23 Feb
2003
23 Feb
'03
11:13 a.m.
I've kept quite through this entire discussion but now I have to speak up. I have
to agree with Chad on this one. I live in Florida and I personally know dozens if not
hundreds of people who fled Cuba including two of my door neighbors. Most of them
didn't even have a suitcase of clothes much less ANY money. I don't know who's
been telling you otherwise but they're lying through their teeth! Where the hell do
you get your news from? Havana? You should come to Florida and talk to some of these
people. They don't risk their very lives crossing 100+ miles of shark infested ocean
hauling money out of Cuba. Not a single one of the Cubans that I know are rich. Most of
them would be probably be considered poor by our standards. They're just happy to be
out of Cuba and in a (relatively) free country.
Joe
At 05:42 PM 2/23/03 -0500, you wrote:
Lawrence Walker wrote:
regime the US government wants. Hardship because
of
US sanctions or not, the cuban people remember the
years of the Batista government and his Mafia cronies
supported by US monied interests, and don't want to give
up their hard won freedoms
Hard won freedoms??? What freedoms to you think the Cubans have? It's
a poor communist country!
to allow the"Gusanos"(worms)
who fled to Florida with their money to be
reinstalled in
power.
Money? What money? My grandparents couldn't even bring there wedding
rings with them when they came to the US!! They had a small suitcase
with some clothes, thats it!
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA