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| Havana Times: Cuba does not have a racism problem! |
| 2016-09-06 |
| HAVANA TIMES -- Ever since the Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959, different US governments have used every kind of violent method to try and pull the plug on the Revolution. Starting from the Bay of Pigs; the boom in armed groups who carried out all kinds of atrocities, such as the hateful murders of farmers, teachers, literacy teachers; the cruelest acts of sabotage against the Cuban people, such as the murders and forced disappearances of Cuban diplomatic employees abroad; bombs in Cuban hotels so as to damage national tourism, without caring about how many innocent people had to die in the process; as well as hundreds of assassination plots against key revolutionary leaders, mainly against Commander in Chief Fidel Castro. This whole series of attacks, plus their rigid economic, commercial and financial blockade which has caused many difficulties and shortages among the Cuban people, hasn’t managed to achieve anything but unite our people even more with regard to the Revolution. The current US president Barack Obama, undoubtedly an intelligent man, realized that the US would never be able to reverse by violent means Cuba’s history so that our country once again becomes a capitalist state with a multi-party political system. He thus decided to change strategy and work instead on winning over different sectors in Cuban society, making them believe that socialism isn’t the best thing for them and that they should head towards capitalism instead. When you are as far left as Cuba, and you see Barack Hussein Obama as a right-wing pro-capitalist force, you know you've entered Bizarro World. How many dark-skinned Cubans are in positions of high authority in Cuba? The US has tried this many times before using different techniques with our youth, but it hasn’t been successful. Furthermore, they’re trying to win over the Afro-descendent sector, which is very large here in Cuba, for their counter-revolution. You have to be very naive, or seriously compromised by the imperalist policy against Cuba, to write articles such as that by Mr. Alberto N. Jones entitled "The persistence of racism in Cuba", published on Havana Times on August 25th. |
| Posted by:Thumper Dribble5791 |
| #4 Now all the streets are breaking up, street lights only in the tourist zones. My wife carries flashlights and batteries to our sister congregation along with the usual aspirin, Advil etc. The ferrys are going to make a huge difference. We will see. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-09-06 18:50 |
| #3 Cuba does not have a racism problem! and there are no gays in Iran. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-09-06 08:38 |
| #2 I was in Cuba 30 years ago. I recall the roads were paved in the white part of town and unpaved dirt in the black part. No street lights in the black part either. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2016-09-06 03:40 |
| #1 Cuba does not have a racism problem! because "Down here darkies know their place."? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-09-06 03:16 |