"Dateline Havana." is advertised here and it immediately offends me.
The book by Reese Ehrlich claims to be "Reporting from Havana and Miami," and he "explores Cuba’s strained history with the United States and the power of the Cuba Lobby. From Miami-based terrorists in Cuba to the green revolution in Cuban agriculture, he unearths telling details about U.S.-Cuba relations and present-day realities on the island. He also lays out the next American president’s options and challenges regarding Cuba now that Fidel has exited the stage."
First of all, calling Cuban exiles Miami-based terrorists would be akin to calling Watts residents in Los Angeles gang-based expletives. And it would just as racist and morally-incorrect.
But, hey, anything goes when it comes to the calumniation of a million Cuban-Americans in the Miami area or elsewhere -- since the media often does such a dutiful hatchet job in that regard and Hollywood keeps popping out romanticized versions of the Cuban "revolution" from their hill-top mansions in the Malibu Colony. This is how the rich condescend to Cubans and Hispanics in general -- they KNOW what WE need. They would want us all to be their servants. And if some of us are well educated, then, we are even more dangerous and offensive to their "superior" quasi-white-man's burden sensibilities.
This book advertised here in Daily Kos is obviously a farce and convoluted leftists anti-Cuban exile propaganda -- because, apparently, 2 million or so Cuban exiles here and abroad are not enough of an indictment of a totalitarian repressively backward and brutal regime. No. Mr. Ehrlich calls the failed Cuban agricultural system that imports 70% of its rationed food "green." And then he also has to claim that "Fidel has exited the stage" when Fidel Castro is a murderer and has ceded power to his equally murderous brother in what constitutes nothing more or less than a Communist monarchy -- the unapproved nomenclature.
For those of you who do not know this fact, Castro urged Nikita Khrushchev to nuke the U.S. during the missile crisis. Soviet leader Khrushchev was horrified that Castro had urged him to launch strategic nuclear missiles against the United States at the height of the crisis and ordered that all the tactical weapons be swiftly removed.
http://www.fiu.edu/...
"The Soviets maintained control over the nuclear weapons. Khrushchev loved Fidel 'like a son,' but he also had doubts about his emotional stability, and was not going to entrust nuke weapons to him. As for Castro, his strategy has always been based on total defiance and showing no weakness to his enemies. He was ready to die for the cause, and take a large number of his fellow countrymen with him. I believe he was willing to authorize a nuclear war on Cuban soil to defeat the yanqui invader." http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Wake up people. Cuba is not a paradise or else its 90 mile stretch of water would not be littered with the bodies of countless rafters of all ages and backgrounds who prefer to be shark bait than Ehrlich's mediocrity, bias and useful idiocy.