VERY insightful comments from Anne Louise Bardach - her new book Without Fidel

[flamingdem]

Anne has been chronicling the Luis Posada Carilles events for many years also.

http://www.brainwaveweb.com/diavlogs/22839

[Braulio]

1. Not bad at all

I liked the interview. Isn't it interesting how in dictatorships and autocracies like Cuba the ruler's health status is considered a state secret? Hopefully the Castro regime will fall soon, and Cuba can become a normal country.

[Billy Burnett]

2. Very good.

Isn't it interesting how the US media call Castro's illness a "state secret" when it is (and was, at the time) common knowledge that Mr Castro has had a colostomy. It was well publicized in Cuba when the world's leading gastroenterologist went to Cuba to help consult with the treatment plan, which, according to the DR, was the correct treatment plan the Cuban Drs had Mr Castro on - and that Mr Castro was doing better (later to be proven correct, as we've seen in photos and vids over the last year).

This was regular news all over Cuba.

Just because the MSM (and Cuba haters) chooses to ignore the actual goings on in Cuba doesn't mean that Cubans are as ignorant as Americans on this.

[Downwinder]

3. Interesting how Reagan's alzheimer's was covered up.

[roody]

5. Most Cubans know more about the US than the US' inhabitants.

[roody]

4. Go see Cuba now while it is still not normal.

It may soon be ruined.

[flamingdem]

6. I agree. It's so untouched by the capitalist malaise

It feels like the US in the 60s. People still use old fashioned typewriters and rotary phones. People have old fashioned manners at the same time they are extremely in your face, a combination I like. It used to be that you could escape the annoyance of cell phones but that's changing rapidly.

If you are an artist, musician, adventurer, leftie, or a writer Cuba will blow your mind. However, if you want a cush vacation you won't like it much, especially the culinary offerings. The cultural offerings make up for it but it's not easy to find out what's going on.

People in Cuba have time to live life and one feels this being there. It's a priority to relate and to have conversations. Internet is not the focus of communication there, yet.