Kuba ist der Marxismus egal

Quico Toro: “America’s rivalry with Cuba was once a bitter battle of ideas. When a 20-something Fidel Castro electrified his supporters with visions of a bright socialist future, he wasn’t bluffing. When John F. Kennedy said that the Cuban revolution was ‘incompatible with the principles and objectives of the Inter-American system,’ he meant it. People on both sides defended these ideas around the world. Cuba supported uprisings in Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, the Congo, and elsewhere. It sent thousands of soldiers to fight a revolutionary war in Angola and thousands more to defend a Marxist government in Ethiopia. Wherever the Cubans went, they were countered by Americans—more square, but often just as idealistic—determined to hold the line for democracy and human rights.

“Today Washington and Havana are still antagonists, but the ideologies on each side have faded over the years. Cuba’s socialist utopianism wore away gradually. The American government’s commitment to democracy eroded much more quickly, just in the past few years. Both governments still mouth the old slogans, by rote. As they negotiate over Cuba’s future—with the threat of U.S. military intervention hanging over their talks—a new dynamic has emerged: The two sides appear to be haggling not over ideas but over which side can extract the most financial gain from Cuba. The new reality is tawdry, but it might put a resolution within reach. Officials who operate like mob bosses don’t need to agree on transcendent values to make a bargain.”

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This article omits 2 VERY KEY pieces of this history.

1. Castro went to D.C. first. When he won, it was a sudden and things happened fast. His very first move was to go to the US, where Eisenhower avoided him by being absent golfing. Castro got to meet with… Nixon. Castro had ONE question for the US; would they continue the sugar quota, as this was the single biggest source of cash for his economy? Nixon refused him, and later said Castro was “either incredibly naive about communism or under communist discipline—my guess is the former.” So this whole thing kicked off, all these decades of suffering and waste, because of Nixon’s ‚guess‘.

2. The Bay of Pigs. This article conveniently forgets to mention that time **the US invaded Cuba.** That, or maybe the dozens of credible assassination attempts by the CIA, might be relevant to political tensions between the two nations.

So yeah, if you are gonna ignore what Castro asked for in the first place, and also the many times you tried to kill him, i am gonna conclude that this is not a serious effort at journalism.