Listen I grew up with people like you. You came to my island and after we open our arms to you you stabbed us in the back selling us down the river to Uncle Sam.

Of course you have no proof for any of your accusations Manny, and the sad truth is that you and your ilk keep Castro and his Revoluccion alive by keeping the US and Cuba at odds. The moment the US changes tack, the big bad enemy disappears and so will the goverment in La Habana. But you don’t care about that, you just want to go back to the days of Batista when you ruled the roost as the elite, betrayed the Cuban Revolution (you know the one that lasted 10 years against Spain) so that you could shack up to your new Imperial masters.

Yep, you got no credibility what so ever.

And let us not forget that it was the US nanny goverment that has protected a minority interest in Miami and San Juan at the expense of everyone else. With a flip of a switch “feet dry” become “feet wet” and that is what you are really afraid off.

PS: Obama is not a socialist. If he were, I’d probably be happier with him.

Nice try, though.

If this is someone else’s quote, then I can only put it to you another way. Why would you believe in this person’s story in such a selective way? Why put credence in their feelings and story at all? Aren’t they just another filthy invading mongrel migrant?

On June 30, 1968, I escaped Communist Cuba, and a few months later I was in the United States to stay. That I happened to arrive in Richmond on Thanksgiving Day is just part of the story, but I digress.

I’ve thought a lot about the anniversary this year. The election-year rhetoric has made me think a lot about my native Cuba and what transpired there. In the late 1950′s, most Cubans thought Cuba needed a change, and they were
right. So when a young leader came along talking about change, every Cuban was at least very receptive.

When the young leader spoke eloquently and passionately and denounced the old system, the press in Cuba and even the USA fell in love with him. They never questioned who
his friends were or what he really believed in. When he said he would help the farmers and the poor and bring free medical care and education to all, everyone believed. When he said he would bring justice and equality to all, everyone said ‘Praise the Lord’ finally. And when the young charismatic leader said, ‘I will be for change and I will be the arbiter of that change, everyone yelled, ‘Viva Fidel!’

But everyone was so excited about the change, nobody bothered to ask about the details of the change. Well, by the time the executioner’s guns fell silent and the people’s own guns had been taken away. By the time everyone was equal, they were equally poor, hungry, and oppressed. By the
time everyone received their free education it was worth nothing. By the time the press noticed, it was too late, because they were now working for him. By the time the change was finally implemented Cuba had been knocked
down a couple of notches to Third-World status. By the time the change was done way more than a million people had taken to boats, rafts, and inner tubes, risking sharks or drowning to escape the change. You can call those who made it ashore with us to Florida or anywhere else in the world, the most fortunate Cubans. And now I am getting a very familiar feeling that goes back to the beginning of my story.

But, we would never fall for that in America. We wouldn’t put a young leader in charge of this great country who promised
change without asking: What change? How will you carry it out?
What will it cost America? Would we?

Manuel Alvarez, Jr.

At least this Latino can see through the media created fraud named Obama.