Saturday, November 26, 2016

WITH CASTRO GONE, A NEW ERA IN US-CUBAN RELATIONS



(Ed.'s Note: With Cuban exiles and their offspring celebrating the death of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in Little Miami, it's only fitting that we remind ourselves that before the Cuban Revolution, the U.S. controlled the island's sugar industry and had taken over the gambling mecca through the Mafia's infiltration of casinos and prostitution with the acquiescence of the Cuban middle class. The vast majority of the people lived squalor and misery. Illiteracy was widespread and health care for the people was virtually non-existent. Castro changed all that. His first move was to seize 7,500,000 acres from foreign owners and distribute the land to Cuban peasants (photo above). Today, Cuba's literacy rates are the highest in Latin America. It's health care system is admired throughout the world and the regime sends its doctors to aid Third World nations. But the people paid a price as the government eased into a virtual dictatorship and Castro cult. The U.S. embargo did not help hem either. President Barack Obama's normalization of relations with the Cuban government through executive orders is now threatened with the ascension of president-elect Donald Trump who has vowed to change the terms of the "deal." Will we go back to the bad old days of pre-Castro when Carlos Puebla wrote this poem?)

Aquí pensaban seguir
ganando el ciento por ciento
con casas de apartamentos
y echar al pueblo a sufrir

Y seguir de modo cruel
contra el pueblo conspirando
para seguirlo explotando...
y en eso llegó Fidel

Se acabó la diversión,
llegó el Comandante
y mandó a parar

Aquí pensaban seguir
tragando y tragando tierra
sin sospechar que en la Sierra
se alumbraba el porvenir

Y seguir de modo cruel
la costumbre del delito
hacer de Cuba un garito...
y en eso llegó Fidel

Se acabó la diversión,
llegó el Comandante
y mandó a parar
Aquí pensaban seguir
diciendo que los ratreros,
forajidos bandoleros
asolaban al país

Y seguir de modo cruel
con la infamia por escudo
difamando a los barbudos...
y en eso legó Fidel

Se acabó la diversión,
llegó el Comandante
y mandó a parar

Aquí pensaban seguir
jugando a la democracia
y el pueblo que en su desgracia
se acabara de morir

Y seguir de modo cruel
sin cuidarse ni la forma
con el robo como norma...
y en eso llegó Fidel

Se acabó la diversión,
llegó el Comandante
y mandó a parar

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank God the murderous BASTARD is now dead. Castro and Che are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths during thier reign of terror. Too bad Fidel did not die years ago when Che did.

Anonymous said...

Cuba will not instantly change with the death of Castro. But his death removed the major roadblock that holds the promise of change somewhere down the road.

The longer Cuba stews in it's own juices, the faster will come the change. Pain is a good motivation to change. Cubans are the prime reason for Cuba's pain.

Anonymous said...

When I watch my collection of 70's porn.....it reminds me of Fidel. The burros were not shaved....ahhhhhh....que chingon los 70's, verdad?

Anonymous said...

BOBBY WIGHTMAN SAID;

"I have also seen and always will see Fidel Castro as the voice of the people of Latin America. Those who yell human rights abuses, have their heads in the sand as to what is happening in the US. When you are willing to fix the problems in the US you can then worry about other countries"

Well the blimp thinks that Fidel was the voice of Latin America huh? He thinks the Cuban people were far better off with him as their dictator. Someone should tell Mr. Bobby that Fidel is right up there with Hitler and Stalin as it relates to murdering dictators that have caused nothing but suffering for their people. The Brownsville Voices' publisher should be ashamed of himself for holding Fidel on such a pedestal. He mentions in his article that prefers to teach because he gets to see the students reactions on the subject matter. Well if they were Cuban students that he would lecture about his thoughts on Fidel Castro, he would see them with their mouths wide open is disbelief on the way he makes him out to be a great man! Fidel Castro is a murdering dictator that brought nothing but misery to his people Bobby. I wrote these same comments on his story about Fidel Castro but he refused to post them....maybe after seeing that he was praising a monster!

rita