A walk in Havana

Boston Globe ^ | March 14, 2002 | Jeff Jacoby

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks AFTR.

But move around Havana with your eyes open and you see the reality. For Communist Party big shots there are beautiful neighborhoods like Miramar, with its elegant mansions and gorgeous gardens. For ordinary Cubans there are the crowded, crumbling apartments of Centro Havana, where families live in squalor it would be hard to find in an American slum.

The sad thing about this is the cruel reality in which Cubans live. Communism is a "concept"--nothing more. Castro is a murderer, and so is any oppressive, controlling, totalitarian government. People who romanticize Castro or any other totalitarian, i.e. Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Mao or others, have obviously never felt the pain of not being able to express an individual idea. Plus these leaders have never known anything but the lust for their own power, repression, human rights abuses, killings, and illegal jailing.

[Joe Boucher]

Dear Mr. Gonzalez I hadn't heard this statement for quite awhile, it brought tears to my eyes. A real American patriot.Thanks and GOD bless.

[Bogie]

Yeah, they are chopping away at out property rights! And, it's by the same crowd that runs Cuba today. I'm sure of that, though the names are not the same.

[TheGoodDoc]

"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"<>A BIG OL' PATRICK HENRY BUMP!!!

[Bogie]

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Cheers, Luis, and ditto!

[Budge]

Yes, I seem to remember that now.

God Bless you for risking your life in what turned out to be a futile attempt at saving Cubans fleeing Castro's island paradise.

[Republic]

Ahhhhh....this is the truth that hurts. We need to pray for those in Cuba so beat down but whose spirits still hold hope. Thank you for this post and ping, God Bless every single human being trapped in the hell Castro, architect of a slave state the honors nothing but spiritless adherance to brutal, human crushing rules and regulations.

God Bless Elian and his family.

I hope Jeff's article fell under the hateful eyes of Reno, Gregg Craig (Williams and Connerly DC lawyer who conspired to rip the hardest won freedom of all to little child [ the death of the mom] , God's most precious gift, from little Elian), billy the rapist extraordinaire and man who SOLD pardons to highest bidders to enrich his OWN FAMILY while PRESIDENT ), hugely disgusting , hillary, joan campbell, doris meissner and assorted other creeps. Big time. These people are DREAM CRUSHERS. Tramplers of those less powerful. Greedy (just ask greggy poo about the Bagley's of DC and Reynolds tobacco or ADM aspirations in Cuba) and most of all, apparently GODLESS jerks.