Humor is a characteristic of intelligence. It is said that Diogenes (ancient Greek philosopher) wasted it at every step. Determined to live in a barrel, he placed the open part towards the sun and the closed one, against the wind and the cold. Some people say that it was Alexander the Great, while others say that the soldiers sent by him stopped in front of the barrel, covering the sun. Firmly, Diogenes said: Do not take me away, what you can not give me.
So sparkling I hear the Cuban responses against the pathetic and cynical Helms-Burton Act. Cuba will not cease to be Cuban, nor to defend the future of its children, although the empire insisted on "covering the sun" since 1805.
Emilio Roig of Leuchsenring * remembers that, in November of that year, President Thomas Jefferson communicates to the government of England that in case of a war with Spain, the United States would seize Cuba, and reiterates it in 1807 and 1808.
From that remote date / ... / the Yankee policy with respect to Cuba was always through all the administrations and maintained, from the government, by all the Yankee political parties: the continuation of the Island under the sovereignty of Spain, as long as it can not or do not agree that it is American (p.92).
It was the secretary (John Quincy Adams) and not President Monroe, the true author (1823) of the robbery turned into doctrine. "These islands, Adams wrote, because of their local position, are natural appendages of the North American continent, and one of them, the island of Cuba, has become extremely important for the political and commercial interests of our Union."
More than greedy, Adams was opportunistic. "Just as a fruit separated from its tree can not stop falling on the ground, Cuba is unable to stand on its own and will fall into the hands of the United States."
Eight months later (December 2, 1823), President Monroe launched the doctrine that bears his surname. Cuba was his goal, but he was referring to all of Latin America.
From Monroe to Trump, only the envelope has changed; the content is the same: a patient wait, purchase, annexation, military occupation, a republic subdued by traitors, blockade, economic asphyxia, desperate law, hysteria ...
For more than 200 years, has Cuba not shown enough resistance and heart to prevent being taken away, what nobody has given it? Homeland, justice and freedom
* Cuba does not owe its independence to the United States, Havana, 1950.
