Anti-embargo Push by Cuban Americans

FIU professor Lisandro Perez and Lillian Manzor, an associate professor at UM, led a news conference Thursday at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables declaring their opposition to the U.S. embargo of Cuba. They were speaking on behalf of ENCASA, Emergency Network of Cuban American Scholars and Artists for Change in U.S.-Cuba policy. At the news conference, Perez was asked how lifting the embargo would help curtail the types of beatings experienced by Cuban dissident Martha Beatriz Roque at the hands of a pro-Castro mob on Tuesday. "Those beatings have occurred under these policies," Perez said, referring to the embargo. "The policy that is being used is not doing anything to benefit the people of Cuba." Photo below, left to right: Perez, Silvia Wilhelm, Manzor, Elizabeth Cerejido (don't know last person).

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[john]

Oh, damn wrong article meant for below.

[Tu Abuela]

Who says the communist party isn't alive and kicking at FIU? Call your state lawmaker and tell them that you don't want your tax dollars going to Maidique and his gang of commies.

[john]

Tu abuela, actually why dont you write a letter to your congressman to stop all these communist latinos that are boycotting America on Monday. It seems to me as if millions of communist latins sneaking into America should be more worrisome to you then some "preceived" communist at FIU. What are you going to do 20 years from now when the communist from latin america have sufficient numbers to elect representatives?

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Title: Latinos Plan Nationwide Worker Strike (May Day)
Source: Newsmax
URL Source: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/30/105135.shtml
Published: Mar 30, 2006
Author: None
Post Date: 2006-03-30 18:35:10 by supertracpak
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Latinos Plan Nationwide Worker Strike

Hispanic groups in the U.S. are planning a major boycott of American life dubbed a ”day without Latinos” to protest proposed legislation that would criminalize illegal immigration.

Mexican American Political Association (MAPA) President Nativo Lopez, one of the organizers of the recent protests in Los Angeles that saw at least 500,000 people take to the streets, said the May 1 "day without Latinos” would send a stern message to Washington.

"We are looking forward to a major action in all large U.S. cities where immigrants make up a significant proportion of the workforce,” Lopez told Agence France-Presse.

"We are asking people not to go to school, or work, or shopping, and instead to go out and protest against the racist and inhumane measures in this bill.”

MAPA and other grass roots Latino groups are also organizing an April 10 protest in 20 major American cities – including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas – in a bid to defeat the proposed immigration reform bill, Lopez said.

And a third day of protest is scheduled to take place Saturday in Costa Mesa, a town in Orange County, Calif., that has been a focus of anti-illegal immigrant protests for the past several months.

The city’s mayor has pushed a proposal through the city council to train police to nab and deport illegal aliens who commit crimes.

Said Lopez: "We are going there to make a tough statement right in the bedrock of the anti-immigrant movement.”

Perhaps not surprisingly, May 1 is also known as "May Day," the International Worker's Day, which is infamously celebrated in Moscow's Red Square and by communists and socialists throughout the world.

[Alejandro Anreus]

How embarrasing! When are Cuban-Americans finally going to grow up and stop seeing "commies" everywhere?
This is why we are still in exile 46 years later! We just don't get it.
The fault within our history begins with Batista's coup - he derailed a democratic (if corrupt) process. Then came Castro, who betrayed a revolution that was meant to be Martiana, not Marxiana!By the way, let us remember how Batista was supported by Rafael Díaz Balart - the father of those "darling" congressmen. Una familia de botelleros, ayer, hoy y mañana.
We must be against the tropical version of Stalinism that is the Castro regime, as well as against the most reactionary and intolerant elements within the exile.
It is time to re-think US-CUBA policies, for the sake of torn families, the sovereignty of the Cuban nation (in and out of the island) and the possibility of building a democratic and just Cuba in the future.

[danny]

Hear about Rafael Diaz-Balart's relationship with Batista from himself, a read every Cuban should be familiar with:

http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/us-cuba/diaz-balart.htm

[Robert]

What's embarrassing is that we have to put up with Castro apologists such as those who make up ENCASA. They blame everything on the US and nothing on Castro. They even managed to blame the beatings of a dissident woman on the embargo. Unreal! These Cuban-Americans DO NOT represent the majority of us who seek freedom for Cuba and place the blame squarely where it belongs, on the evil Marxist dictator 90 miles south of Key West.

Batista was definitely no saint, but next to Fidel, he ought to be canonized.

[E.C.Ballard]

You clearly weren't alive when Batista ruled or else knew nobody who suffered under him ie, the majority of Cubans.

Fidel is no angel, but let's not make a saint out of a demon just because you don't like his successor. It contributes nothing of value. Plenty of blame lies with the leadership of the exile community. Giving them their real due does not in any way diminish the blame that can be leveled at the other side.

[Krystal]

Last night I went to see the movie "The Lost City". Comparing Batista's jackals to Castro's I have to say Batista was an angel. It was Batista who let Fidel Castro out of jail even though he knew Castro was going to continue the fight to overthrow his government. It was a member of the July 26 movement who told Batita's jackals where the members of the ill-fated attack to the presidential palace on march 13th were hiding. Why? cause the Directorio Revolucionario movement never supported Fidel Castro. I think everybody should go and see this movie. It shows the bad on Batista side but the real evil which were Castro and Che. Maybe after seeing the movie, we cubans will be better understood. If not, who cares anyway.

[Krystal]

Last night I went to see the movie "The Lost City". Comparing Batista's jackals to Castro's I have to say Batista was an angel. It was Batista who let Fidel Castro out of jail even though he knew Castro was going to continue the fight to overthrow his government. It was a member of the July 26 movement who told Batita's jackals where the members of the ill-fated attack to the presidential palace on march 13th were hiding. Why? cause the Directorio Revolucionario movement never supported Fidel Castro. I think everybody should go and see this movie. It shows the bad on Batista side but the real evil which were Castro and Che. Maybe after seeing the movie, we cubans will be better understood. If not, who cares anyway.