Truth is a bitter pill to swallow: Lessons on the death of Fidel Castro

Razer rayzer at riseup.net
Sun Nov 27 18:43:32 PST 2016



On 11/27/2016 04:51 PM, Kurt Buff wrote:
> The thought that SA was unable or incompetent to stand up to the
> Mozambiquan/Cuban forces is untrue.
>
> The SA troops basically kicked the crap out of the Cuban forces
> whenever/wherever they met, but SA was pressured by the USA to back
> down, with the promise that the USA would fill in. Didn't happen, of
> course...
>
> Regardless, it would have been harder for SA if there had been much
> larger Cuban forces deployed - the engagements with Cuban forces were
> fought mostly with conscripts, with SA saving their regular troops for
> a possible larger conflict, which didn't eventuate.
>
> If it had brewed up, the quality of the SA forces (i.e., individual
> and small unit professionalism and discipline) would have been just
> fine, but logistics and supply, and warfighting doctrine and tactics
> would have presented real difficulties. SA at that time didn't train
> their forces at large scale, with the battalion being the permanent
> force size (vs. say the USA, where the division is the permanent unit
> size).
>
> This article (which makes the above mistake, is otherwise useful),
> gives a decent overview of Fidel Castro's life and tenure:
> http://libertyunbound.com/node/1631
>
> Kurt

A friend of mine emigrated to Cuba (White communist Irish citizen)
specifically to fight for UNITA as a machine gunner. He's in his 70s now
and claims it's the most import thing he ever did in his life.

I haven't thoroughly researched this article but the interweaving of
history regarding Cuba and it's internationalism is a refreshing thing
to see.

Rr

> On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Razer <rayzer at riseup.net> wrote:
>> From Facebook. A pretty definitive history of the Cuban Revolution:
>>
>> [Note: Sam "Momo" Giancana is mentioned in this article. Mike Ruppert
>> brought up one of his CUBAN MAFIA operations in "Crossing the Rubicon" as
>> Heroin smuggling to the docks in New Orleans. As Ruppert put it. Hardhat
>> divers would work the 'legs' of oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico off the
>> coast of Lousyanna removing containers of Heroin the CIA's hardhat divers
>> put there and bring it into port on the workboats. My dad, a regional
>> coordinator for the ADL in the SE US and US Army intel since WWII lit up
>> when I mentioned Giancana's name in passing ,,, Everyone in spookworld knew
>> this was happening. The Cubans who fled here when Castro took power were te
>> oligarchs, Mafioso affiliated with the CIA, and later, all the thugs Castro
>> released from prison and told to go to the US. Many are sitting in prisons
>> in the Southeast US for the rest of their lives for crimes committed in the
>> US and no place to exile them to... Tsk... tsk.]
>>
>> "Truth is a bitter pill to swallow: Lessons on the death of Fidel Castro and
>> his revolutionary freedom-fighter legacy in the world.
>>
>> (Please bear with me. I have tried to condense all the researched material,
>> but this is still a lengthy post..well worth the read though)
>>
>> History can be a very useful tool. The need to always research the truth,
>> and understand its relevance is the key to defeating fascism wherever its
>> ugly head pops up. The true revolution is the evolution of consciousness. If
>> you rely on the mainstream media or utterances of "elected" U.S. government
>> officials, you will never truly 'see', or understand, what is happening all
>> around you, nor will you ever break free of the chains of mental, as well as
>> economic and physical slavery.
>>
>> Cuba was one of the last colonial possessions under Spanish rule just 90
>> miles south of Florida. As Spain’s Imperial power was in decline, Washington
>> had imperial ambitions to expand its influence on Cuba. Cuba had the
>> potential to produce unlimited profits for U.S. business interests. Even
>> organized crime got into the picture when they became a major player in Cuba
>> in the early 1930’s. The Mafia managed to expand their gaming industry,
>> prostitution and drug trade operations to Cuba to avoid harassment from the
>> U.S. government [Citation: "Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and then
>> Lost it to the Revolution", an excellent expose of how the mafia operated in
>> Cuba, by T.J. English]. Cuba was to be their base of operations as they were
>> looking to expand into other Caribbean nations. During that time, Cuba was
>> under the leadership of President Fulgencio Batista, a good friend to
>> organized crime, who had close political ties to Washington and its
>> multinational corporations. Cuba became a cesspool of corruption, illegal
>> drugs and prostitution which became a playground for the rich and famous
>> while the majority of ordinary Cubans lived in extreme poverty. This is an
>> historical account of Cuba before 1959, a time period that explains why
>> Cuba’s Revolution was a long time in the making.
>>
>> We all know the story of how Cuban leader Fidel Castro established the first
>> communist state in the Western Hemisphere, leading an overthrow of the
>> corrupt military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959, ruling over Cuba
>> for nearly five decades, and irking the great American superpower after
>> nationalizing U.S.-owned businesses in Cuba without compensation since 1960.
>> What you don't know is what led to it.
>>
>> The U.S. has been intervening in Latin America since President James Monroe
>> established the Monroe Doctrine, a foreign policy that prevented European
>> powers from colonizing any sovereign nation in “their backyard”. Unable to
>> convert Spanish-controlled Cuba into a slave plantation to serve the
>> interests of the U.S. against the Confederacy in 1860, the U.S. Congress
>> eventually passed the ‘Teller Amendment’ in 1898 which did guarantee Cuba’s
>> independence but was replaced in 1901 by the ‘Platt Amendment’ which gave
>> Washington the power to intervene in Cuba if their interests were
>> threatened. By 1908, Cubans who fought against Spain created a new
>> independent political party but were oppressed and eventually massacred by
>> the U.S. backed Cuban government.
>>
>> The Partido Independiente de Color (PIC) was composed of former African
>> slaves and war veterans of the1896 Cuban War of Independence. The PIC won
>> enough votes that undermined the ruling liberal party under President José
>> Miguel Gómez. President Gomez ordered the party to disband under Cuban law
>> which outlawed any political party based on race although the law favored
>> white Cubans. The PIC staged a revolt under General Evaristo Estanoz.
>> However, General Jose de Jesus Monteagudo suspended constitutional rights
>> and ordered an attack against Afro-Cubans. The U.S. intervened and sent
>> troops to back President Gomez and protect its vital business interests.
>> More than 5,000 Afro-Cubans were massacred by lynch mobs because of their
>> skin color. All Afro-Cubans were under suspicion by the Gomez regime.
>> Several successions of Presidents eventually led to Batista whose first term
>> was benign. His second term was a different story though. Batista created an
>> anti-Communist secret police to silence the public with violence, torture
>> and public executions. It is estimated that there were between 10,000 to
>> 20,000 people murdered under the Batista regime with financial and military
>> support from the Washington.
>>
>> During Batista’s reign of terror, the "July 26 Movement" organized by Fidel
>> Castro and other anti-government groups throughout Cuba were forming a
>> rebellion against the Batista government. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. who was
>> a writer, historian, speechwriter and a Special Assistant to President John
>> F. Kennedy who worked primarily on Latin American issues analyzed Batista’s
>> Cuba on the president’s request and said:
>>
>> "The corruption of the government, the brutality of the police, the regime’s
>> indifference to the needs of the people for education, medical care,
>> housing, for social justice and economic justice is an open invitation to
>> revolution"
>>
>>
>> Batista was concerned about Castro so he ordered his secret police to
>> torture and murder people in public to install fear in the population in
>> case they were considering joining the growing revolution. Batista’s actions
>> only angered the Cuban people and increased support for the July 26
>> Movement. Many organizations joined the movement from all types of
>> backgrounds from the middle class including lawyers, doctors, accountants
>> and many others united with the poor (who were already fighting against
>> government forces).
>>
>> An attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago led by Fidel Castro was
>> defeated by Batista’s armed forces on July 26, 1953, but with the
>> handwriting on the wall, on December 11, 1958, U.S. Ambassador Earl Smith
>> told Batista that the United States could no longer support his government.
>> The U.S. denied Batista asylum and suggested that he go to Spain. On New
>> Year’s Eve party, Batista told his government officials that he was leaving
>> Cuba and flew to the Dominican Republic with between $300 and $700 million
>> according to various estimates. Portugal’s António Salazar, a dictator
>> allowed Batista to enter his country. By 1972, Batista settled in Marbella,
>> Spain where he eventually died of a heart attack.
>>
>> Setting aside the two-faced hilarious irony for a minute, whenever you hear
>> leaders of the United States describe another world leader as a "ruthless
>> brutal dictator", invariably it brings to mind several distinct
>> suppositions. The basic one is that this leader must be someone who
>> successfully resisted attempts by the U.S. to infiltrate, pillage and
>> exploit that country's mineral resources. It is the height of hypocrisy for
>> any American politician, given the brutal history of the United States, as
>> well as its present ruthless racist practices, to condemn, or see fit to
>> criticize, the internal policies of another nation. The secondary one is
>> that the 'offending party' must be one who defied the U.S. to an
>> exasperating point of submission. Without the efforts of Fidel Castro, South
>> African Apartheid, as we knew it, would never have ended. Don't buy into the
>> American false narratives that "protests" by liberals in the U.S. was
>> instrumental in the fall of Apartheid. If protesting and marching ever
>> produced significant results, racism would have been a thing of the past a
>> long time ago. Hell, we've been marching for hundreds of years.......still
>> marching.
>>
>> "638 Ways to Kill Castro" is a Channel 4 documentary film, broadcast in the
>> United Kingdom on November 28, 2006, which tells the story of some of the
>> numerous attempts by the C.I.A. to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Fabian
>> Escalante, the former Head of the Intelligence Directorate, and the man who
>> had the job of protecting Castro for many of the 49 years he was in power,
>> alleges that there were over 600 plots and conspiracies known to Cuban
>> agents, all dreamt up to end Castro's life. Some were perpetrated directly
>> by the C.I.A., especially during the first half of the 1960s, and others,
>> from the seventies onwards, made by Cuban exiles who had been trained by the
>> C.I.A. shortly after Castro took power in 1959.
>>
>> Directed by Dollan Cannell and produced executively by Peter Moore, the
>> film, whose subtext is a commentary on the contemporary "War on Terror",
>> also contains extensive material shot with Antonio Veciana, the Cuban exile
>> who came close to killing Castro on three occasions over 17 years (and now
>> runs a 'marine supplies store' in Miami). All these men, the film reveals,
>> were supported and funded by the U.S. government. At one point the C.I.A.
>> even sought the help of the Mafia in the hope they would be able to succeed
>> where so many others had failed. Other characters in the documentary are
>> Cuban exile Félix Rodríguez, the C.I.A. operative who trained Cuban exiles
>> for the Bay of Pigs invasion, and who was present when the Bolivian Army
>> killed Che Guevara in 1967 at the request of the Bolivian President at the
>> time, and Enrique Ovares, possibly the first man to make an attempt on
>> Castro's life after he took power. Robert Maheu is also interviewed, the
>> Hughes associate who served as liaison between the C.I.A. and mobsters
>> "Johnny" Roselli and Sam "Momo" Giancana, in another plot to kill Castro,
>> this time using poison pills.
>>
>> In 2006, the documentary was the center of a controversy surrounding U.S.
>> Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. In it the Miami Republican, who had been
>> recently tapped to become the top Republican on the House International
>> Relations Committee, states "I welcome the opportunity of having anyone
>> assassinate Fidel Castro and any leader who is oppressing the people." A
>> clip of her statement made its way to YouTube where the newsmedia quickly
>> picked up the story. There was a subsequent public questioning of
>> Ros-Lehtinen's morals and suitability for her job. She responded by
>> asserting that the clip was spliced together and that it was taken out of
>> context, but after her account was contested by the film's director, she
>> eventually released a statement, on Christmas Eve, accepting that she had
>> made the remark.
>>
>> It is mind-boggling that America, a country which brutally murdered upwards
>> of 100 million Native-Americans, stole their land, raped their womenfolk and
>> children, and all but ethnically-cleansed them from the face of the
>> earth....a nation which gleefully engaged in a repressive African Slave
>> trade Holocaust which saw the violent deaths of up to 50 million Africans,
>> and led to the forced labor, and Jim Crow laws that resulted in the
>> emergence of America as a 16th century global power through the tobacco and
>> cotton international trade, and continues to marginalize, exploit, murder
>> people of African descent, and exploit African mineral resources, till
>> today....a Republic that dropped the first, and only nuclear weapons on
>> Japan, killing up to a quarter of a million people within days, and almost
>> that much in the resulting radiation fallout which lasted years.....a nation
>> that dropped 280 million cluster bombs on Laos, a country with which it
>> wasn't even at war, a country that has invaded or bombed over 90 countries,
>> would have the arrogant temerity and sagging cojones to dissect the policies
>> of another sovereign nation.
>>
>> Until the fall of the Portuguese dictatorship in 1974, apartheid in South
>> Africa was secure. There was no substantial resistance anywhere in southern
>> Africa. Pretoria’s neighbors comprised of buffer zones that protected the
>> racist regime: Namibia, their immediate neighbor which they had occupied for
>> 60 years; white-ruled Rhodesia; and the Portuguese-ruled colonies of Angola
>> and Mozambique. The rebels who fought against minority rule in each of these
>> countries, operating without any safe haven to organize and train, were
>> powerless to challenge the status quo.
>>
>> South Africa’s apartheid buffer, supported by the United States of America
>> for economic purposes, would have remained intact for the foreseeable
>> future, solidifying apartheid and preventing any significant opposition, but
>> for one man: Fidel Castro.
>>
>> In October of 1975, South Africa invaded Angola at the behest of the U.S.
>> government to overthrow the left-wing Popular Movement for the Liberation of
>> Angola (MPLA) in the soon-to-be independent country. Without Cuban
>> assistance, the apartheid army would have easily cruised into Luanda,
>> crushed the MPLA, and installed a puppet government friendly to the
>> apartheid regime. Afraid of having a government staunchly opposed to white
>> domination so close to home, South Africa rushed to prevent
>> self-determination for the Angolans. They were aided by U.S. Secretary of
>> State Henry Kissinger, who believed the threat of black liberation in
>> Africa, which would lead to local control of their own resources at the
>> expense of foreign investors, could still be contained.
>>
>> Bear in mind that at the same time the C.I.A. were engaged in another brutal
>> massacre in South America, intended to eradicate communist or Soviet
>> influence and ideas, and suppress active or potential opposition known as
>> "Operation Condor", a campaign of political repression and state terror
>> involving intelligence operations and assassinations of up to 70,000
>> opponents, which started in 1968, but "officially" implemented in 1975, by
>> the right-wing dictatorships of South American countries. To understand how
>> an individual, group, entity or State, operates, you have to think in
>> parallel terms. It will better illustrate the patterns of action that
>> individual/entity/State operates under. In addition, the rest of the world
>> was still aghast and in shock over the American annihilation of almost half
>> a million Japanese civilians. Operation Condor's key members were the
>> governments in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil. The
>> U.S. government provided technical support and supplied military aid to the
>> participants until at least 1978, and again after Republican Ronald Reagan
>> became President in 1981. Such support was frequently routed through the
>> Central Intelligence Agency.
>> South Africa launched an invasion to topple the MPLA and install the
>> guerilla Jonas Savimbi, leader of the National Union for the Total
>> Independence of Angola (UNITA), the smallest and least popular of the three
>> groups, as a puppet dictator in Angola. Savimbi, a collaborator with the
>> Portuguese dictatorship before Angolan independence, was known for his
>> ruthlessness, terrorism, and hunger for power. An avowed anti-communist who
>> had already aligned with South Africa, Savimbi would have made the perfect
>> Angolan facade for apartheid control, and undoubtedly, had he prevailed,
>> would have been touted by the U.S. as " a hero".
>>
>> Agostinho Neto, the President of Angola, and distinguished poet who has led
>> the MPLA since 1962, appealed to Cuba to send troops to ward off the
>> apartheid army’s invasion. On November 4, 1975, Castro agreed. Several days
>> later the first Cuban special forces troops boarded planes for Angola, where
>> they would launch "Operation Carlota".
>>
>> Research the Battles of Quifangondo and Ebo to fully understand the impact
>> of the Cuban victory, and how its effects resonated far beyond the
>> battlefield. More important than the strategic gain, the victory of black
>> Cuban and Angolan troops against the whites South African racist army
>> shattered the illusion of white invincibility.
>>
>> A South African military analyst described the meaning of his country’s
>> defeat: “The reality is that they have won, are winning, and are not White;
>> and that psychological edge, that advantage the White man has enjoyed and
>> exploited over 300 years of colonialism and empire, is slipping away. White
>> elitism has suffered an irreversible blow in Angola, and Whites who have
>> been there know it.” [cited by Piero Gleijeses]
>>
>> Cuba’s 30,000-man strong military intervention in Angola managed to change
>> the course of that country and reverberate throughout Africa. By ensuring
>> independence from the white supremacists, Angola was able to preserve its
>> own revolution and maintain its role as a base for armed resistance groups
>> fighting for liberation in nearby countries.
>>
>> The Americans were furious. “Kissinger’s response to Castro’s intervention
>> was to throw mercenaries and weapons at the problem,” Gleijeses writes.
>> [Citation: Gleijeses, Piero. Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and
>> Africa, 1959-1976 (Envisioning Cuba). The University of North Carolina
>> Press, 2002].
>>
>> The U.S. Secretary of State was afraid that after their successful
>> intervention in Angola, Cuba would put the rest of the racist regimes in the
>> region in jeopardy:
>>
>> “We can’t say Rhodesia is not a danger because it is a bad case. If the
>> Cubans are involved there, Namibia is next and after that South Africa,
>> itself … If the Cubans move, I recommend we act vigorously. We can’t permit
>> another move without suffering a great loss.” [Citation: “National Security
>> Council Meeting, 4/7/1976” of the National Security Adviser’s NSC Meeting
>> File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. (pg. 21)
>> http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/…/document/0312/1552402.pdf]
>> Sore losers that they were, after losing the war, in 1978, the South African
>> SADF massacred 600 unarmed Namibians at a refugee camp in Cassinga, but the
>> U.S. opposed any sanctions against them in the UN Security Council as the
>> apartheid government kept up its relentless fight for survival. Throughout
>> the 1980's Angola was subjected to various incursions and invasions by South
>> Africa confrontations which climaxed in the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale in
>> late 1987. With the military confrontation raging, talks started between
>> Angola, Cuba and South Africa, with the United States moderating, in London
>> in early 1988. In instructions to the Cuban delegation, Castro reflected on
>> the South Africans and American mindset.
>>
>> “The fact they have accepted this meeting in London at such a high level
>> shows that they are looking for a way out because they have seen our advance
>> and are saying, ‘How is it that Cuba has converted itself into the
>> liquidator of Apartheid and the liberator of Africa?’ That’s what is
>> worrying the Americans, they’re going to say: ‘They’re going to defeat South
>> Africa!” Castro said. [Citation: Instructions to the Cuban Delegation for
>> the London Meeting, ‘Indicaciones concretas del Comandante en Jefe que
>> guiarán la actuación de la delegación cubana a las conversaciones de Luanda
>> y las negociaciones de Londres (April 22, 1988)’]
>>
>> Castro also told his delegation that the goal was not to pursue a war or
>> military victory, but to achieve negotiations over SADF withdrawal from
>> Angola and implementation of Resolution 435, which would grant independence
>> to Namibia. “They should know that we are not playing games, that our
>> position is serious and that our objective is peace,” he said. President
>> Reagan administration's efforts to seek modification of United Nations
>> resolution 435 on Namibia to allow South African a say, received a serious
>> rebuff from Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Tanzanian President
>> Julius Nyerere, until eager to keep doing business with the mineral
>> resource-rich Angola, and surreptitiously keep funding other brigands in
>> nearby Congo, the U.S. succumbed.
>>
>> In the American version of Cold War history, Cuba was carrying out
>> aggression and acting as proxies of the Soviet Union. Were it not for one
>> persistent and meticulous scholar, we might never have known that these are
>> nothing more than dishonest fabrications. In his monumental books
>> “Conflicting Missions” and “Visions of Freedom,” historian Piero Gleijeses
>> uses thousands of documents from Cuban military archives, as well as U.S.
>> and South African archives, to recount a dramatic, historical confrontation
>> between tiny Cuba and Washington and its ally apartheid South Africa.
>> Gleijeses is the only foreign scholar to have gained access to the closed
>> Cuban archives. He obtained thousands of pages of documents, and made them
>> available to the Wilson Center Digital Archive, which has posted the
>> invaluable collection online.
>>
>> Gleijeses’s research made possible a look behind the curtain at one of the
>> most remarkable acts of "internationalism" of the century.
>> “Internationalism, (or the duty to help others), was at the core of the
>> Cuban revolution,” Gleijeses writes. “For Castro’s followers, and they were
>> legion, this was not rhetoric. By 1975, approximately 1,000 Cuban aid
>> workers had gone to a dozen African countries, South Yemen, and North
>> Vietnam. In 1976-77, technical assistance was extended to Jamaica and Guyana
>> in the Western Hemisphere; to Angola, Mozambique, and Ethiopia in Africa;
>> and to Laos in Asia....all places that had suffered bombings and illegal
>> incursions at the hands of the U.S.
>> Even the C.I.A. noted: "The Cuban technicians are primarily involved in
>> rural development and educational and public health projects... areas in
>> which Cuba has accumulated expertise and has experienced success at home."
>> [Gleijeses, Piero. Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the
>> Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991. The University of North Carolina
>> Press, 2013].
>> The fight against apartheid, for the liberation of people who suffered for
>> centuries under colonialism and racial subjugation, was truly a David versus
>> Goliath conflict. In addition to having a strong military itself and being
>> armed with Israeli-supplied nuclear weapons, South Africa enjoyed the
>> diplomatic support of the United States, the world’s largest superpower. Of
>> course, this was because the main industries propping up the evil Apartheid
>> regime were American corporations. Within this context, Cuba’s
>> intervention....a poor Caribbean island under relentless attack from a
>> racist juggernaut backed by the world’s leading imperial power, is even more
>> remarkable.
>>
>> Explaining how the significance of Cuba’s role in Angola is “without
>> precedent,” Gleijeses writes: “No other Third World country has projected
>> its military power beyond its immediate neighborhood. The engine was Cuba.
>> It was the Cubans who pushed the Soviets to help Angola. It was they who
>> stood guard in Angola for many long years, thousands of miles from home, to
>> prevent the South Africans from overthrowing the MPLA government.” He notes
>> that while the Soviet Union later sent aid and weapons, they never would
>> have become involved unless Castro had taken the lead (which he did in spite
>> of Russian opposition):
>>
>> In Castro's Cuba, $1 could buy half a pint of milk, a month's childcare for
>> one toddler and a box at the opera to see the visiting Bolshoi Ballet, and
>> with one of the best healthcare systems in the world, cures for certain
>> forms of cancer (which currently cost about one dollar in Cuba), Cuba's
>> defiance, spanning the span of 11 U.S. presidencies, finally brought America
>> to its knees as President Obama recently restored diplomatic relations with
>> its hated enemy, after over half a century of enduring tactics the Gestapo
>> would have been proud of. As usual, salivating over anticipated profits for
>> Big-Pharma, what passes for American morality has been superseded by
>> prevalent greed. It didn't assuage the much-vaunted American arrogance,
>> either, that Russians had already signed a deal to drill for oil off the
>> Cuban coast where Havana says there may be 20 billion barrels of oil,
>> although the U.S. estimates there are only five billion barrels.
>>
>> So in conclusion, do these actions seem to you, the actions of a "brutal
>> dictator" who cares nothing for the well-being of people? Whenever you read,
>> or hear that Castro, or anyone else for that matter, was "a menace and
>> brutal dictator", do your own research. People all around the world are
>> lamenting the passing of this bearded revolutionary hero, who survived a
>> crippling U.S. trade embargo as well as hundreds, of assassination plots for
>> half a century. Castro overcame imprisonment at the hands of dictator
>> Fulgencio Batista, exile in Mexico and a disastrous start to his rebellion
>> before triumphantly riding into Havana in January 1959 to become, at age 32,
>> the youngest leader in Latin America. For decades, he served as an
>> inspiration and source of support to revolutionaries spanning Latin America
>> to Africa. There is not a dry eye in Cuba, and many parts of the world
>> today, and a 9-day period of mourning has been declared in Havana. The only
>> ones rejoicing....well, you know it, the Americans, Cuban exile descendants
>> of the Batista-era elite, and lapdog governments of France and Britain...as
>> well as those who, either have something to gain from this news, or lacking
>> historical context, just don't know any better.
>>
>> My footnote to the sordid tale of the Portugues-South African-American
>> pillaging of Angola is that 40 years later, Portugal is broke...and Angola,
>> crude oil-rich, graciously came to the rescue of their former brutal
>> colonial oppressor, paying off their foreign debts. That is the true African
>> spirit. America should borrow a page from the book of African humanity
>> before it's too late....but in true 'Murices fashion, are busy draining
>> Namibia of its uranium, Congo of its Coltan, and Botswana of its diamonds.
>> Let it be known......Castro was a true hero.
>>
>> [Acknowledgements to Global Research from which portions of this post is
>> extracted].
>>
>> Images at the Facebook public post:
>> https://www.facebook.com/tokunboh.jiboque/posts/10154719863578134
>>

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