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"Cuban dissidents who were given millions of dollars by the US government to support democracy in their homeland instead blew money on computer games, cashmere sweaters, crabmeat and expensive chocolates, which were then sent to the island".
"The Miami-based Acción Democrática Cubana spent money on a chainsaw, Nintendo Game Boys and Sony PlayStations, mountain bikes, leather coats and Godiva chocolates, which the group says were all sent to Cuba."
"I’ll defend that until I die,” Mr Hernandez Trujillo said of his decision to spend part of his group’s allocation on boxes of computer games. “That’s part of our job, to show the people in Cuba what they could attain if they were not under that system."
Acho que vou ali à Regent Street comprar uma caixa de Godiva.
"Cuban dissidents who were given millions of dollars by the US government to support democracy in their homeland instead blew money on computer games, cashmere sweaters, crabmeat and expensive chocolates, which were then sent to the island".
"The Miami-based Acción Democrática Cubana spent money on a chainsaw, Nintendo Game Boys and Sony PlayStations, mountain bikes, leather coats and Godiva chocolates, which the group says were all sent to Cuba."
"I’ll defend that until I die,” Mr Hernandez Trujillo said of his decision to spend part of his group’s allocation on boxes of computer games. “That’s part of our job, to show the people in Cuba what they could attain if they were not under that system."
Acho que vou ali à Regent Street comprar uma caixa de Godiva.
publicada por bernardo da bernarda às
15:51
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PS - Sou obrigado a usar uma linguagem Marxista: não é para esta alienação que defendemos a democracia.
não...?
Fala por ti...
"Game Boys, cashmere sweaters and crabmeat." Maybe that's the essence of democracy ...
A possibilidade de escolha não é a mesma coisa que o objecto.
Democracy, sponsored by Nike.
Ja agora pergunto-me qual a utilidade de cashmere sweaters em Cuba. Em bom hungaro sou levado a crer que esses trapitos acabam vendidos a turistas no mercado negro, exercendo assim um efeito benefico sobre certos orcamentos familiares na Europa. E porque nao?
Afinal o «butterfly effect» existe mesmo. Quem diria que o governo Bush poderia subsidiar, em 3º grau, famílias europeias?! ;-)
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