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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Machaon who wrote (3429)	4/28/2000 11:51:00 PM
From: chalu2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

The only reason the Cuban people ae going without anything is the U.S. embargo. I'm not sure what important things they are without--most look pretty fat and happy to me.

To: Machaon who wrote (3429)	5/1/2000 7:21:00 PM
From: Adelantado	Respond to of 9127

"By the way, do you think that the people of Cuba will ever see the billions of dollars that Castro has stolen from them, while they go without?..." Was it Castro who stole money, or was it property left in Cuba by the exiles to find a better, more lucrative life? If it was left behind, it seems to me that this is the price for a new life. If it was Castro, where is the proof of a luxurious life? I suspect that much of the land and real property was expropriated by the Cuban government and forms the basis of that communist country. I am not familiar with the terms of payment for the expropriated property, but I suppose that when Castro dies, the exiles invade the Island to take back a life that they claim is theirs, there will be many persons who will claim hugh fortunes to re-establish the old colonial system of the haves governing the have-nots. I suspect that there will be another strss upon the Cuban families forced to split up again as the older Cubans want to return to the Island while the integrated younger ones will have nothing to do with it. What a disappointment it will be for many of these folks. \| Cuba will still be a foreign country and travel between Cuba and Florida will still have immigration regulations to follow. Maybe there will be a push to make it part of the United States, perhaps with Puerto Rico to eliminate these restrictions. Who knows what the next few years will bring. It still surprises me that former entities under the Soviet Union want to be members of NATO.