M A I N P A G E


Monday, July 26, 2010

The Fresh Reminder of Commie Flesh Peddling 

posted by Joe @ 15:47

Castros offer dissidents for sale.

There’s nothing new under the sun.

Líder Maximo emerges as "Maximo Dealer," puns Tageszeitung in the wake of the July 21 announcement by the Spanish Foreign Minister and the Cuban parliament chief that all of the island’s political prisoners would now be released. According to the Berlin daily, Cuba, which urgently needs to restore economic relations with the European Union, is applying a method reminiscent of the communist state in East Germany: to obtain hard currency, the GDR was in the habit of imprisoning anyone it believed West Germany would pay to have released. TAZ warns that there is no guarantee that the current state of affairs "will not lead to a new wave of arrests."
They are speaking from experience.


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