Showing posts with label Cuba. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cuba. Show all posts
Friday, August 27, 2010
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Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Let's Give Credit Where Credit Is Due...
...for the past three decades members of the NDP have been actively been promoting Cuba as a destination for Canadians;
Cuba’s tainted image
Wed Aug 04 2010
“Go Cuba,” a long-running billboard campaign on the streets of Toronto, features seductive images of foreign sunbathers relaxing on the island’s tranquil beaches. But no amount of glossy advertising can undo the negative publicity from Cuba’s shabby... Monday, April 20, 2009
What Goes Around Comes Around
Peter Goodspeed: A Cuban Evolution
Posted: April 19, 2009, 11:11 AM by NP Editor Filed under: Full Comment,Peter Goodspeed
Forty-eight years ago this weekend, Francisco (Pepe) Hernandez stormed ashore in the Bay of Pigs, one of 1,500 Cuban exiles participating in a CIA-sponsored invasion aimed at overthrowing Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution.
Today, the president of the Cuban American National Foundation, historically the most powerful and implacable anti-Castro organization in the Cuban exile community, is applauding moves to loosen the United States' 47-year-old economic blockade of Cuba.
"For 50 years we have been trying to change the Cuban government, the Cuban regime," Dr. Hernandez says. "At the present time, what we have to do is change the emphasis to the Cuban people -- because they are going to be the ones who change things in Cuba."
The sudden shift in tactics marks a watershed in U.S.-Cuban relations.
Cuba, like no other state, has stuck in the craw of U. S. foreign policy -- with its leader, Fidel Castro, the target of numerous assassination attempts, one failed invasion, countless exile sabotage plots and an economic embargo that has outlasted 10 U. S. presidents.
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Posted: April 19, 2009, 11:11 AM by NP Editor Filed under: Full Comment,Peter Goodspeed
Forty-eight years ago this weekend, Francisco (Pepe) Hernandez stormed ashore in the Bay of Pigs, one of 1,500 Cuban exiles participating in a CIA-sponsored invasion aimed at overthrowing Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution.
Today, the president of the Cuban American National Foundation, historically the most powerful and implacable anti-Castro organization in the Cuban exile community, is applauding moves to loosen the United States' 47-year-old economic blockade of Cuba.
"For 50 years we have been trying to change the Cuban government, the Cuban regime," Dr. Hernandez says. "At the present time, what we have to do is change the emphasis to the Cuban people -- because they are going to be the ones who change things in Cuba."
The sudden shift in tactics marks a watershed in U.S.-Cuban relations.
Cuba, like no other state, has stuck in the craw of U. S. foreign policy -- with its leader, Fidel Castro, the target of numerous assassination attempts, one failed invasion, countless exile sabotage plots and an economic embargo that has outlasted 10 U. S. presidents.
Click here to read more...
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- I lean to the right but I still have a heart and if I have a mission it is to respond to attacks on people not available to protect themselves and to point out the hypocrisy of the left at every opportunity.MY MAJOR GOAL IS HIGHLIGHT THE HYPOCRISY AND STUPIDITY OF THE LEFTISTS ON TORONTO CITY COUNCIL. Last word: In the final analysis this blog is a relief valve for my rants/raves.