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Cuba Represents Extension Of Iron Curtain Westward
By Francis McCarthy
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In five years of Fidel Castro rule, Cuba has become the first Communist satellite in the new world. It is a full-fledged political and military offspring of the Soviet Union.
The long tentacles of Communist subversion have reached out from Havana, the Moscow of the Western Hemisphere, to touch every other American republic.
CURRENTLY. CUBA STANDS convicted of aggression against Venezuela by the Organization of American States (OAS) and accused of complicity at the least in the bloody January anti-American street riots in Panama.
The Iron Curtain has been extended to within 90 miles of U.S. shores.
Since Castro seized power in Jan. 1959, the record shows communist Cuban intervention in one form or another in the internal affairs of each and every American republic.
There has been argument pro and con as to whether Castro was a Communist while in the hills fighting the dictatorial Batista regime, or whether international communism moved in on his revolutionary movement taking advantage of a series of propitious circumstances.
Wednesday, March 11, 1964 University Daily Kansan
Speeches by both Castro himself and his right-hand aide, Ernesto (Che) Guevara have established that Marxist philosophy was behind the Cuban revolution even at its outset.
The argument is academic, for Castro's betrayal of the revolutionary ideals he first expounded has long been evident.
IN JULY, 1960. INAUGURATING the Communist-sponsored Latin American youth congress in Hayaana. Guevara said, in part:
"Our revolution discovered by its own methods the road which Marx points out. This revolutionary thought did not surge from the night to the morning. It is a dynamic idea because the revolution of today is not the revolution of yesterday and much less the insurrection before the victory . . ."
Castro himself repeated in several speeches in December, 1961, following the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion attempt:
"I am a Marxist-Leninist. I always have been and I shall be to the end of my days. I had to create the deeds without any previous definitions. If I had defined my thoughts at the beginning (of the revolution), Cubans never would have followed me."
Guevara's speech to the leftist youth congress was delivered a few days after Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev announced to the world the support of Russian rockets for the Cuban revolution.
In this context, the following excerpt from Guevara's speech is significant:
"... AND THIS PEOPLE which is today before you, says; that although it should have to disappear from the earth for being the target of an atomic war; and they were the first to die; even though this island should disappear totally; its inhabitants would be completely happy and content to have fulfilled their purpose . . ."
That purpose would seem self-evident: to offer Cuba as the sacrificial lamb for the expansion of international communism.
Castro betrayed the revolution by conditioning the life of his country to the political exigencies of the Kremlin.
Through Castro's treachery, Cuba became a bastion of communism. In the heart of the American world only 90 miles from Florida, Cuba became a base of operations and international communist subversion and penetration of the Western Hemisphere.
JOSE MIRO CARDONA, first Cuban premier under Castro and now a leader in exile of Cuban refugees said the Sovietization of Cuba started immediately after Castro deposed his first president, Manuel Urrittia. only months after he seized power
The then revolutionary slogan of "freedom with bread, bread without fear" suddenly became "Cuba, underdeveloped country."
what a nominally Republican Cuba had established in 57 years of existence. He tore down the free enterprise system after a bloodbath ofiring squad executions without parallel in history.
Castro proclaimed the equality of man but in effect reduced Cubans to a level of equal misery.
The brutality of the early days of his regime created a generalized state of terror throughout the Western Hemisphere.
Castro used the slogan to destroy
COMUNIST PROPAGANDISTS throughout the world portrayed Castro as a hero and a liberator. They inflamed ultra-nationalist sentiment and the spirit of rebellion against constituted government.
At the end of Castro's first year in office, the withdrawal of Latin American capital to Europe and Canada was estimated at $3 billion. Three years later, at the end of 1963, the flight of capital was estimated at closer to $10 billion.
Communist-created Cuban propaganda organs carried a distorted image of post-Castro Cuba throughout the Americas. The peoples in countries underdeveloped economically began to demand social reforms so extensive as to threaten the collapse of all institutions.
The result in five short years of Castro rule has become evident; preaching unrest throughout the Western Hemisphere with all-time
high record outbreaks of conspiracies, bombings, insurrections and, in line with Kremlin policy, disorder and confusion.
Castro propagandists by pounding on the theme of United States imperialism have fomented anti-North American prejudice throughout the hemisphere and brought near, if not already accomplished, the collapse of the altruistic Alliance for Progress program.
CASTRO PROPAGANDISTS have sought to implant in the masses the image of a United States as the natural enemy of Latin America and have undermined the alliance by attacking it as insufficient and a 20th-century form of colonialism.
And although themselves subjugated in the political sense to an extra-continental and foreign power, Communist Cuban agents have virtually politically immobilized the Western Hemisphere with the dear-to-Latin America theme of "nonintervention and self-determination."
Peasants and some intellectuals have failed to realize that Soviet subjugation of Cuba has affected the whole hemisphere. The constant communist Cuban hammering on the non-intervention theme has blocked the obvious cure to the Cuban political problem: collective intervention by the American states in benefit of rather than to the prejudice of the peoples intervened.
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