Reply #45: It seems you may have missed the many articles [View All]

concerning the round up of "dissidents" paid by U.S. sources for years and years.

There's a lot to read on the subject. Here's the first thing I saw in google:

(snip) Cuban Spy Taunts Opposition

HAVANA, April 22, 2003

(AP) An undercover agent credited with providing some of the most damaging evidence used during the recent trials of scores of dissidents declared this week that Cuba's opposition movement has been permanently disabled.

"The opposition is finished, it has ended, it will never lift its head again," Aleida de las Mercedes Godinez told The Associated Press Monday in the first of a series of interviews with the agents organized by the government for international media.

"The opposition will never flourish again — never!" said Godinez, who for nearly 10 years pretended to be a dissident and became closely involved with various opposition groups. (snip)

(snip) The opposition has acknowledged the severe damage caused to their movement by the undercover agents, particularly Godinez, who helped create the Assembly for the Promotion of Civil Society, an umbrella organization of dissident groups formed late last year.
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(snip) Godinez said that Roque was handling as much as $5,000 a month from various groups in the United States funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. The USAID Cuba program since 1996 has given more than $20 million to U.S. groups working with the opposition on the communist-run island to generate a peaceful transition to democracy. (snip)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/22/world/main550591.shtml

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By the way, how do you think these "dissidents," your "political prisoners" would last, living as they did, in this country?

Do you have any opinion on the 43 years of continual terrorism launched against Cubans and even diplomats of other countries deemed to be friendly to Cuba, involving bombing airliners, shooting ambassadors, bombing cars, hotels, restaurants, department stores, theaters? The perpetrators of these actions live right here, and have never been chastised.