El Nuevo Herald Blog: Pablo Alfonso Resigns

From El Nuevo Staffer Rui Ferreira:

El amigo Pablo Alfonso acaba de renunciar al periódico. Y eso me entristece. No hacia falta llegar a este punto. Según tengo entendido, porque no he podido hablar con él, Pablo se siente dolido con el contenido del articulo de ayer de Clark Hoyt, el cual en su opinión no presentó una necesaria disculpa al impacto que el reportaje sobre Radio y TV Martí, tuvo en su carrera profesional.

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Comments

[leftside]

I wanted to comment on the unbelievably titled Herald piece: Castro Victims Awarded $91M.

(excerpt)A New York federal judge on Friday ordered JP Morgan Chase Bank to turn over $91 million in frozen Cuban assets to a South Florida family and others who had won huge damages claims against Fidel Castro's government for having executed two relatives more than four decades ago.

The judge ruled that $23.9 million must be released within days to Janet Ray Weininger, of Palmetto Bay, the daughter of CIA pilot Thomas ''Pete'' Ray, who was shot down during the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and later executed by the Cuban government.

Can someone explain how the hell is it a "wrongful death" when Cuba executes one of the leaders of a foriegn invasion and a counter-revolutionary arms dealer? I could see a wrongful death when the invading force kills civillians, but not the exact opposite scenario. Is the law that bad or was it the judge?

Read the ruling yourself and read how they dance around the facts that the law does not apply to countries not designated as terrorist at the time of the 1961 event, why they don't need to determine whether the executions in Cuba were "acts of terror" and what Cuban telephone company money has to do with the Bay of Pigs.

This is not the first time Cuba and "terrorism" have strangely mingled (a florida professor has been bugged under Patriot Act, Cuba gets more Office of Foreign Assets resources than Al-Qaeda... but actual Cuban terrorists get coddled in this country).

Here, the 2002 law's astoundingly low burden of proof shows why it's great to have the House and Senate back. The result is that the US steals $91 million from the Cuban people making phone calls (the seized money was the Cuban phone companies) - although that is just a pittance over the cost of the Embargo in a year.

Imagine if the Cubans would steal $45 millions for every wrongful death the Americans have casued the Cuban people. Cubans have never harmed any American who was not actually at war on its soil.

[roberto e]

well ,leftside showing signs of
extreme historical mental blackouts
of the following:
the hundreds of millions of deaths
either thru execution,starvation,war, cultural revoultions
forced re-settlements caused by
the leftist cultural icons like:
Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Beria,
Honecher, the IL Jongs,Mao Tse Tung
"countless African liberators" Castro Guevara and other idols of leftist scyophants.

They and Hitler have excelled at butchery
Hitler was a leftist himself who hated the middle and upper classes.
He only ended up allied with the
German Junker class in order to acheive absolute power and to wage world war.

Was the money awarded extreme!!!

Yes because then there will not be enough to give to the families of the other 50,000-70,000
executed by left side's
Dictator Icon in Cuba.
Nor for the other 150,000 or more
lost in the straits of florida
nor for the millions whose lives he destroyed on and off island.

Castro owes 14 billion dollars to its friends and allies including
the Swiss(UBS and Credit Suisse,ING)
and many others

A free Cuba should not pay one cent back

nor allow the Canadian, Spanish, or
anyone else helping/fronting for Castro
and the Drug Cartels like
Archer Daniels,ING/CS/HSBC/Santander/Bilbao
UBS and others

as much as one grain of sand in a Free Cuba.

[nonee moose]

leftside:

re your hypothetical, you'd have to find Americans stupid enough to have a Cuban bank account. Best of luck.

Also, which wrongful deaths would you be referring to? Are you having visions of CIA fairies dancing in your head again?

[Alex]

Hey Nonee, you still around here holding the fort? Damn dude, you got some endurance!

Leftside, the money doesn't come from Cuban people... it comes from the fees owed by AT&T to the Cuban phone company, which they can't pay because of the embargo. It's more than amortized by the millions of dollars sent by exiles to Cuba that end in Castro's pockets one way or the other. Call it redistribution of wealth.

[nonee moose]

Alex:

I'm only timing how long it takes Oscar to moderate the posts... btw, I'm using a sundial...

[a thought...]

Yes, yes, yes, we all know that poor Castro has been picked on by the nasty U.S. and all the lying Cuban exiles, leftside. He is a saint and we shouldn't bother a sick old man. He has always done well by his country and fought for his people. In fact, he has turned them into something the world should marvel at: a living relic, stuck in 1960.

So misunderstood, that poor man....

Leftside, are you Jimmy Carter?

[roberto e]

Left side ,,rarely do most of the commentators agree,
but geez you make it easy!!!

Thank you!!!

[leftside]

Alex, I'm aware of where the money is from and to what entity it is owed. But in the end it is money owed to the Cuban people as all phone assets are public. It is money that could be used to upgrade to fiber optics or improve internet connections... to benefit the people.

Nonee, the visions of wrongful deaths caused by the US Government - many by the CIA - are real indeed. There is a count of nearly 4,000 Cubans who have died needlesly because of US or US supported actions (mostly in the 1960s). Those who died in the Bay of Pigs is one example of many terrorist actions committed against Cuba. That number doesn't even count those who died because they couldn't get access to medicine or medical equipment because it happened to be manufactured here.

Roberto is the one imagining things, talking about the execution of 70,000 Cubans or the deaths of 150,000 at sea. Of course the execution of a few hundred or maybe a few thousand was during a time of civil war when the population demanded justice against those who had terrorized the people with impunity before the Revolution. They were all convicted of capital crimes under the pre-revolutionary laws. Those who tragically drowned at sea are no different than those who perish every day on the Mexican border. Do you blame Vicente Fox for those deaths??

[curt]

What a disgusting verdict. Those people went to Cuba looking for war and they got exactly what they deserved! That judge should be shot!