Comments on: Progressive Cuba-Bashing (Richard Levins) http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2005/09/14/88/ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:48:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: rebelucion http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2005/09/14/88/#comment-256673 rebelucion Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:45:49 +0000 http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2005/09/14/88/#comment-256673 <p>there is an american left? :-) breaking news!! they're all reactionaries and imperialists of some form</p> there is an american left? :-)
breaking news!!
they’re all reactionaries and imperialists of some form

]]> By: Yoli http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2005/09/14/88/#comment-155733 Yoli Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:27:33 +0000 http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2005/09/14/88/#comment-155733 <p><strong>Yoli</strong></p> <p>I love the blog,i must admit you are fantastic !</p> Yoli

I love the blog,i must admit you are fantastic !

]]> By: Ben http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2005/09/14/88/#comment-9 Ben Tue, 20 Sep 2005 03:11:59 +0000 http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2005/09/14/88/#comment-9 <p>I have visited Cuba and had the privelidge of meeting Fidel Castro (though it was the briefest handshake.) We were on a protest against the American Blockade and transported more then a million dollars of medical and other goods through the U.S. and Mexico and on to Cuba. We were of course well recieved. Most strikingly were the people who populate the towns and the city Havana. Everyone we met (and there were many, the latin spirit of conservation is as alive in Cuba as anywhere else in the hot blooded countries) offered us very intuitive arguements on the state of politics and culture. There was much less interest in mass marketed concepts, besides of course the natural love of music, dancing and sex. It is sad that an island with a brilliantly aware population suffers at the hands of a discriminatory policy based in the doubts and fears of Washington stratagists and planners. I agree with this article completely. The information we receive about Cuba has gone through so many filters before it hits our ears, and our mainstream media channels have little incentive to direct positice Cuba stories our way we are left with the negative. Fanning these flames are the interest groups which have unusual clout for the size of their cause. Cuba is a country to be celebrated, and eliminating the blockade would go much further in integrating their country into the hemisphere conciousness. That may indeed be the greatest challenge the country may ever face, but if it can navigate a compromise between the avid capitalism of the north with the socialist latin spirit spreading in Latin America, it could indeed become a social model to hold up for others to behold.</p> I have visited Cuba and had the privelidge of meeting Fidel Castro (though it was the briefest handshake.) We were on a protest against the American Blockade and transported more then a million dollars of medical and other goods through the U.S. and Mexico and on to Cuba. We were of course well recieved. Most strikingly were the people who populate the towns and the city Havana. Everyone we met (and there were many, the latin spirit of conservation is as alive in Cuba as anywhere else in the hot blooded countries) offered us very intuitive arguements on the state of politics and culture. There was much less interest in mass marketed concepts, besides of course the natural love of music, dancing and sex. It is sad that an island with a brilliantly aware population suffers at the hands of a discriminatory policy based in the doubts and fears of Washington stratagists and planners. I agree with this article completely. The information we receive about Cuba has gone through so many filters before it hits our ears, and our mainstream media channels have little incentive to direct positice Cuba stories our way we are left with the negative. Fanning these flames are the interest groups which have unusual clout for the size of their cause. Cuba is a country to be celebrated, and eliminating the blockade would go much further in integrating their country into the hemisphere conciousness. That may indeed be the greatest challenge the country may ever face, but if it can navigate a compromise between the avid capitalism of the north with the socialist latin spirit spreading in Latin America, it could indeed become a social model to hold up for others to behold.

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