(Miami Hurled) Lech Walesa in Miami: Changes will soon come to Cuba

[Billy Burnett]

Lech Walesa in Miami: Changes will soon come to Cuba
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1459862.html

Solidarity leader and Nobel Peace prize winner Lech Walesa said political change is coming to Cuba and the world must prepare for the `real Cuba.'

BY LUISA YANEZ
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Former Polish President and Nobel Peace Laureate Lech Walesa, a key player in helping bringing down communism in Eastern Europe, said Tuesday that there will soon be a political change in Cuba.

``It's going to happen,'' Walesa said, speaking through an interpreter. ``But the world must be ready for the changes that will bring about,'' he cautioned.

Walesa, the guest speaker at a Tuesday $100-a-plate luncheon of the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba at the Freedom Tower, said the rest of the world needs to see the real Cuba -- and not the island as ``a tourist attraction.''

A union organizer and founder of the Solidarity Movement, Walesa led a nonviolent revolt against Poland's communist system in the 1980s. He has been working with the Cuban American National Foundation on how lessons from his movement can best be applied to support the work of civil society groups in Cuba.

``What aspects of his movement can be applied to our struggles in Cuba?'' asked Omar Lopez Montenegro, executive director of the foundation for human rights.

Francisco ``Pepe'' Hernandez, president of the Cuban American National Foundation, who attended the luncheon, said, ``There are many Lech Walesas'' inside Cuba.

``What's needed,'' Hernandez said, ``is for the world to join and support the struggle of the Cuban people, just as it did during Walesa's fight against the Polish government. World support is very important.''

Walesa said he believes ``our generation has the best chance to bring about change in the world'' and help push for moral governments.

``Values are more important than tanks and rockets,'' he said.

At the event, Walesa was presented with the keys to the city and the county.

Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado explained to Walesa the fitting significance of the Freedom Tower. ``Thousands of Cuban exiles escaping communism were processed here,'' he said of the tower, which is now owned by Miami Dade College.

Miami-Dade Commissioner Rebeca Sosa presented him with a key and thanked him. ``God bless you for fighting for the right of democracy,'' she told Walesa.

All proceeds from the luncheon will benefit the efforts of the Cuban human rights foundation and the Lech Walesa Institute Foundation.

[Judi Lynn]

1. Oh, God! I have to lie down after reading this info. It's too much to bear. Oh, jeez.

It's just dandy hearing from Francisco ``Pepe'' Hernandez again, concerning how many Lech Walesas there are milling around in Cuba! Ha ha ha ha. The CANF really has its fingertips on the pulse of Cuba, doesn't it? That's why they sponsor bombings of Cuban hotels, restaurants, nightclubs, hire poor people from Central America to carry bombs into the country and plant them, have been sending over heavily armed raiding parties over the years to murder the unsuspecting, or make targeted assassinations. (Some of their assassins have even become familiar faces on Cuban tv after they've been caught, have been tried and sent to prison, of course, without the whole country going wacko and screeching about "terrorists," too, like our own learning impaired sub-class, the Republicans.)

Oh, yeah. Good old Pepe Hernandez. He's all heart.

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Lech Walesa is a Tea Partier!

Lech Walesa Stumps for Adam Andrzejewski at Chicago Tea Party (Video)
Friday, January 29, 2010, 10:31 PM
Jim Hoft
Nobel Peace Prize winner and Solidarity co-founder Lech Walesa spoke in Chicago today at a tea party rally and campaign stop for conservative Adam Andrzejewski.

FOX News Chicago video

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/01/lech-walesa-stumps-for-adam-andrzejewski-at-chicago-tea-party-video/

Way to go!

[Peace Patriot]

2. What a jerk he turned out to be! (--or maybe he was CIA all along) nt

[Billy Burnett]

3. He ran for election (and won) in Poland on "the Jews did it" platform.

Typical evangelical rethug anti-union union leader.

[Peace Patriot]

4. Just want to say thanks for ID-ing the source in the subject line. It's a good practice.

(But I still like my name, "Miami Hairball," better. Ever witness a cat trying cough up a hairball? That's exactly how I feel when reading Miami Hairball stories. "Hurled" is good--but not as graphic.)