Comments on: Jose Contreras goes home

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 03:22:19 +0000

After all the thinly disguised Cuban driver jokes I’ve told here over the years, I feel entitled to a little poetic license.

By: tfbuckfutter

tfbuckfutter — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:22:19 +0000

Ummm….

That was a “Jose Contreras was alive in the 50s” joke.

Jesus.

By: jimeejohnson

jimeejohnson — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:47:52 +0000

Great post.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:25:32 +0000

Because Cubans love their land – their soil, their foliage, the neighborhoods or little villages where they grew up, the families and friends and music they left behind, the home-grown food that doesn’t really quite taste the same here, you name it. American right-wingers, including exile right wingers – who are no longer a clear majority of Cuban-Americans and a minority of second and third generation Cuban-Americans – and the political puppeteers who try to exploit their anger and frustration only see Castro. The older ones only see “Communism” or “Socialism” and a conversation with many of them will quickly reveal that they really don’t even understand the difference between the two. The rest of exiled Cubans – like Contreras – carry the entire country in their hearts and can and do love it for what it has been, is, and will be again long after Castro is just a rancid memory.

By: badintent

badintent — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:54:55 +0000

We’v e all been to Key West and seen the sign too. Me and the good old boys rented a boat and went out for some scuba diving. We were told to keep it close and stay away from Cuba patrol boats. We did. BUT THAT NASTY ASS BARRACUDA SCARED THE HELLL OUT OF US !
The average cuban makes $19 a month . Bring a couple bars of perfumed soap and some shampoo for gifts for the friendly “beach hostessess” you meet . They’ll te gusta mucho En la cama toda la noche. Que bueno.

By: hojo20

hojo20 — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:45:16 +0000

He could’ve swam there if he wanted to visit to badly.

By: tfbuckfutter

tfbuckfutter — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:55:19 +0000

I’m not sure why he would want to go home after being an eye-witness to Castro’s rise to power.

By: unlost1

unlost1 — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:35:18 +0000

you would think they could communicate through the world wide web

By: sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo

sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:03:54 +0000

Come on, it has only been 50 years. Let’s let this embargo thing play out for a little bit and see what happens.

#sarcasm

By: unclemosesgreen

unclemosesgreen — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:59:49 +0000

My wife and I visited Key West last year, and had a “Cuba-moment” on the beach. Overwhelmed with the feeling of how close it was, and how profoundly wrong and outdated our Cuba policy has become. It’s as if time randomly stopped 90 miles to the South-Southeast of that spot on the beach.

At best, our Cuba policy is a chronosynclastic infundibulum. It may require Trafalmadorian intervention to straighten it all out.

Which, of course, brings us back to Salo.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:44:29 +0000

Here’s hoping we’ve seen the end of our arrogant, bullying, bottomlessly futile Cuba policy – embargo and all – period. Obama, you’ve got no more elections to face. Let your testicles drop and put an end to this half-century of rank, pointless stupidity already.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:44:02 +0000

The movie about Luis Tiant’s return to Cuba was very moving. Different situation, because left in the 1950′s before the revolution and was advised not to go back. He spent decades away from home.

http://www.eltiante.com/