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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 04:33 PM Mar 2016

CIA Motto: “Proudly Overthrowing the Cuban Government Since 1959.”

March 15, 2016
CIA Motto: “Proudly Overthrowing the Cuban Government Since 1959.”

by William Blum

Now what? Did you think that the United States had finally grown up and come to the realization that they could in fact share the same hemisphere as the people of Cuba, accepting Cuban society as unquestioningly as they do that of Canada? The Washington Post (February 18) reported: “In recent weeks, administration officials have made it clear Obama would travel to Cuba only if its government made additional concessions in the areas of human rights, Internet access and market liberalization.”

Imagine if Cuba insisted that the United States make “concessions in the area of human rights”; this could mean the United States pledging to not repeat anything like the following:

Invading Cuba in 1961 at the Bay of Pigs.

Invading Grenada in 1983 and killing 84 Cubans, mainly construction workers.

Blowing up a passenger plane full of Cubans in 1976. (In 1983, the city of Miami held a day in honor of Orlando Bosch, one of the two masterminds behind this awful act; the other perpetrator, Luis Posada, was given lifetime protection in the same city.)

Giving Cuban exiles, for their use, the virus which causes African swine fever, forcing the Cuban government to slaughter 500,000 pigs.

More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/15/cia-motto-proudly-overthrowing-the-cuban-government-since-1959/

Good Reads:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016147359

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CIA Motto: “Proudly Overthrowing the Cuban Government Since 1959.” (Original Post) Judi Lynn Mar 2016 OP
Love it! yourpaljoey Mar 2016 #1
Most US Americans are totally oblivious to all this history. So it's necessary to keep printing it. Judi Lynn Mar 2016 #2
Fidel Castro is a great man yourpaljoey Mar 2016 #3

Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)
2. Most US Americans are totally oblivious to all this history. So it's necessary to keep printing it.
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 05:50 PM
Mar 2016

Thank you, yourpaljoey.

yourpaljoey

(2,166 posts)
3. Fidel Castro is a great man
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 11:33 AM
Mar 2016

He saved Cuba from the ravages of the US business pogrom.
US citizens are violently shielded from the facts.
How many times have we had to explain Wet Foot Dry Foot policy
as the primary reason Cubans flock to our shores?

I appreciate the sharing of your considerable wherewithal
on Latin America.

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