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Remembering Bill Mandel, Fidel and Water-Protectors at Standing Rock
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It hurts to hear all of the negative comments about Fidel in the mainstream media and much of the information being disseminated sounds distorted and slanted very much to one side. The news commentators talk about what it was like for the U.S. to have a country with a feisty communist government located just a few miles across the bay but no one speaks about how Cubans felt to have a giant bully next door to them who wanted to control their country and keep it a playground for the mafia and the rich to the detriment of the average Cuban who was poor and uneducated before the revolution. With Fidel and his administration in power there was an extremely high literacy rate and very good healthcare available to everyone. Cuba sent its doctors to third-world countries to help out during medical crisis. When the mainstream press talks about how Castro purposefully kept his own citizens in an impoverished state I think of the terrible stranglehold the U.S. imposed embargo has had on Cuba for the last 60 years and how that has impoverished the country more than anything Castro has ever done. I’m lighting a candle for Fidel and to my memory of him as a young man leading his people to victory against oppression and U.S. imperialism and fighting alongside the campesinos and campesinas in the mountains of the Sierra Maestra until the day they rode into Havana together in triumph.
Liked the concluding sentence very much