long run, Because in the long run, if all goes well, the Cuban state
will reclaim all these private initiatives."
Che Guevara's Daughter Spills Beans on Recent Cuban "Reforms"
By Humberto Fontova Monday, November 15, 2010
"Here boys!—Come here, boys!" yelled the Castro regime in September.
Tongues out and tails wagging, those intrepid sleuths who staff the MSM
(particularly its Havana bureaus) promptly mobbed the Stalinist regime's
propaganda ministry, slobbering all over them. In seconds, Communist
apparatchiks began handing out their puppy treats. The intrepid and
hard-nosed MSM sleuths gobbled them up, their tails wagging ever more
frantically as their eager tongues lapped up every tid-bit, pausing only
for a pat on the head and a "good-boy!" from the snickering Stalinists.
Here boy! Stand up and beg boy! "
"Communism doesn't work for us anymore" Here ya go, boy! That's a good boy!
Now roll over!…that's a good boy! here: "Private sector opening in
Cuba…half a million private sector licenses to be issued." Here ya go,
boy! That's a good boy!
The Castros tossed out their treats —and the same MSM that erupts in
cynical snorts rather than allowing a Republican to finish a sentence,
gratefully gobbled them and dutifully transcribed them totally snark-free.
Canada Free Press called out the pronouncements as another Castro
con-job and called out the reporters who accepted them as donkeys—but
upholding a long and illustrious tradition of MSM donkeyisms on Cuba. To
wit:
"Let me be very clear. I am NOT a Communist! No Communists have
the slightest influence in my government. Furthermore, political power
doesn't interest me in the slightest and I have no intention whatsoever
of assuming it." Fidel Castro, April 1959. (By this date Castro had been
meeting with Soviet GRU agents nightly for three months to button-down
the Stalinization of Cuba. Castro had established contact with Soviet
agents in 1948.)
Reaction to Fidel Castro pronouncement from hard-nosed and intrepid MSM
sleuths:
"This is not a Communist Revolution in any sense of the term. Fidel
Castro is not only NOT a Communist, he is decidedly ANTI-Communist."
(Herbert Matthews, New York Times, July 1959)
"It would be a great mistake even to intimate that Castro's Cuba
has any real prospect of becoming a Soviet satellite." (Walter Lippmann,
Washington Post July, 1959)
"Castro is honest, and an honest government is something unique in
Cuba. Castro is not himself even remotely a Communist." (Newsweek, April
1959)
"We can thank our lucky stars Castro is no Communist," (Look
Magazine, March 1959)
Now over to the MSM's latest donkeyisms on Cuba:
"Cuba embarks on a bold new experiment—firing 500,000 state workers
and letting them plunge into freer markets ... It's a big breakthrough,
because for the first time the government acknowledges that the private
sector, the small business operators are not bit players but a strategic
part of the Cuban economy. " (The Washington Post, September 17, 2010)
"In perhaps the clearest sign yet that economic change is gathering
pace in Cuba, the government plans to lay off more than half a million
people from the public sector in the expectation that they will move
into private businesses. (The New York Times, September 13, 2010)
This writer patiently explained that these "changes" and "bold new
experiments," were anything but "bold" or "new" or even "changes." In
fact they're a time-honored Castroite ruse for when the regime gets in
particularly dire financial straits and fears the pressure cooker of
Stalinist privation (Slave-era food rations, $18 monthly salary) and
oppression (highest political incarceration rate on earth) might finally
explode. So they open a valve to vent a little steam, graciously
allowing such self-employment as fruit vendor, owner of microscopic
restaurant, cigarette lighter filler-upper, masseuse, animal trainer,
hairdresser, rabbit and goat breeder. In essence the regime legalizes
many existing black market ventures in order to lure more subjects into
them and tax them confiscatorially.
As soon as the Communist economy starts creaking and wheezing along
semi-normally (most recently from Hugo Chavez' subsidies)—WHACK! The
Castros clamp back down, carting off as booty the meager usufructs of
the ad-hoc entrepreneurs. The scheme functioned flawlessly in the mid
80's and again in the mid 90's. But no small claims courts in Cuba, no
Judge Judy or Judge Mathis or to hear the grievances of the
shamelesslessly rooked. So in 1983 11 farmers near the central Cuban
town of Sancti Spiritus refused to surrender the fruits (some literal)
of their private labors to the regime. They aired their grievances by
burning their farm produce in front of a Government office, which was
decorated with the usual images of Che Guevara. All the farmers were
promptly arrested and within days all were murdered by firing squad.
After all, Che Guevara himself had laid down the regime's ground rules
14 years earlier: "We will create the pedagogy of the paredon!"
Che's daughter Aledia Guevara seems to share her late father's
propensity for indiscretion: "This privatization is also very
beneficial for the Cuban state in the long run," she recently explained
to the Belgian newspaper MetroTime. "Because in the long run, if all
goes well, the Cuban state will reclaim all these private initiatives."
No word from the New York Times or the Washington Post (or from the rest
of the intrepid MSM sleuths so recently agog over Cuba's announced "bold
new reforms") on Aleida's recent disclosures.
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