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


To: Dayuhan who wrote (5862)5/20/2000 9:58:00 AM
From: jhild  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9127
 
I would reckon that they have little chance of filling any power vacuum in Cuba. I think time in the US has eroded their will to actually be an effective force there. If the Elian drama is any guide they are not fit to lead. They have reduced themselves merely to a band of impotent whiners. Would they seriously expect at this point to go back and reassert their old property claims? Lord, I can hear their whining already.

With a whole generation that has never set foot in Cuba, I think their desire to return has been dulled by too many years in the US. For the younger ones this fight is still their father's fight, but their fathers are growing old. Too old perhaps, if they think that stealing a little boy from a father in Cuba is good politics. Or that it puts them any more that another step away from where they say they want to be.



To: Dayuhan who wrote (5862)5/20/2000 9:45:00 PM
From: marcos  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9127
 
One would hope not ... still, the Bacardis and Fanjuls and Mas Canosa/Santos and Basultos are working toward that end ... no, they don't have among them an individual the calibre of Fidel ... sad, really .. where are the Emiliano Zapatas of our age, the Jeffersons, the Paines?