The Zephyr Song wrote:
The Spanish teacher I had last year is Cuban; she was glad when Fidel Castro took sick, but the fact that Raul was there to take his place kind of dampened her spirits.
There was a flood of letters in the local papers from Castro apologists saying how he was only viewed negatively because of the way the US told everyone to view him.
One of the letter writers was a girl I knew from college. By "knew" I mean that I had the misfortune of living next to her and having to put up with her rants about all things evil (and by evil I mean corporate, capitalist, or otherwise rewarding someone who worked hard). You know the type; the rebel without a clue. They wear the Che shirts and talk about how the corporations are evil and sit in their big corporation buildings being all corporationy.
Her letter was the typical socialist, blame america first type garbage people of that sort often write. To read her letter, you'd think George Bush would have soldiers raping children and kittens in the streets of America if he didn't have them raping children and puppies in Iraq so he and his big oil buddies can make billions without paying taxes since corporations don't pay taxes because they own the government, while Cuba is a land with fountains of chocolate, and happy children all living in complete happiness without a care in the world.
Anyway, this one guy, who claims he is from Cuba (and with a name like Fuentes, I'm inclined to believe him, as I work with a Cuban expatriate with the same last name) wrote in and pretty much torpedoed everything she said, using my favorite "Cuba is a lot better than the United States, that's why we use boats, doors, and anything else that will float to head south from Miami, right? He then offered to buy her a one way ticket to Cuba so she could live happily and freely with Castro.
Much to my surprise (although it shouldn't have surprised me), people were actually defending her, saying she has the freedom to say whatever she wants and shouldn't be attacked for it. One writer even went so far as to say that the negative portrayal of Castro is perpetuated by "self-serving immigrants".
Yeah. They're so self-serving, leaving their homeland and all that.
Call me crazy, but I'll take the words of someone who lied to escape Cuba (he bought a ticket to Argentina and told the Cuban government he was going there for vacation) over some rebel without a clue, middle class, white girl.
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