Thursday, November 26, 2009

Every day should be like today...

Today and everyday we should give thanks for:

Having food on the table

Having a roof over your head

Being healthy for the most part

Whatever family you have left, even if you don't get along with them

Tthe mere fact that someone is always worst off than you are, and it makes your problems seem quite small

Good friends that help us when we are in need and share our most joyous moments

Friends that give it to you straight up

All your troubles and challenges because they make you a better person if you choose to master them.

All people, situations and living beings that have been teachers for you in this lifetime and have shown you something that has made you evolve as a human being

The enemies you've reconciled with

Tthe enemies you haven't reconciled with, because this means you still have an opportunity to practice forgiveness (very difficult one...by the way)

All the people that love you unconditionally

Having annoying brothers and sisters... at least you have them!

Your mother and father... because for better or worse, they were your portal into this material world, and hopefully they taught you something of value

and finally for having somewhere to put these thoughts out into the world.... there are a lot of people who are robbed of their freedom of expression and don't even have an outlet to put them forth.

Friday, November 13, 2009

Meet Survivors of the Largest Dog Fighting Raid in US History


Think canines who’ve been exposed to dog fighting don’t make good companions? Think again! After months of behavior evaluations, many of the dogs rescued during July's 8-state raid are fighting for a better life and winning

This past July, the ASPCA assisted in collecting forensic evidence and conducting behavior evaluations of dogs rescued during a federal and multi-state investigation that led to one of the toughest crackdowns on dog fighting in U.S. history. Raids were conducted on various dog fighting operations in eight states and resulted in the rescue of more than 500 dogs.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Our beloved Yoani Gets Beaten Up

This is BULLSHIT! This is what you get in Cuba when you have "cojones".

It is clear the Cuban government is sooo afraid and intimidated by Yoani.... she is a heroine.

Will the US do something about it? If we really invade countries in the name of democracy (right...) why aren't we in Cuba right now and give the soldiers a REAL cause to go to war for... if they must.

Monday, September 14, 2009

Another light goes out... Swayze dies today at 57



Amazing and passionate dancer, good actor, loving husband, animal lover.... brave cowboy. I'm heartbroken for his wife and longtime dance partner and life partner.

I think about how lucky they are because they loved each other so deeply and with such commitment. They truly danced the dance of life and did it well, with love, passion, grace, respect....

He taught us that it's not how long you live but HOW you live! He fought till the end and still reached for his dreams in spite of his circumstances.

Graceful, strong, gorgeous... tough yet sensitive.

Rest in peace Patrick. Your soul was to vibrant to have to continue with the suffering.

Dance for eternity... you are loved and remembered today and forever.



Friday, August 14, 2009

Love the Maher

Bill Maher really just calls it like it is. I don't care if you are a liberal or a conservative... you gotta give it to him... he is unabashed and unapologetic. Always brings interesting panelist to his show, or at the very least a combination of panelist that make it very interesting.

He talked about Sara Palin and the "death panels" (right....!) and mostly about healthcare reform and some religion which of course ties into everything.

It's not that the panelist were the most exciting people tonight, but everyone managed to say something that hit it right on the money.... and of course Bill's humor... playing the "death panel game" like it was "Price is Right" or the "Dating Game". Hysterical. His monologues (New Rules) at the end are always raw and express what most people don't dare say, even on cable TV. He poked fun at Obama for playing too much golf, eating too many hamburgers, and reading scriptures in his blackberry. But really, it was a call to the President to BE HIMSELF!

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Arrestan a Panfilo!!!!


Just found out through America Teve and it's host Carlos Otero, that Panfilo, the guy that appears on YouTube in the "Jama" video has been arrested by the Castro pigs. Shortly after he made that video, he began being persecuted by Cuban authorities who showed up at his door. He was forced to release another video, in desperate attempts to save his ass, claiming he was completely drunk and thus denying everything he had said in the "Jama" video. He said he did not remember anything. But when I saw that second video I new it was not going to end there. Panfilo looked terrified... there was such fear in his eyes... and all because he expressed the real truths about the current situation in Cuba.  I'm amazed they have not arrested Yoani Sanchez yet. It's a real miracle! 

Cubans in the island have to do something. They need to protest, they need to go out into the streets and fight it out. I know it's easier said than done, but look at the Iranians... and look at all the world attention they're getting.

Panfilo... our thoughts are with you!!! Cuba needs another MALECONAZO! 

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

GOOO SENATOR FRANKEN!!


Kuddos to you !!!

"He hasn't been in for long, and his senate seat was won after a very long battle. However, Sen. Al Franken isn't wasting any time at all. He authored an amazing bill that seeks to pair service animals with the returning heroes who need them most. What could be better a bill to provide service dogs to wounded veterans"



Banning of Unnecessary Cosmetic Surgery on Dogs












This is a great step towards a new consciousness that respects nature, in this case, dogs. Most breeds get some kind of cosmetic surgery, wether it's clipping their tails, making their ears pointy as in the case of Dobermans, or the atrocious "de-barking" where human pigs who are too lazy to train their dogs to minimize unecesary barking, will have a surgeon take out their vocal cords, making the dog unable to communicate at all. Imagine your neighbor taking out your baby's vocal cords because he cried too much at night.

Yet, there seems to be some glimpse of consciousness in the world and this is certainly proof of it. 

"Banfield, the nation's largest network of animal hospitals, with more than 730 hospitals and 2,000 veterinarians nationwide, has just announced that it will no longer dock dogs' tails, crop their ears, or remove their vocal cords--a cruel procedure known as devocalization, or de-barking!"

Saturday, June 27, 2009

A light goes out...





I have no words to describe the sadness I feel
about such a genius talent having passed in such
a tragic way. More than that it's made me reflect on his tragic downfall and how the human mind can loose perception and grasp of reality.  How the pain-body, for those of you who have read Eakard Tolle, can destroy even the brightest of lights. One of the ways this light shined was through his music, his philanthropic contributions, how he influenced the world of dance, which I as a dancer can vouch for, the world of music, and how he broke barriers and united the world in music. When it came to his work, it didn't matter what country or race you were from. The one thing politicians spend their entire lives trying to do, this man did with an unstoppable force that is undeniably unique and like a comet doesn't manifest quite often. 

Many of us throughout the world, particularly those of us who are artist, will always remember you through your work and the impact it's had in our childhood, teenagehood, and in our own work as entertainers. You were inspirational and we will always remember that child with the sweet voice that sang "I'll be there". 

I hope you find the peace and bliss you so desperately sought in this earth before and after things got so crazy for you. 

YOU ARE TRULLY "THE KING OF POP"


Michael Jackson
1958-2009
RIP 

We will remember you forever!







Thursday, May 21, 2009

Our Father who art in heaven....?

These are the first words of a well know prayer. I was taught these words early on in my life. Little did I know though, that many of the very people who claimed devotion to these words, who posed as "servants of the lord" propagating Catholicism, and who taught us these very words at school, where really members of an institution that has the... I really don't know what to call it, I'm at a loss of words here... the audacity to cover up such disgusting crimes as child abuse and molestation. 
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DUBLIN – After a nine-year investigation, a commission published a damning report Wednesday on decades of rapes, humiliation and beatings at Catholic Church-run reform schools for Ireland's castaway children.

The 2,600-page report painted the most detailed and damning portrait yet of church-administered abuse in a country grown weary of revelations about child molestation by priests.

The investigation of the tax-supported schools uncovered previously secret Vatican records that demonstrated church knowledge of pedophiles in their ranks all the way back to the 1930s.

Wednesday's five-volume report on the probe — which was resisted by Catholic religious orders — concluded that church officials shielded their orders' pedophiles from arrest amid a culture of self-serving secrecy.

read full story...

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Not a another HOLOCAUST!

  It's odd that we punish the act of putting human beings in gas chambers or ovens but we seem to have no problem doing it with animals. This practice is DISGUSTING and completely REVOLTING.

If animals need to be euthanized for some reason, which I don't support either, unless they are seriously ill and in major pain, or their condition severely deteriorated, injection is the only humane thing to do.

Please help prevent another HOLOCAUST! Click here to sing a petition to stop this horrible practice.

Please pass this on to all those you know who are animal lovers or care about such issues. We need more signatures!  Good karma to you for helping with this!

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Dick Chaney's memoirs

Ok so I heard Barack Obama say tonight at the White House Correspondent's Dinner that Chaney was writing a book on his memoirs soon to be titled "How to Shoot friends and Interrogate People". I was on the flooor!!! I thought that was the most hysterical witty comment I've heard in a while. 

Certainly got  a huge laugh from the audience...

Friday, May 8, 2009

He was at the beach with a girl! OMFG

So my grandma who lives in Florida calls me up, and as many grandmas do they say "Niña te tengo un chisme!" ("I have some gossip for you"). "Father Alberto was caught with a girl on the beach and they were KISSING!".  Wow, jajajaja....I started laughing because it seemed so silly, and because the notion that a person, namely a man (as the catholic church does not allow women to be priests) has to choose between loving someone and serve God and the community is quite retarded. For those who don't know who he is, Father Alberto is a Catholic priest down in Miami that apparently has quite a following and a tv broadcast.

I've heard several times before that the real reason why the church instituted celibacy was to be able to keep all the properties and money that belonged to the priest's widows upon their death, and in this way they could increase their fortune and power. They sold people on the idea that in order to be "closer to God" priest needed to practice celibacy and give up all rights to marriage so they could dedicate themselves entirely to their faith and the community. 

Would we ask President Obama to leave his wife and two daughter so he can be closer to his people? so he can better serve our country more completely and without distractions? Should we conclude that he is not dedicated enough because he has to share his love, time and devotion with his family as well as the American people?

The Catholic Church really needs to reform itself. At the very least, they should allow priests the choice, so that those who want to follow celibacy can do that, and those who choose marriage can also do that and neither has to give up doing what they love.

I do have one bone to pick with Father Alberto, because I feel like he tried to have the best of both worlds. 

According to the news, he's know this woman for 10 years. I don't know if that means they've been in a relationship these 10 years, but something tells me, based on the allegations of love he made today in the press, that this is not something new. So why if he knows the Catholic Church does not condone priests marrying or having sexual relationships did he hide this issue. Why wouldn't he give up priesthood in order to marry this woman. He said it himself today "I don't need to apologize for falling in love with a woman..." and I mean... he goes to a BEACH to hang out... come on, it's like he wanted to be caught. Could you have picked a more secluded place where people keep more of their clothes on? I know it must be hard to have to choose between two things that feel right and fulfill you as a human being, and quit your own TV show. But you know...

In any event, another reason why the church should seriously look into this. Maybe if they were allowed to marry they would  not be molesting so many children! 

Panfilo se atreve a decir la verdad!!!

El negro Panfilo dice que lo que hace falta en Cuba es Jama (comida)!



Los palitos que se dio le dieron el valor de decir lo que nadie en Cuba dice. Sugiero que todos los cubanos se den un traguito y salgan a la calle a PROTESTAR! BASTA YA CABALLERO!!!!

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Egyptians kill pigs for no reason...

Oh yeah... the swine flu, riiight? Forgot about that one. According to the New York Times, there were no cases of the swine flu in Egypt and no evidence that the pigs had spread the disease.   The funny thins is that it was humans who were the catalysts of this epidemic by their practice of factory farming, which cramps thousands of pigs in small quarters (they do this with chickens as well I believe) creating a breeding ground for disease.

Wouldn't it be more appropriate to stop this practice rather than kill the innocent animals when we are the ones to blame in the first place? Maybe humans should be put in closed quarters all together cramped up like pigs so they can breed diseases ... but well, I guess we can talk about Wall Street some other time...

WE SHOULD CALL IT THE "SHWAN FLU" , THE Stupid Humans Who Abuse Nature Flu"


Cual es tu Mala Leche?

This must be my favorite group right now. I just heard one song thanks to Zurama from "Hamanecer en La Habana" who posted this on Generacion Y's blog. It said "video clip banned by Castro for criticizing the revolution" and THAT caught my attention. The video is form their single "Mala Leche" and the video is quite cute. 

Monday, April 13, 2009

My blog received an award!

Just yesterday I found out I had been the recipient of an award called Symbelline. I was ecstatic! "What are the chances" I said to myself. When I started this blog I never thought I would get anything for it, let alone an award. 

So I looked it up and I found the following:

"Premio que se otorga a los blogs en reconocimiento de su trabajo como un medio más para lograr estrechar los lazos de amistad y, de este modo, todos y cada uno de nosotros amemos las letras y aquello que significan. "

" An award that is given to blogs in recognition for their work as a medium that achieves the expansion and/or promotion of friendly ties, so that all of us can love language and that which it signifies"

I wanna thank Zurama of "Amanecer en La Habana" who passed this honor on to me and my blog. THANKS ZURAMA... Keep up the good work!

Monday, April 6, 2009

Was Obama's Europe tour a failure?

So the other night I was watching Bill Maher and he had David Frum, Bush's old speechwriter and creator of the famous term "The Axis of Evil", as one of his guests. He had two other gentlemen who's name escape me but I believe they were Republicans as well. 

But David caught my attention because of his negativity and his utter determination to label Obama's trip to Europe as a failure because he was "rebuffed". For this guy it was all about money and how Obama's trip was a disappointing failure because he could not get the European nations to spend as much CA$H as he would've like them to. So in $$$ terms, or in David's view, it was a failure. It doesn't matter that he has helped change the tone of American-European relationship, given it was so battered by the end of the Bush presidency. Noooo...  that doesn't count because he just did not get them to open their pockets. 

Is it just money and the ability, if you can call it an ability, to impose ourselves and our views as a nation upon other nations all that the Republicans care about? Is this the meaning of success for them? 

What do you guys think? Enquiring minds wanna know...
Go to my poll and put in your vote

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

TAKE DOG FIGHTING SERIOUSLY





How would you like it if they took your kids away from you, put them in cages, beat them up and starve them in order to make them really angry, and then put them in a ring to rip each other apart for the entertainment and profit of others? Pretty fucked up right? Well, that's what they do to dogs and other types of animals. Take the Michael Vick story. A guy who had loads of money yet had a dog fighting rink, for what...? I say he was a vicious sadist who took pleasure out of seeing animals hurt each other. He's not the only one. However, he is now in jail and lost everything. WOOOORD! and I hope others like him suffer the same fate. Animal fighting should be a federal offense!

It's funny, I grew up in Puerto Rico where an old time national sport, practiced mostly by the "jibaros" or country people was the famous cockfights. Funny how when the majority of people in society, particularly those of the male gender, decide that something is OK, it just has no relevance how disgusting, barbaric or gruesome the action might be. We take it at face value and go... "sure...OK!"

It was not until later in my adolescence that I thought to myself "hummmm... there' something wrong with this picture." Why do we take pleasure in seeing living beings destroy each other? Well, let's ask the boxing fans. Which is interesting because at least in boxing, there are certain safety rules, they don't fight till the death, and they don't get starved or beaten before they go on the ring. Or punished if they don't do well. NO, they train like athletes, eat, sleep like the rest of us, and if they make money, they live like kings and spend the rest of the time partying and spending all the cash. Very different from the life of a dog used for the same purpose.

WE NEED TO TAKE  DOG FIGHTING SERIOUSLY. PLEASE VISINT THIS LINK AND SIGN A PETITION ASKING YOUR GOVERNOR TO TAKE THIS ISSUE SERIOUSLY. IT JUST TAKES A FEW CLICKS! 


"THANK YOU! " on behalf of  dogs all over the world who can't write or speak to thank you themselves...


Animal Gladiators

This article is not just about roosters, who are merely used here as an example of the various animals that are used for "fights" by humans to entertain themselves, for those who find animal gladiators ripping at each other entertaining, and for profit.  Please read this alarming story. It's an example of how little regard we have for life in this planet, no matter what their form is. But hell, they kidnap kids and sell them to prostitution and we kill each other for no reason, so why wouldn't they do it to animals... NOOOT!

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These are words spoken by Al Carter, director of animal operations at Moore County animal control in Eagle Springs, North Carolina.
He’s talking about 74 roosters “rescued” from a cockfighting bust. In lieu of contacting sanctuaries or rescue agencies to try and save even a couple of these roosters, animal control officers spent six hours shooting every bird in the head. A bullet to the head may be a quick death if done properly, though I can’t see how that’s possible with a frightened, squirming chicken. But imagine if these were 74 dogs from a puppy mill - would your response to a bullet to the brain be a little different? Would you be a little offended or appalled if an animal control director said that all puppy mill dogs are good for is a bullet to the head?

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Hollywood is kicked out of Mexico

Mexican drug cartels don't like rivals treading on their territory; they don't like the police poking around; and now, it seems, they don't much care for Hollywood taking an interest in their business.

Producers of a film about the murder of a cocaine smuggler, which would have starred Eva Mendes, Josh Hartnett and Sir Ben Kingsley, have been forced to abandon filming on the Mexican coast after the movie-makers received death threats.>

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Expulsan de la Habana a Hector Ramirez antes de poder llegar a ver a su madre

EXPULSAN DE LA ADUANA CUBANA, al escritor y disidente cubano Héctor Ramírez, quien había viajado a la isla con urgencia ante la eminente muerte de su madre, producto de un fulminante cáncer de pulmón que le fue detectado hace un año y ya no tiene solución.   

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Support Generation Y and all other Cuban blogs

I want to encourage all bloggers, particularly those who are Cubans in exile as well as 2 and 3 generation Cubans, but not limited to...  also bloggers around the world to support Yoani Sanchez' portal Generation Y and all other blogs from Cubans residing in the island. Especially if you are someone with technical knowledge, THEY NEED YOUR HELP. Their use of internet is limited and they depend on friends, most of them supporters from abroad as I understand it, to tech serve their sites and help them run efficiently. 

People like Yoani are creating a new kind of Revolution. A vocal Revolution based on freely expressing their opinions and demanding the basic human rights every citizen deserves. These people are bold, ballsy, and sacrificing what little regulated rights they have in order to fight the system and have their voices heard by the blogging community (and hopefully beyond that) all over the world. 

Yoani has been denied permission to travel outside of Cuba 3 times, and the regime simply can't give her a good reason why. Well... we all know why, and I think Yoani knows as well. But that doesn't stop her. That doesn't take away her desire to dream about the possibility of one day being able to express her opinions freely without having to worry that she will be punished for it by having whatever little privileges, if you can call them that, taken away from her. One of them being travel, another one the right to publicly assemble in a group situation which was denied when she tried to organize a sort of bloger's convention. I don't know if they were able to finally carry out this event or not, but I do know she was visited by government officials whose sole intent was to prevent her from achieving her purpose.

Your support and encouragement is one of the few things they can feed on. We can serve as a sounding board and much more. They are crying out for help, but most of all they are dying to connect with the outside world. It's like "message in a bottle".  Let's let them know their message has reached our shores.

Please visit the following site to sing a petition to protect  Bears in Artic Refuges  
Palin wants to get rid of them you know...

Sunday, March 22, 2009

RIP Tasha

Your grace and beauty will remain eternal. Be at peace in your spirit's journey towards evolution and higher consciousness. You will be remembered. 

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Letter from Antunez to Obama



This is a letter from Jorge Luis Carcía Antúnez to President Barack Obama, asking him to take into consideration the plight of the political prisoners in Cuba, who are exposed to the worst kinds of torture and punishment for defending Human Rights. It is currently in Spanish, so I apologize to those non Spanish speakers.

Carta Abierta Al Presidente de USA

Señor presidente, le escribe desde Cuba, esta pequeña isla del Caribe, JORGE LUÍS GARCÍA PÉREZ "Antúnez", uno de los miles y miles de ex presos políticos que dentro de las cárceles cubanas conoció en carne propia la tortura, y todas formas de represión por parte de los carceleros en su desmedido afán de rendir y doblegar nuestra voluntad de lucha y resistencia.

Soy uno de los tantos cubanos que inspirados en la lucha de Martin Luther King está en las calles cubanas apelando a la resistencia cívica y la desobediencia civil como estrategias para lograr el tan ansiado y necesario cambio hacia la democracia en mi país donde existe una tiranía que lleva medio siglo, conculcando las libertades fundamentales de sus ciudadanos, encarcelando las voces alternativas, y sumiendo a un pueblo a la más abyecta miseria, tanto económica, y moral que haya padecido pueblo alguno.

Señor presidente, me es dable destacar, que el autor de esta misiva fue arrestado por fuerzas combinadas de la Policía Política en la víspera de su ascensión como presidente, con el deliberado propósito de impedir que asistiera a una sede diplomática, a la que había sido invitado, conjuntamente con el también opositor pacifico LORETO HERNÁNDEZ GARCÍA para presenciar ese importante acontecimiento histórico; es decir, su toma de posesión como presidente democráticamente electo.

Resulta irónico y para muchos una bochornosa paradoja que mientras en ese grandioso y hospitalario país, un hombre de la raza negra asumía la máxima magistratura, aquí a escasas 90 millas, dos jóvenes negros éramos, además de arrestados, confinados en inmundos calabozos de los órganos de represión política por casi 72 horas.

Imagino cuantas misivas habrá usted recibido y continuará recibiendo, de cubanos de dentro y fuera de la isla. En mi humilde carta quisiera en nombre de cientos y cientos de hermanos míos encarcelados por sus ideas, de los golpeados, reprimidos y hostigados por luchar de manera pacífica y abierta, sugerirle que el Gobierno de La Habana continúa y continuará siendo fiel a su tradicional vocación anti democrática y dictatorial. Prueba de ello son los arrestos del que le hice mención y la constante escalada represiva que mantiene contra su pueblo y la oposición pacífica.

Señor presidente, la dictadura de La Habana es renuente a conceder la más mínima apertura por que ello pone en juego lo único y que más le interesa: perpetuarse en el poder a costa del dolor, sufrimiento y sacrificio de todo un pueblo.

La historia lo ha demostrado, por lo que no puede olvidarse que cualquier flexibilización de la política para con el régimen castrista equivale a la oxigenación de su gobierno y aparato represivo.

Por otro lado, me encuentro entre los que consideran que las iniciativas de diálogo y entendimiento, son positivas y denotan cualidades serias de quienes las promueven. Pero ha quedado demostrado que un diálogo con sordos e intransigentes resulta contraproducente, y más riesgoso aún cuando se hace sin reales y concretas condiciones para con los represores.

En ese sentido considero que la básica y esencial condición a exigirle a la dictadura de los Castro, es la urgente e inmediata libertad de todos los presos políticos en Cuba, así como las sinceras garantías de implementar un inmediato y eficaz programa de profundas y radicales reformas, políticas, económicas y sociales que estén encaminadas a la instauración de una sociedad democrática con un genuino estado de derecho, y le aseguro con todo respeto y responsabilidad que lo contrario sería dilatar este largo y difícil calvario que por 5 décadas padece el pueblo cubano.

No puedo pasar por alto, lo que a juicio de todos mis compatriotas es y debe siempre constituir nuestro principal clamor y demanda: la libertad de todos y cada uno de los presos políticos en Cuba. Sepa que cientos y cientos de hermanos míos agonizan en inmundos y solitarios calabozos, por hambre, enfermedades y malos tratos, hombres y mujeres cuyo único crimen ha sido el defender los principales derechos y libertades del hombre, abogar y luchar por una sociedad libre.

Esperamos de usted y su gobierno solidaridad para ellos y sus familiares. Esperamos que su administración no pase por alto un pormenor y realidad tan evidente como fundamental; que las principales y perniciosas restricciones que sufre nuestro pueblo, son las que precisamente nos aplica un sistema que rehúsa la liberación de los mercados, la libre empresa, y que con la pobreza que genera provoca un constante éxodo migratorio, y sobre todas las cosas culpar a otros del daño que a su propio pueblo le causan.

Los cubanos como amantes de la libertad, no nos oponemos a cuanta noble iniciativas que valla encaminada al acercamiento y reunificación de la familia cubana separada, y mucho menos a que puedan ser ayudadas en tan difíciles momentos.

Lo que no consideramos decoroso ni patriótico, es que no pocos continúen usando los llamados vuelos de la comunidad para engrosar las arcas del aparato represivo a lucrarse de los privilegios de que gozan los turistas foráneos que visitan Cuba en grosero detrimento de los nacionales.

La libertad de salir de su país y regresar es un derecho básico universalmente reconocido, pero cuando se usa en detrimento de los que padecen opresión, cuando por pasión o interés personal se fortalece al opresor, se cae en algo tan grave como es el antipatriotismo.

Señor presidente, para los cubanos la patria es mucho más grande e importante que nosotros mismos y después de esta larga y desastrosa experiencia totalitaria hemos arribado al pleno convencimiento, que a similitud del movimiento por los derechos civiles en los Estados Unidos, nosotros los cubanos solo vamos a ser libre cuando estemos dispuestos al mayor de los sacrificios, y vicisitudes.

Aunque la solución al problema de Cuba no es demócrata ni republicana, sino del esfuerzo y decisión de los cubanos, estamos conscientes de que el apoyo solidario de un presidente de su inteligencia, carisma, y prestigio podría ayudarnos a acelerar el cambio que tanto anhela los cubanos.

Deseándole muchos éxitos en su gestión de gobierno, y reiterándole que no se olvide y siga de cerca este pueblo y su lucha por la libertad.

* Jorge Luís García Pérez Antúnez.

Ex preso político cubano que permaneció 17 años y 38 días en celdas de castigo y confinamientos, sometido a las más crueles torturas de todo tipo por mantener su dignidad como defensor de los Derechos Humanos

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

We have neglected Latin America!

Watch this video where President Obama speaks on how we have neglected Latin America
Chavez is now in bed with the Chinese and the Russians. It is quite obvious at this point he wants to take over all of LA and turn it into a Communist Continent! He wants to take over.

I encourage all Amercians, and Cuban-American, and Venezuelans living out here, and all other Latin Amercians living in the US to support our President in getting more involved in LA issues. Bring conciousness, constructive ideas, dare to expose the truth, GET INVOLVED YOURSELVES in whatever way you can, even if through a blog like Yoani Sanchez in Cuba. What's happening in LA is very scary and we don't want all of these nations to turn into another Cuba. 

I like what the Prez said..." a relationship of mutual respect, mutual dignity .... the notion that Latin America is a Junior to the United States... we need to be full partners... that is our focus"

Ladies and gentlemen, this guy is DIFFERENT, this guy understands that we can't impose ourselves as a nation on other nations just because we think we are the most powerful nation in the world and that everyone needs to do as we do. I think he understands that we can be different and live in mutual respect, and that even socialist countries can live with dignity. Folks, there is nothing inherently wrong with certain socialist notions, such as government involvement, taking care of the social aspect of a country, spreading some wealth... these are terms that even the president of our nation, which is a heavy capitalist nation, has used. The question is HOW you achieve these goals, how you as a leader go about them, and we know it's certainly not through military force, not by taking in political prisoners, not by silencing freedom of speech, and certainly not through dictatorship.

We need to support him in this notion and become actively involved in whatever way we can. We can start by becoming open to changing our mentality and the way we perceive the world. 

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

WE HAVE A NEW PREZ!!!!


A new era...
A new hope...
A renewed promise...
Another chance to do it better...
Let's do it together...
We are ONE!

Let's help him, help ourselves and help the world move into this new age.