Cuba: 65 years of revolution and only poverty

By: Francisco Santos - 27/05/2024

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Today there is a unique opportunity to end the myth of the Cuban Revolution in the region. They have been in revolution for 65 years and have not built anything. Today Cubans are poorer than ever, they have no food, no electricity, no health, and despite this they still manage to sell their myth with the support of many political leaders in the region, who, of course, do not live there.

A viral campaign throughout the continent that shows the true current reality of Cubans would sow an antibody in the new generations that would at least lead them to question that narrative that university professors, who, of course, do not live there either, try to impose on its young students throughout the continent.

Cuba and its socialism are a failure. An absolute failure where only the nomenclature – that is, the Castros, their relatives and the high command of the party and the Military Forces and their families – live well, eat well and enjoy a luxurious life to which no one in Cuba can aspire. Very similar to what happens in Venezuela, where the Maduros, Diosdados and Rodríguez and their families live the lives of American billionaires and have bank accounts of world billionaires, something that the Castros and their family also have in Cuba.

Revolutionary Cuba has always lived off others. First it came from the Soviet Union, which financed that economy until its dissolution in 1990. They never used those resources to build a viable economy or a sustainable social system. When the rubles stopped arriving Cuba, it collapsed. The GDP fell 35 percent, as in Venezuela or Argentina with the Kirchners, and what Fidel Castro called the “special period” began.

Then the virgin appeared to them with Chávez, Venezuela and oil. They breathed again, but they didn't build anything either. We will never know the real figures, but an average of 65,000 barrels a year for 13 years, from 2000 to 2013, with a barrel at 50 dollars, a low figure, since many years it was 100, shows that Venezuela gave 15.5 billion of dollars to Cuba. It is much more, since they sold a large part of that oil on the international market at higher prices.

How many billions were left in the hands of the nomenclature, that is, the Castros, their friends and their allies? If we see today's crisis in which the economy has already fallen 11 percent, it is going to fall more, and with no possibility of recovery, because with those 15 billion they did not build anything, the new special period shows that Cuba only knows how to live off others. Or, as a friend told me, “the Cuban government is the jockey (prostitute) of the Caribbean. It is sold to the highest bidder.” He is already flirting with Guyana to approach and ask, and even in Caricom he has turned his back on Venezuela in votes to favor Guyana.

And how does the special period of the nineties compare with the one Cuba is experiencing today? “During the special period, hospital care, of course, suffered, but nothing to do with the situation we are experiencing today. The same can be said of education. Cuba came with a robust educational system, with a lot of human capital. That is no longer true. On the contrary, there has been a massive migration of well-qualified teachers that affects all levels,” says economist Ricardo Torres, researcher at the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University in Washington, DC.

We cannot miss this opportunity to destroy the narrative of the left and its allies from the São Paulo Forum and the Puebla Group, among others, that has done so much damage to the region. Cuba's failure occurred with sanctions and almost without sanctions (the Helms-Burton Act dates back to 1996), which shows something that we all know: the system is a failure and the embargo is not the cause. Of course, they repeat like parrots, but the citizen easily realizes that, if in 65 years a revolution only builds poverty and misery, the model is a failure. I imagine viral videos of Cuban citizens showing how they live today. I imagine campaigns in universities in the region and even in the USA – although things are more difficult there, because the woke culture took over and this speech was canceled – showing the reality of the island. Documentaries, viral videos, books, music, an entire campaign to destroy that lying narrative of Cuba and its friends. It's time.

Yes, I dream of that campaign and I call on all the friends of freedom in the region and in the world, especially the Cuban colony of Miami, so that we do not let this moment of great weakness of that murderous and mafia dictatorship pass. who rules the island. By simply showing reality on social networks and making visible what happens there, we begin to win this battle. Before it was impossible because they controlled all the information. Today they can't do it anymore.

Cuba, 65 years of revolution, poverty and misery. That should be the title of this campaign. Does anyone join me in this effort? I'm ready.

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