The Myth of Progress: Notes on Cuba Before and After Communism

China Will Benefit from U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Former CIA Contractor.

El American had the opportunity to interview, again, former contractor for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Ron Aledo. The service as a United States Army veteran stationed in Afghanistan, as well as a senior intelligence advisor to the Afghan National Police, places him in an optimal position to render a close, firsthand appreciation of the impact that the United States troops’ withdrawal from that country will have.

When asked if, in his professional opinion, the decision to, in fact, leave the Afghanistan government to its own fate is a mistake, Aledo in a quick and unhesitant fashion answered in the affirmative. While his answer draws upon various focal points of analysis, geopolitical considerations weigh heavily on the conclusion that it is not in the best interest of America, nor of the free world, to completely vacate Afghanistan.

 

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5 Things the Cuban Military and State Security Must Know.

The Cuban Uprising of 2021, a popular, national mass movement that began on July 11^th, 2021, initiated a liberation process that is irreversible. The purpose is clear. The people of Cuba are fed up with communist tyrannical rule and are demanding and fighting for freedom. There are five things the Cuban military and State Security must know.

Transitional Justice will be exercised

Cuba will not repeat the errors of Russia, Nicaragua, and many of the former socialist bloc countries that did not initiate processes of decommunization and transitional justice. Understanding that upon the collapse of Cuban communism, the liberation, a new phase begins: the democratization process. Its biggest challenge is dealing with the Castro-Communist criminal past that some or many of you are responsible for. Transitional justice has three fundamental tasks: (1) identify the crime; (2) prosecute the criminal; and (3) indemnify the victim. Since there can be no rule of law, a bedrock of a free republican system of government, the application of transitional justice will be compulsory. 

Digital age facilitates identification 

 

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The U.S. Must Listen to Cubans’ Forceful Calls for Freedom.

Differences between cause and effect are often made. When seeking a remedy to a problem, the wrong prioritization could be fatal. To attend to the effect, while ignoring the cause, is a prescription for disaster. Nothing displays this truth more than in the political realm. As the people of Cuba are being brutally suppressed by the sixty-two-year-old communist dictatorship—in reaction to the peaceful uprising across about fifty localities across the country—discordant and contradictory pressures are being levied upon the American government as to what course to follow. 

A proper distinction between what is the cause and what are the effects is fundamental in being able to draft America’s state policy that is consistent with its long-standing history of supporting natural rights and civilized governance. The United States must listen to what the Cuban people on the Island are saying. Demands for “Freedom,” “Down with Communism,” and “Fatherland and Life,” are what thousands of brave protesters are saying. No one is chanting “Food,” “Vaccines,” “Visas to the U.S.” or “Lift the Embargo” (blockade is a misnomer here). 

 

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The 2021 Cuban Uprising: A Before and After.

Cuban history recalls two emblematic commencements of the country’s two wars for independence, the Cry of Yara (1868) and the Cry of Baires (1895). Both sacrosanct events signaled that the nascent nation in arms was determined to be free and independent and on the path to achieving those objectives. This was realized in 1902. History will record July 11^th, 2021, as the “Cry of San Antonio de los Baños” and the initiation of the 2021 Cuban Uprising, a seismic undertaking that marks a before and an after.  

Both Yara and Baires were localities where the separatist revolts began in the 19^th century. San Antonio de los Baños, a municipality close to Havana which houses a World War II air force base still in use and part of Cuban communism’s airborne offensive capability machine, was the ground zero flicker point that started the nationwide civic revolt of Sunday, July 11^th.

Over fifty localities, far and wide across the archipelago that is Cuba, witnessed massive demonstrations demanding the end of the sixty-two-year Marxist tyrannical rule, overseen principally by the Castro family but ultimately sustained by a regime-driven communist belief system with the corresponding Leninist organization of society and power. 

 

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