By Alberto de la Cruz on 05/05/2011
"Engagement," "people-to-people" contacts, religious and academic
"exchanges"; this is the mantra of lobbyists, advocates, and Castro
supporters who spend an awful lot of time and money trying to convince
Washington D.C. and the American people that we should be engaging the
vile Castro dictatorship. The Cuba problem, they say, can be solved
simply through dialogue and honest discussion with the murderous and
vile totalitarian dictatorship in Cuba.
Engagement with the Cuban regime, however, is a one-way street; they
talk, they demand — we listen, and we concede to their demands.
This is not a nuanced or subjective analysis of the Castro dictatorship.
This is their history, their proven history over a 52 year period, that
no matter how you try to spin it, it remains obvious to everyone except
for the woefully ignorant, and the shamefully mendacious.
Here is a taste of Castro-style "Engagement" via Cuban Colada:
CUNY Prof Banned from Cuba
Ted_in_Santiago_(RD) CUNY Professor Ted Henken just spent 12 days
in Cuba talking to bloggers. But the Cuba researcher says the trip may
well be his last.
In a posting that should serve as a warning to journalists and
academics alike, he reports on his El Yuma blog that upon his exit at
the airport, state security agents had a daunting question for him: Who
did you get permission from? Well, Henken said, I asked the bloggers'
permission.
WRONG ANSWER.
Henken acknowledges that he traveled on a tourist visa, as he has
since his first trip in 1997. The agents had lots of questions for him,
questions they already had the answers to. They admitted that they had
tracked his travels, including a trip to Matanzas.
"What we do know is that you are no tourist," they told him, "and,
rather, you came to write a book about bloggers. We'd like to read that
book and see how just and open the dialogue really is."
The agents told Henken, the chair of the Black and Hispanic Studies
Department at Baruch College, that this 15th trip would be his last.
-Frances Robles
The irony here is that Ted Henken is one of those who has spent a lot of
time trying to convince Washington D.C. and the American people that we
should be engaging the Castro regime. Well, Ted, we see how well that
worked out; welcome to reality.
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