I am interested to see if the CDR's (Committees for the Defense of the
Revolution) provide some defense against this scenario.
DDeBar
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> From: William Meecham <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CHOMSKY] cuba, stop
> Date: Thursday, March 19, 1998 6:53 PM
> >
> > The thing that is going ot happen when Fidel Castro dies is that there
is
> > going to be another invasion--mebbe not "armed" (tho' mebbe so), but an
> > invasion in any case, the whole import and intention of which will be
to
> > undo ALL the social advances that the Cuban regime has wrought in the
> > countryside, for the purposes of handing the country back over to the
> > aristocrats and oligarchs who fled the revolution. It will be told as
the
> > "glorious re-establishment of freedom and market economy in Cuba, and
the
> > entire resources of the US propaganda machine--read, the press--will be
> > ginned uyp to hype the events. There'll be parades, fiestas, new cars
on the
> > streets, and a LOT of gringos showing up to spend money on the
"delights" of
> > Habana. The local representatives of the current regime will be ejected
from
> > office, some will be mysteriously "disappeared," and the lackeys and
> > lick-spittles of the Mas-Canosas (late and unlamented) and
Ros-Leytenons,
> > etc, will descend upon the island like a plague of locusts. Not a
single
> > leader of th "new" Cuba will be black, not one will be from the
countryside.
> > COunt on it.
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