What Fidel Taught Hugo

[Judi Lynn]

24. Reading your remark about the big surprise the Cuban "exiles" got at Bay of Pigs,

I had the image of their eager faces waiting for the Cuban nationals to come running across the sand begging for their old slave-like jobs back, and the big shock they must have felt when bullets came whistling by their heads, as they surrendered, arrested, and traded for baby food, medicine, etc. from the U.S. for the Cuban people.

That led to the memory of something Professor Alfredo Jones wrote, who was raised in the country in a community which worked for a wealthy Cuban family, with an open sewer running across the land, and malnourished children, whose mothers would take them, after the owners had eaten dinner to the back door to ask if there was leftover food they could have for their own dinner.

They also didn't have the right or ability to go to doctors when they fell ill, and had to go to the landowners and beg for their intervention by explaining their illness, and if the owner agreed, a note giving them permission to seek help from the doc.

That meant a lot of those people lived with internal parasites, and little prospects of anything getting better for the rest of their lives. These details of course have always been ignored by our own "public-serving" news media. which never even felt it necessary to cover the fact most Cubans depended upon seasonal work, and only had employment for part of every year, beyond which they had to go pound sand, the other jobs didn't exist for them to find.

Of course, it has already been calculated and pre-arranged by the U.S. Gov't how it intends to remove all the population-saving programs in place, their world-famous medical and educational systems, their researchers. etc., etc. and replace everything with privatized operations, putting them all right back in the conditions which brought on the revolution.

Latin America just doesn't want this. The people, not their exploiters, of course, who will always work against them. In the end, the oligarchs are most definitely going to lose, no matter what.