Miami's Cuban Connection

Cuba, the 51st State?

A Cuban government website printed a column Sunday celebrating the Bush administration’s failure to “neocolonize” the island through policies meant to bring about political change in Cuba. “The so-called Commission to Promote a Free Cuba, convened May 4 of 2004 by the president, wants to legitimize a doctrine to change the social and political system.”

The column blames Washington for trying to strangle Cuba economically, saying what Washington has always really wanted is to “annex the Caribbean island.”

http://www.cubadebate.cu/index.php?tpl=noticias-show¬iciaid=6376¬iciafecha=2006-03-05

Thanks Dr. Fidel!

In an article published in Granma, Pastors for Peace thanked Cuba for its contribution in educating young Americans in Cuban medical schools. Lucius Walker and Helen Brenstein from Pastors were quoted in Granma.

The Communist daily wrote:

“Walker explained with pleasure the mission of bringing these nine students from six different states, among them a Native American Californian, and all of their dispositions ‘to take advantage Cuba’s incredible offer to become doctors to attend their own humble communities, which don’t have access to health care.

“While Washington looks for other ways to more heavily pressure the Revolution, he said, Cuba responds with love and a revolutionary compromise, and offers the young U.S. citizens what they can’t receive in their own country.”

Pastors for Peace routinely challenges the trade embargo on Cuba by organizing aid shipments to the island and all but daring U.S. Customs officials to seize the goods.

There’s no doubt we need more doctors in the U.S. But is this the solution?

Not Quite Freedom Rock

Communist Cuba stamped its approval on the music of Manu Chao, and his Radio Bemba Sound System, who played for thousands of Cuba’s youth at the Anti-Imperialist Tribune of Jose Marti. The Communist Party daily Granma celebrated Chao’s music as a fusion of sounds from around Latin America. So these kids are hungry for music? How about Gorky Park?