http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/22-05-2008/105296-usacampcuba-0
22.05.2008
USA launches new campaign against Cuba
Another intrusive and hypocritical campaign by Washington, a fine example of
the arrogance, belligerance and chauvinism which constitute the ABC of its
international relations. Under a cloak of "solidarity", Washington tries to
plant the tentacles of its imperialistic domination.
The campaign "Solidarity with Cuba", launched yesterday by Washington, is an
example of the cynicism and interference which have been the basis of this
murderous regime for decades. The campaign "Solidarity" includes, as it is to
be expected, references to the "democratization" of the Isle.
By "democratization", read "demonization".
The "democratization" of the United States of America, we have already seen in
Iraq, where Freedom and Democracy took the lives of hundreds of thousands of
innocent people, where in the name of Freedom and Democracy, they dropped
cluster bombs on residential areas, where Freedom and Democracy saw the
contents of Baghdad's museums written on inventories in Washington, before the
"war" began, by the supporters of the White House who wished to go shopping
without paying.
Baghdad, where Freedom and Democracy destroyed so many homes, burning families
alive, making laughing children orphans, leaving healthy children para- or
tetraplegic, choosing as military targets civilian structures. Freedom and
Democracy, distributing billionaire contracts without tender. Freedom and
Democracy, buzz words vomited forth for easy digestion by a population
deliberately kept ignorant and uneducated by the clique of corporative elitists
who gravitate around the White House, dictating its internal and external
policy, at the cost of the noble precepts of the Founding Fathers. While their
leaders grow fatter. While the prices of basic necessities spiral out of the
reach of more and more of the country's citizens. While growing millions in the
world outside die of starvation, in the year 2008.
But Havana does not need this Freedom and Democracy; the Cubans have their own
democratic institutions. The current political system was not imposed from
above, but rather, chosen freely in a public referendum in 1976. Every two
years, the delegates to the Municipal Assemblies are chosen by a free and fair
open democratic vote. Every five years, the delegates to the Provincial
Assemblies and the National Assembly of People's Power (Parliament) are chosen
in the same way. The voting process is secret, direct, respects the majority
will and the Communist Party neither proposes candidates, nor does it support
any candidate, nor does it intervene directly in the process.
Has Washington's free and democratic media ever informed anyone of these
details? Has it ever informed its public, who live in a regime so free and
democratic that they cannot even travel freely and democratically to Cuba to
spend some paradisiacal holidays, of the humanitarian aid that the Republic of
Cuba renders around the world in developing countries, in the areas of medicine
and healthcare and education, without any economic interest in return?
So let the leaders of the United States of America, when they deliver their
puerile, hollow and empty speeches and launch their Day of Solidarity with
Cuba, remember the great ethical and moral stain on this Isle, the enormous
outrage against human rights in the Antilles and the only blow against Freedom
and Democracy in Cuba - the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp, property of the
United States of America, the stage for scenes of torture and illegal
incarceration without due legal process on a scale unseen since the
Inquisition.
If this is the Freedom and Democracy that the United States of America wishes
to instal in Cuba, then thanks - but no thanks.
The naked truth is that the Cuban Revolution is the fruit of the sovereign will
of the Cuban People; Cuba protects and does not violate human rights, it is an
example of resistence and international solidarity and the victim of the
cruellest and most aggressive imperialist policies of the USA.
Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY
PRAVDA.Ru
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