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

To: epicure who wrote (4991)	5/12/2000 4:33:00 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

To me as well ... and of course everyone gives that ideal lip service. But not so easy in the details of application to individual cases ... for example; A rich man buys title to a large piece of land from the government of M‚xico, land which was part of a huge and never-planted finca nationalised under the Ley Agraria in the 20s or 30s, but never formally portioned out to ejidos as it was unpopulated since except for small often-mobile groups of mayas who don't read anything much less spanish and who don't recognise the european style concept of land 'ownership' ... the 'owner' can prove title in a court of law, while the maya know they've been there for thousands of years, though intermittently, and 'all they want is a little corner of land to fill their bellies' [excerpt from the Ya Basta speech of Marcos] ... so; 1. who has rights to the land? 2. how do you enforce your decision in light of the fact that both sides are willing and able to fight for their position? It's not so easy on the ground, most times ... i lean to the school that advocates education of both sides, that they may learn from each other and take the best bits of both ... they then become one side, Vasconcelos' Raza C¢smica ... but this takes a lot of time in which blood is shed thus reinforcing hatred, and it meets with a lot of resistance, in fact it gets called 'indoctrination' and often confused with 'isms'. Change some terms around in the above, and with very little adjusting it applies to Cuba - and Kosovo, and east LA, and Tibet, etc, etc ... imho ... which isn't to say that i think greater powers should do nothing ... they must think carefully and thoroughly first, though ... and maybe their most effective action would be to set a good and moral example on their own turf.