Western democracies accuse Cuba
By Rómulo Pardo Silva
Taken from Rebelión
Cuba’s fierce enemies have the economic means and the access to communications for a permanent global campaign against the island. Based on the discussion between both parties we’ve concluded that the Cuban political regime has differences as well as similarities with the capitalist-democracy countries.
Some similarities
A single party. In José Martí’s country only one party is allowed: the Communist Party. In the democracies of periodic elections the only party allowed to rule is the party of private enterprise through some of its manifestations.
A definite enemy. In Cuba, capitalism is considered an attack on workers’ rights. In entrepreneurial democracies, socialism is forbidden by coups d’état and dictatorship.
A politically committed press. In the island, mass media are at the service of the revolution. In electoral democracies, the mainstream media are privately owned and at the service and for the defense of corporations.
Education takes sides. In the Caribbean nation, education is critical for the formation of a civic socialist thought; in bourgeois democracies education is critical for the perpetuation of the system.
Support of the military. Cuban armed forces are loyal to the Socialist project. In Western democracies, the military obeys the capitalists.
Participation in alliances. The Communist country allies itself with anti-imperialist governments. Democracies of European origin join, or subordinate themselves, to the empire.
Some differences
The environment. In order to make a living, the Cuban people use the Earth’s resources that proportionally belong to them. The consumption of wealthy democratic countries exceeds by far the egalitarian use of Nature and is based on under-consumption in developing countries.
Social rights. In Cuba, education and health care are free for all, and food and employment are guaranteed. In market democracies, billions of people have no access to education and health care; over one billion go hungry and unemployment is permanent.
Child care. In 2009, UNICEF placed Cuba at the lowest rate of child undernourishment in Latin America. No country considered democratic in this part of the world earned such recognition.
Political crime. The Cuban regime has never made an attempt on the life of foreign leaders. Western democracies have done it. Witness Fidel Castro, Salvador Allende, John Kennedy, Jaime Roldós, Omar Torrijos, Juan José Torres, perhaps Juscelino Kubitschek…
Banking system. Cuba has a bank that does not participate in the global laundering of money. The ruling democracies have tax evasion and money laundering at tax havens and transnational banks as a complement to capitalization.
Crime. In Cuba there are no international mafias, corporations for drug trafficking, paramilitary groups, kidnapping for ransom, farmers expelled from their lands by voracious landowners. In historic democracies organized crime is incorporated into the state, the economy, politics and society.
War. The Cuban military do not wage wars. The armed forces of formal democracies permanently bomb far away lands, invasions, massacre foreign nationals, torture and detain in secret prisons, build military bases in other continents, disappear people, threaten other governments (or allow all the above in silence).
Nuclear power. Cuba has no nuclear weapons Traditional democracies have bombed two defenseless cities or backed the bombing.
Possession of other countries’ wealth. Cuba fought in Angola and then withdrew after victory without taking home a single possession. In the democracy of private property, weapons allow the appropriation of the wealth of other nations.
Damage to others. Cuba has no environmental debt because its development has not been made at the expense of other peoples. Centenary democracies have amassed wealth damaging the environment and refuse to pay that debt.
Human rights. Cuba’s socialist regime did not develop by slave traffic or looting Aborigine America. The bourgeois democracies accumulated capital exploiting the inhabitants of every continent.
Because of these differences, Cuba is accused of being a dangerous dictatorship.
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