Publicado el 05-07-2010
Cuba With no Sugar
When the totalitarian tyranny of Fidel Castro began in Cuba, emphasis
was placed on the annual sugar crops which were announced as improving
permanently. This was announced with great fanfare and at the beginning
things went well until the annual sugar crops became a disaster as a
result of the failing Cuban economy. This disaster was not by chance,
but as a direct and immediate consequence of the irresponsibility, not
to say stupidity and evilness, of the dictatorship of Fidel Castro which
violently went against everything that is logical to rule a country.
The violent dispositions referred to in this editorial are not exclusive
of the Cuban case but are typical of the way in which a communist
administration acts and organizes things. And it is fair to say
disorganize, instead of organize. Cuba's prosperity when the Castro
tyranny came into power was evident, easy to ascertain by the enemies of
the previous government and by all international observers who did not
necessarily like the regime of General Fulgencio Batista. That
prosperity was destroyed right before the eyes of the Cuban people,
whose leaders because of the lack of guarantees said in a low voice what
they could have said out loud had they had the freedom to do so.
It is not a question of problems created by nature, such as the rainy
seasons or the hurricanes, things that have always happened in Cuba. The
situation evolved because of numerous factors, among them,
fundamentally, the destruction of the sugar mills. The lack of minimum
maintenance in those sugar mills was practically a criminal act against
the national economy. What happened is what happens in a totalitarian
Marxist-Leninist system, popularly known as communism. Had it not been
for communism, no matter how bad any Cuban government could have been in
the last half century, not even by chance would there be the crisis, the
misery and the lack of freedom that overwhelms the Cuban people that
fell victim to a terrible ambush of history, which determined the
installation of a tyranny which was so brutal that the Cubans thought it
could not last. To this must be added that there existed a thesis,
without any real basis, that ninety miles away from the shores of the
U.S. Washington, out of an instinct of self-preservation, would not
allow what Fidel Castro has mercilessly entrenched in Cuba.
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