Comments on: The CIA in Solidarity with Cuba http://www.thebadrash.com/2006/08/09/the-cia-in-solidarity-with-cuba/ A blog from Barcelona, Catalonia, covering politics, culture, society and more Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:18:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Percocet.http://www.thebadrash.com/2006/08/09/the-cia-in-solidarity-with-cuba/#comment-87220 Percocet. Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:46:40 +0000 http://thebadrash.com/?p=536#comment-87220 <strong>Percocet....</strong> Percocet.... Percocet….

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]]> By: icq13219http://www.thebadrash.com/2006/08/09/the-cia-in-solidarity-with-cuba/#comment-25686 icq13219 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:22:46 +0000 http://thebadrash.com/?p=536#comment-25686 wow :) its very reasonable point of view. Nice post. realy good post thx :-) wow :)
its very reasonable point of view.
Nice post.
realy good post

thx :-)

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]]> By: 2006 in review at thebadrash.comhttp://www.thebadrash.com/2006/08/09/the-cia-in-solidarity-with-cuba/#comment-434 2006 in review at thebadrash.com Sun, 17 Dec 2006 17:16:55 +0000 http://thebadrash.com/?p=536#comment-434 [...] Two thousand and six has been a pretty eventful year, politically and personally. While for me, the most important event was my wedding to Gemma at the end of September, numerous moments featuring Lt Gen Aguado, Spain Herald, Reial Madrid, FC Barcelona and Solidaridad Española Con Cuba have added spice, and traffic, to the site. [...] [...] Two thousand and six has been a pretty eventful year, politically and personally. While for me, the most important event was my wedding to Gemma at the end of September, numerous moments featuring Lt Gen Aguado, Spain Herald, Reial Madrid, FC Barcelona and Solidaridad Española Con Cuba have added spice, and traffic, to the site. [...]

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]]> By: Tomhttp://www.thebadrash.com/2006/08/09/the-cia-in-solidarity-with-cuba/#comment-433 Tom Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:00:24 +0000 http://thebadrash.com/?p=536#comment-433 My apologies: Arlington, VA is not the home of the CIA. Arlington is the location of the Pentagon. The CIA is based in Langley which is some distance away. My apologies: Arlington, VA is not the home of the CIA. Arlington is the location of the Pentagon.

The CIA is based in Langley which is some distance away.

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]]> By: Tomhttp://www.thebadrash.com/2006/08/09/the-cia-in-solidarity-with-cuba/#comment-432 Tom Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:58:55 +0000 http://thebadrash.com/?p=536#comment-432 For those of you who are interested, here's what I managed to glean about Ricardo Carreras Lario: Aged 34, he lives in Arlington, Virginia (home of the CIA) and works for The Rendon Group. He also runs Solidaridad Española Con Cuba, a business which poses as a non-governmental organisation, and several 'consulting' firms which names like 'Latin Analysis' and 'Analysis Internacional'. All of these businesses have attractive websites built with the same template. He contributes occasional articles to Libertad Digital, the online newsletter of the madder fringes of Spain's far-right wing. He is the co-author of the free 'Solidarity Tourist Guide to Cuba'. He was arrested and interviewed for four hours last year in Havana, something which he still complains about to this day. He loves writing press releases about himself, or about his feeble little websites. Ricardo Carreras Lario has no hair on his round head save for two very dark eyebrows. He doesn't work for the CIA, but he probably wishes he did. For those of you who are interested, here's what I managed to glean about Ricardo Carreras Lario:

Aged 34, he lives in Arlington, Virginia (home of the CIA) and works for The Rendon Group. He also runs Solidaridad Española Con Cuba, a business which poses as a non-governmental organisation, and several 'consulting' firms which names like 'Latin Analysis' and 'Analysis Internacional'. All of these businesses have attractive websites built with the same template.

He contributes occasional articles to Libertad Digital, the online newsletter of the madder fringes of Spain's far-right wing. He is the co-author of the free 'Solidarity Tourist Guide to Cuba'.

He was arrested and interviewed for four hours last year in Havana, something which he still complains about to this day. He loves writing press releases about himself, or about his feeble little websites.

Ricardo Carreras Lario has no hair on his round head save for two very dark eyebrows. He doesn't work for the CIA, but he probably wishes he did.

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]]> By: Tomhttp://www.thebadrash.com/2006/08/09/the-cia-in-solidarity-with-cuba/#comment-431 Tom Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:06:06 +0000 http://thebadrash.com/?p=536#comment-431 Normally, I'm far more polite... it's just that sometimes, the <i>mot juste</i> can seem a little indelicate. Anyway, I never said that you were a prick, just that you sound like one. A pompous one, at that. For the last time, which part of what I wrote do you actually deny? You have made a pathetic attempt to use the weakest rhetoric I've ever witnessed as your method for avoiding the key points of my story. The last time I underwent this ordeal was when I allegedly insulted some moronic pseudo-economist who writes for that bastion of hateful slander, Libertad Digital. So I checked you out, Ricardo... and guess what? You write for them too. I'm not some idiot who gets scared when 'the big boys' come and tell me off. I have absolutely no respect for you, nor do I give a fig whether you ever visit this site again. Normally, I'm far more polite… it's just that sometimes, the mot juste can seem a little indelicate. Anyway, I never said that you were a prick, just that you sound like one. A pompous one, at that.

For the last time, which part of what I wrote do you actually deny? You have made a pathetic attempt to use the weakest rhetoric I've ever witnessed as your method for avoiding the key points of my story. The last time I underwent this ordeal was when I allegedly insulted some moronic pseudo-economist who writes for that bastion of hateful slander, Libertad Digital. So I checked you out, Ricardo… and guess what? You write for them too.

I'm not some idiot who gets scared when 'the big boys' come and tell me off. I have absolutely no respect for you, nor do I give a fig whether you ever visit this site again.

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]]> By: Spanish Solidarity with Cubahttp://www.thebadrash.com/2006/08/09/the-cia-in-solidarity-with-cuba/#comment-430 Spanish Solidarity with Cuba Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:27:36 +0000 http://thebadrash.com/?p=536#comment-430 You should have apologized to us. Instead of that, you recur to insults because you are left without arguments. That is what impolite children do. You are even less mature than I thought you were. I will not write anything else on this blog, where the blogger insults participants. Those are your final and strongest arguments: Idiot and prick You should have apologized to us.
Instead of that, you recur to insults because you are left without arguments.
That is what impolite children do.
You are even less mature than I thought you were.
I will not write anything else on this blog, where the blogger insults participants.

Those are your final and strongest arguments:
Idiot and prick

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]]> By: Tomhttp://www.thebadrash.com/2006/08/09/the-cia-in-solidarity-with-cuba/#comment-429 Tom Mon, 14 Aug 2006 02:50:33 +0000 http://thebadrash.com/?p=536#comment-429 Yeah thanks but you sound like a prick. Come up with some evidence or something. Idiot. Yeah thanks but you sound like a prick. Come up with some evidence or something. Idiot.

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]]> By: Spanish Solidarity with Cubahttp://www.thebadrash.com/2006/08/09/the-cia-in-solidarity-with-cuba/#comment-428 Spanish Solidarity with Cuba Sun, 13 Aug 2006 22:42:17 +0000 http://thebadrash.com/?p=536#comment-428 Tom, This is the President of Spanish Solidarity with Cuba. EVERY one of the points you propose is either false or inexact. It is absolutely IRRESPONSIBLE of you to make those claims in your blog without proof or evidence of anything. The basis of your deduction are all flawed. All of it. You do not even get my name treatment right (you should know by now that in Spain we have two family names and the Sr. is followed by the first, not the second). The deduction process is also completely flawed. Even if the basis was right -which is not- the conclusion does not follow. AND we do aim at everyone, including US citizens, not just Spanish citizens. Your claim is the usual one we get from diffferent media controlled by the Cuban dictatorship. We do not usually answer to any of the rubbish they publish but I answer to your appalling comments because I think you are irresponsible but I do not think you are an agent of the Cuban political police. Although following your deduction process I should, because: 1) Dictator Castro and his suporters claim that anybody that disagrees with him, including political opposition and defenders of human rights, are connected with the CIA 2) You claim the same thing about us, because we support human solidarity with people promoting human rights in Cuba 3) Therefore, by your deduction standards, you are an agent or on the payroll of the Cuban political police. Easy, isn´t it? Now if I were you, enjoying freedom of expression I would publish this on our website (which gets now 1000 visits per day) and let the world now my discovery. Wonderful, isn´t it? Do not worry, Tom. I am not that irresponsible. To struggle for human rights and to express solidarity with human beings suffering for their ideas in their own country is not easy. We face a dictatorship with powerful resources, on a day to day basis. It is much easier to discredit and slander a pro-human rights NGO and myself, even though you know basically very little about us or myself. Please respect us and yourself and show some dignity supporting people that suffer greatly for defending the kind of human rights and democracy you enjoy in Barcelona or your home country. And instead of sitting in your nice chair writing this kind of staff, go inside Cuba and express solidarity with those human beings, not once but several times, at your own risk, like some of us have done -something you would know with a little bit more of research. That would make you a better and more mature human being, and would increase your level of knowledge and awareness of the Cuban situation and your respect and admiration for those people. It may also decrease your respect for the dictator. Otherwise do the same thing in any other cause you believe, and let us express our solidarity with the real Cuban heroes. Tom,

This is the President of Spanish Solidarity with Cuba.
EVERY one of the points you propose is either false or inexact.
It is absolutely IRRESPONSIBLE of you to make those claims in your blog without proof or evidence of anything.
The basis of your deduction are all flawed. All of it.
You do not even get my name treatment right (you should know by now that in Spain we have two family names and the Sr. is followed by the first, not the second).
The deduction process is also completely flawed. Even if the basis was right -which is not- the conclusion does not follow.

AND we do aim at everyone, including US citizens, not just Spanish citizens.

Your claim is the usual one we get from diffferent media controlled by the Cuban dictatorship. We do not usually answer to any of the rubbish they publish but I answer to your appalling comments because I think you are irresponsible but I do not think you are an agent of the Cuban political police.

Although following your deduction process I should, because:

1) Dictator Castro and his suporters claim that anybody that disagrees with him, including political opposition and defenders of human rights, are connected with the CIA
2) You claim the same thing about us, because we support human solidarity with people promoting human rights in Cuba
3) Therefore, by your deduction standards, you are an agent or on the payroll of the Cuban political police.
Easy, isn´t it? Now if I were you, enjoying freedom of expression I would publish this on our website (which gets now 1000 visits per day) and let the world now my discovery. Wonderful, isn´t it?
Do not worry, Tom. I am not that irresponsible.
To struggle for human rights and to express solidarity with human beings suffering for their ideas in their own country is not easy. We face a dictatorship with powerful resources, on a day to day basis.

It is much easier to discredit and slander a pro-human rights NGO and myself, even though you know basically very little about us or myself.

Please respect us and yourself and show some dignity supporting people that suffer greatly for defending the kind of human rights and democracy you enjoy in Barcelona or your home country.

And instead of sitting in your nice chair writing this kind of staff, go inside Cuba and express solidarity with those human beings, not once but several times, at your own risk, like some of us have done -something you would know with a little bit more of research.

That would make you a better and more mature human being, and would increase your level of knowledge and awareness of the Cuban situation and your respect and admiration for those people. It may also decrease your respect for the dictator.

Otherwise do the same thing in any other cause you believe, and let us express our solidarity with the real Cuban heroes.

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]]> By: Tomhttp://www.thebadrash.com/2006/08/09/the-cia-in-solidarity-with-cuba/#comment-427 Tom Sun, 13 Aug 2006 00:36:44 +0000 http://thebadrash.com/?p=536#comment-427 It\'s all there to read (check out the links). If you\'re so naïve about the possibility of the CIA breaking (or bending) United States laws, especially given that supporting SECC <strong>would not contravene US law, given that it is aimed at SPANISH CITIZENS</strong>, then I\'m really not the one to help you. Oh, and you think it\'s difficult to \'run a Spanish NGO\' and reside in the USA? This website is written in Barcelona, hosted in California and served by machines all around the world. You\'re viewing it. How hard can it be to do the same with any other website? On the other hand: do yo have any documentary evidence that any point I\'ve proposed is inaccurate? Do you have something to share, some special knowledge? Thanks for your comment though. It\'s all there to read (check out the links).

If you\'re so naïve about the possibility of the CIA breaking (or bending) United States laws, especially given that supporting SECC would not contravene US law, given that it is aimed at SPANISH CITIZENS, then I\'m really not the one to help you. Oh, and you think it\'s difficult to \'run a Spanish NGO\' and reside in the USA? This website is written in Barcelona, hosted in California and served by machines all around the world. You\'re viewing it. How hard can it be to do the same with any other website?
On the other hand: do yo have any documentary evidence that any point I\'ve proposed is inaccurate? Do you have something to share, some special knowledge?

Thanks for your comment though.

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]]> By: charleshttp://www.thebadrash.com/2006/08/09/the-cia-in-solidarity-with-cuba/#comment-426 charles Sat, 12 Aug 2006 22:00:04 +0000 http://thebadrash.com/?p=536#comment-426 Tom "Sherlock Holmes", two questions that haunt me: 1) Solidaridad Española con Cuba promotes solidarity tourism to Cuba. The CIA belongs to the US government. The official policy of the US government is that travel to Cuba only helps the Castro regime and actually the US government bans US citizens traveling to Cuba. Would it make sense that any of the branches of the US government support this Spanish NGO in contradiction with US policies??? Are they that cracy? 2) How can this guy run an NGO from Spain if he lives in the US and works for the company you mention??? Google (in Spanish) is full of quotes, interviews, and a lot of staff on him. How can he do that from the US? Does he have a twin brother? Tom "Sherlock Holmes", two questions that haunt me:

1) Solidaridad Española con Cuba promotes solidarity tourism to Cuba. The CIA belongs to the US government. The official policy of the US government is that travel to Cuba only helps the Castro regime and actually the US government bans US citizens traveling to Cuba. Would it make sense that any of the branches of the US government support this Spanish NGO in contradiction with US policies???
Are they that cracy?

2) How can this guy run an NGO from Spain if he lives in the US and works for the company you mention???
Google (in Spanish) is full of quotes, interviews, and a lot of staff on him. How can he do that from the US? Does he have a twin brother?

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]]> By: guirilandiahttp://www.thebadrash.com/2006/08/09/the-cia-in-solidarity-with-cuba/#comment-425 guirilandia Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:58:25 +0000 http://thebadrash.com/?p=536#comment-425 follow the dollars follow the dollars

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]]> By: Tomhttp://www.thebadrash.com/2006/08/09/the-cia-in-solidarity-with-cuba/#comment-424 Tom Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:23:31 +0000 http://thebadrash.com/?p=536#comment-424 Good to see you back, by the way. Good to see you back, by the way.

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]]> By: Tomhttp://www.thebadrash.com/2006/08/09/the-cia-in-solidarity-with-cuba/#comment-423 Tom Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:19:47 +0000 http://thebadrash.com/?p=536#comment-423 Ha! Well then we get into the realm of counter-conspiracy... the CIA has allegedly funded groups who supported Castro, as well as those who oppose him. I guess it's the best situation to be in: paying all the pipers, as it were. Ha! Well then we get into the realm of counter-conspiracy… the CIA has allegedly funded groups who supported Castro, as well as those who oppose him. I guess it's the best situation to be in: paying all the pipers, as it were.

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]]> By: guirilandiahttp://www.thebadrash.com/2006/08/09/the-cia-in-solidarity-with-cuba/#comment-422 guirilandia Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:11:05 +0000 http://thebadrash.com/?p=536#comment-422 Since Castro’s supposedly a millionaire I bet he could Rendon and Co. to do some strategic consulting on their side. Or does the Rendon group have an ideological platform? nahh, doubt it amazing the stuff you can glean off the internet Since Castro’s supposedly a millionaire I bet he could Rendon and Co. to do some strategic consulting on their side. Or does the Rendon group have an ideological platform? nahh, doubt it

amazing the stuff you can glean off the internet

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