Cuba is not a failed state. Cuba is a besieged state."
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Cuba is ninety miles from Florida.
It has been under American embargo for over sixty years.
The people who designed that embargo, who maintained it through 13 consecutive administrations, who tightened it every time Cuba showed signs of building a functional public health system, are not considered to be engaged in economic warfare against a civilian population.
They are considered to be defending "democracy."
The Cuban doctors who went to Africa to fight Ebola.
The Cuban literacy programs.
The Cuban medical system that, despite the embargo, produces health outcomes that embarrass the richest country on earth.
None of that appears in the American curriculum.
Because the curriculum is not designed to give you information.
It is designed to give you a framework.
The framework says: Cuba is a dictatorship. America promotes freedom. The embargo is a consequence of Cuban choices.
The framework does not say: the embargo was designed, from the beginning, to make the Cuban population miserable enough to overthrow their government, as documented in declassified State Department memos from the Kennedy era.
The framework never gives you the memos.
The framework gives you the conclusion.
Sixty-four years of civilian suffering.
Sixty-four years of medicine shortages and economic strangulation.
And in the American schools: Cuba is a cautionary tale about socialism.
The operation never ends.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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