cubans in miami salivating over ...what they say will be cuba's return to

[flordehinojos]

being, "the pearl of the antilles", once fidel dies and they get their hands and feet into the island.

from my point of view it is all so ridiculous.

[bluerum]

1. ya, his brother will be waiting with machine guns n the beaches.

[Kutjara]

2. Great! Havana will once again be wall-to-wall...

...casinos and nightclubs, half the population will be employed by US-based organized crime and corruption and graft will be the dominant form of government.

Just like the good old days!

[Freedom_Aflaim]

5. Yea, those brown people cant handle freedom

Better to have a strongman dictator to tell them how to live.

:sarcasm:

[Kutjara]

6. I'm sure they're perfectly able to handle freedom...

...if they're given the chance. Unfortunately, too many groups in the US have been viewing Cuba as a potential gold mine for so long that I doubt the Cubans will have much say in their future.

I sincerely hope that the Cubans are left alone to chart their own course in the post-Castro era, but I doubt they will be.

[Freedom_Aflaim]

12. I totally agree

Lots of folks are chomping at the bit to give the Cubans what that particular interest group thinks they want.

I want to Cubans to choose as they see fit Post Castro. I suspect that won't happen, either because the new dicatorship will be worse, or some outside group will be worse.

[LostinVA]

9. The huge majority of Cubans were fr from free under Batista

Overall, I'd say their lives were worse.

I'm sure they could handle freedom, but what Bush and some of the "Exiles" are trying to sell is invasion and running Cuba THEIR way.

[Freedom_Aflaim]

13. Heck, folks in the US were worse off 50 years ago

than they are now. Bush notwithstanding.

Time almost came to a stop for the Cuban people when Castro took over.

If things could proceed naturally there, I suspect everything will be ok. If it is forced via invasion and occupation, then I fear greatly for them.

[rzemanfl]

3. There are women doing stretching exercises to get ready for

the donkey shows as I type this.

[LostinVA]

10. Ugh

[jaysunb]

4. Return to a dictatorship ?

Where the Euro-Cubans ride roughshod over the Afro-Cubans.
Oh yeah...I remember that, and I'll bet the people there do too.

[alarimer]

7. Not much of a chance of that I think

The people who stayed are the ones who should reap the rewards, if any. Not the ones who left.

[Howardx]

18. thats my opinion too

n/t

[Loge23]

8. Castro's demise opens the floodgates

According to a story in today's WSJ, Repukes are actually wishing for a full recovery for the great bearded one. Why?
Because they fear a huge migration to the U.S. rivaling the infamous Mariel days when the doors are finally swung open.
...and that, my friends, can't be good for the Jebster.
On the positive side for the American Nazi party, Cubans are more likely to vote republican (they can relate??!), but their votes are not considered automatic.

[ShaneGR]

15. This is Jeb's last year....

Election for the new Governor is in November. Wide open race atm.

[RagingInMiami]

11. Do you have a link?

I drove by Versailles today and the only people there that were not eating was a horde of media and a couple of entrepreneurs selling Cubans flags. The party has seriously subsided.

Most of the Cubans in my neighborhood with most likely not shed a tear if Castro dies, but they have no plans on returning to Cuba for anything other than a vacation.

[flordehinojos]

16. no link. i'd been watching "el show de francisco HIDALGO"...they

were salivating there. he had a cuban reporter from the herald. he was salivating. he also had a young singer. she was salivating. everytime they said something about fidel, his demise, and return to cuba, the audience salivated...just that.

VERSAILLES!!!! years ago i lived across the street--in what the Cubans then called, "LA PASTORA", OR "pastorita"... a set of apartment complexes where, the americans who had lived there (the real name of the apartments were CORAL GARDEN APARTMENTS) MOVED OUT when the CUBANS started to move in and it seemed like 100% of the Cubans living there were from SANTIAGO DE CUBA the birth city of the founder and owner of the VERSAILLES, the VISO family.

I have not been to miami since the elian gonzalez saga.

[ShaneGR]

14. I wouldn't mind a socialist dictatorship turning to democracy/capitalism..

But that's just me.

[flordehinojos]

17. i would not either if the people living in that socialist dictatorship

decided that is what they wanted. i do and would mind it a lot if it is a democracy/capitalism IMPOSED from the outside...that has a whole different name. it is called a DICTATORSHIP... as in Bush's DICTATORSHIPS SPREADING in the middle east.