Silent thread for Fidel Castro. R.I.P

[Ken Burch]

23. Some people want to leave.

There were also millions who never wanted to leave. And the US never said "if you'll just have an election and let people come and go as they want, we'll leave you alone and let you develop your country on your own terms".

The only "election" result the US would ever have elected was a right-wing landslide. And then when that right-wing government refused to call any more elections(which is what would have happened), the US would have said...nothing. Just like it said nothing when Batista seized power.

Until our country finally agrees to stop treating the Americas as though it has the natural right to lead the hemisphere, until it admits that it never had any right to treat Latin America as an empire, until it apologizes for every military intervention and economic sabotage campaign it ever inflicted, none of us will have any moral authority to lecture anyone else in the hemisphere on "freedom and democracy".

We "proclaimed" the Monroe Doctrine in 1823

We've now got 193 years worth of blood on our hands, from Tijuana to Tierra Del Fuego.