Also Harm America!!
The photo above and the one that follows are courtesy of Elio Delgado Valdes and Havana Times.org. This week a stairwell collapsed in the building on the right in Havana. No one was injured but a concerned crowd congregated, including Cubans and some tourists. Those of us who have been to Cuba have seen many buildings such as this one that are badly in need of repair on the island. A handful of rich and powerful anti-Cuban propagandists and benefactors in the United States never fail to use incidents and photos such as this to assail Revolutionary Cuba while, in a more sane and fair milieu, those who should be assailed are the nefarious and gutless propagandists-benefactors, as well as the gutless cowards in the United States who allow them to reshape the United States democracy to fulfill their asinine, self-serving Cuban agendas. Currently the international condemnation of America's Cuban policy is expressed in unanimity with a 191-to-0 vote in the United Nations. A handful of anti-Cuban propagandists-benefactors in the U. S. -- hiding behind the skirts of the world superpower -- can ignore that worldwide denunciation because the majority of Americans in this particular generation are quite possibly the stupidest, the most cowardly and the most unpatriotic generation in America's very prominent and mostly proud history.
This photo shows Cuban workers trying to rehabilitate that building in Havana where the stairwell collapsed this week. But they will mostly have to use outdated band-aides instead of suitable material and machinery. You see, two generations of a handful of Cuban-American remnants from the overthrown Batista-Mafia dictatorship have dictated, since 1959, America's Cuban policies. That cruel and undemocratic dictation has been greased by two things: {1} Unholy alliances with such entities as the Bush dynasty and the Tea Party; {2} the cowardice and lack of patriotism from the majority of America's citizens.
Americans are insouciantly programmed to deny that the above Carlos LaTuff graphic correctly defines America's Cuban policy, the policy that currently has that 191-to-0 international denunciation at the UN. Except for millions of propagandized Americans, the rest of the world realizes that America's Cuban policy shames America and harms America's worldwide reputation on a consistent basis more than any other issue, and that's saying a lot considering that Cuba is merely a nearby island. From 1962 until today the U. S. has imposed on Cuba the longest and cruelest economic embargo ever inflicted on a small nation by a large and powerful nation. Mr. LaTuff in Brazil understands that, as do other fair-minded citizens around the world. To put such an embargo in perspective, put...say...Canada in Cuba's place. Canada is a rich nation on America's northern border and its huge ally and primary trading partner is the United States. BUT WHAT IF, from 1962 till today, THE U.S. HAD IMPOSED A CRUEL AND ENDLESS ECONOMIC EMBARGO ON CANADA INSTEAD OF HELPING CANADA BECOME A RICH AND THRIVING NATION??? If that had relentlessly happened to Canada for all those decades, I believe Canada would have either capitulated long ago OR been brought to its knees about half-way through such an abominable assault on its sovereignty. If you doubt that, you are ignoring what little Cuba has been forced to deal with...such as the unique economic and military power of the U. S. that not only enforces the embargo against Cuba but ALSO is powerful enough to impose penalties against OTHER NATIONS if they dare try to treat Cuba decently.
The Carlos LaTuff graphic depicted above accurately describes the United States embargo of Cuba. The fact that it is unending reflects the cowardice and lack of patriotism of millions of Americans who inspired LaTuff's descriptive masterpiece, one that daily flashes around the world several times to severely damage America's image while also soliciting wild cheers from America's major international enemies.
Beginning in 1952, American businessmen like Edmund Chester and the American Mafia relished having a two-bit army-sergeant named Fulgencio Batista as the thieving and for sale dictator of Cuba.
From 1952 till the crack of dawn on Jan. 1-1959, U. S. businessmen along with Mafia kingpins like Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky along with their pal Fulgencio Batista raped and robbed Cuba at will.
Meanwhile, the majority peasants on the island of Cuba, like this mother and her two children, were left to try to survive in dire poverty, with the power-brokers in Havana and Washington totally unconcerned.
And meanwhile, while the Batista dictatorship in Cuba was raping and robbing the island at will beginning in 1952, Batista himself {on the left in this photo} was being squired in convertibles around Washington and hailed by the Eisenhower administration at lavish White House parties as "a great American friend in the Caribbean." HE SURE AS HELL WAS...a "great friend" of the American Mafia, greedy American businessmen and bought-and-paid-for American politicians!! And all the while two post-World War II generations of Americans have not cared enough to challenge their Cuban-addicted, anti-democracy ills.
A 99-pound, child-loving doctor's daughter named Celia Sanchez emerged as the greatest anti-Batista guerrilla fighter and a bold revolution's greatest recruiter of rebels and supplies. By the time Batista had already placed his all-time largest bounty on her head, Celia's revolution by the start of 1957 was finally joined by some famed macho men -- the Castro brothers, Che Guevara, etc. Cuba's top historian, Pedro Alvarez Tabio, thus correctly stated: "If Batista had managed to kill Celia Sanchez anytime between 1953 and 1959, there would have been no viable Cuban Revolution, and no revolution for Fidel and Che to join." After her victorious Cuban Revolution, from Jan.1-1959 till her death from cancer on Jan.11-1980 Celia Sanchez -- despite massive and continuous assaults from the U. S. government and the revengeful transplanted Batistianos -- laid down the parameters that she deemed most propitious for the island's children.
Fully cognizant of the fact that Batista's Cuba had left the majority peasants illiterate and in dire poverty without heath-care, Revolutionary Cuba under Celia Sanchez's guidance quickly introduced a program in which thousands of Cuban women who could read and write, like those above, were sent across the island to educate and assist the long-maligned peasant families. If Americans don't know about such things as Celia Sanchez and her "Cuban Literacy Campaign, that is understandable because the machismo-fueled and revengeful Batistianos in the U. S. since 1959 surely don't want Americans to know about the leading role the 99-pound doctor's daughter had in reshaping Batista's Cuba into Revolutionary Cuba. Vilifying macho men like Castro was/is a lot easier than vilifying an angelic female guerrilla fighter. But, please understand, Cuba's children since 1959 have benefited from the historic greatness of Celia Sanchez as well as the topical greatness of Celia-disciples on the island today -- such as the child-loving Rosy Amaro Perez.
This photo is courtesy of Rosy Amaro Perez. It shows four little girls in today's Revolutionary Cuba. They are much-loved and well cared for and, yes, that is a typical and key aspect of Revolutionary Cuba in sharp contrast to Batista's Cuba. While there are buildings and other infrastructure in Cuba today that are badly in need of modern repair, thanks largely to the embargo and other Batistiano-imposed U. S. policies, Cuban children like these are prioritized with island-wide love and its limited resources. They are guaranteed free and excellent healthcare for life; free and excellent educations through college; etc. Just last week, after another exhaustive examination of Cuban families, the top United Nations child-monitor -- a lady named Maria Grazia Giammarinaro -- lavished praise on Cuba for its emphasis on child welfare and for working closely with the U. S. and the UN on combating human and sexual trafficking, which the U. S. State Department also recently confirmed. While America's Batistiano-imposed Cuban laws prevent the island's participation in international banking, the World Bank praised Cuba for the "exceedingly high percentage" of its resources devoted to education and healthcare on the island. The World Health Organization and the Pan Am Health Organization have also recently reiterated such praise. Of course, the mainstream U. S. media is not brave enough to report or discuss such praise for Cuba, perhaps because of such things as a brave Cuban-American newsman named Emilio Milian getting car-bombed in Miami in 1976 when he expressed concern about Batistiano-fueled terrorist acts against totally innocent Cubans.
Cuban women and mothers all across the island of Cuba, like Rosy Amaro Perez, work tirelessly everyday on behalf of Cuban children. And Cuban women like Rosy don't deserve to be targeted and vilified endlessly by a handful of rich, powerful and self-servicing men and women in a rich, powerful and self-serving neighboring country. Rosy Amaro Perez is not the bad guy. Her enemies are the bad guys.
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