Posted on 08/15/2015 11:51:45 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
As Kyle Drennen pointed out yesterday, the major networks almost completely avoided any coverage of dissidents when reporting on the American flag being raised at the newly-reopened U.S. embassy in Havana. However, there was one report at CNN that stood out in sharp contrast to their reticence to criticize the Castro regime. That was the report by Jake Tapper on The Lead in which he provided an in-depth interview with one of the leading Cuban dissidents.
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LSM werent there to investigate the torture?
I”m not a fan of many in the major media outlets, but I do like Tapper for the most part.
The fact is that the embargo did not fail. What it failed was the lack of solidarity of the rest of world with the enslaved Cuban people. There was not a worldwide blockade and repudiation of the Cuba Stalinist regime as it was enforced when the world decided to put an end of the apartheid regime in South Africa.
In fact, the Soviet Union was not along in the spoiling of Cuba, Spain, Canada and Mexico were also main partners and financiers of Castro’s terror network and the genocide of the Cuban people.
Cuba has been under a brutal Stalinist regime frozen in time for over 56 years. The Castro brothers have killed and imprisoned more Cubans that during the worst period of the Stalin terror era in relation to its population.
It is a fact that the Castro has sent more than 20,000 Cubans to death at the “paredón” (firing squads) and that they are responsible for the death at sea of more than 40,000 men, women and children who fled the Cuban hell in fragile makeshift rafts preferring certain death at the Florida Straits rather than continue living in slavery. Castro is also responsible for the imprisonment and torture of over 500,000 Cubans (including children) during his 56 years of tyranny.
According to the best world authority in Cuba’s History, English scholar Hugh Thomas, referring to the Cuban tragedy, (The Spectator, 7/12/1986) he affirmed that: “The comparison must be with the account of Nazi concentration camps. Although there are yet no gas chambers in Cuba, there have been experiments of a criminal biological type designed to see how far an individual can survive starvation, beating, solitary confinement, and many various kinds of ill treatment. Valladares’ account of working in a stone quarry is not dissimilar to, and no more humane than, the many accounts extant of ‘life’ in Manthausen. Nor should one forget that the brutalities in Nazi Germany lasted at most 12 years and the gross cruelties in the Auschwitz camp continue for four years.”
During the last 56 years Cuba traded freely with the rest of world, included U.S. since food and medicine were not included in the embargo, nor was the over the billion dollars sent to the Isla prison by their family exiled in U.S. Cuba could buy anything from any other country, including American products.
Cuba, a country that before the Communism was self sustained, with a solid economy and a currency that was accepted internationally on par to the dollar, a country that received immigrants while Cubans didn’t need to emigrate. After the Castro-communism Cuba became a hell hole where even the youth born an indoctrinated after the revolution preferred to die at sea in quest of freedom that to continue living “in opprobrium and afrenta sumidos” (in opprobrium and affront sunk) in words of the Cuban national anthem.
Many of the over 130 countries that trade with Cuba are prosperous without depending of trading with U.S. Cuba also traded freely before Castro with over 100 countries (including the Soviet Union) the Cubans enjoyed the highest standard of living in Latin America, and also higher than many Western Europe countries in the 1950’s, and also enjoyed a top international credit rate. Now Cuba’s credit rate is at the level of Somalia while its standard of living is not much better than Haiti’s.
The misery and oppression in Cuba are not due to the U.S. embargo, but to the legacy of communism with its sequel of destruction of the economic infra structure of the country and of the work ethics and the moral that had previously characterized the Cuban people, traits of their ethos proved in any country where the Cuban exiles landed in their quest for freedom.
The billions of dollars received annually from the Soviet Union were not used to the development of Cuba or in rising the meager lives of the Cubans, but to the sustain Castro’s terror network all around the world, especially in Latin America, including the imperialist wars in Africa at the service of the Soviet Union’s ambitions in that continent. Castro’s worldwide terror network culminated with theTricontinental Conference, where terrorists coordinated their worldwide war plans in Havana in 1966 under the leadership of Fidel Castro. (Claire Sterling “The Terror Network).
The Truth About the Cuban ‘Embargo’
Posted By Humberto Fontova On January 29, 2015 @ 12:44 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage |
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/humberto-fontova/the-truth-about-the-cuban-embargo/print/
By the embargo U.S. was trying to contain Soviet-Cuban sponsored international terrorism:
Every terror group from the Weathermen to Puerto Rico’s Macheteros, from Argentina’s Montoneros, to Colombia’s FARC, from the Black Panthers to the IRA, and from the PLO to AL Fatah received training and funding from Castro.
Granted, while most were not immediately defeated they were certainly contained. Then for three decades the Soviet Union was forced to pump the equivalent of almost ten Marshall Plans into Cuba. This drain on her resources certainly helped bankrupt the Evil Empire. ”
“Those who ignore history is damned to repeat it” George Santayana
Obama is consciously following on the steps of the Soviet Union and Venezuela when he decided to keep afloat the Cuban Stalinist regime making the American taxpayers the sugar daddy of the Castro brothers.
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