For more than six decades, Cubans have been deprived of the most basic human rights and the most basic needs enjoyed by most of the world. This is all thanks to Fidel Castro’s socialist “revolution.” During this time, Cubans could have enjoyed democracy and human rights, all vital ingredients for prosperity and freedom. Instead, Castro’s revolution delivered tyranny and oppression, resulting in poverty and subjugation.
Roberto Alvarez Quiñones explains in Diario de Cuba:
How much has Cuba lost due to the ‘Revolution?’
Without the Castroist scourge, Cuba today would have had 15 one-term presidents of the Republic, constitutionally elected for four-year terms, and a population of approximately 18 million
Do Cubans live better today than they did in 1958?
Was a social revolution needed in Cuba?
Do the Cuban people really know what the country was like before 1959, and what Castroism has prevented them from doing over the course of these 66 years?
Do they have any idea how they would live today if they had never been “freed from capitalism?”
Every government should be evaluated by the results it obtains and not the promises it makes. In Cuba, however, for half a century the powerful international left wing has been judging Cuba based on its promises, none fulfilled, while the people live worse than ever in the country’s history. On this Castroist anniversary that left, a “friend of Cuba,” should honestly answer the four questions asked above. But it won’t.
On the occasion of those catastrophic 66 “revolutionary” years, today I am going to highlight something that has generally gone unnoticed, but that explains the origin of the term “Cuban Revolution,” which was an absolutely unnecessary social one.
Ever since Fidel Castro began his work of political rebellion against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, he always spoke of a “revolution,” and that is what the 26th of July Movement talked about. It did not constitute a front for liberation, or national salvation, or democracy, which would have indicated that it was a political rebellion.
None of that. Castro I imposed the word “revolution” with a view to seizing power and selling the idea that it was not enough to restore democracy. Rather, they would have to continue the “revolution” in order to lift Cuba out of the poverty and backwardness caused by “imperialist exploitation” and the “national bourgeoisie.”
But what was the point of a “revolution” in a country close to First World conditions?
That is the question. A political rebellion is not the same as a social revolution, which is always devastating. Political rebellions overthrow governments. Social revolutions go much further.
They overturn everything. They transform, or even destroy, the very foundations of modern society, the institutions of the State, and the economy. They change the people’s way of life and monopolize the media and education; and they control customs, morals, culture, religion and philosophy.
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I wish I could hate Fidel Castro more than I do, and he’d deserve it, but no matter how horrible a human being, he could NEVER have done what he did without LOTS of help from others–and there’s the rub.
It’s truly sickening how immature, naive and irresponsible Cubans were: “Fidel, ésta es tu casa”, “para atras ni para cojer impulso”, “Yankee Go Home,” “¡paredon, paredon, paredon!” and all of that bullshit. Then you had people like Quevedo the publisher of Bohemia magazine lying and talking about the 20,000 alleged murdered people by Batista. And Batista himself was a POS who abandoned the country instead of going down with the ship like “el hombre” el macho that he supposedly was. My mother says that people who were good suddenly became S.O.B’s and started spying on their neighbors and Coverting their property. She tells me about un galleguito gordo who used to live on her block and he would say in his thick Spanish accent, “Yuck, los americanos, ay que asco, yuck, yuck! And she says when things got bad, he was the first to get a plane tick and abandon the country… Like that galleguito, there were thousands of Cubans.
In every country, there are LOTS of people who are not what they seem, meaning people who are potentially much worse than they appear. Alas, the “revolution” allowed and encouraged them to come out of their closets–which they did, in droves and with a vengeance. There was a great deal of envy that exploded when the envious saw a chance to get what they never would have gotten under normal circumstances by becoming overtly “revolutionary.” In other words, there was a lot of miseria humana (human miserableness) which had been disguised or suppressed but was clearly there before 1959. That was not created by Fidel Castro; he simply harnessed and used it.