24 February, 2009
A 13 años y no se hace justicia (updated)
Hoy se cumplen 13 años del fusilamiento en el aire de Armando Alejandre Jr., Carlos Costa, Mario de la Peña y Pablo Morales (http://www.theshootdown.com/).
Recuerdo que días antes del trágico vuelo, Armando Alejandre Jr., Leonardo Viota y yo nos dirigíamos hacia nuestros automóviles después de asistir a una reunión de apoyo a Concilio Cubano (http://www.sigloxxi.org/Anexos-libro/anex-33.htm). Recuerdo que era tarde en la noche. El carro de Armando estaba al cruzar de donde estaba el mío. Ambos, azules, marca Ford Taurus del mismo año. Los dos teníamos pegado en nuestros vehículos los celebres bumper stickers de “NO CASTRO, NO PROBLEM”. Las únicas diferencias entre los carros eran que el mío era un pisicorre y el de Alejandre tenía el cristal del lado del chofer roto. Le habían tirado una piedra si no mal recuerdo. Le dije: “Coño Armando la cogieron contigo”.
A 13 años y no se hace justicia. Aquel 24 de febrero, muchos pensábamos que sí. Para mucho antes que estos tiempos. ¡Qué ingenuos fuimos!
Pedro López me recuerda que efectivamente el también estaba presente “cuando rompieron el parabrisas”.
Mickey:
Lei un articulo en tu blog sobre el aniversario del asesinato de Mario,Carlos,Pablo,y Armando,en el cual lo comienzas con la anecdota de aquel dia cuando rompieron el parabrisas de Armando,solo que al enumerar quienes iban caminando por el parqueo,a la salida de la reunion de Concilio,en el shopping de la 8 y la 84 Ave,se te olvido alguien,......yo.Un saludo,
Pedro
DECALOGO DE ABRAHAM LINCOLN
RALLY IN NEW YORK FOR DEMOCRACY IN CUBA
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RALLY IN NEW YORK FOR FREEDOM IN CUBA.
We are organizing a Cuban pro democracy rally in New York City on Sunday March 1. It would be great if you can join us there and/or support this effort in any way possible.
All Cuban American organizations around New York City are invited. We are also trying to reach the Cuban American students from Columbia, NYU, Rutgers, Yale… We want this rally to have a lot of positive energy and we need as many talented people as possible.
This is an anti Castro rally, but most importantly, this is a pro democracy rally, and a very inclusive one. We want people to know what we stand for (democracy, human rights, fundamental freedoms for all), beyond party lines or narrow political ideology. So republicans, democratas, libertarians, independents and all those in between, are welcome.
Would you help us spread the word? Would you join us?
You can find more about the rally here or by contacting us at protesta.en.ny@gmail.com.
Thanks,
Alexis Romay
Comité Organizador
Protesta en Nueva York
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23 February, 2009
PERIODISTA ARGENETINA ENTREVISTA DISIDENTES EN CUBA
PERIODISTA ARGENTINA DENUNCIA LA FALTA DE LIBERTAD EN CUBA
VER LOS ENLACES A YOUTUBE Y VIDEOS DEBAJO DEL ARTICULO
El Canal 5 (C5N) "Canal 5 Noticias" de la televisión argentina ha transmitido un excelente reportaje, a través de un programa especial difundido a toda la argentina, titulado "Cuba hoy: Un país sin libertad", que demuestra claramente como se vive en la Cuba castrista.
Para beneficio de nuestros lectores le facilitamos el reportaje completo dividido en 8 videos, a los que podrá acceder pinchando en los links que aparecen debajo.
En ese excelente reportaje se entrevista a la Dra. Hilda Molina, a su hijo residente en Argentina y a la madre de la doctora, a Yoani Sánchez, Las Damas de Blanco, Vladimiro Roca, Martha Beatriz Roque y a otras figuras.
Recomendamos a nuestros lectores, que participen en foros de discusión que publiquen estos videos, para callarle la boca a los castristas (abiertos y embozados) que también participan en dichos foros, defendiendo lo indefendible o usando subterfugios para desviar la atención.
Agradecemos a nuestro amigo Ricardo Laurenti "Quico del Cerro", por facilitarnos los videos
Un pais sin libertad (parte1
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Un pais sin libertad (parte2
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Un pais sin libertad (parte3)
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Un pais sin libertad (parte4
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Un pais sin libertad (parte5
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Un pais sin libertad (parte6)
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Un pais sin libertad (parte7)
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Un pais sin libertad (parte8)
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21 February, 2009
WAKE UP AMERICA
Remark :
This article was written during the electoral campaign
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WAKE UP AMERICA !!!
by Pedro Martori
The McCain Camp must make emphasis on the Economy and on future plans
to restore the security issues for the nation IN BOTH SENSES :
THE ECONOMICS and the ANTI TERRORISM ONES.
IN VIEW OF THE RECENT EVENTS ,WHEREAS THE ECONOMY SECTOR, the finantial world stumbled down and showed --certainly--- some danger of fatigues,
the McCain Camp must make emphasis on the Economy and the future plans
to restore the security and confidence in that respect and sector of his nation,
if he wishes to advance his candadicy for the President mandate.
Most americans, specially those in the middle classes and the laboring one
are much more worried about the future situation that might derive from
the present situation in the finantial world than in any other issues at present times.
Nobody can blame the present administration for what happened these few weeks ago.
This Crisis was "cooking" in low fire from the times the Clintons were at the helm in the
White House...even from before those days...
In those days the arguments in many cyber discussions were about the balloon inflated in the Real State sector. The exhorbitancy in prices that were on "the rise " for homes and real state properties .
What caused and determined the fall of the Markets and this hard blow to the Economy was a group of factors, none of them have to do with any Administration per se in the White House.
To try to blame them , either the incumbent one or the precedent administrations,
is pure partisanery or fanatism. Even if the problem was foreseen from the times
the Clintons were at the W.House.
America does not need at these moments such a scare crow and biased partialization
in the present elections.
And the McCain camp should do take a hint on this advise :
Reassure the american general population of his plans for a recovery and
the delivery of the solutions at the most expedient way and time.
America needs to stand up to present and future menaces in the Economics,Technological and Military.
Among the factors or components to which America must beware are:
1.-A new power is on the raise: China.
2.-A revengeful Russia and its chauvisnism is preparing to dressed
up against the world again.
3.-The Oil countries or producers are aware of the Power and Influence that they might yield through the Pipelines from their oil wells.
4.- A tough competition in the manufacturing and commerce is already affecting the Job Market in North America and Europe.
None of these factors was created or causes was due to any of the Administration at the helm in the White House.
Thus to try to induce people in error to secure VOTES for any of the parties in the campaign is relevant only to the most ridicule and treacherous demagoguery .
America has other woes coming ahead, and they are not only in the Economy field...but rather in the hatred stimulated, and induced to millions of fanatics and extremists around the world.
Thus the challenge for America,or for that matter for any President in the coming future times are not just to protect american Jobs , but to protect America's security and productivity to continue creating richness and jobs for its citizens and this can only be achieved if America can protect the world from inestability as well as itself.
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CONNECT THE DOTS BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE.
When electing a wartime president,
> shouldn’t we conduct a thorough background check?
> Has Barack Hussein Obama ever disproved his heavily-documented ties
> to radical Islam, political corruption and socialism? See our proof below.
>
. WILLIAM AYERS, Obama’s Hyde Park neighbor, was a Weather Underground terrorist who bombed the Capitol, the Pentagon and a judge's home to perpetrate violent overthrow of the U.S. government(“Guilty as sin, free as a bird, what a country!”). Ayers, whom Obama called rehabilitated, said in 2007 he didn’t regret bombing his own country, and called education “the motorforce of revolution” in a 2006 speech to Hugo Chavez and the World Education Forum. He ended by proclaiming, “Viva la Revolution Bolivariana,” an accolade to Bolivia’s Communist Dictator and coca (cocaine)-production leader, Juan Morales. Ayers hosted a 1995 fundraiser in his home to launch Obama’s senatorial campaign. From 1995-1999 Obama chaired Ayers Annenberg Challenge multimillion-dollar educational reform organization to “radicalize” Chicago students.
> . ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is currently under investigation for voter fraud in ten states, including Connecticut and crucial swing states. ACORN operatives have submitted hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of false absentee and resident voter registrations (e.g., multiple submissions of dead, invented or incarcerated voters). The Obama campaign donated $832,000 to ACORN’s voter registration drive, and they have endorsed him for President . Aco rn is also responsible for forcing billions of dollars in unsustainable mortgages onto indigent poor. As ACORN’s lawyer, Obama filed class action suits against Citibank, among others, to compel it to make risky loans to people who couldn’t afford them.
> . FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC, bankrupt federal home mortgage lenders, spent millions of tax dollars to suppress federal regulators: #1 Recipient of their hush money: Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd, head of the Senate Banking Committee; #2 Recipient: Barack Obama! Now we own these bad mortgages, thanks to President Bush and the U.S. Congress. Franklin Raines, Obama’s Economic Advisor, was forced to resign as determined he had cooked the books. He was still allowed to keep $190 million of his golden parachute.
> . REV JEREMIAH WRIGHT and his liberation church (“God Damn America”). Wright married Barack and Michelle Obama, who were close friends and 20-year members of his congregation. Early this year Wright honored the race-baiting militant Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan with his church’s Lifetime Achievement award. Farrakhan, who has called Jews “bloodsuckeers,” whites “blue-eyed de vils,” and Barack Obama “The Messiah,” has endorsed Obama for president.
> . RAILA ODINGA, Barack Hussein Obama’s paternal cousin, is a radical Islamist and socialist in Kenya (his eldest son is named Fidel). Obama actively supported and campaigned for Odinga -- whose website slogan is “Your Agent for Change” -- making a trip there in 2006 on taxpayer dollars. When Odinga, who wanted to impose Muslim sharia law, lost his second bid for president last December his machete-wielding supporters set fire to several Christian churches, burning alive men, women and young children who sought refuge inside.
>
> . TONY REZKO is a Syrian-American slumlord, whose victims were among Chicago’s poorest residents. Now in prison, Rezko is a longtime Obama supporter and campaign contributor. He invited Obama to join his low-income housing development company while Obama was still in law school. Later, as next-door neighbors, their wives worked at the same hospital; both closed on their properties the same day, and Rezko sold Obama part of his adjacent land.
> . ILLEGAL TERRORIST AND FOREIGN CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS are among the questionable sources of funding Obama refuses to disclose. He took, for example, $33,000 from Palestinian Jihadist brothers Osama, Hossam and Edwin Monir. Others are unidentifiable due to registrations under nonsense names like “Good Will,” employed by Loving You. “Doodad Pro,” who works for EDGFDGF, donated a total of $10,780 in 1,044 small transactions.
> We’re mad as hell at failed leadership and corrupt government. We don’t have to take it anymore.
> JOIN MCCAIN/PALIN
>
CHECK FACTS:>
> AYRES: “No Regrets for a Love of Exposives” (NY Times/Arts 9/11/01); “Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools” (Wall Street Journal 9/23/08); “CNN Finds Extensive Ties Between Barack Obama and Terrorist Bill Ayers (CNN video 10/7/08); billayers.wordpress.com/2006/11 (Ayers website: Speech at World Education Forum, Caracas, Venezuela 11/7/06).
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> ACORN:“CNN Investigates ACORN Fraud, Links to Obama” (CNN video 10/10/08); “Is Patrick Fitzgerald Investigating ACORN/Obama for RICO Violations?” (clintondems.com 10/9/08). FANNIE/FREDDIE: “How Fannie, Freddie Became Kings of the Hill” (NPR News 7/15/08);“Pressured to Take More Risk, Fannie Reached Tipping Point” (NY Times 10/5/08).
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> JEREMIAH WRIGHT: “Is Obama’s Pastor a Liability?” (Good Morning America, ABC News 3/13/08); “Obama and the Minister” (Wall Street Journal 4/14/08). ODINGA: “Mob Sets Kenya Church on Fire, Killing Dozens” (NY Times 1/2/08); “The Kenya Connection” (NY Sun 1/10/08); www.raila07.com/vision.html “Your Agent for Change” (Odinga’s website).
>
> REZKO: “Obama and His Rezko Ties” (Chicago Sun-Times 4/23/07); “Grim Proving Ground for Obama’s Housing Policy” (Boston Globe 6/27/08). ILLEGAL CONTRIBUTIONS: “Obama’s ‘Good Will’ Hunting” (Newsweek 10/13/08); “Fictitious Donors Found in Obama Finance Records”20(NY Times 10/10/08).
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20 February, 2009
Abriendo las puertas de la percepción: Presentación de Boring Home
Bajo una lluvia de amenazas por teléfono y correos electrónicos, una nueva generación de cubanos presento el libro “Boring Home” de Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo (www.orlandoluispardolazo.blogspot.com)20este lunes pasado. El escenario, las afueras de la Feria del Libro en La Habana.
Las autoridades de la cultura oficialista no les basto con impedir la publicación del libro de cuentos y a la noticia de que sería presentado al público en general de todas maneras, pusieron a rodar la rueda del miedo con sus llamadas anónimas y correos electrónicos al joven autor y a los organizadores de la presentación del libro.
Así y todo, se dio la presentación a la hora anunciada, tres de la tarde del lunes 16, en el “camping” de La Cabaña. Co n sobredosis de policías encubiertos pero también prensa internacional, la célebre bloguera Yoani Sánchez (www.desdecuba.com/generaciony) anunciaba la nueva obra de la contracultura cubana ante entre 50 a 80 asistentes al evento, dependiendo a quien se le pregunte.
No fue sorpresa que la mayoría de los presentes del lunes, fueran jóvenes. No por casualidad estaban allí presente las blogueras Claudia Cadelo (www.octavocerco.blogspot.com) y Lía Villares (www.habanemia.com). “El Ciro” y Gorki Águila de la banda punk, Porno para Ricardo (www.pornopararicardo.com) también se encontraban entre el público. Protagonistas del movimiento und erground de la isla, la nueva generación esta sintonizada a las mismas frecuencias: contracultura, individualismo y libertad.
Gracias a la censura oficialista, Boring Home está garantizado convertirse en un clásico del underground cubano. Abriendo las puertas de la percepción, la presentación de Boring Home el lunes dejo ver un poco de lo que viene, de lo que se puede ser y hacer, aunque muchos hayan perdido toda esperanza.
Desde el lunes pasado, se perciben alternativas que hasta entonces, no eran posibles percibir, no eran posibles imaginar, que fueran posibles. Después de 50 años de lo mismo en Cuba, hoy otra cosa se percibe para ella y sus nuevas generaciones.
Chavez on despots' term-cutting edge - But sinking oil revenues may provide a slippery power base
The Washington Times, Chavez on despots' term-cutting edge -
But sinking oil revenues may provide a slippery power base
Helle Dale - Thursday, February 19, 2009 Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez must be the envy of aspiring despots the world over today. On Sunday, he received the endorsement of the Venezuelan people for potential life tenure as president of his country by a vote of 54 percent to 45 percent. Mr. Chavez has already been a blight on the map of Latin America for the last 13 years, and he now promises to run for office again and again and again - like a malignant Energizer bunny. THE WHOLE WORLD SHOULD TAKE ACTIONS TO PREVENT ANOTHER TOTALITARIAN REGIME IN THE AMERICAS Why the Venezuelan people voted for him is probably no mystery. For one thing, Mr. Chavez has been buying their votes with his version of "21st century socialism," meaning populist policies funded by oil revenue. For another, as this was the second time Venezuelans were asked to vote to eliminate presidential term limits, they may well have reasoned that the tenacious Mr. Chavez would keep asking them the same question until they got the answer right. As a consequence, they may just have resigned themselves to their fate. For the rest of us, the referendum produces that sinking feeling that democracy once again is on the retreat after almost two decades of great advances. The axiom about the inverse relationship between proven oil reserves and good governance certainly holds demonstrably true - i.e., the more oil you have in the ground, the likelier you are to be governed by a despot. But as easy as it is giving up on democratic reforms in regions where autocracy today is on the rise, supported by recent years' high oil prices, it is premature to do so. In countries like Venezuela , Russia or Iran , the presence of energy wealth and high oil revenues has masked the need for economic reform and diversification, as well as covering up mismanagement, waste and inefficiency. When oil prices tumble as they are now doing, this nasty gaggle of chickens will come home to roost. Mr. Chavez may well be looking forward to another six years in power and more, but he may get more than he bargained for. While oil revenues have kept him afloat with money to buy the favor of the Venezuelan people for two terms already, the recent drop in oil prices could eventually lead to social upheaval in Venezuela and an end to the Chavez era. The Venezuelan economy depends more on oil revenues today than ever. Oil accounts for 92 percent of Venezuela 's exports, compared to 64 percent a decade ago. Venezuela 's budget, which reflects $78 billion in public spending for this year, is based on a price of oil in the range of $60 per barrel. That is certainly not a realistic figure anymore. Due to declining demand for energy due to the global economic downturn, oil today stands at just $35 per barrel. It might decline as far as $25 per barrel in the second quarter, according to the forecast of Morgan Stanley. It sure sounds like Venezuela 's poor - Mr. Chavez's power base - are in for lean times (or leaner times, more precisely), which they probably will not like very much. Will this make Mr. Chavez less of a foreign policy problem for the United States in the future? Could be. According to the Annual Threat Assessment delivered Feb. 12 to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence by Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, "Chavez is likely to face new constraints in 2009 as he attempts to expand his influence in Latin America . ... falling oil prices could further undermine his ability to buy friends." Similar constraints will face other international troublemakers with oil - Russia and Iran , for instance. The scenario of the Russian government running out of money, even as it embarks on an ambitious course of revanchist expansion in its neighborhood, is of course very pleasing to contemplate. So is the thought of Iran having problems funding its nuclear program. Unfortunately, it is always the people who will suffer the funding shortages first before military programs see any shortfalls. Despots like those running Venezuela , Russia and Iran are always in search of external enemies to justify to their people the despots' hold on power - enemies usually identified as the United States or Israel . Still, their ability to weather declining oil revenues falls far short of that of the United States and other modern economies, a silver lining in dark economic times. Helle Dale is director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation. Copyright 2009 The Washington Times, LLC __________________________________________________________________________ Is Hugo Chavez the future? Mona Charen - Thursday, February 19, 2009 Venezuela 's president, Hugo Chavez, rebuffed by voters in his previous attempt to become president for life, has now taken a giant step closer to his goal. A reported 54.4 percent of voters approved a referendum on Feb. 15 that would permit Mr. Chavez to run for re-election indefinitely. It was the sort of "election" we remember from the communist days - or see today in Zimbabwe . According to the Economist: "Public buildings and vehicles were plastered with pro-Chavez propaganda. State television and radio channels turned over almost their entire resources to promoting the campaign. And even the Caracas metro obliged passengers to listen to campaign jingles." In 2007, opposition to Mr. Chavez's power grab was led by students. But this time, Mr. Chavez ordered that demonstrations against the referendum were to be broken up "with a good dose of gas." Now, a triumphant Mr. Chavez declares, the way is clear to lead Venezuela to "21st-century socialism." We know what Mr. Chavez means by this. He has been implementing his socialism, which is barely distinguishable from Fidel Castro's, since 1999. Freedom of the press is a memory in Venezuela . Newspapers and electronic media that opposed Mr. Chavez have been harassed. The 2004 "Law on the Social Responsibility of Radio and Television" requires all outlets to carry Mr. Chavez's speeches in full, contains penalties for a variety of offenses and insults, and permits licenses to be revoked for a second offense. Globovision, a private 24-hour cable news channel, was recently accused of insulting Mr. Chavez. Pro-Chavez legislators have urged the attorney general to investigate. Meanwhile, thugs linked to the government lobbed tear gas canisters into the newsroom. RCTV, the second-largest television channel in the country, was closed down altogether in 2007. The Jewish community of Caracas has been the object of repeated harassment. Official media have anathematized Jews and Israel . A Jewish community center was violently attacked twice. In a Christmas Eve speech a few years ago, Mr. Chavez accused Jews of killing Christ and causing poverty and suffering around the world. Mr. Chavez maintains a close relationship with Iran 's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and has concluded a $20 billion joint venture deal with Iran . In recent weeks, Mr. Chavez ratcheted up the anti-Israel rhetoric, expelled Israel 's envoy to Venezuela , and encouraged his supporters to protest what he called a "genocidal holocaust against the Palestinian people" before Israel's embassy. In late January, vandals struck a Caracas synagogue. They defaced the building with anti-Semitic slurs and destroyed several Torah scrolls. They also stole a roster of synagogue members along with several computers and the tapes from the building's security cameras. Mr. Chavez issued a one-sentence condemnation of the attack but then immediately insinuated it was actually the work of his enemies: "Some sectors of the oligarchy want to overshadow the advances of the revolution with acts of violence." His supporters in the press took up this theme with gusto: "The synagogue case seems to us like a media show assembled by the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad," opined Hindu Anderi, a pro-Chavez journalist, in a government newspaper. But when, a couple of days later, Mr. Chavez reversed himself and announced arrests in the case (though dubious arrests - one "suspect" is the former bodyguard of the rabbi), his press lackeys switched gears as well. Mario Silva, host of a government television program, scorned the synagogue's rabbi for failing to express sufficient gratitude to the regime for making arrests. "I still have not seen the first declaration from the rabbi of the synagogue saying, 'Sirs, I am thankful to the government,' " Mr. Silva sneered. A decade ago Venezuela was a thriving and free (if somewhat corrupt) ally of the United States . Today, it is a bitter enemy, and its domestic corruption is infinitely worse. The results of the referendum and the consolidation of power by Mr. Chavez suggest Venezuela will plunge even deeper into despotism and poverty. The global recession holds many terrors, but none so urgent as the danger that more nations, wracked by unemployment and declining living standards, will fall into the hands of political extremists and despots. Absent the Great Depression, could we imagine Germany falling under the spell of Adolf Hitler? There is so much at stake in stopping our momentum toward depression. Global depressions lead to political disasters. But our leaders seem more intent on satisfying their pent-up demand for government goodies and punishing their favorite whipping boys (bankers, businessmen) than in focusing on the real danger. Their dereliction may turn out to be a great crime. Mona Charen is a nationally syndicated columnist.Is Hugo Chávez the Future?
February 17, 2009 12:00 AM
Is Hugo Chávez the Future?
Let's hope the would-be president for life isn't a sign of what's to come.
By Mona Charen
Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, rebuffed by voters in his previous attempt to become president for life, has now taken a giant step closer to his goal. A reported 54.4 percent of voters approved a referendum on February 15 that would permit Chávez to run for re-election indefinitely.
It was the sort of "election" we remember from the communist days — or see today in Zimbabwe.
According to The Economist: "Public buildings and vehicles were plastered with pro-Chávez propaganda.
State television and radio channels turned over almost their entire resources to promoting the campaign. And even the Caracas metro obliged passengers to listen to campaign jingles." In 2007, opposition to Chávez's power grab was led by students. But this time, Chávez ordered that demonstrations against the referendum were to be broken up "with a good dose of gas."
Now, a triumphant Chávez declares, the way is clear to lead Venezuela to "21st-century socialism."
We know what Chávez means by this.
He has been implementing his socialism, which is barely distinguishable from Castro's, since 1999.
Freedom of the press is a memory in Venezuela. Newspapers and electronic media that opposed Chávez have been harassed. The 2004 "Law on the Social Responsibility of Radio and Television" requires all outlets to carry Chávez's speeches in full, contains penalties for a variety of offenses and insults, and permits licenses to be revoked for a second offense. Globovision, a private 24-hour cable news channel, was recently accused of insulting Chávez. Pro-Chávez legislators have urged the attorney general to investigate. Meanwhile, thugs linked to the government lobbed tear-gas canisters into the newsroom. RCTV, the second-largest television channel in the country, was closed down altogether in 2007
The Jewish community of Caracas has been the object of repeated harassment. Official media have anathematized Jews and Israel. A Jewish community center was violently attacked twice. In a Christmas Eve speech a few years ago, Chávez accused Jews of killing Christ and causing poverty and suffering around the world. Chávez maintains a close relationship with Iran's Ahmadinejad and has concluded a $20-billion joint venture deal with Iran. In recent weeks, Chávez ratcheted up the anti-Israel rhetoric, expelled Israel's envoy to Venezuela, and encouraged his supporters to protest what he called a "genocidal holocaust against the Palestinian people" before Israel's embassy.
In late January, vandals struck a Caracas synagogue. They defaced the building with anti-Semitic slurs and destroyed several Torah scrolls. Additionally, they stole a roster of synagogue members along with several computers and the tapes from the building's security cameras. President Chávez issued a one-sentence condemnation of the attack but then immediately insinuated that it was actually the work of his enemies: "Some sectors of the oligarchy want to overshadow the advances of the revolution with acts of violence." His supporters in the press took up this theme with gusto: "The synagogue case seems to us like a media show assembled by the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad," opined Hindu Anderi, a pro-Chávez journalist, in a government newspaper.
But when, a couple of days later, Chávez reversed himself and announced arrests in the case (though dubious arrests — one "suspect" is the former bodyguard of the rabbi), his press lackeys switched gears as well. Mario Silva, the host of a government television program, scorned the synagogue's rabbi for failing to express sufficient gratitude to the regime for making arrests. "I still have not seen the first declaration from the rabbi of the synagogue saying, 'Sirs, I am thankful to the government,' " Silva sneered.
A decade ago Venezuela was a thriving and free (if somewhat corrupt) ally of the United States. Today, it is a bitter enemy, and its domestic corruption is infinitely worse. The results of the referendum and the consolidation of power by Chávez suggest that Venezuela will plunge even deeper into despotism and poverty.
The global recession holds many terrors, but none so urgent as the danger that more nations, wracked by unemployment and declining living standards, will fall into the hands of political extremists and despots. Absent the Great Depression, could we imagine Germany falling under the spell of Hitler or Italy under the sway of Mussolini? There is so much at stake in stopping our momentum toward depression. Global depressions lead to political disasters. But our leaders seem more intent on satisfying their pent-up demand for government goodies and punishing their favorite whipping boys (bankers, businessmen) than on focusing on the real danger. Their dereliction may turn out to be a great crime.
— Mona Charen is a nationally syndicated columnist.
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http://kastroasesino.blogspot.com/2007/04/audio-about-shooting-down-of-bttr.html
'IN GOD WE TRUST'
http://objllc.com/civilizationcalls.htm
*RESULTADO DEL REFERENDO PARA LA ENMIENDA, ESTADO POR ESTADO, SEGUN CNE, 16.02.2009
ESTIMADOS AMIGOS: GRACIAS POR LEER , EN
http://movimientorepublicano.blogspot.com/
* VEA Y ESCUCHE LA COPLA LEGALISTA TRADICIONAL E HISTORICA
*LA COPLA LEGALISTA TRADICIONAL E HISTORICA
PARA LEER, COMENTAR Y ENVIAR A SUS AMIGOS DEMOCRATICOS
*RESULTADO DEL REFERENDO PARA LA ENMIENDA, ESTADO POR ESTADO, SEGUN CNE, 16.02.2009
*AUN NO ME HAN DERROTADO, F GONZÁLEZ, TOMADO DE EL BLOG DEL HIJO DEL HALCÓN NEGRO, 15.02.2009
*PREGUNTAS VENEZOLANAS, OPINIONES, MOISES NAHIN, EN GENTIUNO.COM, 15.02.2009
¿CUÀL ES LA DEMOCRACIA QUE NECESITA VENEZUELA?, ZENAIR BRITO CABALLERO, ENVIADO A NUESTRO CORREO, 15.02.2009
*IZQUIERDA Y DERECHA EN POLÍTICA, ANGEL RODRÍGUEZ KAUTH, 14.02.2009
*LA CRISIS SEGUN ALBERT EINSTEIN, PULSAR SOBRE LA IMAGEN, 11.02.2009
09 February, 2009
SERGIO RIOSECO: UN PUNTAL DE LA CAMPAÑA DE SACAR EL LIBRO "VAMOS A CUBA" DEL SISTEMA ESCOLAR DE MIAMI-DADE.
'IN GOD WE TRUST'
http://objllc.com/civilizationcalls.htm
AMIGOS / AMIGAS,
Una de las cosas que ha mantenido o ayudado a mantener al regimen en el Poder
lo ha sido la manipulacion de la Opinion Publica tanto dentro de la isla como fuera.
Para ello dispuso desde el comienzo con la mas poderosa
INFRAESTRUCTURA DE MEDIOS DE COMUNICACION del mundo,
y que nada tuvo que envidiarle a la de los propios Estados Unidos de America.
Debo senialar que:
Incluso, los norteamericanos iban al segundo pais que tuvo TV en colores
en el mundo,-- CUBA--,para ver como Gaspar Pumarejo y Goar Mestre realizaban sus programaciones de TV en Cuba.
Este dato, lo pueden comprobar en varias formas y publicaciones.
Uno de los libros escrito por el periodista :
Tad Szulc del New York Times Titulado : "PORTRAIT OF CASTRO "
lo cita asi mismo en su libro:
"...Cuba no tenia nada que envidiar ni a los USA, en materia de comunicaciones masivas...."
Al heredar (leer: robarse ) dicha infraestructura de medios de comunicacion masiva, procedio a enganiar a los cubanos con falsas promesas, con desinformacion sobre muchos datos Estadisticos de antes de 1959 y trato de borrar de la memoria colectiva la verdadera Historia de Cuba, tergiversandola u omitiendo todo lo que no le convenia.
Procedio despues a transmitir al extranjero en radio y prensa
-- en varios idiomas-- TODAS SUS MENTIRAS Y DESINFORMACION.
A esa infraestructura de medios de com. hay que sumarle la que los rusos y todos los paises del campo socialista , amen de los acolitos y resentidos de por todo el planeta , coadyuvaron a lograr que el mundo entero tuviera una imagen de Cuba a conveniencia del sangriento regimen. Una imagen que se puede ir comprobando es falsa desde hace ya bastante tiempo.
Es decir: ENGANIADOS SOBRE LA REALIDAD ANTERIOR A 1959
Y POSTERIOR DE CUBA HASTA NUESTROS DIAS.
Por eso es tan sumamente importante evitar que el regimen y sus acolitos puedan seguir enganiando , y adoctrinando con mentiras a todos, incluidos los ninios cubanos del exilio.
Pedro Martori
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SERGIO RIOSECO: UN PUNTAL DE LA CAMPAÑA DE SACAR EL LIBRO "VAMOS A CUBA" DEL SISTEMA ESCOLAR DE MIAMI-DADE.
villagranadillo@bellsouth.net
http://villagranadillo.blogspot.com/
SERGIO RIOSECO:
Uno de los puntales en la lucha
del Exilio Histórico
por sacar el libro pro castro-comunista
"Vamos a Cuba"
del Sistema Escolar de Miami-Dade.
Sergio y Mary Rioseco asistentes en la manifestacion
del Exilio Histórico a la Sala de Fiestas DOLCE
en Miami Beach rechazando el concierto
de Paulito FG y Manolín El Médico de la Salsa
(1-30-09). Foto Villagranadillo
Foto de Archivo
Portada del libro "Vamos a Cuba". Una pieza de
literatura infantil totalmente propagandística del
castro-comunismo en un libro sembrado en
la Junta Escolar de Miami-Dade.
Febrero 5 del 2009: "Una corte federal de apelaciones falló el jueves que la Junta Escolar de Miami-Dade no violó la Constitución en el 2006 cuando removió un polémico libro infantil sobre Cuba del sistema de bibliotecas de las escuelas públicas.
En una decisión por 2-1, el Tribunal de Apelaciones del 11no Circuito en Atlanta dijo que la junta no había violado la Primera Enmienda, y le ordenó a un juez federal de Miami levantar una interdicción preliminar que había permitido que Vamos a Cuba fuera prestado en las bibliotecas escolares". Para The Miami Herald de Kathleen Mc Grory y Jay Weaver.
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VILLAGRANADILLO:En junio del 2006 la Junta Escolar de Miami Dade vetó al polémico libro "Vamos a Cuba" (sembrado en el Sistema Escolar de Miami Dade) con la votación siguiente: votaron a favor de sacar el libro: Martha Pérez, Agustín Barrera, Ana Rivas Logan, Perla Tabares Hattman, Frank Bolaños y Robert Ingram. En contra: Evelyn Greer, Solomon Stinson y Martin Karp.
Sin embargo la decisión soberana de la Junta Escolar elegida democráticamente por el ciudadano fue abortada con la intervención de la Unión de Libertades Civiles (ACLU). Posteriormente un juez dictó que no se podía sacar el libro del Sistema Escolar quedando -como resultado- el libro "Vamos a Cuba" en los estantes de las bibliotecas del Sistema Escolar de Miami Dade.
Tendrían que pasar casi tres años después para que una corte federal fallara a favor del veto de la Junta Escolar.
Hoy, febrero 6 del 2009, podemos celebrar que el tristemente célebre "adefesio" de literatura infantil pro castro comunismo está fuera del alcance de los niños.
Una victoria del Exilio Histórico cubano.
¡HHUUURRRRRRAAAA!
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