It’s so painful to read this garbage:
Communist dictator Fidel Castro siezed power by force fifty years ago and never faced the voters in an honest election since. He now likes to pretend to be “retired” so that little brother Raul can call himself “El Presidente” de Cuba. Yet that didn’t stop Fidel from recently receiving a delegation of gullible U.S. House members and telling them to please ask President Obama how Fidel can help him. In a typical minimalist and bland nobody is really bad on the Left statement, President Obama wonders aloud if the government of Cuba could please stop stealing a hefty percentage of US currency that is sent to Cubans from their relatives in the US.
Here are some things the Castro brothers could do if they are really interested in improving relations with western democracies. They could release more than 200 political prisoners including more than forty librarians whose only crime was to ask that a wider selection of western books could be displayed on their shelves. Too subversive said Fidel, go directly to Jail, do not pass Go, and we might let you out in ten years if we feel like it. So much for human rights and due process in Cuba.
Actually western democracies generally have formal relations with Cuba. One can see the embassies Cuba keeps in countries around the world and embassies or such in Cuba
Most of the world figured out a long time ago that the US policy towards Cuba didn’t work. The embago has been in place for 47 years and it has accomplished….what?
During the Cold War it made some sense. However, now it is a long failed policy that despite all empirical evidence of its failing, the right wants to continue.
What will destabilize the Castros and the current regime is economic engagement. Instead of an unproductive embargo, the way to bring greater freedom to the Cuban people is to open up economic activity and flood the island with dollars and visitors. It won’t be immediate, but after 47 years of failure, I’m not sure what the rush would be. Showing people freedom and a better way of life will bring about change much faster.
I Agree! The Castro Brothers Rule!
The boys hold nothing back at their live performances. They have performed and appeared with Miley Cyrus on the hit TV show ‘Hannah Montana’ and performed ‘Part of Your World’ from Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid.’
they have ALOT of things mixed up at Illinois Review –
They got alot wrong. On one pic of Raul, it said he was going to be solo, but teamed up with his yonger brothers, but then on a pic of all two, it said Fidel was signed with Columbia records as a solo artist, but then went into it with Raul. Plus they said that they performed “Part Of Your World”. Imagine them singing that, and it’s really funny.
? u so much Fidel! Ur ? is awsome luv ya!?