La España de la esperanza
Esta es la España de la esperanza, descrita por Oscar Espinosa Chepe, periodista y economista independiente cubano.
I haven't been able to find the article in English.
In this piece, Oscar Espinosa Chepe describes and unmask the politicians who are the stalwarts and bulkheads of kasstroism in Spain, and at the same time he thanks all the Spaniards who support the struggle of the Cuban people. He goes ahead and recognizes the efforts of people from dissimilar political backgrounds in their support for a Free Cuba and shows gratiture for their help. That's the Spain that we cannot ignore or forget that exists, and much less, pretend that doesn't exists.
It's an interesting reading, a very sharp analisys -and denounce- of the political position of the kasstroite politicians in Spain, and a heartfelt thank-you note to the supporters of our cause.
Let's face it, Cuba needs all the help of this world for its future reconstruction. And we are back at square one in our national history, we will need immigration and people returning to Cuba in order to bring know how, financial backing, and a new vision to the country which has been ravaged by ideological warfare since July 26, 1953.
We will need to reconstruct Cuba from ground up, and from ground down, too. But first, we need to save the Cuban people, whatever it takes.
Update:
This article by el Gusano adds to what we have been saying....
I haven't been able to find the article in English.
In this piece, Oscar Espinosa Chepe describes and unmask the politicians who are the stalwarts and bulkheads of kasstroism in Spain, and at the same time he thanks all the Spaniards who support the struggle of the Cuban people. He goes ahead and recognizes the efforts of people from dissimilar political backgrounds in their support for a Free Cuba and shows gratiture for their help. That's the Spain that we cannot ignore or forget that exists, and much less, pretend that doesn't exists.
It's an interesting reading, a very sharp analisys -and denounce- of the political position of the kasstroite politicians in Spain, and a heartfelt thank-you note to the supporters of our cause.
Let's face it, Cuba needs all the help of this world for its future reconstruction. And we are back at square one in our national history, we will need immigration and people returning to Cuba in order to bring know how, financial backing, and a new vision to the country which has been ravaged by ideological warfare since July 26, 1953.
We will need to reconstruct Cuba from ground up, and from ground down, too. But first, we need to save the Cuban people, whatever it takes.
Update:
This article by el Gusano adds to what we have been saying....
4 Comments:
The only Spanish export which Cuban exiles consume more than anyone expect the Spaniards themselves, and which, if boycotted would have a disastrous effect on that industry is — turrones. A hint or two dropped in that direction could have a miraculous effect on our Spanish friends. Personally, I couldn't survive Christmas without turrones, so I would take no part in that boycott. However, if there were to be a boycott that would be Spain's Achilles' heel.
By the way, do people in Cuba today have any notion at all of what turrones are? I don't ask if they still observe the tradition of eating turrones at Noche Buena, because, of course, the only tables in Cuba that are still festooned with them are those belonging to Castro & Company (the rare hardwood tables, btw, are stolen like everything else in their homes).
Some years ago I saw an ad for Serrano hams in a Spanish magazine which boasted that Castro had a standing order with their firm. I wish I could find it.
I am commenting on the thread under the other post.
To be sure Cubans will require our help to jump-start their economy...to show them how to use the tools of the 21st Century that have been developed since they've been imprisoned on the island for half a century. But before we do that we must somehow get through their thick, prideful, collective heads a very simply historical fact - societies that allow their citizens to own the greatest share of their own individual labor are always the richest countries. Conversely, nations that have a single leaders like Fidel or Adolf who decide what to do with the people's labor are always left in poverty and ruins. But it's never too late Cubanos! It's just too bad so many have suffered, died and continued to do so. The Cuban government comes here to this blog everyday to check up on CB. So I challenge them here and now! Give me even one example of socialism succeeding in creating wealth. Show me even one example where socialism does not simply become a thief that steals wealth from Paul to bribe Peter until neither Paul nor Peter is dumb enough to create any additional wealth for redistribution.
As you well say, Tomas, they come here everyday for their dose of electric shock up their wazoos. They have never been able to come up with any propaganda spiel in order to confront us. They are losing this battle as we well know, because both your blog, ours, and so many others are being read by the Cuban creative classes and they are saying: wait a second! These guys have something really interesting for us here. I know someone who is in economics in Cuba who reads what he calls The Daily Comment by Tomas Estrada Palma. Our blogs are copied on CDs and distributed all over to the Cuban intelligentsia, which is giving raul a headache. They have realized that Cuba needs both the jumpstart and the new blood coming into the country, since Cuban youth is the biggest casualty of the robolution. The country is growing older -and not precisely wiser- by the second and the youth is leaving by the thousands daily. The generations born in the sixties and seventies are decimated by exile and suicide. The generations born in the eighties and nineties are leaving now, and some of them don't make it. So Cuba has lost the best of its riches that is the human capital and it will be up to us to restore that lost human capital to the island and make it into a prosperous nation once again. For good measure, Cuba will be open to both the returning prodigal sons and daughters, and to immigration, like it was before 1959, which Gorki calls so accurately "el ano del error".
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