- 26 Feb 2020 03:16
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QFT. That sums up the concern the American gov't has demonstrated in the Caribbean Basin. Where have we heard this bullshit before Donna?
I got an old book from 1960. it is called "Listen Yankee"by C. Wright Mills.
It is about why Cuba became what it became....
Yes, the Yankees got nervous in 1960 and within a few years pumped a lot of money into the statehood party. Can't have a colony that wants an independent political life. Because it makes us to look bad, the Yankees thought...so in 1968 the Partido Nuevo Progresista was born. A total misnomer the New Progressive Party. Nothing Progressive about it Donna. The head of the party was a man named Luis A. Ferre. He was the son of Cuban immigrants and French background people of the local bourgeoisie and owned cement factories in Puerto Rico. A very lucrative field to prevent your house from blowing away in the storm.
Anyway his daughter Rosario Ferre a famous writer on the island, became pro independence. She witnessed a lot of conversations about statehood and figured out it was a scam long ago.
In the end? The Yankees still are not interested in democracy for Latin America. They only want coups, death, torture and restriction of rights.
No one is fooled by their thoughts of 'bringing free and fair elections'. BJ is being political. Say some PC thing when he himself doesn't believe it....but he is incredibly smart and knows the force of propaganda....
He should have studied that phrase, "You can fool some of the people some of the time--but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
It is very true. People get sick of the neoliberal lies and manipulations.
Donna wrote:In other words, the neoliberal looting of the commons.
QFT. That sums up the concern the American gov't has demonstrated in the Caribbean Basin. Where have we heard this bullshit before Donna?
I got an old book from 1960. it is called "Listen Yankee"by C. Wright Mills.
It is about why Cuba became what it became....
Yes, the Yankees got nervous in 1960 and within a few years pumped a lot of money into the statehood party. Can't have a colony that wants an independent political life. Because it makes us to look bad, the Yankees thought...so in 1968 the Partido Nuevo Progresista was born. A total misnomer the New Progressive Party. Nothing Progressive about it Donna. The head of the party was a man named Luis A. Ferre. He was the son of Cuban immigrants and French background people of the local bourgeoisie and owned cement factories in Puerto Rico. A very lucrative field to prevent your house from blowing away in the storm.
Anyway his daughter Rosario Ferre a famous writer on the island, became pro independence. She witnessed a lot of conversations about statehood and figured out it was a scam long ago.
In the end? The Yankees still are not interested in democracy for Latin America. They only want coups, death, torture and restriction of rights.
No one is fooled by their thoughts of 'bringing free and fair elections'. BJ is being political. Say some PC thing when he himself doesn't believe it....but he is incredibly smart and knows the force of propaganda....
He should have studied that phrase, "You can fool some of the people some of the time--but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
It is very true. People get sick of the neoliberal lies and manipulations.
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en cada corazón,
en cada soledad.
Silvio Rodriguez