Cuba - a stance

In our backyard, one of the most atrocious crimes to humanity is taking place, the blind eye being shown by strong, influential brothers and sisters widening the divide with their persistent non-chalance. The battle stage is set for a revolution of unimagined proportions as the world prepares, unfortunately, seemingly without intention of intervention, for USA v Castro. If you think the illegalities of Guantánamo are horrendous, inhumane and treacherously contradictory to any human rights laws established by so called developed nations, wait for the unleashing of $80m USD by the Bush Administration on the last bastion of successful socialism. A catastrophe has been announced and the world, not surprisingly, sits in bated breath for the show to begin.

This cannot be allowed to take place. Where are the lobbyists? The Bush Administration, by no coincidence, decided to ‘abide’ by the Geneva Convention and allow the human beings who are offered no recourse to life, prisoners existing in cages, tortured, under-nourished if fed at all, access to their human rights. What? The world has stood by and let this happen for countless years, the Cuban Government itself unable to defeat and purge the disgusting habits of the Government of the USA from their land. Upon the heels of this revelation, this gesture of concordance, nothing more than an obvious political smoke screen, comes the offering of the century: aid to the effect of $80m USD, to restore democracy to a land that has not known democracy for the last 50 odd years, a land whose life is a Socialist one, who has gained the respect of the international community, of Caricom, a country who has contributed immensely to the global cultural trends sweeping the world, (who doesn’t own a Che t-shirt?) who’s contribution to the medical field is unsurpassed in comparison to nations of its size, moreover, its imposed disposition, a Patria depended upon by many countries for the expertise of its doctors and nurses, a willing, if not usually the first nation to offer its people for humanitarian projects in Africa, South America and the Caribbean. Let us not forget the backbone of baseball – faux cricket – Cubans.

What does the world believe the Government of the USA will do when Castro is gone? I don’t recall any Cuban politician, or official representative asking for help from them, especially in establishing a proven failed political system, whose root begets some of the biggest problems we face today as a global society. Capitalism is a dangerous by product of human greed. Is this what the American Government want to install in Cuba? What business is it of theirs? Is this Bush’s last ‘achievement’ as a failed President? Hasn’t he done enough damage already, uprooted enough families, and killed enough people worldwide? Are we going to allow him to come in to our neighbourhood with a bag of sweets to start a process of decay?

I for one certainly hope that as a true Caribbean Community, we shall NOT let this take place. They have made their stance, the American government brandishing the only true WMD – USD - and we shall make ours. Let us unite, with the strength of our neighbouring South American Superpowers, yes, let us unite, Chavez, surely will not sit still at the thought of such a blatant threat to Cuba, a country that redefined the ideals of accepted social politics. A country that has proven that life does not have to imitate the emptiness of a land distraught by the ulcers of capitalism.

It is evident what the millions of wasted USD will be going towards. To wage war to satisfy decades of hurt American male pride is ghastly, but to sit back and let this happen in our backyard is even worse.