Media coverage abundantly shares issues of scarcity of medicines, shortage of food, blackouts, a rise in Covid cases and deaths and an arguably rigid government response to the economic problems. However, the illegal and immoral blockade and how it has shaped the economic reality is only mentioned without proper understanding of its role in the issues of greater concern. We try to bring balance to understanding the problem by continuing to expose little known facts regarding US micro and macroaggressions against Cuba and the quality of life in Cuba. We review the hundreds of millions of dollars poured into Cuban civil society by CIA surrogates USAID and NED beginning late last century to date, with the primary motivation of overthrowing the Cuban political economic model. A crime of gross sovereignty violation, by any country’s legal standards. All sold to the American public as ‘bringing democracy’ to Cuba (whether they like it or not. We review Max Blumenthal’s recent 7/25/21 article, Cuba’s Cultural Counter Revolution: US Government backed rappers, artists gain fame as catalyst for current unrest.
We include an overview history of terrorism including airplane dropping incendiary devices on sugar crops and mills, the introduction of sugar cane smut, blue mold, along with biological attacks on tobacco seedlings, bovine attacks, pig swine with the entire pig population destruction, dengue fever, and other aggressions such as the bombing of a civilian airliner in midflight killing more than 70 souls all through the end of the last century that resulted in more than 3500 Cuban deaths. Yet, Cuba is put on the US State Department of terrorist nations without ever committing a terrorist offense on US land or taking a single American life. Last week we had TJ Masters a millennial, who spent his formative years in Florida share comments and questions. This week Greg Ciotti who is old enough to remember as an adolescent the Cuban Missile crisis joins us with comments and questions for Pedro Gatos as we seek in pt. III of our series to Bringing Light into the Darkness to US -Cuba history and relations as well as unfolding current protests. Listen in and study the content of our show and join the discussion by emailing the show. In pursuit of social justice & Siempre fieles, tell us what you think!
Pgatos pgatos00@gmail.com If you are not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. - Malcolm X
