Reply #87: I need to do some research on your first link. [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Immediately I see it promotes some U.S.-financed (with U.S. taxpayer dollars granted through acts initiated by right-wing Cuban Representatives and their supporters like Tom Delay) "dissidents" as important sources.

American Cuba watchers are very familiar with these names. From your first site:

About Cubafacts.com

Cubafacts.com is authored and maintained by Ramón Miró.

Ramón is a Washington, DC area resident and a senior research analyst in Latin American affairs at the U.S. Library of Congress.*

This site was launched in the spring of 2000 as an English-language general purpose resource on Cuba that, it was hoped, would help fill some of the information gaps about Cuba on the web.

Cubafacts also seeks to portray the human dimension of the Cuban reality. One of its primary goals is to raise public awareness of the dramatic, nonviolent struggle for freedom by Cuba’s internal democracy movement. Cuban activists, such as Dr. Oscar Biscet, Martha Beatriz Roque, and Oswaldo Payá have forsaken violence and are following in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in their civic efforts to create a future democratic Cuba.
(snip/...)

Oh, my God. Would you look at that? Mahatma Gandhi, now! It was only a couple or three years ago, Miami Cuban "exile" terrorist Jose Basulto was comparing HIMSELF to Gandhi.

It's a new twist seeing them intone devotion to the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., (whom I've heard in person TWICE) considering they are connected to the Miami right-wing Cubans, with whom they correspond, who are most definitely congenital racists from the Batista era and before.

I'm short on time now, but I'm definitely going to plunge into this and look up this guy. By the way, Marta Beatrice Roque received substantial alottments of U.S. taxpayer-derived money over the years, as testified to in court by a Cuban informant who was her personal secretary for years and knows her business intimately.

By the way, taking money from a foreign source and working against your own government is a CRIME in this country, even though it's done with people in leftist countries to help destabilize them.

I'm going to find out more about your U.S.-based propagandist.