I read some some your other postings and I have to ask you a question. Have you ever been to Cuba? I have, with my Dominican wife, and not to just resorts. My brother is married to a Cubana. Unemployment is very high. Officially people have jobs, but they do nothing.
I've been there twice. Neither time was I in a "resort," and one of the times I went with a work brigade, spent 3 months there, lived with a Cuban family, and worked five days a week cutting cane. It's the greatest place I've ever been in my life.
I asked my wife if she would prefer Cuba to the DR, and she looked at me as if I had 3 heads. She said, " Even poor Dominicans have freedom " Enough said!
What freedom? What freedoms do Dominicans have that Cubans don't? Freedom to sleep in the street if they're poor? Freedom to die if they can't afford medical treatment? Freedom to be illiterate? There are no homeless people in Cuba. No one starves to death in Cuba. There are no illiterate people in Cuba (outside of the mentally handicapped). Medical care is completely free in Cuba. Education, from the beginning to the university is completely free. Anyone who wants to work in Cuba can. Cuba is an independent nation, free from imperialist domination. The Cuban people determine their own path.
It's funny that you say that.. I'm sure your wife, from her privledged position, wouldn't want to live in a place where everyone is equal.. That's like asking a decadent American doctor if he wants to work at a clinic in Mozambique. Dominicans and Haitians constantly approach the FPM to ask about emigrating to Cuba (especially after they read the books and pamphlets the FPM has put out about what Cuba is really like). And if you didn't know, there are hundreds of Dominicans and Haitians studying for free at college in Cuba. Not to mention "Miracle Mission," which has provided free eye surgery to tens of thousands of poor Latinoamericanos from all over.. and I do me free, they fly for free on Venezuelan planes, get free food and free board in Cuba.. etc.
But I assume the lack of response to your insane posts is that most people on this forum realize your post do not rise to the point of having the validity to warrant a reply, you obviously think the US is solely concerned with causing problems for the Republic Dominicana? How can you expect anyone to comment on such childish and preposterous remarks?
Ahh, more ad homs, with a straw man thrown in! You're full of logical fallacies, eh?
Again, if they're so "childish and preposterous" they should be easy to counter. As of yet, no one has done that, or really even tried to.
I could pick your 6th grade level inaccuracies on Republic Dominicana History apart without looking at any references (Which is what you obviously did) but I again assume most readers on this forum simply disregarded that rant as a simplistic view of event by a simplistic mind with an agenda far from truth.
1. For the third time,
I didn't write it. This is indicated by the "from: " at the end of the article.
2. If you can "pick your 6th grade level inaccuracies on Republic Dominicana History apart without looking at any references," then do it. Don't talk about it, be about it.
3. "without looking at any references (Which is what you obviously did)"?? So it's bad for someone to use references when writing or making a statement? Really? Wow, this explains alot! LOL. I guess someone like you, who isn't interested in fact, would say something like this.. I just can't believe you admitted it.
4. "I again assume most readers on this forum simply disregarded that rant as a simplistic view of event by a simplistic mind" This is yet another
Argumentum ad hominem! Good job! "This is the error of attacking the character or motives of a person who has stated an idea, rather than the idea itself." There, I gave you the definition so you can avoid it in the future.
5. "with an agenda far from truth" That makes no sense. Maybe you'd like to rephrase it?
Do you really believe the USA covers up all history not favorable?
Nope, just the stuff that people don't find out about on their own. Have you heard of No Gun Ri? My Lai? Haditha?
I have observed many exhibits regarding the Black Panthers, Huey Newton and Bobby Seales, Bill Ayers and other at various times at the Smithsonian, Cal Berkley and other well respected museums. The USA may not be proud of these groups but they do not deny or try to erase their history, in fact they embrace the turbulence and lessons learned by these Revolutionaries in the hopes that the likes of such radicals may not again be necessary
The Smithsonian?? I've been there plenty of times, never seen a Black Panthers display... got a source?
Cal Berkley is not a government run museum. Berkley is historically a left-leaning town, and the Panthers received support there.
The U.S. government
destroyed the Black Panthers with a series of assassinations and imprisonments. That's objective fact. They're still hunting some Panthers, like Assata Shakur, who lives (very happily) in Cuba.
I don?t usually comment on many posts, but your terrible rant blaming the USA for all things evil leads me to believe you have either been denied a VISA to the USA or summarily deported
Nope. I'm a citizen of the U.S.. Been one for years. Check my ip. And I didn't "blame the USA for all things evil".. nice try though.
I fully realize the USA is not all righteous and forthcoming., but to listen to you one would understand the USA is at fault from everything form Adam and Eve being expelled from the Garden of Eden to the Fall of the Holy Roman Empire and the current situation in the Republic Dominicana to which you ascribe the USA is totally responsible.
Nope. Adam and Eve is a fairy tale, and the Roman Empire was before the U.S. existed.. so again, more logical fallacies. I understand you have trouble dealing in the realm of objective facts, but you should at least try.
The current situation in the DR isn't entirely because of the U.S.. The situation is because of colonialism, neo-colonialism, and imperialism; all of which are aspects of global capitalism. For the workers and farmers of the DR to determine their own path, they need to first break free of the grip of imperialist domination. No serious improvements can occur before that time, and thus, this is the immediate task of the Dominican people. The U.S. is the main imperialist power in the world, and more specifically, is the imperialist power which has dominated the DR economically and politically since its break from Spain.
I think you will always have freedom in your mind and thoughts, with your apparent use of mind expanding drugs you will have plenty of room to foster such inane thoughts
You managed to get one more ad hom in at the end, still without addressing nary a fact! QUE BUENO!
Granted, the U.S. did support Trujillo through most of his regime, but so did the majority of Dominicans. You don't seem to realize that. Trujillo was a popular ruler.
So was, according to books of history, Hitler (and incidentally, U.S. business also supported Hitler for quite a while). Does that make him good? Does that change the objective fact that Hitler was detrimental to the human species?
And how do we know that Trujillo was popular? There were no elections, no plebecites, etc. If he was so popular, he should have ran for office, and allowed opposition parties, right? Just because some older people look back positively at time under Trujillo, doesn't mean anything either. The world in general is worse now, as capitalism has ravaged it for a few decades since then. On top of that, we know that ideas don't come out of thin air, they come from material sources.. so reactionary views aren't suprising coming from people who grew up under a reactionary regime, with reactionary views that it propagated through its media.
Ask the Dominicans (and a handful of Cubans, including Fidel Castro) that planned to leave Cuba by boat and overthrow Trujillo (before there plans were smashed by the reactionary Cuban state of the time) how popular Trujillo was.
It was Trujillo who launched a plan to redistribute land to the Dominican campesinos. It was Trujillo who improved(virtually created) the Dominican Republic's infrastructure. Roads and bridges were constructed to help the rural farmer deliver his produce to market in easier ways. Trujillo expanded public education, medical services, electricity and even running water into the DR's smallest hamlets. Trujillo also brought about security for the common man. Trujillo rapidly gained the support of the masses. He didn't need American support to accomplish all of that.
Of course he did. He needed American support to stay in power. He was a butcher. Everything he did, he did to
prevent revolution.. just like Roosevelt in the U.S. with 'the new deal'.. what he did was all forced by popular pressure, and was just enough to keep the masses in check. Nothing he did matches the accomplishments of Cuba under socialism.. not even close..
The toppling of President Juan Bosch was wrong. I don't know if it is fair to lay the blame for the coup entirely on the United States. The Dominicans behind the coup were against Juan Bosch's policies without any encouragement from the Americans. Donald Reid Cabral, who would join the triumphant, called the coup against President Juan Bosch "a disaster", and only agreed to join the new government in order to keep civillian components in it and guide the country to another set of free elections. Which he did.
There was no doubt the coup was engineered by the U.S.. Look through the declassified documents.. It was no different then Pinochet's coup in Chile! Of course, the Dominican capitalists and Trujillo-cronies who stood to loose a little were all for it, and carried out the U.S. bidding.. For the U.S. to remain the colonial power, with the puppet Balaguer in power, was in their interests.
When the civil war started, it was just that, a civil war. The Constitutionalists were not all communists. But there were definately Communist elements fighting in its ranks. As much as is made about about the majority of Constitutionalists being anti-communits, I think there was a very real threat that Marxist elements within it had every intention of hijacking the constitutionalist cause. Even people within the Constitutionalists ranks were afraid of that. (Communist revolution)
Of course there were communists in the Constitutionalists! Communists have always stood on the front lines in battles against imperialism and reactionary dictatorships, have always lead the fight for the rights of workers, farmers, women and national minorities. It was communists who defeated the Nazis in most of Europe!
I don't believe Juan Bosch was a Marxist. Spanish Republicans faced the same problem during the Spanish Civil War.(Keeping the Communists from taking over completely)
Juan Bosch wasn't a Marxist.. at all. He was an anti-Communist. He banned communists after he was elected. Of course, that didn't stop Lyndon Johnson from using the claim that he was a communist to invade. That's all explained in the history I posted.
The people that opposed Camanno were afraid of that possibility as well. Not everyone in the Dominican Republic wanted(or wants) to live in a Communist country. Being anti-communist is a legitimate political stance.
No it isn't. In politics, it's what you're for, not what you're against. Anti-communism is a blanket excuse used to justify imperialist adventures around the world -- just like "the war on terrorism" of today. It was invented by a sector of the capitalist ruling class of the U.S. after WW2 (when the imperialist countries allied with the socialist countries.. remember 'Uncle Joe'??)..