Comical: US to make Cuba safe for ‘democracy’

August 4th, 2006 at 18:49 Björn Hallberg

Democracy in Cuba? Sounds great, but to put it plainly, it will never happen as long as the United States is around.

The U.S. deceitfully and unabashedly calls for the ‘democratization’ of Cuba, encouraging violence and uprising. Yes indeed. The inherent hypocrisy really strikes you like a ton of bricks. United States Prepared To Support Democratic Transition in Cuba. The level of naivete of some journalists … In other news: I call for the democratization of the United States, encouraging violence and uprising. Your tree of liberty wants patrician blood.

Call me a cynic, but given half a century of state terrorism directed at Cuba, and the history prior to Castro, you’ll forgive me if I don’t trust America’s intentions. Geordie of course managed to deceitfully mention the exact list of things that the U.S. DOESN’T want Cuba to achieve and as such has worked tirelessly to foil.

Bush, who arrived in Texas on Thursday for a week’s vacation, said he was “actively monitoring” the situation and promised “the full and unconditional support of the United States” to achieve a “free, independent and democratic Cuba as a close friend and neighbor.”

The United States of course is no stranger to the ‘Good Neighbour Policy’ which already in 1933, despite Cuba allegedly being independent in the aftermath of the Spanish-American war, resulted in the installation of pro-American dictator Fulgencio Batista and nationwide repressive schemes. Washington didn’t lament any of that at the time and instead moved to weaken the Cuban economy essentially making Cuba a shadow state with a sugar-based economy, never able to fend for itself and the U.S. never having to move in and overtly annex the territory as it had so many others.

I don’t need to elaborate on what the U.S. has in store. It’s the same old story and the same old racist, colonial mindset, propping up of the murderous, whining middle-class Cubans that are ‘forced’ to live in exile. The U.S. did exactly that one hundred years ago, so what else is new. Now they’re sitting in Florida, salivating over the possibility to return to Cuba and make their long lost brothers low-wage slaves in the new global economy. As are quite a few transnationals I would assume. In fact, some would say the economic invasion has already started, courtesy of America’s proxies. I guess the only sure bet in all of this is that the people of Cuba are going to have to pay through the nose, regardless of the hoity-toity plans being drawn, allegedly for their benefit.

Though ‘democracy’ would be a nice perk (if it worked, in general and in countries lorded over by the U.S. in particular) it will only deliver Cuba into the hands of American business, empire builders and greedy, spiteful exiles. Sort of like the last time the U.S. ‘liberated’ Cuba out of the goodness of their wallets hearts — only to stop midway (History of Cuba – US intervention and the Platt Amendment).

There is no reason to believe that most people are even aware of the historical precedence, let alone willing to muster any sort of interest. And besides, most people buy into the ‘communist’ slur, just as they willingly believe the middle-east is all about Islamism. It’s interesting that the popularity of political theories always coincide with America’s foreign policy, no matter how simple, peripheral they are in reality. Entire shelves of books were dedicated to Communism and are today being dedicated to Islamism. It’s understandable of course since a more levelheaded examination, not constricted by an ideology that in reality only barely and superficially factors in, would no doubt cut right to the heart of America’s reign of terror, ravenousness. America and its complicit academics of disinformation would have us believe that it is all about, in this case, revolutionary socialism, when in reality ‘communism’ just happened to be the only viable focal point to rally around to oppose the meddling of the United States. Just as religion obviously becomes a potent axis for actuation elsewhere. This shifting of attention, not entirely cooking the books as it were, but rather exaggerating a secondary motivator, is obviously part of the plan. In fact, it is in the very definition of hegemony and the control over public opinion.

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