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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: BannedFromDU on July 26, 2015, 10:52:10 PM
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Marksman_91 (1,332 posts)
Half of Cuba's field hockey team defects during Pan Am games
Source: Yahoo News
Toronto (Canada) (AFP) - Half of the Cuban men's field hockey team at the Pan American Games in Toronto defected to the United States, a player and sources close to the Cuban delegation said.
The sources said eight of the 16 Cuban players had deserted, while team member Roger Aguilera put the number at seven, just the latest in a rash of Cuban defections across several sports.
"Everyone knows what happened to our team, we have seven of them in the United States," said Aguilera, after the decimated Cubans were hammered 13-0 by Trinidad and Tobago.
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/half-cuba-mens-hockey-team-defects-080115006.html
Toronto (Canada) (AFP) - Half of the Cuban men's field hockey team at the Pan American Games in Toronto defected to the United States, a player and sources close to the Cuban delegation said. The sources said eight of the 16 Cuban players had deserted, while team member Roger Aguilera put the number at seven, just the latest in a rash of Cuban defections across several sports. "Everyone knows what happened to our team, we have seven of them in the United States," said Aguilera, after the decimated Cubans were hammered 13-0 by Trinidad and Tobago.
So besides these guys, there's also another couple of rowers who defected. Wonder what's making them want to leave the Castros' supposed paradise...
Oh, this won't do at all. Between malaise extolling the virtues of Cuban dental care and Judi Lynn demanding Cuba remain impoverished, this event cannot go unspun. Let the games commence. (http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1157943)
fasttense (16,287 posts)
66. I guess over 200 US citizens who sought asylum in Cuba
Got tired of waiting for change too.
Guess how many people immigrated from Mexico to the US in 2013? ZERO. ( :rotf: )
Sometimes the grass is greener on the other side of the fence and sometimes not so I much.
Star Member Fred Sanders (14,558 posts)
4. Someone bitter over Cuba/America relationships improving? Capitalist paradise or socialist
paradise, it is always a tough call which one to chose.
bluedigger (13,160 posts)
7. People relocate all the time for better opportunities.
Maybe we should just send them all back?
"Relocate." Um, yeah. Cubans simply choose to "relocate."
I've still yet to hear the DUmmies explain why, if Cuba is such a paradise, they have to keep people there at gunpoint. And they can't have internet.
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Another lovely campfire. It sounds like a dozen tiny dynamos spinning up a storm.
Excuses, reasoning on a grand scale.
DUmmies, they're getting out of a shithole. Get over it.
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Right now if Cubans defect and come to the US they will not be sent back. If we normalize relations with Cuba that could change so people are jumping ship now.
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Right now if Cubans defect and come to the US they will not be sent back. If we normalize relations with Cuba that could change so people are jumping ship now.
Wet foot/dry foot will go out the window.....but then they'll get the same treatment as those that just walk across the border.
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fasttense (16,287 posts)
66. I guess over 200 US citizens who sought asylum in Cuba
Got tired of waiting for change too.
Sometimes the grass is greener on the other side of the fence and sometimes not so I much.
How many of those 200 were fleeing prosecution and/or prison?
Like JoAnne Chesimard?
Like Charlie Hill?
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Star Member Fred Sanders (14,558 posts) Star Retard
4. Someone bitter over Cuba/America relationships improving? That doesn't even make sense to the senseless, dolt. Capitalist paradise or socialist paradise, it is always a tough call which one to chose.
Paradise? If you're looking for late 50's Chebby parts, maybe. Oh, BTW Derf, it was seven. Not someone.
(https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=JN.hLIW%2br8%2f5HodlE98moui6Q&pid=15.1)
See?
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Anyone else just surprised that Cuba had a hockey team? :rotf:
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Star Retard Fred Sanders (14,558 posts)
10. Cubans have been defecting for 50 years, as economic interests can overwhelm all else.
Wait, what? Socialist paradise. A wonder to behold. How does that happen?
America is not exactly a workers' paradise either, but America provides a lot of opportunity that a country not under an economic embargo might be able to.
Bitter?
Can you imagine what Cuba would be like today economically if 100 times larger Big Brother America did not have it's cowboy boot on Cuba's throat for 50 years....all because the workers dared to say no to capitalist slavery some long time ago?
That's why they crossed all that sea in modified bathtubs. Nice little Marxist meme, though failed. Sorry, Derf. You're swinging after the bell, as usual.
A time ago when Americans defected to Canada in droves.
Droves?!? :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: and 90% of those pussies beat feet back as soon as they could. :rofl:
Drove = more than 7, Derf.
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Anyone else just surprised that Cuba had a hockey team? :rotf:
It was that are OR sweep streets....same motions.
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Anyone else just surprised that Cuba had a hockey team? :rotf:
Well, they said field hockey, but maybe that's the problem. They're trying to play field hockey on ice.
Like Fred Sanders, Star Retard.
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Can you imagine what Cuba would be like today economically if 100 times larger Big Brother America did not have it's cowboy boot on Cuba's throat for 50 years ...
Two problems with this narrative:
* The mean nasty US has no foot - booted or otherwise - on the Island of Cuba, except for Guantanamo Bay Naval Base ... for which the mean nasty US pays rent. Further, other than during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US has not blockaded Cuba, not even partially.
* From 1959 through 1989 (or so) Cuba has a technologically advanced patron, the USSR. How did Cuba remain an economic hell-hole despite those 30 years of patronage and subsidy?
Star Retard Fred Sanders (14,558 posts)
10. Cubans have been defecting for 50 years, as economic interests can overwhelm all else.
Ummmm ... those Cubans sought something much greater than economic opportunity, something Freddo seemingly cannot/will not see, freedom.
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Anyone else just surprised that Cuba had a hockey team? :rotf:
I'm not sure what sport they are referring to.
My Mom played field hockey in high school.
I thought it was a women's only sport.
I am wondering if they mean Lacrosse.
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I'm not sure what sport they are referring to.
My Mom played field hockey in high school.
I thought it was a women's only sport.
I am wondering if they mean Lacrosse.
IIRC, men's field hockey is big in India and Pakistan.
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eissa (3,074 posts)
78. My heart breaks for Cuban leftists
Those who supported the Revolution only to see one dictatorship replaced with another. And then witness leftists everywhere defend a regime they would never tolerate living under themselves. No doubt, education and health care in Cuba are leaps and bounds above many others. But tyranny is still tyranny, even if it's on our side. I hope the defectors find what they're looking for.
Her avatar?
(http://www.democraticunderground.com/avatars/che.gif)
(https://schoolpsychadventures.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/stupid.jpg?w=490)
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Yay for Che !
Now all I need is a good drumline beat and something that rhymes with Guevara.