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From: tonyw@ubvax.UUCP (Tony Wuersch)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: America-bashing (really emigration from Cuba)
Message-ID: <315@ubvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 15:33:53 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 30 15:33:53 1985
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In article <1548@bbncca.ARPA> rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) writes:
>What Tony Wuersch ignores in trying to deny the unique significance
>of emigration from Cuba is that 10% of Cuba's entire population
>has left since Castro came to power, the highest proportion in
>all of Latin America.
>
>But statistics aren't the only indicator: it's fairly easy to
>differentiate between large emigrations like Mexicans to the US
>Southwest and Cubans to the US & Spain as to cause & motive,
>& thus identify the unique character of flight from Cuba.
>
>						Ron Rizzo

A born-again counterrevolutionary has spoken again.  When did most
of these people leave Cuba?  Did they have any problems leaving?

I'll bet they left at the beginning of the Cuban Revolution, just
as Tories (lots) left the USA and French (all) left Algeria.  If they
left then, they also had little problem leaving (aside from problems
associated with the mood of panic at the time  -- you can't expect a
new regime to be an efficient emigration-cum-travel agency too --).

If a significant minority of Cubans (remember, the number is 10%)
decide they can't afford to wait and see if a revolution helps them
or hurts them (and why should they wait if they were part of the groups
the revolution was made against?), they leave.  And the Cuban
government didn't restrain them from exercising their choice.

After the first big emigration, how much is left, Ron?  I don't know,
but I don't think much.  10% for a small country is not a whole lot.
What's so unique about that?

Tony Wuersch
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