I hope folks can stop by http://cubamigo.com to see this article with fotos, and that of Barbara's son Pablo Menendez as well (so far it is just on the site in...
The author of this article was not present at the events about which he writes here... =============================== Posted on Fri, Mar. 01, 2002 in the...
Isn't it interesting what changing a single word can accomplish? In this case I've taken the liberty of changing the AP headline from what was given and...
Much of this article is good, but to use the word "intruders" would suggest burglars who had quietly entered to rob the place while everyone was sleeping, not...
There are so many different accounts being put out on the provocation which took place in Havana that I accentally sent one message several times. I'm sorry...
Note: there was no violence in this at all except for the violence used by the hijackers to break into the embassy. ============================== Youths...
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Irina Malenko
pravda@...
Mar 1, 2002 1:25 pm
A chairde (friends - in Irish), If these guys (the hijackers) dislike it in Cuba so much, I am prepared to swap places with thm and to move there. At any...
In other words, these people want to reward the hijackers for their violent and criminal behavior. This is the same as their encouraging people to leave Cuba...
This is the Miami Herald's editorial on the hijacking at the Mexican embassy in Havana. As readers of this editorial can clearly see, it's already bypassed by...
As we know, there is no standoff and the situation has been resolved. A more honest headline would have been thus: "Embassy hijacking stirred hopes of another...
Within under 48 hours this operation has begun to fall apart. And, though some people in Cuba listen to Radio Marti, some also listen to the many other US...
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Irina Malenko
pravda@...
Mar 1, 2002 2:27 pm
... Do you know what we should ask these "partiots" in Miami? What would these hijackers do, if they would be allowed into Mexico? Is Mexico any better than...
It wasn't an "occupation" because it didn't last that long. There was a hijacking and a few hours later, at the request of the Mexican government, the...
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Irina Malenko
pravda@...
Mar 1, 2002 2:34 pm
A chairde (friends - in Irish), If these guys (the hijackers) dislike it in Cuba so much, I am prepared to swap places with them and to move to Cuba. At any...
This, actually,is good reporting from the Herald, starting from the headline and proceeding on... =================================== Posted on Fri, Mar. 01,...
Most readers of this list are English speakers and don't normally get to read articles from the Mexican media. This US and Cuban exile provocation against Cuba...
Here is a column from today's LA JORNADA calling for Jorge Castaneda's resignation. If any of our Spanish-speaking readers would find it of interest, please...
Mark Twain famously said that "a lie travels half-way around the world while the truth is putting its boots on." and here's a good example of that from the...
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Nelson Valdes
nvaldes@...
Mar 1, 2002 5:20 pm
In 1993 the Mexican embassy in Havana was also taken over by about 20 persons. It is revealing that the US (and international) media compares the present with...
Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit source - JosePertierra@... U.S. relents over Guantanamo prison hunger strike By Jane Sutton MIAMI,...
Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit [It seems all that Castaneda's and Radio Marti's provocation accomplished was to out a bunch of gusano...
GRANMA March 1, 2002 Mexican embassy rid of criminals who occupied it ALL day yesterday, Mexican Undersecretary of Foreign Relations, sent to Havana by...
... park bench, in a new park especially dedicated to the kinds of things young people like to do on warm evenings, an event important enough for Fidel himself...
Ricardo Alarcon, President of Cuba's National Assembly of People's Power, answered the question, "What did John Lennon do?" very eloquently in December 2000 at...
... of violence and greed ("imagine no possessions") is immensely popular in Cuba because it suggests that a better world is possible than the one which is...
Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit Radio Havana Cuba - News Update - 01 March 2002 . *CRIMINALS EVICTED FROM MEXICO'S EMBASSY IN THE CUBAN...
John Lennon's politics went through various phases. It is true that the song 'Revolution' ,which came out in 1968 does repudiate 'revolution' - identified by...
Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit [Since hijacking a bus and crashing into a foreign country's diplo real estate might be considered a...
Writing from his vantage point in Miami, Florida, where interviews with the young Cuban men who hijacked a bus and crashed it into the Mexican Embassy in Cuba ...
Writing from Washington, Knight-Ridder correspondent Tim Johnson says "club-swinging" police dispersed the crowds surrounding the Mexican Embassy. Regrettably,...
