The embargo has many ramifications. Some that go back to the beginning of Cuban independance. As you can see i come from a Spanish family and the connection between Spain and Cuba is much more recent than with other countries in Latin America. Most Cubans know where their family comes from in Spain and immigration to Cuba from Spain is very recent. During the Franco era of course the official position was anti- Castro. That has all changed today. But I am getting off topic.
Have you ever wondered why Cuba has a special place in it’s relationship with the US? I mean as compared to the other Spanish possessions that the Americans took over. Cuba was the first to receive independence from the US. Cuba received her independence within three years from the end of the Spanish -American war. The only other country to get independence from the Americans was the Philippines and it took them 50 years. But Guam, Puerto Rico and Las Marianas are still territories of the US. They are in a sense “step children” who are like Cinderella with her sisters. Most Americans are were unaware that Puerto Rico was even a US territory until 1947 when the “independentistas” revolted and tried to kill Truman.
But Cuba got special treatment. Partly because of it’s proximity to the US and also because it had the highest standard of literacy and economics of all the ex-Spanish possessions. But one of the central reasons was because of the things I have mentioned was that in 1900 the Morgans and the Rockefellers wanted a safe off shore place to put a lot of their money. What better place than Cuba!? It worked out fine because Cuba was they only territory with a real banking system. After that the US government left Cuba alone.Well I don’t have to tell you Cuban political history from 1900.
Many Cubans here tell us that things were better before Castro and in many respects I suppose that was so. But Batista was certainly no paragon of democracy. he was a typical Latin type dictator.
I know that the Diaz-Balart family and the family of Ros-Lehtinen are families with close connections to the Batista government. The elder Diaz-Balart was a rather unsavory character in the police force of Batista. When ever i hear these people speak in public they always remind me in tone a character of the Franquistas. I just don’t trust them. That’s my opinion and i am sorry if i offend anyone. i certainly don’t expect any of you to praise Francisco Franco either. This post has gotten too long I’ll save other things for another day.
Attentamente y sin otro particular.
