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yes, chillaxin, the tired, decrepit, dysfunctional Miami Mafia. you know, the types like the Benitez brothers, who love the "freedom" of the USA, because it enables them to steal everything that is not nailed down. something they cannot do in Cuba. a virulently reactionary, neo conservative bunch of racists, they have managed to dictate politics in the USA by their contol over Miami and central Florida. thankfully, time does not stand still, and these old dinosaurs will soon have departed this earth. they have held south florida captive with their self serving, anti castro agenda, and are a blight upon the american landscape!

Hey chillaxin201, as you can see I go by the "screenname" JEM237 and just like you my parents and my grandparents were born and raised in DR. Based on what I read from your post it seems like you were unaware of some of the things that had gone on in DR when the U.S. invaded in '65. I, of course, was not there either ( I was born in '82 ), but my parents lived that revolution "en carne propia", I was so shocked at many of the things they told me that American soldiers did. Sometimes I feel torn between two countries, I love America but then again I see U.S. politics do so many things that I am against in other countries (including the DR)....Oh well, I g2g but I'll "elaborate" on this a lil later

Below are links to a very good documentary of the Abril65 U.S. invasion on Dominican Soil.

ABRIL: La Trinchera del Honor pt1
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3648269355964343333&hl=en

ABRIL: La Trinchera del Honor pt2
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4258838297463421718&hl=en

ABRIL: La Trinchera del Honor pt3
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6132024826069473163&hl=en

Funny, that's exactly how I pictured GC.

Dear Jem,
About the war of 65 I did not know, not exactly. My parents really never talked about it and all I knew is that my uncle was locked up in DR for a long time. “He still wakes up some times fighting, throwing punches and fighting. He tells me of all the friends he lost, some in combat and those that got tortured to death during and after the war.

My parents where never really interested in telling me I never knew that my father was in the military. Until I drilled him about it, He never told me about what he did in the war, I never really look it up till Leonel Fernandez allowed U.S. troops to be in DR. the protest was against their presence was great.
After that I did a lot of research, TIME TO RISE thank you for the videos.
But you also need to read books, they tell more of the subject. I personally feel Dominicans born in DR or of Dominican Decent do not read enough books about DR.
Most people like Documentaries, the easy way.

RAG-TAGS, SCUM,
RIFF-RAFF, AND COMMIES
The U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic,
1965-1966

That’s a really good book please read it. I beg you !!!!!

All the others are good too, War is a racket can be found online. For free !!!

As Anti- Castro people die, so do people that fought in 65 will also! It is up to the Dominican youth to keep this knowledge alive.
I walked into a barbershop in my city, owned and ran by Dominicans all born in DR. with my RAG-TAGS, SCUM, RIFF-RAFF, AND COMMIES book.
My barber tells me yeah! I know about that, that was to stop communism. I told him that it had nothing to do with communism actually, that the communism thing was an excuse.
He told me that he was Born in DR and that he know more of the subject then I did.
I asked him if he studied the subject he said NO, that he knows from hear say, in his own words “I don’t need to read no stinking book” ….
The moral of the story is READ A FREAKIN BOOK, Dominicans think they know everything!!
Their not putting up so many things named after Caamaño for nothing…

So you know from hearsay as well? You read one book and now you are an expert.

Chill

I agreed with you 100% so here is link to a lot interesting Ebooks as well as audiobooks.

http://www.nw0.info/?p=eBooks%20and%20Audio%20Books/

Do not compare freedom loving anti castro Cubans with Castro's lap dog camanno.