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"La patria es de todos" is a phrase often used by dissidents groups within Cuba. Loosely translated it means our nation is for all. This of course implies that Cuba should be open to all; that free expression and liberty to dissent should hold for all.

I would be the last one to disagree with this idea, however there are several things we have to consider and be careful with before we totally embrace such a lovely slogan.

It is not sheer coincidence that the expression "la patria es de todo" is the same one used by Miami "exile" groups; some of them extreme right and even terrorist in nature. To me this beautiful expression, loses it's validity and it's beauty when it comes out of the mouth of the Miami exile. For this expression is often cited over the radio - often transmitted to Cuba - by the groups and the spokesmen of the organizations that day after day transmit misinformation and filth about the government and the Cuban people.

These that shout "la patria es de todos" are the same ones that incite the people to rebel and betray their nation, the same ones that support an embargo against their own people, support foreign laws that go against their own sovereignty, the same ones that try to sabotage the Cuban economy by inciting Cubans to stone tourists, the same who try with the aid of their master uncle Sam to stop foreign investment in the island, the same who incite people not to visit nor send money to relatives to the island, the ones who have said over Miami radio that when they take over there will be 3 days of blood, the same that have never sent a nickel to help their brothers when for example, a hurricane has struck - while other nations have sent aid.

We will see how a group of so called dissidents not only associated themselves with recalcitrant and extreme right "exile" groups in Miami, collaborating with groups that have ties to terrorist groups, but calling them brothers, embracing the same agenda as the exiles; that is the destruction of the Socialist government, followed by the imposition of the old masters, that is the Batistianos and the bourgeoisie, all of course under the direction of the U.S.

On March 1999, four so called dissidents, Vladimiro Roca, Martha Beatriz Roque, Felix Antonio Carcasses and Rene de Jesus Gomez Manzano were tried for conspiring with the enemy, the enemy in Miami and the U.S.

In general terms those exiles who send and those who receive money have the similar views, but upon receiving the aid those may adopt a posture of indifference before the national crisis.

We would like to direct ourselves to those who support their families, and insist that they be firm in demanding that their families (recipients of monies sent) join the peaceful battle for change; and that such actions would help greatly those who have undertaking this role.

If the recipients would leave the masses and stop supporting the regime, stop attending the political rallies, stop voting in communist elections in which nothing is chosen - although it is not mandatory, that would be of great worth in the battle we are fighting to bring about change.

One of the most extremist Cuban-American right winger, Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart, who supports the U.S. economic war against Cuba and who staunchly supports anti Cuban laws like the Toricelli act and Helms Burton, eulogized this group. In a press conference on Radio Marti, with the radio commentator called the dissidents agenda an excellent idea, and added that family members sending money insist that their families in Cuba do 3 things:

In an interview, with Radio Marti, the announcer welcomes Vladimiro Roca as the President of the Social Democratic Party and as the promoter of the boycott of elections.

Vladimiro Roca: One of the first tasks was to ask our brothers in exile is to ask those who send money to their relatives, to pressure those relatives not to vote, in order to accelerate the democracy process, to exhort those who receive money to do something for a change. It is an easy thing not to vote.