This is going to be interesting:
Ailing revolutionary icon Fidel Castro permanently gave up the Cuban presidency on Tuesday, ending five decades of ironclad rule of the island marked by his brash defiance of the United States.
In a message published by the online version of the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma, the 81-year-old Castro said he would not seek the presidency again when it is decided later this week.
"I neither will aspire to nor will I accept -- I repeat -- I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the Council of State and commander-in-chief," Castro wrote, almost 19 months after undergoing intestinal surgery and handing power temporarily to his brother Raul Castro.
You can bet our government is working hard to try and get in there to push democracy. Of course Raul Castro will be the official President, and he is expected to continue on with Fidel's rule.
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jamie,
You said:
"You can bet our government is working hard to try and get in there to push democracy. "
This statement goes against a century of US history.
As you know it was the US's grinding brutal tyranny (of Batista) with all of his torture and prisons loaded with political prisoners while the enslaved populace ate the dirt of US corporate agribusiness that was overthrown by the Cuban revolution.
In the past half century the Corporate ruled US, its military and covert agencies, and their mercenaries have worked non-stop to overthrow all democracies of nations with free elections but too weak to defend themselves while not directly protected by one of the other nuclear powers. Once accomplished then the government was to be replaced with a brutal tyranny mercilessly inflicting the will of US corporate rulers (think Iran, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Chile, Iraq, and a long list of others.)
As you also know but forgot to mention Cuba already has a democracy which is probably more free than any other country could be while suffering 48 years of existential threats, unrelenting infiltration, sabotage, war crimes and terrorism not to mention the grinding poverty that comes to a nation subjected to embargo, blockade, coerced isolation and other economic terrorism.
It is true that the US will almost certainly accelerate this "pushing of democracy" which is a euphemism for tyranny and slavery. When colonization got a bad name after resulting in two world wars it had to be continued through covert means and pretense, tools the US has used with unparalleled expertise.
Everyone should worry about what will happen to the Cuban people with Castro gone. Look at the massive suffering of the people of Central America, Chile and Mexico. Is that what awaits the Cubans?
The only decent policy to pursue now is to eliminate all sanctions, to pay reparations, to stay out (pull out the coverts) and to leave them alone.
If you were speaking "tongue in cheek" my apologies.
JK
Yeah I was speaking tongue in cheek. The whole "push democracy" thing always gets me. Nice read there - thanks.
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