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Castro calls on S. American troops to quit Iraq
From:Reuters
Tuesday, 16th March, 2004
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Fidel Castro says 1,000 Latin American
troops are "cannon fodder" in Iraq and calls for them to withdraw along with
the Spanish unit they are serving in.....read on @:http://home.eircom.net/content/reuters/worldnews/2794487?view=Printer
Tuesday 13th April 2004 :
A history of cuban counter-revolution
While we're still on the subject of Cuba... By Michael Moore
(Micheal Moore is one of the most popular of US film-makers in Cuba. BOWLING FOR
COLUBINE was shown at the Havana Film Festival in 2003 and soon played on Cuban
television. Comments by Moore are translated and reprinted in the Cuban media as
well. Moore is one of the most talented people at translating a wide range of
images and connecting the dots in a way that makes sense to a broad audience
which others of a leftist orientation haven't been able to.) From Walter Lippman
===============================================
While we're still on the subject of Cuba... By Michael Moore
Have you ever wondered how Fidel Castro has stayed in power for so long?
No one, other than the King of Jordan, has been in the top spot for a greater
period of time. The man has outlasted eight U.S. presidents, ten Olympic Games,
and the return of Halley's Comet. And no matter what the United States
government does to try to dethrone him, he's got more lives than Cher has
comebacks.
It's not that our American leaders haven't given it their best effort. Ever
since Castro liberated his country from the corrupt U.S.- and Mafia backed
Batista regime, Washington has tried a variety of methods to unseat him. These
have included taxpayer-funded assassination attempts, invasions, blockades,
embargoes, threats of nuclear annihilation, internal disruption, and biological
warfare (the CIA dropped a bunch of African Swine Fever germs over the country
in 1971, forcing the Cubans to destroy 500,000 pigs).
And, something that has always seemed strange to me, there is an actual US naval
base on the island of Cuba! Imagine if we after defeating the British in our
Revolution, we then let them keep a few thousand troops and a bunch of
battleships in New York Harbor. Weird.
President Kennedy, who followed through with President Eisenhower's plan to
invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, ordered the CIA to kill Castro, trying
everything from a pen filled with poison ink to an exploding cigar. (No I do not
get my information from Maxwell Smart; it's all in the Church committee report
from the U.S. congress, 1975.)
Of course nothing worked. Castro became stronger and the U.S. continued to go
nuts. Cuba was seen as "the one that got away." It became an embarrassment to
us. Here we had every nation in this hemisphere in our back pocket - except
those damn Cubans. It looked bad. Like when the whole family goes out to dinner
and the one bad seed, little Billy, just won't sit still and do what he is told.
Everyone in the place is looking at the parents and wondering just what kind of
job they're doing. The appearance that they have no discipline or control is the
worst humiliation. So they start whacking little Billy, but forget about it - he
ain't ever going to finish his peas.
That's how silly we look to the rest of the world. Like we've been driven insane
over this little island ninety miles from our shores. We don't feel that way
about a real threat to humanity, like the one posed by the Chinese government.
Talk about a bunch of thugs! Yet we can't move fast enough to hop in bed with
them. Washington spent twenty-three years getting us all worked up against the
Chinese - and then, suddenly, one day they're our friends. It turned out that
the Republicans and their corporate buddies weren't really against communist
dictators - just those who wouldn't let them come in and make a buck.
And that, of course, has been Castro's fatal mistake. Once he took over and
nationalized all the American businesses and booted the Mob out of Havana, he
might as well have taken a seat on the San Andreas fault, because the wrath of
Uncle Sam came down on him hard, and it hasn't let up for over thirty-seven
years. Yet Castro has survived. For that accomplishment alone, despite all his
flaws (political repression, four hour speeches, and a literacy rate of 100
percent), you gotta admire the guy.
So why do we continue to fight this leftover turkey leg from the Cold War? The
answer can be found by looking no further than a town called Miami. It is there
that a nutty bunch of Cuban exiles have controlled U.S. foreign policy regarding
this insignificant island nation. These Cubans, many of whom were Batista
supporters and lived high on the hog while that crook ran the country, seem not
to have slept a wink since they grabbed their assets and headed to Florida.
And since 1960, they have insisted on pulling us into their madness. Why is it
that every incident of national torment that has deflated our country for the
past three decades-the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Iran-Contra, our drug
abuse epidemic-the list goes on and on-we find that the Cuban exiles are always
present and involved? First it was Lee Harvey Oswald's connection to the Cubans
in New Orleans. (Or was it the Cuban exiles acting alone to kill Kennedy, or
Castro ordering the assassination 'cause he just got bored with Kennedy trying
to bump him off? Whichever theory you subscribe to, the Cubans are lurking in
the neighborhood.)
Then on the night of June 17, 1972, three Cubans - Bernard Barker, Eugenio
Martinez, and Virgilio Gonzalez (plus Americans Frank Sturgis and James McCord
Jr.) - were caught breaking into the Watergate offices of the chairman of the
Democratic Party. This covert operation eventually brought down Richard Nixon,
so I guess there is a silver lining to that particular Cuban-exile operation.
Today, Barker and Gonzalez are considered heroes in Miami's Cuban community.
Martinez, later pardoned by Ronald Reagan, is the only one who feels bad. "I did
not want myself to be involved in the downfall of the President of the United
States." Oh, well, how nice of you!
When Ollie North needed a cover group to run arms into Nicaragua to help
overthrow the government, who else could he turn to but the Miami Cubans? Bay of
Pigs veterans Ramon Medina and Rafael Quintero were key managers of the
air-transport company that supplied weapons to the Contras. The U.S. backed
Contra War was responsible for the deaths of thirty thousand Nicarguans.
One of the big bonuses to come out of our funding of these Cuban exiles was the
help they gave us in bringing illegal drugs into the States, destroying families
and whole sections of our cities. Beginning in the early sixties, a number of
Cubans (who also participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion) began running major
narcotics rings in this country. The DEA found little support within the federal
government to go after these Cuban exiles, because they had organized themselves
under the phony banner of "freedom groups." In fact, most were nothing more than
fronts for massive drug-smuggling operations. These same drug runners later
helped to run arms to the Contras.
U.S. based Cuban terrorist organizations have been responsible for more than two
hundred bombings and at least a hundred murders since Castro's revolution. They
have got everyone so afraid to stand up to them that I probably shouldn't even
be writing this chapter. I am, after all, one of the few unarmed Americans.
So why am I not worried? Because these Cuban exiles, for all their chest
thumping and terrorism, are really a bunch of wimps. That's right. Wimps.
Need proof? For starters, when you don't like the oppressor in your country, you
stay there and try to overthrow him. This can be done by force (American
Revolution, French Revolution) or through peaceful means (Gandhi in India or
Mandela in South Africa). But you don't just turn tail and run like these
Cubans.
Imagine if all the American colonists had all run to Canada - and then insisted
the Canadians had a responsibility to overthrow the British down in the States.
The Sandanistas never would have freed their country from Somoza if they had all
been sitting on the beach in Costa Rica, drinking margaritas and getting rich.
Mandela went to prison, not to Libya or London.
But the wealthy Cubans scooted off to Miami - and got wealthier. Ninety percent
of these exiles are white, while the majority of Cubans, 62 percent, are black
or of mixed race. The whites knew they couldn't stay in Cuba because they had no
support from the people. So they came here, expecting us to fight their fight
for them. And, like morons, we have.
It's not that these Cuban crybabies haven't tried to help themselves. But a
quick look at their efforts resembles an old Keystone Kops movie. The Bay of
Pigs is their best known fiasco. It had all the elements of a great farce -
wrong boats, wrong beach, no ammo for the guns, no one shows up to meet them,
and, finally, they are left for dead, wandering around a part of their island
completely unfamiliar to them (their limo drivers, I guess, had never taken them
there in the good old days).
This embarrassment was so monumental the world still hasn't stopped laughing -
and the Miami Cubans have never forgotten or forgiven this. Say "Bay of Pigs" to
any of them, and you might as well be a dentist with a drill on raw, decaying
nerve.
You would think that the Bay of Pigs defeat would have taught them a lesson, but
then you would probably be projecting. YOU would have given up. Not this crowd.
Since 1962, numerous Cuban exile groups have attempted even more raids to
"liberate" their homeland.
Let's go to the highlights reel:
In 1981, a group of Miami Cuban exiles landed on Prividenciales Island in the
Caribbean on their way to invading Cuba. Their boat, the only one of four exile
boats to make it out of the Miami River (the other three were turned back by the
Coast Guard due to foul weather, engine trouble, or too few life jackets), ran
aground on a reef near Providenciales. Stuck there on the island with no food or
shelter, the Miami Cubans started fighting among themselves. They begged the
people of Miami to rescue them off the island, and after three weeks they were
airlifted back to Florida. The only one of their group to make it to Cuban
waters, Geraldo Fuentes, suffered an appendicitis attack while at sea and had to
be helicoptered by the Coast Guard to Guantanamo for treatment.
In 1968, a group of Miami Cubans learned that a Polish ship was docked in the
port of Miami and that a Cuban delegation might be aboard the freighter. From
the MacArthur Causeway, according to the ST. PETERSBURG TIMES, the Cuban exiles
fired a homemade bazooka and hit the ship's hull. It only put a nick in the
ship, and the group's leader, Orlando Bosch, was sentenced to ten years of
prison, but was released in 1972. Bosch explained that they had hoped to cause
more damage, but, he pleaded, "It was a BIG ship!" Bosch had earlier been
arrested for towing a torpedo through downtown Miami during rush hour, and
another time he was caught with six hundred aerial bombs loaded with dynamite in
the trunk of his Cadillac. In 1990, the Bush administration released him from
prison, where he was serving time for parole violations.
According to Washington Monthly, "During the summer and early fall of 1963, five
commando raids were launched against Cuba in the hopes of destabilizing the
regime. The negligible Cuban underground was instructed to leave faucets running
and lightbulbs burning to waste energy."
In 1962, according to the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Cuban exile, Jose Basulto, on
a CIA-sponsored mission, fired a 20-mm cannon from a speedboat at the Incan
Hotel next to Havana Bay, hoping to kill Fidel Castro. The shell missed, and
Basulto, seeing gasoline spilling all over his boat, high-tailed it back to
Florida. "One of our gas tanks, made of plastic, began to leak," Basulto
explained later. "Gas ran all over the deck. We didn't know what to do."
Years later, Basulto would go on to form "Brothers to the Rescue," an exile
group that for the past few years has been flying missions over Cuba, buzzing
Cuban sites, dropping leaflets, and generally trying to intimidate the Cuban
government. In February 1996, Castro was apparently fed up with this harassment,
and after the twenty-fifth incident in the past twenty months of the Brothers
violating Cuban air-space, he ordered that two of their planes be shot down.
Even though Brothers to the Rescue was violating U.S. law by flying into Cuban
airspace (a fact that FAA acknowledges), the Clinton administration again went
to the exile trough and instantly got a bill passed to tighten the embargo
against Cuba. This embargo has brought the wrath of the rest of the world
against us - UN General Assembly voted 117 to 3 to "condemn" the United States
for its economic violence against Cuba (as it has in every vote since the
embargo was imposed).
The week after the planes were shot down, the exiles tried to force the hand of
the U.S., hoping to get the military to engage in some kind of action against
Castro. They announced that on the following Saturday they would take a flotilla
of boats from Florida to just off the Cuban coast, to protest the loss of the
two planes. Clinton decided to stage the greatest show of force against Cuba
since the Missile Crisis, and sent a squadron of F-15 fighters, eleven Coast
Guard cutters, two Navy missile cruisers, one Navy frigate, two C-130 planes,
and a bevy of choppers, AWACs, and six hundred coast guardsmen to support the
flotilla.
All he forgot to send was the Dramamine - which, it turned out, was what the
Miami Cubans really needed. Just forty miles out of Key West, the Cubans on the
boats started getting seasick, heaving up big chunks and begging their skippers
to turn the damn yachts around. With the whole world watching, the Cubans once
again turned tail and ran. When they got back to port, they held a press
conference to explain their retreat. One spokesman was still a little woozy, and
you could see the journalists backing away from him, expecting any moment to be
covered with a Linda Blair Special.
"A horrible storm arose out of the sea," said the rapidly paling Cuban exit
leader. "The waves were over ten feet high, and we had to turn back or lose our
ships!" As he spoke some creative genius working the weekend shift at CNN ran
footage of the flotilla taken from the air as it headed towards Cuba. The sun
was shining, the sea was as smooth as glass, and the wind blew gently, if at
all. Reporters out at sea did say that after the CNN cameras left, the waters
became "rather rough." I'm sure they did.
Castro has to be laughing his ass off.
Published by : Michael Moore
Tuesday 13th April 2004
A history of cuban counter-revolution
While we're still on the subject of Cuba... By Michael Moore
(Micheal Moore is one of the most popular of US film-makers in Cuba. BOWLING FOR
COLUBINE was shown at the Havana Film Festival in 2003 and soon played on Cuban
television. Comments by Moore are translated and reprinted in the Cuban media as
well. Moore is one of the most talented people at translating a wide range of
images and connecting the dots in a way that makes sense to a broad audience
which others of a leftist orientation haven't been able to.) From Walter Lippman
===============================================
While we're still on the subject of Cuba... By Michael Moore
Have you ever wondered how Fidel Castro has stayed in power for so long?
No one, other than the King of Jordan, has been in the top spot for a greater
period of time. The man has outlasted eight U.S. presidents, ten Olympic Games,
and the return of Halley's Comet. And no matter what the United States
government does to try to dethrone him, he's got more lives than Cher has
comebacks.
It's not that our American leaders haven't given it their best effort. Ever
since Castro liberated his country from the corrupt U.S.- and Mafia backed
Batista regime, Washington has tried a variety of methods to unseat him. These
have included taxpayer-funded assassination attempts, invasions, blockades,
embargoes, threats of nuclear annihilation, internal disruption, and biological
warfare (the CIA dropped a bunch of African Swine Fever germs over the country
in 1971, forcing the Cubans to destroy 500,000 pigs).
And, something that has always seemed strange to me, there is an actual US naval
base on the island of Cuba! Imagine if we after defeating the British in our
Revolution, we then let them keep a few thousand troops and a bunch of
battleships in New York Harbor. Weird.
President Kennedy, who followed through with President Eisenhower's plan to
invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, ordered the CIA to kill Castro, trying
everything from a pen filled with poison ink to an exploding cigar. (No I do not
get my information from Maxwell Smart; it's all in the Church committee report
from the U.S. congress, 1975.)
Of course nothing worked. Castro became stronger and the U.S. continued to go
nuts. Cuba was seen as "the one that got away." It became an embarrassment to
us. Here we had every nation in this hemisphere in our back pocket - except
those damn Cubans. It looked bad. Like when the whole family goes out to dinner
and the one bad seed, little Billy, just won't sit still and do what he is told.
Everyone in the place is looking at the parents and wondering just what kind of
job they're doing. The appearance that they have no discipline or control is the
worst humiliation. So they start whacking little Billy, but forget about it - he
ain't ever going to finish his peas.
That's how silly we look to the rest of the world. Like we've been driven insane
over this little island ninety miles from our shores. We don't feel that way
about a real threat to humanity, like the one posed by the Chinese government.
Talk about a bunch of thugs! Yet we can't move fast enough to hop in bed with
them. Washington spent twenty-three years getting us all worked up against the
Chinese - and then, suddenly, one day they're our friends. It turned out that
the Republicans and their corporate buddies weren't really against communist
dictators - just those who wouldn't let them come in and make a buck.
And that, of course, has been Castro's fatal mistake. Once he took over and
nationalized all the American businesses and booted the Mob out of Havana, he
might as well have taken a seat on the San Andreas fault, because the wrath of
Uncle Sam came down on him hard, and it hasn't let up for over thirty-seven
years. Yet Castro has survived. For that accomplishment alone, despite all his
flaws (political repression, four hour speeches, and a literacy rate of 100
percent), you gotta admire the guy.
So why do we continue to fight this leftover turkey leg from the Cold War? The
answer can be found by looking no further than a town called Miami. It is there
that a nutty bunch of Cuban exiles have controlled U.S. foreign policy regarding
this insignificant island nation. These Cubans, many of whom were Batista
supporters and lived high on the hog while that crook ran the country, seem not
to have slept a wink since they grabbed their assets and headed to Florida.
And since 1960, they have insisted on pulling us into their madness. Why is it
that every incident of national torment that has deflated our country for the
past three decades-the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Iran-Contra, our drug
abuse epidemic-the list goes on and on-we find that the Cuban exiles are always
present and involved? First it was Lee Harvey Oswald's connection to the Cubans
in New Orleans. (Or was it the Cuban exiles acting alone to kill Kennedy, or
Castro ordering the assassination 'cause he just got bored with Kennedy trying
to bump him off? Whichever theory you subscribe to, the Cubans are lurking in
the neighborhood.)
Then on the night of June 17, 1972, three Cubans - Bernard Barker, Eugenio
Martinez, and Virgilio Gonzalez (plus Americans Frank Sturgis and James McCord
Jr.) - were caught breaking into the Watergate offices of the chairman of the
Democratic Party. This covert operation eventually brought down Richard Nixon,
so I guess there is a silver lining to that particular Cuban-exile operation.
Today, Barker and Gonzalez are considered heroes in Miami's Cuban community.
Martinez, later pardoned by Ronald Reagan, is the only one who feels bad. "I did
not want myself to be involved in the downfall of the President of the United
States." Oh, well, how nice of you!
When Ollie North needed a cover group to run arms into Nicaragua to help
overthrow the government, who else could he turn to but the Miami Cubans? Bay of
Pigs veterans Ramon Medina and Rafael Quintero were key managers of the
air-transport company that supplied weapons to the Contras. The U.S. backed
Contra War was responsible for the deaths of thirty thousand Nicarguans.
One of the big bonuses to come out of our funding of these Cuban exiles was the
help they gave us in bringing illegal drugs into the States, destroying families
and whole sections of our cities. Beginning in the early sixties, a number of
Cubans (who also participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion) began running major
narcotics rings in this country. The DEA found little support within the federal
government to go after these Cuban exiles, because they had organized themselves
under the phony banner of "freedom groups." In fact, most were nothing more than
fronts for massive drug-smuggling operations. These same drug runners later
helped to run arms to the Contras.
U.S. based Cuban terrorist organizations have been responsible for more than two
hundred bombings and at least a hundred murders since Castro's revolution. They
have got everyone so afraid to stand up to them that I probably shouldn't even
be writing this chapter. I am, after all, one of the few unarmed Americans.
So why am I not worried? Because these Cuban exiles, for all their chest
thumping and terrorism, are really a bunch of wimps. That's right. Wimps.
Need proof? For starters, when you don't like the oppressor in your country, you
stay there and try to overthrow him. This can be done by force (American
Revolution, French Revolution) or through peaceful means (Gandhi in India or
Mandela in South Africa). But you don't just turn tail and run like these
Cubans.
Imagine if all the American colonists had all run to Canada - and then insisted
the Canadians had a responsibility to overthrow the British down in the States.
The Sandanistas never would have freed their country from Somoza if they had all
been sitting on the beach in Costa Rica, drinking margaritas and getting rich.
Mandela went to prison, not to Libya or London.
But the wealthy Cubans scooted off to Miami - and got wealthier. Ninety percent
of these exiles are white, while the majority of Cubans, 62 percent, are black
or of mixed race. The whites knew they couldn't stay in Cuba because they had no
support from the people. So they came here, expecting us to fight their fight
for them. And, like morons, we have.
It's not that these Cuban crybabies haven't tried to help themselves. But a
quick look at their efforts resembles an old Keystone Kops movie. The Bay of
Pigs is their best known fiasco. It had all the elements of a great farce -
wrong boats, wrong beach, no ammo for the guns, no one shows up to meet them,
and, finally, they are left for dead, wandering around a part of their island
completely unfamiliar to them (their limo drivers, I guess, had never taken them
there in the good old days).
This embarrassment was so monumental the world still hasn't stopped laughing -
and the Miami Cubans have never forgotten or forgiven this. Say "Bay of Pigs" to
any of them, and you might as well be a dentist with a drill on raw, decaying
nerve.
You would think that the Bay of Pigs defeat would have taught them a lesson, but
then you would probably be projecting. YOU would have given up. Not this crowd.
Since 1962, numerous Cuban exile groups have attempted even more raids to
"liberate" their homeland.
Let's go to the highlights reel:
In 1981, a group of Miami Cuban exiles landed on Prividenciales Island in the
Caribbean on their way to invading Cuba. Their boat, the only one of four exile
boats to make it out of the Miami River (the other three were turned back by the
Coast Guard due to foul weather, engine trouble, or too few life jackets), ran
aground on a reef near Providenciales. Stuck there on the island with no food or
shelter, the Miami Cubans started fighting among themselves. They begged the
people of Miami to rescue them off the island, and after three weeks they were
airlifted back to Florida. The only one of their group to make it to Cuban
waters, Geraldo Fuentes, suffered an appendicitis attack while at sea and had to
be helicoptered by the Coast Guard to Guantanamo for treatment.
In 1968, a group of Miami Cubans learned that a Polish ship was docked in the
port of Miami and that a Cuban delegation might be aboard the freighter. From
the MacArthur Causeway, according to the ST. PETERSBURG TIMES, the Cuban exiles
fired a homemade bazooka and hit the ship's hull. It only put a nick in the
ship, and the group's leader, Orlando Bosch, was sentenced to ten years of
prison, but was released in 1972. Bosch explained that they had hoped to cause
more damage, but, he pleaded, "It was a BIG ship!" Bosch had earlier been
arrested for towing a torpedo through downtown Miami during rush hour, and
another time he was caught with six hundred aerial bombs loaded with dynamite in
the trunk of his Cadillac. In 1990, the Bush administration released him from
prison, where he was serving time for parole violations.
According to Washington Monthly, "During the summer and early fall of 1963, five
commando raids were launched against Cuba in the hopes of destabilizing the
regime. The negligible Cuban underground was instructed to leave faucets running
and lightbulbs burning to waste energy."
In 1962, according to the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Cuban exile, Jose Basulto, on
a CIA-sponsored mission, fired a 20-mm cannon from a speedboat at the Incan
Hotel next to Havana Bay, hoping to kill Fidel Castro. The shell missed, and
Basulto, seeing gasoline spilling all over his boat, high-tailed it back to
Florida. "One of our gas tanks, made of plastic, began to leak," Basulto
explained later. "Gas ran all over the deck. We didn't know what to do."
Years later, Basulto would go on to form "Brothers to the Rescue," an exile
group that for the past few years has been flying missions over Cuba, buzzing
Cuban sites, dropping leaflets, and generally trying to intimidate the Cuban
government. In February 1996, Castro was apparently fed up with this harassment,
and after the twenty-fifth incident in the past twenty months of the Brothers
violating Cuban air-space, he ordered that two of their planes be shot down.
Even though Brothers to the Rescue was violating U.S. law by flying into Cuban
airspace (a fact that FAA acknowledges), the Clinton administration again went
to the exile trough and instantly got a bill passed to tighten the embargo
against Cuba. This embargo has brought the wrath of the rest of the world
against us - UN General Assembly voted 117 to 3 to "condemn" the United States
for its economic violence against Cuba (as it has in every vote since the
embargo was imposed).
The week after the planes were shot down, the exiles tried to force the hand of
the U.S., hoping to get the military to engage in some kind of action against
Castro. They announced that on the following Saturday they would take a flotilla
of boats from Florida to just off the Cuban coast, to protest the loss of the
two planes. Clinton decided to stage the greatest show of force against Cuba
since the Missile Crisis, and sent a squadron of F-15 fighters, eleven Coast
Guard cutters, two Navy missile cruisers, one Navy frigate, two C-130 planes,
and a bevy of choppers, AWACs, and six hundred coast guardsmen to support the
flotilla.
All he forgot to send was the Dramamine - which, it turned out, was what the
Miami Cubans really needed. Just forty miles out of Key West, the Cubans on the
boats started getting seasick, heaving up big chunks and begging their skippers
to turn the damn yachts around. With the whole world watching, the Cubans once
again turned tail and ran. When they got back to port, they held a press
conference to explain their retreat. One spokesman was still a little woozy, and
you could see the journalists backing away from him, expecting any moment to be
covered with a Linda Blair Special.
"A horrible storm arose out of the sea," said the rapidly paling Cuban exit
leader. "The waves were over ten feet high, and we had to turn back or lose our
ships!" As he spoke some creative genius working the weekend shift at CNN ran
footage of the flotilla taken from the air as it headed towards Cuba. The sun
was shining, the sea was as smooth as glass, and the wind blew gently, if at
all. Reporters out at sea did say that after the CNN cameras left, the waters
became "rather rough." I'm sure they did.
Castro has to be laughing his ass off.
Published by : Michael Moore
Tuesday 13th April 2004
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