Hated
For Their Way Of Life: Cubans And Imperialist America
20 March 2010By June Terpstra
I write today from Havana , Cuba , where the internet
is connected through satellite because the USA blocks
all cable that surrounds Cuba. Yesterday we met with
trade union leaders, state diplomats, a medical doctor
from Cinesex, the state sexual health department and
Havana university professors. The people are
intelligent and gracious, advanced in their knowledge
of world events and unbelievably patient in the tasks
of hosting a group from that same USA who has caused
them so much suffering.
Cuba and its people are beautiful and brave. They have
lived through hundreds of terrorist attacks by the USA
including but not limited to: economic terrorism
through an embargo that attempts to starve the people;
a blockade that prevents their medical health and
technological stability; military invasion and coup
attempts engineered and paid for by the CIA; countless
CIA assassination attempts of their leader; blocking
of communication access; media smearing and false
propaganda campaigns; wrongful imprisonment of their
people in the USA while those who commit terrorism
against them are free; and preventing and limiting
cross country family visitations and communication.
They are a traumatized but brave people who endure in
the face of hardships imposed not by their
government but by the terrorist tactics used by the
USA to politically enforce a program of capitalist
"democratization" that will benefit the corporate and
military elites presently controlling much of the
world's resources today.
Why does America and the West hate Cuba ? They hate
them for their way of life.
What is that way of life? A unique Cuban form of
social justice governance comprised of people's
committees at every level (grass roots, provincial,
and national). A people who established a new way of
life through the blood and tears of revolution
deciding together to commit to the elimination of
imperialism, slavery, racism, and sexism in order to
share the country for and with each other holding a
specific set of anti-oppression constructs that are
foundational. Property, schools, and hospitals are not
privately owned here and the Western elites hate that
way of life.
Why do the global capitalists hate societies that
attempt new forms of social justice governance models?
Because when the people around the world
self-determine their own resources the capitalists are
not "free" to own it, control it, degrade it and
deplete it. That is the operation of freedom the
capitalist wants the people around the world to
endure. In fact, "own it, control it, degrade it and
deplete it" is the real program of so called democracy
in the USA and Europe.
That is the USA's way of life that is to be imposed
globally be it through a program of bribery and
corruption; or programs of debt slavery with so called
development programs and "aid"; or secret agency
coordinated regime change; or, outright military
invasion and occupation.
The Cuban people understand and articulate very well
the politics of colonialism, neo-colonialism,
imperialism, and globalization. Unlike the public in
the USA they are not dumbed down. There are no Mac
Donald's and other fast foods here to make them obese
and infect them with Franken-food diseases. There are
no mega shopping malls or Walmarts to keep them
distracted with materialistic consumption. The people
here are not obsessively attached to cell phones or
screens.
The Cuban people are in the schools, the universities,
the government, the fields, the parks, the cafeterias,
the hotels, and the streets talking, smiling, playing,
working, and loving each other. The Cuban people are
defending their way of life in their thoughtful
relationships with each other. The Cuban people are
attentive to what is needed to survive each special
period imposed from the USA and each act of sabotage
engineered by the USA . The Cuban people are surviving
and enjoying the ocean in walks by the sea; drinking
wonderful Cuban coffee while passionately debating
politics; and suffering the ignorance of fools by
hosting delegations from the USA
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