Augusto: If Boff made the statements attributed to him, so what? It changes nothing so much as the NCC's shameful support for a policy that lead to the murder of nuns and priests of their own church because of their support for the poor and oppressed is concerned. This includes the current Pope who is such a moral pygmy that he used the inquisition no less, which he then headed (as Cardinal Ratzinger), when the war was at its height (and after the murder of Archbishop Romero) to condemn liberation theology the consequences of which was to facilitate aggression, as he would have well known. This is the same Pope who bemoans "moral relativism" etc. Pope John Paul II will be made a saint by Ratzinger soon, in a "hurried" process, but in the hearts of millions of Latin America's poorest of the poor Archbishop Romero will forever, rightly, be a saint.

Cubano - the Northwoods Document is certainly not "agitprop". It's an official Government proposal that was declassified in 1997.

It was part of the Cuban Project (Operation Mongoose) that came into effect after the failed Bay of Pigs and at the peak of the Cuban Missile crisis.
It was suspended on October 30, 1962, but three of ten sabotage teams had already been deployed to Cuba. On November 8, 1962, one CIA team blew up a Cuban industrial facility.

It makes for interesting reading - if only to see how easy it is to manipulate public opinion, even in the free world.

From Rachel: Therealcuba,
On your humor page, there is a photo of a horsedrawn car (Castrogas2.jpg) Here's the original(?) version.

Don't you know what a "Humor page" is? It is supposed to be funny and yes, the pictures in there are Photoshopped, but that is not what you implied on your previous post. You made it look as if the realcuba.com was not credible because the photos were not real. That is like saying that the news published by a newspaper are not credible because they also have a "comic section" or an editorial cartoon.
If you had made reference to the humor page on your first post, I would not have taken issue with what you had said. But I challenge you or anyone else to prove that the photos in the news pages of therealcuba.com have been altered in any way or not taken in Cuba. They depict the real Cuba, the Cuba that the tourists who stay in the compounds that castro has built for them would never see.

Cuba was America's TOILET, but no longer.

John Ballantyne, you have conveniently forgotten that the American Mafia was on it's way to owning Cuba, it's politicians and economy. There are many well researched books and documentaries about this. We only recently saw one on the ABC (about Frank Sinatra).

It took someone with the courage of Castro to expel these swine.

On the other hand, America was not immune. The Mafia went on to pollute American politics to this day. They polluted the CIA, who tried to use them for clandestine operations. They played their part in the killing of Kennedy, the War on (for) Drugs, and all of the death and mayhem that ensued when the US interfered with Central and South American politics.

My money's on Castro. Cuba seems like a beacon of light, relatively speaking.

This for the Cuban diaspora who spit venom from their condos in Florida:

Get over it. Take your eyes off Cuba's riches. You will never own them. You will never dabble your feet in Cuba's clear seas, while peons do your menial work.

Cuba has no use for useless drones. Cuba has no time for rampant consumerism. Cuba has a date with destiny in a changing world.

They say that Florida may be inundated if the sea level rises too dramatically -

Ah then , roll on global warming -

Rache, re 1962. The U.S.A. did not plan to do any of those things. A general floated the idea, but the idea was never implemented. There is no evidence to suggest that the government planned to do it.