Dialing for Dollars in Cuba

By: Machetera

There are so many things wrong with this story that it would be hard to know where to begin, so let's start with Tuesday's headline in El Nuevo Herald, the Spanish language fiefdom of the Miami Herald, which says "Dissident Cuban Woman Says Government Hounds but Doesn't Allow a Defense."

Now, aside from the striking fact that the Cuban woman in question, Martha Beatriz Roque, is given a free platform by a major U.S. daily from which to defend herself (and doesn't) - something which is never offered those hounded by the United States government, Machetera's going to take a wild guess here and say that if the Cuban government didn't also invite her to appear on the Cuban political television program, Mesa Redonda (Round Table) where her grasping emails were unveiled, demanding payment for services rendered, it would have been to save her from being killed by the audience. Because Martha doesn't just take money from anybody. She takes it from the ugliest people - Santiago Alvarez, the benefactor of Luis Posada Carriles, who blew up a Cuban passenger plane in 1976, killing all 73 people on board.

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