Quote Originally Posted by Xanith
Hmmm so an attempt to overthrow a government is considered a threat huh? Wasn’t it Fidel Castro that led an armed revolution against the established Cuban government and overthrew it? Ohhh the irony…

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Established, yes, but established in a coup, so the revolutionaries had as much right to it as anybody else.

The cuban exile community is so emotionally tied into Cuba that it is hard to get any clear understanding of that issue from them, or anybody closely associated with them.

My opinion is that if the exile community has its way, there will be a bloodbath in Cuba as they exterminate and subjugate the Cubans who support Castro, and there are plenty of them. Of course, those supporters may not truly support Castro, they may just remember what their lot was before Castro took over. After all, Castro wasn't a one man army. Certain segments of the people arose in a popular revolt which Castro eventually took control of, but he didn't start the revolt.

So why did people throw off the existing government? Perhaps because it was excessively exploitative and corrupt. I don't see any evidence that the exile community has learned anything from an extended stay in the US. While I was living down there, Alpha66 (the exile paramilitary group) was in the news every few months, and at one point the exile community blocked the FL turnpike. One of the bizarre demands in that protest was that the US forcibly remove Castro. I was kind of amused that they would feel that a roadblock on a Miami beltway road would generate enough leverage to get the US to invade Cuba.

They've got plenty of power, but it sure looks like they use their power to keep from seeing themselves as others see them. They feel that things were taken from them, and that is correct, since their property was taken from them, but it was taken because of the general misbehavior. It is not in the best interest of Cuba, or the US, that that particular element of the exile community be allowed to regain the power that was lost.