To the Catholic leaders who wish to help the Cuban people, my prayers, too, that you would realize the evil that has descended upon our country and the Church. Your purpose is to save souls, not to be used as pawns for the Devil
Growing up as a child of conservative parents in a Catholic environment, today, after 53 years living in the USA, I find a new world that is upside down. When Fidel Castro came to Cuba, soon after there were rumors of the government takeover of private schools. I was sent as a young teen to the USA via the Pedro Pan program to live with cousins of my mother in Tampa, Florida. It was to be a temporary situation, just until the government in Cuba changed to a democracy. After all these years, Cuba is still a communist country but it is the USA that has changed.
The Obama promise of "a radical transformation of America" is being accomplished in a blatant disregard for our constitution and our laws, and no one seems to do anything about it. Apparently not being called racist by the liberal press is more important to our elites in government and society than to save our country. Where are you going, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell? Are you still that blind? This President is lawless and intends to destroy our nation.
Not only it is the USA becoming a Marxist tyranny under President Obama, but even the Catholic Church leader, Pope Francis, is helping out in achieving it. What makes this Pope think he can meddle in the politics of an independent country? And this from a person who has no idea of economics, history, and what communism has done to humanity. Does he not understand that being a "do-gooder" without knowledge always ends up in disaster for those they wish to help? Father Jonathan of Fox News is happy for the Cuban people ---- really? For what? Nothing will change for them. There is no embargo. This is another scam perpetrated by the Marxist media and the billionaire thugs, just like Global Warming. Cuba has been for years able to trade freely with every other country in the world. In addition, the USA trades with Cuba, but on a limited basis. The problem has always been credit the Cuban government demands when trading. Just ask those countries that have traded with Cuba and never got paid. But, now, thanks to Speaker Boehner, Obama will have the funds to help out the communist Cuban government.
And help it is! Cuba is close to complete economic meltdown. It can no longer rely on Russia because it has its own economic problems. And Venezuela's economy is suffering due to the decrease in oil prices. Cuba had been relying on Venezuela providing oil to just survive. Not to worry, Castro boys; Obama comes to the rescue! He will never let down one of his own comrades. After all, too few communist countries are left and Obama needs friends. In addition, the Chamber of Commerce can never turn down a good scam, just like with illegal aliens. As money from tourists and exported goods reach Cuba, the Castro brothers and their friends will become richer and more powerful while the Cuban workers will continue to be paid in cheap pesos.
To the Americans who so much desire to travel to Cuba, my sincere prayers that you would realize what your money would do to your country before you start packing that suitcase. Life is really not about pleasure, but about love & sacrifice for your fellow human beings in this world.
To the Catholic leaders who wish to help the Cuban people, my prayers, too, that you would realize the evil that has descended upon our country and the Church. Your purpose is to save souls, not to be used as pawns for the Devil.
These are very dangerous times, indeed; black is white, up is down, and right is wrong. "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil, who change darkness into light, and light into darkness, who change bitter into sweet, and sweet into bitter! Isaiah 5:20
Elvira Fernandez Hasty was born in La Habana, Cuba, to immigrants from Spain. She attended a private Catholic school for women, French Dominicans School, until the age of fifteen. At that time, the Castro regime militia invaded her home one night in order to question her 20 year old sister, Rose, about her involvement in “counter-revolution” at the University. After some months of anguish, my father arranged for Rose to obtain diplomatic protection from the country of Honduras, and the decision was also made to send me away before confiscation of private schools by the communist government. My sister flew to Honduras under the protection of the Ambassador on January 24, 1961, while I left the country for Florida the next day via the Pedro Pan organization that was formed to protect Cuban children from Marxist indoctrination.
After finishing high school in Florida and working at an electric company billing department, Elvira continued her studies at St. Mary College in Kansas. She graduated cum laude with a BS in Chemistry and later received her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana, IL. Dr. Hasty spent twenty years in college teaching and research, becoming Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chairperson at Mundelein College in Chicago.
In 1997, Elvira and her husband James, moved to Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, where she currently resides. She has been politically active since then, first in the Republican Party and lately in her own conservative organization, Ponte Vedra Conservative Women, a group of conservative women concerned about the future of our country. We are united by our common desire to preserve our Constitution, the principles of our Founding Fathers, and our Judeo/Christian values.
