Cuban-Americans protest Cuban musical group at "Che" Supper Club

[flamingdem]

The exiles are calling the Ache Supper Club the "Che" Supper Club. It's right across the street from their hangout Versailles Restaurant! That's entertainment in Miami.

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Cuban-Americans hold sign, as they protest

Cuban-Americans hold a sign in Spanish that reads, Zapata Lives, The Cuban Exiles Live, Patriotic Exiles United, as they protest in front of the Club Ache in the Little Havana section in Miami, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. The Cuban musical group Charanga Habanera is playing at the Club Ache as part of the US-Cuba Cultural exchange. Zapata, Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a Cuban political activist, died in a hunger strike last February in Cuba.« Read less
(AP Photo/Alan Diaz)



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Also calling for protests against the Aldeanos and Silvito even though they are government critics:

http://villagranadillo.blogspot.com/

Saavedra would like to rip this poster down of a great group Orchestra Aragon that celebrated its 60 anniversary - they are on tour in the USA now:

[Judi Lynn]

1. It's great seeing these guys getting some fresh air, visiting with their fellow terrorist-supporters

I suppose by now club owners in Miami have learned to get good security at their buildings to prevent more bombings, bomb threats, etc., and people crowded so close they can hit customers with D Cell batteries, baggies filled with human excrement, rocks, bottles, simple drooling spit, etc.

There was a club owner who featured Cuban acts a few years ago who was told by the Miami police she had to pay the city for any police protection at her club.

Great photos, and the one showing Miguel Saavedra temporarily unable to deface a poster behind private fencing is great!

Thanks for the news the widely celebrated Charanga Habanera group is appearing again in Miami. Hope they have a totally safe visit. They have so MANY fans.

[Billy Burnett]

2. That was Debbie Ohanian, who requested police protection after a car bomb took out her car.

After the infamous Los Van Van concert she was the promoter for. http://havanajournal.com/politics/entry/miami_promoter_wins_suit_over_concert_security_costs/

She came within minutes of being blown to bits.

[Mika]

3. Yep. A 2003 post of mine on that, in a thread of Judi's

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=243631&mesg_id=244332

Mika (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-28-03 07:18 PM

3. Also unmentioned..

Also unmentioned, was that Ms Ohanian's Lexus was blown up by a car bomb in a parking garage in Coconut Grove not long after the Los Van Van concert. It was a classic car bombing.. she tried to start the car, but it wouldn't turn over. the ignition/starter just made a clicking sound as if the battery was almost dead. She got out of the car to get some help.. then.. BOOM. She was almost killed. Miami police confirmed it was an attempted homicide. Its a cold case now.

That is Miami. That is how far the intransigent ex Cubans (aka: exiles) will go in their terror war against Cuban socialism, and against freedom loving Americans.

I'm sure that most DUers have no idea of how really violent and dangerous Miami is. The police behavior at the FTAA is just an example of Batistano-ism (fascism) in Miami. It MUST be confronted and stopped.

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[Judi Lynn]

5. Incomprehensible how people could be so hate-filled they would try to KILL someone

for merely giving them the stage in her club for a concert.

Simply beyond belief.

Thanks for this information we wouldn't have ever heard otherwise.

[Judi Lynn]

4. That's the name! Couldn't even remember. She does have courage, doesn't she?

http://www.freedomforum.org.nyud.net:8090/graphics/photos/ohanian.debbie.jpg

Debbie Ohanian
I had often wondered how she had the nerve to hang in there, with such a high profile name, and so many violent enemies. God.

Thank you.

[dipsydoodle]

6. Almost defies probability

So many guys named Wayne Kerr.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Wow! Never heard that one. There's always the time honored Heywood Jablomi. n/t

[dipsydoodle]

8. Took me a full minute

to get my head round the expression you used. :rofl:

:hi:

[Peace Patriot]

9. Who would protest (and bomb) MUSIC? Lord, what sick people these anti-Castro Miamians are!

Even sicker--the U.S. taxpayer-funded subsidies of these haters and (some of them) terrorists!

"Follow the money" is always good advice--when otherwise inexplicable political things happen--recently followed, to all of our educations, by those investigating 'tea party' funding. (See latest edition of The New Yorker.) And in the case of this malicious gang of rightwingers in Florida, the trail leads right back to our own pocketbooks--the money our own government extracts from us in taxes and gives to these people who hate so thoroughly that they can't even stand MUSIC.

Our money is put to bad, BAD uses in a lot of places--including funds to rightwing groups throughout Latin America, via U.S. government entities like the USAID. But this use is particularly execrable, here, in that it has created a force promoting fascism, corruption and violence within our own country, that has--through U.S. government financial and other support--acquired power within our government far beyond their numbers. This force, in turn, greatly influences what happens with agencies like the USAID--and, indeed, what happens with State Department, CIA, Pentagon and other policy in Latin America, which DOES NOT REFLECT the opinions, wishes and democratic ideals of our most of our people.

This rancid group of rightwingers in Florida basically dictates U.S. foreign policy in Latin America--all paid for by you and me. And, believe me, it is going to end up being extremely bad for our interests--the interests of most Americans--in the current climate of awesome democratic change in Latin America, where most people are completely fed up with the U.S. government and are electing leaders who say so and who act accordingly. The U.S. response? A rightwing coup in Honduras. More billions in military aid to the narco-thugs running Colombia. A Pentagon military buildup throughout the region.

Bad, BAD policy.

The insanity of these Florida rightwingers, in protesting MUSIC, is just a symptom of a much greater problem--which, like most of our other problems, we can't even begin to address until we have a REAL "tea party" and toss the 'TRADE SECRET' voting machines, which have infested our land, into 'Boston Harbor' (so to speak).