December 28, 2007

Cuba ruled by a murdering den of thieves

The anti-embargo campaign continues:

The Manilla Times - The Cuban ambassador to Manila decried what he terms as a US “blockade,” which has cost his country some $222 billion over nearly 50 years.
“This is not an embargo,” Ambassador Jorge Rey Jimenez insisted, saying the attempts of the United States to isolate Cuba are more consistent with a blockade.

It is hard for other people to understand the sufferings of the Cubans, Jimenez told an exclusive roundtable interview with The Manila Times on Thursday. Imagine the cost of lost opportunities, the development that could have been done with $222 billion, he said.

Loss and suffering indeed, here are some facts the minister left out of his tirade: Since fidel castro seized power in Cuba in 1959, he and his murderous den of thieves have trampled on the fundamental rights of the Cuban people, and through his personal despotism, confiscated the property of millions of his own citizens, thousands of United States nationals, and thousands more Cubans who claimed asylum in the United States as refugees because of his
persecution.

Hundreds of thousands of Cubans lost property under the Castro government. Large agricultural land-owners had their properties nationalized under a series of agrarian reforms. Landlords lost property occupied by tenants, who were given the right to purchase the properties at low, fixed prices. Mortgages were canceled. And anyone who fled the island had their property confiscated and redistributed. By the end of 1968, virtually all private enterprise on the island had been confiscated, including 57,000 small and medium-sized, and mostly Cuban-owned, businesses. Estimates of the possible property claims by Cuban-Americans range from $25 billion up to nearly $100 billion.

Immeasurable is the value of the lives of the tens and tens of thousands of Cubans murdered by the castro regime, the unpaid wages owed the Cuban people for the forced labor they've performed as slaves, and the destruction of their families and beloved country.

Message to the minister: If Cuba needs money, take a look in the mirror, and ask fidel about the $195 million or so he has stashed away.

Posted by Ziva at December 28, 2007 06:58 PM



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Let's see. The Cuban government confiscates about $1.4 billion in American assets in the early sixties. The result is a trade embargo that by the Cuban government's own calculations has cost Cuba $222 Billion. That has to be the worst return on investment in the history of mankind. And it's the U.S. that needs to change its policies? Maybe if these thieves had learned the axiom that crime does not pay, the embargo would have been a thing of the past long ago.

Posted by: Henry "Conductor" Gomez [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 29, 2007 01:51 AM

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