Actions against U.S. Protesters are Barbaric, Fidel Castro Says

[dipsydoodle]

Havana, Apr 2 (Prensa Latina) The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, described as barbaric the police repression against protesters in major cities in the United States and Europe.

They show "to the world the coward actions that are committed against the rights and the lives of the citizens of their own countries," Fidel Castro said in his latest reflection "The Wonderful World of Capitalism."

"The most important cities in the United States and Europe are the theater of continued pitched battles between demonstrators and a well-trained and well-fed police, equipped with armored cars and helmets, beating and kicking and throwing gases against women and men, twisting the hands and the necks of people, young and old," the revolutionary leader wrote.

"How much longer these barbaric acts would last?" wondered Fidel Castro, adding that "these tragedies will continue to be seen, more and more, on television and in the entire press; they will be like the daily bread that is denied to those who have less."

http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=493656&Itemid=1

See here too for entire Reflection/Essay : http://www.granma.cu/ingles/reflections-i/reflections-1april.html

[Possumpoint]

1. Give Me A Break

Cuba, the land of the free and the home of the brave? Hypocrisy exists at high levels. Let them lead by example, not by hollow words.

I use the same words towards our leaders. Freedoms are being pulled out from under us as we speak.

[davidthegnome]

2. While I agree with you

Truth is still truth, regardless of who speaks it.

[CAPHAVOC]

3. Capitalism man exploits man. Communism is just the opposite.

An old Russian joke.

[bemildred]

4. And tyrannical and dictatorial too. nt

[stevenleser]

5. Hey Fidel, remember 'Las Damas de Blanco?' and their husbands and sons?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/25/us-pope-cuba-dissidents-idUSBRE82O0GN20120325

"Las Damas de Blanco" is Cuba's leading dissident group and was formed by the wives and mothers of 75 dissidents jailed in a 2003 crackdown on Fidel Castro's opponents.

They have marched in Havana every Sunday since 2003 to demand the release of all political prisoners.

More than 70 of the group were briefly detained last week, fueling expectations that the government, which views opponents as mercenaries of the United States, might clamp down to prevent public demonstrations during the pope's stay.

[dipsydoodle]

6. You mean the Miami funded Ladies in White.

who regularly protest in a an attempt to keep their paymasters happy.

Have you been to Cuba or do you just pick up what you know 2nd hand ?

Broadly speaking the Cuban Ladies in White go back to the mother of one of the three men executed for pirating an Havana harbour ferry back in 2003 and kidnapping all it passengers in an attempt to sail it to FL. It was intercepted by the US coastguard having run out of fuel and was towed back by Cuba by Cuban tugs.

From memory the temporary arrests last week or so were as a result of their antics following the occupation of a church by another group.

[stevenleser]

7. So if you can accuse your opponents of being funded by certain folks,you can crackdown on protests?

I am sure dictators worldwide are happy to have your OK.

[dipsydoodle]

8. The subject here is Cuba,

you made it so and I await an answer - have you been there ?

[stevenleser]

9. No, I didnt make the subject Cuba, you did. Then you justified repression. Thats where we are.

I am still waiting to understand why repression and crackdowns on protesters is OK when Castro feels its ok.

[Judi Lynn]

11. It's publicly known here, in Cuba, in Miami, in our Congress these women receive money from the U.S.

If you had bothered to do any research you would have learned long ago not only is it against the law in Cuba, it's also against the law here in the U.S. to take a salary from another country without declaring that income and where you get it.

There have been people working for the leaders of these clowns for years who gave testimony, along with names, dates, amounts, bank account numbers, etc., etc., etc. in court.

One worked as a secretary for Marta Beatriz Roque, one as a "journalist" like the mock journalists on the U.S. payroll now.

Other Cuban dissidents, the ones NOT on salary from the States are never bothered.

Do dive in there and start doing some homework, find out for yourself, like so many of the rest of us.

[polly7]

13. Thank you!

[Judi Lynn]

10. I remember that vicious high-jacking. They held knives against the throats of passengers,

some passengers leaped overboard into the ocean to take their chances there.

That harbor ferry wasn't build for heavy sledding out on the ocean, and would not have survived a trip to Florida. Everyone sensible already would know that, and did.

I have no doubt whatsoever if they had tried something like that in this country government snipers would have nailed them where they stood, and there wouldn't have BEEN any prisoners with loved ones taking money from the U.S. to drag their asses around trying to get publicity and propaganda shots for U.S. right-wingers who have never taken the time to find out who these "women in white" are.

That's one great reason they are viewed with utter contempt by ordinary Cubans.

As you know, dipsydoodle, no doubt, the real Women in White who lost their sons, daughters, husbands, ect. to the U.S.-supported fascists in Argentina, who were tortured endlessly, then often flung out of airplanes into the ocean, or rivers, etc. have publicly voiced their disgust with this pathetic band of U.S.
employees attempting to steal the name of a heroic group of women, some of whom were arrested, tortured, and thrown out of airplanes themselves, as protesters, as well as grieving mothers, grandmothers, aunts, wives, girlfriends, etc. by the Kissinger-counseled, supported fascist regime in Argentina.

[dipsydoodle]

12. Yup

I knew the Argentinian origin of the name which the Cuban charlatans adopted.