Afrasianet - Muwafaq Mahadeen - Cuba has been the most targeted since it was able to establish a different paradigm of all the theories and tools of dependency, turning it into a continuous snowball at the heart of the global liberation movement.
Like every phenomenon that calls for its opposite, Epstein's Island is the true expression of capitalism, its brutality and moral decadence in general, and of American imperialism in particular, which has summoned its contradictions from other islands, whether from the world of utopia such as the utopia of Thomas More and Ibn Tufail, from the world of fiction such as Huxley Island, or from the living world such as the island of Cuba.
The Revolution
Decades before the revolution, Cuba was subjected to waves of corrupt police regimes that turned the island into a Walker broth for drug trafficking, currency laundering, American mafias and gangs, and worst of all, class oppression and depriving workers, peasants, and popular classes of the minimum of a decent life, not to mention political repression similar to the dictatorships of the Caribbean and Latin America.
Despite the political and trade union struggles that took initial forms of armed protests in which dozens of resistance fell, the first qualitative stop on the road to liberation from American dependency, hegemony, corruption and mafias was the revolution of July 26, 1953 led by Fidel Castro, which failed and ended with the killing and arrest of its participants.
Years later, Castro, a law professor, a doctor Guevara and 82 revolutionaries in exile were able to enter the mountains of the Sierra Maestra on the famous boat (Granma), which became an icon of revolutions everywhere, and the injury of the two leaders and the martyrdom of a large number of these vanguards did not diminish the continuation of the march and clash with the forces of the corrupt tyrant Batista, settle the battle and descend on the cities, reaching Havana almost two years later (1956-1958).
The American circles and the alliance of companies and mafias did not accept defeat and did not stop intervening and preparing successive plans to end the revolution, the most dangerous of which was the invasion of Cuba in 1961 under the direct supervision of the agents (American intelligence), but the Cuban people's rally around their revolution and their new leadership thwarted this attempt and replaced the prisoners of aggression with tractors and agricultural equipment.
Cuba quickly became a Caribbean icon and a model for all peoples aspiring to independence, liberation and progress, and received the broad support of all the anti-imperialist forces and their proxies and instruments in the world.
In fact, the Soviet Union did not limit itself to economic and technical assistance and political positions, but also adopted an overt strategic deterrence policy, including the so-called global missile crisis.
Thus, for many decades, Cuba has been in the crosshairs of direct American threats and an economic blockade that is the longest in the world, without gaining a single moment of this revolutionary experience or forcing it to submit to the most brutal imperialism in history.
If Guevara's name (Argentine) and one of the makers of this revolution, along with Castro and his Cuban comrades, was associated with the idea of permanent revolution and its internationalism, whether in the jungles of Africa or the Andes Mountains or meetings with great national world leaders such as Gamal Abdel Nasser, the illusions of isolation in a small country were far from Castro, who warned that the revolution was not a bed of roses but a state of continuous conflict, as much as it deprived Cuba of rapid transformations, as much as it fortified it with an independent economy and a knowledge space Creative and patriotic.
Model
Certainly, those who visit Cuba for the first time do not find the consumerist aspects to which many in other countries of the Global South are accustomed, while the economic, social and class reality hides behind the towers, malls and streets crowded with modern cars, a dire reality of individual and state debts, hunger, unemployment, poverty, street children, and the lack of minimum conditions of a decent life for work, medicine, education, and the public cultural space, not to mention the control of the whales of looting, corruption and banditry.
There is a different model in Cuba, in terms of productive power and social status, in terms of free education at all levels of school, including at the university level, and in terms of universal health insurance that covers all Cubans.
In fact, Cuba is an exporting country for doctors, especially to poor countries, and the waves of Cuban doctors that poured into many countries, including capitalist countries such as Italy, during the Corona period are still in the memory of these peoples.
In contrast to the slaughterhouses of children in Gaza at the hands of the Zionist enemy, on Epstein Island, the US imperialist stronghold, and in contrast to the daily deaths of child workers in the mines and capitalist farms everywhere, Cuban children start their school morning with a daily meal of milk, are cared for, and are early engaged in a creative or sports field that suits their talents and desires, such as music, performing arts and sports.
In addition to the above and other essential aspects necessary for the life of any free people, what distinguishes Cuba is the strategic choices of the state, as Cuba is not in any way subject to the dictates and conditions of the International Bank and the Monetary Fund, nor to the world of stock exchanges, the Club of Rome or Paris, nor to the secret Zionist world government represented by the Chicago Jewish School (the kitchen of free economy and absolute privatization) and the Davos and Bilderberg conferences and their Atlantic and intelligence arms, nor has it been involved in the game of debt and the depletion of cash reserves with uncalculated imports that have flooded dozens of countries With debt, economic crises, and terrifying belts of hunger, unemployment and human humiliation.
Cuba in the Eye of the Storm
Initially, Latin America and the Caribbean were a constant target of imperialist interventions throughout the twentieth century, whether through military coups or political assassinations, or direct military intervention and the establishment of what are known as banana or copper republics, and all these interventions took place in the context of plundering and controlling resources, markets, coca, fruits, corn to the southerners' bread, or to support a counter-revolution or to abort real revolutions or elections won by the left, and Washington did not hesitate to use and employ various forces and tools, including coup plotters, mafias and mercenaries The murderers, such as the Salvadoran option, were beheaded with the blessing of the reactionary current in the church.
Some of the most prominent countries that have been exposed to these interventions include:
- Chile, after democratic elections won by the leftist Dr. Salvador Allende, where the US intelligence in alliance with the copper and telecommunications companies arranged a bloody military coup in which the elected president and tens of thousands of workers, peasants, students and intellectuals such as music professor Victor Jara were killed.
- Intervening in Panama to control and monopolize its canal through three bloody coups in 1958, 1964, and 1990.
- Intervention in Guatemala 1959/1966.
- Dominicans 1965, as well as Colombia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Grenada, and others.
Cuba has been the most targeted since it was able to establish a model that is different from all the theories and tools of dependency, turning it into a continuous snowball at the heart of the global liberation movement.
The words of the thinker Gunder Frank, author of the book "The Evolution of Underdevelopment" and an international expert on Latin American affairs, were not meaningless, as he stopped at the Cuban experience, which established a special model, which was able with limited possibilities to survive the modernity and development of socially empty industrialization, and began to employ its available economic resources to pace and develop its social resources continuously, respecting the status, role and dignity of the productive forces, and did not allow the tools of dependency to penetrate them through loans and debts.
We know that before the victory of the revolution and during the years of armed action to overthrow the corrupt tyrant, the puppet of the American intelligence, Batista, declared its explicit and declared its bias on the side of the peoples and their right to freedom, justice, progress, independence and sovereignty.
Cuba did not hide this policy, did not present it in an unequivocal manner, did not provide justifications for it, and extended its hand to all the liberation movements in the world and opened its universities to its students.
In addition to dozens of issues here and there, the Palestinian cause and its people represented an exceptional position, and Havana opened its doors, universities, educational and military institutes to the Palestinian resistance with all its factions and ideological backgrounds, in addition to its firm positions with Palestine in various international institutions, which doubled the American, Zionist and capitalist hatred against it.
The Revolution and the Model Through Literary Eyes
- Cuban Certificates: Marté, Carpentier, Guéin
One of Cuba's most prominent writers who was involved in the revolution against old, Spanish and neo-American colonialism was the poet and thinker José Martí, who is seen throughout the Caribbean, such as Simón Bolívar Cuba.
He was famous as an Arab for his poetic play "Abdullah", in which he showed great sympathy and respect for the Arabs and their causes, and he was martyred in a battle with the Spanish in 1895.
One of the most famous modern writers in Cuba is the novelist Carpentier (1904-1980), who was also a musician, and one of his best-known novels belonging to the fighting magical realism is The Kingdom of this World.
In addition to the poet Nicolás Guéhen, who won the title of National Poet in 1961, whose poem "An Elegy for the Reed Worker" who was killed by the fascists, played an important role in inspiring Cuban workers and peasants and their involvement in the revolution.
- International Certificates: Hemingway, Marquis, Sartre, Amadou and others
Many writers and writers from around the world have dealt with the Cuban experience, most notably:
- The French philosopher Sartre, in his book "A Storm on Sugar", in which he presented the revolution and its leaders and their role in liberating Cuba from the dependence and corruption of foreign companies.
- Many great novelists in Latin America, such as Jorge Amado and the Nobel Prize winner Márquez, who is also famous for his book on Cuba (Cuba in a Time of Siege).
- The American novelist Hemingway, who also won the Nobel Prize, and who had previously predicted the revolution and its nature as a constant state of challenge, when he dealt with the island and its humanitarian, political, and social world in his famous novel "The Sheikh and the Sea", which was published years before the liberation of Cuba.
According to many critics, the sheikh (Santiago) was the first image of the spirit of the revolution and its leaders, Castro and Guevara, and the sea was an intense image of the island, its dreams, its pains and its hopes.
Horizon
Despite the economic blockade and incitement, Cuba has become more solid and cohesive, and it was a true example of the character of Santiago in Hemingway's aforementioned novel (Man may be destroyed but not defeated), and it is certain that as much as the evil imperialism of the United States will continue its siege and threat to the island of freedom and workers, the more the reeds will continue to sing the song of freedom whenever the black wind blows on an island that wakes up and sleeps on the smell of tobacco, guns, the sea and sugar.
