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Cuba Not Improved Under New Castro
Wheeling News Register ^ | 28 Jul 08 | N/A

Posted on 07/28/2008 11:08:41 AM PDT by AreaMan

Cuba Not Improved Under New Castro
By the News-Register
POSTED: July 28, 2008

New Cuban President Raul Castro answered a question posed several months ago when he took the reins of power from his infirm brother, Fidel. At the time, some observers wondered whether the new Castro would liberalize Cuban policies.

No, Raul Castro said on Saturday. Cubans can expect only the same-old, same-old communism.

In a speech delivered on Revolution Day, Castro pledged that the military will continue to be a priority for Cuba's resources. That was the case under Fidel Castro, because the wily old dictator understood the need to divert Cubans' attention from the domestic failures of communism by claiming they face a terrible, relentless foreign enemy - the United States.

Things will get worse for Cubans before they get better, Raul Castro warned on Saturday. He blamed rising prices for oil and other commodities - without mentioning that Cuba's communist economy is less able than more progressive ones to cope with such challenges.

Many Cubans saw through Castroism years ago - and left their country to begin new lives in the United States. At some point, we hope, their former countrymen will decide to take back Cuba instead of hoping for change that will not come under any Castro.


TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: castro; communism; cuba; obamasupporters

1 posted on 07/28/2008 11:08:41 AM PDT by AreaMan
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To: AreaMan

In other news...the sky remains blue and water is still wet.


2 posted on 07/28/2008 11:09:44 AM PDT by AreaMan
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To: AreaMan

Won’t Get Fooled Again Lyrics
Artist(Band):The Who

We’ll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the foe, that’ all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain’t changed
‘Cause the banners, they all flown in the next war

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
No, no!

I’ll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I’ll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie

Do ya?

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

There’s nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again
No, no!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss.......................


3 posted on 07/28/2008 11:10:37 AM PDT by Red Badger (If we drill deep enough, we can reach the Saudi oil fields from THIS side..........)
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To: AreaMan

Things will improve for Raul if he can hang on until his compatriot, Obama, takes control of the U.S.


4 posted on 07/28/2008 11:14:22 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: AreaMan
Raúl is out of change. Literally and figuratively.

Desperate Cubans waited with their still empty glasses of milk to see if their new leader would offer up a timetable to make good on the promised “structural changes” which he announced in his now famous glass of milk speech a year ago.

But no, Raúl did not announce any change or make any other assurances to the Cuban people other than warn them that things are going to change from bad to worse. Like with all thugs, warnings are really promises.

More sacrifice, more struggle, more of the same. Not a warning put a promise.

Like the much ridiculed exiles across the straights in Miami, Raúl looked back to the good ol’ hey days of the Cuban republic when sugar was king and Fidel wasn’t and reminisced about the day his brother started the bleeding and then promised more blood.

Raúl “warned:”

''We shall continue paying special attention to defense, regardless of the results of the next presidential elections in the United States,'' Raúl said.

Defense.

Raúl, of course, means defense of the revolution, of the status quo, of his regime. And who exactly does he have to defend the revolution from?

Jamaica? The Dominican Republic? The Cayman Islands?

Those bitter exiles in Miami clinging to their nostalgia of Batista’s Cuba? Hardly, the United States government makes dam sure that will never happen.

The US-The Empire just 90 miles due North? If the US was serious about getting rid of the Castro Nostra, they would be gone in about 12 hours and they know it.

The real enemies of the so called Cuban revolution are its victims-the Cuban people. It is the Cuban people that Raúl was warning in his speech.

He wanted to assure them that his priorities have not changed. His number one priority is to stay in power come what may even if it’s the audacious Barry O.

The real estate market in South Florida is tanking, foreclosures are sky high, gasoline prices are in the stratosphere and the dollar doesn’t go as far as it used to, all of which is cutting into the regime’s remittance business.

Times are tough. It’s going to cost more to arm and train the regime’s goon squads. The price of surveillance equipment is going up. Ramiro needs cash to subdue the “wild colt” that is the internet. The Cuban armed forces need upgrades to defend the regime against the dangerous Ladies in White, the FLAMUR women, kids wearing “cambio” bracelets, assorted writers and poets and the 98 pound blogger Yoani Sanchez. Repression can’t be done on the cheap, you know.

Therefore, Cubans will have to be a little hungrier and a little more miserable so that Raúl can continue to defend them against freedom, happiness and prosperity.

- El Gusano

5 posted on 07/28/2008 11:15:04 AM PDT by The Bronze Titan
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To: AreaMan
Things will get worse for Cubans before they get better, Raul Castro warned

In other words, he's saying that Cuba will get better "over my dead body".

6 posted on 07/28/2008 11:15:07 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Et si omnes ego non)
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To: AreaMan

Hey, cut the guy some slack - it took his brother over 40 years to run that country into the ground!


7 posted on 07/28/2008 11:17:00 AM PDT by SAMS ("I may look harmless, but I raised a U.S. MARINE!" Army Wife & Marine Mom)
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To: AreaMan

Maybe Obama should run Cuba for 4 years as a trial of how well his policies would work here.


8 posted on 07/28/2008 11:27:02 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Huma for co-president! (it ain't over 'til it's over))
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To: SAMS

Is it just me? Or could possibly Fidel come to grips with the thought that as the Iraq people took little time to tear down his statues..and the people of Russia removed statutes of Lenin..could it be possible that the name CASTRO in Cuba will be eradicated by the people who populate that island? If Brother Raul couldn’t improve the plight of the poorest of his island, people will only have but to rejoice when the Castros are all dead. Is anyone know who might fill the slot when Providence decides that Raul also needs to succomb to some illness of age? Here in Mexico, SATURDAY they celebrated the CUBAN REVOLUTION....where my dear FREEPER do you think in Mexico City CUBANS went to the streets to raise their flag? NONE OTHER than the U.S. Embassy, blocked traffic on Reforma for a few hours while they ranted and raved about how much they hate the U.S. I REALLY wish the GRANMA press would stage their REVOLUTION celebration in front of their OWN embassy. But it wouldn’t have gotten the PRESS which they really need.


9 posted on 07/28/2008 11:27:10 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: AreaMan
"....communist economy is less able than more progressive ones..."

I thought that communist was as progressive as one can get.

10 posted on 07/28/2008 11:28:01 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Huma for co-president! (it ain't over 'til it's over))
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To: PBRSTREETGANG
Ding, ding, ding!....Give that man a prize.

Raul and his ilk are breathlessly hoping Obama brings plenty of fellow travellers into the administration.

11 posted on 07/28/2008 11:31:21 AM PDT by AreaMan
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To: AreaMan
Cuba Not Improved Under New Castro

Fidel couldn't do it.

Lenin couldn't do it.

Stalin couldn't do it.

Khrushchev, Brezshnev, Kosygin, Andropov, etc. couldn't do it.

Mao couldn't do it.

The North Korean Kim's couldn't do it.

And now...

Raoul can't do it.

Communism is so simple. When oh when will the right person come along that can make it work?

< /sarcasm >

12 posted on 07/28/2008 11:33:18 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
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To: AreaMan

“How can you improve upon such success?!!!” - chorus of voices from Dan Rather, Jimmy Carter, and Oliver Stone. < /s >


13 posted on 07/28/2008 11:52:16 AM PDT by weegee (Obama loves America like Bill loves Hillary.)
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To: N. Theknow
OBAMA CAN DO IT! < /barf >
14 posted on 07/28/2008 11:52:57 AM PDT by weegee (Obama loves America like Bill loves Hillary.)
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To: AreaMan

Same communist police state, different management.


15 posted on 07/28/2008 1:37:56 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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