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<h1 id="reader-title">The Insolence of Trump Will Crash Against
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<p>By Carlos Aznárez on June 17, 2017</p>
<p>As it was the case with Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford,
Carter, Reagan, Bush the father, Clinton, Bush the son
and even with Obama, Donald Trump is also wrong if he
thinks that with insolence, his clown style, and pro war
“tightening” against Cuba he will achieve what everyone
else has tried to do and has miserably failed. <span
id="more-4831"></span>Cuba, its people and its
Government are made of good wood forged on revolutionary
theory and practice carried out every day of every year
since January 1, 1959 when Fidel led a revolutionary
movement to put a stop to colonial oppression. Cuba is
the first to outstretch its hand when it finds a partner
who understands its gesture but it can also be as hard
as steel when it comes to being subjected to unjustified
humiliation and interference, as the inhabitants of the
White House are used to doing.</p>
<p>Asking for a bit of rationality to a demoniac as Trump
is really an exercise in futility. Convinced that he had
to keep a promise he made in the midst of his electoral
campaign to the anti-Cuban sectors he has just announced
with a stroke of a pen that he will erase the small
agreements signed by Obama with Raúl Castro, except for
two or three items. Among them that the odious US flag
will continues to wave at its Embassy in Havana.</p>
<p>All this is happening at precisely the same the time
when Trump is facing rejection by an important sector of
U.S. population due to his racist and xenophobic stands.
And even several leaders of his own party are now
questioning him and are joining with those who are
moving forward to investigate him for his past of
multiple black holes that could endanger his tenure. So
Trump chose to run away from his problems by issuing an
unconditional passport of support to some of the most
extremist people of “Little Habana”, in Miami to pay
them back for their support. With an anti-communist
speech for the ages, similar to the ones given by the
dinosaurs in the time of the cold war, the hierarch of
Washington and his mimics immersed themselves in the
arms of their hosts Senator Marco Rubio, Mario Díaz
Balart and some conspicuous accomplices of the terrorist
Luis Posada Carriles, to which the US establishment
protects to levels of scandal. The Trump with his
flamboyant gestures and silly laughter likes to surround
himself with scum and be flattered by killers like the
Veterans of the Bay of Pigs invasion (fortunately
defeated in Giron by Fidel and his fighters). Also
attending were the rich financers who line the pockets
of those who conduct the campaigns against the Cuban
revolution and it’s Government.</p>
<p>Some Latin American analysts had placed erroneous hopes
that Trump would somehow be “less bad” than the Democrat
who celebrated the killing of Muammar al-Gaddafi, but
regardless Cuba and its glorious revolution remain a
stone in their shoe. Precisely for that Trump was
appeasing the Florida mafia, those remaining mummies,
who responded with hysterical applause to the jester on
stage. Fortunately for Cuba they had put distance from
the Revolution as soon as it happened.</p>
<p>This last Friday in the Miami theater, that bears the
name of one of the terrorists who wanted to enter in
Cuba through Playa Giron and was captured, Trump did not
hold back anything in order to flirt with a pack of men
and women marked by fire and hatred against the huge
achievements of the revolution.</p>
<p>That Cuba has remained dignified for almost six decades
of criminal blockade is something that was not planned
in the worst dreams of the counterrevolutionaries. They
will never manage to understand that the people of Cuba
will sacrifice everything in order to prevent the end of
their social and political achievements. Those benefits
granted by a government “of, by and for the humble
ones”, as Fidel used to say, which have increasingly
converted several generations of Cubans into proud
representatives of a country where culture, education,
health and social justice are not just empty slogans as
is the case in the great majority of countries.</p>
<p>The arrogance of Trump to say that he will defend
“democracy and human rights” in Cuba when in his own
back yard the only thing he can show are the heinous
consequences of capitalism is the height of denial. A
micro world where human beings do not count, where
health is a business that only some can access and where
education is ultra-elitist. The streets of the U.S. have
become dwellings of the excluded of the “American way of
life” and drug use is one of the highest in the world.</p>
<p>Just 90 miles from Miami, the statistics speak for
themselves. In 2016 Cuba maintained one of the lowest
percentages of infant mortality with just 4.3 per
thousand live births. And speaking of health the
revolution managed to be the first nation in Latin
America to eradicate polio and infectious diseases like
malaria have also disappeared. Cuba has developed a
vaccine against meningitis and has some of the most
advanced research to control different types of cancer.
Cuba’s strides in health and medical technology are
recognized by international organizations in this field.</p>
<p>All of this is a product of a public health system that
not only reaches all corners of the country, but extends
to many nations through cooperation agreements and
initiatives of solidarity. Cuban medical teams made a
huge contribution for example in the fight against Ebola
in West Africa and Cuba does not shy away from sending
aid and medical professionals to the poorest inhabitants
in every corner of the planet. What about education? It
is not just the internal development of Cuba but it also
implements literacy plans globally in its goal to
eliminate illiteracy.</p>
<p>Cuba has fulfilled much of the Millennium development
goals. It has eradicated extreme poverty and hunger,
achieved universal primary education, and promoted
equality and the empowerment of women. As a result, Cuba
is a nation of high human development has is ranked high
in the world for its social welfare policies.</p>
<p>In contrast to the winds of war and intervention always
blowing from Washington, Cuba is committed to peace for
the continent and the world, and because of that,
contrary to the intentions expressed by Trump in his
pathetic speech, in recent years Cuba’s foreign policy
has achieved striking success. Cuba participates with
voice and vote in dozens of forums and international
bodies, it is consulted by countries that despite being
considered “developed” fail to reach targets that the
Revolution has already exceeded in basic social aspects
demanded by their respective populations. And it is
important to add that Cuba has been used to bring a
dialogue of pacification in countries with endless
conflicts as was the case recently with the negations
between the FARC and the Colombian Government.</p>
<p>All countries reject the blockade as expressed at the
last meeting of the United Nations on the subject where
even Israel and the United States itself chose to
abstain from their own shameful position.</p>
<p>Trump can scream and kick all he wants in the brothel
of Miami, surrounded by a tiny group of worms, (on a
peninsula where there are thousands of Cuban-Americans
who do not share the sentiments of that disgusting
speech) but what he will never be able accomplish is to
bring the dignified and sovereign Cuban people to its
knees.</p>
<p>As it was expressed in the statement by the
revolutionary Government right after Trump’s speech, <em>“Any
strategy aimed at changing the political, economic and
social system in Cuba, whether it intends to achieve
through pressure and impositions, or using more subtle
methods, will be doomed to failure”.</em></p>
<p>It not only the men and women of Cuba who are willing
to fight against this latest twist of imperialist
policy, but also by their side will be, as always, the
grateful solidarity of all those who believe that the
Socialist Revolution, sustainable, and prosperous is the
only hope for this world.</p>
<p>From the belly of anti-colonial, anti-imperialist and
anti-capitalist thought once again it is time to tell
Trump: “Cuba Si, Yankee No”.</p>
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