June 29, 2008
Cuba BC
This is a great video showing how prosperous Cuba was just a few decades after independence. Imagine the beautiful pearl fidel and company held in their hands a decade or so later. It is heartbreaking to think of what might have been.
Instead, there has been 50 years of crimes against humanity; the suffering of the Cuban people under castro's tyranny is immeasurable.
Agustin Blazquez, producer/director of the six documentary series COVERING CUBA, provides commentary at Cubanology, an excerpt:
The mainstream media and academia have told Castro's version of Cuba's past to deceive the American people and justify his regime. They have helped and abide a criminal totalitarian regime that killed thousands and sent about three million worldwide to exile. For example, how many Americans have been informed that since 1961, Castro's Cuba has been selling the blood of executed political prisoners?
The Organization of American States Human Rights Commission on April 7 1967 reported, "On May 27, 1966, from six in the morning to nightfall political prisoners were executed continuously by firing squad in Havana's La Cabana prison. One hundred and sixty-six men were executed that day and each had 5 pints of blood extracted prior to being shot.
"Extracting this amount of blood often produces cerebral anemia and unconsciousness so that many had to be carried to the execution wall on stretchers. The corpses were then transported by trucks to a mass grave in a cemetery outside the city of Marianao. On that day, the truck required seven trips to deliver all the corpses. On 13th Street in Havana's Vedado district Soviet medical personnel have established a blood bank where this blood is transported and stored. This blood is sold at fifty U.S. dollars per pint to the Republic of North Viet Nam."
Since fidel is officially no longer in power, he should be brought to justice.
Posted by Ziva at June 29, 2008 04:44 PM
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Ziva,
"Extracting this amount of blood often produces cerebral anemia and unconsciousness so that many had to be carried to the execution wall on stretchers”
You’re right on this one; as a matter of fact I have a friend whose uncle was executed by the Castro regime this way in the early sixties.
Fidel and Raul Castro have done so much destruction to Cuba and it’s people that if they were to be hanged-up upside down by the balls and set their bodies on fire while they were alive, still it would not be enough punishment to pay for their sins.
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at June 29, 2008 05:32 PM
Imagine fidel hanging by the balls upside down alive and on fire. I have often fanticized of that ending not only for fidel and raul, but all of the elite collaborators. It is similar to Musolini's fate. It may not happen but if fidel and raul end up buried anywhere in Cuba. I would not be surprized if someday their rotten corpses are dug up and pissed on. For closure, know what I mean?
Posted by: kenko at June 29, 2008 06:05 PM
the video is fantastic. is it part of an old documentary?
wow amazing place huh?
Posted by: Cigar Mike Pancier at June 29, 2008 10:05 PM
Folks, that film is not only before castro, it's about 20 years before castro. To think the standard of living in the 1930s exceeded today's blows the mind.
Posted by: Henry Louis Gomez at June 29, 2008 10:35 PM
That short clip of Havana Cuba 1930 was filmed by André de la Varre when he was an associate of Burton Holmes (who has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame) an American filmmaker and photographer. The term “travelogue” is attributed to Mr. Holmes, who was the first person to film “documentary travel lectures.”
André de la Varre worked with Burton Holmes close to twenty years, and chances are “Havana Cuba 1930” was one of the documentary travel lectures they did together. De la Varre left Burton Holmes to work with Jack Warner, then president of Warner Bros. He has been credited with over 1,000 films and several Oscars.
How’s that for credibility?
Posted by: Firefly at June 29, 2008 10:48 PM
What bothers me the most is that all of this empirical evidence [a clean, prosperous city with an obviously middle class populace, a city on par with any elegant, well-to-do European capitol] is completely and utterly ignored by the main stream media, Hollywood and academia. Instead, we are told that Cuba today is far better off than it was before Castro. The collapsed buildings, cracked sidewalks, uncollected garbage, housing projects, disheveled, poverty-stricken people aimlessly rambling around the city, or standing on street corners etc.. means nothing. Havana today is better off than it was before Castro.
Posted by: Ray at June 29, 2008 11:53 PM
Gorgeous video that shows Cuba before communism took its toll. I love the art deco style during this period. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Eddy at June 30, 2008 12:04 AM
Z-
Thanks for posting that. It brought back such lovely memories of the Havana of my childhood.
There's a reason why we Cuban-Americans are so in love with and proud of our island heritage. B.C. of course.
Firefly-
Thanks for the fun facts.
Besos,
Marta
Posted by: Marta at June 30, 2008 06:23 PM
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