Thanks for passing all of this along. What good Latinist wouldn't
recognize this as humor? It's OK to laugh in spite of (or because of) the
sad condtions in Cuba and in the US. Over the years I've heard this same
theme proposed many times. Only the producing country changes; never the
consuming country.
Tom Miles
Latin American Trade Council of Oregon
tmiles@agora.rdrop.com
On Thu, 13 Apr 1995, Gerardo Otero wrote:
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> >From M.CONROY@fordfound.org Thu Apr 13 09:15:05 1995
> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 09:24:00 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Michael Conroy <M.CONROY@fordfound.org>
> Subject: Cuba fakery
> To: "'Gerardo Otero'" <otero@sfu.ca>
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> Gerardo...
>
> I can't respond directly to the LASNET, because I'm using a system other
> than the one on which I first subscribed, but you should pass this on to the
> rest of the LASNETeros.
>
> The Cuba and marijuana story was a complete fake, including the fake (AP)
> registry. I sent an unkind note to the person who created it... his/her
> address is on the original message... and received a smug, snide response
> alleging, essentially, that "no one with any sense could have believed that
> it was real." Unfortunately, I deleted it, in anger, before I could
> forward it.
>
> This is unfortunately one of the problems with both unmoderated fora and
> with the ease with which one can fake authenticity in this medium. I hope
> that someone will call this fakery to the attention of the AP, whose lawyers
> ought to find it very interesting.
>
> Mike Conroy
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