the triumph of injustice by foul means eight years earlier should constrain us from seeking justice now and forever.<br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Elenita</span> was not returned to Cuba, no thanks to Judge Jeri Beth Cohen who had opined in her courtroom that all Cubans refugees should be. I don't believe that <strong><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">RCAB</span> </strong>has ever received more google hits than those generated by searches for information on "Jeri Beth Cohen." The rest of the Cuban <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">blogosphere</span> may not have given a damn about "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Elenita's</span>" fate but, apparently, a great many people did.<br /><br />The return of Eric Holder and Greg Craig, the point-men in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Elián's</span> kidnapping, as Attorney General and White House Counsel, respectively, in the Obama administration, will not bode well for "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Elenita</span>" or the other Cuban children currently in her predicament or who shall find themselves there in the next 4 years.<br /><br />We warned that Craig and Holder were both slated for preferment in an Obama administration while Val & Company continued gathering evidence that McCain was a "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">RINO</span>" and urging their readers to vote for Obama so that there could be a resurgence of "real conservatism" in 2012 as a reaction to McCain's failed candidacy and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Obama's</span> failed presidency. Yes, over "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Elenita's</span>" shattered life and the lives of all Cuban children who will be sacrificed in the next four years as propitiatory offerings to Castro.<br /><br />But, of course, the lives of Cuba's children or adults couldn't matter less to the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Babalunians</span>. The people of Cuba are an encumbrance to their plans and "freedom," as they see it, must find a way around them now that the "Human Pressure Cooker" has reverted to Castro's sole use. And while they anxiously count down the days to 2012, Obama and his cohorts will have come to the rescue of the Cuban Revolution and turned Cuba into an American protectorate economically as it has been politically since 1962, when Kennedy agreed to make the U.S. the guarantor of Communism in Cuba. Obama will provide the regime with internal protection as JFK bestowed on it external protection, insuring thereby that no living Cuban will ever know freedom or democracy in his own country.<br /><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/judge-jeri-beth-cohen-is-up-for.html">Judge Jeri Beth Cohen Is Up for Reelection: "Remember <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Elenita</span>!"</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/what-can-you-do-for-me-baby.html">"What Can You Do for Me, Baby?"</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/in-elenitas-case-freedom-wins.html">In <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Elenita's</span> Case, Freedom Wins</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/judge-jeri-b-cohen-stopped-dead-in-her.html">Judge Jeri B. Cohen Stopped Dead in Her Tracks By Appellate Court</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/judge-jeri-b-cohen-seeks-spotlight.html">Judge Jeri B. Cohen Seeks the Spotlight Again</a><a name="8393850545687740261"></a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/judge-jeri-b-cohen-awaits-her-report.html">Judge Jeri B. Cohen Awaits Her Report Card</a><a name="6046802207582883186"></a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/judge-cohen-little-girl-is-lying.html">Judge Cohen: The Little Girl Is Lying</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/now-judge-cohen-officially-banishes.html">Now Judge Cohen Officially Banishes the Truth from Her Courtroom</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/letter-to-florida-governor-crist.html">A Letter to Florida Governor <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Crist</span> Appealing for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Elenita's</span> Life</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/more-fabricated-evidence-and-c-word.html">More Fabricated Evidence Exposed and the "C Word" Banned from Judge Cohen's Courtroom</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/elenitas-story-grimm-was-never-this.html"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Elenita's</span> Fairy Tale: Grimm Was Never This Grimm</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-judge-jeri-b-cohen-should-take-to.html">What Judge Jeri B. Cohen Should Take to Bed Every Night</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/judge-jeri-b-cohens-decision-we-should.html">Judge Jeri B. Cohen's Decision: We Should All Want "Marginal" Fathers</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/ana-menndez-psychoanalyzes-cuban-exiles.html">Ana <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Menéndez</span> Psychoanalyzes Cuban Exiles</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/real-parents-joe-and-mara-cubas.html">The Real Parents — Joe and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">María</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">Cubas</span></a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/joe-cubas-castros-worst-nightmare-and.html">Joe <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">Cubas</span>: Castro's Worst Nightmare (and Henry's)</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/hag-and-gelding.html">Ana <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Menéndez</span> & Robert <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">Molleda</span>: The Hag and the Gelding; Or, Love in the Stable</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/notable-and-quotable-no-mercy-for.html">Notable and Hateful: No Mercy for Children Who Straggle From Castro's Knee</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-creature-do-i-despise-most-in.html">What Creature Do I Despise the Most in the World?</a><br /><a name="8909996766122339830"></a><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/elenitas-keep-multiplying.html">The "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">Elenitas</span>" Keep Multiplying</a><br /><a href="http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2007/09/07/06/897-9707cubadad3.standalone.prod_affiliate.56.jpg"></a><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-oscar-corral-in-cabaigun-cuba.html">Is Oscar Corral In <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">Cabaiguán</span>, Cuba?</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/saga-of-babals-henry-gmez-alex-of-sotp.html">The Saga of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">Babalú's</span> Henry <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">Gómez</span> & Alex of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">SotP</span></a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/judge-jeri-b-cohen-just-hates-it-hates.html">Judge Jeri B. Cohen Just "Hates It; Hates It; Hates It"</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/judge-jeri-beth-cohen-gets-her-man-off.html">Judge Jeri Beth Cohen Gets Her Man (Off)</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/guajiro-hamlet-rafael-izquiedo.html">The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">Guajiro</span> Hamlet: Rafael <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">Izquiedo</span></a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/elins-father-was-adopted-too.html"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">Elián's</span> Father was "Adopted" Too</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/el-bitongo.html">El <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">Bitongo</span></a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/last-deboubt-of-magical-realism-judge.html">The Last Redoubt of Magical Realism: Judge Jeri Beth Cohen's Courtroom</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/by-their-scars-you-will-know-them.html">By Their Scars You Will Know Them: The Ordeal of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">Elenita</span> and Her Brother</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/castros-lawyers-kurzban-davis-face.html">Castro's Lawyers <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">Kurzban</span> & Davis Face Disbarment in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36">Cubas</span>-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37">Izquierdo</span> Custody Battle</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/cui-bono.html"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38">Cui</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39">Bono</span>: The Unasked Question in Judge Cohen's Courtroom</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/elena-prez-her-life-as-mother-and.html">Elena <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40">Pérez</span>: Her Life As a Mother and a Mistress (Or Chasing Cod in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41">Cabaiguan</span>)</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/letter-to-elena-prez-birth-mother-of.html">Letter to Elena <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42">Pérez</span>: Birth Mother of the Cuban Refugee Girl</a><br /><a name="7980582333313474751"></a><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/judge-jeri-b-cohen-love-child-of-janet.html">Judge Jeri B. Cohen: Love Child of Janet Reno and Doris <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43">Meissner</span></a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/poor-little-cuban-girl-that-they-call.html">The Poor Little Cuban Girl that They Call "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44">Eliana</span>"</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/notable-variable-well-well-henry.html">Notable & Variable: Well, Well, Henry</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/what-american-cuban-bloggers-really.html">What "American-Cuban" <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45">Bloggers</span> Really Think About "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46">Eliana</span>"</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/04/viva-ziva-moral-conscience-of-babalu.html">¡Viva <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_47">Ziva</span>! The Moral Conscience of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_48">Babalu</span> Blog</a>Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-70777813391968475532009-01-17T09:00:00.003-05:002009-01-17T09:05:23.377-05:00The Next U.S. Ambassador to CubaI have said it before and will repeat it now.<br /><br />When Barack Obama re-establishes full diplomatic relations with the Castro regime (in about 6 months), he will choose a Republican Cuban-American to be the first U.S. ambassador since 1961.<br /><br />And his name will be:<br /><br />Mel Martínez.Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com199tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-68304171630732902392009-01-16T22:29:00.003-05:002009-01-16T23:19:01.082-05:00A Celebration Without a VictoryI'm trying my best to get in a festive mood but I can't seem to manage it. I suppose because there's nothing to celebrate. The death of Fidel Castro will not be the end of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Castroism</span> in Cuba much less the re-birth of freedom there. Even his death per <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">se</span> is far from satisfactory. Death is a biological certainty. It comes to all men regardless of the good or evil that they do in life. There is nothing retributive in it. Castro's death is no exception. It is ridiculous to regard it as our "victory." If anything it is <em>his </em>victory: Fidel was never brought to justice for his crimes and his death guarantees that he never will be. The biggest mass murderer in the history of the Western Hemisphere will die in his own bed. Can any of us say with certainty that he shall do the same? Millions have expired in the last 50 years who asked for nothing more than to die in their own country yet their prayers went unanswered just so that he might become the first dictator in Cuban history to die in his own bed.<br /><br />A death like Che Guevara's was worth celebrating because it signified the triumph of justice.<br /><br />Castro's death confirms only the injustice of life.<br /><br />The bottles of champagne that were purchased 50 years ago to toast the re-birth of freedom in our country have all now <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">turned</span> to vinegar. It is only these bottles that should be opened on the occasion of Castro's death.<br /><br />Gall is the only drink that befits such an occasion.Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-13666308216435272692009-01-15T10:38:00.004-05:002009-01-15T13:25:46.145-05:00On the Day that Fidel Castro DiesI do not know if Fidel Castro is dead or not. I have accepted, however, the fact that there will be no final reckoning extracted from him, nothing as poetic as Mussolini's corpse dangling upside down in a gutter or Ceausescu's riddled with bullets in a pool of his festering blood. We shall have no such national catharsis. Even Hitler's fate, execution by his own hand as the Doomsday clock ticked, he has avoided. The architect of our country's ruin will die in his own bed, as no other Cuban dictator has done before. The chaos of 50 years, in whose maelstrom he lived and thrived, shall survive him; but he shall no longer be at the center of it. It is not known what if anything he <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">will</span> take with him, but one thing is certain: if our country is ever to move beyond him, Fidel Castro's physical existence — animal, vegetable or mineral — must finally lapse and resolve itself into innate matter. He will be less dangerous that way, though his maggots will continue to feed on our country for years to come, continuing his work of destruction after him.<br /><br />Fidel's death by installments, which is a measure of justice for him and injustice for us, served the ends of his successor by allowing him to consolidate his power in his brother's shadow. It also showed the Cuban people how truly irrelevant Fidel had become except as the bogeyman of all their nightmares. In two years the Cuban people have become comfortable with the idea of a moribund-to-dead Castro. Those who regarded him as a god must have been surprised at how easy it is to let a god die. The impact of his death, if not thus diluted, might have caused more of a national convulsion. Now it is but another sham spectacle that they must endorse with their presence. At least the professional <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">criers</span> that followed 19<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">th</span> century funerals were compensated for their tears. That work now is obligatory and unavoidable. There will be tears enough to shed on that day, not for him, of course, but for everything that he blighted and obliterated in his passage through the earth.Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com109tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-33077651975569750402009-01-14T18:51:00.003-05:002009-01-14T20:44:40.532-05:00The "First African-American President" and the "First Cuban-American President"Val Prieto offers one advantage that Polly the Parrot doesn't. You can feed him lines without having to feed him crackers. That's what Daniel W. Fisk, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs, did during his "nearly two-hour meeting" with Val Prieto. Things must have been pretty slow at the White House during Christmas for Mr. Fisk to be able to entertain, or, rather, be entertained by Val for two hours. Although, of course, Mr. Fisk was never very busy since his work chiefly consisted of looking the other way as Communism established beachhead after beachhead in South America and overseeing a smooth transition in the Castro dynasty.<br /><br />It was Mr. Fisk who casually confided to Val that "many people in his administration refer to President Bush as the first Cuban-American President." Of course it clicked with Val. It was what he always thought but never could quite articulate. Now he could articulate it, and doubtless the first one he articulated it too was Bush himself during their meeeting at Blogger's Summit. Here I thought he had simply rushed him while crying "My Hero!" Bush was probably quite emotional when he heard from Val's lips that he was "the first Cuban-American president." Also, I am sure that Val's were the first lips to utter it since the "genial idea" had first insinuated itself into Mr. Fisk's carefree mind.<br /><br />George W. Bush was the first Cuban-American president in the same sense as Bill Clinton was the first African-American president, which is to say — not. No greater insult was ever preferred to black Americans by one of their own, or so readily embraced and popularized by the media. Everyone was too polite to spell out what was meant by that comparison yet no one failed to grasp it. It was no coincidence that it was made at the height of the fallout over Bill's sexual indiscretions at the White House. The subtext was that Clinton viewed sex as an animal instinct, primal and irrepressible, and could exert absolutely no self-control when in a state of arousal, which was most of the time.<br /><br />It was that animal instinct, supposedly, which he had in common with men of color. The worst sexual stereotype ever attributed to African-American men was used to justify satyric behavior that was never the exclusive domain of any race. Clinton himself never repudiated the comparison for fear of offending those who should have been offended by it but who would have been even more offended if he had disclaimed the supposed compliment which others (and perhaps even Clinton himself) saw in this equation.<br /><br />Like no other president before him, Clinton knew how to use and abuse the confidence of African-Americans. He was solicitous of blacks because he needed their support to fulfill his personal ambitions but had no qualms about betraying them in order to advance his own interests.<br /><br />Bill Clinton was personally responsible for plunging more blacks into poverty than any other president before him when he cut off the rations at the government plantation into which the Democrats had corralled many of them in the previous 60 years, not because he believed that welfare reform would work but despite the fact that he did not. He was more than willing to increase their misery (and did) in order to purchase 4 more years in the White House from those who regarded Welfare as the "Black Problem" and Newt Gingrich's "Contract With America" as the Final Solution to it, or as final as they could make it in a post-Civil-Rights-Bill world. Of course, it was never welfare for the poor that was the problem, but welfare for corporations. That is now abundantly clear since President Bush requested and Congress voted more money for bankrupt U.S. corporations than has ever been doled out to poor Americans in the entire history of this country.<br /><br />George Bush, for the reasons stated in a previous post, betrayed the trust of Cuban-Americans more completely than did any other U.S. president with the inevitable exception of John F. Kennedy. But JFK never owed Cuban-Americans what George W. Bush did. That is, Cubans didn't make JFK president. George Bush has acknowledged on several occasions that Cuban-Americans were his kingmakers, and though that is open to question, it has become one of those standard political verities that no one challenges. Besides, it is enough that Bush believes it. No benefits, however, accrued to the Cuban people from that obligation, nor, with the exception of a few political sinecures and several million dollars for a permanent panel on democratic transition in Cuba which Bush did everything in his power to thwart because, apparently, only the continued rule of the Castros would guarantee "stability" on the island, Cuban-Americans as a group did not benefit either from Bush's patronage.<br /><br />That Bush suckered Cuban-Americans as Clinton did African-Americans; that he promised them more than he could deliver and ultimately delivered nothing; and that, in the end, he got away with it — there can be no question. Moreover, it is unlikely that Cuban-Americans will ever see through Bush as blacks eventually saw through Clinton when he challenged Obama for their votes. Conning Val Prieto was not difficult: "[s]ay what you will about the man [i.e. that Bush was a lousy president], ... his convictions vis-a-vis Cuba have always been crystal clear." A lot clearer, apparently, than his <em>actions.</em><br /><br />What is a conviction which is not acted upon?<br /><br />A broken promise.Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-58620110920956893472009-01-14T11:07:00.008-05:002009-01-14T16:09:03.867-05:00Babaloo's Waterloos: Punishing the Cuban People for Castro<span style="font-size:85%;">"The majority of the people in Cuba have taken the easy way out and gotten used to living off the remittances from their relatives outside the country and many prostituting themselves in the streets. It pains me to say this but they have what they deserve as they should have stood up to the tyranny a long time ago instead of becoming leaches to their relatives in exile and loosing their moral values. They rather be eaten by sharks in the FL straits that stand up public[<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">ly</span>] against the regime. A country having people with that kind of moral fiber does not give you much to hope for. I sincerely hope to be wrong but so far the evidence to support my claim is overwhelming." — <strong><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">FreedomForCuba</span></strong> [Enrique Valle], "Fret Not, Folks. Hillary Is On It," <em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Babalú</span></em>, January 14, 2009<br /><br /></span><em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Babalú</span> </em>doesn't have many <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">commenters</span> left, but the few that do remain out-Val Val when it comes to their contempt for Cubans and their desire that they would all perish by confronting with bare fists the well-armed gang of homicidal thugs which has held our country hostage for 50 years, and which they themselves did not or could not confront, nor the "Good Old U.S.A." when it had the chance in 1961 before it became the guarantor of Communism on the island.<br /><br />The only solution that the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Babalunians</span> offer for ending our country's crucible is to starve the Cuban people into rebellion and prevent exiles from visiting "the island of sick and ailing grandmothers," as Val puts it. I have always found it hard to understand how someone who so publicly cherishes his own family can have such overarching disdain for others less fortunate whose parents and grandparents are trapped in Cuba and require their assistance far more than Val's own parents do or <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">anybody's</span> parents stateside. Does the fact that they are on the island place them in a lower order of humanity and release their relatives from the moral obligation of coming to their rescue in their greatest need? Can patriotism, which is paternalism on a national scale, ever require us to be patricides? To defeat Castro must we pattern ourselves in his image and show the same disdain for our countrymen and their needs which he does? Must we destroy the Cuban family, the only bulwark against <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Castroism</span> which Castro himself has not been able to topple, in order to win a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Pyrrhic</span> victory over him? Do Val & Co. want a nation of free men in Cuba or another Pompeii?<br /><br />Hillary's announcement that the Obama administration would scrap the restrictions on travel and remittances imposed by Bush in 2004, effectively shutting off Val's "Human Pressure Cooker," has him disconsolate at the thought of the "millions in ransom monies" that will be paid to Castro "without something in return." What does Val expect from Castro? That he will renounce his monopoly on power in exchange for his 20 percent cut on remittances or the opportunity to overcharge visitors to the island for everything? Castro would first outlaw remittances and family visits than relinquish even one iota of power to his enemies. The suffering of the Cuban people is as meaningless to him as it is to Val, and the Cuban people themselves as expendable.<br /><br />Many will recall Val's candid confession that he would not pay a cent to ransom his wife if she were held hostage by kidnappers threatening to kill her. Wives, of course, are replaceable; and so, in Val's mind, is the population of Cuba. Replenishing one's depleted bank account is a trickier business. This attitude of <em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">deutchsmarks</span> über <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">alles</span></em> explains a great deal about him, but it is not and has never been the majority opinion in the Cuban community. To starve those that you love in order to remodel your kitchen, and then raise greed to the pinnacle of human virtues to disguise your own venality, bespeaks a decrepitude of the soul that even the greatest adversity has yet to inflict on the Cuban people. The greatest irony of the last 50 years is that Cubans have survived because they have cultivated the spirit of solidarity that the regime has continually preached, except that it has been solidarity with one another against the regime rather than with the regime against their countrymen. This is the great lesson that Val has never learned and will never learn. He will continue to endorse the modalities of the regime against the Cuban people rather than make common cause with them against the regime. Val is too young to have been a <em>fidelista sin Fidel</em>; but he is certainly a Cuban who would prefer a <em>Cuba sin cubanos</em>.<br /><br /><br /><strong>POSTSCRIPT:</strong><br /><br />To accuse Cubans of "cowardly behavior" and do so anonymously does not speak well of the accuser. We have, therefore, identified him by name so that his statement will at least seem less hypocritical, and, dare I say, cowardly. He continues spewing his hatred at <em>Babalú</em>:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.babalublog.com/archives/011159.html">http://www.babalublog.com/archives/011159.html</a>Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-41479356356245664362009-01-13T20:20:00.006-05:002009-01-14T01:29:29.496-05:00Notable & Risible: Bush as the "First Cuban-American President"<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">"M</span>any people in his administration refer to President Bush as the first Cuban-American President, as his dedication to the cause of the Cuban people's freedom has always been strong, steadfast and unwavering.<br /><br />"Say what you will about the man, but his convictions <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">vis</span>-a-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">vis</span> Cuba have always been crystal clear. No other US president in the history of this country has done as much to help Cuba's prisoners of conscience and political prisoners than President George W. Bush.<br /><br />"<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Gracias</span>, Mr. President. To me, you truly are the first Cuban-American President." — <strong>Val <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Prieto</span></strong>, "Message to the Cuban People by President Bush," <em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Babalú</span></em>, January 13, 2009<br /></span><br />No president has been more loquacious about the Cuban people's right to be free, nor less disposed to do anything to promote their freedom, than George W. Bush.<br /><br />No president has secured the release of or given asylum to fewer Cuban political prisoners than George W. Bush, nor has any president before him failed to secure the condemnation of the Castro regime for human rights abuses at the U.N. and other international forums.<br /><br />No president has enforced the legal travesty known as the"Wet Foot/Dry Foot" policy longer than George W. Bush, though he could have abolished it 8 years ago with a stroke of his pen and restored the original meaning and intent of the Cuban Adjustment Act (1966).<br /><br />No president is responsible for denying asylum to more freedom-seeking Cubans, or for deporting more men, women and children to Castro's island prison, than George W. Bush.<br /><br />No president is to blame for the deaths of more Cuban refugees on the high seas, including those murdered in cold blood by the U.S. Coast Guard while executing his orders, than George W. Bush.<br /><br />No president has been more accommodating in the gutting of the trade embargo than George W. Bush.<br /><br />No president has done more to separate the Cuban family, or to increase the misery of the Cuban people while exempting the regime from any punitive actions, than George W. Bush.<br /><br />No president has done more to facilitate or been more indifferent to the expansion of Communism in Latin America than George W. Bush.<br /><br />No president before him ever used Cuban soil (which is what <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Guantánamo</span> Naval Base is) for the purposes to which George W. Bush has in violation of all bilateral treaties and of Cuban sovereignty itself.<br /><br />No president was ever more committed to maintaining the status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">quo</span> in Cuba, or so often chose stability over freedom there, avoiding the crises that even Carter and Clinton couldn't avoid, than George W. Bush.Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com42tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-64737206941507288842009-01-11T22:21:00.002-05:002009-01-13T18:51:22.441-05:00The Weblog Awards<span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Vote for</span> <span style="font-size:180%;">GENERATION Y.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Don't let Val Prieto sink Yoani.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The results are in:<em> Generation Y </em>loses to <em>Dólar Paralelo.</em><br /><br /></span><a href="http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-latino-caribbean-or-south-american-blog/">http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-latino-caribbean-or-south-american-blog/</a>Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-36704855146135299912009-01-11T15:09:00.008-05:002009-01-11T20:14:19.003-05:00Castro and Obama: Practicing Genocide As StatecraftThe sole distinction of Barack <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Obama's</span> political career (besides its brevity and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">inconsequence</span>) consists of being the country's most radical defender of abortion on demand, which he takes farther than any other troll of Planned Parenthood to encompass even infanticide. The man who will be inaugurated as president on January 20<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">th</span> is the only U.S. legislator to have voted three times for the putative "right" of a woman to have her baby murdered on the delivery table in case of a "botched" abortions ("botched" because the baby was born alive despite the abortionist's best efforts to kill it in the womb).<br /><br />Senator Obama supported partial birth abortion because he claimed what no sane physician or sensible human being would ever believe — that, in some cases, murdering the baby <em>after </em>it had exited the birth canal was in the mother's best interest, presumably to promote her mental health since once the connection between them was severed the baby could in nowise affect her physical health. By "mental health" Obama meant that a woman would be happier if the baby that she wanted to abort did not leave the operating room alive even if this required hacking it to death before her eyes, crushing its head with a mallet or pulling its limbs apart as it struggled to live outside its mother's body. In other words, an abortion in process can never be stopped until it achieves its objective, whether it's to destroy potential or actual life.<br /><br />No thanks to Barack Obama, Congress abolished and the Supreme Court upheld the unconstitutionality of partial birth abortion. It wasn't a hard call since nothing is more demonstrably homicide. Yet Obama, who opposes capital punishment, wanted it inflicted on innocent babies without the benefit of judge and jury so as to allow no chink to be opened in the wall separating what is right from what is politically expedient. For Barack Obama and other liberals, a woman exudes a baby as she does a turd and can dispose of both as she pleases. (Well, actually, he would be in favor of conserving the turd as a source of alternative energy and harvesting the baby for its stem cells).<br /><br />In Communist Cuba, the authorities have the same respect for human life as does Barack Obama, except that in the U.S. the woman's right to abort her baby is paramount to any interest which society might have in stopping her, whereas in Cuba the opposite is the case: a woman has no right to bear her baby to term if the state determines that it should be aborted for the "greater good." In Cuba, fetuses that are deemed to be "non-viable" are aborted routinely without the mother's knowledge or consent. "Non-viable" can mean anything that the regime wants it to mean. If, for example, it is determined, not necessarily on the basis of tests but simply on family history, that a baby might be born prematurely or with a congenital disease, it is aborted <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">preemptively</span> so as not to risk a spike in the country's infant mortality rate, which is kept artificially low precisely through the practice of eugenics and infanticide. When the doctors fail to diagnose an abnormality which becomes apparent after parturition, and could, potentially, take the baby's life within its first year, the living baby is "aborted" on the delivery table and listed as stillborn. Such a practice is unknown in any other country (even North Korea encourages births). Yet Barack Obama wanted to follow Castro's lead by refusing to outlaw partial birth abortion in the U.S.<br /><br />Forget about youth, charisma, forensic skills or any other comparisons between Fidel and Obama: it is their contempt for human life — the most fragile and vulnerable of human life — that they share in common.<br /><br />The Castro regime treats Cuba's infant mortality rate as an ideological weapon (I was going to write "biological weapon," but I don't want to confuse terms since Cuba has those weapons, too). Its artificially low death rate is often held up as proof of the Revolution's much-vaunted "achievements" in the field of medicine. In fact, Dr. Nicholas <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Everstadt</span>, of the Harvard Center for Population Studies, demonstrated 20 years ago using Cuba's own raw data that the regime falsified its infant mortality rate, in effect keeping two sets of books, one for internal use and another for foreign consumption. Still, even if one accepts Castro's figures, Cuba's infant mortality rate today does not rank among the 25 most advanced countries of the world, whereas before the Revolution Cuba ranked 13<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">th</span>, ahead of most of Europe and all of Latin America.<br /><br />The totalitarian mindset (as exemplified by Castro) kills human beings in order to make it seem that it is concerned with the conservation of human life. The liberal mindset (as exemplified by Obama) sanctions the killing of human beings so that it can claim respect for the rights of human beings. The result, however, is the same: the wanton genocide of innocent children who are deemed "unfit" for life because they do not fulfill the needs of the State.<br /><a name="150287361717731806"></a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/abortion-is-in-retreat-all-over-land.html">Abortion Is in Retreat All Over the Land</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/05/rcab-blog-news.html">RCAB Blog News: The Partial Abortion Post</a><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/04/no-more-babies-to-be-drawn-and.html">No More Babies to be Drawn and Quartered in U.S.</a>Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com101tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-74794786878663466192009-01-09T11:14:00.011-05:002009-01-11T14:59:44.367-05:00Save Yoani From Val's TrapOur readers will recall the hatchet job Val <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Prieto</span> did on <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Yoani</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Sánchez</span> in <em>The Wall Street Journal</em> in Nov. 2007. Now <em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Babalú's</span></em> "Founding Editor" has set up <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Yoani</span> again, but this time he donned a velvet glove to do it. Val's praise, though, is as caustic as his calumnies, and whether he praises or disparages her, his goal is always the same — to bury her. With "friends" like Val, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Yoani</span> hardly needs the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">DGI</span>.<br /><br />What is Val's latest offense to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Yoani</span>?<br /><br />He nominated <em>Generation Y</em> for a 2008 Weblog Award, not as best blog but for some regional award being disputed by several blogs of dubious distinction in the Hispanic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">blogosphere</span>. Nominating <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Yoani</span> for the "Best Latino, Caribbean or South American Blog" is like proposing a Nobel Prize-winning physicist for the Westinghouse High School Science Competition. <em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Babalú</span> </em>won the 2006 Weblog award in that category and perhaps Val wishes to elevate its status by having <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Yoani</span> as a "laureate" too. He could have done the same thing himself simply by declining the award.<br /><br />But that's not the worst of it: <em>Generation Y</em> is actually trailing in the voting and may lose to some blog called <em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Dólar</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Paralelo</span></em>! Among the other nominees: <em>Inca Kola News</em>; <em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">popnografía</span></em>; and<em> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Musique</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Automatique</span></em>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Yoani</span>, to her credit, has not mentioned her nomination for a Weblog Award on her blog; otherwise, she would surely have 5 million votes instead of 713. Still, more humiliating than winning the Weblog Award with such competition would be losing it.<br /><br />So we must urge you to vote for <em>Generation Y</em> in order to spare her the humiliation of losing and Val the satisfaction of having her lose.<br /><br />Voting for the Weblog Awards closes on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 5:00 PM (EST). The Weblog Awards allows you to vote every 24 hours for your candidate, so vote now and vote often, as if you belonged to ACORN or lived in Chicago:<br /><br /><a href="http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-latino-caribbean-or-south-american-blog/">http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-latino-caribbean-or-south-american-blog/</a><br /><br /><br /><strong>UPDATE:</strong><br /><br />The Venezuelan financial blog <em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Dólar</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Paralelo</span></em> still leads <em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Generación</span> Y</em> by some 400 votes. If this trend cannot be reversed Val will have dealt <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">Yoani</span> the first defeat that the intrepid Cuban blogger has ever suffered. Ironic certainly that it should come courtesy of Val <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">Prieto</span>, not Fidel Castro.<br /><br /><strong>UPDATE 2:</strong><br /><br />Currently in third place,<em> Inca Kola News</em> is surging and may overtake <em>Generation Y</em> for second place. This is a disgrace and a disaster. I am not blaming <em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Dólar</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">Paralelo</span></em> or <em>Inca Kola News</em>. Obviously, this is their category and it is <em>Generation Y</em> that is out of place. The blame for this lies squarely with Val <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">Prieto</span> who thought that <em>Generation Y</em> should be classed with and compete against <em>Inca Cola News</em> and <em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">Dólar</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">Paralelo</span>.</em> Still, keep voting.<br /><br /><strong>UPDATE 3:</strong><br /><br />The ominous trend continues.<br /><br />Commenter <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">Marabu</span> makes an interesting observation. With popularity contests such as the Weblog Awards, which can be as easily manipulated as, say, the competition for "American Idol," whoever can command the most telephones or computers, is the kingmaker. The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">DGI</span>, which has at its disposal more computers than does the entire Cuban population, can "anoint" any contestant in any poll, or, as in this case, prevent an enemy of the regime from winning by stacking the votes in favor of his opponents. To place <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">Yoani</span> in such a compromised position amounts to delivering her to the tender mercies of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">DGI</span>. I am not saying that Val <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">Prieto</span> has done this intentionally, but, to all practical effects, it makes no difference if he did since the outcome is the same.<br /><br /><strong>UPDATE 4:</strong><br /><br />Perhaps it is only a coincidence, but as coincidences go <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">it appears</span> to be rather more convenient than fortuitous.<br /><br />The only blog besides <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">Yoani's</span> with sufficient readership and clout to induce a sizable number to vote for<em> Generation Y</em> and thwart Val's machinations has been put out of commission. <em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">Penúltimos</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36">Días</span></em> is not a Google-driven blog like <em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37">Babalú</span></em>, which receives most of its hits from high school kids writing reports (hence the paucity of its comments).<em> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38">Penúltimos</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39">Días</span></em> has a core Cuban following which is large enough and knowledgeable enough to realize what is at stake here and invested enough in the future of Cuba to come to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40">Yoani's</span> rescue.<br /><br />If it was indeed the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41">DGI's</span> plan to humiliate <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42">Yoani</span> by contriving to deny her this ridiculous award by hook or crook, then it was necessary to silence the only powerful ally that could have redressed the balance in her favor. Hopefully, <em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43">Penúltimos</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44">Días</span></em> will be able to get back online before the voting for the Weblog Awards concludes on Tuesday.<br /><br />If you have not already voted do so now; and even if you have voted, remember that you can vote again every 24-hours.<br /><br /><strong>UPDATE 5:</strong><br /><br />The lead has now widened to 500 votes and nobody seems to care. Perhaps that is the price of Yoani's success, which is being paid to her in the only currency that Cubans (or many Cubans anyway) dispense to those who overshadow them. Call it the homage of envy. No doubt many other bloggers beside Val would regard her defeat as a welcome realignment of the universe even if it brings them no closer to the sun. Our history and our curse, forever recycled.<br /><br />Don't forget to vote today.Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com108tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-34900765656856810972009-01-08T07:29:00.008-05:002009-01-08T13:41:21.323-05:00Parsing The New York Times (Part 2)<center>Part 2</center><br />The "HM Virus" tends to assert itself in the most unexpected places. It cannot be tracked by analyzing the usual circuits, though these, of course, cannot be ignored either. Its system-wide pervasiveness makes it necessary to read all sections, and, literally, to leave no page unturned. I thought that I was good at spotting it — certainly my HM Radar is as good as anybody's — but I was actually surprised last Friday to find it lurking in the obituary of Claiborne Pell [Jan. 2, 2008, p. A-21], the former Rhode Island senator best known for the college grants that bear his name. Right smack in the middle of the half-page obit, appears this little bit of editorializing:<br /><br /><blockquote>"But he also stood out for talking unconventional positions and staying with them. In contrast to almost all his Senate colleagues and to several administrations, he advocated an end to the isolation of Communist Cuba by the United States. He called for a policy of small steps towards normalizing relations with Cuba, an approach that later earned broader support."</blockquote>I am sure that all of Pell's former Senate colleagues read his obituary and its call for "unconventionality" regarding their positions on Communist Cuba, and did not fail to catch its implied warning that if you want a half-page obituary in <em>The Times</em>, chuck-full of funny anecdotes and intriguing bits of genealogy — supposing that's something you want publicized — it wouldn't hurt to oppose "the isolation of Communist Cuba by the United States." Take especial note of the redundant "by the United States." More seasoned writers might have been content merely to say "Communist Cuba's isolation" and take it for granted that blame for it would be assigned automatically to the United States though the only constant in U.S.-Cuban relations over the last 50 years has been Castro himself, who has rebuffed every American overture for rapprochement (and there have been many) that came with those nasty preconditions such as respect for human rights and the sovereignty of other nations.<br /><br />Senator Pell was the point-man for Gerald Ford's failed initiative to restore diplomatic relations with the Cuban regime, visiting Castro in 1974 in anticipation of the president's projected trip to Cuba ("Ford Meets Castro" as a revival of "Nixon Meets Mao"). The plan to lift the "Cane Curtain," however, was derailed at the last moment by Cuba's hessianic invasion of Angola.<br /><br />Obama has a much better chance of succeeding where Ford, Carter and even Reagan failed: it seems unlikely that Castro will redeploy Cuba's Afrika Korps in support of his friend Mugabe (certainly not before Obama "normalizes" relations) and he already has Cuba's 220 officially-recognized political prisoners all wrapped up and ready for delivery to their new American homes. All Obama has to do is comply with his promise of unconditional surrender, following Pell's formula of taking "small steps" towards "normalizing" relations with Communist Cuba while expecting no small steps by Castro in the direction of a free and democratic society.<br /><br /><em>The Times</em> also noted that Pell "was an avid jogger, but he often wore a tweed suit when running, and he pushed for Congressional investigations into ESP and U.F.O.'s" Not surprisingly, Senator Biden called Pell a "mentor" and praised him as "one of our nation's most important voices in foreign policy over 30 years." Yes, Pell supported establishing contacts with extraterrestrials and Cuban Communists. Consistent he certainly was.<br /><br />It was the Pell obituary, an admittedly blatant example of its kind, which gave me the idea of deconstructing an entire issue of <em>The New York Times</em> in order to chart the course and transmutations of the "HM Virus." On stories about Cuba, the virus is more conspicuous by what it omits than by what it reports. These omissions are usually intended to blot out anything positive that could be said about Cuba before Castro. It is not enough to misrepresent Cuba's present-day reality: its history must also be revised to culminate in Castro's Revolution. Since nothing in Cuba's pre-revolutionary past presaged the last 50 years, the Revolution being an unnatural and poisonous growth that was grafted on our body politic by <em>The Times</em> itself and its water carriers in the U.S. State Department, the effort to create the myth of an indigenous revolution to empower the masses, requires historical revisionism on a scale that has not been attempted since Goebbels and Beria. Yet the "HM Virus," which has more than a few residual traces of its creator's original fascist tendencies, is programmed to filter all of Cuban history through Castro's own skewered view of it, justifying the ends by falsifying both causation and catalyst (not to mention the means).<br /><br />The task confronting us in Part 3 is twofold: to repoint Cuba's past and re-orient its present in reference to it. That will be a lot easier to do with one edition of <em>The New York Times</em> than with our country itself. Yet that task also awaits us one day.Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com49tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-6455376332301011812009-01-07T22:52:00.005-05:002009-01-08T00:59:00.237-05:00Babaloo's Waterloos: A Pardon For Felipe SixtoTo err is human. To steal is also human and to murder. Being human does not excuse activity that degrades the human condition because <em>not </em>to err, <em>not </em>to steal and <em>not</em> to murder are also human. Man ultimately bears responsibility for choosing what kind of human he will be. If he opts to be a scoundrel he should be judged as a scoundrel. His humanity is not exculpatory. On the contrary, it is what indicts him; for we are far removed from the days when animals shared stocks and scaffolds with humans. It would make more sense for a public sinner to plead that he is closer to the beasts than to man. That, at least, might be an extenuating circumstance, since he could be missing a chromosome or some brain-sustaining chemical which makes it impossible for him to know between right and wrong, good and evil. What makes no sense, however, is to claim that having a conscience predisposes one to unconscionable acts.<br /><br />Nor are all errors equal. Not every error is mercenary. There are honest errors that benefit no one and unintentional errors that cost us dearly but hurt no one but us.<br /><br />Felipe <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Sixto</span> did not err in <em>that</em> way.<br /><br />He stole $600,000 intended to promote the Cuban people's freedom and ameliorate their wretchedness. He took from one of the most destitute people on earth, his own people, in a manner reminiscent of the sub <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">rosa</span> dealings of Castro & Co. By denying them access to that aid, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Sixto</span> not only increased their material suffering but helped to tighten the regime's hold on them. He also discredited better men than himself who have devoted their lives to helping them. By any definition, he is a traitor to the cause of Cuban freedom, a dishonest public servant and false friend.<br /><br />He "was (is)" also, according to Henry <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Gómez</span>, "a friend of [<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Babalú</span>] blog" ["To Err is Human..." January 7]. But, of course, he would be. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Sixto's</span> efforts, although not intended as such, helped to build up the steam in Val <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Prieto's</span> "Human Pressure Cooker." For that he is deserving of a pardon and Henry grants his old <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Belén</span> classmate one for whatever it's worth (not much). He is especially impressed by the fact that <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Sixto</span> made restitution to the U.S. government for the stolen funds once the theft was discovered. This, too, counts in his favor because in the end the Cuban people were denied the aid that had been assigned to them because of his malfeasance and, as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Sixto</span> himself admits, will likely receive much less in the future because of it.<br /><br />This cannot but gratify Val Prieto who is on record (in <em>The New York Times</em>, no less) as theorizing that the Cuban people "don't need money," which is curiously close to Castro's immemorial assertion that "nobody needs anything in Cuba." In fact, there appear to be more differences between Val and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Sixto</span> on this subject than between Val and Castro. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Sixto</span> apologizes for "the delay in freedom for the Cuban people" occasioned by his betrayal of trust. From Val's perspective, however, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Sixto</span> is not a traitor but a hero because his actions will hasten, not delay, their liberation by raising the temperature in the "Human Pressure Cooker."<br /><br />Come to think of it, maybe Val should ask Felipe <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Sixto</span> to join <em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Babalú's</span> </em>magnificent cadres.Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com98tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-25206836637765112542009-01-07T08:53:00.008-05:002009-01-07T15:32:52.931-05:00Parsing The New York Times<center>Part 1</center><br />It is the world's oldest systems virus. It began more than 50 years ago in the deadwood edition of <em>The New York Times</em> and became so welded to its host that it was grandfathered into the digital age without its dirty volume even being detected. No attempt has ever been made to remove the virus because those in a position to do so are unaware of its existence, indifferent to it, or, more likely, invested in it as a vital marker of its institutional identity as well as its oldest extant reportorial tradition.<br /><br />The virus is still unnamed. It ought to be called the "Herbert Matthews Virus" after its creator, although that wouldn't help to identify it since the only ones who've heard about his fictional writings on <em>The Times'</em> front page are old <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Timesmen</span></span> and Cubans. <em>The Times'</em> exaltation of Fidel Castro and concomitant degradation of the Cuban people — for one can hardly idolize Castro without showing at the same time the greatest contempt for his victims — has outlasted by decades its erstwhile infatuation with Stalin, whose crimes it concealed until Khrushchev finally acknowledged them (in part) after Stalin's death, which is to say, it was the Soviets who broke the pact of silence to which <em>The Times</em> had faithfully subscribed since the days of Walter <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Duranty</span></span>; otherwise, we should still be reading its glowing reports on the success of yet another Five-Year Plan (but not about the 10 million lives it cost).<br /><br />In the case of Hitler, too, <em>The Times</em> downplayed his targeting of Jews and did not report on the concentration camps until the day they were liberated though it knew about their existence long before. Better that Europe's Jews should perish than <em>The Times'</em> Jewish owners be ostracized as Zionist propagandists by this country's own (non-lethal) anti-Semites. The irony, of course, is that Germany's assimilated Jews fared no better than their Orthodox co-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">religionists</span></span> at the hands of the Nazis. Still, for the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Ochs</span></span>-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Sulzbergers</span></span>, 100% Americanism meant emulating the callous unconcern of the bigots and feeding the sense of invulnerability of their enemies.<br /><br />Nevertheless, <em>The Times</em> did not thrust Stalin on Russia, or Hitler on Germany. Fidel Castro, however, is entirely its creation. The Eisenhower State Department took its cues on Castro from <em>The Times</em> and enthroned the "Jeffersonian democrat" of Matthews' imagination. If Billy the Kid had entertained wider ambitions and lived a little longer, <em>The Times</em> might have catapulted him into the White House. The only difference is that Billy wasn't an ideologue and consequently killed much fewer people.<br /><br />When will <em>The New York Times</em> admit its complicity in Cuba's ruin or even just Cuba's ruin? The 50<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">th</span></span> anniversary of the Cuban Revolution presented them with just such an occasion. So did the 1st, the 5<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">th</span></span>, the 10<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">th</span></span>, the 20<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">th</span></span>, the 25<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">th</span></span> ... well, any year in the last fifty. Will it wait till the Cuban Khrushchev denounces the Cuban Stalin? Or must we wait for the excavation of Cuba's Killing Fields before <em>The Times</em> awakens to the truth? Perhaps not even then. Walter <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Duranty's</span></span> portrait still hangs in its offices with those of its other Pulitzer Prize winners. Herbert Matthews never won a Pulitzer Prize which is the reason his portrait isn't in the gallery.<br /><br /><center>2</center><br />[In Part 2, I will review an entire issue of <em>The New York Times</em> for biased, inaccurate or tendentious reporting on Cuba, tracing the entire course of the "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">HM</span> Virus" through its system].Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com73tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-70187209149176674682009-01-01T00:23:00.006-05:002009-01-01T17:19:09.530-05:0050 Years and CountingI've reproduced below two of the articles which I've written to mark the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">lustrums</span> of the Cuban Revolution. As I re-typed them after 20 years from the yellowed clippings, I was finishing the sentences from memory although I had not read the articles in as many years. It is not because I have a prodigious memory, because I don't anymore; but because the facts and my responses to them have not changed in decades.<br /><br />Nothing is more constant and immutable than barbarism if left unopposed. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Castroism</span>, of course, has not just been let alone: it has been encouraged, nurtured and flattered since before 1959. The ignoble savages have been transformed into noble savages; the police state into a welfare state; and the victims of Communism into the villains. But even if it had been otherwise and the world had condemned what it still praises, nothing would have changed in Cuba either. To expect the Castro regime to evolve into anything better than itself is like expecting Genghis Khan to turn into Marcus Aurelius.<br /><br />Fifty years might as well be eternity, and in the life of a man it practically is. Hope springs eternal, too, they say; but, in our case, to no effect, since every year it defrauds us. No prospect, however pernicious to the regime's stability, ever rebounds to our country's favor. Not the fall of the Soviet Union; not Castro's zombie state; not natural or man-made disasters; not the financial collapse of Cuba's Western creditors and enablers. In fact, if we looked at every reason for hope as a reason for despair, we might be more miserable but shall be closer to the truth in every case.<br /><br />Some believe that Castro made a pact with the devil to secure power. It's as good an explanation as any for something so unnatural and perverse as the Castro regime. Yet such a compact hardly seems necessary since God has made his sympathies amply known over the last 50 years by allowing every human wrong to be inflicted on our people without mercy or surcease. I have remarked before that I believe Cubans to be God's new "Chosen People," chosen for the same reason that the Jews were — to prove how faith can transcend reality, and the suffering of yesterday and today be transformed into the hope of tomorrow. Perhaps, like the Jews, we may also have to wait 2000 years for our national redemption. I am certainly more sure that it will come in 2000 years than in 10, 20 or 30 more, but even if it came that "soon," it will find most of us in the grave.<br /><br />Once a year, at least, we should stare at the truth even if it blinds us for the rest of the year.<br /><br />Is everything lost?<br /><br />Everything was lost a long time ago.<br /><br />The fact that confronts us today is that it may never be recovered.Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com194tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-85278819009766857082008-12-31T17:35:00.008-05:002009-01-01T00:10:57.249-05:00From the Tellechea Newspaper Archives: The 30th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution<strong>Awash in Blood and Broken Promises, Castro Marks 30 Years</strong><br /><strong></strong><br />By: Manuel A. Tellechea<br /><em>The San Diego Union</em><br />Opinion, C-1<br />January 1, 1989<br /><br />Today marks the 30<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">th</span> anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. Castro officially proclaimed Cuba a Marxist-Leninist state in 1961, but prefers to date communism in Cuba from his assumption of power in 1959.<br /><br />According to Castro, he had to wait till 1961 to proclaim the "true character" of the Cuban Revolution because "the Cuban people were not prepared in 1959 to accept Marxism." Apparently, Marxism can only be accepted when it has already been imposed and it can be imposed only through subterfuge.<br /><br />That Cuba is a totalitarian state is no longer questioned today — even Sartre stopped questioning it long before he stopped questioning altogether. The absence of human rights in Cuba is also a widely accepted fact, and thanks to Armando <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Valladares</span>, a fact acknowledged even by the United Nations. There persists, however, the belief that Cubans have benefited from the Revolution in other ways — that what they have lost in liberty, they have gained in social justice, economic independence (from the United States), dignity, or what have you.<br /><br />Before the advent of "economic independence" in 1959, Cuba was the world's chief producer and exporter of sugar; but now, whenever a sugar crop fails due to the inevitable natural disaster or CIA-created fungus (and fail it will every year since God and the CIA are relentless), Cuba buys sugar on the world market at prices far below the cost of producing it for export, and re-sells that "nationalized" sugar with a 1000 percent mark-up to the Soviet Union.<br /><br />With the credit it receives for its re-exported Dominican or Jamaican sugar, Cubans buy petroleum from the Soviets at cost, which it in turns sells at a substantial profit to other underdeveloped countries. Thus, 30 years after the Revolution, the vicious hold that sugar once had on the Cuban economy has at last been broken: Cuba is now an exporter of sugar and an exporter of oil (somebody <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">else's</span> sugar and somebody <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">else's</span> oil).<br /><br />For some unknown reason, news of this revolutionary triumph was kept a state secret for many years. It was only in 1985, when the Cuban-American National Foundation obtained a copy of the National Bank of Cuba's annual report to its European creditors, that the world first learned of the peculiar scheme whereby Cuba receives the Soviet Union's dole "with dignity."<br /><br />The report also revealed that Castro wants to borrow $60 million for feasibility studies to determine if Cuba could relieve its $30 billion national debt — the largest per <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">capita</span> indebtedness in the world — by exporting artificial teeth, marbles and a "synthetic fodder obtained from sugar-cane waste for the feeding of pigs." Also, Cuba's Western creditors were asked to finance the exploration of "Cuba's gold fields." (By the way, 500 years ago Columbus and his successors worked to death Cuba's indigenous inhabitants in a frantic and fruitless search for gold. When all the Indians were gone, the Spanish imported blacks. There are no snakes in Iceland and there is no gold in Cuba).<br /><br />Diversification has certainly had a dramatic effect on Cuba's economy, though not perhaps what is exponents had anticipated: Before the Revolution, Cuba had the 3rd-highest GNP in Latin America, ranking just behind Venezuela and Argentina; it now ranks 15<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">th</span>, just ahead of Haiti and Bolivia, according to the World Bank's 1983 <em>Development Report.</em><br /><br />Of course, there is one aspect of Cuba's economy that cannot be factored into its GNP, but which nonetheless accounts for a significant part of its income. For years now, Cuba has been trafficking on the human exchange. It is the only market where Cuba still has something of its own to sell.<br /><br />For a fee payable in Yankee dollars, Cuba supplies cannon fodder to more than 20 countries and one U.S. corporation (Gulf-Chevron of Angola). But a Cuban doesn't have to go abroad to shed his blood for the regime: he can do so right at home. In fact, he must. Cuban law requires every citizen over the age of 15 and under 55 to donate two pints a year to Cuba's version of the Red Cross. By use of coercion Cuba "pumps" more blood annually from its 10 million inhabitants than is collected by voluntary contribution in the United States. A small country like Cuba — even one perennially at war — does not require and could not use more than a fraction of what of what the Castro regime collects in plasma annually. The rest is sold on the world market, where Cuba has only recently displaced Haiti as the chief purveyor.<br /><br />But Cuba has gone beyond <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">vampirism</span> in its quest for survival. Alone among the nations of the earth, Cuba sells humans for biological experimentation to the USSR and the Eastern bloc, according to Resistance International, a human rights group founded by Soviet dissidents <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Vladimar</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Bukovsky</span>, General Piotr <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Grigorenko</span> and Cuban writer and former political prisoner Armando <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Valladares</span>, now U.S. ambassador to the United Nations' Human Rights Commission in Geneva. Warmer than anything the gravedigger could provide but just as animate, these "living corpses" are cultivated in prisons and are especially coveted by medical researchers because the privations to which they've been subjected over a span of several decades cannot be duplicated in the laboratory. Thus Castro is able to turn even political prisoners to good account.<br /><br />To nations that do not want for guinea pigs but have no quacks to torment their citizens, Castro exports "guinea doctors," tasseled orderlies whose zeal coupled with their inexperience has on more than one occasion caused their patients literally to take up arms, as in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Bluefields</span>, Nicaragua, where a community of 2000 rose up against three Cuban physicians in 1980, a revolt which required 1500 Sandinista soldiers to put down.<br /><br />Every type of technician and engineer is also for sale by the regime. "Some 150,000 Cubans," according to Ernesto <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Meléndez</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Bachs</span>, minister and president of the State Committee for Economic cooperation, have "lent their services as internationalists in 45 countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America."<br /><br />Some markets in the human exchange are inexhaustible, but others clearly are not. Cuba's command of the "Hessian" market is especially tenuous and it appears that Cuba will soon have to relinquish it: A nation of 10 millions cannot supply the progressive world's needs forever. The will may be there (on the part of Castro) but not the <em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">materia</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">prima</span>.</em><br /><br />If demographically things were not bad enough for Castro, Cubans insist on conspiring against him by denying him the use of their bodies. Every year thousands of Cubans <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">embark</span> on a 90-mile trek to freedom; for every Cuban that reaches the Florida coast strapped to an inner tube or hugging the wheels of an airplane, how many hundreds more must die in the attempt, shot by Castro's Coast Guard, eaten by sharks, or drowned in the world's most dangerous waters. Nonetheless, 1.5 million Cubans have managed to make it out alive and millions more await their opportunity. Not all, however, have the stamina to wait 20 years to emigrate or the courage to brave the seas. For these there is yet another way of denying Castro the use of their bodies — self-extinction.<br /><br />According to <em>World Health Statistics</em> (the annual of the World Health Organization), Cubans now can claim the highest suicide rate in the hemisphere and the 2<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">nd</span> highest in the world: 27.5 suicides per 100,000 population. Suicide is the major cause of death for Cubans between the ages of 45 and 49 — the generation that fought Castro's revolution.<br /><br />What they cannot bear themselves Cubans are loathe to bequeath to posterity. The official Cuban birth rate has declined by 60 percent since the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Revolution</span> from 35.1 per 1000 population in 1963 to 14.1 by 1980.<br /><br />If a healthier and better-educated society were Castro's legacy to his slaves, it would not make him less of a despot or the Cuban people a whit freer. But Castro's claim to fame lies not in what he has done <em>for</em> his people but in what he has done <em>to</em> them. His vaunted "achievements" are Potemkin villages that survive only in the rarefied imaginations of those who have never felt his lash or been forced to subsist on his bounty.Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-91505561920503009172008-12-31T15:04:00.006-05:002009-01-01T13:51:16.058-05:00From the Tellechea Newspaper Archives: The 35th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution<strong>Cuban Nightmare</strong><br /><br />By Manuel A. Tellechea<br /><em>The San Diego Union-Tribune</em><br />Insight Section, p. G-1<br />January 2, 1994<br /><br />Yesterday was the 35<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">th</span> anniversary of the triumph of Fidel Castro's revolution. After the sham "social achievements" of the former Communist countries were exposed for the Potemkin villages they have always been, it is no longer safe to argue that Cubans are fortunate to live in a one-party police state where a government doctor will set for free the bones that a government henchman broke, or where the regime is so solicitous of the formation of its people that it not only teaches them to read, but tells them what they can read and what they cannot.<br /><br />Castro's apologists have seen the mantras of their devotions reduced to Castro's last surviving Guinness records: the longest tenure in unelected office in the history of Latin America, ancient or modern; and the creation of a Stalinist state in Cuba that has outlived its model. When all is said and done, it is the fist in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">everybody's</span> face and the boots on <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">everybody's</span> ribs that is Castro's outstanding legacy.<br /><br />For Cuba, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Castroism</span> has meant not only political repression on an unprecedented scale but the ruin of an economy which one boasted the third-highest gross national product in the Western Hemisphere, ahead of such demographic and demographic giants as Brazil and Mexico, but now vies with Haiti and Nicaragua for the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">subcellar</span> of underdevelopment in the region.<br /><br />Before the 1959 Revolution, Cubans enjoyed one of the highest standards of living in Latin America. Progress in social areas corresponded with the country's economy: the lowest infant mortality rate; the lowest general mortality rate; the third-highest number of physicians per <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">capita</span>; the third-highest caloric consumption; the third-highest literacy rate; the highest percentage of national income devoted to education; the third-highest number of university students per <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">capita</span>; and the third-highest number of newspapers and consumption of newsprint in Latin America (according to the <em>U.N. Statistical Yearbook </em>and <em>U.S. Statistical Abstract</em>, 1950s era).<br /><br />If social <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">progress</span> could excuse the excesses of authoritarianism, the Cuban Revolution would never have happened. The Cuban Revolution was not predicated on the redress of social ills but on the restoration of political liberties.<br /><br />After 35 years in power, Castro's greatest "<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">social</span> achievement" is that he has thoroughly crushed the revolutionary spirit of the Cuban people. Castro has, in effect, outlawed revolution in Cuba .<br /><br />In his vision of himself, Castro is the messiah that all other revolutions presaged; and having established his kingdom on earth, he tolerates no dissent. With very few exceptions which are useful because they serve to illustrate the ugly consequences that will attend dissent of any kind in Cuba, most Cubans are content to suffer and determined to survive, certain that change will come but helpless to effect it themselves. There are too many lives now mortgaged to the Revolution and now past redemption. Others have had their lives so circumscribed that they have forgotten the natural boundaries of human existence.<br /><br />How desperate life has become in Castro's <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Cuba</span> may best be judged from a story that may or may not be apocryphal, but which in any case captures vividly the Cuban reality since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Before the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Revolution</span>, signs in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">the</span> Havana Zoo warned against feeding the animals, as they do everywhere. Some time later, the signs were changed to read: "Don't take the animals' food." Now they read: "Don't eat the animals."<br /><br />Castro is unlike any previous Cuban dictator: he is unafraid to overstay <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">his welcome</span>. Indeed, his final "vindication" — the only one to which he can at this point aspire — is to be the first Cuban dictator to die in office. He will then show, to contradict <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Martí</span>, that one man can indeed be more powerful than an entire people. It is ironic but not surprising that he hopes to obtain his greatest victory at the expense of his own countrymen.<br /><br />Contrary to popular assumption, Castro is more invulnerable today [1989] than at any other time in the last 35 years. The United States is no longer a threat to him because <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">because</span> he has ceased to be a treat to anyone but his own people. Th Soviet Union can make no more demands on him in exchange for its past <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">largesse</span>, nor will he ever again find himself an expendable pawn in international power plays. Much of the world still indulges him, though now perhaps more as a curiosity than as a real threat, though he may yet prove that again if he can find another American antagonist to underwrite his escapades.<br /><br />At home, Castro is still feared because he has taken care not to grow softer as things got harder. His greatest asset is precisely the expectation that he will fall at any moment, or, rather, the inertia that is thus <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">fostered</span>, which makes unbearable privations <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">somewhat</span> more acceptable. And because all are so firmly convinced that his days are numbered none dares to risk at this late hour the personal consequences of hastening his inevitable end. Castro, however, has made a career of avoiding the inevitable.Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-9978523463782368332008-12-30T06:53:00.010-05:002008-12-31T01:51:25.124-05:00From the Tellechea Newspaper Archives: Review of "Fidel and the Cuban Revolution"<strong>Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution</strong>, by Carlos Alberto Montaner. Transaction Books, 1988. $29.95, 214 pp.<br /><br />By: Manuel A. Tellechea<br /><em>The New York Tribune</em><br />Commentary Section, p. 11<br />November 29, 1989<br /><br />Carlos Alberto Montaner has supplied a review of his own book, which appears unsigned except for his distinctive style, on the dust cover of <em>Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution.</em> He describes himself as "perhaps the foremost social analyst and journalist on Cuban affairs," and his book as "the definitive study of the Cuban regime from the vantage point of the Cuban dictator."<br /><br />Yet the only person that could write "the definitive study of the Cuban regime from the vantage point of the Cuban dictator" is the Cuban dictator. It is doubtful, however, that Castro would cast himself as the villain in his own account, or choose Montaner as his authorized biographer.<br /><br /><p>Is Montaner's book, then, the apologia which Castro would write if he ever repent of his sins? That would be a book worth reading, and no author would be better qualified to write it than Montaner, who can be as outrageous on paper as Castro is on magnetic tape.</p><p>Montaner's book begins with an apology for having written this book. "I am a Cuban who strictly for political reasons left Cuba in 1961," he writes. "I was not adversely affected by the Revolution's economic policies and could have easily benefited from the changes that have taken place in my country. I call attention to these aspects of my background to ward off suspicious conjectures, while admitting that my being a Cuban exile can call into question the objectivity of my evaluation regarding Cuba's revolutionary process." Strange, but that statement fosters in me "suspicious conjectures" which I should not otherwise have entertained.</p><p>Montaner apparently defines "objectivity" as indifference. You must be indifferent to the suffering of your country to write objectively about it. Or more shockingly still: You must be indifferent to the truth to write truthfully about it. Montaner,to his credit, does not live up to his own ideal. He is <em>not </em>indifferent.</p><p>The author charges that Castro has created a nation fit only for noble savages to inhabit, and has singlehandedly drawn the curtain of the Dark Ages on that barrenness. As Montaner points out, "in 1959, Cuba's urban centers lived synchronized to the West's temporal system. Science, technology, aesthetic currents, literary fashions, other fashions, and music, arrived at the island rather rapidly. At times very few as in the case of music and dance, Cuba contributed in addition to receiving." Montaner blames the Revolution for having "disconnected Cuba from its temporal system." </p><p>"The country," writes Montaner, "lives semi-paralyzed in the magic year of 1959... Circular time covers the island like a pneumatic bell." As a consequence of this isolation, Montaner laments that Cubans have missed out on "the relevant ideas, the knots of tension, the latest poetry, the latest movies, the latest plays, the latest literature that did not fit in with Marxist rhetoric, the anti-psychiatric movement, the militant feminist movement, the changes that liberated sexual behavior — sex resigned from the realm of ethics during those prodigious years — Marcuse, Watts, Goodman, Fromm, the renaissance of a certain religiosity, Eastern spiritualism, yoga, the rediscovery of Nietzsche, Zen Buddhism, the analysis of the subculture, the counterculture, underground movies, underground literature, pornography, hallucinogenics — all that is trivial, stupid, profound, noxious, or beneficial that shapes our time has been missed by the Cuban people."</p><p>I, for one, living in the United States, have missed out on all those magnificent boons, and do not feel the worse for it. I suspect, in fact, that the few rational minds surviving in the Western world were cloistered for these last 30 [now 50] years.</p><p>What Cubans have missed out on is not this neo-hippie garbage, but the opportunity to think freely, however little; to move freely, without restraints; and even to eat freely, and not in concert with their neighbors. These are the basics of culture and civilization, and since Cubans have not had access to them, they have had to struggle to keep body and soul from withering as all the foundations of their world were compromised and their world itself disappeared.</p><p>Montaner credits the Cuban Revolution with the development of the "Castron bomb," which differs from the neutron bomb in that it leaves the people alive but destroys their surroundings. In a strange twist on the tale of Atlantis, Cuba is crumbling into the ocean with every tropical breeze, while the waters surrounding it recede under the weight of all that human and material debris. The neutron bomb might have sunk Cuba into the ocean — a hope devoutly wished by Castro during the Missile Crisis — but the "Castron bomb" is raising a desert in the midst of an ocean. As Montaner notes, "daily life in the 20th century — flip the switch and make light, turn on the faucet and take a shower, or spin a disk and talk to your distant aunt — has disappeared."</p><p>Gone, too, is the full cupboard of pre-revolutionary times. Under Cuba's oldest-in-history rationing system, no one can "hoard" more foodstuffs than he could consume in a 24-hour period. Cubans receive from their master less than one-forth of the rations decreed for slaves by the Spanish colonial administration 100 years ago. The slightest infraction can result in the cancellation of one's ration card, which amounts to a sentence of death by starvation, unless you can find someone with whom to starve on half-rations. Rebellion entails the prospect of death or torture in prison which, despite its horrors unsurpassed by any country in the world today, at least puts you in touch with a better class of people.</p><p>Their are no rewards for exertion or self-assertion, except the sure contempt of your fellow countrymen. "Cuba today," writes Montaner, "is a country of loafers who pretend to work and of cynics who pretend to agree" with the regime. "What is happening on the island, from one end to another, is a secret but total civil insubordination." For more than a quarter [now half] century, t6he personal creativity of Cubans, of millions of Cubans, has been replaced by the creativity of one man, tireless and energetic, but, in the end, one man." Montaner forgets pedantic and vainglorious, self-serving and megalomaniacal.</p><p>The only hope for Cuba, Montaner maintains, is to release the creative energy of its people. "Singapore, Japan, and England have been able to prove, in totally different circumstances, that certain poor islands without energy resources are capable of prospering if the population is not handcuffed with dogmatic schemes." If Montaner were himself free of liberal dogma he would add to that list of happy isles pre-Castro Cuba. Before 1959, Cubans enjoyed the highest standard of living in Latin America, and far from being an undeveloped country, Cuba alone among the nations of the region had crossed the threshold of the First World, however tenuously or briefly.</p><p>But Montaner was determined "not to use the past as a reference when judging the Revolution per se<em>,"</em> which, simply stated, means that as a historian he has abandoned historical perspective. He would rather make a fool of himself than be accused of championing the status quo ante. He pities and empathizes with Cuban intellectuals who praise Castro by rote ("there but for the grace of God"), but scorns "certain nostalgic people of little intellect or dubious past who proclaim themselves Batista supporters." He believes that to speak well of pre-revolutionary Cuba is to join them in their nostalgia. Personally, I believe that being nostalgic about a glorious past is preferable to being disingenuous about the horrible present.</p><p>Montaner compares pre-revolutionary Cuba to Communist Cuba only when he believes that the latter had the advantage. "There is no doubt ," writes Montaner, that "blacks and mulattoes have seen their opportunities for economic and social integration in the country multiply" since Batista, a mulatto, was overthrown. Montaner is correct except that opportunities (so-called) have multiplied for Cuban blacks everywhere but in Cuba. Castro is currently sending myriads of black Cubans to Angola as colonizers under his peculiar "Law of Return." He has revived the African Colonization Society and created his own Liberia. Cuba blacks who refuse "repatriation," by the way, are tried in special all-black courts as "traitors to their race." Whites are not subjected to such treatment. They are merely "traitors to their country."</p><p>Montaner has his own equally nonsensical scheme for resolving the race question in Cuba: "The final solution [!] to racial conflicts is not that whites and blacks go to schools and cabarets together, but that they go to the bedroom together." Montaner also advocates sex as a cure for mental illness. Having diagnosed Castro as a manic depressive, Montaner counsels that he be treated just like any other lunatic: "locked-up, calmed down, given an aspirin, two slaps, three electroshocks and/or a little print of St. Jude, or — in any case — advised to get married to see if he can rid himself of his nervousness by means of the bed."</p><p>For "perhaps the foremost social analyst and journalist on Cuban affairs," Montaner at times proves incredibly naive. "Theft and corruption, old practices which date from colonial times, have disappeared," he avers. I suppose that Cuba's "Narcogate" must have been as great a shock to Montaner as it was to Castro. </p><p>If Montaner can credit Castro with "social achievements" which he in fact thwarted (going so far as to devote an entire chapter to such hallucinations), should he not at least credit Batista with not posing an obstacles to Cuba's economic development? By omitting these national accomplishments isn't he surrendering credit for them entirely to Batista? What of the creative energy of the Cuban people, which flourished under every Cuban government before Castro? Caught in this paradox, Montaner arrives at the usual compromise: what should have been the first chapter of his book becomes, instead, an appendix, "The State of the Cuban Economy Before Castro."</p><p>Here is an example, yet again, that the appendix of a book is not a supernumerary member, but often the most interesting part of it, since it is usually the place where inconvenient facts that do not conform to an author's prejudices are delegated.</p><p>Culled from numerous U.S. and U.N. statistical sources, the Appendix shows that what Cubans really need is a time travel machine back to that magical date of December 31, 1958. Contrary to popular belief, pre-revolutionary Cuba was not predominantly agrarian. In 1958, only 30.5 percent of its population was involved in the cultivation of the land. This contrasts notably with Western Europe (58 percent). 24% of the Cuban labor force in 1953 was employed in the industrial sector, putting Cuba at he midway point between the rest of Latin America (17%) and the U.S. (37%). Cuban ranked in the top third worldwide among 108 countries in the consumption of steel per capita ahead of Mexico and Brazil (titans in size and population compared to Cuba). Cuba placed 25th among 124 countries surveyed in kilowatt consumption. The Soviet Union ranked 22nd. In 1958, Cuba placed ninth in the world in kilometers of railroad tracks per 1000,000 inhabitants.</p><p>In 1958, U.S. investments in Cuba accounted for only 14 percent of a GNP that was the third-highest in the Western Hemisphere. Before Communism, Cuba had reached the point which W.W. Rostow calls the take off stage toward the economic maturity of a developed country. By 1957, the internal capital net formation had reached 15.5 percent of the national income, amply exceeding the minimum 10 percent propounded by Rostow as sufficient to feed the autonomous development process of a country's economy.</p><p>The Appendix alone is worth the price of the book, and I enjoyed also the author's piquant style, which even in translation reads like Mencken (with his same penchant for using hyperbole as a trompe-l'oeil. If you can overlook Montaner's constant genuflecting to the idols of liberalism, you will find him an impassioned advocate for the cause of Cuban freedom if one somewhat exasperated at times by the fact that this puts him outside the liberal fold.</p>Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-81959662525374359382008-12-24T13:34:00.006-05:002008-12-24T20:44:34.567-05:00The New Scrooges<span style="font-size:130%;">"[Y]</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">ou</span> can contribute roughly $112.55 to the retirement fund of Fidel and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Raúl</span> Castro simply by purchasing this lovely and aesthetic 52" ceiling fan for $171.55 as a gift for one of your friends or relatives on the island. Although the fan is of dubious origins and quality, keep in mind that the Castro clan's retirement fund is a worthy cause, after all." — <strong>Alberto Cruz</strong>, "Now you, too, can make it a Castro, Inc. Christmas!," <em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Babalú</span></em>, December 24, 2008<br /><br />Fidel and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Raúl's</span> "retirement fund" is already calculated in the billions. That might not be good enough for a Mexican president but it will certainly suffice the Brothers Castro in their declining years, which they are already well into. The profit from the sale of that ceiling fan or 10 thousand ceiling fans will not add substantially to their wealth and it certainly won't improve their standard of living. It is the hapless Cuban family, for whom global warming is already a reality because they have no way to escape the unrelenting sun, which will benefit by at least rotating the putrid air that surrounds them, supposing, of course, that they don't bring down the ceiling in attempting to install the fan, or that there is enough ceiling left on which to affix it.<br /><br />I remember Val dedicated several gloomy posts to the week that he spent without air-conditioning in the aftermath of last year's hurricane season, which he described as the most miserable of his rather delicate life. Besides remaining cool himself, Val's chief worry was that the food in his refrigerator would spoil (massive quantities, no doubt). Such a concern would be the cherished hope of every man, woman and child on the island. If there is one thing that Cubans don't have to worry about is whether food will last long enough to go bad: living hand to mouth, and day to day, makes the thought of food going bad because there is too much of it and too few people to consume it sound rather fantastical.<br /><br />Val's ordeal lasted a week or so, but if it had lasted 50 years he could not have been more despondent. Well, the Cuban people's ordeal has lasted 50 years and counting, but the quality of their lives is of no concern to Val & Co. Well, that is not exactly right. They do have a very keen interest in their lives, the same interest in fact that Castro Inc. does: they want Cubans as miserable and dependent on Castro as they can possibly be. This the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Babalunians</span> believe will foment an uprising: the same thing the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Castroites</span> are sure will prevent one. Castro has 50 years in power with which to back his position. Val has the boundless faith that if he can out-Castro Castro Cubans can be made to do his bidding rather than Castro's. And what does Val want Cubans to do? Well, what else? Shed "pools of blood" (have I not quoted him enough times?) Bleeding <em>them </em>is the cure for what ails him. Sort of like Washington having his slaves' teeth knocked out so that they could be used to fashion his dentures (yes, the true story).<br /><br />It takes a heart of stone, especially at this season of the year, to begrudge Cubans on the island even the least surcease from their continual suffering. Though it costs them not a dime, they still resent that miserable ceiling fan as if it restrained their liberty or impinged on their comfort. Except they know that Cubans are suffering with every breath (or gasp for air) they are not content that they are doing everything in their power to advance the cause of Cuban freedom. Their concern for Cubans and Castro's are both sides of the same false coin. Cubans are for them an instrumentality and both have no qualms about driving their screwdrivers into their heads so that they can twist them one way or the other. The only difference is that Castro knows which direction benefits him. The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Babalunians</span>, of course, also twist in that direction whether from ignorance or the conceit that they can obtain a different result through the same method. This will never be the case.<br /><br />At some point increasing the suffering of the Cuban people will become the end as it is now the means. They already believe that their only recourse now is to punish the Cuban people for enduring Castro's rule: punish them into their graves if necessary to rid the island of the monster that feeds on them. It need hardly be said that they are playing into Castro's hands. In fact, if Castro himself had written the script they could not have acted it more convincingly. The only question is whether they are too stupid to see this or see it and don't care.<br /><br />I should not be surprised if one of the wits at <em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Babalú</span> </em>rewrote "The Twelve Days of Christmas" citing what Cubans should <em>not</em> receive for each day. For the first day of Christmas we already know that they should not get ceiling fans. We wait to see what they should next be deprived of.Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com317