அண்ணனும் தம்பியும் ஆளும் கியூபா கம்யூனிஸ பொன்னுலகிலிருந்து ஏன் 37000 பேர் தப்பினார்கள்?

சேகுவேரா பனியனை போடும் தமிழ்நாட்டு அறிவுஜீவிகள் தங்களைத்தாங்களே கேட்டுக்கொள்ளவேண்டிய கேள்வி இது.

போலீஸ் இன்பார்மர் என்று சாதாரண மக்களை கை காலை வெட்டும் மாவோயிஸ மிருகங்களை மனிதாபிமானம் மிக்க மனிதர்களாக காட்டி பம்மாத்து பண்ணும் அறிவுஜீவிகள் தங்களைத்தாங்களே கேட்டுக் கொள்ளவேண்டிய கேள்வி.

கியூபாவில் நடப்பது சோசலிஸம் என்று கும்மி அடிக்கும்போது, ஏன் அங்கு பிடல் கேஸ்ட்றோ தம்பியை விட்டால் சோசலிஸத்தை காப்பாற்ற ஆளே இல்லையா என்றும் கேட்க வேண்டுமில்லையா?

ஏன் சோசலிஸத்தையோ கம்யுனிஸத்தையோ தாங்க உழைக்கும் பாட்டாளி வர்க்கத்திலிருந்து ஒருவரும் வருவதில்லை. உழைக்கும் பாட்டாளி வர்க்கத்தலைமை என்று பெயர் பண்ணி அங்கு உட்காருபவர் எல்லோரும் அய்யரும் அய்யங்காரும், மாவோ மாதிரியான நிலபிரபுக்களின் பிள்ளைகளும், படித்த அறிவுஜீவிகளும் இருக்கிறார்கள்?

கம்யூனிஸம் என்பது மக்களின் புரட்சி அல்ல. கம்யூனிஸம் என்பது தத்துவம் படித்து வேலையற்ற அறிவுஜீவி கும்பல் மக்களின் புரட்சி என்று ஊரை ஏமாற்ற மக்களை ஏமாற்றி ஆட்சியில் உட்கார கண்டுபிடித்த பொய்.

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Cubans continue to cross Straits despite many dangers
Ray Sanchez | Direct from Havana
June 29, 2008
HAVANA

Marta and 14-year-old son Anselmo packed a navy-blue knapsack with bottled water, cheese, crackers, hand towels, sugar, sunscreen and a miniature ceramic Our Lady of Charity, Cuba's patron saint.

"She'll protect us," said Marta, a 47-year-old medical lab technician who asked that her full name not be used for fear of reprisal. "Anything happens, I'm with my son."

"Nothing can go wrong. We're going to El Yuma," said Anselmo, using Cuban slang for the United States. His confidence gave away their inexperience. It was their first attempt to leave Cuba by sea.

New tragedies on the Florida Straits do little to deter other mothers and sons from packing a bag and heading into the tropical night. U.S. officials said the number of Cubans trying to cross the Straits is rising.



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In fiscal 2007, the U.S. Coast Guard interdicted 2,868 Cubans at sea, the highest total since the rafter crisis in 1994, when more than 37,000 left the island. Since Oct. 1, 1,733 Cubans have been interdicted, compared with 1,547 a year earlier.

In April, Cuban reggaeton artist Elvis Manuel, 18, perished at sea when the smuggling vessel carrying him, his mother and other migrants overturned near the Florida coast. His mother, Irioska Maria Nodarse, survived and, in anguish and shock, returned to Cuba on an American Coast Guard vessel.

On June 16, Vivian America Sanchez Cabrera and her 10-year-old son, Jorge Luis Nunez Sanchez, sat side-by-side on a rowboat packed with Florida-bound migrants. Their vessel was rammed by a smuggler's speedboat. The rowboat overturned. Sanchez Cabrera lost sight of her only son, whose body was recovered beneath the capsized vessel.

"I wanted to leave because of him," said Sanchez Cabrera, 44, back in the rural community of La Sierra in Villa Clara province after being rescued by the Cuban coast guard. "I wanted only a better future for him. I waited for him to get a little older to make this trip."

U.S. diplomats said 70 percent of the migrants are young people between 18 and 35 years old. They said the figures show Cubans have little faith life would improve under Raul Castro, who officially succeeded ailing brother Fidel as president in February.

Havana accuses the United States of encouraging Cubans to risk their lives at sea by granting residence to those who reach American soil. Visa applications can take between three and seven years. Thousands of Cubans who left over the years still have wives, husbands and children on the island.

"I love my father and I want to be close to him as soon as possible," said Abel Lazaro Gonzalez, 16, who survived the June 16 smuggling attempt that killed the 10-year-old boy and Yudersi Rosabal Rodriguez, 19, of the central city of Sagua la Grande.

Gonzalez, whose father lives in Miami, stood at the bedside of his mother, Julia Maria Santana, a 41-year-old nurse. She was recovering at a hospital in Sagua la Grande, a three-hour drive east of Havana, from arm and leg injuries suffered in the escape attempt. Both left open the possibility of another try.

In Havana, Marta and Anselmo took their knapsack and boarded a Russian-made sedan for the drive to Sagua la Grande.

From there, smugglers would take them to a departure point on the northern coast of Cuba. In northern New Jersey, relatives they haven't seen in years were waiting.

"We know the danger," Marta said. "Anything happens, we'll be together.

Ray Sánchez can be reached at rlsanchez@sun-sentinel.com.