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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: X Y Zebra who wrote (3739)	4/30/2000 11:26:00 AM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

Yes, some of them sound a lot like clergy, don't they. Well perhaps all will be pleased if i say i lean to support of the DARistas - the thought-challenged will assume that means the Daughters of the american revolucion but you will know it stands for the ama/deni/zons of Don't Ask Rambi -g- The embargo ..... wow, eh ... it is useful to go back to where it started, to investigate what forces led to the original decision to impose it ... here is one of few brief papers which touch on one of the most important factors - the attitude of invincibility encouraged by, among other things, the successful taking of Guatemala for United Fruit - cs.mun.ca [about one quarter of the way down the page] "The Guatemalan adventure can be seen as another of the factors that lead the American government to believe that it could handle Castro. Before the Second World War ended, a coup in Guatemala saw the rise to power of Juan Jose Ar‚valo. He was not a communist in the traditional sense of the term, but he ". . . packed his government with Communist Party members and Communist sympathizers."(15) In 1951 Jacobo Arbenz succeeded Ar‚valo after an election in March of that year. The party had been progressing with a series of reforms, and the newly elected leader continued with these reforms. During land reforms a major American company, the United Fruit Company, lost its land and other holdings without any compensation from the Guatemalan government. When the Guatemalans refused to go to the International Court of Law, United Fruit began to lobby the government of the United States to take action. In the government they had some very powerful supporters. Among them were Foster Dulles, Secretary of State who had once been their lawyer, his brother Allen the Director of Central Intelligence who was a share holder, and Robert Cutler head of the National Security Council.(16) In what was a clear conflict of interest, the security apparatus of the United States decided to take action against the Guatemalans. From May 1st, 1954, to June 18th, the Central Intelligence Agency did everything in its power to overthrow the government of Arbenz. On June 17th to the 18th, it peaked with an invasion of 450 men lead by a Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas. With the help of air support the men took control of the country and Arbenz fled to the Mexican Embassy. By June 27th, the country was firmly in control of the invading force. (17) With its success in Guatemala, CIA had the confidence that it could now take on anyone who interfered with American interests." In this paper it is mentioned as a factor in the Bay of Pigs invasion decision, which along with the embargo and other assorted hostilities led to the '62 missile crisis, et cetera ... these are all part of the picture ... everything leads to everything else - the corruption of power realised by the US in their capture of Guatemala leads in very few and easily demonstrable steps to the corruption of power realised by L zaro et al in their capture of Eli n. Yes, important to talk to cubanos ... equally important is to listen to them. And while few are capable of listening, i think their numbers increase with time.