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

To: Dayuhan who wrote (6862)	6/2/2000 3:41:00 AM
From: marcos	Respond to of 9127

Yes, when America comports itself well and fairly and makes no threat on the children, then Castro is going to find slim pickings in the brownie points contest ... he cannot now fairly paint the current US administration or the majority of americans as hostile to Cuba or to cubanos, so i tend to doubt he'll find much propaganda value in posing as 'standing up to the norteamericanos' ... of course he will lie and twist and present the return of Eli n to La Patria as his doing, but the truth will out - America just scored. Castro is the real meat in this hunt ... Vince opines upthread that now the story is over, but i think the main body of the story is just beginning ... of course the media won't find it as convenient to cover Eli n in Habana as it was in Little Habana, so we will hear less from them ... but Eli n and his friends continue to grow up, the story goes on ... Castro has now a choice - he can smarten the F up fast, or he can get back on the loser treadmill. Driving this morning i heard a lady named Ruby Bridges on cbc radio, she has a book out which she is touting ... she was the much-fotographed little black girl who was the first into a white school in Louisiana in the 60s ... six years old ... she's really quite smart, a good listen ... anyway, it reminded me of this other six-year-old around whom adults spin politics ... her view of the situation at the time was that of a six-year-old, she had absolutely no idea of the hatred vented at her by those jeering morons who harassed her each day on entering the school, she says she thought they were cheering ... being from New Orleans she thought it was like Mardi Gras ... i forget the title, but intend to read her book. Your trucking story - i have one with similarities, in which i was personally involved, it was about buying chiles at roadside from indians in an area to which a particular group laid claim to the trade ... and fish combined with trucking - well, my father in law is a member of a cooperative which operates a freshwater fishery in mojarra [tilapia] in a dammed-up old oxbow of the Usamacinta [now a lake which almost surrounds the village, beautiful] ... only within the last five or six years have they been able to sell their fish direct to el DF, and contract out the trucking ... they net a lot more per kilo now, as you can imagine.