Fidel Castro describing the situation in Cuba when the revolution won in his speech to the UN:
“A poor and underdeveloped country in the Caribbean, with 600,000 unemployed, was contributing $1 billion over 10 years to the economic development of the most highly industrialized country in the world!”
“A poor and underdeveloped country in the Caribbean, with 600,000 unemployed, was contributing $1 billion over 10 years to the economic development of the most highly industrialized country in the world!”
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why are they feeding the poor people (and get destroyed in the process of trying to build that society) when they could just... reify the current system of winner takes all? 😠😠😠
“The revolutionary government, in just 20 months, has created 10,000 new schools. In this brief period of time…Cuba today is the first country of the Americas that has met all its educational needs…”
“…the right of women to civil, social and political equality; the right of the elderly to a secure old age; the right of intellectuals, artists and scientists to fight, with their work, for a better world;”
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Must have been a lot of uncomfortable imperialists shifting in their seats at that assembly
http://www.fidelcastro.cu/en/discursos/speech-un-headquarters-us-september-26-1960
His regime banned rock & jazz, persecuted artists, imprisoned dissents, & outlawed independent unions and free press. Many “civil, social and political rights”? Crushed under authoritarianism.
Breakneck scientific and medical advancement, literacy blooms, workforce professionalization, human development, and brains-for-barrels aren't among 'em.
being an authoritarian American colony in all but name, and their well being forever tied to our tourism dollars and our hunger for their resources. Weird how when they got sovereignty and freedom it was a problem for us