"Why do the Yankees hate the Cuban Revolution?"
Fidel Castro
What is the history of Cuba but the history of Latin America?
And what is the history of Latin America but the history of Asia,
Africa and Oceania? And what is the history of all these peoples
but the history of the most pitiless and cruel exploitation by
imperialism throughout the world?
At the end of the last and the beginning of the present
century a handful of economically developed nations had finished
partitioning the world among themselves, subjecting to its economic
and political domination two-thirds of humanity, which was thus
forced to work for the ruling classes of the economically advanced
capitalist countries.
...Between 1945 and 1957 more than 1.2 billion human beings
conquered their independence in Asia and Africa. The blood shed by
the people was not in vain.
The movement of the dependent and colonial peoples is a
phenomenon of universal character which agitates the world and
marks the final crisis of imperialism.
Cuba and Latin America are part of the world. Our problems
form part of the problems engendered by the general crisis of
imperialism and the struggle of the subjugated peoples, the clash
between the world that is being born and the world that is dying.
The odious and brutal campaign unleashed against our nation
expresses the desperate as well as futile effort which the
imperialists are making to prevent the liberation of the peoples.
Cuba hurts the imperialists in a special way. What is it that is
hidden behind the Yankees' hate of the Cuban revolution? What is
it that rationally explains the conspiracy, uniting for the same
aggressive purpose the most powerful and rich imperialist power in
the contemporary world and the oligarchies of an entire continent,
which together are supposed to represent a population of 350
million human beings, against a small country of only seven million
inhabitants, economically underdeveloped, without financial or
military means to threaten the security or economy of any other
country? What unites them and stirs them up is fear. Not fear of
the Cuban revolution but fear of the Latin-American revolution.
Not fear of the workers, peasants, intellectuals, students and
progressive layers of the middle strata which by revolutionary
means have taken power in Cuba; but fear that the workers,
peasants, students, intellectuals and progressive sectors of the
middle strata will by revolutionary means take power in the
oppressed and hungry countries exploited by the Yankee monopolies
and reactionary oligarchies of America, fear that the plundered
people of the continent will seize the arms from their oppressors
and, like Cuba, declare themselves free people of America.
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