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Judi Lynn

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2. Great to see your informative post! The U.S. public knows next to absolutely nothing about Cuba,
Sun Nov 11, 2012, 04:40 PM
Nov 2012

and it isn't because they are stupid, it's because the corporate media has never felt compelled to reveal even the simplest truths about it.

It has always been to the greatest advantage to keep the public in the dark, making it so much easier to sway with propaganda when it was felt necessary for political reasons.

U.S. Americans have often expressed surprize discovering people in other countries seem to know so much more about world events and politics. They should ask themselves why it is we have learned so little!

I have spoken with my state's senator's and representatives offices about their Cuba positions. In speaking with my state's Republican Senator's people, a man told me that the senator. a lock-step Republican was in Cuba, in a cab, and was amazed to discover the driver even knew about current Cuba legislation pending before Congress at the time of their discussion!

Very interesting to get to the truth about the Cuban sandwich, to, by God, after all these years of hearing exiles, and exiles-in-marriage boast and rave on about their love for that creation! One, living in the North East told a Miami exile getting her next Cuban sandwich fix was her first plan for her next visit back in Miami, all shared with posters at a message board populated mostly by exiles around the time of Elian Gozalez, the "exile"-held kid in Miami.

One well known Tampa Cuban in American history is, of course, the humongous Mafia criminal, Santos Trafficante. He lived loudly, wielded a lot of power in Tampa.
















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