Originally posted by
[email protected] 02, 2007 12:46 pm
It was very good! I was surprised at how much I didn't know about all that. I knew that Cuba had taken an active roll in Africa, but from what I had read they had failed. I like that even the US ambassador agreed that Cuba had taken the moral high ground.
Dr. Noam Chomsky recommends that you read Conflicting Missions.
So, for example, let's take Cuba's role in the liberation of Africa. It's an astonishing achievement that has almost been totally suppressed. Now you can read about it in scholarship, but the contribution that Cuba made to the self-liberation of Africa is fantastic. And that was against the entire concentrated power of the world. All the imperialist powers were trying to block it. It finally worked and Cuba's contribution was unique. That's another reason why Cuba is hated. Just the plain fact that black soldiers from Cuba were able to beat back a South African invasion of Angola sent shock waves throughout the continent. The black movements were inspired by it. The white South Africans were psychologically crushed by the fact that South African forces could be defeated by a black army. The United States were infuriated. If you look at the next couple of years, the terrorist attacks on Cuba got much worse.
But yes, it's a symbol of successful defiance. One can have arguments about what society is like and what it does, but that's for Cubans to decide. But for the world its symbolic significance is not slight.
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