Nuestro dinero para proteger a la hija de Raul Castro de paseo por USA

NO entiendo ni de política, ni de diplomacia, ni de villanos con caras de buena gente. Pero sí entiendo que es una vergüenza que la hija de un asesino terrorista devenido jefe de Gobierno en Cuba por las armas que junto a su hermano lo llevaron a adueñarse de un país y sus ciudadanos, tenga visa para pasear y revolcarse con lo peorcito de Estados Unidos.
Que alguien me instruya por que no entiendo nada, y mucho menos si para proteger a esa rata de Marieala Castro se usa el dinero que yo pago con mis taxes.

U.S. Taxpayers Paid for Visit by Dictator's Daughter Posted: 14 May 2013 07:47 AM PDT U.S. taxpayers flipped the bill for the extensive security personnel that escorted the Cuban dictator's daughter, Mariela Castro, throughout her visit to New York and Philadelphia earlier this month. Mariela spent at least 12-days in the U.S., during which time the State Department provided her with a detail from the Bureau of Diplomatic Security (BDS), its spokesman confirmed to Cafe Fuerte. We all know about Mariela being feted by the Equality Forum in Philadelphia. But also among her activities was a visit to the International Action Center (IAC) in New York, where she was thanked for her family harboring Joanne Chesimard in Cuba, who is on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted Terrorists list. Will taxpayers also paying for the Assad, Kim, Bashir and Ahmadinejad families to tour the U.S.?  Or is this a privilege reserved for the Castro family? The State Department could have saved U.S. taxpayers their hard-earned money by complying with -- and not exempting Mariela from -- Presidential Proclamation 5377, which prohibits non-immigrant visas for Cuban government officials.

Why the FAO Praised Fidel Posted: 13 May 2013 08:28 PM PDT Last week, the head of the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization ("FAO"), José Graziano, sent a congratulatory letter to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro for "reducing hunger on the island." Graziano’s letter, which first appeared on the front page of Castro's official newspaperGranma, left regular Cubans scratching their head. Thanks to the Castro dictatorship's food monopoly, Cubans face infamous food shortages (except in tourist zones, of course). However, today, the FAO has released a new book that has shed light on its standard of praise for Fidel. The FAO's new book, "Edible Insects: future prospects for food and feed security," promotes the nutritional value of insects, as well as the benefits that insect farming could potentially have on the environment and on the rapidly increasing demand for food worldwide. No joke. According to the U.N.'s News Center: While the idea of eating a worm, grasshopper or cicada at every meal may seem strange, FAO says this has many health benefits. Insects are high in protein, fat and mineral contents. They can be eaten whole or ground into a powder or paste, and incorporated into other foods. This is what Cuba has come to after having Latin America's highest per capita consumption rate of meats, vegetables and cereals -- in 1958. Great job, Fidel!

The Cuban Women That Make Castro Tremble Posted: 13 May 2013 07:40 PM PDT Don't miss this homage by artist Rolando Pulido of the female leaders of Cuba's pro-democracy movement. Day in and day out, these courageous women make Castro's military dictatorship tremble. Otherwise, why does it seek to silence them through brute force and intimidation?

A Look at the Castro Clan Posted: 13 May 2013 07:40 PM PDT In The American Spectator, Alberto de la Cruz takes a look at the next generation of the Castros and their ambitions for power: Those of Fidel’s children who live in Cuba have for the most part kept very low public profiles, either by choice or by force. None of them appears to hold any position of real authority. Two sons, Fidel Jr. and Antonio, might seem like natural candidates, but further examination tells a different story. Fidel Jr. wields no power, and his mother’s family history may be an important reason for that. He is Fidel’s firstborn son and only child with his first wife, Mirta Diaz-Balart. If her surname sounds familiar, it’s because she is the aunt of two Florida congressmen, brothers Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Mario Diaz-Balart. Both men, and their entire families, are staunchly opposed to the Castro dictatorship and are steadfast defenders of freedom and liberty in Cuba. Antonio, or Tony as he is known, is an unlikely choice for other reasons. He is the team physician for Cuba’s highly regarded national baseball team, but Tony appears to be a typical rich kid: spoiled, reckless, and more interested in partying than in running the family business. A few years ago, an exiled Florida man posed as a Colombian woman, strung him along on a six-month Internet love affair, and later published his amorous advances. On several occasions, unflattering pictures of Tony enjoying the good life a bit too much—with women and booze aplenty—have surfaced online. This is not the image Cuba’s revolutionary, “workers’ paradise” government wants to portray, especially when the average Cuban earns $20 a month and must struggle on a daily basis to find enough food to survive. (Luckily for him the vast majority of Cubans have no access to the Internet.) Further, Tony’s behavior suggests that he lacks the ruthlessness required of a future dictator, and this cannot have gone unnoticed by his father and uncle. The case is completely different with Raul’s children. Some have speculated that Mariela Castro, his daughter, could be next in line to take over the country. She is a sexologist who travels the world and extols the grittiness of Cuban women who turn to prostitution in order feed and shelter their children. Ms. Castro, however, has spent the little political capital she has advocating for sexual freedom and, even more so, for gay rights. Her choice of causes is interesting considering the fact that her uncle Fidel at the height of the revolution sent anyone considered to be among the dregs of society—vagrants, religious adherents, and gay men—to labor camps. These camps, known as UMAPs (Military Units to Aid Production), had banners at their entry gates that read: “Work will make men out of you.” Although Mariela Castro’s cause may win her fans outside of Cuba, it does not do her much good on the island. Gay rights do not top the list of concerns for Cubans starving under the yoke of tyranny. More importantly, she does not appear to have secured the influence necessary to consolidate power. Mariela’s brother Alejandro, however, does hold considerable power. Alejandro is a colonel in Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces and head of the intelligence and counter-intelligence units of the nation’s two most powerful ministries: Defense and Interior. He is also a member of Cuba’s 14-member Military Junta, a group of generals headed by the Castro brothers who operate in secret and who are the true decision makers on the island. But there are some who believe Alejandro doesn’t have the intellectual wherewithal to keep a nation of 11 million people under complete control. That leaves us with the apple of Raul’s eye, his grandson, Raul Guillermo Lopez-Calleja (known as El Cangrejo,“the Crab”), the son of Raul’s daughter Deborah. His father is Col. Luis Alberto Rodriguez Lopez-Calleja, another member of the Military Junta and the man who leads the commercial arm of the Cuban military, which owns and operates all the official tourist, import, and export businesses on the island. (As an interesting side note, Lopez-Calleja’s cousin, Arturo Lopez-Levy, is a former Cuban military intelligence officer turned Cuban-American scholar and supporter of the Castro dictatorship here in the U.S. who is often quoted by the American mainstream media as a “sensible” member of the Cuban exile community.) Little Raul leads his grandfather’s security team, but there are some who feel that he is too young—though he is about the same age as Fidel was when he took control of Cuba in 1959.

The Castro-Coddled Cop Killer Posted: 13 May 2013 10:25 AM PDT By Humberto Fontova in The Washington Times: The Castro-coddled cop killer The ‘most-wanted terrorist’ mocks U.S. justice from Cuba On May 2, the FBI announced a $1 million reward for “information leading to the apprehension” of Joanne Chesimard, also known as Assata Shakur, who they named a “most-wanted terrorist.” Chesimard is the first woman to make the FBI’s list. The New Jersey State Police then added another $1 million to the reward pot. Convicted cop-killer (of a New Jersey state trooper) and “domestic terrorist” Chesimard has been living in Cuba since 1984 as a Castro-coddled celebrity of sorts. And it’s not like bounty hunters can operate freely in a Stalinist country. So the $2 million may be symbolic. As in the U.S. Justice Department putting on a game face and saying: “Look, Castro, we’re serious here.” In the early 1970s, Chesimard belonged to a Black Panther offshoot known as the Black Liberation Army. “This case is just as important today as it was when it happened 40 years ago,” according to a recent press release from Mike Rinaldi, of the New Jersey State Police. “Chesimard was a member of the Black Liberation Army, a radical left-wing terror group that felt justified killing law enforcement officers. … This group conducted assaults on police stations and murdered police officers.” More than a mere member of these domestic terrorists, Chesimard was described by former FBI Assistant Director John Miller as “the soul of the Black Liberation Army.” In 1973, while wanted for multiple crimes from bank robbery to murder, Chesimard and two accomplices were pulled over for a taillight violation on the New Jersey Turnpike. As the troopers were routinely questioning them, Chesimard (who was in the passenger seat) and her pals opened up on the lawmen with semi-automatic pistols (no word on whether these were properly registered.) As Trooper Werner Foerster grappled with the driver, Chesimard shot him twice — then her gun apparently jammed. As Foerster lay on the ground wounded and helpless, Chesimard grabbed the trooper’s own gun and blasted two shots into his head, much in the manner of her Cuban idols Che Guevara and Raul Castro killing hundreds of their own (always defenseless at the time) “counterrevolutionary” enemies. “This crime was always considered an act of domestic terrorism,” stresses Mr. Rinaldi. She escaped, but was captured in 1977, convicted of murder and sentenced to life plus 33 years. Then in 1979 she escaped from prison — and with some professional help, probably by Cuban or Cuban-trained terrorists. “Two men smuggled into the prison, took guards hostages and broke her out,” explained John Miller to CBS News. Chesimard’s 1979 escape from prison was well-planned, Mr. Rinaldi explained. “Armed domestic terrorists gained entry into the facility, neutralized the guards, broke her free, and turned her over to a nearby getaway team.” “In 1984, they smuggled her to Mexico. Using a network of Cuban intelligence officers who worked with American radical groups, they got her into Cuba,” adds Mr. Miller. Since then, according to New Jersey State Police Col. Rick Fuentes, Chesimard “flaunts her freedom. … To this day, from her safe haven in Cuba, Chesimard has been given a pulpit (by Castro) to preach and profess, stirring supporters and groups to mobilize against the United States by any means necessary. She has been used by the Castro regime to greet foreign delegations visiting Cuba.” “Joanne Chesimard is a domestic terrorist,” declared FBI agent Aaron T. Ford, during a recent news conference. “She absolutely is a threat to America.” Along with coddling Chesimard, Castro’s fiefdom provides haven for more than 70 other fugitives from U.S. law, including several on the FBI’s most-wanted listed. Cuba harbors convicted cop-killers Michael Finney and Charlie Hill, along with Victor Gerena, responsible for a $7 million heist of a Wells Fargo truck in Connecticut in 1983, as a member of the Puerto Rican terrorist group, Los Macheteros. All requests by U.S. authorities for these criminals’ extradition have been rebuffed, often cheekily by Fidel Castro himself: “They want to portray her as a terrorist, something that was an injustice, a brutality, an infamous lie!” is how he answered a U.S. request for Chesimard on May 3, 2005.