Lautaro previously said:



soydeicampo, I'll put it easy for you. Of our western neighbours, which is better off, communist Cuba or capitalist Haiti? I'm letting Jamaica out of this because, for better or for worse, that island is still a semi-colony of the Downing-Street cabinet.

AfroLatino previously said:

Many of you keep going back and forth with this and have yet given any good educative information about Col. Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deñó so that those who do not know about him can. Instead of rambling on, why not provide worthy solid links to debate this?

The one pure mistake always made by people posting on this site is that they never can help themselves not to project their own passionate subjectivity on a matter. I mean this constant circular verbal masturbation....

Manhattanite previously said:



I don't mean for this to be offensive, but I would argue Haiti never made it far past the semi-feudal status it had as a French colony. Calling it a capitalist economy is a stretch, just like calling a 'government' with no armed forces a state is a stretch.

Lautaro previously said:



I don't mind it at all, Papaupa. I agree with you 100%, some fools are so partisan that they believe that every movement that Castro supported have to have the condition of being communist, not knowing that Castro's aim is not to expand the cuban system, but to spite the US establishment, so every movement that ran counter with it is ok on his book. Heck, he even gave support for the black power movement on the US for God's sake and many national liberation movements on the African continent that were far from spousing the communist cause.

Manhattanite previously said:



Wow, talk about the pot calling the kettle black (pun intended). Afro you are the definition of a poster caught up in his passionate subjectivity and ramblings. By the way very little on the public internet is a proper reference. How in the world is a google search objective when no one can objectively explain to you how they sort their results? Information on the internet is generally worth what you paid for it...nil. Hearing the opinions of others, even just youthful recollections or hearsay from family, is much more interesting in terms of a forum than a pretend debate with links of dubious value.

As for my opinion of Caamaño from what little I have read he doesn't strike me as a terribly notable individual. It's commendable that he put forth effort to topple Balaguer but he seems to have failed spectacularly. Also it sounds like he was at the very least flirting with far left philosophy, and even if you agree with it you must admit that it would only have brought DR more bloody trouble from the US if we had veered too far down that path.

AfroLatino previously said:

Generoso asked: What gives you the right to claim your information is better than anyone's else's?
You replied: Never said that.

Generoso asked: Where you in Ciudad Nueva in 1965?
You replied: Yes I was.

Generoso asked: Did you know Coronel Caamaño or Montes Arache?
You replied: Not personally.

Generoso asked: Why can't you be an American and a Dominican as well?
You replied: You can. I am

Generoso went on saying: "The Dominican Civil war was a sorry chapter in history for Dominican brothers to have to fight each other over politicians. I think the whole thing could have been avoided...

The same as for the US Civil War in 1861-65 that killed and maimed thousands. All wars are deeply a failure to dialogue and communicate or excess greed. I will end with one story. There is nothing more frightening than having bullets whizing by you from all sides and from the skies as well. Do you know when a plane is coming at you "head on" that you don't hear the clakety clak of the machine guns until he goes by? There is nothing more humiliating than watching an uninvited guest foreign army come in and stop the fight and take sides to tilt the balance the wrong way. The US invasion was totally uncalled for and an abuse of power because the US forces were partial to the side against the Constitucionalistas. The curious thing is that most of the units that came to DR first like the 82nd Airborne the 101st and the 1st Marine Division were later sent to Vietnam were they were later expelled by the VC."

You replied: Don't know if this post is directed at me but let me answer you, just in case. I agree wth you, 100%, with everything else you wrote.


So my question to you is: Knowing obviously 1965 was not your actual birth year and it would have taken for you to have at least been old enough in terms of age to have remembered by your own recollection the story of Col. Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deñó and all. So with that being said, I am simply asking...

How old exactly were you at that time in 1965?

TuPapaupa previously said:

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat, you took me off ignore?.

I am honored. Jaja.

Why do you want to know my age?.

I don't care to know yours or about you.

Had it been anybody else, other than you, I would answer.

Let's just say I know a thing or two about Dominican history. Not an expert, but a thing or two.

History, in general, is my passion.

Now do me a favor, princess, PUT ME BACK ON IGNORE!.

Thank you, thank you very much.