July 26, 2006
July 26 : Freedom mourns
Today is fidel castro's revolution's big day. The anniversay of the Moncada Barracks attacks which supposedly signal the beginning of "La Revolucion." Thousands of Cubans on the island will be forced to celebrate this day despite the absolute indignity of their lives. fidel castro will most assuredly come out and orate for hours on end, decrying the evil of the imperialist Yanquis, the beauty of La Revolucion, the treachery of the Cuban exiles and on and on.
For me, if death had a birthday, it would be today. July 26. I dont have much else to say other than one day, when truth blankets Cuba, July 26 will be a day of mourning.
Here are what others are saying:
The Conductor at Cuban-American Pundits:
Just like his role model, adolph hitler (who doesn't deserve capital letters either), castro was caught and jailed. castro followed hitler's example right down to his famous exclamation that history would absolve him.Far from absolving him, history will remember him for being a blood thirsty, power hungry, totalitarian egomaniac. To borrow Ronald Reagan's words, he will be "consigned to the dustbin of history" just like the failed communist system that he embraces and his manufactured holiday.
Today is the 53rd anniversary of the attack on the Moncada Barracks by the Movimiento 26 de julio, celebrated by fidel and his worshippers as the spark that ignited the "revolution". In truth, it was a terrorist action inspired by castro's youthful adoration of Adolf Hitler, and his insane attack on the War Ministry in Munich on November 9, 1924, which made him a national figure in Germany. This technique also worked for castro, catapulting him to national stature.Instead of focusing on the events surrounding that day in 1953, let's take a look at that days legacy, Lets take a look inside Cuba's prisons, a good gauge of social justice before and after fidel.
Fidel Castro, if he survives the night, on Wednesday surely will offer his version of the legacy of July 26, 1953, and the start of the Cuban “revolution.” Same shit, different year, although a twist this year may be how he responds to CAFC II and recent reports of his biological demise.It’s doubtful, however, that Castro will address the real legacy of his revolution, the betrayals and the repression, the lies and the broken dreams, the imprisonments and the death.
He will not talk about Che Guevara’s death squads.
He will not talk about how he brought the world to the brink of nuclear holocaust.
He will not talk about the Cuban families divided.
He will not talk about decades of subservience to his Soviet pimps.
He will not talk about the reality of Cuban health care.
He will not talk about his overseas misadventures.
He will not talk about the balseros.
He will not talk about the Brothers to the Rescue his pilots murdered.
He will not talk about Cuban apartheid.
He will not talk about his gulag.
He will not talk about his imprisonment of those who dare to tell the real story about his Cuba.
He will not talk about Guillermo Farinas.
Nor Oscar Biscet.
Not the Ladies in White.
On July 26, remember neither Castro nor his revolution, but the victims.
Our friends.
Our familes.
Elian Gonzalez.
The balseros lost at sea.
The Cubans we will never meet, but whom we should remember every day — especially on July 26.
What is the significance of the 26th of July? We know what the media will do and certainly what the controlling apartheid regime will do and say. Now to the reality of what the 26th of July movement or date has accomplished. The answer to this question is very simple: Nothing.
Mean Mr. Kasstro lifted his most famous phrase from his Nazi idol: La historia me absolvera, history will absolve me. He lifted many others, like: Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer (a people, a revolution, a leader), and Arbeit Match Frei (work will set you free, from the Auschwitz gates, transformed in "el trabajo los hara hombres" or "work will make you a man" from the gates of the UMAPs in Camaguey)
For the Cubanos, a proud and once prosperous people, it is a day to pretend their want and hunger are absent, and for cagastro and his cronies, a day to ignore the facade crumbling around them.
Take a few moments today to read the posts linked above simply because you have the freedom to choose to do so. There are eleven million in people on that island south of us who dont.
Posted by Val Prieto at July 26, 2006 08:08 AM
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More dolores de cabeza para Castro. A couple of Cuban athlets defected!
Posted by: Stefania ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.babalublog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at July 26, 2006 08:57 AM
I wonder if fidel's boytoy Elian will be there?
And they said the Elian thing wasn't about politics or communism - just returning a kid to his dad - yeah, returing him to Castro!
Thanks MSM and Congressional Black and Latino Caucus!
All I have to say TO fidel on his day is:
"HASTA LA LOCURA SIEMPRE COME MIERDA!"
VIVA LA ROVOLUCION - VENCEREMOS, NOT!
Posted by: mandingo at July 26, 2006 09:50 AM
I suppose some people won't be mentioned either, like all those early companeros, like Huber Matos,
Mario Chanes de Armas, Sori, Jesus Yanez Pelletier, Gustavo Arcos, Eduardo DiÂÂaz Betancourt...
And of course the Beast served 2 years for a craven terrorist attack (some of his companeros used a hospital for cover) while establishing an independent library will get you 25 years, and fleeing with a lancha (nobody got killed) will get you executed.
La historia no te absolvera, y los que has matado tampoco te absolveran. Pagarás. Quizás no en este mundo, pero pagaras, asesino y cobarde.
Posted by: Eleggua at July 26, 2006 10:59 AM
For those who don't know the events of the attack on the Moncada Barracks...
Excerpt taken from Mario Lazo’s “Dagger in the Heart” pages 117-118
“On July 26, 1953 a serious incident brought Castro to public attention. His movement later took its name (26th of July Movement) from this; in Latin America it is customary to name a political movement after the date of a historical event.
As it turned out, this was the first of several occasions on which Castro was to misjudge the temper of the Cuban people. With 150 youthful followers, including two girls, he attacked the Moncada Army Post and its garrison of a thousand soldiers at Santiago. Castro expected that the garrison would not fight but come over to his side, and that the attack would touch off a general uprising in Santiago. Taken by surprise, the garrison did relinquish a section of the post and for a few moments the attackers occupied and held the nearby Palace of Justice. Then the troops recovered. Within the hour the battle was virtually over. Most of the rebels fled to the hills outside Santiago and were captured. No official figures of dead and wounded were issued but the best estimate was that approximately a hundred had been killed from both sides.
Rumors of the Moncada battle reach Havana the following day, but in spite of the censorship which was imposed for a few hours, it soon became evident that the government troops had been victorious. Within a few days it ceased to be a topic of conversation.
Detailed reports of the Moncada incident vary according to their source: The Castro version, as related later by Herbert L. Mathews, emphasizes the cruelty of the Cuban Army. Mathews says that only ten of Castro’s followers were killed in the attack—that the others were slaughtered in cold blood after surrendering, some after torture. Orders went out, according to Mathews, to kill Castro on sight, but the lieutenant who captured him disobeyed and brought him in alive.
Castro’s detractors give a quite different account. They claim that the brothers Fidel and Raúl were cowardly and that neither actually participated in the fighting.
The version eventually accepted by the Cuban people, drawn from participants on both sides, was that in the heat of battle there was some wanton cruelty on the part of both attackers and defenders. According to this version, the Archbishop of Santiago, Enrique Pérez Servantes, arranged for the surrender of the remaining rebels who were in the hills and hiding in Santiago, including Fidel Castro. The men surrendered under the auspices of the Archbishop with the understanding that they would not be maltreated and would be accorded a fair trial. In any case on October 16, 1953 Castro was brought to trial before the Tibunal de Urgencia in Santiago. Reporters were present and took down stenographically his impassioned defense plea, which eventually, after a considerable editing, became one of the major Revolutionary documents, under the title of his concluding words: History will absolve me.
The Castro brothers and some other survivors were sentenced to fifteen years of imprisonment and sent off to the Isle of Pines prison. In May 15, 1955 Batista decreed amnesty to all political prisoners, the Castros included.”
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Castro, like the coward that he is, never made it to the Moncada Barracks. He rode in the car with the two women who were going to participate in the attack, and it just happened that they “got lost” on the way to the Moncada. By the time the attack was over they all hightailed to the mountains.
Posted by: Firefly at July 26, 2006 03:29 PM
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