Cuban exiles prep post-Castro plan

[Mika]

Can you imagine a foreign group of terrorists having the chutzpah to prep a post-US president plan being taken seriously?


Cuban exiles prep post-Castro plan
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/breaking_news/11428852.htm

A group of Cuban exiles -- known to have to vastly divergent political and ideological views -- have set aside their differences to craft an 18-point blueprint of how the island should be governed after Cuban President Fidel Castro.

Representatives from 16 groups, including the Cuban American National Foundation, Agenda Cuba, the Cuba Study Group and members of the clergy, spent months working up the template called ``Pillars for a Cuban Consensus.''

''This is extremely important,'' said Jorge Mas Santos, chairman of the Cuban American National Foundation.

Gotta love this line from the CANF CEO..

``This sends a message that we are united and a very direct message to the international community that the Cuban community has the ability to dictate our own future.''

Ummm.. note to American born Mr Mas Santos (who has never even set foot in Cuba) --> you're part the American community, in Miami.




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[Bridget Burke]

1. I thought they were in favor of Democracy?

Why not let the Cuban people decide how they want to be governed? Let the professoinal exiles stay in Miami.

[flordehinojos]

2. yeah, that tells you how much in favor of democracy they are.

I have a friend who traveled to Cuba not too long ago. This friend tells me that the Cubans in the island hate the Cubans in Miami and see them as trying to usurp what should be the cubans right to self determination once castro is gone.

[Judi Lynn]

4. I'll bet they feel those 90 miles seperating them from Miami

aren't nearly enough distance from the gusanos.

A Canadian member who used to post here, who has gone to Cuba many times has stated that she met someone actually selling merchandise in Cuba who is an EXILE, lives in the States, and is also in business in Cuba for herself.

In 2000, there was an extensive article written in one of our larger papers, probably the Miami Herald, about "exiles" who buy things at a very cheap price in the states, then send them to a third country, where they are then sent into Cuba to be sold at wildly inflated prices.

That doesn't sound like too much concern for one's former countrymen/women, does it? They can least afford to pay inflated American prices. Being unfamiliar with the merchandise, they are unaware they are being swindled.

[Vogon_Glory]

3. I Expect That The Cubans Will Make Their Own Future

Some of the proposals made by this conference--like allowing the right of free travel, giving tenants in expropriated property, yet giving the pre-1959 owners financial compensation, and abolishing the death penalty--make good sense. We'll see how far many of these proposals fare after Fidel Castro finally passes from the scene.

I expect that Cubans will choose to make their own futures. Maybe many of the exiles now residing in the US and elsewhere will get to share with those Cubans living on the island the task of rebuilding Cuba from its Marxist-Leninist economic sleepwalk. Hopefully,, the Cubans will avoid another Machado-style dictatorship or the pre-1959 political corruption--and that both knee-jerk Castristas and old-style Batistianos will BOTH be unhappy with what the Cuban people chooses for itself.

Whatever the Cubans decide, I hope they get to make their future with a minimum of meddling from the US government and "Amurrican" hard-rightists bent on restoring Cuba to a neo-colony.

[cire4]

5. Wow....I would love to get a copy of these "Pillars for a Cuban consensus"

I wonder if one of the pillars reads "Cuba shall return to an island controlled by American corporations."