Why The US Still Hates The Cuban Revolution.

Why The US Still Hates The Cuban Revolution.

Body: Why The US Still Hates The Cuban Revolution.




The Obama regime has opened new roads of dialogue with Cuba, but it still promotes a hostile view towards the island and the revolutionary government. As this analysis states, the US continues to hate Cuba not because of its system, but because it remains an independent nation with an alternative system that challenges the capitalist order promoted by US imperialism.



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The Crime of Independence
Why the U.S.

Still Hates Cuba
By FREDERICO FUENTES

At the centre of the Summit of the Americas held in Trinidad and Tobago over April 17-19, was the only country from the hemisphere not present — Cuba.



Speaking at the opening session, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega noted that while a large majority of the heads of states of the Americas were present, “there are two major absentees”.



The first was “Cuba, whose crime has been to fight for its independence, for the sovereignty of the peoples; lending solidarity, without conditions, to our peoples, and for that it is being sanctioned, for that it is being punished, for that it is being excluded.

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The second was the nation of Puerto Rico, which continues to be an official colony of the United States — denied independence.



In 1962, Cuba was expelled from the Organisation of American States for having openly declared the nature of its revolution to be socialist — based on the ideology of “Marxism-Leninism”.



Despite its exclusion, Cuba’s presence was felt at the summit.



In his April 4 column, “Why is Cuba being excluded?”, former Cuban president Fidel Castro explained that Ortega “gave me a large number of paragraphs that are being debated about the final declaration of the upcoming Port of Spain Summit”.



Arguing that there were “a great number of inadmissible concepts”, he said that the summit would be a “litmus test for the peoples of the Caribbean and Latin America”.



Cuban President Raul Castro attended the Bolivarian Alternatives for Our Americas (ALBA) Summit in Cumana, Venezuela, over April 16-17, in which the anti-imperialist bloc sought to “prepare its artillery”.



The ALBA countries (Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Honduras and Dominica) issued a public document declaring their opposition to the draft declaration of the Summit of the Americas.



Part of the reason was the exclusion of Cuba and the refusal of the US to lift its nearly five decade-long economic blockade.



At the summit, Latin American president after president denounced the US blockade and called for Cuba’s inclusion in the summit. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez proposed the next summit be held in Havana.



Others raised the need for an Organisation of Latin American and Caribbean States, including Cuba but not the US or Canada.



The March decisions by the Costa Rican and El Salvadoran government to renew diplomatic ties with Cuba left the US as the only country in the Americas without official ties with Cuba’s socialist government. This is a long way from previous decades, when only a handful of regional governments kept links and the OAS backed US anti-Cuba policy.



In light of this hemispheric shift, the Obama administration recently moved to lift travel restrictions to Cuba for Cubans living in the US. It also eased restrictions on remittances from Cuban immigrants in the US sent home.



However, Obama remains firm on keeping the US blockade, despite speculation of more changes to come..

On April 20, the Washington Post reported Obama as saying: “The policy that we’re had in place for 50 years hasn’t worked the way we want it to.

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This is because, Obama said, “The Cuban people are not free”.



But, as Shamus Cooke noted in PEJ News that same day, the “purpose of the embargo is not to pressure Cuba into being more democratic: this lie can be easily refuted by the numerous dictators the U.S. has supported in the hemisphere, not to mention dictators the U.S. is currently propping up all over the Middle East and elsewhere”.



The real cause of continued US hostility is that “Cuba remains a solid source of pride” for the continent.



Cuba achieved impressive social gains, including an extensive and completely free education system and a lower infant mortality rate than the US. It has achieved these gains despite the US blockade and the economic crisis caused by the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.



The US government and its apologists accuse Cuba of a lack of democracy.



Cuba’s system is not perfect. However, not only is access to housing, jobs, education and health care (guaranteed in Cuba) pre-requisites for democratic participation, Cuba’s political system is based on “people’s power”. Cuban citizens are able to exercise significant control over the system — including the right to recall elected officials.



“Where is there more democracy, in the United States or in Cuba?”, Chavez said. “Who has the democracy meter? I have no doubt that there is more democracy in Cuba than in the United States.

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Speaking at the ALBA summit, Bolivian President Evo Morales said, “The US has no right or authority to speak of democracy, because they are the ones that foster coups”. He said Cuba exercises a democracy, in which million-dollar electoral campaigns don’t exist.



Cuba’s crime is the political and economic independence won through the revolution.



Cooke said: “Defeating the U.S. Bay of Pigs invasion [in 1961] while remaining fiercely independent in a region dominated by U.S. corporations and past government interventions has made Cuba an inspiration to millions of Latin Americans. This profound break from U.S. dominance — in its ‘own backyard’ no less — is not so easily forgiven.



“There is also a deeper reason for not removing the embargo. The foundation of the Cuban economy is arranged in such a way that it threatens the most basic philosophic principle shared by the two-party system: the market economy (capitalism).

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Cooke said that “the current crisis of world capitalism is again posing the question: is there another way to organize society?”

Frederico Fuentes writes for Green Left Weekly.




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I wrote a letter to congress asking them to lift the embargo. Instead what I did receive were the inner planning, blue printes, and mapping objectives for Cuba.
Thanks to
Charles E. Schumer, United States Senator I was able to understand the objectives and policies they wish to push forward upon the Cuban people. On 4-23-2009 approx. 12:00 pm I recieved confirmation on the objectives members in congress and Barack Administration agenda. This message is not inclusive to only members of congress but there willingness and attempts to undermine Latin America intergration and unification. I hope that is this writing all my fellow comrades pass the message along. Until our brothers and sisters recieve the white dove information leaked from congress. This information is very important, becuase of the way Barack Obama attended the Americas summit to discuss the issue of the embargo and America's foreign policies agenda for Latin America as a whole. Congress has other objectives and were ever there is this kind of blue print and levers, strings, and handshakes we all know lay those who intend to influence, control, and re-establish America dominance in Latin America.


One particular thing that stands out the most is the guise of humanitarian aid that is used to undermine gov'ts.


"democracy-promoting programs. In the most recent Congress, I voted for H.R. 2764, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008, which includes $80 million for democracy-promotion programs in Cuba."-Charles E.
Schumer, United States Senator

Not only that but how the United States continues to fund "democracy-promotion" which is also intended to control and open the Cuban market so that America can benifet.


It's not truly about Democracy its just America's mafia family trying to expand and willingness to pull that trigger. Barack Obama hosted Jordans president who has no sense of Democracy? He continues to gain Oil supplies from Saudi Arabia. Where the Democracy there? America mafia family has other objectives in mind. They extort the neighborhoods with neo liberal policies. The international monetary funds and the world trade bank are just the American family's hitman. The racketering includes the AIG bailout and bonuses with no audit. The capos include all of the America Empires client states from Mexico, Colombia, Israel, Britain, Canada, Germany, Australia, France, and others.



Below you will read the Senators and Congress objectives for the Imperial Plan and agenda in Cuba. Please pass this information along.


Thank you for your letter regarding United States’ embargo on trade with Cuba. I share your concern over the plight of the Cuban people, and am working to help Cuba develop economically through foreign aid to promote democracy and freedom.


Since 1963, the United States has maintained an embargo against U.S. companies’ doing business in or with Cuba. The embargo was created in response to Fidel Castro’s dictatorial repression of civil, political, and economic freedoms in the country, and his consistent threats to U.S. security during the Cold War. Despite the end of the Cold War and Fidel Castro’s retirement from power, the Cuban political and economic system still restricts the freedom of its people. Because of these conditions, the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992 and the Helms-Burton Act require that the government continue the embargo.


Cuba’s communist economy has caused terrible problems for the Cuban people. There is a great disparity in living standards between those who have access to trade with foreign businesses or tourists and those who do not. For the poorer people in Cuba, living standards continue to decline. These economic problems have been compounded by several other factors, including a decline in tourism; falling prices for sugar and nickel, which are Cuba’s main commodity exports; high energy costs; and natural disasters, including hurricanes in 2001 and 2004 and a drought on the eastern portion of the island.


Although I support the United States’ isolation of Cuba’s communist economy through the trade embargo, I do not believe that the impoverished Cuban people should be made to suffer. That is why, in July, 2000, I voted for the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act. I am happy to report that this bill passed both houses of Congress, and on October 28, 2000, President Bill Clinton signed it into law. This law allows for trade of humanitarian supplies, such as agricultural products and medicine, between the United States and Cuba during humanitarian crises. Since this legislation, the United States has become the world’s largest exporter of food to Cuba, almost $2 billion in agricultural products since late 2001. In addition to supporting the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act, I have also supported democracy-promoting programs. In the most recent Congress, I voted for H.R. 2764, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008, which includes $80 million for democracy-promotion programs in Cuba.


The Cuban government continues to impoverish and oppress its people. I am working to enact legislation that will promote democracy and prosperity in Cuba, and I am optimistic that Cuba will someday return to its historical role as a local ally and major trade partner for the United States. Until then, I will continue to support humanitarian aid to the Cuban people.


Again, thank you for contacting me on this important issue. Please do not hesitate to contact me in the future if I can ever be of assistance to you on this, or any other matter.-Charles E.
Schumer, United States Senator