Den overraskende sandhed om Cuba
Humberto Fontova er en eksil-cubansk forfatter, der har begået bogen "Fidel: Hollywoods favorite tyrant". På Lewrockwell.com kan man finde et interview Thomas Woods har lavet med manden, hvor bla følgende kommer op:
These stats always blow people away. Prior to Castro, more Americans lived in Cuba than Cubans in the U.S. In the 20th century before Castro, Cuba took in more immigrants (per capita) than any country in the Western hemisphere – more than the U.S including the Ellis Island years. In 1958 the Cuban embassy in Rome had a backlog of 12,000 applications for immigrant visas from Italians clamoring to immigrate to Cuba. From 1903–1957 Cuba took in over one million Spanish immigrants, and 65,000 from the U.S. Notice: pre-Castro Cuba’s wetbacks came from the first world.
People used to jump on rafts – primarily from Jamaica and Haiti – in order to get into Cuba. Now, not only do people risk their lives to flee (2 million as of 1992), but half-starved Haitians a mere 60 miles away turn up their noses at the place. ..
Now to poor, and especially, to black Cubans, Batista was a hero and benefactor, because he was black himself and had always been a champion of social legislation. In the 1950s Cuba’s workers were more unionized as a percentage of population than U.S. workers. Cuban labor got a higher percentage of the national GDP than Switzerland’s and France’s at the time. Cuban labor was very powerful and was totally beholden to Batista. Naturally Cuba would have been even wealthier without these impediments to business. I point them out only to show that Batista was no "right-wing lackey of Yankee business interests," as the mythology holds – speaking of which, in 1958 only 7 per cent of Cuba’s invested capital was American and less than one-third of Cuba’s sugar production was by U.S. companies. Yet pinks tell us United Fruit owned and ran Cuba!
"It’s easier to get rid of a wife than an employee!" was a lament often heard in Havana’s Yacht Club in those years (where Batista – Cuba’s president! – was denied entry). That’s why many of Cuba’s plutocrats, Julio Lobo (sugar magnate and Cuba’s richest man) and Jose "Pepin" Bosch (who owned Bacardi), for instance, always loathed Fulgencio Batista (the mulatto cane cutter and grandson of slaves), and funded Castro’s (the lawyer and Spanish millionaire’s lily-white son) Julio 26 Movement out the wazoo.
Manden er decideret rasende på Castro (der forøvrigt selv kun var halvt cubaner), og gennem denne på den amerikanske venstrefløj, der agerer apologeter for diktatoren. Det forurener uheldigvis interviewet lidt med personlige antipatier, men burde ikke være nogen forhindring.
Læs resten selv.
UPDATE:
Jeg sidder og læser lidt om Cuba, bare for at føje lidt baggrund til nu jeg fandt oven-citerede interview. En af de interessante ting, der kommer op er, at det lader til Castros anti-amerikanisme (hans venstreradikalisme var produkt af samme) var arvet fra faderen. Denne kom til Cuba som spansk soldat dengang Cuba stadig var spansk koloni - for at hjælpe med til at knuse den cubanske selvstændighedsbevægelse i 1890erne. Imidlertid intervenerede USA jo i den Spansk-Amerikanske Krig 1898, gav spaniolerne røvfuld, og Cubanerne selvstændighed. Castros far tilgav aldrig amerikanerne, at de havde forhindret ham i at knuse Cubanerne, og gav denne anti-amerikanisme videre til sønnen.
Man kan så spekulere på om han også har givet sit ønske om at knuse cubanerne videre. Det går i hvert fald udmærket for ham indtil videre.
Henrik
These stats always blow people away. Prior to Castro, more Americans lived in Cuba than Cubans in the U.S. In the 20th century before Castro, Cuba took in more immigrants (per capita) than any country in the Western hemisphere – more than the U.S including the Ellis Island years. In 1958 the Cuban embassy in Rome had a backlog of 12,000 applications for immigrant visas from Italians clamoring to immigrate to Cuba. From 1903–1957 Cuba took in over one million Spanish immigrants, and 65,000 from the U.S. Notice: pre-Castro Cuba’s wetbacks came from the first world.
People used to jump on rafts – primarily from Jamaica and Haiti – in order to get into Cuba. Now, not only do people risk their lives to flee (2 million as of 1992), but half-starved Haitians a mere 60 miles away turn up their noses at the place. ..
Now to poor, and especially, to black Cubans, Batista was a hero and benefactor, because he was black himself and had always been a champion of social legislation. In the 1950s Cuba’s workers were more unionized as a percentage of population than U.S. workers. Cuban labor got a higher percentage of the national GDP than Switzerland’s and France’s at the time. Cuban labor was very powerful and was totally beholden to Batista. Naturally Cuba would have been even wealthier without these impediments to business. I point them out only to show that Batista was no "right-wing lackey of Yankee business interests," as the mythology holds – speaking of which, in 1958 only 7 per cent of Cuba’s invested capital was American and less than one-third of Cuba’s sugar production was by U.S. companies. Yet pinks tell us United Fruit owned and ran Cuba!
"It’s easier to get rid of a wife than an employee!" was a lament often heard in Havana’s Yacht Club in those years (where Batista – Cuba’s president! – was denied entry). That’s why many of Cuba’s plutocrats, Julio Lobo (sugar magnate and Cuba’s richest man) and Jose "Pepin" Bosch (who owned Bacardi), for instance, always loathed Fulgencio Batista (the mulatto cane cutter and grandson of slaves), and funded Castro’s (the lawyer and Spanish millionaire’s lily-white son) Julio 26 Movement out the wazoo.
Manden er decideret rasende på Castro (der forøvrigt selv kun var halvt cubaner), og gennem denne på den amerikanske venstrefløj, der agerer apologeter for diktatoren. Det forurener uheldigvis interviewet lidt med personlige antipatier, men burde ikke være nogen forhindring.
Læs resten selv.
UPDATE:
Jeg sidder og læser lidt om Cuba, bare for at føje lidt baggrund til nu jeg fandt oven-citerede interview. En af de interessante ting, der kommer op er, at det lader til Castros anti-amerikanisme (hans venstreradikalisme var produkt af samme) var arvet fra faderen. Denne kom til Cuba som spansk soldat dengang Cuba stadig var spansk koloni - for at hjælpe med til at knuse den cubanske selvstændighedsbevægelse i 1890erne. Imidlertid intervenerede USA jo i den Spansk-Amerikanske Krig 1898, gav spaniolerne røvfuld, og Cubanerne selvstændighed. Castros far tilgav aldrig amerikanerne, at de havde forhindret ham i at knuse Cubanerne, og gav denne anti-amerikanisme videre til sønnen.
Man kan så spekulere på om han også har givet sit ønske om at knuse cubanerne videre. Det går i hvert fald udmærket for ham indtil videre.
Henrik
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