Havana Says Tens Of Thousands Of Cubans Living Abroad Seek To 'Repatriate' (#1 demo "exiles")

[Mike Rows His Boat]

Havana Says Tens Of Thousands Of Cubans Living Abroad Seek To 'Repatriate'

It used to be the only people known for emigrating to communist Cuba were American fugitives from justice and plane hijackers. But the Cuban government claims one of the biggest groups applying to live on the island today are…Cuban exiles.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. So interesting! It's going to inflame the lower regions of some loud and crabby Fascist-Americans

who seek outlets for their trollery daily.

Do you remember years ago when Spain decided to allow Cubans with special lineage connected directly to Spain to move there without going through tons of red tape? No longer had they been there a few weeks than they started bitching because Spain wasn't keeping them in the style in which they were accustomed, they whined about any and everything you could dream of. They couldn't sleep, they needed more money, their living quarters weren't sufficient, they had rats, etc., etc., etc., and it really cracked a lot of people up, as it was amusing.

Funny, had forgotten all about that. Did you hear about that unexpected reaction those former Cubans had to their new home, Mike Rows? It still seems funny, even now. Apparently they imagined they would be greated as visiting royalty.

(Ann Louise Bardach, former NY Times writer who wrote an award-winning series on Luis Posada Carriles, laid out the story in one of her books in the early 2000's, describing what was already then common, the constant movement between Miami and Havana of a lot of Cubans, exiles who would return to Cuba frequently, some being called gusañeros, some called reverse balseros, some sending money to Cuban relatives to allow them to travel back and forth at will, some living in semi-exilio, travelling to Cuba for long holidays, etc.)

This is really a big step beyond that. "Repatriation." Very cool! Thank you for this new great developement.

[Mike Rows His Boat]

2. Many are conducting home purchases via relatives. They want to return. They have money.

Wondering what tactics they are using to collect their US benefits? The US bans any benefits payment directly to Cuba or to Cuban residents. There’s many schemes afoot. It (vocally hating Cuba while ripping off the USj is an industry in Miami.

[Judi Lynn]

3. That's not widely known to those of us outside Florida! Interesting!

Sounds as if more of them planned to return more than a lot of people expected. I had heard Congressloba Ileana Ros-Lehtinen saying that they had believed they would come here for a while and the US would overthrow the government and they would resume their lives in Cuba. So creepy! Had they tried that there would have been a third revolution, of course.

Discovered a woman years ago who lived in Florida who made a trip to Cuba, taking an exile with her, and she wrote her own book about it and self-published. I got a copy. She said that she knew a lot of people who wanted to retire to Cuba and they had learned the US would NOT send their earned Social Security checks to them if they did, which seemed so petty.

Hadn't learned "exiles" had already devised ways to side-step that issue, and I can see how it would work, now that you've mentioned they have studied the idea already. Ha ha ha. You do have to have contacts.

Concerning the "industry" aspect, there was a big article which was published several years ago by, I think, the Sun-Sentinel on the subject, revealing some amazing lengths some of those "exiles" do and have gone to to rip off the US for huge profits. It's all possible because maintaining the hostilities is profitable for certain government-employed, and government related people to keep them going exactly as they are now.

So glad to see your totally on-target remarks, and to learn about the ongoing real estate investments. That's stunning!

Thanks, Mike.