Comments on: Concerning Guest Author Skyagunsta http://mountainsageblog.com/2009/11/11/concerning-guest-author-skyagunsta/ Political News, Opinion and Discussion Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:46:16 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: skyagunsta http://mountainsageblog.com/2009/11/11/concerning-guest-author-skyagunsta/comment-page-1/#comment-28813 skyagunsta Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:08:17 +0000 http://mountainsageblog.com/?p=6847#comment-28813 WOW!Did your friends make the trip? I left Cuba in 1960-61 (oops my computer just made an update and wants to shut down) ... I'll be back in a sec. OK. Back now. The computer did its thing ...Anyhow, I left Cuba just as Fidel Castro was beginning to reveal his Communist tendencies and through the years all of my family has made it to the United States. The one thing that no one here ever seems to mention is that had there not been a Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar in Cuba who took the presidency of Carlos Prio Socarras away in a bloody coup d'etat ... had there not been a murderous Batista running the government of Cuba ... there never would have been a Fidel Castro in the first place. Although I have never been back to Cuba in the 50 or so years since I left, I would love to go back and see Santiago Bay. I have never been able to tear it away from my heart. It was the place of my first dreams, my first love, my first poems. And, if at all possible, I'd want to be the place to receive my ashes when I die . Letting my ashes spend an eternity there would be just heavenly! (No pun intended)! WOW!Did your friends make the trip? I left Cuba in 1960-61 (oops my computer just made an update and wants to shut down) … I’ll be back in a sec. OK. Back now. The computer did its thing …Anyhow, I left Cuba just as Fidel Castro was beginning to reveal his Communist tendencies and through the years all of my family has made it to the United States. The one thing that no one here ever seems to mention is that had there not been a Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar in Cuba who took the presidency of Carlos Prio Socarras away in a bloody coup d’etat … had there not been a murderous Batista running the government of Cuba … there never would have been a Fidel Castro in the first place. Although I have never been back to Cuba in the 50 or so years since I left, I would love to go back and see Santiago Bay. I have never been able to tear it away from my heart. It was the place of my first dreams, my first love, my first poems. And, if at all possible, I’d want to be the place to receive my ashes when I die . Letting my ashes spend an eternity there would be just heavenly! (No pun intended)!

]]> By: timesr http://mountainsageblog.com/2009/11/11/concerning-guest-author-skyagunsta/comment-page-1/#comment-28812 timesr Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:19:42 +0000 http://mountainsageblog.com/?p=6847#comment-28812 Skyagunsta, I would love to hear what you have to say about Cuba. I had a chance to go about 25 years ago with neighbors of my parents. The husband had spent time in Cuba during the Batista regime while waiting for papers to immigrate to the US and wanted to return to see for himself what Cuba was like under Castro. Both he and his wife were elderly and legally blind so they felt insecure about traveling alone and asked me to go with them. Unfortunately my daughter was a baby at the time and I couldn't bring myself to leave her. Skyagunsta, I would love to hear what you have to say about Cuba.

I had a chance to go about 25 years ago with neighbors of my parents. The husband had spent time in Cuba during the Batista regime while waiting for papers to immigrate to the US and wanted to return to see for himself what Cuba was like under Castro. Both he and his wife were elderly and legally blind so they felt insecure about traveling alone and asked me to go with them. Unfortunately my daughter was a baby at the time and I couldn’t bring myself to leave her.

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