Cuba: 60 years later.

in writing •  7 years ago 

It was on January 8, 1958, when a bearded man of thirty-two years of age entered Havana in a military garb at the behest of a group of guerrillas, defeating and ... impersonating dictator Fulgencio Batista, promising peace, welfare, freedom and democracy For all Cubans. Solemn lie, because it gave no peace, no democracy, no welfare, no freedom, but ... they believed. And so, from that unfortunate date, for Cuba and for all of Latin America, at gunpoint, he imposed one of the most terrible, longest and most bloody revolutions ever made on the American continent. In the beginning it was not like those Orthodox Marxists and also those inhuman communists who, since 1917, the date of the Bolshevik revolution, tried to export the USSR so much so that, within a few months of that fateful day, had the impetus to say That ... "To maintain that we are Communists is a calumny against the glorious revolution."

That man was Fidel Castro, the bloodiest and longest-serving dictator in Latin America, who died a natural death a little more than six months ago. But what has changed in this post-Castro Cuba? Apart from the fact that for some years Fidel was no longer in command because, for reasons of health, he had delegated power to brother Raúl and, apart from the historic trade and diplomatic opening signed in 2015 between the United States of America Obama and Cuba, it must be said that in Cuba post-Fidel Castro "has not changed practically anything". There is still a shortage of basic necessities, due to the fact that all means of production are in the hands of the State, there is still a ration card, as there was in Europe during the last war, there is control of change with all problems Very serious that this authoritarian measure entails, but above all the most important thing that is freedom is missing, all problems that have been born with the revolution and that have been seriously worsened during these 60 years of Castro revolution.

In fact, to date, the only industry that operates in this revolutionary Cuba is the tourism industry in a country where, thanks to the double monetary system in force, the public employees, who represent the overwhelming majority, win in Cuban pesos while a taxi driver Or an innkeeper earn in CUC, currency convertible into dollars. That's why a doctor or lawyer wins a lot less than that taxi driver. These are just some of the "achievements" achieved by this Castro-communist revolution during these 60 years.

However, even if I do not share the ideology of this Cuban revolution, if the results in those 60 years were moderately acceptable, it might have been possible to justify that other countries, whose leaders are obsessed by this extremist doctrine, Not only in Cuba, but in all the countries of the world where it has been tried to impose it, and considering that Cuba has not broken down just because there has been a country - we all know what it is - that for almost twenty years Has given him all the money in the world at the expense of his own needs, I find it completely irrational and foolish to imitate that "revolution." To try to follow it and, above all to impose it, against the history and the will of the sovereign, is an act of political incoherence simply unacceptable.

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I watched a documentary on Cuba just a few months ago and it seems as though Cuba is an incredibly different country then it was 10 years ago.

I love to see the other side find green grass on their side and not need to jump over the fence.