CUBAN EXAMPLE

The obvious objective is to foster discontent and provoke social unrest by blocking the operations of the financial, oil and gold producing sectors of the Venezuelan economy. It is obvious that these sanctions affect above all the ordinary people regardless of their political affiliations. It is especially disgraceful that the unilateral US sanctions are having a negative impact on the implementation of social and humanitarian projects. A glaring example of the consequences of the recent banking restrictions is the blocking of the treatment programme for cancer patients carried out through a joint Venezuelan-Spanish project.

ALAN MACLEOD—While demonized in the United States, the Cuban government has built a comprehensive nationalized healthcare system based on preventative medicine, rather than the curative model the U.S. employs. In Cuba, medical staff are assigned to communities and it is their job to see and analyze the health of every person, nipping problems in the bud before they develop and need costly surgery. That way, obesity, for example, is dealt with before it metastasizes into a more serious condition like diabetes or heart disease.

The most recent agreement between the government of Donald Trump and the OAS of Luis Almagro was the organization and realization of a forum in Washington with the title The dark reality behind the Cuban medical missions, whose only purpose is to discredit the programs of health of the Third World, where the doctors of the Island have carried out a solidarity project never achieved by any other country at a world-wide level.

While Twitter is indicating that these accounts had violated provisions of their use agreement, and as a separate business it can decide to close accounts at anytime, this act of sabotage is clearly at the direction of the US State Department. Millions of dollars are now being directed through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) for projects in Cuba just like this one whose goal is thought control and the muzzling of Cuba’s voice in the battle of ideas where they have been winning.

CASS DEAN—Comes the Revolution, the displaced ruling class immediately starts organizing a counter-coup and lots of unpleasantness ensues, including mistrust between people. But Cuba’s ruling class, and its psycho sadist enforcers, were intertwined with both the leading civil criminals, the Mafia, the leading underground criminals, the CIA, and the politicians, of a large country only 90 miles away that rolled out the welcome mat.