This is HUGH!!1 US Rep in Havana finally gets it in Cable from 2009

[flamingdem]

Check link for more analysis:

http://www.thehavananote.com/2010/12/wikileaks_cable_us_should_look_within_cuban_government_not_dissidents_post_castro_leadership

U.S. Interests Section chief Jonathan Farrar said the dissidents deserved backing as the "conscience of Cuba," but Washington "should look elsewhere, including within the government itself, to spot likely successors to the Castro regime."

"We see very little evidence that the mainline dissident organizations have much resonance among ordinary Cubans," Farrar said. Without changes, he said, "the traditional dissident movement is not likely to supplant the Cuban government."

Farrar's comments, made in a cable dated April 15, 2009, raise questions about the wisdom of the United States' longtime policy of supporting Cuban dissidents as an alternative to the Communist government that has ruled the island since a 1959 revolution put Fidel Castro in power.

Despite claims they are supported by thousands of Cubans, Farrar said "informal polls we have carried out among visa and refugee applicants have shown virtually no awareness of dissident personalities or agendas."

He described the dissident movement as largely ineffectual, due to factors including internal conflict, outsized egos, preoccupation with money, outdated agendas and infiltration by the Cuban government.

"The greatest effort is directed at obtaining enough resources to keep the principal organizers and their key supporters living from day to day," Farrar wrote.

FERRAR >>> LA LOBA IS NOT HAPPY WITH YOU...

[EFerrari]

1. LOL

The emperor is naked.

[dipsydoodle]

2. Washington

should keep its nose out of Cuban affairs.

It should stick to just picking its own nose instead as per usual.

[Billy Burnett]

3. Washington needs justification for the oodles of money poured into Miami's anti Castro industries.

Keeping Cuba's government on it's toes is needed to validate the continuum of expenditures used to "oppose" it.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Love the way the author described US taxpayers' funding of Cuban "dissidents"

by paying their bills for them:

Cuban dissidents may have a hard time making ends meet - as do millions of other Cubans - but to the new class of Republicans, most of whom campaigned on cutting wasteful government spending, what Farrar is describing could sound a lot like an American welfare program 90 miles off U.S. shores.

Ho ho ho.

Welfare is great when you're supporting a group of paid freeloaders like these traitorous professional "dissidents," to the diseased Congressional right-wing.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Recommending #5.

:kick: :kick: :kick: :kick:

[robinlynne]

6. I love it. shame it isnt on the front pages of the papers where it should be.....

so change can be made.