These are some of the talking points used by the Cuban regime over the last five decades and dutifully relayed in academia and the media by its minions all over the world. My purpose is not to excuse the inexcusable nor rewrite history, but to shed light on dangerously darkened corners that have been used by Castro and Co. to mask their true tyrannical face:
!- Fidel Castro and his revolutionary youths entered Havana in 1959 after an effective military surge. LIE. Fulgencio Batista, the retired general that had violated the constitution and seized power in a bloodless coup d'etat in 1952 was forced to leave by the Americans who claimed to have 25,000 marines ready for invasion if he refused to flee. The fall of the city of Santa Clara was not due to the skills and the braveness of the rebels, but the fruit of a purchase, the Cuban bourgeoisie gave Castro a briefcase full of money, as it is the case of the most somber and sinister corporate crimes nowadays, to buy his way to Havana. The derailing of the armored convoy yet another myth. Che Guevara lacked the military knowledge to pull that one up. As his calamitous performance in the Congo and Bolivia later showed, his guerrilla expertise was more literary than real.
2- Cuba was a backward society until 1959 and black Cubans were fiercely discriminated against. LIE or better, a MANIPULATION OF THE TRUTH. No honest scholar would deny that the racial issue was never solved in Cuba, the black slaves and their "offsprings" were shamelessly used in the independence war to be later denied social recognition and their place at the table. Moreover, attempts were made to "whiten" the Cuban population and a massacre of back Cubans was launched in 1912; however there were black leaders who conveyed their message of dissent and protest at all levels. Betancourt Bencomo and Walterio Carbonel, just to name two leaders, were among those who struggled and to some degree achieved, the creations of spaces for the black Cubans. Much still needed to be done, but the Castro regime hijacked the cause of the black people and swept it under the rug forcing the leaders to exile or to remain in anonymity for the rest of their lifes. Who knows Betancourt Bencomo? or Gaston Vaquero, one of Cuba's best poets? or Walterio Carbonel?. The so called revlution not only did nothing to achieve racial integration, but made it a point to delete all sorts of diversity from the school texts and the intellectual debate. The racial tensions in Cuba has reached critical mass and no solution of the country's drama can avoid a serious, honest and all out dialogue on such a delicate issue. It is no coincidence that the most outstanding leaders of the opposition are black.
3- Cuban soldiers were in Angola in the 70s and the 80s to avoid the return of racist colonialism to that African nation. LIE. It appears ironic that a regime sends troops half way around the world to prevent a malady to which it had helplessly succumbed at home. After tens of thousands of casualties, basically among the black segment of the nation. Cuba's only real impact in Angola was the establishment of a new elite (the former communists are the new millionaires) that does very little to develop their country and eliminate the stark disparities between the haves and the have nots. Eduardo Do Santos's daughter is one of the richest entrepeneurs in Angola; something hard to explain given the president's presumed humble origins. Was he part of the proletariat or not?; ah, sorry, my bad. Now I remember that convenient postulate of the Marxist ideology that explains how bourgeois elements always end up leading and ruling the cause of the proletariat. Give me a break!!!!!
If we want to fight all kinds of discrimination and oppression let's do it, but DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT do a hand picking of causes and realities if we are to be considered honest
!- Fidel Castro and his revolutionary youths entered Havana in 1959 after an effective military surge. LIE. Fulgencio Batista, the retired general that had violated the constitution and seized power in a bloodless coup d'etat in 1952 was forced to leave by the Americans who claimed to have 25,000 marines ready for invasion if he refused to flee. The fall of the city of Santa Clara was not due to the skills and the braveness of the rebels, but the fruit of a purchase, the Cuban bourgeoisie gave Castro a briefcase full of money, as it is the case of the most somber and sinister corporate crimes nowadays, to buy his way to Havana. The derailing of the armored convoy yet another myth. Che Guevara lacked the military knowledge to pull that one up. As his calamitous performance in the Congo and Bolivia later showed, his guerrilla expertise was more literary than real.
2- Cuba was a backward society until 1959 and black Cubans were fiercely discriminated against. LIE or better, a MANIPULATION OF THE TRUTH. No honest scholar would deny that the racial issue was never solved in Cuba, the black slaves and their "offsprings" were shamelessly used in the independence war to be later denied social recognition and their place at the table. Moreover, attempts were made to "whiten" the Cuban population and a massacre of back Cubans was launched in 1912; however there were black leaders who conveyed their message of dissent and protest at all levels. Betancourt Bencomo and Walterio Carbonel, just to name two leaders, were among those who struggled and to some degree achieved, the creations of spaces for the black Cubans. Much still needed to be done, but the Castro regime hijacked the cause of the black people and swept it under the rug forcing the leaders to exile or to remain in anonymity for the rest of their lifes. Who knows Betancourt Bencomo? or Gaston Vaquero, one of Cuba's best poets? or Walterio Carbonel?. The so called revlution not only did nothing to achieve racial integration, but made it a point to delete all sorts of diversity from the school texts and the intellectual debate. The racial tensions in Cuba has reached critical mass and no solution of the country's drama can avoid a serious, honest and all out dialogue on such a delicate issue. It is no coincidence that the most outstanding leaders of the opposition are black.
3- Cuban soldiers were in Angola in the 70s and the 80s to avoid the return of racist colonialism to that African nation. LIE. It appears ironic that a regime sends troops half way around the world to prevent a malady to which it had helplessly succumbed at home. After tens of thousands of casualties, basically among the black segment of the nation. Cuba's only real impact in Angola was the establishment of a new elite (the former communists are the new millionaires) that does very little to develop their country and eliminate the stark disparities between the haves and the have nots. Eduardo Do Santos's daughter is one of the richest entrepeneurs in Angola; something hard to explain given the president's presumed humble origins. Was he part of the proletariat or not?; ah, sorry, my bad. Now I remember that convenient postulate of the Marxist ideology that explains how bourgeois elements always end up leading and ruling the cause of the proletariat. Give me a break!!!!!
If we want to fight all kinds of discrimination and oppression let's do it, but DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT do a hand picking of causes and realities if we are to be considered honest
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