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Judi Lynn

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6. It's going to be hilarious when US tourists can be there to see these clowns at their mock protests.
Thu Feb 18, 2016, 02:46 AM
Feb 2016

We can be sure there won't be the old claims the un-armed Cuban police are "brutalizing" them when there are witnesses standing there watching them who can tell folks at home all about it.

If anything had EVER happened in Havana even resembling the tiniest bit what has happened to protesters in the US, it would have been spashed all over newspapers, magazines, tv screens relentlessly. We'd STILL be hearing about it.

I'm sure you've seen just a little of that yourself, Mika, in MIAMI, for crying out loud!

Yeah, I'd like to know if the dissidents have any gripes they want to yammer about to President Obama regarding the stipends they receive from US "democracy aid" budgets, and money channeled through US NGO's, through NED, USAID's little projects.

Maybe they'd enjoy sharing their stories with Raul Castro about how much more comfortable getting salaries from the US Government makes their lives in Cuba, while everyone else has to live with the effects of the embargo.

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