Donna wrote:Good to hear. The Cuban Revolution was a beautiful thing that inspired workers, Indigenous peoples and former slaves everywhere in the Americas. The 26th of July Movement proved that the socialist revolution could be brought to the empire's doorstep. La historia me absolverá, Comrade Fidel cried out. Absolved he shall be!
Donna, I always ask the Cuban exiles who show up on PoFo? What should the Cuban people have done? Accept the American banks exploiting, Lucky Luciano, Batista dictatorship, do nothing, it is good and dandy.
Please.....they wanted a revolution where the rich retained their money, the guajiros kept on working the land for nothing in wage increases, some kind of cheap imitation of American style democracy? What did that get Puerto Rico in the present day 61 years after the Cuban Revolution? By being America's showcase colony in the Caribbean? NOWHERE. Damn American interfering idiots like usual, made some fake pro statehood party....people voting for an option that the Americans are not willing to grant to keep us being led by the nose about promises of prosperity and the American Dream Bullshit? It doesn't work!
What should the Cubans have done with those Americans who just said, "You can't rule your own nation. We have control." If they lose control? What would have Cuba looked like after the Bay of Pigs if it was successful? Puerto Rico? And that colonial disaster from hell?
No, the Cubans are not living with big bucks in the bank for sure. But they got their DIGNITY. They have EDUCATED people and they got FUTURES. Not drug wars, crime, opoiod pill popping and people dying like flies, working three jobs worried about end's meet. Or no running water running from the hills to find electricity and water that is potable. Shutting down clinics and hospitals and letting the dead pile up in the morgues....corrupt colonial boot licking horrors for conservative politicians from Puerto Rico making comments for 900 plus pages and getting their butts kicked out of office due to lack of ethics.
Castro Communists. We convince them with our Yankee wonders. Cubans we will make you all rich and middle class, malls in every corner, fast food chains in Havana, and capitalism at last. People with brand new appliances, brand new cars and air conditioning in every school. Like we do in Puerto Rico...the success story.
No one is buying that shit story. Not in Havana and not in San Juan.