Three Cubans

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• Posted 11/27/09 by David
  We have to be careful whenever you send Americans anywhere in the world. Especially to talk about things that are going on in other countries. We should go to Cuba, and talk to the Cuban people. Before Casto, Baptista was running Cuba into the ground, noone had nothing to say. Where were the Cuban people then when Baptista was when prostition and gambling was the order of the day in Cuba. Those who left Cuba didn't want to share the little wealth that Cuba had with the poor. America ran gambling and prostitution inside of Cuba. So when a man (Castro) rises up and says that we want a better Cuba, look into the reasons why people ran to America. America only sees all of you as visitors, please remember that. Castro is loved all over the world...why? He has helped Africa, and most of Latin America. So, the media who is ran by the BIG CORPORATIONS put a negative spin on the good that Castro does. They (controlled media) do it all over the world to those who do not bow down to CORPORATIONS. REMEMBER...JESUS SAID BLESSED ARE THE POOR!!! Not everyone wants a #### McDonalds or Coke, in their country. Every country has a right to have it's own identity. Fidel is right, as blacks we should do for ourselves and stop looking for others to provide for us. Racism is all over the world, and blacks catch more hell in all of the countries, even in Islam!!
• Posted 06/06/09 by FSR
  Such a sad story. Documentation of how a nation has gone backwards in development in every respect. Instead of continuing from industrial to post-industrial such as in much of the western world. Our nation has gone backwards to pre-industrial, political upheaval, social injustices and persecution for no other reason than dissenting with an oppressive regime. May we one day overcome and return to the path of progress in every respect and put the last 50 years of oppression and backward thinking to rest for ever!
• Posted 06/06/09 by Raul V. Guzman
  The message is OK, that is what happen in Cuba then, besides everyone was a " Fidelista". Latins, and the cubans are latins first before being cubans, are well known for being hypocrites, and all of them, which includes me, furthermore we have a very short memory, and our horizon is very short, once we come to USA we become long term, theme we transfor ourselves from comunists to full capitalist, and with the same fury we became comunists we become capitalists, and therefore the process of accumulation regardless of who we hurst or take it from. Viva La Internacional
• Posted 06/06/09 by Carlos
  PS Regarding these fake an staged rallies if your a Cuban citizen and dont attend you lose your job and whatever little food you get for your family. Also the children a a very early age are not even given milk any longer. Sad sad state,please dont believe this propaganda junk. The Cuban people are slaves to this dictatorship.
• Posted 06/06/09 by Carlos
  Very much cuban government propaganda. As a Cuban American who has visited his family in Cuba let me shed some light on this for you.I have three family members in Cuba that are doctors and make about $30 per month. They are starving and do not have porper medicine or even vitamins to treat themselves or their patients. One chicken costs $5 dollars. You cannot own property, you are a prisoner on this charasmatic maniac. Castro even took his mothers ranch away from her and would turn his back on her when she would plead with him. His brother Raul is a coward and would run away from a fight when his soldiers were engaged in battle. Castro thinks of the Cuban people as cattle to be rented out to other countires. This is a very sad time for the Cuban people who live without human rights and the right of free speech. Thank you to the US our adoptive country for providing us with a wonderful opportunity to provide for our families and live in freedom.
• Posted 06/06/09 by Faltajama
  Why is the main stream media, including AOL news, so hell bent on pushing down our throat, on forcing us to accept that the Castro Communist Revolution is a good thing for Cuba and it's Cubans, on the island or abroad ? If it were so, after FIFTY years, despite the trade embargo which has never been adhered to by many nations, nor has it been an ironclad blockade, despite Cuba is an island, the media and those left of center individuals wouldn't have to sell the accomplishments of the revolution to us, the FACTS and ACCOMPLISHMENTS of the Revolution would sell it's self. Can anyone from the groups that supports the Cuban Communist Revolution and it's accomplishments, inform me on the name and email address of the Cuban counterpart to the A.C.L.U. ? Many voting individuals in the U.S. haven't figured out yet that the Progressive Left gives support to Cuba, on many of same policies it has worked so diligently to destroy in this country for the last 40 years. That is an Oximoron. The only difference between Cuba and the U.S.A. on enhanced interrogation techniques is, that in Cuba, after you confess, they will continue doing it until you die or simply put a bullet in your head. And there is not going to be a Communist party review board inquiring about suspect rights violations or the breaking of the Geneva Convention. WAKE UP AMERICA!!! They, the media, are using smoke and mirrors and the best of Hollywoods special effects techniques, to make you (the citizen) believe that what you are seeing is not real, go with your gut, what sounds too good to be true, usually is not to good. I call on the youth in this country to WAKE UP, rub the sleep from your eyes, do your OWN homework. The U.S.A. is the greatest place to live, except for MOST politicians, who have conveniently forgotten WHO they SERVE! We have our problems, which we can fix, but you should see the rest of the world! A born in Cuba AMERICAN, in defense of this great country.
• Posted 06/05/09 by Terry
  I agree, not only the Island looks different but look at the people now and then! I am proud to be a Cuban-American. Cuba is my birth country, but the USA is my where my home is. I LOVE THE USA!
• Posted 06/05/09 by Just Cuban
  To the black gentleman that feels racism from the white Cuban what you missed is that the recism was directed to your comunist ideas and not to the color of your skin, the film itself is comunist propaganda unless you had lived it you can not make an intelligent conclusion on whose side is right and whose side is wrong. What the film does not tell you is that in Cuba today there is a form of racism against the black people there that comes from the governament they want you to believe that evething is ok in the Cuban paradise but that is far from being the truth.
• Posted 06/05/09 by RB
  Pat thanks for your clarification and interpretation. My father spent time in Cuba just prior to the revolution when Baptista was in power. I would her all of the stories about how Cuba was beautiful but perplexing from an social standpoint. My father is African American and never said as many negative things about Castro like my neighbor who was a white Cuban exile. My father would talk about a cast system. After watching the film I can now understand why I was treated sometimes badly by white Cubans and their kids while growing up in Miami. I could understand American white racism but I had difficulty receiving racist comments from Cubans who were Latin and immigrants. Thank you for helping me to understand where the ignorance began.
• Posted 06/04/09 by Jesus Melendez
  Look at the Island before the Revolution, then look at it now. Make your own conclusions.
• Posted 06/01/09 by U
  Wow Pat! Very smart and balanced comment.
• Posted 05/29/09 by Pat
  While this is a good documentary and true representation of the facts. It must be said that it is the opinion, the view, of an early exile who was displaced, removed, from his social and economic status, and whose life, his world as he knew it, was crushed by the Revolution. The resentment toward the lower classes is revealed in the tone of his narration and the words he uses to define the two classes. I was such an exile, and while what the narrator says is true, down to his resentment, in that it reflects my experience, the narrator many times overlooks the opposing views of those who may have felt oppressed, which are also very real. It must be taken in the context of the time, of course, a time when we were all less sensitive to diversity, less evolved, less concerns with the concerns of others who were not as privileged as we. His reference to the 'negroes' and 'peasant types' of whom he speaks may be offensive to some and run the risk of diminishing the validity of his factual historical account. His comments are sometimes insensitive and poorly phrased, but that should not take away the validity of his account. One technical comment: very poor editing for commercials that interrupt in the middle of a word.