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2008-04-14 Caribbean-Latin America

More Cubans abandoning communist island in 'silent exodus'

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Posted by tu3031 2008-04-14 14:55|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Illegal emigrants -- who are returned to Cuba by US authorities if picked up at sea, but get to stay in the United States if they reach US soil...

Fun and games. But it sounds like a win-win for the Castro Brothers. First they get rid of trouble makers. Then, after said trouble makers find work in American, they send dollars to their relatives in Cuba.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2008-04-14 15:15|| 2008-04-14 15:15|| Front Page Top

#2 "US authorities estimate that some 35,000 Cubans will arrive to stay this year in the United States, which grants them immediate residency and working rights for fleeing communism."

We need a quid pro quo plan, for every escaping communist, we exchange the passport of a member of the left. That is a program with vision, all the America hating residents here should be subject to this excahnge. Countries offered should include Cuba, North Korea, venezuela, and zimbabwe. Each of these countries needs our leftists to fill the many vaccums associated with the policies they wish to impos here.

Posted by Thraviper Panda2099 2008-04-14 17:37|| 2008-04-14 17:37|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm all for sending as many communists lefties into Cuba as possible. They love that type of government, they can live there instead of trying to make us like it.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-04-14 17:44|| 2008-04-14 17:44|| Front Page Top

#4 What I don't understand, is why are people even trying to leave the worker's paradise that is Cuba? I mean they have free health care and education. What more could they want?
Other than freedom to speak their minds without being locked up, or the opportunity to own things without being part of the elite party, etc.

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-04-14 18:20|| 2008-04-14 18:20|| Front Page Top

#5 "On April 14, all Cubans for the first time will be allowed to sign contracts for cell (mobile) phones, and will be able to reach friends and relatives in the United States and beyond. "

Yup, that was this morning. Cubans now have their own cell phones. It won't be much longer now.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-04-14 18:34|| 2008-04-14 18:34|| Front Page Top

#6 As is usually the case, there are quiet overtures in the background about Cuba giving up on the whole communist misadventure. But the stumbling block remains the old bastard Fidel Castro. The Cubans are too afraid to move while he is still alive.

However, when his death is announced, there is going to be some long delayed rapprochement.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-04-14 19:12|| 2008-04-14 19:12|| Front Page Top

#7 What are the local Castro-ites, Commies, + public Personages doing to inspire their own people to stay and invest???

*As per TOPIX, looks like the Cubans are following the same decision path as Putin's RUSSIA = Cold War USSR + Commie Bloc, i.e. focusing scarce State Socialist $$$ on ADVANCED/HIGH TECHNOLOGY DEV + TRANSFERS, FOR THE SAKE OF ANTI-US/WEST COMPETITION + SHORT-TERM NATIONAL-IDEO PRESTIGE, WIDOUT NEED OF DEV SUPPORTING ECONOMIC BASES OR ANALYZING MARKET NEEDS.

E.G. NAFTA-NAU + proposed GREAT LAKES FREE TRADE ZONE > As I'd said long ago on the Net, the USA = CONUS-NORAM can one day become a continent, perhaps TWO WID SOUTH AMERICA, of REGIONAL-GLOBAL FREE TRADE + ECON ZONES, AS PER THE MOST SURREAL, "IDEALIST/PURIST" DEFINITIONS AND PREMISES OF FREE MARKET CAPITALISM. To RUSSIA-CHINA's credit, at least their Politicos + Govts were FORMAL + OVERT IN SETTING UP THEIR FREE TRADE ZONES, NOT PDENIABLE LIKE AMERICA'S. IT TOOK THE NET TO SAY WHAT AMER LEADERS SHOULD [ALREADY]BE SAYING TO THEIR OWN CONSTITUENTS + COUNTRY.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-04-14 19:14|| 2008-04-14 19:14|| Front Page Top

#8 9-11/WOT > among other premises is WAR FOR MACKINDER'S WORLD ISLAND > WAR-COMPETITION BETWEEN THE CONTINENTS AS TO WHICH WILL DOMINATE THE FUTURE OWG-NWO + OWG GLOBAL MARKETS, i.e. AMERICA(S) = NEW WORLD, versus EURASIA = OLD WORLD. ABOVE + USA versus RUSSIA-CHINA versus RADICAL ISLAMISM, etc. in Pacific > Guam, CNMI + WESTPAC still caught in the middle.

* JOHN GOODMAN in RAISING ARIZONA > CEREAL = "CORN FLAKES" Scene >"SO MANY COMMITMENTS, SO LITTLE TIME" [milk + flakes fly thru air here].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-04-14 19:28|| 2008-04-14 19:28|| Front Page Top

#9 See also PORTNEWS.RU - PORTS WITHOUT BORDERS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-04-14 22:01|| 2008-04-14 22:01|| Front Page Top

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