Cuba: 55 Years of Ideas and Truth
Weekend Edition January 10-12, 2014
An Ongoing Revolution
Cuba: 55 Years of Ideas and Truth
by W.T. WHITNEY
On January 1, Cubans 2014 marked the 55th anniversary of their revolutions victory. Fidel Castros words spoken May 1, 2000 cropped up in President Raul Castros speech in Santiago de Cuba. Revolution, they said, is to believe deeply theres no force in the world capable of crushing the force of truth and ideas.
Commentator Ángel Guerra Cabrera recalls one idea: To understand the conflict between Cuba and the United States its necessary to study Latin American history. It shows the superpower has never tolerated our countries developing internal or external politics separate from its dictates.
Raul Castro articulated another: [N]ew generations of leaders
never will be able to forget that this is the socialist Revolution of the humble, by the humble, and for the humble. This is the essential premise and effective antidote for not falling for the siren songs of the enemy.
Political talkers sometimes label ideas as utopian, among them that of ending the anti-Cuban U.S. blockade now. Cuba [however] is still embracing utopia in year 55 of the triumph of its revolution, affirms Guerra Cabrera.
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http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/01/10/cuba-55-years-of-ideas-and-truth/