Economic Blockade Attempts to Turn Cuba into US Colony

[Mika]

Economic Blockade Attempts to Turn Cuba into US Colony
http://www.ain.cubaweb.cu/idioma/ingles/2010/1018Economic-Blockade-Attempts-to-Turn-Cuba-into-US-Colony.htm
By Néstor Núñez

The economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by Washington against Cuba half a century ago, has been dirty work since its beginning. The early imperial measures in cutting Cuba´s sugar quote, closure of the sale of oil and transportation equipment, end of the food and medicine supplies and the successive persecution in the island´s efforts in opening to new markets, was due to satisfy the hate of the extreme right wing elements in Miami whose senseless privileges were affected by the triumph of the Revolution.

Washington officially imposed the blockade with the interests of the allied counterrevolutionary elements based in southern Florida. We must recall that in 1959, after the Revolutionary government signed the Agrarian Reform Law that banned the large landowners and handed over the lands to those that worked it, US business executives were threatened to stop doing business with the island.

In early 1960, President Dwight Eisenhower authorized the CIA to support the right wing groups in Miami that opposed the Revolution, while the US electric, textile and rice companies based in Cuba began reducing their operations on the island. All bilateral commercial operation was ended in 1964.

During the 1970´s when Havana established ties with some branches of US firms based in third countries, Florida Senators paid by the extreme right wing Cuban American elements, like Robert Graham and Connie Mack immediately reacted against the slight opening that was finally ended.

The terrorist Cuban American National Foundation, paid large sums of money
to Legislator Robert Torricelli to impose the bill that in 1992 strengthened the already existing restrictions of sales of medicine and food to the island through US subsidiaries.

In 1994, the late president of the Cuban American National Foundation, Jorge Mas Canosa, warned foreign firms that they would suffer the consequences if doing business Cuba.

The Helms Burton Law came 24 months later destined at tightening the economic blockade against Cuba right after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the socialist community in Eastern Europe, imposing the extraterritorial nature of the new law with those that did business on the island.

Meanwhile, there is strong opposition by Cuban born Congressional Representatives tied to terrorism and violence when there are any discussions to ease the anti Cuban policy. These anti Cuban elements are responsible for the severe restrictions of the sale of US agricultural products to Cuba which was authorize in 2000 by the US Congress after the passing of a strong hurricane which affected
the island´s agriculture.

The conclusion is evident. The economic blockade is a genocidal measure imposed by two executioners with a common cause: the most reactionary and brutal of US official policy, alongside the counterrevolutionary groups in which, inside US soil has not stopped attempting to turn Cuba back into a US colony.

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Hello to all my friends and fellow truthseekers. :hi:

:grouphug:

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[flamingdem]

1. There will be an attempt to push through lifting of travel restrictions in the lame duck

.. that would help.

[EFerrari]

2. Mika! WB!

:hi:

[Mika]

4. Thanks.

Nice to be back. :hi:

[Judi Lynn]

3. Good to see this commentary by Néstor Núñez.

Great photo. It looks very cold in that Ecuadorean region. Thanks for posting it.

Hope your trip was a good one, Mika. :hi:

[Mika]

5. At the high elevations it does get cold.

The trip was good. Especially the getting home part.

:hi:

[Billy Burnett]

6. Thanks for posting this.

Glad to see you back at it.

:hi:

[social_critic]

7. A lot of this would have been avoided if Fidel had not been so arrogant

If Fidel Castro had held elections, and allowed a true democracy to emerge after Batista fled, and if he had the common sense to implement changes after thinking very well about the consequences of his actions, then Cuba could have remained a rich nation, and also free and democratic on top. But he wrecked it. And now, 50 years later, he comes out and admits their system doesn´t work. Too bad it took him so long to understand just how wrong he has been.

[Billy Burnett]

8. Welcome.

Good to see another malinformed Cuba "expert" here.
It is a piece of cake posting here.
When in doubt, blame Castro. When not in doubt, blame Castro.
See? Easy. (And productive too.)

:rofl:


Hey Sherlock, why not go thru this whole thread to read the old tired accusations before you regurgitate them (again) ...

Electoral Process Continues Smoothly Nationwide (Election season kickoff in Cuba)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=405x31936

[social_critic]

10. I was born in Cuba

Malinformed doesn´t exactly apply to me. I was there.

[Billy Burnett]

11. So was ...

[dipsydoodle]

12. And so was Luis Posada Carriles

Washington D.C. May 18, 2005 - The National Security Archive today posted additional documents that show that the CIA had concrete advance intelligence, as early as June 1976, on plans by Cuban exile terrorist groups to bomb a Cubana airliner. The Archive also posted another document that shows that the FBI's attache in Caracas had multiple contacts with one of the Venezuelans who placed the bomb on the plane, and provided him with a visa to the U.S. five days before the bombing, despite suspicions that he was engaged in terrorist activities at the direction of Luis Posada Carriles.

Both documents were featured last night on ABC Nightline's program on Luis Posada Carriles, who was detained in Miami yesterday by Homeland Security.

In addition, the Archive posted the first report to Secretary of State Kissinger from the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research on the bombing of Cubana flight 455. The report noted that a CIA source had overheard Posada prior to the bombing in late September 1976 stating that, "We are going to hit a Cuban airliner." This information was apparently not passed to the CIA until after the plane went down.

There is no indication in the declassified files that indicates that the CIA alerted Cuban government authorities to the terrorist threat against Cubana planes. Still classified CIA records indicate that the informant might actually have been Posada himself who at that time was in periodic contact with both CIA and FBI agents in Venezuela.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB153/index.htm

Nice supporters club you belong to. :sarcasm:

[dipsydoodle]

9. Oh