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In reply to the discussion: American businesses preparing to flood Cuba [View all]Judi Lynn
(164,124 posts)They ran the nightclubs, casinos, hotels, and other establishments much farther down the ugly line, and turned Havana into a true cesspool. The U.S. Navy started using Havana as a Rest and Recreation spot for its sailors who needed to go ashore for leave.
The people of the Revolution went into the streets, and emptied out their vice-dens, piling up their equipment in the streets, and setting it all on fire.
The Revolution threw OUT the U.S. Mafia, the corrupt, brutal government, the death squads which had stalked Cuban citizens through the streets, kidnapped them, tortured them, killed many of them, threw out their bodies in the streets, hung them from street lights, or cut their bodies into large pieces and hung them from trees.
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Mothers of murdered young Cubans marching in Santiago de Cuba


Sone of the Santiago de Cuba mothers getting hosed down by Batista's national police.[/center]
The right-wing is putting its hopes on the possibility they will be able to find enough people in high places who would love to get bribed handsomely for helping US interests steal back the island and their homeland.