Unless plans are in place well in advance of the day fidelito, the Great Cockroach, dies, the chance to change the current oppressive form of government in Cuba will be lost. His death, in my opinion, will not create a vacuum. The press in the U.S. and Europe will have page after page reciting his imaginary accomplishments, and little of it will be negative, so he'll die a world renowned and respected hero; the government in charge in Havana will be prepared to take full advantage of it. There will be a funeral parade with dignitaries from all over the world in attendance. It will give some semblance of legitimacy to his illegal and illegitimate successor. The media can do that, you know. Fidelito, for 46 years a feared authoritarian figure had no mandate, morally or legally, and neither will Raul, his expected successor. That's the way communists always operate, followed by a string of executions of those who oppose them.

It will take more than words to bring back a democratic form of Government to Cuba, more than wishful thinking, more than Blogs and letters. It will take some type of immediate, direct and forceful action. If there is there a ranking officer with a loyal following who will asassinate or execute Raul and declare Cuba free of Socialism, that is one possible way, but if so, at this point in time he is unknown outside of Havana. If there is one, he would face a firing squad tomorrow if anyone in Havana had the slightest suspicion. Dictatorships do not give up nor do they fall easily. It is certain that some people close to fidelito will be marked for a quick demise if Raul succeeds his brother, unless they manage to hit the airport on the run and a plane is ready to take off.

Most likely there will be just a brief opportunity to make a change, and if it is missed it will take a substantive effort at any other point in time. The uprising has to be so quick and spontaneous that Havana cannot react fast enough and they are most likely ready and well prepared for such an eventuality. The main question is: Will the regime order the Army shoot at the people and bring on a bloodbath? If so, hundreds, if not thousands, will die. If, on the other hand, the Army joins the people, the world's most complete socialist failure will finally fall and something else will replace it, but what?

The internal uprising, were it to happen, would have the best chance of success if it took place and concentrated its' efforts in the Tourist Zone, because there it would be more difficult for the Cuban Armed Forces to use bullets and brutality in front of witnesses, armed with scores of cameras, from the international community.

A darling of the media, kept alive by the media

Castro's name was constantly in the world's press long before he took the reins of power, and the world accepted him because he was always pictured as the hero, supposedly there to rescue his people from the evil rule of the dictator, Batista. Little did they realize then, nor will they admit now, that what came after was more evil and tyrannical than Batista had ever been. Now there is not a single name that stands out in Cuba, because the Castro has seen to that. There is no leader in the wings to oppose the government in Havana once he is gone. Can a Joan of Arc suddenly appear and mobilize the masses? It would not surprise me if, upon the death of fidelito, summary executions of prisoners who might be considered threats to Raul and his cohorts were carried out in the prisons. There is no Cuban Government in Exile either to which Cubans can look for headership and help, or to seek an international outcry. (They certainly cannot turn to the United Nations for succor, in any case). That presents a major problem for an uprising, because any group that makes such attempt while based in Cuba might be captured and quickly executed. At that point the uprising would be over. The fact that Raul controls the armed forces and weaponry presents a rebelling citizenry with another conundrum: Without weapons...what can they expect to accomplish?

What if they gave a peace parade and everyone came?

What if a huge flotilla of boats, thousands of them, were ready to head across the straits to Cuba as soon as news of fidelito's death became public, a huge Peace Parade by sea, to show soldarity with the Cubans who wish to throw off the heavy yoke of tyranny? What if?

The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard would warn them to turn back, but they too would have to be prepared for such an eventuality. It would take a fleet of ships to patrol the Straits to stop such a CRUSADE, were it to happen. On the other hand, how would the Cuban Coast Guard respond? Would they welcome the visitors or would they follow the orders of Raul Castro, if he gave them, and resist the interlopers? Well, if they ventured inside the Cuban 12 Mile Limit it would be anyone's guess and all in the hands of fate.

It is time for the worms (los Gusanos) to (re)turn. The day of the rule of La Cucaracha Grande is over, but changes do not just happen; they must be made to happen. Someone has to lead, to set the pace, and others have to be willing to follow that leader. Talk is just that, talk. Talk without action is useless. Waiting for someone to die is useless; the preparations are is already set for the next leader, Raul. He is not just going to quietly fold up his tent and fly away! All worthy or perceived opposition was eliminated long ago by the crafty fidelito, so who is there to effect a change now? The populace is too weak physically from long years of food deprivation and lacking the freedom to assemble' has never been able to muster the strength to present a formidable opposition internally. Without help from the outside, it would be futile to hope for a change.

Imagine, in all this time not a single newspaper has taken the initiative to expose the lies, deceit, corruption, mistakes, mismanagement, ignorance, incompetence, outright thefts and fraud that has been perpetuated in Cuba and on the world for 46 years! Here is what makes it so obvious, but the Liberal Media, many of them fellow-traveling-cockroaches, have not paid The slightest bit of attention to it:

1) The public transportation system is below standard even for Third World countries. It is a total mess. Horse and wagon transportation is common in rural areas, far behind that of any Central or South American country. Trucks, with people standing up, are used between cities, dangerously unsafe in all respects. People cling to the sides of buses in the larger cities. Huge "camels" to transport Cubans in discomfort and heat in Havana. It is a nightmare for Cubans to travel, even if they get Government permission (necessary) to do so.
2) The classic old buildings and homes have fallen into disrepair or total collapse from neglect, most of them now unsalvageable. Living conditions are horrendous. Cubans live in buildings that are on the verge of collapse. Many areas look like Europe after the war, entire blocks devastated.

3) Cattle exports, and the meat and hide business, a successful and homegrown industry since the arrival of Columbus, one that needed no outside support in the past, has gone downhill since Castro arrived. Those ranchers who weren't executed, fled. The industry is in a shambles, devastated by Havana's false ideology. Cubans were self-sufficient in meat (beef) before 1958. Meat consumption per capita was 54 lbs. Today it is minimal, at best.
4) The sugarcane industry is down severely due to the gross mismanagement and ineptitude in Havana. It cannot recover under this type of control from a central planning (what plans?) and lack of managerial skills.

5) The Cuban peso is not exchangeable, ONE OF THE FEW currencies around the world without an equivalent value in foreign countries.
Note: Cuba's International Debt; is in the hundreds of billions, to every trading partner and there is no way that any economist can see that it will be paid off. They have lived on credit for 46 years, on the largess of other nations either intentionally (USSR) or unintentionally (Australia, etc.), and they have no prospects of earning enough to pay off those debts. It is impossible, and a single mental incompetent is responsible, fidelito, la Cucaracha Grande.
6) The water and sewerage system is in serious trouble from continuous neglect and failure of supervisory personnel. Water is often delivered by truck to homes without running water.

7) The electricity is at an all-time low and there is no way those who supervise it can bring it back up. Again, mismanagement and lack of proper planning has allowed the more than adequate system they inherited from prior governments to fail.
8) The infra-structure of the country has completely deteriorated, and estimates are that it will cost $80 billion to rebuild it. Again, total mismanagement is obvious.

9) Private farms are long gone, but with a little incentive those farmers could have grown enough fruit and vegetables to supplement the diet of ordinary Cubans, vegetarian perhaps, but certainly better than what they have now.
10) The fishing industry has been practically destroyed, because any fisherman with common sense who puts to sea will head for the coast of Florida. Fish caught are reserved for the tourist industry and Fidel and his cronies, but not for the ordinary Cuban citizens. They are not even allowed to eat fish; surrouned by an ocean full of fish, the fish are reserved for the tourists, mostly Canadians.

11) Child labor is rampant, but it is sponsored by the government itself. Liberals ignore it because in socialist systems, everyone is supposed to work happily, even children. Instead, Liberals go to Vietnam and check out/monitor Nike, Adida, etc.

12) Mechanized farming is at an all time low, probably than at any point over the past 75 to 100 years. Tractors sit idle, equipment is ruined from lack of repair.Using animals for plowing is not uncommon. Aging equipment has not been replaced again due to mismanagement, similar to the extreme waste in the USSR under socialized farming systems.

13) 46 years into socialism and everyone still needs a RATION BOOK, but they cannot even fulfill the minimum quotas for Cuba's people. Meat was produced locally and in plentiful supply before fidelito, was even plentiful under Batista, but it is now almost non-existant.

14) Even imprisonments of dissenters cannot keep them quiet, and discontent is nation-wide in Cuba. (Freedom of the Press? American's newspapers to raise such an issue? Heavens, they love fidelito castro, La Cucaracha Grande too much, I guess.) U.S. librarians, supposed champions of freedom of speech and the press are so dominated by socialist thugs that they don't speak out against the worst such abuses in this hemisphere and it's just 90 miles off-shore.

15) The success of the much-touted Cuban Heath Care industry has been nothing but a monstrous lie for years by the world's biggest wind-bag and blow-hard, and a study of the system would expose the overwhelming failures with very few successes. Infant deaths are under-reported to conform to fidelito's lies and distortions of the truth. The "Show Hospitals" may be fine (reserved for foreigners and commie functionaries), but the others in Cuba are sub-standard by any comparison. Americans would refuse to submit to care in one of them. Note: Cuba's Health Care was so inadequate that they did not recommend Iodized Salt until 2002! That's inane.
THE FAILURE IS SO OBVIOUS THAT IT IS LUDICROUS, EVEN CRIMINAL FOR THE AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN MEDIA TO IGNORE...

16) Nothing works from the top on down except the motor-mouth of La Cucaracha Grande, and it has been moving at top speed since 1959.

17) The only successes in Cuba since 1959 have been Capitalist investments and the tourist industry they've built up. Nothing else. Nothing. Without the aid of a capitalist society, Cuba would be reduced to the most dire circumstances on the face of this earth. Without the U.S. dollars sent to Cuba by those who fled to the U.S. and other countries, it would resemble a concentration camp, like Buchenwald, with walking living skeletons. Without tourists from capitalist countries, Cuba would be financially bankrupt and even fidelito, La Cucaracha Grande would be an aged wrinkled stumbling maniacal skeleton-like apparation in a ragged khaki uniform. Capitalism supports socialism, capitalism allows socialism to exist because socialism is parasitic in nature.

18) Education: how can he call it free when students work for their education witout pay? When fornication in the cane fields is the only compensation that they receive for what is termed hard labor by any world standard in civilized nations?

19) Shortages: there are shortages in every conceivable segment of the economy, and not one single item can be singled out as being in adequate supply. Cuban stores cannot even compare to our Thrift Stores, to the worst stores in the nation. The sanitation measures are almost non-existant in markets.

20) The U.S. Coast Guard is rescuing hundreds of Balseros each months, a wave of humanity that risk their lives to flee horrendous conditions at home, and the media ignores it. It is news and it is important; they'll write about the plight of people in the Sudan, but not those closest to home...simply because the country professes to be socialist. Always, socialism is the keyword that earns them a free pass by the press.

21) The Cuban people are underfed, undernourished, underclothed, underpaid and constantly under duress. They suffer from privation in all sectors and in all manner of ways. It is an international crime, and the criminal in charge is: fidelito,LA CUCARACHA GRANDE, a monster in every way, but Hollywood's favorite tyrant.

22) Many Cubans have lived above the norm because of the generosity of relatives who live and work abroad. Without that help, a greater percentage of Cubans would live below the poverty level, often in squalor. Equality in socialist societies usually means equally poor, but that's for the common people, not for the socialist elite. Alway, always in all societies there is that Ruling Class and they take on the mantle of royalty, such as fidelito's fleet of powerful Mercedes' sedans.

23) Cubans are forbidden to use their own beaches, cannot visit restaurants in the Tourist Zone, cannot swim in the pools there, cannot enjoy any of the luxuries, shop in the Malls or stores there. It is a two tier society, the tourists and the impoverished compliant Cubans.

24) Think of this: most Cuban children have never tasted candy, never had a decent toy, never had a computer, never surfed, never had a skateboard, a decent Sony walkman, a nice TV, good playground equipment. A skateboard, for example, would cost the equivalent of a year's salary. Yet, fidelito is worth more than $550 million dollars personally.

It seems to me that if the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Boston Globe or Chicago Tribune had editors who used half an ounce of their brains (and that would be expecting a lot) to think about it, they'd have reporters covering Cuba at every level and they'd gain Pulitzer Prize material for exposing the problems both in Havana, and Island wide, but they are simply too liberal to expose the failings of any liberal or socialist system. Knee-jerk wonders at the helm, ball-less staff members below.

Amateur Bloggers are more than adequately doing their job for them, but they won't pay attention to them. Seemingly they lack the common sense to use this easily available material for a research base, and then from there move into more fertile fields of endeavor on the island itself. Or is that too dangerous for them, a visit to Cuba, ferreting out the true story, the horrors that go on, the torture cells, the spies in every block of homes, the lack of refridgeration in homes? The last series about a ten year old girl boxer in the L.A. Times showed just how far down the old rag has fallen. No wonder the editor resigned; I hope they cancelled his pension or at least cut it in half. I'd have resigned after that world-shaking bit too.

The Balseros desperately keep heading out to sea, but this nation's editors still won't go against the liberal mantra, believing that a murderous tyrannical fascist dictator can do no wrong, as long as it is done in the name and under the guise of socialism and for the benefit of the little people, the ones who are most suppressed and opressed by that very same tyrant!

The 15,000 he has executed, and the 80,000 who have met their deaths in the sea between Cuba and Florida mean nothing to them (our media), not a single tear, not a sigh, because La Cucaracha Grande es una socialista. The only growth is in the population because that's all that there is left for entertainment at night in Cuba, fornication. But, fidelito has fornicated a nation of 11 million already and he will continue to do so in death, unless something is done NOW! He treats all dissidents like flies, tearing their wings off and watching their struggles. He shows this same picture to the world and laughs at them all. In the meantime, he sends his American slaves, Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte, to Venezuela, running his errands, taking on his missions, and subverting another nation. Again, he is unopposed, again he is craftily undermining the opposition.

I have closely followed Cuba and Castro for 48 years in all aspects. But, many Bloggers and others who have fled Cuba have contributed to my knowledge of the above, and there are too many to list, but each one of them refers you to another:
www.babalublog.com, www.cuba.net
www.therealcuba.com, Quid Nimis, killcastro.com
George Moreno, Rafael, Agustin Blasquez, killcastro, Mario...
INTELLECTUALLY DISHONEST NEWS MAGAZINES: TIME, NEWSWEEK, World News, etc.
 

All these failures can be blamed on George W. Bush, who was hardly a child when fidelito came to power.


posted by Howarde @ 12:08 AM 4 comments

Sunday, July 24, 2005