Cubans revolted to destroy and loot a growing prosperous system due to individual class resentment and envy and thus created for themselves a fantastic misery loves company declining system. Even today the majority of Cubans blame external actors instead of their own stupidity in believing communism was going to work.
The culture of Cuba is so broken in lost enterprise and work-ethic, that it will take generations to repair.
"Even today the majority of Cubans blame external actors instead of their own stupidity in believing communism was going to work." And you know this how, Frank? Do you own a polling firm in Cuba? "Cubans revolted to destroy and loot a growing prosperous system due to individual class resentment and envy..." Gee, all along we thought that the corruption of Batista and the looting of the country by mobsters was the trigger. You're grasp of history is breathtaking.
Nonsense. As has been well documented, the Cuban revolutionaries carefully posed as nationalists rather than communists, then imposed fairly rapidly an authoritarian regime. The Cuban people can't be blamed for what the regime became with this level of absolute condemnation because they never chose it.
It might be vaguely possible to make this argument for Venezuela, but it just doesn't apply to Cuba at all.
Nonsense. That is commie propaganda to help American malcontent socialists ignore yet another of the 100% evidence that collectivism sucks, fails and kills.
The Cuban people have generally polled to love Fidel and their system of free healthcare that was largely funded by the USSR and other commie states.
Aside from being 90 miles from Florida, Cuba should be of only limited interest to the United States. The Cuban government lost the resources to foment revolution decades ago. Nothing is produced there that the US and ROW can't get elsewhere. Admittedly, there are still those trapped in the '60s who romanticize the so called revolution, but the world has moved on while the island has stagnated.
Well the Cuban state seems to have provided critical support in training and (in some limited cases) running the security services in Venezuela and Nicaragua, thereby propping up two fairly horrible dictatorships that both emerged after the end of the cold war.
Few people care about Cubans because few people care about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In Canada, the ability to take cheap vacations in Cuba is a matter of national pride. Somehow, support for the Cuban military regime that owns the resorts demonstrates how enlightened one is. It is also a middle finger to the United States that comes at the expense of Cubans.
In Against All Hope, Armando Valladares chronicled his more than twenty years in the Cuban gulag. He wrote “there was, however, absolutely no doubt about the authorities’ criminal intentions. After a great deal of effort, we managed to leak the news about what they had planned to the outside world. In Miami, articles were published about the government’s monstrous plans. But all our pleas and the pleas of our families to international organizations, especially the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, were futile. Nobody paid the least attention to the act of barbarism which the Cuban government had laid plans for. There was not a single voice raised in protest.”
The people will have to do it themselves with the help of an America that doesn’t want to exploit it…. Hint it’s not the Americans running the show now 🤔😂😩🤮
Cubans revolted to destroy and loot a growing prosperous system due to individual class resentment and envy and thus created for themselves a fantastic misery loves company declining system. Even today the majority of Cubans blame external actors instead of their own stupidity in believing communism was going to work.
The culture of Cuba is so broken in lost enterprise and work-ethic, that it will take generations to repair.
"Even today the majority of Cubans blame external actors instead of their own stupidity in believing communism was going to work." And you know this how, Frank? Do you own a polling firm in Cuba? "Cubans revolted to destroy and loot a growing prosperous system due to individual class resentment and envy..." Gee, all along we thought that the corruption of Batista and the looting of the country by mobsters was the trigger. You're grasp of history is breathtaking.
Nonsense. As has been well documented, the Cuban revolutionaries carefully posed as nationalists rather than communists, then imposed fairly rapidly an authoritarian regime. The Cuban people can't be blamed for what the regime became with this level of absolute condemnation because they never chose it.
It might be vaguely possible to make this argument for Venezuela, but it just doesn't apply to Cuba at all.
Nonsense. That is commie propaganda to help American malcontent socialists ignore yet another of the 100% evidence that collectivism sucks, fails and kills.
The Cuban people have generally polled to love Fidel and their system of free healthcare that was largely funded by the USSR and other commie states.
Aside from being 90 miles from Florida, Cuba should be of only limited interest to the United States. The Cuban government lost the resources to foment revolution decades ago. Nothing is produced there that the US and ROW can't get elsewhere. Admittedly, there are still those trapped in the '60s who romanticize the so called revolution, but the world has moved on while the island has stagnated.
Well the Cuban state seems to have provided critical support in training and (in some limited cases) running the security services in Venezuela and Nicaragua, thereby propping up two fairly horrible dictatorships that both emerged after the end of the cold war.
Few people care about Cubans because few people care about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In Canada, the ability to take cheap vacations in Cuba is a matter of national pride. Somehow, support for the Cuban military regime that owns the resorts demonstrates how enlightened one is. It is also a middle finger to the United States that comes at the expense of Cubans.
In Against All Hope, Armando Valladares chronicled his more than twenty years in the Cuban gulag. He wrote “there was, however, absolutely no doubt about the authorities’ criminal intentions. After a great deal of effort, we managed to leak the news about what they had planned to the outside world. In Miami, articles were published about the government’s monstrous plans. But all our pleas and the pleas of our families to international organizations, especially the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, were futile. Nobody paid the least attention to the act of barbarism which the Cuban government had laid plans for. There was not a single voice raised in protest.”
The people will have to do it themselves with the help of an America that doesn’t want to exploit it…. Hint it’s not the Americans running the show now 🤔😂😩🤮