tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80211354616222641242024-03-23T14:13:44.078-04:00Review 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-66652899890115205052007-04-18T13:58:00.000-04:002017-12-16T11:09:12.981-05:00No More Babies to be Drawn and Quartered in U.S.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is no longer permissible in this country to murder babies piecemeal while they are in the process of being born. The Supreme Court has just this moment upheld the constitutionality of the ban on partial birth abortion.<br />
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What is partial birth abortion? It is when doctors sever and smash the heads and limbs of babies who have already taken their first breath in the world but whose feet have not yet exited the birth canal. This is akin to a medieval practice known as "drawing and quartering," which was reserved for traitors and heretics and was always considered the most terrible of deaths (among other tortures, your limbs were torn from you by horses pulling in opposite directions). Of course, no man has been drawn and quartered in 200 years. We live in an "enlightened age" that only does that to babies.<br />
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There is no medical justification for this abomination, which has nothing to do with medicine and everything to do with murder. The practice matches and even surpasses anything that Dr. Mengele ever did in his gruesome experiments on concentration camp children (most of whom survived, unlike the victims of partial birth abortions).<br />
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Today this country's quotient of humanity has increased. Of course, there is more than one way to kill a baby and all ways are objectionable even the most "benign." Just as slavery brought an awful retribution on this country so shall the culture of abortion on demand bring its own terrible price.<br />
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In Communist Cuba, which has the world's highest rate of abortion, and, indeed, cultivates abortion as a "cure" for infant mortality, partial birth abortion is the favorite method because it is the cheapest: hacking someone to death usually is very cheap except for the wear on the hatchet (or scalpel).Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com56tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-33098915965169150282008-06-24T13:42:00.004-04:002015-07-06T09:25:57.719-04:00Is This Guy an Episcopalian?My friends, I must apologize to you. After inflicting the last interminable post on you, I am going to devote yet another one to Msgr. Carlos Manuel de Céspedes. I considered attaching it as postscript to the last but that would have been even crueler. Still, we must take advantage of this occasion because Céspedes will never be more topical than he is today, unless he jumps naked from atop Havana Cathedral (which, after you read what I have to tell you, may not seem that improbable).<br />
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If I implied previously that Msgr. Céspedes is a vile lickspittle who praises murderers for their "love of the poor" while himself detached from their suffering, then I made myself understood. If, however, I left the impression that he is a coward, then I do wish to take that back at least in part. He <em>is </em>a coward when it comes to defending the Cuban people. But the monsignor, unlike his distinguished ancestor and namesake, does not consider all Cubans to be his children or even his brothers. There is another group, however, whose civil rights he does champion even against the authority of the pope and his own best interests. This is remarkable because Msgr. Céspedes is the very definition of an establishment priest, and priests who curry Rome's favor as he does rarely challenge it publicly and notoriously as he has done.<br />
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What is this issue which is so close to his craven heart that he would risk his standing with Rome to champion it? What is this "human right" which trumps all others in his eyes and for which he would dispose of 2000 years of Catholicism to accomodate?<br />
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That's right. Msgr. Céspedes is the leading clerical exponent of homosexual "marriage" within the Universal Church. Not for priests (we believe) but for laymen.<br />
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In a column published last year in <em>Palabra Nueva </em>[July/August 2007], a diocesan publication that circulates among clerics and other religious in Cuba, Céspedes expressed his unqualified support for civil unions of homosexuals engaged in stable relationships. While claiming that he does not wish to set aside Catholic tradition, he asserts that the Church must "not ignore contemporary personal and familial realities" but be open to new "clarifications of marriage." He would not call same-sex unions "marriage," however. He wants a new word for this "new reality" and "legal and social" acceptance for it. Céspedes even asserts that his support for homosexual unions may have precluded him from becoming a bishop. This would be curious indeed because the practice of it has never stopped any Cuban priest from reaching the episcopacy.<br />
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So there you have it. The priest who has never raised one finger or one octave in defense of his long-suffering people raises his fist in the face of the pope himself to demand that gays be given the right marry and the Church accept their union in the spirit(!) if not the letter of Catholicism.<br />
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Although Rome took no official cognizance of Céspedes's column (besides, perhaps, denying him that bishopric), it is interesting to note that the digital edition of <em>Palabra Nueva</em> (below) has removed the monsignor's screed from its archives:<br />
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<b>POSTSCRIPT:</b><br />
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Msgr. Carlos Manuel de Céspedes published a formal repudiation and retraction of his article “El matrimonio y la familia a lo largo de la historia del cristianismo” in the Sept. 2007 (#166) edition of <i>La Palabra Nueva.</i> The original article which was the cause of the retraction has been deleted; but the retraction itself can still be read at http://www.palabranueva.net/contens/0709/000102-2.htm<br />
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I have copied it in full in case it too is deleted in the future:<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sobre el artículo “El matrimonio y la familia a lo largo de la historia del cristianismo”, cuyo subtítulo es “Algunos señalamientos acerca de la Revelación, la Teología, el Magisterio Eclesiástico y la disciplina de la celebración matrimonial. El por qué de los requerimientos de la presencia de testigos y del registro de los archivos.” (Palabra Nueva, Nº 165, Segmento, pp. 29-42)<br />
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<b>Motivo de esta “nota aclaratoria”</b><br />
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Se me ha dicho, por parte de la autoridad eclesiástica, que uno de los últimos párrafos (fin de la Pág. 41 e inicio de la Pág. 42) ha sido interpretado por algunos como distanciamiento y hasta como una contradicción, por mi parte, de la enseñanza de la Iglesia Católica acerca de las calificadas como “parejas de hecho” (del mismo sexo), para las que los organismos legislativos de algunos Estados ya han aprobado o discuten actualmente lo que se ha dado en llamar “protección legal”. En algunos casos ha llegado a la equiparación con el matrimonio civil. La raíz de la interpretación parece estar en la frase “con respecto a las relaciones estables entre personas del mismo sexo, no veo dificultad en que sean protegidas por las leyes civiles, pero no me parece conveniente que esa nueva figura jurídica reciba el nombre de matrimonio, etc.” Esta frase (y el resto de este párrafo) están evidentes incluidos solamente per transennam, conociendo la situación actual de nuestro País, y habiendo escuchado, por más de una voz, cuáles son los debates al respecto en el seno de al Asamblea Nacional.<br />
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<b>Resumen y referencia</b><br />
<b>a algunas secciones del artículo</b><br />
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En la primera página del artículo, pág. 29 del número de Palabra Nueva, hago la historia del texto, escrito en el año 2004 para un encuentro de Historia de la Iglesia en Camagüey, en el que no pude participar debido a mis malas condiciones de salud en aquel momento. No recuerdo si, habiendo enviado yo el texto, se leyó o no a los participantes. Luego el texto fue reelaborado para una conferencia, el 12 de julio pasado, en el Centro Cultural San Agustín, a mi cargo, y para la Revista Arquidiocesana Palabra Nueva (número Julio-Agosto 2007). En esa nota introductoria, en letra cursiva, aclaro que se trata sólo de “algunos señalamientos”, no del tema en toda su integridad, y añado: “El tema al que se refieren los mismos debería estar siempre ubicado en ámbito central de los contenidos de la Fe, de la ética y de la actitud Evangelizadora de la Iglesia”.<br />
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En la página siguiente (pág. 30), en un recuadro afirmo: “La realidad familiar tiene como punto de partida la realidad del matrimonio entre un hombre y una mujer, considerado como una institución natural, elevada a la condición de sacramento, o sea, signo eficaz de la acción salvífica de Dios”. En la página 33, en el marco del análisis bíblico, y también en un recuadro, afirmo: “El matrimonio monogámico e indisoluble parece haber estado vigente en la situación original de las tribus o grupos humanos que llegaron a constituir el pueblo de Israel”.<br />
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Después de un recorrido por textos del Antiguo Testamento y del Nuevo Testamento, relacionados con el matrimonio, en los que recalco su valor vinculante, y ya dentro de la presentación del tema en contexto patrístico, aparece también en recuadro: “Como todo sacramento, el Matrimonio hoy supone también una celebración litúrgica en la que se hacen presentes todos los componentes de la visión católica del mismo”. Pasando por los teólogos medievales y por las distintas escuelas, llegamos al Concilio de Trento, del que afirmo que dirimió para siempre las diversas opiniones acerca de la sacramentalidad o no del Matrimonio, a favor de la sacramentalidad (contra la opinión de la Reforma protestante), y en que la enseñanza tridentina acerca de esa sacramentalidad está en la base de toda enseñanza católica posterior, hasta nuestros días.<br />
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De la conclusión (pág. 41), me permito copiar un párrafo: “La Revelación, que debe regir siempre el pensamiento, la ética, la disciplina y, en general, las acciones de la Iglesia, terminó con los Apóstoles y sus discípulos que pusieron por escrito sus enseñanzas (…) En ese proceso –me refiero al proceso de interiorización del dato revelado por la acción del Espíritu en el tiempo de la Iglesia– se va construyendo una especie de sedimento estable con el que se constituye la Tradición. Así, con mayúscula. En ese sedimento estable entran componentes irrenunciables de la Fe y de la Ética cristiana. La evolución en la visión del Matrimonio hasta su comprensión contemporánea como uno de los sacramentos o signos de la Nueva Alianza, con las características recogidas en la actual disciplina canónica y desarrolladas por los teólogos dogmáticos y por los moralistas católicos, es uno de esos ejemplos”.<br />
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Después de diversas referencias a situaciones en el mundo contemporáneo que contradicen la enseñanza y disciplina católica del Matrimonio, dentro de las cuales está la “frase problemática” (pág. 42), añado: “La Iglesia no va a renunciar a los criterios establecidos por la Revelación y fijados por la Tradición, en la que el Magisterio Eclesiástico, convenientemente contextualizado, es un componente irrenunciable”. Esa sección continúa con referencias breves a otros sacramentos –Bautismo, Eucaristía…–, y a la pastoral adecuada para participar en ellos.<br />
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<b>Observaciones personales:</b><br />
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1) En mi visión de este texto, la consideración del Matrimonio no se limita a cuestiones “formales”, sino y sobre todo a doctrina teológica y praxis canónica sustancial. La referencia a las “uniones de hecho” es solamente parte de las referencias a las discrepancias entre algunas situaciones contemporáneas y las enseñanzas de la Iglesia. Siempre en mi visión de este texto, la posibilidad de una protección legal, en ese contexto,<b> no es más que la alusión </b>–insisto, per transennam dicta–<b> al menor mal posible ante una situación que prevemos.</b> Por mi cabeza jamás pasó una confrontación con las enseñanzas de la Iglesia acerca del Matrimonio y la disciplina eclesiástica católica. <b>Si, a pesar de una lectura atenta de todo el artículo, y no sólo de algún párrafo, y del análisis cuidadoso del mismo y de las frases resaltadas, personas que saben más que yo acerca del valor lingüístico y proyectivo de frases semejantes y que, simultáneamente, están en posiciones responsables de Jerarquía Eclesiástica, entienden que algunas frases pueden ser calificadas como inexactas o erróneas, disociadoras de la disciplina eclesiástica, ofensivas al Santo Padre o merecer cualquier otra calificación análoga, téngase entonces la frase o frases como no escrita, ni pronunciada. En ese caso, yo renunciaría a ella. Me retracto de ella y Dios me concederá la gracia de que se me borre del pensamiento. Yo sé que puedo errar en cuestión de formulaciones lingüísticas y en el ordenamiento de estrategias pastorales. Pero también sé que, por gracia de Dios y ejercicio de mi responsabilidad, no creo haber errado en cuestiones que tengan que ver con los contenidos de la Fe católica, entre los que incluyo –y muy gustosamente– mi adhesión afectuosa al Santo Padre.</b><br />
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2) Ahora bien, durante todos estos años me he desempeñado como sacerdote con muy diversos ministerios pastorales (párroco, profesor, Director del Secretariado General de la Conferencia Episcopal, secretario de la Comisión Episcopal para la Fe, también para el Ecumenismo; he tenido responsabilidades en el CELAM durante varios años y periodos y, desde hace ya varios años, soy Consultor del Consejo Pontificio para la Cultura). <b>Nunca, ni en ningún lugar, me he sabido bajo sospechas en materia de Fe, disciplina eclesiástica o distanciamiento de las enseñanzas del Santo Padre. Resultaría un absurdo que ahora, de repente, anciano ya como soy, en el ocaso de mi vida útil, sorprenda a todos con una discrepancia eclesial en situación tan delicada como es la disciplina matrimonial y el apoyo a la familia. Pocas realidades aprecio y valoro tanto como el Matrimonio y la Familia, tal y como los presenta la Iglesia y como tuve la fortuna de vivirlos en mi propia familia.</b> Y esto se sabe de sobra en los círculos en los que me he movido siempre. ¡Se necesita no haber “leído bien” el artículo y no conocerme para imaginar el dislate que ciertos resúmenes periodísticos, sobre todo digitales, me atribuyen!<br />
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Monseñor Carlos M. de Céspedes García-Menocal<br />
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La Habana, 4 de septiembre de 2007.Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-52502747346593304122008-09-30T20:06:00.011-04:002015-03-18T09:05:39.481-04:00From the Tellechea Newspaper Archives: Charity for the Poor Versus Charity for the Rich<em>[In 1994, Republicans and Democrats in Congress passed the Welfare Reform Act, which punished the poor for their insolvency by slicing up the safety net; in 2006, in another show of bipartisanship, Congress revised the Bankruptcy Law, making it more difficult for middle class Americans to get out of the spiral of debt that leads to poverty; and now, the same cabal is about to reward the richest of the rich for their cupidity by handing them each his own golden parachute and get-out-of-jail card. Dumping the poor saved American taxpayers $18 billion. Bailing out Wall Street will cost them $700 billion. How can we explain this disposition to help the rich in distress but not the poor? Why is it a national emergency when the very rich are threatened with becoming merely rich but a day of jubilee when the poor were plunged into even more grinding poverty? An essay I wrote 20 years ago might help to shed some light on that question though it addressed another which is still topical. It was published in</em> The New York Tribune<em>, which was resurrected for a few years in the 1980s only to suffer the same fate as </em>The New York Sun<em>, which announced today that it would cease publication.]</em><br />
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By: Manuel A. Tellechea<br />
<em>The New York Tribune</em><br />
Commentary Section, p. 9<br />
October 21, 1988<br />
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A judge in New York upheld recently the right of beggars to beg, which decision he must have arrived at by the commendable expedient of taking the dictionary as his law book. His ruling, however, has proved very unpopular among the well-fed majority that believe it is better for a man to starve than to beg. The argument is again put forward which has for decades been used against casual charity: "Don't give a man a rope, but teach him how to hang himself," or something to that effect. This is not a conservative position and it certainly forms no part of the Judeo-Christian ethic, which exalts charity above all virtues. Its father is Herbert Spencer and it dates to the 19th century. Its common name is social Darwinism, or modern (as opposed to classical) liberalism.<br />
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Marxists also opposed casual charity because they thought that it would postpone that glorious day when the masses would rise against their oppressors. When the Marxists became the oppressors they continued to oppose it because they hoped that a starving people wouldn't have the strength to rise in the morning let alone rise in arms. In our time, however, there are no ideological positions on alms giving: revolutionaries no longer oppose it (having given up on the poor as the engine of revolution) and neither do capitalists (having no fear of them as such, either). Only the social Darwinists still publicly object to casual charity and their pseudo-science has been embraced by the general population. In the end, it is always the most savage and inhumane perspective that prevails in human relations.<br />
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Social Darwinists are always asking themselves if the poor are "deserving," but invariably the poor are always deserving unless one looks on their poverty as a well-deserved punishment. If we set out to divide the rich into the deserving rich and the undeserving rich, I should not think that we would find all the rich deserving. Yet no one would think to deprive the undeserving rich of the protection which society accords their wealth, but the social Darwinists would deny to the "undeserving" poor — that is, to as many of the poor as possible — all claims to society's protection (society here defined as <em>society</em>, not government). The benefits that society accords the rich are not dealt out according to need, but, rather, in proportion to the absence of need. With the rich we can never be too liberal:<br />
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The daughter of a rich acquaintance is marrying. Naturally, we will have to buy a gift. We must be reasonable, but reasonable not by our lights but theirs. In other words, we must be unreasonable. Our present — let us say a porcelain cabbage — is received with kindness and spotted some years hence being used as a doorstop. We will never be as extravagant again; nor need we worry about future baptisms or weddings. We have paid our homage to the rich. We have given from our relative needs to those who have no needs which we can satisfy. We have done no good, but who will say that we have done ill?<br />
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A porcelain cabbage is an innocuous thing, or so we may suppose. But, as G.K. Chesterton observed, "to give any present worth calling a present is to give power; to give power is to give liberty; to give liberty is to give potential sin." In a fit of pique a jealous wife may break that stony head of cabbage on the head of her stoned husband. Or dear papa may stub his gouty toe on a curious green doorstop and never cross that threshold again, causing dark days to descend thereupon. Surely such thoughts never enter our minds when we are spending money on the rich. Then we assume as a matter of course that what is superfluous will also prove innocuous. It is only when we are given alms to the poor that we are asked to consider the possible adverse consequences of casual charity.<br />
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Let us ask ourselves: Are we really more solicitous of the beggar's welfare than the rich man's? Surely not, since we never think to fulfill the expectations which the poor have of us. We do not give to the poor to commend ourselves to them but that we might command them. We never rise to charity, we stoop to charity. If the beggar in the gutter does not use our quarter to turn his life around, we think ourselves ill-used and say so. Yet no indignity that the millionaire's daughter may heap on our cabbage will ever move us to remonstrance. We have quite surrendered our cabbage and all claims to it. That portion of our estate we have transferred voluntarily and in perpetuity. But not the beggar's miserable quarter. Of him and of our quarter we are and will always be guardian and executor. So it is that cautious philanthropists are now distributing two-bit vouchers redeemable for food at specified locales — a scheme which hopes to make charity safe again for the poor. As compared to, say, school vouchers, these vouchers do not increase personal choice and hence liberty, but restrict if not altogether eliminate it. It is debatable which is the more demeaning: to regard the beggar as an adult responsible for his poverty, or as a child able to take responsibility for nothing, not even a quarter.<br />
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But although we do not trust him to be responsible for himself neither do we wish to be responsible for him. It is far easier to suppose that our quarter will ruin the beggar than the want of a quarter. But it is just as difficult to ruin oneself on a quarter as it is to save oneself with a quarter. At best our quarters may provide the beggar with a temporary reprise from his suffering. At worst, they will leave him unaffected in the gutter.<br />
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When we made our present to the rich man's daughter, we never asked ourselves if she needed it, for we knew for a fact she did not. But when we see someone whose need is patent, we stop to debate whether that need is real! Money is never said to harm the rich who do not need it. Money harms only the poor who desperately want for it. Yet how can that which is said to be harmless in very great quantities prove fatal in a very small dose? Ill may come of charity, but ill may come of anything; and of anything more likely than charity.<br />
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Social Darwinists believe that to give money to beggars rewards idleness and encourages alcoholism. It is alleged that the poor are poor because they will not work. If laziness always and invariably resulted in poverty, the widows of rich men would all be poor. Wealth is often something that just happens to you, and poverty is apt to happen to you far more commonly than wealth. The idle rich are idle because they are rich; they are not rich because they are idle. No more than the poor are poor because they are idle: the poor are idle because they are poor.<br />
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The antidote to casual charity is the apprehension that the beggar aspires only to be a drunkard and that by withholding our quarter we shall save him from becoming one. Temperance was never enforced for the rich even when it was the law, but we are still trying to force it down the throats of the poor. If the clubman can drink to intensify his pleasure, why shouldn't the grubman drink to mitigate his sorrows. The drunk in the gutter will never run down a pedestrian nor knock down a hydrant. He is no threat to limb or property. He is a nuisance, but not a menace. Social drinkers are the menace, not unsocial drinkers. And the people that social drinkers most often menace are unsocial drinkers: nothing so easy for a drunk in a car to flatten as a drunk staggering across a road.<br />
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Beggars are unsocial drinkers because we will not allow them to be social drinkers. If the bishop in his palace feels faint, we do not begrudge him a glass of brandy bought with the alms of the faithful. He has cares, we suppose. And weaknesses, we are sure. But if the beggar in the gutter is cold and hungry as beggars in gutters are wont to be, we are encouraged to deny him alms for fear that he will betake himself to the warmth of the public house (certainly no private house would receive him), and for the price of a glass of beer, banish his griefs for a while and allay his hunger with the stale offerings of the bar or the leavings of more fortunate men, whose presence at such establishments evokes no comment or censure.<br />
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<strong>Other articles from the Tellechea Newspaper Archives:</strong><br />
<a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/11/from-tellechea-newspaper-archives.html">Alicia in Wonderland (1987)</a><br />
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<a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/05/fidels-first-anal-emergency-1987.html">Fidel's First Anal Emergency (1987)</a><br />
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<a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/from-tellechea-newspaper-archives.html">Castro's Pet Author Lends his Nobel Credentials to Marxist Cuba (1988)</a><br />
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<a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2007/06/from-tellechea-archives-nadias.html">Nadia's Defection Signalled Ceausescu's End (1990)</a>Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-22673429073443716162007-10-11T13:19:00.000-04:002015-01-29T09:30:26.782-05:00Social Progress Under Castro: The Lie that Will Not DieI remember when<em> The The New York Times</em> published a story in the mid-Sixties about how Fidel Castro had saved the Spanish language from extinction in Cuba. According to the writer, before the Revolution Cubans spoke a patois similar to Haitian which made works written in correct Castilian inaccessible to most Cubans. This explained, too, why books weren't published in Cuba before 1959, well, that and the fact that most Cubans were illiterate before the Revolution changed that too. Castro's oratory, according to <em>The Times</em>, had restored the purity of Spanish in Cuba and made Cuban literature accessible to the masses for the first time. Supposedly, Cubans would sit by their radios practicing the cadences of Fidel's speech and absorbing his universal culture. The man, in sum, had been a one man rennaisance who, in less than ten years, had ended the Dark Ages in Cuba.<br />
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Then there was the article in <em>The Village Voice </em>in the late 70s which purported that before the Revolution it was customary for Cuban women to kill themselves after the deaths of their husbands or if they were abandoned by them, and that their favorite method of self-immolation was setting themselves on fire. Cuba's Socialist Constitution (1975), which required men to help with the housework and child-rearing, had supposedly cured them of this centuries-old habit.<br />
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The point: no lie is too big for an American journalist to believe especially if vouchsafed by the heralds of the future: "I have seen the future and it works," declared the famous American muckraker Lincoln Steffins upon his return from a tour of the Soviet Union in the 1930s. The legendary American muckraker became a muckswallower in the rarefied atmosphere of the Soviet Union. His heirs in the mainstream media upheld to the very day of its collapse the same specious lies about social progress that Steffins and his ilk had foisted on the American public since the beginning of the Russian Revolution.<br />
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By the time Cuba was betrayed into the Soviet camp, the lies had already been well-rehearsed for more than 40 years and with only a few modifications were applied to the new Communist paragon. Most American reporters and editors had never seen Czarist Russia, but a majority were acquainted with pre-Castro Cuba. This did not constrain them, however, from believing the lies that Castro and his agents spoonfed them even if the lies contradicted their firsthand experience. Nor did the overwhelming statistical evidence to the contrary alert them to the fact that they were being duped and turned from journalists into propagandists for the regime. Many, like Herbert Matthews, just didn't care. As the lies were repeated by successive generations of reporters, one depending on the authority of his predecessor and strenthening that authority by invoking it, the lies became fully "documented" by citation and part of the received standard record from which all drew their "facts" and opinions.<br />
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I know because I have challenged those lies for decades whenever I was afforded the opportunity, which, of course, was not often. In <em>The Wall Street Journal, The Detroit News, The San Diego Union,</em> and a dozen other newspapers that I don't even remember anymore, on the 20th, the 25th, the 30th, the 35th anniversaries of the Revolution, which was the only time that I could be sure an article on Cuba would be deemed topical and published, I have exploded the myth of social progress under Castro time and time again. More authoritative voices than mine, such as the late Jeanne Kirkpatrick and Lord Hugh Thomas, all tried to push back the Communist juggernaut of lies, pulled by its trusty agents of influence in the MSM, without ever succeeding in overturning it. Castro's apologists had spread the manure far and wide and before one could even tell the truth it was necessary to sweep clean the accumulated excrementa which blocked every access to the truth. I came to doubt whether that was even possible, as did, I suppose, most critics of Castro in the 1970s and 1980s (before that I don't know what there were any critics of Castro in the MSM). The first to make a direct hit at the regime was the late Nestor Almendros, who exposed in his documentary <em>Improper Conduct</em> Castro's persecution of Cuba's gays. This was something that liberals could not ignore or condone, although most found ways to blame the Cuban people rather than the regime for it. To me, at least, it seemed then that the MSM would never believe the truth about Communist Cuba until a Cuban Khruschev denounced the Cuban Stalin. I am still of that opinion.<br />
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The brave and noble attempts which have lately been made to diffuse the truth about health care in Castro's Cuba over network television, though gratifying and important for the historical record, will not alter the present state of affairs because the MSM are too vested in the lie. It's not so much any more that they want to protect the regime as it is that their credibility is tied to the lie. Nearly 50 years of reiterating and expounding on that lie, and, what is worse, dismissing all evidence to the contrary, has placed the MSM in the peculiar position of either defending the lie or denouncing themselves for having perpetrated it for half a century. We are confident that they will never admit, publicly, that being Castro's unquestioning stooges is the mainstream media's longest ongoing tradition, which shows no signs of lapsing any time soon.Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-27120316287665199772008-05-20T23:11:00.003-04:002015-01-29T09:26:04.676-05:00The May 20th Speech that Matters<a href="http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2008-05/39077738.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2008-05/39077738.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
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Today, on Cuba's Independence Day, we have occasion to celebrate the rich cultural heritage and deep-rooted traditions of the Cuban people. Cuban Americans, many of whom have ascended to the heights of business, government, and the arts, have enriched and enlivened our country. In every field, and in states across America, they bring to our communities their custom of hard work and personal initiative. And for many of these patriotic individuals, while their lives and work are here in the United States, a bit of Cuba will always endure in their hearts.<br />
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So must it be for all Americans who cherish those freedoms we so often take for granted at home. For today is not a cause for celebration alone. Those inspired freedom fighters who secured Cuba's independence over 100 years ago could hardly know that their descendants would be engaged in a struggle for freedom and democracy a century later. And yet today, the Cuban people continue to live under tyranny, and their struggle goes on.<br />
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It is not a fruitless struggle, not by any means. One day, America will again have warm relations with a Cuban government that represents the sovereign will of its people, one that respects their fundamental human and political rights. One day, Cuba will be an important ally in advancing democracy throughout our hemisphere. Make no mistake: Cuba is destined to be free.<br />
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Today, as so many of you know too well, the situation is very different. Fidel Castro has passed the titles of power to his brother in a fashion suited more for a personal fiefdom than to a government purporting to represent that proud and dynamic people. A few recent news articles have labeled as "reforms" the smattering of small changes that have taken place since Raul Castro has formally taken charge. Such characterizations must sound quite cynical to the political prisoners that fill Cuban jails, to the millions who suffer under poverty and repression, and to all those who wish to choose their leaders, not suffer under them. The Castro regime enforces strict limits against freedom of expression, of association, of assembly, of movement, of speech. Last year, as many as 5,000 citizens served sentences for the vague crime of "dangerousness."<br />
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Yet tyranny will not forever endure, and as President, I will not passively await the day when the Cuban people enjoy the blessings of freedom and democracy. It is in our national interest to support their aspirations and oppose those of the Castro regime, one that harbors fugitives from U.S. justice, expresses unrelenting hostility to America, and shoots down unarmed civilian aircraft. I wish the other presidential candidates felt similarly. Just a few years ago, Senator Obama had a very clear view on Cuba. When asked in a questionnaire about his policy toward Cuba, he answered: "I believe that normalization of relations with Cuba would help the oppressed and poverty-stricken Cuban people while setting the stage for a more democratic government once Castro inevitably leaves the scene." Now Senator Obama has shifted positions and says he only favors easing the embargo, not lifting it. He also wants to sit down unconditionally for a presidential meeting with Raul Castro. These steps would send the worst possible signal to Cuba's dictators – there is no need to undertake fundamental reforms, they can simply wait for a unilateral change in US policy. I believe we should give hope to the Cuban people, not to the Castro regime. My administration will press the Cuban regime to release all political prisoners unconditionally, to legalize all political parties, labor unions, and free media, and to schedule internationally monitored elections. The embargo must stay in place until these basic elements of democratic society are met.<br />
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Maintaining the embargo is, however, just one element of a broader approach my administration would make to the people of Cuba. I would provide more material assistance and moral support to the courageous human rights activists who bravely defy the regime every day, and increase Radio and TV Marti and other means to communicate directly with the Cuban people. My Justice Department would vigorously prosecute Cuban officials implicated in the murder of Americans, drug trafficking, and other crimes. While our Cuba policy will not always be in accord with that of our hemispheric and European partners, my administration will begin an active dialogue with them to develop a plan for post-Castro Cuba, a plan that will spark rapid change and a new awakening in that country. The Cuban people have waited long enough.<br />
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As we work with our hemispheric partners, we must be clear about the kind of leadership America seeks to provide. For decades, in Republican and Democratic administrations alike, the United States has treated Latin America as a junior partner rather than as a neighbor, like a little brother rather than as an equal. As a resident of a state that borders Mexico, I am acutely aware of the extraordinary contributions that our neighbors make to the United States – from trade to culture to a commitment to democracy and human rights. Latin America today is increasingly vital to the fortunes of the United States, and Americans north and south share a common geography and a common destiny. It is time to embrace this destiny for the benefit of all our peoples.<br />
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We have made progress toward this vision by expanding the benefits of free commerce, through NAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement, and our free trade agreements with Peru and Chile. But the progress has stalled; our longstanding bipartisan commitment to hemispheric prosperity is crumbling. We see this most vividly in Barack Obama's and Hillary Clinton's opposition to the free trade agreement with Colombia. The failure of the Congress to take up and approve this agreement is a reminder why 80 percent of Americans think we are on the wrong track. Congress can find time to pass a pork-filled farm bill, but it cannot stir itself to support a key ally and further American prosperity.<br />
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The Colombia FTA would benefit American workers and consumers – the U.S. International Trade Administration estimates that over $1 billion in tariffs have been imposed on U.S. exports to Colombia since the FTA was signed, tariffs that would be eliminated once the agreement takes effect. Here in Florida, trade has created new markets for the Sunshine State's world-class produce, manufactured goods, and professional services. Florida's exports to Canada and Mexico rose by some 208 percent since NAFTA was enacted, and its exports to Chile grew 99 percent in the first four years of its free trade agreement. Colombia today stands as Florida's fifth largest export market – Florida exported $2.1 billion worth of goods there last year – and now the Colombians are offering to drop their barriers to American goods. Yet Senators Obama and Clinton oppose the agreement, wishing to retreat behind protectionist walls and undermine a key hemispheric ally.<br />
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The strategic implications of rejecting this agreement are profound. Colombia is a beacon of hope in a region where the Castro brothers, Hugo Chavez, and others are actively seeking to thwart economic progress and democracy. Delaying approval of the Colombian Free Trade Agreement will not create one American job or start one American business, but it will divide us from our Colombian partners at a time when they are battling the FARC terrorists and their allied drug cartels. It will undercut America's standing with our allies in a critical region and across the world, at a moment when rebuilding these relationships has never been more important. It will set back the goal of deepening relations with our neighbors to the south and enhancing the stability, peace, and prosperity of our hemisphere.<br />
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If I am elected president, the United States will not bow to the special interests seeking to block progress. Instead, we will forge a new policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean Basin, one founded on peace and security, shared prosperity, democracy and freedom, and mutual respect. We will work to prevent Venezuela and Bolivia from taking the same road to failure Castro has paved for Cuba, and we will broaden and strengthen ties with key states like Brazil, Peru, and Chile. We will make clear to all countries in the region that if they share our values of freedom and openness, they can count on us as a friend. We will not abandon our partners to demagogues, drug lords, and despair, but expand the benefits of security, trade and prosperity to all.<br />
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My vision embodies the interests and the values of America and seeks the betterment of all people, everywhere in our hemisphere. And it is a vision that includes the people of Cuba.<br />
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Courageous men found their calling at the beginning of the last century in winning for Cuba its independence. And those brave men and women who stand up for their rights today will, one day soon, win for Cuba its freedom. When they do, they will enjoy not only the fruits of their own liberation, but also the firm and fast friendship of all Americans who have stood with them throughout the years of struggle. On this Cuban Independence Day, let us take a moment to pray that Cubans everywhere can one day soon enjoy the liberty for which their forefathers fought. </div>
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Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-44892314307273831162007-08-20T05:41:00.000-04:002015-01-27T18:20:43.720-05:00From the Tellechea Digital Archives: Oscar Corral's "Martí Moonlighters" Story Revisited<a href="http://www.miamisunpost.com/archives/2006/10-05-06/images/o1_Jesus_Diaz.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.miamisunpost.com/archives/2006/10-05-06/images/o1_Jesus_Diaz.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 200px;" /></a><br />
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<em>[We are approaching the first year anniversary of Oscar Corral's now infamous hatchet-job on anti-Castro Cuban journalists at</em> The Miami Herald <em>and elsewhere, whom he accused in a Sept. 8, 2006 front-page article of being in the pay of the U.S. government (and hence co-opted by it) because they received pro-forma honoraria for appearing on the anti-Castro </em>Radio <em>and</em> TV Martí<em>, which they had done with the knowledge and assent of The Herald itself and following in the footsteps of Edward R. Morrow and thousands of other MSN journalists who had worked for government broadcasting since 1942, when the</em> Voice of America <em>radio service was founded. Corral's "underground investigation," as he called it, led to the arbitrary firing of the journalists and created a schism at 1 Herald Plaza involving the staffs of</em> The Miami Herald <em>and</em> El Nuevo Herald<em>, for which the fired journalists had worked. The subsequent revelation that there had been no internal </em>Herald <em>policy prohibiting them from freelancing at</em> Radio Martí<em>, that they had indeed requested and obtained the permission of their editor to do so, and, finally, that</em> The Herald <em>itself had published an article 4 years earlier which reported one of the journalist's association with</em> Radio Martí <em>and even boasted of it, led to the rehiring without prejudice (but without an apology) of the fired Cuban journalists and precipitated the departure of The Herald's publisher Jesús Díaz and its executive editor Tom Fiedler, who resigned and retired, respectively, in the wake of the fallout from the story.<br /><br />We are reproducing here our response to Jesús Díaz's justification for the firing of the journalists, published in</em> The Herald<em>, on Sept. 17, 2006. In future days we will be publishing other significant documents in the Martí Moonlighters' Affaire, leading up to the Sept. 8th anniversary of Oscar Corral's libellous and discredited story. — MAT]:</em><br />
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THE MIAMI HERALD FROM THE PUBLISHER<br />
September 17, 2006<br />
<span style="font-size: 130%;">A Free Press Can Require Painful Choices</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;">By Jesus Diaz Jr.</span><br />
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In order to have democracy, a country must enjoy freedom of the press. <em><span style="color: red;">[In order to have freedom of the press, the millionaires who own the presses and their lacqueys must convince us that a corporation’s interests also represent the interests of their community or the nation at large.] </span></em>The past week has been painful for many in the Cuban community and for employees at The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald. <em><span style="color: red;">[It has been principally painful, however, for the 3 journalists you arbitrarily fired and their families. You and your employees, who did not have the basic decency to protest their firings in a formal petition, are the cause of their pain]</span>.</em> Many have questioned the motives behind the dismissal of two El Nuevo Herald reporters and a freelance writer who did a significant amount of work for us while simultaneously working for and being paid by Radio and TV Martí.<span style="color: red;"> <em>[By “significant work” what you really mean is fair, impartial and objective work that was beyond reproach. Since you could not impugn their work for</em> The Herald </span><em><span style="color: red;">(and didn’t even try), you chose instead to assassinate their character].</span></em><br />
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I approved the dismissals because, as the publisher of these newspapers, I am deeply committed to the separation between government and a free press. <span style="color: red;"><em>[The only thing that you were “deeply committed” to was beating out the </em>Chicago Tribune<em> on this story. As for yourself, you have yet to explain why it is not a conflict of interests for you to chair the official U.S-government Cuba Transition committee while serving as Herald publisher].</em></span> Further, our employees violated our conflict-of-interest rules.<span style="color: red;"> </span><em><span style="color: red;">[You have thus far refused to make public these “conflict of interests rules.” When were they adopted? By whom? How specifically do they apply to these three journalist? Where, in short, does it say in your “Rules” that reporters or freelancers are forbidden from working for government-sponsored foreign broadcasting? It is certainly not in the contracts that these journalists signed].</span> </em>All of our journalists acknowledge and agree to adhere to our policies, which include this statement <em><span style="color: red;">[Which is it, “rules” or “policies?" </span></em><em><span style="color: red;">Rules are not the same thing as policies. Rules are immutable whereas policies are whatever tickles the publisher’s fancy at any time]. </span></em><br />
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We demonstrate our principles by operating with fairness, accuracy and independence, and by avoiding conflicts of interest, as well as the appearance of conflicts of interest <em><span style="color: red;">[Like Caesar’s wife?].</span></em> Our news operations will be diligent in their pursuit of the truth, without regard to special interests."<em> <span style="color: red;">[Then you have certainly violated The Herald’s principles (which is it now? Rules? Policies? Principles?) by acting yourself without “fairness, accuracy or independence” in this matter. You have already admitted, after initially lying about it, that</span></em><span style="color: red;"> The Herald <em>knew about the journalists’ involvement with </em>Radio Marti <em>as early as 2002, when</em> The Herald </span><em><span style="color: red;">actually published a story which presented as a laudable activity what you would later characterize as a conflict of interests and assault on freedom of the press. What were the “rules, policies and principles” in 2002? When did they change? And did you ever apprise anyone that they had changed? I don’t mean the way you “apprised” the 3 journalists 30 minutes before you fired them. The victims of Stalin’s purges were accorded more due process than the 3 reporters you fired].</span></em><br />
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Our decisions, painful as they were, reaffirm our commitment that reporters and editors at our newspapers are free of even the hint of a conflict of interest.<span style="color: red;"> <em>[Well, that’s the second time that you mention how “painful” your decision was. Perhaps it might not have been a “painful” decision if it had been a reasoned and thoughtful decision. But you made it “painful” by your own premature and unmeasured acts. Doesn’t it seem odd to you that no other newspaper in the country has fired or disciplined reporters involved with</em> Radio Marti, VOA or Radio Liberty <em>(not to mention </em>PBS<em> or </em>NPR</span><em><span style="color: red;">)? Perhaps they don’t have the same high ethical standards that you do. Or, more likely, they are not as draconian, unfair and undemocratic as you are].</span></em>It is by sustaining this transparency<span style="color: red;"> <em>[What “transparency?” Due process for these journalists would have been transparency. Kicking them out the back door isn’t transparency]</em> </span>that we can assure that our reporters will continue to function as impartial and independent watchdogs in our community<em> <span style="color: red;">[Has anyone ever suggested let alone proved that the fired journalists’ reportage was ever anything else?] </span></em>and tackle investigations leading to stories such as the House of Lies series, which disclosed corruption in the Miami-Dade Housing Authority, and Fire Watch, which uncovered abuses in Miami-Dade’s fire-watch program. <em><span style="color: red;">[That’s right, pat yourselves on the back; nobody else is going to. Whatever your past scoops may have been, they do not excuse this miscarriage of justice]. </span></em><br />
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As a child in Cuba, I lived under a totalitarian government where freedom of speech did not exist. I remember my parents telling my sister and me, over and over, ‘’Do not say anything bad about the government'’ for fear of reprisal. I do not want my daughter to ever have to say that to her children or to her grandchildren.<em><span style="color: red;"> [You do not live now in a totalitarian regime, although you yourself act with the same star-chamber arbitrariness characteristic of all such regimes, including Fidel Castro’s].</span></em>I am committed to fair and independent journalism because I firmly believe that a totalitarian government cannot survive under the spotlight of a free press. <em><span style="color: red;">[If you are “committed to fair and independent journalism” then you should practice it for a change. What little free press there is in Cuba must struggle across the skies over the Florida Straits to reach Cuba. You would stifle and silence that lonely voice by denying it the support of some of the best U.S. journalists who bring to Radio and TV Marti the fairness and objectivity which, again, none has ever suggested that their reportage lacked].</span> </em>Throughout this past week, I have been reminded that a dictator such as Fidel Castro would not be in power if Cuba had a free press.<em> [Fid<span style="color: red;">el Castro came to power precisely because the U.S. had a free press. Ever heard of Herbert Matthews? A free press is only as good as the commitment to freedom of individual journalists. The three fired reporters have shown their commitment to freedom in word and deed time and time again. Have you?]</span></em><br />
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A SHORT JOURNEY <em>[Too short].</em><br />
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History has proved that the journey from an open society to a totalitarian regime can be a short one.<em> <span style="color: red;">[Full of profundities, aren’t you? How exactly did you get your job? I’ve heard of all ten journalists that Corral’s story smeared, but I’ve never heard of you. How did you get to be The Herald’s publisher? By flying under the radar? Well, you did a very good job there].</span></em> When journalists receive regular payments for government-sponsored reporting while working for free-press outlets, we take a step down this dangerous path. <span style="color: red;"><em>[Professional journalists, hundreds if not thousands of them, have worked for government-sponsored radio since the</em> Voice of America <em>was founded in 1942. On exactly what “dangerous path” has this taken us? The end of the Cold War and the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe? Why did you specifically target Cuban-American journalists for your censure? Didn’t non-Cuban Latin Americans and Spanish-speaking Anglo experts also appear on Radio and TV Marti? Why weren’t they named? For that matter, why weren’t paid-contributors to the</em> Voice of America <em>and</em> Radio Liberty </span><em><span style="color: red;">named? They work for the same government and the checks they receive are also identical].</span></em><br />
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Let me be clear:<em> <span style="color: red;">[Now you are going to start?].</span></em><br />
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• The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald are committed to fair and independent reporting.<em> [<span style="color: red;">However many times you repeat it won’t make it true].</span></em><br />
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• The institutional position of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, as expressed on our editorial pages, has been to support the work and goals of Radio and TV Martí. <span style="color: red;"><em>[Except when you try to sabotage their work by denying them the services of those who allow them to fulfill their mission with professionalism and fairness. Your now often-repeated “support” for </em>Radio Marti <em>includes portraying it as a “propaganda machine” with which no reputable ethical journalist would be connected, and with which </em>The Miami Herald<em>, in particular, is loathe to associate even indirectly. With “friends” like you, </em>Radio <em>and</em> TV Marti <em>better watch their backs].</em></span><br />
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I also wish to clarify our position on a number of questions and rumors, which we have heard over the past week:<br />
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• The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald and our parent company, McClatchy, have no plans to open a bureau inside Cuba. <em><span style="color: red;">[Really, hasn’t that been your expressed objective for many years? Did that objective change at the same time you changed your “rules, objectives, policies”?].</span></em><br />
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• Cuba rejects or does not respond to our requests for visas for our reporters. [<em>So you are trying?].</em> As such, any reporting by Miami Herald staff members from Cuba comes from those who have made their way into the country as tourists, requiring us to run their stories without bylines in order to protect their identities.<span style="color: red;"> </span><em><span style="color: red;">[Wasn’t Oscar Corral recently in Cuba? Is that where he “researched” his Sept. 8 story?].</span></em><br />
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• We do not know why the Cuban TV program Mesa Redonda commented on the essence of our story before it ran. <em><span style="color: red;">[So you admit that this “rumor” at least is true]</span>.</em>We are confident this information did not come from anyone at The Miami Herald, and we believe that Mesa Redonda may have gained this information from a review of our public-records requests, since these requests are available to the public. <span style="color: red;"><em>[On what grounds are you “confident” that no one at the</em> Miami Herald </span><em><span style="color: red;">informed the Castro regime on your story prior to publication? Or, for that matter, how “confident” are you that the flow of information wasn’t the other way? There are no coincidences in this world. As a journalist, you should be a little more inquisitive. That’s “inquisitive,” not inquisitorial].</span></em><br />
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I am concerned about our readers’ reaction to columnists Carl Hiaasen’s and Ana Menendez’s opinion columns in today’s paper. <span style="color: red;"><em>[Yes, you should be concerned about columns that are inflammatory and unfair. And you shouldn’t write unfair and inflammatory columns yourself like the present one].</em> </span>My first reaction was to keep both columns, which represent Carl’s and Ana’s opinions, from running in the paper at this time because I believe they may inflame sentiments in the Cuban community. <em><span style="color: red;">[So you considered practicing censorship because you and you alone know what’s best for the community. Have you ever considered that truth may be what is best?].</span></em><br />
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LIMITING FREEDOM<em><span style="color: red;"> [At The Herald].</span></em><br />
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However, many in our organization have told me that doing so would be the equivalent of suffocating the very freedom of the press I was trying to protect when we dismissed the El Nuevo Herald reporters. Therefore, the articles are published in today’s paper. <em><span style="color: red;">[In this case, you listened to your subalterns’ opinions. You, obviously, were not as open-minded about the 3 fired journalists, because several editors, including the executive editor of El Nuevo Herald, objected to your unilateral decision].</span></em><br />
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I am saddened by the pain<span style="color: red;"> <em>[The pain never stops for you, does it?]</em> </span>these events have caused in our community during the past week.<em> <span style="color: red;">[Not that “these events caused,” but that your own actions caused; and you shouldn’t be “saddened,” but sorry].</span></em> We are not perfect, <em><span style="color: red;">[Really? You had us all fooled]</span></em> but rest assured that we will continue to work diligently for the betterment of our community. <em><span style="color: red;">[Is that a threat?].</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Jesús Diaz Jr. is <em>[was]</em> the publisher of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 85%;">[<strong>Footnote</strong><em>:</em> I had originally posted this article last year on both the Orlando Sentinel Forum and New York School of Journalism's PressEthic </span><span style="font-size: 85%;">blog. Upon checking today, I discovered that the article had been deleted from both. So much for "PressEthic" (is there only one?). Fortunately, I always keep backup copies of everything I write.]</span></span></div>
Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-77423376457997254782007-08-22T11:28:00.000-04:002015-01-18T21:40:46.650-05:00RCAB News: The British Are Coming!<a href="http://www.cubaheritage.org/images/art/winston-cuba.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.cubaheritage.org/images/art/winston-cuba.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 200px;" /></a><br />
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Before Goo-Goo went Gaa-Gaa this morning — that is, before Google shut down Blogger for maintenance — the <i>Review of Cuban American Blogs</i> was honored by a visit from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). If ever any people on earth were misinformed about Cuba and Castro, it would be the sons and daughters of Albion (not to call them anything else). There is no lie about Cuba which they have not swallowed, especially of the kind that demeans the Cuban people and our history. By their lights, Castro introduced both fire and toilets to Cuba, and the Cuban people have the "government" that they have always needed and deserved.<br />
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The British have kept their notion of the "White Man's Burden" long after they ceased to be burdened by it. "Colonials" to them, whether theirs or anybody else's, are at best noble savages to be led along the paths of civilization by whatever means necessary, even the most uncivilized means; for in their minds, civilization follows the flag, not the other way around.<br />
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When Winston Churchill was 21 he was attached to the Spanish Army in Cuba as a correspondent for an English newspaper during Cuba's War of Independence (1895-1898). In a report sent to <em>The Saturday Review</em>, Churchill wrote: "They [the Cuban rebels] neither fight bravely nor do they use their weapons effectively. They cannot win a single battle or hold a single town. Their army, consisting to a large extent of coloured men, is an undisciplined rabble. The rebel victory offers little good either to the world in general or to Cuba in particular. Though the Spanish administration is bad a Cuban Government would be worse, equally corrupt, more capricious, and far less stable. Under such a Government revolutions would be periodic, property insecure, equity unknown."<br />
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Not only did he write "pestes" about the Cuban rebels and the population in general and sympathize completely with the killers of Marti and Maceo and 300,000 other Cubans, Churchill even fired his rifle at those fighting for Cuba's freedom and was awarded the Military Cross by the Spanish government. Imagine: there was still a place on earth where you could hunt humans like animals! Jolly good show!<br />
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Churchill returned for a visit to Cuba after World War II, and we Cubans, of course, being the hospitable and forgiving people that we are — or were then — put out the red carpet and feted him as the savior of civilization and a national hero. Perhaps we impressed him, or he did what a polite "guest of honor" should do: praised Cuba to the skies. Of course, there would have been no Cuban Republic to praise if Churchill and his Spanish allies had prevailed 50 years earlier.<br />
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The British have never outgrown their bias for imperialism, not even when they outgrew their empire. Today they are more racist, xenophobic and insular than at any other time in their history, because now they must tolerate the presence among them of millions of dark-skinned peoples from their former Third World colonies. In the heyday of British imperialism, Her Majesty's subjects could afford not to be overt racists in their own country (just in their overseas colonies). That made their hypocrisy a lot easier to perpetrate at home. Now their innate racism festers at home as it never did anywhere else in the 400 years of British colonialism. In fact, this is the very heyday of British racism. The more inferior they become in the world, the more superior the British feel at home.<br />
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So, yes, welcome BBC! There is much for you to learn here. I can't teach you not to abhor Pakistanis or West Indians, but I can teach you why you should abhor Castro.</div>
Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-47993927367460202222007-08-02T08:41:00.000-04:002015-01-18T16:20:12.745-05:00Insanity, Homoeroticism and Xenophobia on "The Babalú [Faux] Radio Hour"<center>
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I never before heard a man having a nervous breakdown on radio, even faux radio; but the dozen or so listeners to yesterday's <em>Babalú Radio Hour</em> witnessed such a spectable. It was frightful, horrible and unexpected: the emotions poured from him in torrents, at times he seemed on the verge of tears, and at others he raged like a caged madman, becoming inarticulate and then erupting in a barrage of obscenity. There was obviously something troubling this man, some well of despair that had been tapped in him, which flooded every fiber of his being and transformed him into a living caricature of a Botero. It was a pitiful sight to behold: a conscience at war with itself and wrestling for possession of his soul! The only cure for what troubled him was to renounce all ideas that placed him at odds with himself and humanity, with himself and his countrymen. What could bring a man to such a point? Hate. Only hate. Hate of himself and hate of those like him. And what could restore him to sanity? I wouldn't know. Listeners to the show (all 12 of us), you will understand. The rest of you must read this.<br />
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The night's proceedings began with George Moneo playing Otis Rush's "I Can't Quit You Baby." Henry, whose masculinity-meter must have been off that night, observed in a blasé manner quite in keeping with the tenor of his remarks, that Rush's song reminded him of the theme from <em>Brokeback Mountain,</em> "I Can't Quit You," and then proceeded to serenade George with a few bars from the song, which certainly caught George off-guard, as when a drunken friend collapses into your arms telling you that he loves you. An awkward moment, to be sure. But more awkward ones were to follow, courtesy of the invited-host.<br />
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Yes, Val is a regular caller to his own show. He was introduced by Henry as "our distinguished editor," which I suppose he did not mean as a joke though it cracked me up. After reminding Henry and George that they had kept him on hold for 20 minutes last week (a merciful release), Val asked George if "that song you played, that Otis Redding thing" — cultural neophyte Val is corrected by George, it's Otis Rush not Otis Redding, all blacks sounding alike to Val — "Did you play that for someone in particular that we all know of?" This is an ongoing joke with them; they dedicate the first segment of their show to me, and then claim that I am "obsessed" with <em>them.</em> George sarcastically denied Val's implication: "No, not at all, why would you say something like that? I just love the blues. I know a lot of people love the blues." Val agreed: "We are all bluesy." No, not "bluesy," but they are certainly pinko in that non-Communist way. The punch line in their little Three Stooges skit is reserved for little Henry: "Since I can't have you baby, then I have to put you down." George recoiled at the idea (but not more than me), saying that "There's a fat chance of that." In view of the tenor and tendency of this discussion, a fat something may be just what these guys want. With three of them, they should be able to sort this matter out.<br />
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The banter continued along the same lines. Val mentioned that a recent post at Babalú was accompanied by a photoshop picture of Raúl Castro looking like Popeye in drag. A gay commenter had objected to it as homophobic and Val assured him and his audience that he was not opposed to the gay lifestyle. To prove his contention, Val alluded to the persecution of gays in Cuba and George brought up Reinaldo Arenas, the noted Cuban homosexual author who died of AIDS (which Arenas blamed on Castro). George said that he had seen the movie <em>Before Night Falls</em>, which is based on Arenas' memoirs. The book, however, he had not read. Val opined that the book is so much better than the film (the world's most hackneyed observation) and stated his preference for the original Spanish edition. This is doubly ironic, since Val does not read books and George doesn't speak Spanish. The conversation then swerved to Johnny Depp, who played the "Che" character in the film. Many ruminations about how Depp can be pro-Che and at the same time deliver a critical portrait of him in the film. Quick answer: He's an actor. Did they think that Christopher Reeve was "Superman?"<br />
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Having devoted half the show already to "the love that dare not speak its name" — although on <em>The Babalú Radio Hour</em> it does not seem to be able to shut up — I next expected "the guys" from "Queer Eye on Cuba" to embark on a discussion of how meaningful the tv series "Flipper" had been in their lives. But they moved from the fictional "Che" to the real "Che," the homoerotic idol of the left.<br />
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The Babalunians' obsession with "Che" Guevara is well-known. I do not understand why a man who's been dead 40 years consumes so much of their time and passion. They have on many, many ocassions ignored the active struggle against Castro to pursue "Che" Guevara's ghost. "Che's" ghost is his so-called "legend." Personally, I could care less if they plaster his image on everything from oven mits to toilets. In fact, I consider it poetic justice that his posthumous fame is as a tee-shirt icon, that is, as a poster boy of materialism, homoeroticism and radical chic: it is exactly what this posseur and failure deserves.<br />
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Sadly, no one lives more in the shadow of "Che" Guevara than do the Babalunians, who are determined to remove his effigy from the face of the earth, much as the ancients effaced the images of the old gods not because they didn't believe in their power anymore but because they did.<br />
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In their radio show they discussed at length their efforts, sometimes successful, sometimes not, to convince, pressure or boycott stores that carry merchandise with his image, as if that would bring us even one minute closer to Cuba's freedom. And how they preen themselves on these pyrrhic victocies: The Battle of Target; the Battle of Burlington Coat Factory; the Battle of the New York Public Library, etc. Recently, however, they have sustained two defeats that have halted their glorious march across the malls of America: they have lost the Battle of Ebay and the Battle of the Smithsonian.<br />
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Val and George also revealed on the show that they had lost numerous "skirmishes" closer to home. It appears that all of Miami is plastered with wall-size stencils of "Che" Guevara. An incredulous Henry was unaware of this fact, and George and Val had quite a time trying to convince him that it was true. If Henry had known this earlier, he might have made the elimination of these murals his first BUCL campaign. He is now threatening to vandalize them, which, in any case, would be more constructive than their campaign against Spain or their campaign to turn a Marxist Sting into a human being. No one can ever accuse them of choosing their battles carefully or imaginatively. Still, while their hometown of Miami has been converted into a virtual shrine to "Che" Guevara, they glance about the country choosing whatever targets of opportunity present themselves, completely blind to what happens at a 90-yard distance from their homes much less at a remove of 90 miles.<br />
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The <i>ajusticiamiento</i> of "Che" Guevara was a victory for the forces of freedom. Cuban exiles hunted him down, corralled him and brought him to justice. This was perhaps our greatest victory in the struggle against Castroism. But the Babalunians can't or won't accept that victory and must cite "Che" Guevara's ghost to other battlefields.<br />
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Val was very reticent to discuss the "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" over blog radio. He said so several times and very forcibly too. In case you haven't heard, thirteen years after the fact, unasked and without a clue, Val is preparing a White Paper on the subject and doesn't want anyone to "steal" his ideas [oh brother!] His ideas are indeed very "novel" as are Henry's, who is also in the vanguard of the struggle to tighten the "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" policy or abolish the Cuban Adjustment Act (1966) (both would be acceptable outcomes for them but they would rather eliminate the latter since that would take care of the former as well). To state their position as as simply as possible: Val and Henry don't want another Cuban ever to come to this country of his own volition again. More prosaically: "Cubans stay home"<br />
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According to Val, Cubans are <i>lucky</i> to have the "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" policy in place because they don't have to worry about the passage of immigration reform in Congress; their status is secure. Yes, if they can penetrate the cordon sanitaire set up by the U.S. and Cuban Coast Guards and are not drowned or eaten by sharks in the world's most dangerous water, and can actually set foot on land without being beaten back into the ocean with clubs, then they are in like Flynn. Rather than count the number of dead that have been occasioned by this inhumane policy, Val asks us instead to consider how many lives have been saved. By making it almost impossible for Cubans to seek asylum in this country, as is their legal right under the Cuban Adjustment Act (1966), Val believes that the "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" policy has actually saved lives. But has it really? We know it has deprived Cubans of what little autonomy remained in their lives (that is, the freedom to flee), but has it "saved" them? Are not the rafters or would-be rafters the most desperate of Cuba's desperate, ready to sacrifice their lives or even the lives of their children for freedom? Would remaining trapped in Cuba increase or decrease their desperation? These are the people that account for the fact that Cuba has the world's highest suicide rate precisely among the age group that is most likely to attempt to flee the country by sea (those between the age of 18-35).<br />
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Henry is even more cynical and heartless than Val on this issue (he usually is on every issue, though Val is playing catch-up now). He compares the liberation of Cuban refugees by so-called "smugglers" to the trans-shipment of drugs through Cuba. The refugees, Henry believes, are as dangerous and toxic to this country as the drugs and must be dealt with in the same manner (hopefully not by incineration). He is in favor of employing satellite technology to track the refugees so that not even one can evade detection by the Coast Guard. Although conceding that it may be wrong to repatriate them to Castro's Cuba, Henry believes that "the U.S. government has no other choice." Of course, it has an infinite number of choices short of repatriation, but for Henry this is the right choice. It's just a question of "geopolitics" to him, or as he puts it, "this one issue is not the world, it's not even the biggest item on our plate." Well, we can be sure it's not the biggest item on <i>his</i> plate, anyway.<br />
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Henry believes, wrongly, that Cubans are issued 20,000 visas per year under the Clinton-Castro Migratory Accord, which he actually <i>praised</i> on the program because it supposedly allows Cubans to "come in through the front door rather than the risky back door." Well, at least he has something good to say about Clinton: he admires the most despicable act of his presidency and the one that has most adversely impacted the Cuban people. Over the life of that accord the U.S. has failed to meet the agreed quota of 20,000 more times than it has been reached. For many years it allowed just 10 percent of that number to enter the U.S. Last year, it allowed 50 percent. <i>Never</i> has it completely filled the quota with immigrants from the island. But Henry claims nonetheless that for every Cuban that is sent back to the island under the "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" policy, 200 are giving asylum here under the Clinton-Castro Migratory Accord. Just this week 97 Cubans were returned to Cuba. By Henry's calculation (200:1), another 19,400 were admitted this week. But how could that be if the <i>total</i> allowed to Cuba for any given year is 20,000 and the U.S. has actually admitted only 10,000 over the last year?<br />
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A constant refrain throughout the show was "We don't get what we want, we get what we need." Of course, they were not referring to themselves or their families: they got what they wanted when the red carpet was laid out for them 40 years ago. It's the hapless Cuban people who must settle for whatever Henry and Val determine are <i>their</i> needs. And they, of course, don't see that they have any needs that can be addressed by immigration. They are quite content to have them live and die as slaves on the island, fodder for their "pressure cooker."<br />
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I could not address, even at this length, all the bufoonery that they managed to squeeze into that hour. That is the kindest word that I can find to characterize these proceedings. It is a consolation, though, that they are so abysmally stupid about every subject. Let us hope that being stupid they will also be ineffectual.<br />
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<a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/babalublog/2007/08/02/babalu-radio-hour-22">Babalú Radio Hour #22</a>Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-53215576384682916902007-12-31T21:03:00.000-05:002015-01-01T11:39:37.898-05:00Happy New Year!<a href="http://www.wartburg-eisenach.de/deutsch/museum/gemaelde/bild5.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.wartburg-eisenach.de/deutsch/museum/gemaelde/bild5.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
Nearly 50 years of hopes crushed and lives postponed; a generation already buried and another on the way to extinction; our country in ruins and our people still trapped amid those ruins, our only friend is the clock and also our worst enemy, for its marches bring us closer to the day of our country's deliverance but also shorten our own days. Forty-nine years we have stood on the threshold of the New Year and prayed that that the evil that was born with this day might pass with it. Forty-nine years we have been disappointed. There is always a margin for hope and despair will do no more for us than can hope.<br />
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So let us raise our glasses again with the same familiar toast, now unspoken but still as deeply felt.<br />
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May this year change everything but our abiding love for country and our boundless faith in our countrymen.Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-50856414605403739842008-05-05T11:42:00.006-04:002014-12-30T08:40:29.568-05:00No Food, No Freedom and No Sex Equals Freedom for Cubans, Says ValVal informs us that there are eight guys at his house from three different companies trying to repair the damage that he did to his kitchen during his recent do-it-yourself-if-you-are-a-fool renovation ["Anecdotal Statistics," <em>Babalú</em>, May 5]. Most of them are recent arrivals from Cuba (for Val even the <em>marielitos</em> are <em>arrivistes</em>). As in the past when he has entertained other proletarians in his home, Val, having nothing else to do, took it upon himself to harass these men as they went about their work, grilling them like some political commissar about their lives in Cuba or prospects in this country, ready to throw them out of his house if anyone manifested some sign of diversionism. To the men themselves Val must have sounded like some little boy who thinks that the men in hard-hats in his house have been sent there to entertain him.<br />
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It has long been Val's contention that these recent arrivals are mutated Cubans, having a passing resemblance in the externals to the originals, but woefully deformed in their internal make-up. Val believes the Revolution has conditioned them to be without ambition, robbed them of all initiative and created the expectation that the State would do for them what they won't do for themselves, do it badly and incompletely, granted, and at a very high cost in human dignity and personal freedom, but, in the end, do it nonetheless. He is, therefore, beside himself to discover that despite his worst expectations Cubans raised on the island do have dreams that transcend the ration card and are willing to work 16-hour days to give their children a better life in this country. In short, he is shocked to discover that they are just like us, more, they<em> are</em> us.<br />
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So why is this so extraordinary to Val?<br />
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It is only the opportunity that the newcomers require; the ambition and initiative have always been there, despite the regime's efforts to crush individuality and stamp out self-sufficiency. But why would Val doubt it and be flabbergasted at the evidence of it? Does he believe that his parents and their generation discovered the work ethic when they arrived in this country, Val in tow, forty odd years ago? Ambition is an innate quality; it can be suffocated in man but can never be extinguished.<br />
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At least these latest Cuban handymen were not the great disappointment to him that another ambitious newcomer was last year. Imagine! This guy wanted to save his money so he could visit the island and see his parents, and, horror of horrors, get "laid right and left!" Since he didn't mention a spouse and supposing that he wasn't raping little girls, why the hell should it matter to Val if the guy gets laid from one end of the island to the other? It is not a crime (as yet) for Cubans to have consensual sex on the island. Should it be made a crime to turn up the valve on Val's proverbial pressure cooker? No food, no freedom and no sex, will that do the trick, Val? Will that make you feel better? Of course, Cubans shouldn't have sex because they need all their energy to throw themselves in front of tanks in order to pave the road so that Val himself may be able to return to Cuba some day, and, maybe, even have sex there, when that, of course, is no longer a "revolutionary activity."<br />
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The Cuban whom Val berated for wishing to visit and help his family on the island, and, btw, according to Val, for wanting to "get laid right and left" there, supposedly called Val a "gusano." This I doubt very much. Many other words would have been more appropriate. You are thinking of many right now.Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-4046727373912993452008-04-11T09:30:00.003-04:002014-08-04T19:44:43.287-04:00The End of the Story"That fat SOB," the old man with the Cuban flag on his lapel thought. "He would have killed me if he had the chance; probably had to rush home to barbecue that pack of cigarettes on his teeth. Of course, the mineral water that he also bought is going to do him a lot of good. Burn your lungs by 50 and then marinade them in mineral water! That's the answer! I swear, I don't know what's wrong with these <em>niños canosos</em>. In such a hurry always to get nowhere fast. No patience for life; no consideration for their elders who paved the way for them in this country, slowly, very slowly, because there was no royal way then.<br />
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"Now, those two fresh-faced kids tending the counter, one of whom is certainly Cuban, are the hope of the future, as the Apostle said. Yes, everything is a joke to them now and they care about nothing but themselves. It is that stage of life but they will soon outgrow it (unlike that <em>bitongo </em>who is trapped in perpetual adolescense). But, of course, we raised them that way, sheltered them from our realities, did everything in our power to hide our anguish and make their lives as happy and comfortable as we could. What else could we have done? And now this SOB sneers at me when I pick up a copy of <em>El Diario Las Américas</em> while he lugs his <em>Miami Herald</em>. He must think I am trapped in a time warp; maybe I am, but those were better times peopled by better men. I feel sorry for him, though. So much anger and misdirected rage should have a more constructive outlet than trying to run down old men."<br />
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<a href="http://babalublog.com/2008/04/11/conviction-and-non-chalance/">http://babalublog.com/2008/04/11/conviction-and-non-chalance/</a>Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com25tag: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-7696141065217730192008-09-03T15:45:00.010-04:002011-08-19T09:38:13.037-04:00The Galveston Hurricane (1900): How Cuba Nearly Saved the U.S. from the Worst Natural Disaster in Its HistoryAccording to our new favorite <a href="http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/">not-so-useful idiot,</a> "the Gulf Coast of the United States can thank Cuba for lessening the force of Hurricane Gustav" and sparing it its worst effects. Is that right? Did Cubans willingly consent to take the blunt of the storm's fury so that the U.S. could be spared the worst of it (and to whom exactly did they address their consent)? Did Castro's <em>santeros</em> raise prayers and make sacrifices at his behest for such an outcome so that the Republican Convention might not be preempted or President Bush blamed again for an act of Nature? Or did Castro himself, like a superannuated Moses, order the winds and waters to bypass the U.S. Gulf Coast and they obeyed him?
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<br />That, at least, is a more plausible scenario than Castro asking that the hurricane spare Cuba. Castro welcomes every hurricane and natural disaster as a vote of confidence from the dark forces that favor him. Anything that adds to the misery of the Cuban people increases his power over them and perpetuates his tyranny. Communist Cuba does not accept humanitarian assistance from other countries because that would loosen Castro's stranglehold on the Cuban people and indicate to them that they are not alone in the world despite his efforts over 50 years to isolate them. Only if we consider Cubans as Castro's hostages, beholden to him for even a gulp of water or crust of bread, can we understand their plight and his ruthlessness. Worst infinitely than the ravages of Nature, which it also compounds and exploits, are the man-made disasters the regime inflicts on the Cuban people both as a function of its incompetence and as a means of control.
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<br />The claims which are made on behalf of the regime by its apologists become more outrageous in proportion to their disposition to serve the regime and the perceived needs of the regime itself. Ironically, however, what is claimed in this case is only far-fetched because the character of the regime itself precludes it. Cubans did endeavor, more than a century ago, to allay the greatest natural disaster that ever befell this country, not through superhuman agency, but by sharing our own experience and expertise on hurricanes with the United States.
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<br />The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 killed more Americans than the Johnstown Flood, the San Francisco earthquake and the Great Chicago Fire combined. You could add the casualties of 9/11 as well to that total, and the Galveston Hurricane, which killed between 8000-12000 people in one day, would still be the worst peacetime disaster (natural or man-made) in U.S. history. It could have been averted if U.S. officials had listened to repeated warnings from Father Lorenzo Gangoite, director of Cuba's Belén Observatory, who correctly predicted the trajectory of the hurricane and warned that it was headed straight in the direction of Galveston island. The U.S. Weather Bureau did worse than ignore him: it suppressed the telegraphs which Father Gangoite had sent by military wire and banned him from sending any more. If they had heeded his advice and evacuated the area, not one life would have been lost. Instead, convinced that the hurricane would curve northward towards the Eastern seaboard and away from the Gulf Coast, the Weather Bureau's official forecast for Galveston called for "rain followed by clearing" on the day the hurricane hit with 135 mile per hour winds and tidal waves which swept away half the houses and sank most of the island underwater.
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<br />It was not unknown to the Americans that Cuban meteorologists, led by Father Benito Viñes, had pioneered the science of charting hurricanes two decades before the U.S. Weather Service was organized in 1900. They failed to act on Father Gangoite's timely warnings because they "hated the Cubans" who "were extremely good at predicting cyclones -- way better than the U.S. could hope to be." Rather than, as in the case of yellow fever, follow the advice of the leading Cuban expert if only to steal the credit from him, they chose to ignore Father Gangiote with consequences as calamitous as if they had ignored Dr. Carlos J. Finlay.
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<br />The city of Galveston, incidentally, was named in honor of General Bernardo Gálvez, hero of the battles of Mobile and Pensacola during the American Revolution. The troops which Gálvez commanded in those engagements were derived principally from the Havana garrison. Our history is linked in a thousand ways to that of our more northerly neighbor (Cuba, too, is part of North America). And it is always Cubans who have contributed to the greatness of this country selflessly and anonymously (for all practical effects). In turn we have seen our country destroyed and enslaved because of the sometimes well-meaning (and sometimes not) interference of the U.S. in our affairs. If Cubans had only to contend with Nature we would have been alright. It was unnatural forces that produced the denatured monster that has raged and rages still in our country. There has never been a hurricane "Fidel." That name was taken a long ago.
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<br /><a href="http://www.historyhouse.com/in_history/galveston/">http://www.historyhouse.com/in_history/galveston/</a>Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com87tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-46742848688717254932008-03-03T20:35:00.005-05:002011-06-18T21:37:35.486-04:00Communist Cuba Has a Blog Devoted to Cooking<a href="http://recetasdelaabuela.blogia.com/upload/img-fotoautor.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 200px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://recetasdelaabuela.blogia.com/upload/img-fotoautor.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div>The Eskimos have exactly 32 names for snow and the Arabs must have at least as many for sand. But why there would be an official Cuban blog devoted to cooking is one of those great inscrutable mysteries of life. What do Cubans have to do with eating or eating with Cubans? Eating well, that is, not awful or offal. But, nevertheless, such a blog exists.<br /><br />Seeing recipes of different prepared foods, and even reading about their preparation, creates an intimacy with food which, although it does not satisfy hunger, at least assuages the other senses except that of taste. I can only imagine this is the reason for maintaining a cooking blog in Communist Cuba. The site is filled with recipes that have not graced typical Cuban tables for decades. They are not, however, the real recipes prepared in the traditional manner for that would be well-nigh impossible if not subversive, but abbreviated interpretations of them: a flan made with two eggs and corn starch; and <em>carne guisada</em> prepared with 800 grams of beef (1.75 lbs) and one teaspoon of oil, as if beef were easier to acquire in Cuba than cooking oil.<br /><br />The pictures accompanying the recipes do not look too appetizing to us: the wilted lettuce and greyish beef. Nevertheless, though the ingredients are reduced in quantity and quality, and the more "exotic" ones eliminated altogether, the finished product still resembles the original enough to pass for it among those who know no better until they leave. I suppose that new Cuban refugees when presented with, say, a flan made with almost an entire box of eggs, two cups of milk and that "exotic" vanilla, must feel as Cubans did in the mid 1950s when color tv was introduced in Cuba and then, like life itself, reverted to black & white after 1959.<br /><br />The author of this blog calls herself "Abuela Mayra," and the unenviable task has fallen to her of replacing Nitza Villapol, the doyenne of reduced-calorie cooking long before it became the vogue it is today. She didn't start out that way. In her classic <em>Cocina al Minuto</em>, published in the 1950s, when Cuban caloric intake was twice what it is today and protein consumption ten times, she did not stint for anything in her recipes and even used actual American brand names. Cuban consumers then had a wider choice of food products than did Americans, for not only did Cubans have at their disposal all the brands available in any U.S. supermarket but also all the local brands that were often superior to the imported varieties.<br /><br />Villapol had a cooking show before the Revolution and did indeed make the transition from color to b&w. Everything else regressed on her show as well. She was a <em>militante</em> and you had to be one to do what she did, that is, you had to have a "hard face" as Cubans say. Her capacity for improvisational substitution was unrivaled and will likely remain so, for it is difficult to conceive of any other circumstance than famine in a Western country to explain mayonnaise being made without oil, egg yolks or lemon juice. Nitza's "mayonnaise" sidestepped emulsification: it is actually a thin potato gruel, chilled. This was also, alternately, the substitute for creme cheese and even butter. When <em>boniatos</em> (sweet potatoes) disappeared she re-invented them by dousing plain potatoes with <em>almibar</em> (sugar syrup). I wonder what she would have done during the recent blight which saw even the humble potato eliminated from the ration card? I suppose she would have pretended that the potato never existed, or that it, like the now-mythical <em>malanga</em>, was a holdover from the days of "underdevelopment" which had to be eliminated in order for the Cuban diet to become more "diversified" or "sophisticated."<br /><br />In the last edition of her cookbook published in Cuba before her death at 95, Nitza Villapol rewrote all her recipes to conform to the reductionism of the New Order's cuisine. This was during the "Special Period" in the 1990s when Cubans were not only hungry but dying of starvation for the first time in 100 years, that is, since Valeriano Weyler drove the campesinos from the countryside and imprisoned them in fortified cities with no access to food — the first and only time that food was used as a weapon against our people before Castro. Villapol addressed the "Special Period" with a new chapter in her book devoted to "malnutrition" <em>before</em> the Revolution. In the original edition of her cook book, she had chastised Cubans for eating too much beef and pork and chicken and ignoring the island's infinite variety of seafood (besides lobsters).<br /><br />The new Nitza Villapol is named Mayra Gómez Fariñas. I will say this for Villapol: she adapted to real circumstances. To read her revised recipes is both sad and funny, but one can actually imagine they are used in Cuba. Mayra's more elaborate re-creations, however, belong to the world of magical realism. The latest recipes at her blog <em>Recetas de la Abuela Mayra/Desde Su Cocina</em> are for "Rosbif a la cubana" and "Salsa de tomate." Who, in God's name, made tomato sauce from scratch in pre-Castro Cuba? Or anywhere else in the world then or today? Of course, there is no canned anything in Castro's Cuba; everything must be made from scratch without the scratch. "Abuela Mayra's" recipe requires 20 tomatoes to make "three servings" of tomato sauce (whatever that is). Who in Cuba today has 20 tomatoes? Or <em>vino seco</em> (cooking wine) or <em>pimentón</em> (paprika)? I suppose she will provide recipes for those later on.<br /><br />The "Rosbif a la cubana" requires an even greater stretch of the imagination and qualifies even as an obscenity. Before the Revolution there were 6 million cattle in Cuba, as many cattle as there were people. Under Castro that number has been reduced to 1 million (the cows, not the people). Beef has been a stranger to the ration card for decades. Cubans are instead provided with something called "masa cárnica" which consists of soy and maggots. Harvested in massive farms concealed from view, maggots provide most of the protein in the Cuban diet today. Certainly this is the "magic food" that Cuba's preeminent bioengineer had sought for so long: maggots feed upon maggots and the feeding process creates even more maggots. The maggots are the Cuban manna and the hope of a hungry world if one could only tyrannize all of mankind and force feed it the worms that will one day feed on them.<br /><br />"Abuela Mayra's" recipe for Cuban Roast Beef is not only obscene (veal, she wants even!) but subversive. It is a criminal offense in Cuba, punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment, to buy or consume beef because all cattle in Cuba are state property (that is, they belong to the Castro's ranch "XXX") and if you have a steak in your possession you are either a "poacher" from the lord of manor's estate or guilty of receiving stolen property. This is why I have always asserted that there is no such thing as a "common criminal" in Cuba, not only because there is no Rule of Law, but no Rule of Reason under Castro.<br /><br />Gómez is the author of <em>La buena mesa también es cubana</em> where she errs in putting in the present tense what belongs in the past.<br /><br /><a href="http://recetasdelaabuela.blogia.com/">http://recetasdelaabuela.blogia.com/</a></div>Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-17788325995328630472007-05-15T09:56:00.002-04:002011-04-22T13:50:51.962-04:00Arthur M. Schlesinger: The Devil in Mr. Kennedy<a href="http://media.komotv.com/images/070301_Arthur_Schlesinger.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://media.komotv.com/images/070301_Arthur_Schlesinger.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Arthur M. Schlesinger died in early March of this year. A Memorial Service was held for him on April 24 at the Great Hall of New York's Cooper Union, which was attended by all the surviving liberal waxworks called "Frontiersmen" by the <em>Boston Globe</em>. I attempted to watch this Sunday at 3:00AM the broadcast of the Memorial Service on cable television but could get no further than Ted Sorenson's introductory remarks. I knew that no word of truth would be spoken or insinuated there and that whatever interest it contained was in being a hagiography of the world's greatest (and most shameless) hagiographer. In the end, the entertainment value of such an exercise was outweighed by the revulsion which Schlesinger and the other architects of Potemkin Camelot inspires in me.<br /><br />For me, there is another more representative Schlesinger than the one celebrated at his Memorial Service: the Schlesinger who was the greatest maligner of the Cuban people, the inventor of the myth of pre-revolutionary Cuba as as an economically and socially backward country deserving of a Communist Revolution, and, most damning of all, the man who encouraged, and, indeed, campaigned for Kennedy's betrayal of the Cuban freedom fighters at the Bay of Pigs.<br /><br />The mild-mannered professor was the "Devil in Mr. Kennedy" and it was a role he cherished as much as any (supposedly) heterosexual man could. Despite the great harm he did to his idol's reputation by his Machiavellian advice or, perhaps, because of it, Schlesinger remained Kennedy's lapdog for more than 50 years, in life as in death, and it is in this role that he is principally remembered by his countrymen if he is remembered at all. <br /><br />Schlesinger cultivated the professorial image with leather patches on the elbows of his jackets and the omnipresent bow tie. Playing the part of a patrician came naturally to him because he had hobnobbed with them all his life though not belonging to their class. He was their Boswell without Boswell's genius for character-definition but with all his fawning and obsequiousness.<br /><br />As I said, I remember another Schlesinger. This "esteemed historian and presidential advisor" wrote the infamous "White Paper" on Cuba of April 3, 1961. The so-called "White Paper" was issued two weeks before the Bay of Pigs invasion and may have convinced Kennedy that Cubans deserved nothing better than betrayal as they were the world's most barbaric, immoral and despicable people, fully deserving of whatever fate befell them. According to The New York Times (April 4, 1961): "President Kennedy devoted many hours to the pamphlet, personally going over it with Mr. Schlesinger."<br /><br />Former U.S. ambassador to Cuba Spruille Braden characterized the "White Paper" on Cuba as "calumny, cheap demagoguery and a despicable act, unworthy of a responsible government and foreign office. The White Paper's direct and implied animadversions as to the poverty and bad economic conditions of Cuba, prior to the coming of Castro, are inaccurate and evidence the socialistic preferences of its drafter. This document begins by giving approval, i.e. encouraging what it calls the 'authentic and autonomous revolution of the Americas,' that is, to promote more fidelismo but without Fidel. For my part, I prefer to see the sound evolution of the Americas without the violence, abuse and waste inherent in all revolutions. Nor do I consider it wise or proper for my government to advocate 'authentic and autonomous revolutions' all over the American continents," concluded Spruille.<br /><br />The author of this canard on Cuba was the man that Kennedy chose as his conduit to the Brigade 2506's political leaders before the invasion. While he lied to the Cubans about his own and Kennedy's support, Schlesinger literally poisoned the well for them. In a memorandum to Kennedy, dated April 5, 1961, Schlesinger advised the president to abandon the freedom fighters at the Bay of Pigs:<br /><br />"<em>On balance, I think that the risks of the operation slightly outweigh the risks of abandonment. These latter risks would be mitigated somewhat if we could manage a partial rather than a total abandonment (i.e., if we could put the men into Cuba quietly). We might also be able to make some diplomatic capital out of the abandonment. We might have Thompson say to Khrushchev, for example, that we have discouraged an invasion of Cuba; that this shows our genuine desire to compose differences; but that K. should tell his friend to behave, because our patience is not inexhaustible and we cannot hope to restrain the Cuban patriots indefinitely. Conceivably we might be able to turn abandonment to some diplomatic advantage within the hemisphere too." </em><br /><br />There is always a civilian, cold and calculating, behind every great military defeat. The smart ones are able to cover their tracks, and forgetfulness, crime's best ally, conceals the tracks of the rest. But some, a very few, either do not care to conceal their actions or are unaware that history will not judge them in the same light as they themselves or their peers did. It is to this last group that Schlesinger belonged, as is affirmed by his indifference to the betrayal of the Cuban people, and, ultimately, his betrayal of his own country, his president and humanity.<br /><br />It may seem crass of me to speak ill of the dead, but Schlesinger himself never had any difficulty doing so. On the 25th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs in 1986, he even published an article in <em>The Wall Street Journal</em> where he impugned the memory of the freedom fighters and blamed them for the defeat at the Bay of Pigs. Although I had published other articles there, the WSJ declined to publish my rejoinder (Schlesinger enjoyed the undeserved respect and protection of even conservatives, though he was himself never fair to anyone on the right). Instead, I published my reply in another New York newspaper and severed my connection with the WSJ's "Americas Page."<br /><br />At the time I did not know that Schlesinger was the real architect of the Bay of Pigs "fiasco" — the "fiasco-maker," if you will (although as I re-read my article after 20 years I do seem to have intuited that fact). It was only after Kennedy's papers were released to the public that the full extent of Schlesinger's perfidy was known and I am the only one to date that seems to have picked up on it, confirming that forgetfulness indeed is a traitor's best friend. </p><p>[Here's a label for the photograph: Poindexter and the Prom King].<br /><br />[I will be reproducing shortly that first refutation of Schlesinger as part of the continuing series <em>From the Tellechea Archives</em>]. </p><br /><p><a href="http://www.fas.org/irp/ops/policy/docs/frusX/76_90.html">http://www.fas.org/irp/ops/policy/docs/frusX/76_90.html</a></p></div><br /><p> </p>Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-58830473900192519972007-10-29T15:45:00.003-04:002011-04-04T22:44:01.498-04:00More Horrible Than You Imagined: The Poetry of Jimmy CarterWe shall not offer you much of it. That would be cruel, and public sinners interested in expiating their crimes can recourse to Carter's books, poetical or prosaic, and administer as much tonic as will purge their minds of evil thoughts and replace them with blessed vacuity. The presidential poet (or should that be poetical president) has writing 7 books of verse, which can best be described as the musings of Dr. Seuss in a serious mood. Our personal favorite is "Of Possum and Fatback," but the following is undoubtedly his masterpiece. The payoff is in the last line (but don't read it till the end): <br /><br /><br /><strong><em>Considering the Void </strong><br /><br />When I behold the charm<br />of evening skies, their lulling endurance;<br />the patterns of stars with names<br />of bears and dogs, a swan, a virgin;<br />other planets that the Voyager showed<br />were like and so unlike our own,<br />with all their diverse moons,<br />bright discs, weird rings, and cratered faces;<br />comets with their streaming tails<br />bent by pressure from our sun;<br />the skyscape of our Milky Way<br />holding in its shimmering disc<br />an infinity of suns<br />(or say a thousand billion);<br />knowing there are holes of darkness<br />gulping mass and even light,<br />knowing that this galaxy of ours<br />is one of multitudes<br />in what we call the heavens,<br />it troubles me. It troubles me.</em><br /><br /><br />BTW, the Baptist evangelical's cosmic poem of uncertainty has been adopted by Atheists United as their "catechism." It goes to show you. It goes to show you.<br /><br /><center>***</center><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>This is one of our Jimmy Carter filler posts, which we insert when we are going to proceed from a light to a serious subject. Expect a very serious post forthcoming</strong>. </span>Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-88395185417665945102007-04-22T07:23:00.004-04:002011-04-04T21:54:03.969-04:00Katie Couric Wants to be a "Relatively Intelligent Person"<a href="http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2005/03/01/vanity13_gallery__525x550.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2005/03/01/vanity13_gallery__525x550.jpg" /></a> <br /><br />55-year-old Katie Couric, who has referred to Cuban-Americans as petite tyrants who "tolerate no dissent or freedom of political expression" and have transformed Miami into a "banana republic within America," proudly strutted-out her 33-year-old boyfriend to garner publicity for her failed efforts as anchor of the <em>CBS Evening News</em>. The boyfriend, the heir of a wealthy Connecticut family, follows the tennis circuit, and is, according to a friend quoted in <em>People Magazine</em>, best known for "a lot of shirtlessness. He seems to enjoy displaying his bod." <br /><br />We were not surprised by the fact that Couric's boyfriend is young enough to be her son. We were surprised, rather, that there was a boyfriend, since despite her prissiness she always seemed rather mannish to us, and would, in our opinion, have made an ideal older companion for Rosie. <br /><br />Couric said that she hopes viewers will be patient with her because she is "still getting her sea legs" after 7 months on the job (and nearly 30 years in broadcast television). She also demurred that she hopes to "establish the broadcast as smart and trustworthy, and [herself] as a <em>relatively</em> intelligent person."<br /><br />Relative to what? Mark you, she wants to be perceived as "relatively intelligent" and is working to establish that reputation, but she seems to care nothing about actually becoming intelligent (even "relatively"). Yes, Couric described her ultimate goal as establishing a reputation for being "a <em>relatively </em>intelligent person." Well, if a legless man can climb Mount Everest, anything is possible. <br /><br />Click Here: <a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/unsinkable-sarah-palin.html">More About Katie Couric's Peccadillos</a> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.mediaresearch.org/specialreports/2000/elian.asp">http://www.mediaresearch.org/specialreports/2000/elian.asp</a>Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-21517602977488678372008-08-29T08:30:00.017-04:002011-04-03T18:52:54.834-04:00The Cuban Revolution's One Undeniable SuccessNo, not infant mortality: Cuba's before 1959 was the 13th lowest in the world; it now ranks 34th. Nor literacy, which increased by 400% from 1900 to 1958 and only by 25% after 1959. The Cuban Revolution has had one undeniable success, however: it has suffocated the revolutionary spirit of Cuban youth. It was that spirit which made both the 1933 and 1959 revolutions possible. That spirit flourished because Cubans were free to rebel against authority: no revolution can succeed without freedom of action and the Rule of Law to abet it. <br /><br />The generation of 1953, the last to exhibit that revolutionary spirit, was not a creation of Fidel Castro, though it would eventually be co-opted and corrupted by him. When the government raised bus fares by one penny in 1951, students hijacked a bus, carried it up the monumental stairs of Havana University (which are like a one-sided pyramid) and sent it crashing down. Then they went to celebrate in the University itself, which then enjoyed autonomy (the police could not enter its precincts). Besides, no one would have thought to charge them with disorderly conduct or destroying public property (bus and stairs). The public was on their side and their conduct was thought brave and public-spirited. To excuse their worst excesses as the natural province of youth was the general reaction. The authorities concurred. <br /><br />It was in such a climate of absolute freedom bordering on anarchy that such monsters as Fidel Castro were incubated. Still, whether confronting anarchy or the reaction to it, Cubans then were a fully-integrated, self-realized, prosperous and happy people (everything which they are not today). Our national tragedy stems from the fact that too many Cubans expended their energies not in defending freedom but in abusing it. <br /><br />It was the Generation of the Centenary, under such favorable auspices, which successfully waged the 1959 Revolution and whose leaders, once in power, obliterated systematically every vestige of freedom for all subsequent generations of Cubans. That is, for their children, their grandchildren and now their great-grandchildren. <br /><br />The horrific spectacle which transpired last night in Havana before a crowd of thousands of Castro's young victims at the "Anti-Imperialist Forum" concert affirmed, if anyone doubted it, that civilization on our island has descended even lower than on William Golding's fictional one. Our "Lord of the Flies" has destroyed what was noblest and most aspiring in our people: that almost childlike belief in justice and in the possibility of obtaining it, which was the compass that guided us for most of our history as a nation. It did not always guide us right. The last 50 years attest to that. The absence of such a compass, however, can only guide us wrong. The last 50 years also attest to that. <br /><br />There are still those, however, who uphold at great personal cost what survives of that spirit and tradition in our country. Real revolutionaries as opposed to mock revolutionaries. True, there are very few of them. They are a beacon which burns without oxygen and can be seen better from afar than up close. Still, they are the only hope of our country. Their fragile bodies are the strands which connect us to our past and the girders that will construct the bridge to our future. They are men like Gorki and women like Yoani and others who do not have their renown but share their courage and will reveal themselves as Emilio Marill did yesterday. <br /><br />While Yoani and Gorki's colleagues from the band "Porno Para Ricardo" were being viciously beaten by Castro's goons at the Milanés concert for protesting Gorki's arrest, the onlookers looked away: even two syllables worth of protest was more than any of them were willing to risk. The performers on stage continued to play and the revellers to revel. Revelling is still possible in Cuba even if rebelling is not. Only one spectator, Emilio, raised his voice in protest. <br /><br />But, really, what should we expect? Martyrdom is not a duty. It is, at best, a vocation and very few are called to it. We cannot demand, from the safety of this side of the Florida Straits, that Cubans act against the well-honed survival instincts which 50 years of tyranny have perfected. Just as we hope to see Cuba free again, they hope to live in a free country someday. The one requisite for the realization of either hope is to remain alive. That, too, is a form of resistance: to deny the tyrant the corpses he craves and would not hesitate to claim at the first opportunity. <br /><br />Without the arms to defend themselves, confronting an enemy that threatens to "sink the island into the ocean" and very nearly did so once when its brand of <em>socio-lismo</em> was threatened, and with more countries in the world that have a vested interest in Cubans remaining slaves than in their liberation, what is it that we expect our countrymen on the island to do? If the onus were on us, what would we answer? Because the onus is as much on us as on them. Whatever excuses we can offer theirs are more compelling. Whatever constraints restrain us theirs are more restraining. The only difference is that they are doing the suffering. To judge them we must either share their suffering or end it. <br /><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/05/why-there-has-been-no-successful.html">Why There Has Been No Successful Revolution to Overthrow Castro in 49 Years</a> <br /><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/05/will-cuba-ever-be-free-again.html">Will Cuba Ever Be Free Again?</a> <br /><br /><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/05/will-cuba-ever-be-free-part-ii.html">Will Cuba Ever Be Free Again? (Part II)</a>Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-56786260858247505812008-04-18T13:21:00.006-04:002010-08-21T08:26:08.463-04:00Shielding Pedophiles and Defending Communists, the Pope's Mission in AmericaPope Benedict XVI is busy lamenting the predations of his priests on innocent children after allowing as John Paul's doctrinal enforcer their crimes to be concealed and unpunished for 20 years. Even today the most notorious of the episcopal enablers, Bernard Cardinal Law, former Archbishop of Boston, is in residence at the Vatican, protected from the legal consequences of his actions. Rafzinger's successor as papal lacquey, Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, has been entrusted by the now pope with a mission as sordid and anti-Christian, namely, the "pacification" of the Cuban people, whose cries for freedom, democracy and justice he transmutes as calls for the lifting of the U.S. trade embargo and elimination of human rights sanctions on the regime.<br /><br />I do not know what the reaction of the Cuban people will be to Castro's accomplices in the Vatican and the Cuban hierarchy once freedom is restored to the island. I hope, at least, that they will remember them as enemies of (their) freedom and human rights. They could do no less.<br /><br />I do know what Cuban exiles should do. What we should have done years ago when John Paul II visited Miami and went out of his way to show his contempt for Cuban exiles, who stood, in respect to Communism, no differently from him and should have been embraced by him as natural allies. Instead, he visited the Vizcaya Palace but refused to set foot in the shrine to Our Lady of Charity, Patroness of Cuba, which Cuban exiles had erected in its vicinity. As fate would have it, John Paul passed within 10 ft. of the shrine but did not even cross himself (he had other things to do with his hands, such as grasp Castro's). This is the pope who publicly expressed his admiration for "Che" Guevara in Cuba; praised Castro's "social achievements" at the public reception for Communist Cuba's new ambassador to the Holy See; and had a hand in liberating all the Western countries from Communism (Catholic and non-Catholic)<em> except</em> Cuba.<br /><br />Only recently Cardinal Bertone confirmed that the slight had been intentional on John Paul's part since ignoring Cuban exiles (Castro's victims, too) is the official Vatican policy.<br /><br />Our answer to that policy should be: to ignore them too. This is what Cuban Catholics should have done then and should still do. NOT A CENT. Not one cent more to the enablers and apologists of Fidel Castro's regime. That's what will hurt these putrid men because that is all they care about.<br /><br />Martí said that "Christianity died at the hands of Catholicism." Fortunately, not all of Christianity. But every last trace of it has been extinguished at the Vatican.Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-24606193216681039692007-04-09T02:49:00.001-04:002010-07-29T18:12:10.704-04:00An Easter Wish<a href="http://www.fotogal.no/cuba/IMG_1061.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://www.fotogal.no/cuba/IMG_1061.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><em>Pascua de Resurrección,</em> the Feast of the Resurrection, man's triumph over death and the forces of evil, achieved through Christ's death and the temporal triumph of those forces, is one of those eternal mysteries of the faith, better believed than understood. Therein lies perhaps the greatest achievement of Catholic cosmology: the belief that those who are murdered for their faith, Christ Himself or his apostles in all ages, are the real winners and those who nailed them to crosses, kindled their pyres, frayed and stoned them are the losers. The Catholic Church is the church of martyrs, martyrdom itself being the highest expression of the faith. Defeat as victory; death as life; earthly injustice as the prelude to Divine Providence.<br /><br />For the last 48 years no people no earth have suffered a greater martyrdom than the people of Cuba. Indeed, throughout our history, the just among us in all generations have fallen prey to the forces of darkness, including our own secular Christ, José Martí, who said that he would be nailed to a cross if it won our people their (earthly) freedom.<br /><br />So why, if no people have paid a greater price in blood and suffering, have the Cuban people remained in slavery for 5 decades, with no end in sight to their travails? Is this some sign of divine grace? Are we the new Israelites, God's chosen people, chosen, like the Jews, to endure hecatombs and holocausts in time immemorial because we are especially favored by the Father? I hope not. And that is my Easter wish.Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com2tag: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 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/2009_02_01_archive.html">February</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span> <ul class="posts"><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2009/02/special-announcement.html">José Martí 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/2009_01_01_archive.html">January</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(17)</span> <ul class="posts"><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2009/01/barack-obama-end-of-hope-for-cuba.html">Barack Obama: The End of Hope for Cuba</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2009/01/vals-birthday-present.html">Val's Birthday Present</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2009/01/notable-tardy-henrys-nightly-prayer.html">Notable & Tardy: Henry's "Nightly Prayer"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2009/01/highlights-of-rcab-rescue-of-elenita.html">Highlights of RCAB: The Rescue of "Elenita"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2009/01/next-us-ambassador-to-cuba.html">The Next U.S. Ambassador to Cuba</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2009/01/celebration-without-victory.html">A Celebration Without a Victory</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2009/01/on-day-that-fidel-castro-dies.html">On the Day that Fidel Castro Dies</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2009/01/first-african-american-president-and.html">The "First African-American President" and the "First Cuban-American President"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2009/01/babaloos-waterloos-punishing-cuban.html">Babaloo's Waterloos: Punishing the Cuban People for Castro</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2009/01/notable-risible-bush-as-first-cuban.html">Notable & Risible: Bush as the "First Cuban-American President"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2009/01/weblog-awards.html">The Weblog Awards</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2009/01/castro-and-obama-practicing-genocide-as.html">Castro and Obama: Practicing Genocide As Statecraft</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2009/01/save-yoani-from-vals-trap.html">Save Yoani From Val's Trap</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2009/01/parsing-new-york-times-part-2.html">Parsing The New York Times (Part 2)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2009/01/babaloos-waterloos-pardon-for-felipe.html">Babaloo's Waterloos: A Pardon For Felipe Sixto</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2009/01/parsing-new-york-times.html">Parsing The New York Times</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2009/01/50-years-and-counting.html">50 Years and Counting</a></li></ul> </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/search?updated-min=2008-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-05%3A00&updated-max=2009-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-05%3A00&max-results=50">2008</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(467)</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/2008_12_01_archive.html">December</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(31)</span> <ul class="posts"><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/from-tellechea-newspaper-archives-30th.html">From the Tellechea Newspaper Archives: The 30th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/tellechea-newspaper-archives-35th.html">From the Tellechea Newspaper Archives: The 35th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/from-tellechea-newspaper-archives.html">From the Tellechea Newspaper Archives: Review of ""Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-scrooges.html">The New Scrooges</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/christmas-posts.html">Christmas Posts</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/why-did-castro-win.html">Why Did Castro Win?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-val-prieto-yoani-snchezs-blog.html">Is Val Prieto Yoani Sánchez's "Blog Grandfather?"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-obama-has-learned-from-cuban.html">What Obama Has Learned from the Cuban Revolution</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/val-to-bush-my-father-thanks-you-my.html">Val to Bush: "My Father Thanks You, My Mother Thanks You and I Thank You"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/silent-val-prieto.html">"Silent Val" Prieto</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/shoe-terrorist-isnt-there-already-one.html">The Shoeing of George Bush</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/all-lies-that-fit-in-print-part-3.html">All the Lies that Fit in Print (Part 3)</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/silence-of-lamb.html">The Silence of the Lamb</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/val-prieto-and-potus.html">Val Prieto and POTUS</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/will-val-prieto-be-at-least-man-that.html">Will Val Prieto Be At Least the "Man" that Yoani Sanchez Is?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/george-bush-hosts-bloggers-summit.html">George Bush Hosts Bloggers Summit</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/all-lies-that-fit-in-print-part-2.html">All the Lies that Fit in Print (Part 2)</a></li><li><a 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Hillary's NY Senate Seat</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/and-one-strikes-back.html">And One Strikes Back</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/winter-of-another-patriarch.html">The Winter of Another Patriarch</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-to-handle-cubas-creditors.html">How to Handle Cuba's Creditors</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/another-castroite-joins-obamas-cabinet.html">Another Castroite Joins Obama's Cabinet</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/hello-central-its-obama.html">"Hello, Central, It's Obama"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/yoani-under-fire.html">Yoani Under Fire</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/black-sheep-of-exile-is-back.html">"Black Sheep of Exile" is Back</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/cuba-time-travel-project.html">The Cuba Time Travel Project</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_11_01_archive.html">November</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(21)</span> <ul class="posts"><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/second-cuban-on-way-to-sainthood.html">Second Cuban On the Way to Sainthood</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/simian-congress.html">The Simian Congress</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/rice-defers-to-obama-on-iran.html">Rice Defers to Obama on Iran</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/thanksgiving-for-cubans.html">Thanksgiving for Cubans</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/sean-penn-and-brown-dicks.html">Sean Penn and Brown Dicks</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/che-guevaras-statue-in-new-yorks.html">"Che" Guevara's Statue in Central Park</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/george-bushs-parting-gift-to-cuban.html">George Bush's Parting "Gift" to Cuban-Americans</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/what-matters-now-is-republican-reaction.html">What Matters Now Is the Republican Reaction to the Nominations of Holder and Craig</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/cuban-elections-of-1958-real-story.html">The Cuban Elections of 1958: The Real Story</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/hercules-and-hylas.html">Hercules and Hylas</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/mexicans-will-be-first-to-test-obama.html">Mexicans Will Be the First to "Test" Obama</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/when-truth-is-castrated-babal-confronts.html">When Truth Is Castrated: Babalú Confronts the Next Fours Years</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/is-barack-obamas-win-victory-against.html">Is Barack Obama's Win a Victory Against Racism? Val Thinks So</a></li><li><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></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/notable-reminiscent-whose-house-obamas.html">Notable & Reminiscent: "Whose house? Obama's House!"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/definition-of-arrepentido.html">Definition of an "Arrepentido"</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/obama-babal-perfect-together.html">Obama & Babalú: Perfect Together</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/75-days-left-of-freedom-in-america.html">75 Days Left of Freedom in America</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/its-mccain-in-landslide.html">IT'S McCAIN IN A LANDSLIDE!</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/madelyn-dunham-rip.html">Madelyn Dunham (1922-2008) R.I.P.</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/death-of-western-civilization.html">The Death of Western Civilization?</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_10_01_archive.html">October</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(23)</span> <ul class="posts"><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/contribution-to-devils-dictionary.html">A Contribution to the Devil's Dictionary</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/babal-temporarily-reaches-10000th-post.html">Babalú (Temporarily) Reaches 10,000th Post Milestone</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/canfs-jorge-ms-santos-endorses-barack.html">CANF's Jorge Más Santos Endorses Barack Obama</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/quo-vadis-america.html">Quo Vadis America?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/of-soap-fishing-rods-rcabs-last-post.html">Of Soap & Fishing Rods: RCAB's Last Post About Val...</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/notable-variable-rcabs-last-post-about.html">Of Red Flags and Silver Linings: RCAB's Last Post About Henry</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/throw-grandmother-under-train.html">Throw Grandmother Under the Train</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/mexicans-no-cuban-foot-in-mexico-policy.html">The Mexicans' "No Cuban Foot in Mexico" Policy</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/colin-powell-endorses-barack-obama.html">Colin Powell Endorses Barack Obama</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/what-obama-has-in-common-with-marx.html">What Obama Has In Common with Marx Besides Ideology</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/next-election-may-signal-end-of.html">The Next Election May Signal the End of Democracy in America<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/tonights-presidential-debate.html">Tonight's Presidential Debate</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/columbus-saw-mosque-in-cuba-now-its.html">Columbus Saw a Mosque in Cuba: Now It's the Muslims Who Discovered America</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/columbus-day.html">Columbus Day</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/on-140th-anniversary-of-el-grito-de.html">On the 140th Anniversary of "El Grito de Yara"<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/anatasio-blanco-survives-fatal-comments.html">Anatasio Blanco Survives Fatal Comments at Babalú</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/barack-obama-stranger-among-us.html">Barack Obama: The Stranger Among Us</a></li><li><a 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 History</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/cleaning-up-backblog.html">Cleaning-Up the Back(b)log</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/meet-fidel-odinga.html">Meet Fidel Odinga</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_08_01_archive.html">August</a> <span class="post-count" dir="ltr">(34)</span> <ul class="posts"><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/blog-review-along-malecn.html">Blog Review: Along the Malecón</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/brief-history-of-bucl.html">A Brief History of BUCL</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/gorki-is-free.html">Gorki Is Freed</a></li><li><a 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?" Carlos Alberto Montaner Thinks So</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/06/babals-fifth-anniversary.html">Babalú's Fifth Anniversary</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/06/bigotry-against-anti-castro-cuban-gays.html">Bigotry Against Anti-Castro Cuban Gays at Babalú</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/06/fidel-eulogizes-yet-another-comrade-he.html">Fidel Eulogizes Yet Another "Comrade" He Killed: Salvador Allende</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/06/cuban-church-condemns-gay-rights-day.html">Cuban Church Condemns Gay Rights Day March</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/06/enigma.html">Enigma: Crip or Blood?</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/06/another-seemingly-meaningless-post-by.html">Another Seemingly Meaningless Post By Val Prieto</a></li><li><a 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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Justice Visits</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/06/supreme-court-ends-other-tyranny-on.html">The Supreme Court Ends the Other Tyranny on Cuban Soil<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/06/rcab-news-visit-from-vatican.html">RCAB News: A Visit from the Vatican</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/06/notable-unbelievable-i-know-what-newt.html">Notable & Unbelievable: "I Know What Newt Thinks Better Than Newt Does</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/06/cuban-american-history-901-virginia-ham.html">Cuban-American History 901: The Virginia Ham</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/06/subcomandante-henry.html">Subcomandante Henry</a></li><li><a href="http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/06/mr-prieto-builds-his-dream-house.html">Mr. Prieto Builds His Dream House</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 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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 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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 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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!!! 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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 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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 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It is not against experience to suppose, that different species of the same genus, or varieties of the same species, may possess different qualifications. Will not a lover of natural history then, one who views the gradations in all the races of animals with the eye of philosophy, excuse an effort to keep those in the department of man as distinct as nature has formed them? This unfortunate difference of color, and perhaps of faculty, is a powerful obstacle to the emancipation of these people."</em></span> -- <strong>Thomas Jefferson,</strong> <em>Notes on the State of Virginia,</em> 1781<br /><br /><br />I have never held Jefferson in any special regard. He was more of a stylist than a thinker, and a vigorous style can sometimes overshadow deficiencies of the intellect. Here we see a powerful example of Jefferson's disingenuousness. I could have quoted many more: the deleted paragraph from the Declaration of Independence where he blames George III for "forcing slavery" on Americans. Someone must have reminded Jefferson, who never freed his own slaves, that King George had abolished slavery in England in 1772. Or I could have reproduced excerpts from an 1815 letter to his overseer, Jeremiah Goodman, where Jefferson explains at length how slaves should be mated (he had more than casual experience in that department himself). Whatever else the "Sage of Monticello" was, he was the precursor of the "science" of eugenics, which would be brought to its illogical conclusion by another grand theorist in the 20th century.<br /><br />There is no question that when Jefferson wrote "all men are created equal" he meant all <em>white men</em> because he did not consider black men to belong to the human species, or, as he puts it, to "the department of man." To him "blacks were a "different species" or a sub-species "inferior to the whites in the endowments of both body and mind." He even has his doubts that blacks are a race and has the "suspicion" that they are a mutation of a race.<br /><br />Enslaved blacks, the only ones with whom he had any acquaintance, seemed to him to recognize the superiority of whites over blacks and preferred their company as "the orangutan preferred black women over those of his own species." Well, you won't find those immortal words chiselled in marble over his statue at the Jefferson Monument. You can still find at Monticello, however, the cabinet which Jefferson caused to be built over his bed where he hid his mulatto concubine, Sally Hemmings, the half-sister of his late wife. At age 13 she became the maid of Jefferson's younger daughters (her biological nieces) and Jefferson's bedmate. She bore him five children whom Jefferson freed when they turned 21 (the only ones of his hundreds of slaves that he did free). Of course, he could have sold them down the river, as was the usual practice in his neck of the woods, or even made the girls his mistresses in substitution of their mother. That he did not may have had something to do with the fact that his affaire with Sally was exposed in the newspapers many years before and he wanted to be spared the further shame upon his name of having his own offspring sold at public auction after his death as his other slaves were in the largest such sale in Virginia history up to that time.<br /><br />What he did with his own children, however, was not otherwise commendable. Although infinitely concerned about the education of his other daughters (he had no sons by his wife), of his nephews and grandchildren, and even of his friends' sons, he did not bother to teach his progeny by Sally Hemmings how to read or write. The last thing that he would have wanted would have been for them to become conspicuous in the world. Yet when they were allowed to leave his plantation three of them moved to other states where they passed as white. But, of course, they could never be whites in their father's eyes. In fact, he scarcely viewed them as human.<br /><br />So, on this July 4th, when Americans celebrate the universal application of the Declaration of Independence's once meaningless assertion that "All men are created equal," let them remember, also, that Jefferson would not have approved.<br /><br /><br /><b>PROLOGUE:</b><br /><br />Subsequent to the publication of this post, the blog <i>Miami & Beyond</i> was deleted, and with it the exchange between <i>Babalú's</i> Sr. Cohiba and me, which was alluded to in the "Comments" section. Here it is for those who might be interested:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Srcohiba</span> said...<br />The series was well done and thanks to DVR I was able to watch it. But you really have to read McCullough's book. The book is fantastic and after my reading it, forced me to read more about our founding fathers.<br /><br />You should read His Majesty George Washington. One of the best Washington bio's out there which shows his real true greatness and shows that even all these centuries later, he was still the Greatest President of the United States. Washington had absolute power as Commander of the Army and he gave it up at the end of the war. After 2 terms as President, he could have had the office for life, but he let it go and set the model.<br /><br />Washington was the only leader in world history -- the only revolutionary to have absolute power who relinquished it voluntarily. Not the same can be said for Cromwell, Napoleon, Lenin, Mao, and castro.<br /><br />I also suggest you read Chernow's Hamilton and Isacson's Franklin.<br /><br />Apr 23, 2008 6:22:00 AM<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Manuel A.Tellechea</span> said...<br />John Adams and his son were the only U.S. presidents in the first 50 years of the republic not to own slaves. If nothing else could be said on his behalf that alone would have been enough: He was not a hypocrite.<br /><br />Apr 23, 2008 6:23:00 AM<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Alex</span> said...<br />I'm reading the book now. The series is pretty faithful to the book, which is another plus.<br /><br />Apr 23, 2008 6:48:00 AM<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Srcohiba</span> said...<br />My only critique was that it condensed too much. I understand they were limited on time and could not make it another 6 hours. But a lot happened in his presidency and his greatest achievement was the mission to France which prevented war even though it cost him the election.<br /><br />it was glossed over. Most folks who have not read the book would realize the significance of what he did.<br /><br />Manny, Washington was not a hypocrite. Many of his slaves were dower slaves. He abhored the practice and would have loved to free them but by law at the time, he was prevented. He never seperate families and perhaps another example of his greatness was his will. His will demanded that none of the slaves would be sold or seperated and that upon the death of Martha, all the slaves were freed and given money to be educated. The ones that were too old were to be given money so that they could be taken care of for life.<br /><br />Washington who was the wealthiest American of his day, loathed privilege and divided his entire estate equally among all his heirs so as to force them to fend for themselves.<br /><br />Also, both Adams were from the North where slavery had already been abolished. Most of the Presidents we had were all from the South which sadly ran on a slave based economy.<br /><br />Apr 23, 2008 7:19:00 AM<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Manuel A.Tellechea</span> said...<br />Sr Cohiba:<br /><br />No one was ever prevented from freeing his slaves in colonial times and many did. Washington, of course, owned slaves in his own name. So called "dower slaves" (that is, those inherited by his wife) also belonged to him. In fact, women had no rights either pre-1776 or post 1776. It was Washington, not Martha, who decided the fate of their slaves.<br /><br />There was a law in Pennsylvania that any slave who remained in the state for longer than 6 months was considered emancipated. While residing in Philadelphia as president, Washington had his slave cook periodically sent back to Virginia in order to circumvent that law.<br /><br />Why don't you read a book about Carlos Manuel de Céspedes. You know, the father of our country. He freed his slaves immediately upon declaring Cuba's independence from Spain and so did all the other rich landowners who followed him.<br /><br />Apr 23, 2008 8:37:00 AM<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Srcohiba</span> said...<br />Manny you are incorrect.<br /><br />GW had no right to free dower slaves until after the death of Martha where he freed all the slaves. Remember in those days property rights were the same feudal rights from Britain.<br /><br />Remember the time we're talking about ...1799.<br /><br />Comparing to de Cespedes is a lousy analogy. The republic did not come about until the late 1860's, well after the US Civil War.<br /><br />It took the deaths of hundreds of thousands of americans to free the slaves here in the US as that odious practice was ingrained in the South. the founders chose to ignore it and leave others to deal with it. Ironically, Britain had allowed slavery by this time.<br /><br />Apr 23, 2008 10:28:00 AM<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Manuel A.Tellechea</span> said...<br />Sr Cohiba:<br /><br />George predeceased Martha.<br /><br />Washington certainly had the right to sell the "dower slaves" and did.<br /><br />Women had no property rights in 1799 that superceded their husbands' rights over them and their property. Yes, it was like feudal times.<br /><br />Céspedes and the Cuban Founding Fathers understood what their American counterparts never did: that it is incongruous to fight for your freedom while holding other men enslaved.<br /><br />Apr 23, 2008 11:24:00 AM<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Srcohiba</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> </span>said...<br />Manuel, you don't understand the concept of dower. GW did not have the authority to sell any dower property while Martha was alive. He did not have fee simple title to the property upon marriage to Martha. Under the common law at that time, only upon Martha's death could he have had fee simple title. The dower slaves were the property of Martha's first husband's estate (The Custus Estate).<br /><br />Here's a copy of the will where again you will see that while it was GW's desire to emancipate them, he was prohibited by law.<br /><br />Why don't you take a course in property law and then talk to me.<br /><br />Apr 23, 2008 12:46:00 PM<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Srcohiba</span> said...<br />http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/will/text.html<br /><br />here's the link<br /><br />Apr 23, 2008 12:48:00 PM<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Rick</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> </span>said...<br />Heh.<br /><br />He's choking on it, Senor. For once I approve of your approach.<br /><br />.<br /><br />Apr 23, 2008 4:31:00 PM<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Manuel A.Tellechea</span> said...<br />Sr. Cohiba:<br /><br />1). Did George Washington own slaves in his own name?<br /><br />Yes, of course he did. You do not refute that point which by itself makes my argument.<br /><br />2). Did Martha's slaves work on George's plantation?<br /><br />Of course they did, so George profitted by their labor directly no less than Martha did.<br /><br />3). Could George have freed Martha's slaves?<br /><br />Of course. He could have requested that it be done upon her death or he could have purchased the slaves outright himself from the entailment and freed them while still alive.<br /><br />George Washington was the "Father of His Country" and the<br />master of his slaves.<br /><br />Shall we have this discussion about Thomas Jefferson? It would prove even more interesting.<br /><br />Apr 23, 2008 6:18:00 PM<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Srcohiba</span> said...<br />Again, you have no idea what you're talking about Manny. Notwithstanding the fact you have no clue about dower under 18th century english common law, if you would have read any legit bio of GW, you would have learned that GW despised slavery. First, it cost too much money to maintain and because of sick or older slaves, they were not cost efficient. Unlike others, GW refused to split up families. His plantation could have been more profitable if he could have eliminated slave labor altogether.<br /><br />Again, what he did in his will, showed courage because it was not what one would have expected a Virginian planter to do. He not only willed that all his slaves be freed, but that they educated and taken care of for life.<br /><br />Jefferson's slave ownership and his not freeing him was a stain on an otherwise brilliant contribution he made to the USA and the world. It's easy for a know it all like you to condemn him from your position in the 21st century.<br /><br />Abe Lincoln was willing to keep slavery in the then existing southern states if it meant preserving the union. The South started the civil war and even then, the elimination of slavery was not on Lincoln's mind. Again, if you read American History rather than the Marxist revisionist historians that condemn all of the American founding fathers, you'd have learned that it was upon a promise Lincoln made to God re: a military victory that he would free the slaves; which he did with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.<br /><br />I honestly don't understand why you have such a bug up your ass regarding the US Founding Fathers. But we wouldn't have the Constitution but for James Madison and Alexander Hamilton. We would have never made it as a nation if not for George Washington who was the greatest revolutionary in world history.<br /><br />Last time I checked my history books, it was the Spanish that killed native americans and brought slavery to America and used the inquisition to murder the Jews.<br /><br />So chill out and read some history from some legit historians.<br /><br />Apr 23, 2008 7:56:00 PM<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Manuel A.Tellechea</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> </span>said...<br />Sr. Cohiba:<br /><br />More undigested legal gibberish signifying nothing. The facts are very simple: George Washington was a slaveholder, not merely through his wife but in his own right and name. That is an historical fact which no amount of dissimulation can erase. You ignore it because you cannot deny it. Your only mitigation is that he was a good master to his slaves, and personally, did not like slavery. (Sounds like the argument that Castro's apologists make on his behalf, doesn't it?).<br /><br />This is like saying that a wife beater loves his wife and is personally opposed to wifebeating, but, nevertheless, practices what in theory he opposes.<br /><br />Men's actions define them. That their supposed sympathies may be at odds with their actions only makes their actions all the more reprehensible. Knowing the difference between right and wrong is not an excuse for doing the wrong thing.<br /><br />Slavery was as wrong in the 18th century as it is in the 21st, and there were men then, such as Adams (father and son), who opposed it.<br /><br />While defending the icons of American history, you have no scrupples whatever about resurrecting the Black Legend to defame your own people.<br /><br />The Inquisition was not unique to Spain. There was also an English Inquisition, which, incidentally, killed more people than its Spanish counterpart.<br /><br />The extermination of the indigenous population of the Americas was never Spanish policy. In fact, Spaniards, unlike the English, mixed with the native population to such an extent that in most countries of Latin America they are completely melded.<br /><br />In the enlightened 19th century -- four centuries removed from the Spanish Conquest -- the U.S. government did make the extermination of the native population its official policy.<br /><br />But, as far as you are concerned, slavery and genocide are alike excusable if practiced by Americans.<br /><br />Apr 23, 2008 9:12:00 PM<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">alex</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> </span>said...<br />Manuel, you contradict yourself here:<br /><br />"Of course. He could have requested that it be done upon her death or he could have purchased the slaves outright himself from the entailment and freed them while still alive."<br /><br />He died before her, so he could hardly free them after her death. Besides, if he owned them already by marriage as you assert -since Martha could not own property- then it's absurd to purchase them again from himself.<br /><br />Céspedes had the advantage of almost 100 years of foresight since the American revolution. You conveniently leave off that he was a rich landowner who benefited from slave labor for decades before he freed them in 1868.<br /><br />More importantly, you forget to mention that Céspedes freed his slaves with the intention of having them join him as his army. It wasn't just from the good of his heart. He understood that in order to muster the necessary men to fight the Spaniards, they needed the slaves from the plantations on their side. A war needs cannon fodder.<br /><br />Every time you judge historic figures by contemporary standards it's a ridiculous argument. Ever found any laws you don't agree with but have to comply? You always say exiles can't invade Cuba because US law prohibits it. Well, there you go.<br /><br />Apr 24, 2008 6:05:00 AM<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Manuel A.Tellechea</span> said...<br />Alex:<br /><br />It was Sr Cohiba who said that Washington was legally prevented from freeing Martha's slaves in her lifetime. I countered that if that were the case, then he could have purchased them himself from the entailment and freed them, or at least requested in his will that Martha and her heirs do so. He did not not.<br /><br />But all this is a smokescreen anyway. Even if George were prevented from freeing Martha's slaves he certainly was never prevented from freeing his own.<br /><br />Why didn't he? From the mammy who weaned him to the slaves who prepared him for burial, George Washington was served by slaves all his life.<br /><br />He knew that slavery was wrong, as Sr Cohiba asserts; but right or wrong he refused to place his slaves' dignity as men above his own creature comforts.<br /><br />So what, if according to Sr. Cohiba, he was good to his slaves and provided for their education (health care, maybe?). He was still more a tyrant to them than George III was ever to him.<br /><br />While a good master is certainly preferable to a bad master, no man would wish to be a slave to either.<br /><br />As for Céspedes, he understood that he could not be both slavemaster and liberator. He freed his slaves when he declared Cuba's independence but did not compel them to follow him into battle, but most did. That is, perhaps, the greatest testament to him.<br /><br />Cuban exiles did not make the laws of this country. Its Founding Fathers did. Domestic slavery was sanctioned by the Constitution and Washington himself urged, in his farewell address, neutrality in the face of foreign evil.<br /><br />Apr 24, 2008 6:56:00 AM<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Alex</span> said...<br />In your comment of 8:37 you said:<br /><br />"So called "dower slaves" (that is, those inherited by his wife) also belonged to him. In fact, women had no rights either pre-1776 or post 1776. It was Washington, not Martha, who decided the fate of their slaves."<br /><br />You are asserting that Washington owned all the slaves because Martha could not own property (which is true, Martha's slaves were owned by her male relatives which dowed them to George). Washington couldn't purchase slaves he already owned. Hence your contradiction.<br /><br />Céspedes was 49 years old when he freed his slaves. He had enjoyed the "creature comforts" and riches slavery afforded him since birth.<br /><br />Apr 24, 2008 7:07:00 AM<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Srcohiba</span> said...<br />"But all this is a smokescreen anyway. Even if George were prevented from freeing Martha's slaves he certainly was never prevented from freeing his own."<br /><br />if he had freed his slaves (which he inherited by the way) then he'd have to split up families.<br /><br />Again Manny, I don't know why you have a bug up your ass about the american founding fathers. I would expect that from a pro marxist revisionist historian, but not from you.<br /><br />Slavery was the most odious badge in the history of the new world. In the USA and in Latin American and the Caribbean.<br /><br />You argue out of your bum rather than through historical references. I'm willing to bet the farm Manny that if you had been born in the South in the early 18th century to southern planters you'd have no qualms about owning slaves.<br /><br />If you read Washington and Jefferson's writings, they loathed the practice. But the economy of the south was so entrenched with Slave Labor that it in a way bound their hands. Looking backwards from the 21st century was can easily say that they should have done the moral thing and freed them. It's easy to look back at time but it's not realistic.<br /><br />All of the founders new that slavery was going to be the undoing of the nation. They chose to let future generations deal with it rather than kill the compromise regarding the passage of the Constitution.<br /><br />Not everyone is a saint.<br /><br />Instead of speaking out of your bum, why don't you read Gordon Wood's Revolutionary Characters and perhaps you may learn something.<br /><br />Say what you will about the American founding fathers, but we've managed to have free elections for over 200 years and despite civil wars and world wars and 9/11 our constitution still stands. Can't say the same for what's happened in Latin America and in Cuba. But then again, it's the American's fault, right Manny?<br /><br />Apr 24, 2008 7:51:00 AM<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Manuel A.Tellechea</span> said...<br />Alex:<br /><br />Although I did not admit Sr Cohiba's point (i.e. that Washington couldn't free Martha's slaves because they were entailed to her first husband's estate), I did show how Washington could indeed have freed Martha's slaves even if such an entailment had existed (by buying them from the entailed estate and freeing them himself).<br /><br />The point is that Céspedes did free his slaves on the eve of revolution. Washington did not. Doing so meant ruin for Céspedes and the other planters who followed him. Washington, Jefferson and the rest would do anything for the cause of freedom except impoverish themselves by granting men of a different hue the freedom that they claimed for themselves.<br /><br />Apr 24, 2008 8:14:00 AM<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Manuel A.Tellechea</span> </span>said...<br />Sr Cohiba:<br /><br />"Bug up your ass" (2X)<br /><br />"Argue out of your bum"<br /><br />What is it with you today?<br /><br />Is it now a requirement upon joining "Babalú's magnificent cadre of writers" to lower yourself to Val's level? If so, you are succeeding even beyond my expectations.<br /><br />Yes, the U.S. has had a great many free elections over 200 years and some as well that were not so free: "Free elections" without the participation of non-property holders; African-Americans (nominally until 1865); women (until 1920); and American Indians (until 1923). "Free elections" with the suspension of habeas corpus (Lincoln); "free elections" where the candidate who received the most popular votes did not win; "free" elections like those that brought to power Rutherford B. Hayes, John F. Kennedy and, yes, George W. Bush in 2000.<br /><br />As for U.S. complicity in the destruction of Cuba, I guess that U.S. intervention, The Treaty of Paris (1898), the Platt Amendment and the imposition of Fidel Castro had nothing to do with our current woes?<br /><br />Cohiba, you are what Martí called a yankófilo, a Cuban who admires excessively the United States and is blind to the virtues of his own countrymen.<br /><br />A perfect fit for Babalú.<br /><br />Apr 24, 2008 8:38:00 AMManuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021135461622264124.post-14172203873405147092007-10-22T10:45:00.001-04:002010-05-12T19:21:57.898-04:00Castro and Stalin: Parallel Lives<a href="http://www.winostuff.com/images/BreakingNews/commiewines.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.winostuff.com/images/BreakingNews/commiewines.jpg" /></a><br /><div>I am reading right now Simon Sebag Montefiore's <em>Young Stalin.</em> In <em>The New York Review of Books</em>, Orlando Figes nicely summarizes the book in the title of his notice: "Rise of a Gangster." Stalin's revolutionary career prior to 1917 consisted of murdering enemies and rivals, industrial sabotage, kipnapping children for ransom, million-ruple bank robberies, counterfeiting, extorsion and protection rackets. Montefiore likens Stalin to an "effective godfather of a small, useful and moderately successful Mafia family." Imprisoned briefly by the Tsarist government, Stalin became the boss of the jail "dominating his friends, terrorizing the intellectuals, suborning the guards and befriending the criminals." Anyone acquainted with Castro's own gangster youth, which included killing three rivals on separate occasions by shooting them in the back — the first when Castro and the victim were teenagers — as well as dozens of indescript killings during the Bogotazo; anyone familiar with Castro's own conduct during his brief imprisonment under Batista, cannot fail to see that Castro and Stalin lived parallel lives before reaching power (and, of course, afterwards).<br /><br />In fact, Fidel Castro may justly claim to be the world's last Stalinist leader. There are others, such as Kim Il Sung and Robert Mugabe, who belong to his lineage; but Castro alone came to prominence as a gangster and political agitator while Stalin still lived, conducted a revolution which was connected to Moscow from the first and joined his country's fate to it once he came to power, transforming Cuba into the Soviet Union's first ultra-continental satellite and the only one never to break from it. So faithful was Castro to Stalin's construct of the USSR than even when it fell and was dismantled he attempted to revive it by conspiring with the Old Communists (i.e. the Stalinists) to overthrow the Yeltsin government and restore Communist rule in the former Soviet Union. This may be the only instance in the history of Communism where the satrap attempted to rescue his master -- the "master" being, of course, the legacy of totalitarianism bequeathed to Russia by Castro's real mentor, Joseph Stalin.<br /><br />Having failed to restore Communism in the old Soviet Union, Castro attempted to vindicate that legacy as embodied in Stalin. In a world where Stalinism has become a byword for Communist "excesses" -- in truth, it should be a more potent synonym for state-sponsored savagery and inhumanity than even Hitlerism -- Fidel Castro, in 1992, standing amid its smouldering ruins, indeed, perched on the ashcan of history, attempted one last time to vindicate Stalin. Whatever private opinion one may entertain about the erstwhile "Great Helmsman," it is doubtful that any other head of state will ever defend again or choose to identify himself publicly with Stalin.<br /><br />Castro did so in an interview with Tomás Borge in Managua's <em>El Nuevo Diario</em>, on January 3, 1992. He no doubt felt more secure because of the venue and the interviewer, who, to simplify matters, may be likened to a Sandinista "Che" Guevara in his penchant for blood. It was Borge who introduced the subject of Stalin, sensing, perhaps, that Castro needed to vent on the subject. Or, just as likely, the interview was staged for that purpose; it is difficult to know. In fact, neither the place nor date of the interview was given.<br /><br />First, Borge congratulated Castro on keeping Cuba a communist state after the fall of the Soviet Union. Castro, who did not flinch at cutting rations in half to his slaves in order to withstand the onslaught of freedom, agreed that it was quite an accomplishment for the copy to have survived the model: "The mere fact that Cuba has decided to keep going forward and face the dangers and the challenges following the collapse of the socialist bloc and the disappearance of the USSR is a significant event in history."<br /><br />Borge, who, like Gladstone, knows when to slop it on with a trowel, asked if "the Cuban revolution is the beginning of a resurrection of a socialist option at the world level?" Yes, Castro agreed, Cuba is the last and best hope for the triumph of "certain principles that are immensely, extraordinarily valuable at a moment of confusion in the world." The "moment of confusion" was the dawn of freedom in the Communist world.<br /><br />Borge next asked Castro what he was prepared to do if that awful specter reared its head in Cuba? Castro once answered that question in another interview by saying that he would prefer the island to sink into the ocean. In his reply to Borge, however, he said that Cubans would defend Communism even if Cuba became a "lonely island." What he actually meant, of course, was an empty island. He clarified that point immediately when he confessed that if the island were invaded "it would be necessary to exterminate millions of men determined to fight." Even then, he was sure that the "empire would not prevail." Apparently, "exterminating millions of Cubans" out of a total population of 10 million did not signify defeat to Castro: "If we were invaded and were capable of resisting until the end, that would have great value." The lives of millions of Cubans have no value but the sacrifice of their lives in order to uphold an evil ideology would have "great value."<br /><br />Borge, reminding Castro that he had recently said that the USSR was "assassinated, stabbed in the back," asked Castro if Gorbachev was in on the "conspiracy of daggers that killed socialism?" Castro exculpated Gorbachev whom he said "intended to fight to improve socialism in the USSR." He even claimed, after the fact, that he approved of Gorbachev's reforms. Well, yes, Gorbachev was a true believer, and he only wanted to tinker with Communism, not implode it. His "mistake," from Castro's and Gorbachev's viewpoint, was to try to rearrange a house of cards.<br /><br />Well, if not Gorbachev, who destroyed socialism and dismantled the USSR? Fidel resolutely refused to name names. He was only willing to say that it "self-destructed" and that "imperialism would not have been able to disintegrate the Soviet Union had the Soviets not destroyed it themselves." "Destroying themselves," apparently, means being unwilling to "exterminate millions" in order to save Communism. And, of course, Fidel would not be Fidel if he did not also claim that he "saw it all coming from the beginning."<br /><br />Borge then suggested an unexpected culprit for the fall of Communism: "Fidel, for most Latin American revolutionary leaders, the current crisis of socialism has a mastermind: Josef Stalin."<br /><br />The obvious answer would have been that Communism not only survived Joseph Stalin but expanded (to Cuba, for example, and Nicaragua) after Stalin's death.<br /><br />Castro, instead, availed himself of this opportunity to expound on the merits and failures of Stalin, a subject which he affirmed he had "never discussed with any journalist or on any other occasion." No wonder.<br /><br />"Blaming Stalin for everything that occurred in the Soviet Union would be a historical simplism, because no man by himself could have created certain conditions. It would be the same as giving Stalin all the credit for what the USSR once was. That is impossible!"<br /><br />Castro then proceeded to blame Stalin for "violations of the legal framework (the purges?), abuses of power, failure to develop a progressive process to socialize land" — in short, all of Castro's own crimes in Cuba. As he had once championed, after the fact, the Soviet Union's invasion of Hungary, Castro now repudiated, after the fact, the Hitler-Stalin Pact, which, of course, was the precursor of the equally craven but vastly more successful (for Castro) Kennedy-Khrushchev Pact. He also criticized Stalin for purging his generals on the eve of World War II (which is what Castro himself had done to Arnaldo Ochoa and the La Guardia brothers on the verge of the collapse of Communism). Finally, with unexpected and blood-curdling candor, he faulted Stalin for "placing Communists — who were great friends of the USSR — in a very difficult position by having to support each one of those episodes" [that is, the Hitler-Stalin Pact and subsequent invasion of Poland and Finland]. Yes, it is very inconsiderate of a bloodthirsty dictator to make his apologists abroad defend <em>all</em> his predations.<br /><br />Borge should have left well enough alone. But his curiosity got the better of him. Castro had said that Stalin shouldn't be blamed for the collapse of Communism and then he proceeded to judge him with a rod by which surely he would not want to be judged himself, since he has committed all of Stalin's "mistakes" for twice as long as did Stalin.<br /><br />Then came <em>the</em> question: "What do you believe were Stalin's merits?"<br /><br />And Castro tells him:<br /><br />"He established unity in the Soviet Union. He consolidated what Lenin had begun: party unity. He gave the international revolutionary movement a new impetus. The USSR's industrialization was one of Stalin's wisest actions, and I believe it was a determining factor in the USSR's capacity to resist. I believe Stalin led the USSR well during the war. According to many generals, Zhukov and the most brilliant Soviet generals, Stalin played an important role in defending the USSR and in the war against Nazism. They all recognized it. I think there should be an impartial analysis of Stalin. Blaming him for everything that happened would be historical simplism."<br /><br />For someone who is very fond of historical simplisms himself, Castro won't allow Stalin to be crushed under the weight of them. He blames Stalin for what he himself copied in Cuba (the purges and a catastrophic alliance) and praises him for what he failed to accomplish in Cuba (industrialization). Castro praised him also for his defense of the Soviet motherland. What he admires, of course, is the fact that Stalin defended his power to his dying day and died in his own bed. It is a feat which Castro himself wishes to emulate, and, which, in all likelihood he will, alas.</div>Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.com5