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   From: huntres23@optonline.net   
      
   On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 16:30:41 -0500, BeamMeUpScotty   
      
   wrote:   
      
   >On 12/23/2014 4:10 PM, Winston_Smith wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 20:40:40 +0000 (UTC), (Edward A. Falk) wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>> I think I'll smoke a cigar and have a shot of rum.   
   >>   
   >> Story at the time was JFK laid in a supply of his beloved Cuban cigars   
   >> before he declared the sanction on them.   
   >   
   >I would love to be able to go to Cuba and enjoy the beaches and rum and   
   >cigars, but who wants to help the communist treat those people like   
   >crap. So instead I'll stick with Miami beaches ans cigars and drink   
   >local rum in local bars.   
   >   
   >Remember that when Cuba became famous for rum and cigars they were   
   >capitalists that created those items and markets. The communists stole   
   >it all and they don't even make them the way capitalists do it, so they   
   >aren't the same as the good old days.   
      
   I don't know how old you are, but if you're old enough to remember   
   Batista, he ran a crony kleptocracy of the worst sort. Cuba was a   
   playground for the rich and decadent, with incredible numbers of   
   whores and mobsters, and the people were no better off than they are   
   under the Castros. He was a bastard but he was our bastard -- a   
   practice we engaged in frequently in Latin America.   
      
   That's why they supported the revolution in the first place.   
      
   "As news of the fall of Batista's government spread through Havana,   
   The New York Times described jubilant crowds pouring into the streets   
   and automobile horns honking. The black and red flag of the July 26   
   Movement waved on automobiles and buildings. The atmosphere was   
   chaotic. On January 8, 1959, Castro and his army rolled victoriously   
   into Havana.[71] Already denied entry to the United States, Batista   
   sought asylum in Mexico, which also refused him. Portugal's Prime   
   Minister António Salazar allowed him to settle there on the condition   
   that he completely abstain from politics.[citation needed]   
      
   "By the end of Batista's rule, later described by U.S. President   
   Kennedy as "one of the most bloody and repressive dictatorships in the   
   long history of Latin American repression",[36] many claim that up to   
   20,000 Cubans had been killed."   
      
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista   
      
   That's the only alternative the Cubans have faced for most of a   
   century. And that was *with* US help.   
      
      
   --   
   Ed Huntress   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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