Can someone tell me why our rulers hate to see people in other countries
be educated, have health care, have decent jobs.
wcm
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> At 01:47 PM 3/18/98 -0600, you wrote:
> >Anybody have any thoughts on this?
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> The thing that is going ot happen when Fidel Castro dies is that there is
> going to be another invasion--mebbe not "armed" (tho' mebbe so), but an
> invasion in any case, the whole import and intention of which will be to
> undo ALL the social advances that the Cuban regime has wrought in the
> countryside, for the purposes of handing the country back over to the
> aristocrats and oligarchs who fled the revolution. It will be told as the
> "glorious re-establishment of freedom and market economy in Cuba, and the
> entire resources of the US propaganda machine--read, the press--will be
> ginned uyp to hype the events. There'll be parades, fiestas, new cars on the
> streets, and a LOT of gringos showing up to spend money on the "delights" of
> Habana. The local representatives of the current regime will be ejected from
> office, some will be mysteriously "disappeared," and the lackeys and
> lick-spittles of the Mas-Canosas (late and unlamented) and Ros-Leytenons,
> etc, will descend upon the island like a plague of locusts. Not a single
> leader of th "new" Cuba will be black, not one will be from the countryside.
> COunt on it.
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