Politics, Culture, and Other Wastes of Time

It may shock most of you here, but there are a handful of conservative blogs that I like to check into from time to time. None is more amusing than http://killkasstro.blogspot.com

It is, as you might expect, a blog run by Cuban-Americans who are hoping to see a freely elected leader (probably a Republican) come to power in Havana.

The site has been surprsingly tame in recent days, though they have posted an anti-Barack Obama video as well as commentary on how the recent bombing of an army recruitment center in New York. And, they openly state that they are very politically opposed to anyone who wants to negotiate with Fidel/Raoul Castro.

Their most recent posting is a fairly non-partisan one (at least, by their standards) about Arnaldo Nery Garcia, a Cuban human rights activist, who they say was on a Coast Guard cutter. They are now petitioning for his political asylum here.

I came across this blog through the link from the web site of the English documentary film "638 Ways to Kill Castro" http://www.638waystokillcastro.net

I had a chance to see the film on The Sundance Channel, and I was very taken in by the topic as I have been interested in Cuba since my college days, so much so that I almost wrote a paper on the country. 

The irony is that the film, unlike the blog, takes a liberal slant towards Cuba. I was most disturbed by the film's revealations that America is now harboring two radical anti-Castro terrorists. One of whom allegedly bombed a Cuban airplane in the 1970s, and another one bombed several hotels in Havana. The other thing that was distressing is that Cong. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fl.) was allegedly involved in a plot to assasinate the senior Castro. And, as the film suggests, there have indeed been over 600 plots to kill Castro. Some of the more surreal ones include poisioning his cigar, shooting him while he was vacationing in Chile and even trying to kill him while he was scuba-diving off the coast of Cuba.

The Cuban-American vote will be crucial in the 2008 election, and they vote Republican an overwhelming majority of the time, asdo residents of Lynchburg, Va. One can expect that John McCain will be heavily supportive of their concerns even if (given Fidel's recent resignation) they are not realistic at all. 

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