April CARIBBEAN MEMO-2009

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

TAKE OFF THE BLINDERS

Date: 01-April-09

From: News Center Publications

Subject: April Caribbean Memo-2009

Dear Friends:

Here are two examples of people in important positions who could have made a difference and failed to do so.

One, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, could have asked Mexican leaders what they are doing to provide more jobs at home to help stem illegal immigration to the United States.

In her first visit to Mexico last month, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton instead said the United States needed to acknowledge it is helping fuel the drug problem and it must do more to help Mexico fight it.

Two, six members of the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus members visited Cuba and got side tracked by the question of what Cuba could do to help President Barack Obama improve bilateral relations.

They failed to ask the leadership there what is being done to improve race relations with Cuba’s large black population and to provide more job opportunities.

Even the poorest U.S. black is RICH compared to anyone living under dictators Fidel and Raul Castro.

And since no blacks form the ruling class, the Castro brothers could be classified as RACISTS.

No questions there despite the fact slavery is a part of Cuba’s past and racial discrimination there reportedly is alive and well.

All Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri and a former Kansas City mayor could do was call for removal of nearly 50-year-old U.S. travel and trade sanctions with the island nation.

We suggest there is a common thread between what Hillary Clinton and Congressman Cleaver said. They have not bothered to learn enough about Mexico or Cuba to carry on a rational political conversation.

So they take the only option left open to them. They focus on what the United States should or should not do in U.S. dealings with those two countries.

Again, we suggest a study of culture, language and politics would go a long way in improving dialogue. If they could do that, they would avoid being manipulated into discussing only complaints about the United States and ignoring problems Mexicans and Cubans face.

We say these things because we're interested in telling a story about the Caribbean and Latin America and we think we've done that in five historical-political novels. They can be viewed on our WebSite:natcarnes.com. We're currently working on a sixth.

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The Editors