The Cuban Story

THE CUBAN STORY (Part One)


The Cuban story is a beleaguered one since the United States got enmeshed taking sides on the political and ideological perspectives of the Island's choice of existence. The nature and level of the United States hegemonic and unacceptable involvement in the affairs of Cuba smacks and confirms the inherent suspicion of their interest to influence, control and dictate the life and existence of the people of Cuba.

The Cuban people deserve to be respected for what they stand for, their intellectualism, and resilience to excel in the midst of the long-standing provocative and unbecoming imperialistic economic sanctions. The sanction is a self-ingratiating and self-centered ploy used to attempt to coerce the good people of Cuba into being subservient according to the whims and caprice of the USA. It is laughable and somewhat discombobulating and equally the height of hypocrisy when one realizes the negative rhetoric against the President of the Republic of Cuba, Dr. Fidel Castro. In fact, there is a Cuban-American terrorist group that operates from the US who has the most racist imperialistic agenda against the Republic of Cuba and has been responsible for murdering thousands of innocent and responsible Cuban citizens, and yet the Organization of American States (OAS), United States, United Nations and Caricom say nothing about it. Furthermore, these Cuban-American terrorists claim to be attempting to liberate Cuba with their racist, fascist agenda. It is clear that the selected international organization that is controlled by the US practice a form of selective discrimination against Cuba that leaves one in a state of shock.

According to Randy Alonso, the attempted United States hegemony pushed by the neo-fascist leadership that today rules the United States has a concrete expression in the attempt at cultural hegemony which the United States wants to impose on the rest of the world.

The continued detention of the five Cuban citizens (Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo; Ramón Labańino Salazar; Antonio Guerrero Rodriguez; Fernando Gonzalez; and Rene Gonzalez Sechwrert) is against international law. The imprisonment of these men is a clear example of how unjust the US system is and how they like to play games with people's lives. All these men were doing was trying to prevent terrorist attacks against their country. Why are the Cuban-American terrorists, who killed thousands of innocent Cubans, not in jail? According to Julio Garcia Espinosa, the relationship between Cuba and the United States has been one of “…aggression, all kinds of States terrorism ranging from blowing up airplanes in mid air, to funding attempts to assassinate President Fidel, publicly and officially stated, to funding an invasion of our country”.

Happily, President Fidel Castro has been able to stand up to these evil plots and has given hope and succor to the people of Cuba, and has achieved a deserved hero of the progressive world. The strength of President Fidel is in every Cuban, even those who do not like him. He has given his people strength, respect, dignity and honor against all the evil forces upon this earth. He is a testimony to tenacity. His formidable strength has made his adversaries rethink their mendacious propaganda in a very complex, ambiguous way. His enduring revolution is to constantly discern and destroy the mercurial face of evil so wicked in its deception that only President Fidel, a warrior of vision, could shield his country and his people from it. We must, and only we, who are true to the understanding of development and economic equality salute President Fidel Castro. He has defined what is good and noble in the human heart.

It is time the Americans come to accept just like the Cubans have accepted and embraced the enigma and intensity of the ideological conflagration embodied in Castro’s fight to bequeath an enduring and indelible legacy to the Cuban people: a legacy of a high level of literacy, egalitarianism, equal opportunity, self-restraint and chastity of the westerly perverted idiosyncrasy.

The Cuban story is a story that we and the progressive and the ever changing world must recognize the iniquity and unjust atrocities brought against the people of Cuba by the US just because they refuse to cooperate and allow foreign control of their destiny. We must learn from Cuba and understand that we are all victims of this global co-dependent neo-fascist agenda. The neo-fascist agenda is to subjugate us to a new sophisticated form of slavery and they have co-opted all of our law enforcement agencies. Hundreds of thousands of Caribbean men before they are 21 years old will have police records because we have adapted the neo-fascist criminal code system. We have been, in essence, criminalizing the Caribbean society for the interest of the imperialistic wolves. Our society is manufacturing criminals while in Cuba they are educating their citizens with dignity and nationalistic purposes.

Our society has gone into moral decadence orchestrated by the neo-fascist global agenda. We have been subjected and manipulated to a capitalistic, mercantile economic structure that has relegated our society to a glorified shopping center, while Cuba is a progressive and developing self-reliant nation that can truly attest that they are independent.

There is no solace and sanctuary in the US, especially looking at crime statistics one will be alarmed particularly in respect of the black and Hispanic males, in which 6 out of every 10 ends up in jail: this is wicked and something is wrong. The irony is that most of these crimes are committed by the Caucasians with only 20% ending up in jail. This same Black/Hispanic phenomenon that is played in the US is being instigated and modeled across the Caribbean in a vociferous manner, yet our leaders lackadaisically just sit back and do nothing. Caribbean law enforcement agencies have adapted one of the most vicious forms of criminalizing citizens through conspiracy, entrapment and evidence planting: an imperialistic modus operandi inherited from the US.

It is clear in the region that we are headed to a moral and economic chaos. So let us adapt the Cuban story as a model to revamp our country and region from the continued economic and social decadence.

April 11, 2009

Dr. Kevin Alcena is a former police officer turned economist and educator.