[Announce-DAN] Poetic justice

[Doc Rosen <drdrdoc@dr.com>]

Hola queridos mios: At the beginning I did this translation thinking of
my close friends and family.  Reading it again, however, I decided to
send it to other friends too.  This to suggest that you also share it
with your own friends.  It is as the elections in Florida are seen South
of the border.  Muchisimas gracias!  Pio

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              Poetic Justice 
               (or how the empire adopted the political system of the
"banana republics".)       
                                                                         
                                    by Carlos Rafael Soto     


   It is usually called, "Poetic justice".  In Spanish, "Justicia 
Divina", divine justice.  I am watching the perplexed faces of the
English speaking CNN analysts and I ask myself: ¿how could John Kennedy
imagine that, when applying the most inhumane blockade that no Nation in
the world has ever endured, the only thing he was going to accomplish was
to strengthened the spirit of Cuba and cause the emigration of all those
who for many years had lived thanks to corruption and to political fraud?
 John Kennedy opened the doors of his country to the followers of
Batista, and what he planted, now the United States is harvesting. The
greatest show on earth, designed to elect "the leader of the free world"
has ended up in a shameful and ludicrous fiasco.  As in any banana
republic, now in the United States people talk of fraud in some Florida
counties, of electronic manipulation to cheat thousands of retirees that,
everyone knew, were going to vote for Gore, and of the need for a vote
recount to determine the winner of the Presidency.  And in the heat of
the discussions numbers are brought up that one is used to hearing in the
Guatemala of the military rulers, in El Salvador, or, more recently, in
Peru of Fujimori and Montesinos.  In Miami (It had to be there!) in
elections previous to the one of the Tuesday recently past 17 thousand
deceased persons and more than 50 thousand convicts that, of course, do
not have the right to vote, took part.

   The millions of dollars that Gore and Bush spent were not enough. 
Neither the respect for the unwritten rule according to which, to
seriously seek the Presidency of the greatest democracy (?) in the world,
three unavoidable requirements must be met: to be white, to be
Anglo-Saxon and to be protestant (Kennedy was the only catholic who won
the Presidency and everybody knows what happened to him.)
 
   The spectacle, frankly, makes you laugh.   Not because of the
Northamerican people , who are angry and in disbelief, but at their
leaders.  It is like that story in which no one dared to say that the
king was naked.  The situation can not be more scandalous; however, the
illustrious and outstanding men of the OAS remain silent with the
greatest prudence.  No one has dared to suggest sending a mission of
observers to the United States, to investigate if there was fraud.  No
one has spoken of a mediation to see if Gore and Bush could accept that
the elections in Florida be repeated or, in the best Peruvian style,
adopt the idea of calling for new elections within six months in which
neither Bush nor Gore could participate (even though, according to what
is being said, the dirty business was done by Bush's people, in a state
politically dominated by Cuban exiles and governed, this is funny, by his
youngest brother Jeb).  Why Gaviria does not talk?  Why the OAS has not
been called to an emergency meeting to study the political and electoral
situation of one of its member countries, in this case the United States?
 
   Poetic Justice.  Divine Justice, without a doubt.  Forty years of
blockade to an heroic people and, as a result, to suffer the cancer of
the corruption that Cuba used to suffer before her Revolution.  Divine
Justice.  Poetic Justice.  Indeed!

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