by Rick Lowe

After receiving some recent Cuban government propoaganda from Mr. Felix Wilson, Cuban Ambassador to The Bahamas, we sent him a link to our weblog and here is an excerpt from an e-mail we received from him today:

From: “Felix Wilson”
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:51:15 -0400
Subject: GRANMA EDITORIAL FROM CUBA

EDITORIAL

There is no need to burn papers

Yesterday, June 12, a rabid lapdog of the empire and the terrorist mafia in Miami, El Nuevo Herald, published an article titled “U.S. Interests Section in Havana Under Siege,” in which it accuses the Cuban government of cutting off electricity and water supplies to that office as a response to what it describes as “a deepening of the diplomatic crisis” that began when “the electronic billboard was installed on the facade of the Interests Section.”

And it goes on to close with:

With our moral authority and our principles, we will defeat each and every one of its criminal and cowardly campaigns, provocations and aggressions!

Cuba looks the enemy in the face and has no dirty tricks up its sleeve; it has no reason to seek pretexts to harass USINT. It knows how to say “yes” or “no” to requests by the empire’s representatives. It is not looking for subterfuges, or trying to cut electric cables to turn off stupid little signs. It is not harassing U.S. officials or representatives. The millions of people who have paraded past those facilities with honor and dignity, including children and teenagers, have never thrown a single stone against that building. Throughout the history of the Revolution, Cuba has always fought with a moral authority that crushes its enemies. If the current U.S. government is seeking pretexts to remove USINT, cut food sales to our people and do away with the Migration Agreement, then it should do so without inventing them or attempting to perpetuate its gross and cowardly provocations, which did not come from Cuba, but from USINT, which has become a bastion, headquarters and bank for the mercenaries and a center for supplying subversive materials smuggled in their diplomatic pouches. Cuba could peacefully do without all of that, and everything else that interventionism and aggression entails. It would not shed a single tear at its departure. There is no need to burn papers, the monstrosity of their content notwithstanding. Our Revolution would never assault or break into a diplomatic office. It never has and it never will. END

Of course we felt a duty to respond, and here is what we said:

From: Rick Lowe
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:43:35 -0400
To: Felix Wilson CG
Subject: Re: GRANMA EDITORIAL FROM CUBA

For some reason you sent this to me three times?
Why such strong language?
If Cuba is perfect and America is the bane of the earth, shouldn’t all the Cuban’s that left to live in the US want to come back to vote the party of their choice?

While we do not want to become an organ for the Cuban government rhetoric we await his further repsonse.

The US is no more perfect than The Bahamas, but to be free to choose is more important to humans than being subservient to the state. So in that sense, it is far better to be in the US or The Bahamas than Cuba.

Hopefully one day Cuba will be free. The US Embargo be damned, Cuba should open itself up and free her people now.