Photo: Gotta see this! Castro display puts Nazi Busholini in his place

[OutsourceBush]

At least Castro still has a first amendment right. Too bad we don't.

A jogger passes a billboard with scenes from Iraq (news - web sites)'s U.S.-run Iraqi prison Abu Ghraib, set up on Havana's seafront boulevard Malecon across from the U.S. Interest Section, December 17, 2004. The United States had rejected Cuba's demand to remove Christmas lights in front of the American mission, which include the number 75, in reference to 75 pro-democracy activists imprisoned in Cuba. (Claudia Daut/Reuters)

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/041217/photos_ts/mdf797581&e=14&ncid=996

[RBHam]

1. Propaganda is a two way street...

Cuba has their own dirty laundry...

google cuba and human rights for a kick...

[OutsourceBush]

2. dirty laundry?

I think that is the point. Busholini can't look down his nose to even the likes of Castro, as this shows.

[mitchtv]

3. too bad we can't get a hidden camera into Gitmo

that would give us a real insite to human rights in Cuba

[fujiyama]

14. Nobody said

Cuba was a world leader in human rights. And even if Castro does, many of us would believe that to be nonsense.

The US CLAIMS to be exactly that. This is pure hypocrisy on our part.

The sad thing is, the pictures are all the TRUTH. That is what's happening.

[kuozzman]

4. How do I post a pic?

[lateo]

5. You...

Need to have a website that hosts the image. Then you just include a link to it here.

There are lots of free image hosting websites.

[TexasChick]

6. kuozzman, reply to this message. In the "Message options" option, you

will see an "HTML lookup table". Click on it. It will give you the instructions on how to post images to your messages.

[kuozzman]

7. They did that in response to this......

http://www2.lib.ku.edu:2950/apdbs/Intl_Photos/views/mini/7582/7582682.jpg

Controversial Christmas decorations remain up at the U.S. Interest Section in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2004, a day after Cuban officials warned the top American diplomat on the island there would be consequences if they were not taken down. The item that most irks the Cuban authorities is a sign that says "75," a clear reference to 75 government opponents put in prison last year after a massive crackdown. (AP Photo/Cristobal Herrera)

[kuozzman]

8. I love this...read the caption.

http://www2.lib.ku.edu:2950/apdbs/Intl_Photos/views/mini/7582/7582918.jpg

Cuban soldiers train on Dec. 10 in an unidentified area of Cuba. Defense Minister Raul Castro said last week that the large scale civilian-military exercises called Operation Bastion are designed to deter the United States from attacking the island. (AP Photo/Marcelino Vazquez/ AIN Cuban Agency)

[Mika]

9. Castro this Castro that

Castro this Castro that Castro this Castro that Castro this Castro that Castro this Castro that Castro this Castro that Castro this Castro that Castro this Castro that Castro this Castro that Castro this Castro that Castro this Castro that Castro this Castro that Castro this Castro that Castro this Castro that Castro this Castro that Castro this Castro that Castro this Castro that Castro this Castro that Castro this Castro that Castro this Castro that Castro this Castro that Castro this Castro that Castro this Castro that Castro this Castro that Castro this Castro that Castro this Castro that


Y'all have Castro on yer brains.

Cuba does have a government ya'know. Not just Castro.


Really.. take some time to educate yourselves with info other that US and US bought-and-paid-for "exile" manufactured propaganda.



http://www.poptel.org.uk/cuba-solidarity/democracy.htm

This system in Cuba is based upon universal adult suffrage for all those aged 16 and over. Nobody is excluded from voting, except convicted criminals or those who have left the country. Voter turnouts have usually been in the region of 95% of those eligible .

There are direct elections to municipal, provincial and national assemblies, the latter represent Cuba's parliament.

Electoral candidates are not chosen by small committees of political parties. No political party, including the Communist Party, is permitted to nominate or campaign for any given candidates.

--

Representative Fidel Castro was elected to the National Assembly as a representative of District #7 Santiago de Cuba.
He is one of the elected 607 representatives in the Cuban National Assembly. It is from that body that the head of state is nominated and then elected. Raul Castro, Carlos Large, and Ricardo Alarcon and others were among the nominated last year. President Castro has been elected to that position since 1976.

http://www.bartleby.com/65/do/Dorticos.html

Dorticós Torrado, Osvaldo

1919–83, president of Cuba (1959–76). A prosperous lawyer, he participated in Fidel Castro’s revolutionary movement and was imprisoned (1958). He escaped and fled to Mexico, returning to Cuba after Castro’s triumph (1959). As minister of laws (1959) he helped to formulate Cuban policies. He was appointed president in 1959. Intelligent and competent, he wielded considerable influence. In 1976 the Cuban government was reorganized, and Castro assumed the title of president; Dorticós was named a member of the council of state.

The Cuban government was reorganized (approved by popular vote) into a variant parliamentary system in 1976.

You can read a short version of the Cuban system here,
http://members.allstream.net/~dchris/CubaFAQDemocracy.html

Or a long and detailed version here,
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0968508405/qid=1053879619/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-8821757-1670550?v=glance&s=books

[bvar22]

10. Even many DUers have...

...drunk the Kool-Aid where it concerns Cuba.

[OutsourceBush]

11. "Representative Fidel Castro was elected"

HA HA HA!

now that's funny

He was elected like Bush was elected.

[Mika]

12. Not quite

Cuba has a parliamentary system of government.

Really.. you should do some real research on government.


Fidel Castro Ruz was elected to National Assembly as a representative of District #7 Santiago de Cuba.

I've been to Cuba several times, including for a long stint that included the election season 1997-98.

[Gold Metal Flake]

13. Where is thumbs-up girl?

She should do an ad for that red lipstick she wore. That fresh-scrubbed compliant torture-droid look.

[coda]

15. " At least Castro still has a first amendment right. Too bad

the rest of Cuba doesn't.

[Mika]

17. And you were there when?

When were you there?

I thought as you posted too, until I went there to see for myself. Cubans can and do speak up quite vociferously.

It's Americans who don't have the freedom to go to Cuba to see for themselves - banned from Cuba by their own government. Why? Must be something there that the US gov doesn't want banned&blindfolded Americans to see.

[hollowdweller]

16. They need the pic of Bush in his dictators jacket right before the swastik

[saltpoint]

18. Thanks for posting this photograph.

I hadn't seen it before.

Castro is a wiley soul, isn't he. He outfoxes U.S. presidents all the time.

[KC_25]

19. yeah Cuba, model of Democracy!

http://www.cubapolidata.com/gpc/gpc.html

http://www.cubapolidata.com/gpc/gpc.html

http://www.reference-guides.com/cia_world_factbook/Cuba/

Cuba has a point with the billboard though...
but really its the pot calling the kettle black.