Re: [Marxism] Cuba "dissidents" back Obama pledge

[Pat Costello <pt_costello@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://machetera.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/dialing-for-dollars-in-cuba/

The ?Ladies in White? are the Cuban wives of other
so-called dissidents who don white clothing and
head-scarves in the most cynical appropriation of the
memory of the Argentine Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
who marched to demand the return of their children,
abducted in the U.S. supported military dictatorship
there.

The p.r. geniuses who thought up the ?Ladies in White?
have counted on a short public attention span and a
compliant press, but Hebe de Bonafini, a real mother
from Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo was perfectly blunt
about the insult in an interview with Salim Lamrani in
2005:

Lamrani: The Cuban authorities arrested and harshly
sentenced various people to prison terms, which the
international press calls ?dissidents,? for having
collaborated with the economic sanctions against Cuba
and for receiving subsidies from the United States.
The French press has often alluded to the ?Ladies in
White,? the family of these ?dissidents,? who march in
Havana to ask for the liberation of their family
members. Several media have referred to these people
as the ?Cuban Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo.? What does
Hebe de Bonafini, President of the Association of the
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo think?

De Bonafini: First, let me say that the Plaza de Mayo
is in Argentina and nowhere else. Our white headscarf
symbolizes life, while the women you speak about to me
represent death. This is the most important and most
substantial difference that should be noted by these
journalists. We are not going to accept their being
compared to us, or that our symbols be used to trample
upon us. We are in complete disagreement with them.

Lamrani: However, they are demanding the release of
their family members. Doesn?t that seem legitimate?

De Bonafini:These women defend United States
terrorism. They defend the world?s foremost terrorist
country, that with the most blood on its hands, that
which launches the most bombs, that invades the most
countries, that imposes the strongest economic
sanctions against others. We are talking about a
country that is responsible for the crimes of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

These women don?t realize that the struggle of the
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo symbolizes love for our
abducted children, killed by tyrants imposed by the
United States. Our battle represents the Revolution,
the one that our sons and daughters wanted to make.
Their struggle is different, since they defend the
subversive policies of the United States that only
contain oppression, repression and death.

Lamrani: What, according to you, are the interests
being defended by the ?Cuban dissidents??

De Bonafini:The interests of the United States, of
course. You?d have to be blind or dishonest not to see
it. You only have to read the reports published by the
U.S. State Department, in which it is said that a $50
million budget is earmarked for the fabrication of an
opposition in Cuba. The information is public, and
it?s available. The dissidents themselves, as they are
called, meet with Mr. James Cason [the U.S.
representative preceding Michael Parmly in Havana] and
are under his command. These dissidents have openly
supported the maintenance of economic sanctions that
so harm the Cuban people. Who, besides the United
States, supports those economic sanctions? Tell me!


      

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