The daily joke
Queen Raula la Horrible reings supreme over the Coronation Charade in Havana. Flanked by Juan Almeida Bosque, Guillermo Garcia, and Ramiro Darth Valdes, the "historic" commanders of the "revolution", the Queen reviewed "her" troops. Out of the three old men by "her" side, only Ramiro Darth Valdes holds the reins of real power. The other two are just two oxen tied to the yoke.
After reviewing the troops and war equipement, and ordering the salvos fired, The Queen of Mean went to the tribune with "her" entourage, and the parade has been going on for about 50 minutes with no sign of the Bearded Mummy, fidel kasstro.
Is this a joke? Hardly.
Let's see how the day goes by.
It seems to be just another Saturday in Havana. Boring, boring....
UPDATE:
raul castro proposes negotiations with the USA in his speech.
This is officially the end of the so called revolution, his words:
"Sirva la oportunidad para nuevamente declarar nuestra disposición de resolver en la mesa de negociaciones el prolongado diferendo entre Estados Unidos y Cuba, claro está, siempre que acepten, como ya dijimos en otra ocasión, nuestra condición de país que no tolera sombras a su independencia y sobre la base de los principios de igualdad, reciprocidad, no injerencia y respeto mutuo."
(We take this opportunity to once again state that we are willing to resolve at the negotiating table the longstanding dispute between the United States and Cuba, of course, provided they accept, as we have previously said, our condition as a country that will not tolerate any blemishes on its independence, and as long as said resolution is based on the principles of equality, reciprocity, non-interference and mutual respect)
Somehow, it seems to me that the state funeral is not lagging far away....
After reviewing the troops and war equipement, and ordering the salvos fired, The Queen of Mean went to the tribune with "her" entourage, and the parade has been going on for about 50 minutes with no sign of the Bearded Mummy, fidel kasstro.
Is this a joke? Hardly.
Let's see how the day goes by.
It seems to be just another Saturday in Havana. Boring, boring....
UPDATE:
raul castro proposes negotiations with the USA in his speech.
This is officially the end of the so called revolution, his words:
"Sirva la oportunidad para nuevamente declarar nuestra disposición de resolver en la mesa de negociaciones el prolongado diferendo entre Estados Unidos y Cuba, claro está, siempre que acepten, como ya dijimos en otra ocasión, nuestra condición de país que no tolera sombras a su independencia y sobre la base de los principios de igualdad, reciprocidad, no injerencia y respeto mutuo."
(We take this opportunity to once again state that we are willing to resolve at the negotiating table the longstanding dispute between the United States and Cuba, of course, provided they accept, as we have previously said, our condition as a country that will not tolerate any blemishes on its independence, and as long as said resolution is based on the principles of equality, reciprocity, non-interference and mutual respect)
Somehow, it seems to me that the state funeral is not lagging far away....
9 Comments:
ese comentario en particular de Raul no dice absolutamente nada. Al contrario nos aleja aun mas de ver a una Cuba libre y democratica...
si lo Americanos son inteligentes deberian aislar completamente a Cuba una vez fidel muera ..
Un bloqueo naval sin precedentes y despues los cubanos libres del exilio y del versalles , con Frometa , atacar a estos miserables .
No fue un ramo de olivo lo que ofrecio Raul. Lo considero una declaracion de guerra , una ofensa al pueblo de cuba y una forma mas de continuar oprimiendo al pueblo cubano por 50 años mas
ABAJO RAUL .
My gut feeling is telling me that fidel is dead or just minutes away from it. Terminal cancer . Can't get out of bed. Ever.
Of course, Enrique, but there are many interests in the USA that were waiting precisely for those words. As you say, they are a declaration of war, not to the States, it's a declaration of war to a future Free Cuba.
It's all designed to keep the status quo as it is, so there's no overnight drastic and radical changes, and the economies of the Caribbean Basin, Mexico, Florida, Las Vegas and New Orleans don't go down collapsing in a matter of weeks.
There are a lot of accomplices in Corporate America and also in shady circles, like the Russian Mafia, Arab weapon traffickers, South Americans with dirty money, Americans wanting a tax heaven, the people who are interested in having offshore banking and casinos, while keeping the Cuban people enslaved.
And.... there are a lot of people in exile who are also interested in keeping the status quo, so political careers don't wane, business keeps on going, and hell, no balseros....
yes, I agree with you that kasstro has been kissed by death. He's just in the process of becoming a stenching heap of rotting remains.... breathing or not, that's just totally irrelevant, it's just a matter of days.
The people of Cuba remains in total loliness. Twelve million souls have been TOTALLY abandoned. They are insulted and abused on a daily basis, and now, well, raul wants to offer them as captive cheap labor to the world, and that's what many economic and corporative interests want. Damn, the Cuban people have been sold again, with the complicity of many high power individuals in politics.
Lo de las mesas de negociación se lo sacaron los terroristas etarras de la manga y solo sirve para una cosa: ganar tiempo. ¡Cuidado con ese pájaro! Raúl tiene algo en mente, aunque parezca increíble
Of course, what he has in mind is to gain some time to secure a system where they can continue milking the Cuban people with the acceptation and complicity of the corporate interests of the world. The Etarras, my dear Mick, are the most advantaged alumni that kasstro ever had. He talked admiringly and highly of them. Always!
This is interesting,but clearly EXPECTED as La China follows the script like a very good understudy should!
The whole charade of the military parade is just posing!
They KNOW this will impress NO ONE outside Kuba and even Cubans are going.. “Will they EVER fix THAT dent on THAT fucking tank?”
Actually Enrique, the USA government IS smart!
The whole thing would be over in about 12 hours but as I said on a previous post LOTS of special interests that have nothing to do with a free Cuba are at work here!
What gives la China the impetus to make demands (and she WILL make demands of the USA) is that she knows a Free Cuba does NOT need USA money, and the USA can NOT (nor are they willing) to throw the switch and end it all.
As we have reported the economic reconstruction of Cuba is at the root of the survival of the apparatik, and THAT economic reconstruction is WELL on the way with PLENTY ‘o cash from EVERYWHERE!
Politically, socially and humanly we Cubans will have to forget about “PAY BACK” for 47 years of genocide, brutality, starvation etc. BORRON Y CUENTA NUEVA mi socio!
This is ALL about ECONOMICS now!
And as far as Cuba vs. the USA the next round of antagonism will come as the Europeans settle in, La China Loca opens the private sector and they set up a Vietnam type government 90 miles from the USA.
Hell, WRITE THIS DOWN.. The upcoming move is going to be a gradual release of political prisoners so that NO ONE can doubt the good will of the new regime!
There, anti-commie-kuba sentiments totally diffused!
NOT that there will be a political glasnost but, there will a god damn good facsimile in place.
I wish we could claim an extraordinaire insight as far as the Cuban/USA econo/political war is concerned, but it is just THERE for all to see.
You just need to sit back, loose the preconceptions and the emotional need for vengeance. Accept that the USA doesn’t want a free Cuba and that Cuba doesn’t need the USA.
I think we have been saying this for almost 2 years and our inside sources regarding the economic future of Cuba (and AGAIN I need to mention that these guys are NOT commies, they just wanna EAT and drive a god damn car that wasn’t built during the Eisenhower administration!) these guys have it down. THREE YEARS and boom, “land of plenty” courtesy of the Euro!
Which means that, as things get easier for Cubans inside the island, the USA government needs to piss or get off the pot.
I am betting that there will be so MUCH money to be made in Cuba that the special interests that are impeding a decisive USA strike against Cuba will be told to go fuck themselves!
That Microsoft WANTS to sell software in Cuba (cause they got CASH!) that the Hiltons WILL want hotels in Cuba (‘cause there’s a LOT of tourism and THEY HAVE CASH) that the USA population will want to go gamble at the Italian owned Casinos in Southern Cuba and the whole thing will end with the quit swoosh of money counting and not with a big BANG!
Ok, ok. Yes, I agree with your thesis on the inevitable direction of where this entire 'econo' thing is headed, snd that there is nothing in the way of stopping this direction.
Now. The challenge and question would be, HOW can we take this 'inevitable direction' and somehow use it to our goals to undermine the Cuban regime?
I say, fine. Let's get on this 'gravy train' diretion, but with objetives to help empower Cubans to undermine the regime (the totalitarians) in control.
We live in interesting times, amigos y amigas. At the same time, wonder what the nomenklatura in Cuba is thinking...perhaps something along the lines of the late-war German street saying, to wit: "Enjoy the war - the peace will be dreadful." They are desperately trying to hold their world together, but their world is starting to spin out of control.
There's no surefire recipe for this, Solimar, since the approach has been to do everything possible to install a regime modeled according to the Vietnamese method.
Tomorrow, with the elections of Venezuela, there's a big chance that el Mico Putumayo wins, as he has said, a las buenas o a las malas. So then, raul will get his share of the deal crafted in the past few days with el Mico. On the other side, and independently of the win or the lose of el Mico in Venezuela, raul will reach out to the USA and let's face it, the USA is not at all interested in having an unstable situation or civil war situation in Cuba, since the USA would be forced to intervene to solve the crisis. Nor is the USA interested in having a country in the region whose potential is such that could sink in a black hole the regional economy (as I have said before, the Caribbean basin, South Florida, New Orleans, Las Vegas and Mexico would suffer enourmously if Cuba suddenly opens up and grows freely) it would mean even a larger number of illegal imigrants trying to go to Cuba (and believe me, in Cuba nobody would want them and they would be sent back as they did with the balseros) and therefore said migrants would flock to the USA southern border.
In order to keep the stability of the region, the Vietnamese model seems to be ideal for both the Cuban government and the USA. Anyways, not much was done to take the tyranny out in the last 47 years, for the same reasons stated above. Money.
Now, it is lucrative for the States to have a country with an industrious population nearby, as long as the population is kept under control by what's coming, which is tyranny lite, release 2.0.
Do you remember Animal Farm?
The pigs negotiated with the humans at the end, and when the rest of the animals of the farm looked through the windows of the Manor House, they weren't able to distinguish anymore between pigs and humans. This is exactly what's happening today in Cuba.
The Cuban government calculated and designed this scenario many years ago. If the USA can send an ambassador (and enterprises, and money) to Viet Nam, after a war that cost around 60 000 American young lives, and that empowered the left around the world and provoked rabid anti-Americanism, then the USA government will not have any problems in negotiating and doing business with Cuba (as a matter of fact, that's being done already, 34 States have business with Cuba and many "consultants" and "lobbysts" visit Cuba on a regular basis)
The exiles? Do we really think that the US government care about the exiles? It seems that the answer is not positive. Elian was sent back to Cuba. The balseros are sent back to Cuba. Every single policy in regards to Cuba has failed to remove the system. Cubans are banned from taking efforts to liberate their own country by American law. Actually, the regime has benefited of everything that was supposedly done to obliterate it.
Be prepared to see talks if not with raul with somebody from the inner circles of power within Cuba.
Be prepared to see both the exiles and the internal oposition left out of any negotiation or conversation.
This happened already in 1898, when the Cuban mambises were left out of the negotiations between Spain and the USA.
One doesn't hear a peep about the Vietnamese exiles in the USA. One doesn't hear a peep about the human rights violations in Viet Nam, but one is constantly bombarded with text and images describing how profitable is doing business there. We even saw photos of Bush under the bust of Ho Chi Mihn. I wrote at that time that I wouldn't be surprised if Bush drank coffee under a mango tree in Havana with raul. It somehow seems to be awfuly close to happen tonight.
As I have written before, we will see "cultural tours" of Cuba, "culinary tours" of Cuba, afrocuban ceremonies for whoever wants to pay for them, percussion classes and so on and so for. I wish I were wrong and that we awaken to a free Cuba.
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