Cambio - the Spanish word for Change.  And no, I'm not becoming a fan of Obama!  But Cambio is coming for Cuba.  In fact, with the resignation of Fidel in favor of his kid brother Raul, change might come a whole lot sooner than either of the Castro boys thought.

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You can see the hope in their faces, the desire for change, with a picture of the Virgin, the Cuban flag and the word Cambio; Change.  A change from the horrors of a true police state, a change from near universal literacy when there is nothing to read but what slips past the censors. Cambio! Change from universal health care that is divided into two parts, one for the cash paying wealthy, and one for everyone else where you have to supply your own medicine and your own sheets for your bed, if you can find one.  The two touted hallmarks of the Castro Revolution are universal literacy and health acre, but the true cost is the jailing of dissidents, the execution of anyone for any reason at the whim of either Castro or his old partner Che.  Pinochet, as bad as he was, couldn't match Castro for bloody dictatorial power. 

Cambio - Change for an Island held hostage for 5 decades, change for a people where children like Elian Gonzalez don't have to lose their mother in a desperate flight for freedom.  Cambio! Change for a people striving to be free; change for a father wanting to raise his child in freedom and not in a wasteland of socialist promises that have fallen short of the goal.  Cambio! 

Cambio! Change for a people subjugated for 50 years to the power of a megalomaniac who held a great people hostage to his idea of a communist paradise but when his sponsor, the late and unlamented USSR, went belly up, so did anything coming into Cuba.  Cambio! Change for a people held hostage to nuclear annihilation in the early 60's so that Castro could poke at the eye of the Yankee to the north.  Cambio! Change that will not be long in coming. Cambio and a people will be free once again.

Fausta, my very good and dear friend perhaps said it as well as anyone:  "Let's transition to a free, democratic Cuba; we all should pray for that!"

And a Tip O' the GM Derby to Henry Gomez

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1 I thought Cuba was paradise? At least that is what the left would have us believe. Castro is probably dead and they are trying to get Raul in office before announcing it. Castro died or will die because of a failure of his socialist health care. They botched his abdominal surgery badly. How fitting. Where is Michael Moore and his camera?

Posted by: Big Dog at Wednesday, February 20 2008 01:34 PM (+q4Sb)

2 Michael Moore is too busy filming his next flick- oh wait..he was going to Cuba to have his tummy tucked but decided not to do that after Fidel's experience.

I have a friend whose parents crossed the angry oceans between Cuba and Florida- they made it but not before loosing all their siblings and their own folks. Her father spent three yrs locked up because he spoke of JFK in good terms. Imagine that.

I hope one day Cuba can be truly free...and I hope Americans can see through the lies set forth by Moore and others about the wonderful health care and other programs. Gah.

Posted by: Raven at Wednesday, February 20 2008 03:11 PM (AQJCl)

3

Cuba's no paradise, to be sure. But the people there seem a lot better off than in Haiti and many other countries in the region.

They'd all be better off with more democracy, free markets and more free speech, but let's not pretend that the problems in Cuba are any worse than those that afflict a large number of Third World countries.

 

 

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4 McLovin,
I do believe we agree on something.

Posted by: Raven at Wednesday, February 20 2008 06:54 PM (AQJCl)

5 McL... and of course let's not pretend that I am pretending any such thing. 

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