And why do the exiles hate Castro?.... They hate him because he was right....
Quizas esto?....
And why do the exiles hate Castro? Aside from the power, money and
prestige many lost under the corrupt Batista regime when Fidel came to
power, they hate Fidel because he didn’t cave in, he didn’t
collapse: he succeeded and he proved them all wrong. Now they’re still
exiles and Cuba has continued without them. In 1959, Castro himself said
the self-imposed exiles would come to regret leaving, "Having to live
with the eternal shame of having no homeland, having to live in the cold
without a people and a country, this is a worse penalty (than a firing
squad), because it is the moral firing squad for traitors." They hate
him because he was right. It's personal - but it has been allowed to
determine US foreign policy for four decades.(5)
No, it isn’t really about Castro. Castro is merely the immediate itch
that the USA and its pro-Batista friends can’t scratch. The
relationship has a longer, deeper history and ties directly into
American imperialism. Cuba is the lynchpin to America’s and long-held
dreams of dominating the Caribbean, another piece of the empire to be
cemented into place. Castro is simply the cat’s paw Washington hides
behind to justify its policies and its terrorism – while successive
administrations bend national policy to suit the politics of Florida in
exchange for campaign funds.
Yet Castro stands for a lot in the world, a man who has moved the
pillars of the earth. He has withstood the tremendous pressure and
constant attacks of the world’s most powerful nation. He has become a
hero for the downtrodden, for the oppressed and enslaved, the David who
beat the Goliath of imperialism. Castro’s Cuba symbolizes the fight
for independence and sovereignty for all small nations. He is lionized
by many nations and treated as a hero for remaining unbent in the face
of enormous pressure. And that really annoys Goliath!(3)
Americans have long believed they have a divine right to own Cuba. Cuba
falls under the Manifest Destiny, America’s right to control
everything within its reach. But Cuba has continually thwarted that
goal, squirming out of the imperialist grasp every time. America has
occupied Cuba, ruled Cuba, attacked Cuba, stuffed puppet dictators into
power and given American organized crime a free reign, but America has
never truly conquered Cuba.
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