Cuba: Castro wants U.S. visas for a special few

"IBRAHIM Ferrer; Manuel Galván; Barbarito Torres; Guillermo Rubalcaba; Moíses Hernández, conductor of the National Concert Band; the youth and veterans of the Ignacio Piñeiro Septeto Nacional, will not be in the U.S. city of Los Angeles on Sunday for the 40th Grammy Awards ceremony."

They can't get visas because the State Department lists them as terrorists. Maybe they are; maybe they are not.

The point is this, when will the Grammy people, or any award body amongst the leftist intelligentsia, litterati, and glitterati, insist on granting any kind of award to Oscar Biscet, jailed and sick unto death in a filthy Cuban prison? When will they draw attention to the plight of jailed and tortured Cuban journalists, of house-librarians, of whom the ALA refuse to speak out in support, and such? Instead, Castro is lauded and feted by journalists like Barbara Walters, and slobbered over by film-makers such as Robert Redford and Steven Spielberg. Bad cess to 'em all.

Why is the Cuban government castigating the U.S. government for denying visas for these men when others are trying to flee the workers' paradise by car-boats? What is the cry of Marciel Basanta Lopez and Luis Grass Rodriguez? FREEDOM!!!! I just wish the U.S. would get rid of its wet-foot policy and not send these guys back, AGAIN.

Come on. We've got to have some consistency here. Cuba can't have it both ways. Either all are free to come and go as they see fit, or none are.