Ray, Ray, Ray... you are barking at the wrong tree.... I am a capitalist pig... OINK !
if it were up to me, I'd burn ALL politicians regardless of race, color, flavor, religion, sex, or particular idiocy they lie and clamor for to the stake and feed the crusty remains to the hyenas...
Actually, one of the most intelligent and honest former CIA men is currently living in Havana, Cuba and working as a travel agent.
Well, Ray... you have a pal already there... what are you waiting for? they are waiting for you with open arms... More power to you
You know what they call (in Spanish), rum & coke ? = Cuba libre (free Cuba), so there... Bacardi and Coke; Cuba and USA such a "love-hate " relationship... it is almost romantic. -lol
Imagine all the "habanos" you will be able to smoke, and legally too... you will be able to go back in time and live like Diego Rivera... who knows you may find your own Frida Kahlo, or re-live the days and times of Ernesto Hemingway... they even have all the pre- 1960's fords and chevys WOW !! and they are still --somehow running.
Here is a guide...
cuba-junky.com
Cuba formed the backdrop for a lot of his writing, particularly 'The Old Man and the Sea', and the farm he lived in became a pilgrimage in the 1950s for Hollywood's rich and fashionable. Hemingway was genuinely loved in Cuba, where he was known simply as "Ernesto" (his rather self-conscious attempts to spread his own preferred nickname of "Papa" were not quite as successful). In his turn, he donated his own Nobel prize for Literature to the Cuban people, and when the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista was overthrown by Castro in 1959 he was reported to have been delighted.
Hemingway met Castro in 1960, when Fidel awarded him several prizes for big game fishing. As narcissists obsessed with their own macho images, the two men had a lot in common. He described the revolution as 'an honest' one but it also has to be remembered that he died before Castro had declared himself to be a Communist.
roflol !!
Think... you could become (or at least try)... a new Diego Rivera... (do you paint ? -gg) no matter, just live wildly...
What confidence and ambition it requires to approach a biography of Diego Rivera, the larger-than-life Mexican muralist who in recent years has been reduced, in some circles, to being known as Frida Kahlo's evil husband. The myths and mysteries begin at his birth, in 1884. His mother seemed to die just after Diego, a firstborn twin, emerged, and her body was laid out for burial, until an old servant insisted she was still breathing. She recovered fully (Diego's twin died at age 2). This macabre event was but the first in a fabulously eventful life. Under the brutal regime of the dictator Porfirio Díaz, whose legacy included human slavery on an unprecedented scale, Mexico City became "The Paris of the Americas," with imperial palaces, European music, and decorations by artists who had studied under Ingres. "It was in this exuberant, chaotic, and occasionally dangerous world that Diego Rivera grew up," writes Patrick Marnham, who casts a spell of such strangeness, beauty, and black humor that the reader is utterly hooked by the end of the first few pages. Marnham repeats and analyses all the fables Rivera spun about himself and his family; he describes Rivera's enchantment with Italian fresco cycles and his friendship and rivalry with Picasso in Montmartre in the 1920s; he reports Rivera's countless amorous conquests; and he presents the supposedly feminist view of Rivera as a monster of appetite, arrogance, and authority. Marnham also does an excellent job of picking apart the personal, political, and artistic threads of the disastrous brouhaha over Rivera's Rockefeller Center murals. In prose that is poetically rich and frequently tinged with not-so-gentle irony, he has written a thoroughly believable book about an all but unbelievable life.
20th-century-history-books.com
Or...
You could be a more modern Communist-Bourgeoisie like Carlos Fuentes....
The principal author and promoter of the anti-Cuban declaration in the United States (signed by Chomsky, Zinn and Wallerstein) was Joanne Landy, a self-declared ‘democratic socialist,’ and lifelong advocate of the violent overthrow of the Cuban government—for the past 40 years. She is now a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), one of the major institutions advising the U.S. government on imperial policies for over a half century....
“It is no surprise that the statement authored by this chameleon right-wing extremist contained no mention of Cuba’s social accomplishments and opposition to imperialism. For the record, it should be noted, that Landy was a visceral opponent of the Chinese, Vietnamese and other social revolutions in her climb to positions of influence in the CFR.”
For the record, it should also be noted that Joanne Landy is a former member of the Shachtmanite International Socialists, which spawned the International Socialist Organization and Sy Landy’s League for the Revolutionary Party, which are also hostile to the Cuban Revolution. For these outfits, the abstract notion of (bourgeois) “democracy” and not the proletarian class character of the Cuban state is the be-all and end-all.
The anti-Cuban furor extends into Mexico, where in the past the nationalist bourgeoisie postured as friends of Cuba (even while secretly spying on Cuba for the U.S.). Today, many Mexican ex-leftists, such as the novelist Carlos Fuentes, are following the lead of the right-wing clericalist government of Vicente Fox in attacking Cuba. The Fox government was also joined by the supposed “left” wing of the nationalist bourgeoisie, the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). One of the main leaders of the PRD, former Senator Pablo Gómez—who for many years was a leader in the Stalinist Communist Party—led a vociferous campaign in the press against those intellectuals who dared to express any solidarity with the Cuban Revolution at this critical moment. And in France Alain Krivine, leader of the fake-Trotskyist Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire, issued a statement decrying the lack of “freedom of opinion” in Cuba and declaring: “We totally condemn the parody of justice which just took place” (Rouge, 1 May). Outrageously, Krivine demands that the trials in Cuba be “open to foreign observers.”
icl-fi.org
ROFLOL !!! they just can't keep it straight... Communists by night and bourgeoisie by day... like a love affair LOL !
AND....
You will be in a position to buy all the cheapest (not for long), beach real estate in the world ! -- and become some sort of Cuban-American Trump ! --> now that's a thought !
The winds of change of the power-pendulum are in full swing... sniff, sniff... I can almost smell the salty breeze of an estate by the sea in the southern shores of the island, looking towards the expensive shores of the Caymans... (hmmm does Bahia de Cochinos rings a bell ?? -ROFLOL!! What poetic justice !!!)
If I were you, i'd be there already.
[luckily I am not.. so ... ciao Ray, buen viaje... 'comrade' -lol] |
