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<font size=3>The urination atrocity by US Marines in Afghanistan reminds
us of the Jose Marti statue referred to in the First Declaration of
Havana
<a href="http://www.walterlippmann.com/fc-09-02-1960.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.walterlippmann.com/fc-09-02-1960.html</a> which we can say
really PISSED the Cuban people off!<br><br>
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On March 12, 1949, three crew members from the U. S. Navy ships visiting
Havana urinated on the monument of José Martí, Cuba's most venerated
patriot.<br><br>
From the First Declaration of Havana:<br><br>
The National General Assembly of the People of Cuba energetically
condemns the overt and criminal intervention exerted by North American
imperialism for more than a century over all the nations of Latin
America, which have seen their lands invaded more than once in Mexico,
Nicaragua, Haiti, Santo Domingo and Cuba; have lost, through the voracity
of Yankee imperialism, huge and rich areas, whole countries, such as
Puerto Rico, which has been converted into an occupied territory; and
have suffered, moreover, the outrageous treatment dealt by the Marines to
our wives and daughters, as well as to the most exalted symbols of our
history, such as the statue of José Martí. <br><br>
This intervention, based upon military superiority, inequitable treaties
and the miserable submission of treacherous rulers throughout one hundred
years has converted our America the America that Bolívar, Hidalgo,
Juárez, San Martín, O'Higgins, Sucre and Martí wanted free into an area
of exploitation, the backyard of the political and financial Yankee
empire, a reserve of votes for the international organization in which
the Latin America countries have figured only as the herds driven by the
"restless and brutal North that despises us." <br><br>
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