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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum)
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Subject: Re: Thoughts on America Bashing
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Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 15:59:23 EDT
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> [Bob Weiler]
> As someone who lived for a long time in South Florida ( 1968-1984 ), I
> knew a fair number of Cuban refugees. In general ( emphasis on general )
> I would say they fell into 3 classes:
> 
> Those who owned property and lost it : violently anti-Castro
> 	would return to Cuba if they could get their property back.
> 
> Those who had jobs, but didnt own property: Moderate Anti-Castro
> 	prefer US due to increased economic opportunity, probably
> 	wouldnt return if he left.
> 
> Those who had neither property or jobs: Dont care about Castro, maybe
> 	even prefer him to Batista, but would rather stay in US
> 	for economic opportunity.
> 
> Most of the freedom rhetoric comes from the first group, and I may
> be overly cynical, but I dont believe it is truly heart felt. The
> others are here because they can live better in the US. They certainly
> do appreciate the freedoms we enjoy, but it isnt the major factor.
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To sum this up, we can agree that most of the post-1959 refugees could tolerate
a corrupt inefficient dictatorial government that left them alone
economically (Batista), but not a relatively efficient totalitarian one
that maybe took away their property as well(Castro).  I should also point out
that many of the refugees originally supported the Castro revolution, and left
only when Castro came out of the closet.
-- 
Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan