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.
. New Cuba Coalition P. O. Box 14077
Washington, D. C. 20044-4077
Dr. Emilio-Adolfo Rivero — President
Ernesto Díaz-Rodríguez — Vice President e-mail:
Cuba@newcubacoalition.org