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rfmcdonaldWhen I did a search on Google using the keywords "Cuba" and "blog" yesterday morning, the first two hits took me to traveller's blogs.
I followed the third link which took me to Babalu Blog, a group blog on Cuba run by one Val Prieto. I intend to continue visiting this site, since Babalu Blog has a lot of interesting material on things in Cuba. I was taken aback by the sheer venom of the postings, directed towards Castro, towards members of the regime, and even towards apparently uninvolved third parties whose only crime is not to agree with the necessity for an immediate regime change. This isn't surprising, since as the terrorist associations of the Cuban American National Foundation demonstrate, the profound tensions that wrought Cuba during the Cuban Revolution remain quite active in the diaspora. What bodes ill for Cuba's transition is the fact that, as the erratic Christopher Hitchens pointed out in Slate ("The Eighteenth Brumaire of the Castro Dynasty"), Raúl Castro's accession to power creates a new military-backed regime in Cuba. The record of military regimes, within or without Latin America, on human rights aren't notably good even when faced with peaceful opponents.
Cuba's transition is going to be nasty, I fear. Romania in the Caribbean?
Suzanne's Cuba Blog Travel journal, photos and hotel reviews from Havana (Hotel Nacional), Holguin and Playa Pesquero...
www.suzannestravels.com/cuba/ - 32k - Cached - Similar pages
Steven’s Cuba Blog P9080584 Cuba Blog-3 With the sand under my feet, the sun beating down on my ... Anyways, this isn’ta blog about music; it’sa blog about Cuba. ...
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Babalu Blog Needless to say, discovering Babalu Blog was a revelation. Not necessarily because of discovering the truth about Cuba, but because of the passion and humor ...
www.babalublog.com/ - 263k - 8 Aug 2006 - Cached - Similar pages
I followed the third link which took me to Babalu Blog, a group blog on Cuba run by one Val Prieto. I intend to continue visiting this site, since Babalu Blog has a lot of interesting material on things in Cuba. I was taken aback by the sheer venom of the postings, directed towards Castro, towards members of the regime, and even towards apparently uninvolved third parties whose only crime is not to agree with the necessity for an immediate regime change. This isn't surprising, since as the terrorist associations of the Cuban American National Foundation demonstrate, the profound tensions that wrought Cuba during the Cuban Revolution remain quite active in the diaspora. What bodes ill for Cuba's transition is the fact that, as the erratic Christopher Hitchens pointed out in Slate ("The Eighteenth Brumaire of the Castro Dynasty"), Raúl Castro's accession to power creates a new military-backed regime in Cuba. The record of military regimes, within or without Latin America, on human rights aren't notably good even when faced with peaceful opponents.
Cuba's transition is going to be nasty, I fear. Romania in the Caribbean?
