Good essay on the bearded bastard in Havana.
CUBA; WHAT WILL HAPPEN?
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Unless there is adequate preparation well in advance, the day Fidel, the Great Cockroach, dies, the chance to change the form of government in Cuba will be lost. His death, in my opinion, will not create a vacuum. He'll die a world renowned hero and the government in charge in Havana will be prepared to take full advantage of it. There will be a great funeral parade with heads of state from all over the world in attendance. It will take more than words to bring back a democratic form of Government, more than wishful thinking, more than Blogs and letters.
I think that there will be a brief chance and if it is missed, it will take fifty times the effort at any other time. The uprising has to be so quick and spontaneous that Havana cannot react fast enough, but they are most likely already prepared for such an eventuality. Will the Army shoot at the people and cause a bloodbath?
WHAT IF THEY GAVE A PEACE PARADE TO CUBA AND EVERYONE CAME?
What if a huge flotilla of boats were ready to head across the straits to Cuba, a huge Peace Parade by sea, to show soldarity with the Cubans who wish to throw off the yoke of tyranny? What if? The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard would warn them to turn back, but they too would have to be prepared for such an eventuality.
Imagine, in all this time not a single newspaper has taken the iniative to expose the lies, deceit, and fraud that has been perpetuated on the world for 46 years! Here is what makes it so obvious, but the Liberal Media, those fellow-traveling-cockroaches, have not paid THE SLIGHTEST BIT OF ATTENTION TO IT:
1) The public transportation system is below standard even for Third World countries. It is a total mess. Horse and wagon transportation is common in rural areas, far behind that of any Central or South American country. Trucks, with people standing up, are used between cities, dangerously unsafe in all respects. People cling to the sides of buses in the larger cities.
2) The classic old buildings and homes have fallen into disrepair or total collapse from neglect, most of them now unsalvageable. Living conditions are horrendous. Cubans live in buildings that are on the verge of collapse. Many areas look like Europe after the war.
3) Cattle exports, and the meat and hide business, a successful and homegrown industry since the arrival of Columbus, one that needed no outside support in the past, has gone downhill since Castro arrived. Those ranchers who weren't executed, fled. The industry is in a shambles, devastated by Havana's false ideology.
4) The sugarcane industry is down severely due to the gross mismanagement and ineptitude in Havana. It cannot recover under this type of control from a central planning (what plans?) and lack of managerial skills.
5) The Cuban peso is not exchangeable, the only currency in the world without an equivalent value in foreign countries.
A.Cuba's International Debt; is in the hundreds of billions, to every trading partner and there is no way that any economist can see that it will be paid off. They have lived on credit for 46 years, the largess of other nations either intentionally (USSR) or unintentionally (Australia, etc.), and they have no prospects of earning enough to pay off those debts. It is impossible, and a single mental incompetent is responsible, fidelito, la Cucaracha Grande.
6) The water and sewerage system is in serious trouble from neglect and failure of supervisory personnel.
7) The electricity is at an all-time low and there is no way those who supervise it can bring it back up. Again, mismanagement and lack of proper planning has allowed the more than adequate system they inherited from prior governments to fail.
8) The infra-structure of the country has completely deteriorated, and estimates are that it will cost $80 billion to rebuild it. Again, total mismanagement is obvious.
9) Private farms are long gone, but with a little incentive those farmers could have grown enough fruit and vegetables to supplement the diet of ordinary Cubans, vegetarian perhaps, but certainly better than what they have now.
10) The fishing industry has been practically destroyed, because any fisherman with common sense who puts to sea will head for the coast of Florida.
11) Child labor is rampant, but it is sponsored by the government itself. Liberals ignore it because in socialist systems, everyone is supposed to work happily, even children. Instead, Liberals go to Vietnam and check out/monitor Nike, Adida, etc.
12) Mechanized farming is at an all time low, probably even over the past 100 years.
13) 46 years into socialism and everyone still needs a ration book, but they cannot even fulfill the minimum quotas for Cuba's people. Using animals for plowing is not uncommon. Aging equipment has not been replaced again due to mismanagement, similar to the extreme waste in the USSR under socialized farming systems.
14) Even imprisonments of dissenters cannot keep them quiet, and discontent is nation-wide in Cuba. (Freedom of the Press? Heavens, they love Castro, La Cucaracha Grande too much, I guess.)
15) The success of the much-touted Heath Care industry has been nothing but a monstrous lie for years by the world's biggest wind-bag, and a study of the system would expose the overwhelming failures with very few successes.
THE FAILURE IS SO OBVIOUS THAT IT IS LUDICROUS FOR THE MEDIA TO IGNORE...
18) Nothing works from the top on down except the motor-mouth of La Cucaracha Grande, and it has been moving at top speed since 1959.
17) The only successes in Cuba since 1959 have been Capitalist investments and the tourist industry they've built up. Nothing else. Nothing.
18) The Cuban people are underfed, undernourished, underclothed, underpaid and constantly under duress. They suffer from privation in all sectors and in all manner of ways. It is an international crime, and the criminal in charge is LA CUCARACHA GRANDE, a monster in every way, but Hollywood's favorite tyrant.
It seems to me that if the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Boston Globe or Chicago Tribune had editors who used half an ounce of their brains (and that would be expecting a lot) to think about it, they'd have reporters covering Cuba at every level and they'd gain Pulitzer Prize material for exposing the problems both in Havana, and Island wide, but they are simply too liberal to expose the failings of any liberal or socialist system. Knee-jerk wonders at the helm, ball-less staff members below.
Amateur Bloggers are quite adequately doing their job for them, but they won't pay attention to them. Seemingly they lack the common sense to use this easily available material for a research base, and then from there move into more fertile fields of endeavor on the island itself. Or is that too dangerous for them? The last series about a ten year old girl boxer in the L.A. Times showed just how far down the old rag has fallen. No wonder the editor resigned; I hope they cancelled his pension or at least cut it in half. I'd have resigned after that world-shaking bit too.
The balseros desperately keep heading out to sea, but the nation's editors still won't go against the liberal mantra, believing that a murderous tyrannical fascist dictator can do no wrong, as long as it is done in the name and under the guise of socialism!
The 15,000 he has executed, and the 80,000 who have met their deaths in the sea between Cuba and Florida mean nothing to them, not even a tear, not a sigh, because La Cucaracha Grande es una socialista.
Many Bloggers and others have contributed to my knowledge of the above, and there are many to list, but each one of them refers you to another:
www.babalublog.com
www.therealcuba.com
George Moreno, Rafael, Agustin Blasquez, killcastro, Mario...
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