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A little long but relevant in today’s political environment:

How much has Cuba lost due to the ‘Revolution?

Without the Castroist scourge, Cuba today would have had 15 one-term presidents of the Republic, constitutionally elected for four-year terms, and a population of approximately 18 million

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Do Cubans live better today than they did in 1958?

Was a social revolution needed in Cuba?

Do the Cuban people really know what the country was like before 1959, and what Castroism has prevented them from doing over the course of these 66 years?

Do they have any idea how they would live today if they had never been “freed from capitalism?”

Every government should be evaluated by the results it obtains and not the promises it makes. In Cuba, however, for half a century the powerful international left wing has been judging Cuba based on its promises, none fulfilled, while the people live worse than ever in the country’s history. On this Castroist anniversary that left, a “friend of Cuba,” should honestly answer the four questions asked above. But it won’t.

On the occasion of those catastrophic 66 “revolutionary” years, today I am going to highlight something that has generally gone unnoticed, but that explains the origin of the term “Cuban Revolution,” which was an absolutely unnecessary social one.

Ever since Fidel Castro began his work of political rebellion against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, he always spoke of a “revolution,” and that is what the 26th of July Movement talked about. It did not constitute a front for liberation, or national salvation, or democracy, which would have indicated that it was a political rebellion.

But what was the point of a “revolution” in a country close to First World conditions?

That is the question. A political rebellion is not the same as a social revolution, which is always devastating. Political rebellions overthrow governments. Social revolutions go much further.

They overturn everything. They transform, or even destroy, the very foundations of modern society, the institutions of the State, and the economy. They change the people’s way of life and monopolize the media and education; and they control customs, morals, culture, religion and philosophy.

There is no better to better way to appreciate the difference between political rebellion and revolution than the dialogue between the King of France, Louis XVI, and Duke Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, who early on July 15, 1789, informed the monarch that the Bastille fortress in Paris had been taken and that he should flee from the Palace of Versailles. “Is it a rebellion?” the king asked. “No, Majesty, it is not a rebellion, it is a revolution,” replied the clever duke very confidently.

.....Was Cuba in need of a revolution? In fact, it was one of the three countries with the highest standards of living in Latin America (along with Uruguay and Argentina), and its per capita income was double that of Spain, surpassing other countries in Europe, and was similar to that of Italy.

In December of 1958 at Italian Embassy in Cuba received 12,000 requests from Italians eager to emigrate to the island.

The people wanted Batista ousted, and that was it.

I remember it well, because I lived through it. That what the people in Cuba wanted: the end of Batista’s dictatorship, and a restoration of the 1940 Constitution, period! The people were not yearning for a social revolution, which made no sense. Why would they?

So much time has passed since that Cuba of “before” that most Cubans today have no idea what the country was like then. Those younger than 74 or 75 can hardly believe that the country was self-sufficient in terms of beef, pork, chicken, fish and seafood, milk, eggs, food, vegetables, tropical fruits, coffee and tobacco.

Or that Cuba was the largest exporter of food per capita in Latin America, in 1958 producing 960 million liters of milk (almost half a liter per capita per day); or that beef consumption was 81 pounds per person, the third highest in Latin America and one of the highest in the world.

There were more than 50 newspapers and magazines in Cuba , all privately owned. It ranked first in Latin America per capita in newspapers, magazines, television sets, radios, household appliances, and also in railway lines per square kilometer. It exported more than it imported, and was one of the three economies with the highest percentage of gold and foreign exchange reserves, due to the stability of the peso, always convertible, 1x1, with the dollar. And this data was all registered by the Ministry of Finance, the ECLAC and other entities.

Havana was a major financial center, with 62 different large and medium-sized foreign and Cuban banks, 96 smaller ones, and savings banks. In total there were some 300 bank branches in the country, according to an April 1956 report by Cuba Económica y Financiera, Volume XXXI, no. 361

Does anyone know today that at the University of Havana for only five pesos a month a young person could graduate in Medicine, Engineering, or Law, or with any other degree? Tuition was 60 pesos a year, to be paid in three installments, and classes were free? I still have three blue receipts 20 pesos each.

In January of 1959 Cuba’s economic expansion was at its peak

Does anyone know that in 1956 Cuba was recognized by the UN as one of the most literate countries in the world at a time when most Latin American nations, and Spain, featured rates of around 50%?

People are even less aware that when the Castros seized power Cuba was in the midst of the greatest economic expansion in its history, which began some 13 years earlier, at the end of the 1940s.

Large factories were built, industrial plants for the extraction of nickel and other commodities, in addition to oil refineries, hundreds of thousands of homes, large hotels, theaters, cinemas, restaurants, schools, hospitals and clinics, bridges and highways.

The tunnel was built under the Havana Bay, and two under the Almendares River, along with the impressive public buildings of the Plaza Cívica, and the Sports City, with its Colosseum. Towering structures such as the Focsa, the Someillán, the Havana Hilton (the hotel’s largest, finest and tallest facility in the world at that time), then the tallest buildings in the Caribbean. According to the Cuban Chamber of Commerce, in 1957 the island had 142,742 cars, three times as many as Chile (47,950) and almost twice as many as Colombia (84,500).

This is enough to give one an idea of what Cuba could be like today without Castroism. But the country is in ruins. And rebuilding it will take a lot of money, and effort.

Without the Castroist scourge, Cuba would have had 15 one-term presidents of the Republic, constitutionally elected for four-year terms, and some 18 million Cubans would live on the island.

Assuming capital investments of 250 billion dollars (at today’s prices), the Cuban economy would, in fact, resemble that of the United States, being very close to a First World one, or already at that level. Exports of goods and services would exceed 160 billion dollars, including
Tourism, with approximately 20 million visitors. Compare this with the 1.58 billion dollars exported in 2023, and the mere 2.2 million tourists received in 2024.

On the beaches there would be spectacular tourist resorts such as those in Florida, Cancún, the Riviera Maya, Punta Cana and the Bahamas; large cruise terminals, modern airports, highways and fast trains; a massive port on the Mariel and, at the same time, a commercial shipping center serving South America, Central America, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe.

Havana could be the Hong Kong or Singapore of the Caribbean as a financial, banking and fiduciary center, as or even more important than those in other large Latin American capitals.

In short, all that Cuba and Cubans have ceased to become, progress, and enjoy because of “the revolution” is truly mind-boggling.

Free Cuba now!
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Social revolution is what the left is trying to do to the US. Overturn everything or burn it to the ground. It has been pretty successful in Europe, so far.

IMO Cuba is as important as Greenland or Panama given that it is 90 miles from Key West and China is said to be building 4 military bases on the island.

Breaking News: Arizona Election Fraud Mafia Recruits Florida Election Fraud Mafia Capo to Oversee Arizona Audit...

Florida Election Fraud Mafia Capo Cord Byrd To Help Oversee Arizona Election Audit

https://immutabletruthelections.substack.com/p/breaking-news-arizona-election-fraud

https://immutabletruthelections.substack.com/p/florida-is-not-free-rigged-elections

Excerpt:

Most people in America agree that Arizona elections have major issues. The voters in Arizona have had enough of their ballots and votes not being accurately counted.

As reported by the Gateway Pundit today:

Former Congresswoman Debbie Lesko, upon taking office as a Maricopa County Supervisor Monday, announced plans to audit Maricopa County’s election system.

“It is very important to a lot of my constituents,” she said.

Who are they bringing in?

Who is the firm that will be doing the audit? Hopefully it isn’t BRG Consulting the incompetent firm that was paid over $600K and could find no evidence of wrongdoing. Based on what we found in 5 minutes of Audit Log reviews, they obviously did not look very hard or had no idea what they were doing or what to look for.

An audit means nothing if you bring in the wrong people and they conveniently look the other way.

Aren’t the elections and their administration the property of “We the People”.

How did the last Arizona Audit go?

I seem to recall a Georgia Audit being done and there was no evidence of fraud found there… According to the auditing firm and perennial election fraud grifter Cleta Mitchell.

For some very important context, I was given the opportunity to review some audit logs in Georgia by Kevin Montcla and David Cross and I found massive fraud and issues within five minutes at looking at them while I was on a call with them. Such “irregularities” including the deletion of ballot images, unreadable ballots, and enough “errors” that should have resulted in the revocation of the EAC certification for exceeding the maximum allowable errors rates.

How was it that I was so easily able to find the fraud in Georgia in 5 minutes but Cleta Mitchell could not?

When we found massive fraud in Florida, that included Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd, Cleta Mitchell did a video extolling how great a job Cord Byrd was doing in Florida despite the fact that many hundreds of thousands of Floridians were being disenfranchised by the illegal adjudication of their ballots as being 100% Blank and massive vote by mail fraud that Cord Byrd and his Florida Election Fraud Mafia co-conspirators were intent on covering up.

When we caught the 100% BLANK BALLOT cheat down to the precinct level what did Cord Byrd do?

He and his pals at the “Florida Supervisors of Elections Inc” aka “FSE Inc” drafted SB7050, we I coined and reported on as the “Florida Election Fraud Legalization Act”.

Co-incidentally, right after Ron DeSantis signed this bill into law the law firm representing Dominion held a fundraiser for him.

.....Cord Byrd is the last person who needs to be in charge of administering elections, let alone helping oversee an audit. The only reason that Cord Byrd would be brought in would be to help conceal the fraud and frustrate the public or watchdogs from actually reviewing the “public record” of the administration of elections.

President Trump said that if you cheat in the 2024 elections you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The Florida Election Fraud Mafia Capo, Cord Byrd and his co-conspirators need to be held accountable for their actual disenfranchisement of millions of Florida voters. His election crimes and violations of both Florida and Federal laws to include “Breach of Public Trust” cannot go unpunished.

Whose bright idea was it to bring in Crooked Cord Byrd?

What firm is going to be paid by Arizona taxpayer dollars to conduct the “FULL AUDIT” of Arizona Elections?

I have a solution to the problem.

A free and simple solution that would cost the “Arizona Taxpayers and Arizona Voters” nothing.

In fact I presented my free and efficient solution in person to Cord Byrd in 2022 at a meeting in his office.

I told Cord Byrd that the easiest best solution would make him and his boss Ron DeSantis real true American heroes and cost the taxpayers zero additional dollars.

I told Cord Byrd that all he had to do was pick up his phone and call Maria Matthews the Director of the Florida Division of Elections, and instruct her to order every single Supervisor of Elections in every single county in Florida to create a folder on their website.

Then all they had to do was put all the data and audit logs from the elections into that folder for “We the People” to be able to access and review.

After all, they are our elections and we did pay for their administration.

What was Cord Byrd’s response?

He laughed in our faces and said “Well that’s NEVER going to happen”.

We have since documented massive fraud in Florida and we recently put together a slate of candidates to challenge all of the incumbent supervisors of elections in Florida during the 2024 elections.

What happened?

The incumbent Supervisor of Elections candidates all won against our America First slate of candidates.

They all did so with more votes than President Donald Trump or Kamala Harris received.

Supervisor of Elections is a down ballot race, it is highly improbable that the supervisor of elections race would garner MORE votes than the election for the office of President.

Cord Byrd is currently the defendant in numerous lawsuits over his neglect of duty, official misconduct, gross negligence and civil rights violations.

There needs to be a full forensic audit of Cord Byrd by the FBI under Kash Patel, and the United States Justice Department run by Pam Bondi and the Civil Rights Division run by Harmeet Dhillon.

I have personally brought my concerns of Election Fraud to Pam Bondi prior to the 2024 Primary at the Hillsborough County Poll Worker Training.

I had also been supplying emails and evidence of election fraud and campaign finance violations to Harmeet Dhillon and her partner Ron Coleman. First as a paying client related to censorship of political speech by Mark Zuckerburg, Jack Dorsey and the rest of BigTech as they related to illegal undisclosed in kind campaign finance contributions worth well over a trillion dollars.

.....More recently, I had brought significant concerns to Harmeet and Ron about the election fraud not only in Arizona but all across America to include particularly Florida under “Cord Byrd”.

All of this has been extensively documented. After all bringing receipts is the only way to hold government and our government officials accountable.

Refusing to provide election data and audit logs is not acceptable. This is what Cord Byrd the Florida Election Fraud Mafia Capo has been selected to do in Arizona.

This is not acceptable…