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2005-12-21 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by Pappy 2005-12-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Parmly, like Bolton, must be doing all the right things

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-12-21 00:31|| 2005-12-21 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 More:
Government television criticized Washington's top diplomat in Havana Tuesday, after he met with dissidents and charged that some communist supporters acted like Nazi "brown shirts" or Ku Klux Klan members. Former communist youth leader Randy Alonso, moderator of state television's nightly "Round Table" program, said the Dec. 10 gathering at the residence of new U.S. Interests Section chief Michael Parmly was "a new provocation against our people. To compare Cuba to the worst fascism, and the worst racism of the United States ... it is very hurtful," Alonso said.

Some Cuban officials privately expressed hopes that Parmly would be more diplomatic than his predecessor, James Cason, who spoke out frequently against the government during his three years here. "Up to December 10, Parmly wore the suit of a diplomat, but a change came during that speech," pro-government journalist Arleen Rodriguez said on the program.The nightly program broadcast across this island of 11 million people gave most Cubans their first look at the American diplomat, showing him giving a speech in a brief video clip that apparently was taken surreptitiously at the Dec. 10 gathering, held to celebrate Human Rights Day.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-12-21 01:07|| 2005-12-21 01:07|| Front Page Top

#3 I guess Cuba's looming threats of famine, etc. ala North Korea t'aint the cause(s)!? I'm sure Cuban mothers and families will be glad to know their children died or were eaten for the sake of Castro's = Kimmie's fat belly and better, nicer-looking missles.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-12-21 01:11|| 2005-12-21 01:11|| Front Page Top

#4 I thought regime change in cuba was policy?
So wouldn't an appointed diplomat try to execute policy? I must be missing some subtlety here, that's why I'll never be a diplomat.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-12-21 08:07|| 2005-12-21 08:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Joe, you'd have to work at starving to death in Cuba. :> Altho chicken and rice or rice and rice gets old. I'll bet this is another Christmas decorations squabble.

Posted by Buckminster Spemble1220 2005-12-21 09:16|| 2005-12-21 09:16|| Front Page Top

#6 What's Spanish for "human scum"?

Posted by tu3031 2005-12-21 09:43|| 2005-12-21 09:43|| Front Page Top

#7 "Castro"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-12-21 09:56|| 2005-12-21 09:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Only 90 minutes? They must like him, then.

Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-12-21 10:15|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2005-12-21 10:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Sticks and stones.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-12-21 12:47|| 2005-12-21 12:47|| Front Page Top

#10 No, they dedicated the next day's show to him as well.

Posted by Pappy 2005-12-21 13:00|| 2005-12-21 13:00|| Front Page Top

#11 tu, how about espuma humana?

Bucky, you forgot the black beans!

Posted by Parabellum 2005-12-21 17:59|| 2005-12-21 17:59|| Front Page Top

#12 But did they call him fat?

Posted by Thomosh Gravinter9151 2005-12-21 22:13|| 2005-12-21 22:13|| Front Page Top

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