White House Factsheet - Cuba, page 2

Originally posted by pexx421
And before you cast aspersions upon cuba, lets look at the history here. Cuba tries claiming independence from spain, cant manage to expel the spanish...asks the US for help. The US comes to the rescue...kicks out spain...then tries to take over. The cubans force them out, though the americans retain guantanamo, and since then the US keeps the Cubans under severe embargos, lobby constantly against them in the UN and impose pressures on other nations to limit all trade with Cuba, and every so often riddle cuba with assaults, assassination attempts, and attempted coups.

Wrong, but nice try to change the history of the world...

Cuba had been fighting for long against Spain for it's independence. In fact there were three liberation wars in Cuba. The first one was The Ten Years War (1868-1878), the second one was The Little War (1879-1890) and the last three months of the war became the Spanish-American War.

It was after the Ten Year War that private possession of firearms by citizens was banned, and which is the reason why the Manbises fought at first mainly with machetes, until with enough raids, and with aid from Florida, and some other countries did the Cuban fighters get enough firearms and soldiers to fight back.

So, the Cuban people were fighting for independence long before the U.S. got involved...

Also, several ships which were send from other countries, and from the U.S. were also at first stopped by the U.S. Navy.

As an example, two of the three ships, the Lagonda, the Almadis and the Baracoa, which were sent from Florida to Cuba with firearms, and soldiers on December 25th 1895 were seized by the U.S. in January, so at first the U.S. was not in favor of the Cuban war for independence.

To make the history short...

Gerardo Machado y Morales, who was a general in the Cuban War for independence, was a member of the "Liberal Party Administration" and as President of Cuba (1925–1933) wanted to rid Cuba on the reliance of sugar exportation, and of U.S. influence.

Machado was one of the first Cuban president to turn the country from one of the riches, into one of the poorest nations, and turned against All Cubans, and it was with the help of the U.S. that he was toppled.

In 1933 Fulgencio Batista won the popular vote, and in case you didn't know he was endorsed by the Cuban Communist Party.

Under Batista the end of the electoral process occurred, and began the influence of the military in the government. He wasn't installed by the U.S. even thou at first the U.S. favored him, he was in fact put in power by the Cuban people.

Then came Fidel Castro, who made things worse, and again by lying to the people.

Even though Batista was a dictatorial ruler, most Cubans before the "Revolucion" were still making enough money, and almost noone went hungry.

Even during Batista Cuba was still known as the jewel of Latin America, every household had a tv, which still wasn't possible in the U.S.

I am not endorsing Batista in the least, but he was endorsed by the Communist Party in Cuba just like Fidel Castro.

In short, it was because of Liberals,and Communists that Cuba has gone from one dictatorship to another. All in the name of the "working people".

Originally posted by pexx421
As an above poster stated, the US actively tries to undermine EVERY SINGLE country that chooses socialism as its method, through embargos, industrial espionage, guerrilla insurections, etc, all to keep the world from recognizing that there is any viable alternative to capitalism. It is no surprise after all of this that the Cubans suffer a depressed economy.

Russia, China, Cuba, and several other countries were the first ones to try to expand their Permanent Revolution around the world, which is why the United States, and some other countries intervened..

In case you didn't know, the CUban regime has sent Cuban soldiers to other countries to fight for "La Revolucion", and I know this because some of my uncles were sent abroad to fight in these wars, and skirmishes.

Originally posted by pexx421
Lastly, capitalism DOES make slaves...
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Most americans work their whole lives for another person, busting tail to make ends meet, pay off debt, keep bills payed, and hopeless to get ahead. THIS is the slavery of which he speaks.....and its an insidious, all pervasive, and powerful one. One which most people cant even see due to their indoctrination, much less break free from. At least in dictatorships most people can SEE the chains that bind them.

Wrong, it has been because of the implementation of Socialist programs that people in the United States have been slowly turned into slaves.

The Federal Reserve was/is a Socialist program implemented by Democrat Woodrow Wilson in 1913 when he signed into law the Federal Reserve Act.

Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt outlawed the possession of gold by all Americans in 1933, and put us into a paper currency which further put us into debt, and into a monetary system that sooner or later could not sustain itself.

Thanks to Democrat Bill Clinton, who signed the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999, the safeguards that would have avoided another depression were repealled, and allowed for bankers, and other institutions to lend loans to Americans who couldn't pay these loans, puting us further into a Recession, and a depression in the future.

As of late the Republican Party hasn't done much, and in fact many Republicans signed in favor of Socialist bills such as H.R. 1388.

The Republic has been slowly dismantled, and turned into something it was never meant to be.

Now under the current administration we seem to be headed towards becoming either a National Socialist state, or worse, a Communist Nation.

[edit on 14-4-2009 by ElectricUniverse]