Granma Lies
... big surprise there, right?
well, my heart was warmed by an article in Granma detailing what the Cuban population in the United States is (average age, education levels, income, etc.), taken from the American Community Survey.
After rattling off a number of statistics, which I did not check, the article comes around to its main point, it's raison d'etre, as it were:
Por ultimo, significativamente, la Encuesta del Buro del Censo demuestra que en el 2004 el 56% de los cubanos apoyaban un dialogo entre Estados Unidos y el Gobierno cubano para resolver las conflictos existentes entre ambos paises. Un claro rechazo a la intransigente y desnaturalizada postura de la extrema derecha cubano americana.
Finally, and of significance, the Census Bureau's Survey shows that in 2004, 56% of Cubans supported a dialogue between the United States and the Cuban government to solve the conflicts that exist between both countries. This is a clear rejection of the intransigent and denaturalized position of the Cuban-American extreme right.
ok ... well... the Survey didn't ask nothing about how people felt about the relations between Cuba and the U.S. you check for yourself. look up the site and see if you can find any questions relating to foreign policy, towards Cuba or otherwise.
in other words, Granma just made up some figure, or more likely, borrowed the figure from some other source but attributed it to the more prestigious Survey.
oy vey...
and what the heck does "desnaturalizada" ("denaturalized") mean anyway? what is a denaturalized position? a position against nature? a position in spite of nature? I guess it means a position contrary to their nature as Cubans. well ... Cuba is not the Cuban government, and to hate the Cuban government is not to hate Cuba.
and, by the way, even assuming the figures are correct, one must object to Granma's characterization of 56% as a repudiation of anything. that means that 44% agree, a sizable minority.
well, my heart was warmed by an article in Granma detailing what the Cuban population in the United States is (average age, education levels, income, etc.), taken from the American Community Survey.
After rattling off a number of statistics, which I did not check, the article comes around to its main point, it's raison d'etre, as it were:
Por ultimo, significativamente, la Encuesta del Buro del Censo demuestra que en el 2004 el 56% de los cubanos apoyaban un dialogo entre Estados Unidos y el Gobierno cubano para resolver las conflictos existentes entre ambos paises. Un claro rechazo a la intransigente y desnaturalizada postura de la extrema derecha cubano americana.
Finally, and of significance, the Census Bureau's Survey shows that in 2004, 56% of Cubans supported a dialogue between the United States and the Cuban government to solve the conflicts that exist between both countries. This is a clear rejection of the intransigent and denaturalized position of the Cuban-American extreme right.
ok ... well... the Survey didn't ask nothing about how people felt about the relations between Cuba and the U.S. you check for yourself. look up the site and see if you can find any questions relating to foreign policy, towards Cuba or otherwise.
in other words, Granma just made up some figure, or more likely, borrowed the figure from some other source but attributed it to the more prestigious Survey.
oy vey...
and what the heck does "desnaturalizada" ("denaturalized") mean anyway? what is a denaturalized position? a position against nature? a position in spite of nature? I guess it means a position contrary to their nature as Cubans. well ... Cuba is not the Cuban government, and to hate the Cuban government is not to hate Cuba.
and, by the way, even assuming the figures are correct, one must object to Granma's characterization of 56% as a repudiation of anything. that means that 44% agree, a sizable minority.
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