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They do it so often it has lost a lot of its impact to people who know about these loons!
Here's an example of how they behaved during a trip to Miami by a Cuban musical group, "Los Van Van":
The Miami Herald
October 10, 1999
The band plays on as protest fails to deter Van Van's fans
BY MANNY GARCIA, JORDAN LEVIN AND PETER WHORISKEY
The Cuban dance band Los Van Van played Miami Arena on Saturday night, but not
without inciting a vast show of anger by protesters, who greeted concert goers by
spitting at them, yelling obscenities and throwing eggs, rocks and bottles.
By night's end nearly 50 Miami police officers had donned riot gear. One journalist
had been knocked unconscious by a rock, and five people had been arrested, one
charged with battery on a police officer. Three of them had been detained after trying
to storm the arena while waving Cuban flags.
Police bearing shields and riot helmets escorted one group of concert-goers to the
Metrorail station nearby.
``Things have gotten a little disruptive,'' Angel Calzadilla, spokesman for Miami Police,
said. ``We had a larger crowd than we anticipated. Our big concern is that rocks
don't discriminate.''
. . .
Miami police had clearly anticipated trouble. In the late afternoon, as the first
demonstrators began assembling, police could be seen throughout the neighborhood:
on the street, on the roof of the arena and the roof of the Arena Towers next door, and
on horseback. Some set up barricades. Others closed roads. Dogs sniffed for
bombs.
. . .
One man wearing a Van Van T-shirt walked to the entrance of the arena and
shook his left fist at the crowd and said: ``Viva Los Van Van!''
MUTUAL SCORN
The crowd of exiles started screaming: ``Die, you communist pig! Die, you son of
a bitch!''
At 6:05 p.m., a woman in a miniskirt and black high heels walked half-way up the
arena steps, then stopped, waved her ticket and stuck out her tongue at the
crowd. She then ascended to the arena's front door, let the breeze lift her skirt,
and shook her white lace panties at enraged onlookers.
``Jinetera!'' the crowd yelled.
Soon, the crowd had begun to throw rocks, bottles and eggs at concert-goers.
About 24 officers in riot gear appeared outside the arena.
. . .
Others pressed on, despite the trouble, if only to prove a point.
As Mario Garcia arrived, the crowd yelled: ``Communist, male prostitute, gigolo
and whore.''
More:
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/music/protest.htm
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A list from the Miami New Times published during the time Elian Gonzalez was being kept from returning to his father and brother, 4 grandparents, many aunts and uncles, many cousins, neighbors, school friends, etc. at the home of his chronic alchoholic great-uncle, Lazaro Gonzales in Little Havana, Miami:
. . .
Phrases like "mob rule" evoke frightening images of violence, which in turn sends Miami's damage-control specialists rushing to the microphones and insisting to the world that the Cuban-exile community is peace-loving, law-abiding, and (with emphasis now) nonviolent. Miami Mayor Joe Carollo in particular has been tireless in promoting that message. "Miami has been a peaceful, nonviolent community," he stressed to CNN last week. The historical record, however, clearly contradicts those assertions.
Lawless violence and intimidation have been hallmarks of el exilio for more than 30 years. Given that fact, it's not only understandable many people would be deeply worried, it's prudent to be worried. Of course it goes without saying that the majority of Cuban Americans in Miami do not sanction violence, but its long tradition within the exile community cannot be ignored and cannot simply be wished away.
1968 From MacArthur Causeway, pediatrician Orlando Bosch fires bazooka at a Polish freighter. (City of Miami later declares "Orlando Bosch Day." Federal agents will jail him in 1988.)
1972 Julio Iglesias, performing at a local nightclub, says he wouldn't mind "singing in front of Cubans." Audience erupts in anger. Singer requires police escort. Most radio stations drop Iglesias from playlists. One that doesn't, Radio Alegre, receives bomb threats.
1974 Exile leader José Elias de la Torriente murdered in his Coral Gables home after failing to carry out a planned invasion of Cuba.
1974 Bomb blast guts the office of Spanish-language magazine Replica.
1974 Several small Cuban businesses, citing threats, stop selling Replica.
1974 Three bombs explode near a Spanish-language radio station.
1974 Hector Diaz Limonta and Arturo Rodriguez Vives murdered in internecine exile power struggles.
1975 Luciano Nieves murdered after advocating peaceful coexistence with Cuba.
1975 Another bomb damages Replica's office.
1976 Rolando Masferrer and Ramon Donestevez murdered in internecine exile power struggles.
1976 Car bomb blows off legs of WQBA-AM news director Emilio Milian after he publicly condemns exile violence.
1977 Juan José Peruyero murdered in internecine exile power struggles.
1979 Cuban film Memories of Underdevelopment interrupted by gunfire and physical violence instigated by two exile groups.
1979 Bomb discovered at Padron Cigars, whose owner helped negotiate release of 3600 Cuban political prisoners.
1979 Bomb explodes at Padron Cigars.
1980 Another bomb explodes at Padron Cigars.
1980 Powerful anti-personnel bomb discovered at American Airways Charter, which arranges flights to Cuba.
1981 Bomb explodes at Mexican Consulate on Brickell Avenue in protest of relations with Cuba.
1981 Replica's office again damaged by a bomb.
1982 Two outlets of Hispania Interamericana, which ships medicine to Cuba, attacked by gunfire.
1982 Bomb explodes at Venezuelan Consulate in downtown Miami in protest of relations with Cuba.
1982 Bomb discovered at Nicaraguan Consulate.
1982 Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre defends $10,000 grant to exile commando group Alpha 66 by noting that the organization "has never been accused of terrorist activities inside the United States."
1983 Another bomb discovered at Replica.
1983 Another bomb explodes at Padron Cigars.
1983 Bomb explodes at Paradise International, which arranges travel to Cuba.
1983 Bomb explodes at Little Havana office of Continental National Bank, one of whose executives, Bernardo Benes, helped negotiate release of 3600 Cuban political prisoners.
1983 Miami City Commissioner Demetrio Perez seeks to honor exile terrorist Juan Felipe de la Cruz, accidentally killed while assembling a bomb. (Perez is now a member of the Miami-Dade County Public School Board and owner of the Lincoln-Martí private school where Elian Gonzalez is enrolled.)
More:
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/mullin-6367332
(The violence continues, of course, and so much has happened since the article was written.)
Video of a Los Van Van performance at a Miami auditorium years ago:
On edit, found a Los Van Van video taped in Miami in 2003. The cops have put up barricades by this time, and there were rude signs waved at the singers they would see on their way in, although some were in English.????? One was "Communist beggars." Oh, well.
Bonus video, salsa dancing in Havana. At no time do the dancers' feet leave their ankles:
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