Barbed wire, high fences, mine fields, watch towers, ferocious dogs, and sharpshooters firing at unarmed civilians…the tropical version of the Berlin Wall prevents escapees from reaching the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo. Cuba’s distinctive version of the barrier extends into Guantánamo Bay, where border guards fire from patrol boats or throw grenades at anyone trying to swim to the base.
I’m sure the “Obama-Nation™” will be making the call to Castro & Co. to “Tear down this wall” as soon as he reads the article in newspaper.
The Navy Carrier Group is no doubt on it’s way to pick up several million Cuban refugees, which will be announced tonight with aplomb, CUBAN AMNESTY!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Have to love Papa Castro, right Trudy!?
They should pay Castro to protect the US/ Mexican border.
Hell even hire him as a consultant, can’t be any more immoral than getting advise from Hillary Clinton.
Cubans escaping from one prison into another. They know that Obama will eventually let everyone out of Guantanamo.
KVB nailed it. Castro was (is?) ‘Papa Fidel’ to both Justin and Sacha. Indeed, there’s a paean to Castro in (where else but) the Toronto Star, written in 2006. It’s enough to make you gag.
But that’s today’s (and yesterday’s) Cuba that so many flock to to escape the brutality of Canadian winters. Only to find another kind of brutality.
Repression of its people not to mention a $20/month MAXIMUM wage which you may want to keep in mind while vacationing at that all-inclusive resort at $200/day.
Unfortunately, if you tell that to any who have vacationed in Cuba…you will promptly get told you are BSing….repeating Yankee propaganda.
That Cuban waiter you just tipped may say gracias but he won’t tell ya he will be searched after work, and any and ALL money in his pockets, they find will earn him a beating, at the very least. Truth is you just tipped the Castros…
Then there is the myth that the Castro bros live simple lives on standard salaries, while the truth is they own mansions and estates and live like the 1% they are.
Word is that Fidel has carved a lotta notches on his bedpost…if’n ya get my drift….
This looks very familiar.
1965 to 1967 your agent was a soldier on the east side of border with West Germany.
There were trip wires that announced at a border army unit that somebody is in the area, there was iron curtain was powered by 600V barbed wires, about 8ft high.
Being a specialist, did not have to do the actual patrols.
They would tell us with a smirk on their faces that the iron curtain was there to keep the rotting capitalist out of workers paradise.
There may have been 1 soldier along the maybe 200km border that believed it.
were those notches for Sacha ?
http://pointdebasculecanada.ca/alexandre-trudeau-praises-fidel-castro/
herculean physique and the rest of the homo erotica
Don’t forget the automatic firing devices in the ‘kill zone’; which faced eastward to keep the capitalists out…thus the lessened need for ‘live personnel’.
The running joke was that they mowed the ‘kill zone’ by hand with a sickle…
Curious how the ‘illicit traffic’ across the Iron Curtain was always from east to west.
In Cuba, you just have to out swim the sharks and patrol boats…to flee the tropical ‘worker’s paradise’.
🙂
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
The ultimate big government. When they can shoot citizens with impunity, you know it has arrived. The RCMP have done their bit to get that happening here, but some of us still think the cops work for the people and not kill Polish immigrants in an airport for not being able to speak english and for need a cigaret really badly.
I make it a general policy to ignore the political views of any Canadian whom I know routinely holidays in Cuba.
The first was short random wire that end up at a flare tube, so if somebody walked across, would trip the hammer flare would go up.
Second was an unpaved strip sand about the same width as in the picture with Humvee, that was regularly raked and smoothed so that you could see if somebody crossed it.
Then there was the first fence that had low power &12 Volts as an annunciator, if you pushed down the wire to get across and touched the next wire up or down with it, you would cause a short and a relay would release tag at the unit to tell you what section it occurred.
The last one was the 600V iron curtain on perpendicular cross bars
Sorry about the sintax and there was more above the text that got missed.
“There were actually four different tracks to control the border.”
Sasquatch and JJM, ditto here about telling Cuba vacationers that they just helped Castro live in opulent style while the people are on the verge of starvation and being sent to a labour camp. They look at you like you are a right-wing loonie.
“They would tell us with a smirk on their faces that the iron curtain was there to keep the rotting capitalist out of workers paradise.”
On the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, there was a cartoon in (I believe it was) a West German paper that showed two East German border guards in a watchtower. One was saying to the other:
“Twenty years this wall has been here, Comrade! And what a success it is! After all, no one has ever broken through into the German Democratic Republic!”
it has always bothered me that Canadians are willing to support a communist dictator by vacationing in the country. the people are not free folks. they can’t just get on a plane or boat and take a trip away. why would anyone support the enslavement of another people. it is sort of like buying cheap goods from china.