From: ez000281@hamlet.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: The Chilean Model
Date: 6 Nov 92 06:14:02 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis

Ray,

I've gotten used to all the arguments justifying the Cuban dictatorship. I 
will play the devils advocate for a while. Let's see how well I do.

Best regards,

Edelmiro
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Ray Ravelo writes:

> No, there are no shanty towns in Cuba because the WHOLE country is a
> shanty town now, all the buildings are crumbling up, there is no running
> water for days at times, no food, nothing to buy and hundreds of Cubans
> risk their lives every day trying to escape the country in home-made rafts.

All of this is but the product of yanqui imperialists who have effectively and 
illegally blockaded the island and prevented Cuba's utopian model to work how 
it should, without any of the capitalistic deviations of the fomer eastern 
bloc.  If the imperialists would allow for investments in Cuba Fidel would lead 
the cuban people into properity instead of having to suffer the second blockade 
with the demise of the former Soviet Union and its plunge into anarchy.  
Instead, Cuba has to use the little foreign currency it can obtain from 
canadian tourists to buy medicine and food wich could otherwise be used for 
Cuba's baseball team and top notch universities.  Cuba cannot afford to have 
its qualified working force flee to Miami in search of the mirages of the 
capitalist system, and therefore is compelled to shut the door on these 
economic migrants on which the Cuban people have invested for their future.  
Once hostilities from the U.S. cease, Cuba will have an open door policy on 
travel abroad, since Cuba has now espoused democratic capitalism (mixed with a 
little nationalistic socialism) as its economic system.

> Above all, nobody can even complain about anything because they're put in
> jail. 

In Cuba there is absolute freedom of speech.  Only terrorists and counter 
revoutionaries are sent to prison once after the commit crimes against the 
people.  Otherwise they may speak how the wish.

> Even Castro's daughter Alina (who's in Cuba because Castro won't let
> her go) told the Madrid daily ABC a couple of weeks ago that Cuba has the
> biggest repressive system in the world today and that the whole country will
> end up in a blood bath.

Alina cannot leave the country because she is a counter-revoultionary who, as 
you may have read, is willing to sell the people to imperialists and is 
threatening our society with a blood bath.  Such criminals cannot be allowed to 
leave Cuba to propagate lies against the motherland without paying for their 
acts of treason.

> If that's not pretty close to being a huge shanty town and the biggest
> jail in the world then what is it?

You are wrong Mr. Ravelo, Cuba may be poor on account of the imperialists but 
we have none of the malaise found in capitalist systems.  We have no crime 
(except, of course, crimes against the state).  We have no drugs (other than 
the ones we store temporarily before their departure for the U.S.) we have no 
prostitution (for Cubans that is), we have no sexually transmittable diseases 
(outside of our jails), in fact, we have abolished poverty, since there is no 
standard of richness to which we can compare our yanqui generated misery.

> What don't you get the facts right Felipito and stop echoing Castro's line?

Because the Cuban government counts with the solidarity of our progressive 
friends with the yanqui monster and throughout all yanqui puppet regimes in 
Latin America.  As long as their is hope of transforming the misery of Latin 
America into the dignified Cuban society there will be many who come to Cuba's 
aid in the name of humanity.

> I think that even though Allende was elected by the people he would have
> little by little tighten-up his power (like Castro did in Cuba) and turn
> Chile into a Soviet/Cuban style communist dictatorship. The good thing was
> that he did not get the chance to do it. Even though the Chilean people
> had to suffer the dictatorship of Pinochet, they got VERY lucky after all!

The great Salvador Allende, red star of Chile, cannot be equated to the 
beliefs of our commander in Chief, Fidel Castro.  Here in Cuba we are openly 
called communists, or at least ex-communists in search of some legitimate 
ideology in which to hide (democratic socialism?).  Allende instead was a 
democratic socialist, a closet communist who waited to long to tell the people 
what they really needed to do: disarm the armed forces and arm the people. so 
he was outsted by the brutal Chilean dictator and agent of the the CIA and ITT. 
 Cuba was willing to send additional shipments of arms to the government of 
Popular Unity, but unfortunately, imperialist ships intercepted our cargo of 
solidarity.  As a result, thousands of Chilean patriots died couragiously in 
their effort to defend Allende's mandate for socialism.  Today, under their 
neo-liberal government, the chilean people cannot sleep thinking in these past 
nightmares which come to haunt them. Of course, this does not happen to the 
Cuban people, who can sleep with dignity even if they are a little hungry. Cuba 
would rather die like Allende (i.e., commit suicide) in defense of democracy 
and socialism, than turn into a yanqui colony.

!!SOCIALISM OR DEATH!!