Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2015 8:18:52 GMT -6
It seems the homeless that Cuba made magically vanish before the Pope arrived have reappeared and are just as they were when they were disappeared. I'm glad to see they weren't outright killed, as Fidel has been known to do in past years. Maybe the old tyrant (and Raul) are mellowing in their old age?
I suppose I figured they weren't shooting them. Even communism has to adapt a little, for modern times..or the liberals who love Fidel like a long lost family member, might realize he isn't so nice a guy after all. He's smart enough, it appears, to avoid that outcome.
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I have to disagree with their description. Social Cleansing would have been removing them on a more permanent basis, to my way of thinking. As it is, they were just 'displaced' for a few days, and 'replaced' when the VIP left the island. That really is mellow by Castro standards. Cuba may really be changing...very slowly but some is better than nothing..I suppose.
Following the departure of Pope Francis, the streets of eastern Holguín, Cuba, have been flooded with dozens of homeless people that residents say had “disappeared as if by magic” in the week before the Pope’s arrival.
Independent journalist Yusnaby Pérez has published a report from Holguín, where residents notes the city, typically home to a significant number of homeless beggars, was cleaned up for the Pope’s visit. Most of these homeless were taken away by state police, though there is no evidence of where they were hidden until the Pope left the country.
Independent journalist Yusnaby Pérez has published a report from Holguín, where residents notes the city, typically home to a significant number of homeless beggars, was cleaned up for the Pope’s visit. Most of these homeless were taken away by state police, though there is no evidence of where they were hidden until the Pope left the country.
I suppose I figured they weren't shooting them. Even communism has to adapt a little, for modern times..or the liberals who love Fidel like a long lost family member, might realize he isn't so nice a guy after all. He's smart enough, it appears, to avoid that outcome.
Cuban civil rights and pro-democracy groups protested the “social cleansing” of cities the Pope intended to visit before he arrived. The Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation issued a statement on September 18 expressing “profound indignation before the operation of ‘social cleansing'” occurring in Holguín, Havana, and Santiago de Cuba, the easternmost regional capital on the island. The organization alleged that thousands of homeless people, the mentally ill, and beggars had been eradicated from the streets, with no indication of where the government had taken them.
I have to disagree with their description. Social Cleansing would have been removing them on a more permanent basis, to my way of thinking. As it is, they were just 'displaced' for a few days, and 'replaced' when the VIP left the island. That really is mellow by Castro standards. Cuba may really be changing...very slowly but some is better than nothing..I suppose.
