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![Andres Gomez on U.S. - Cuba relations](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 9/1/1995Call Number: JG/ 095Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Excerpt of a talk by Andres Gomez, National Coordinator of the Antonio Maseo Brigade, a group of Cuban Americans in support of Cuba and opposed to the U.S. embargo. Gomez begins his talk by optimistically noting recent efforts at Caribbean regional cooperation. He then discuses the long course of U.S.- Cuba relations. He decries how some 35,000 Cubans have been held over the past year
at Guantanamo Bay for desiring to immigrate to the U.S. whereas the U.S. had actively encouraged Cuban immigration for the past 35 years. Gomez believes that the Cuban Revolution embodies Cuba at heart and that U.S. imperial efforts to destroy the Revolution have hurt the Cuban people. He notes social
gains in Cuba over the past 32 years compared to the U.S. but notes that the poor economic situation in '92 and '92 with the demise of the U.S.S.R. have been very trying for the Revolution. He believes that Cubans must now build socialism under different terms with the new national and international circumstances. He sees a need for a freer, more participatory Cuban society, but insists that the U.S. likewise faces many problems of its own.
![Andreas Gomez-U.S. Policy in Cuba](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Journalist Andreas Gomez gives a lecture on the Cuban revolution and U.S. Policy in Cuba. Gomez opposes U.S. Policy in Cuba and speaks about the imprisonment of 35,000 Cuban prisoners arrested and held at Guantanamo while trying to go the United States. Through his personal experiences in Cuba he recalls the state of the country from 1993 to 1995, and the progress that has been made by the revolution in that time period.
Gomez's lecture straddles traditional political bounds. He describes life in Cuba at this time as against the grain of a socialist society, of Cuban beliefs and of the national consensus. He does however discuss how these factors are necessary in order to rehabilitate Cuba. He explains that the U.S. plans not to infiltrate but use other means that will have long term negative effects, and that the U.S. retaliation has no relevance to what is actually going on in Cuba.
The overall perspective of the lecture is one that strongly opposes the U.S. destruction of the Cuban Revolution, but also that Cuba is in a state that is not optimal but to support the Cubans so they can get what they need done to change their country in a positive way.
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