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WITH CASTRO GONE, A NEW ERA IN US-CUBAN RELATIONS

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(Ed.'s Note: With Cuban exiles and their offspring celebrating the death of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in Little Miami, it's only fitting that we remind ourselves that before the Cuban Revolution, the U.S. controlled the island's sugar industry and had taken over the gambling mecca through the Mafia's infiltration of casinos and prostitution with the acquiescence of the Cuban middle class. The vast majority of the people lived squalor and misery. Illiteracy was widespread and health care for the people was virtually non-existent. Castro changed all that. His first move was to seize 7,500,000 acres from foreign owners and distribute the land to Cuban peasants (photo above). Today, Cuba's literacy rates are the highest in Latin America. It's health care system is admired throughout the world and the regime sends its doctors to aid Third World nations. But the people paid a price as the government eased into a virtual dictatorship and Castro cult. The U.S. embargo did not help hem either. President Barack Obama's normalization of relations with the Cuban government through executive orders is now threatened with the ascension of president-elect Donald Trump who has vowed to change the terms of the "deal." Will we go back to the bad old days of pre-Castro when Carlos Puebla wrote this poem?)

Aquí pensaban seguir
ganando el ciento por ciento
con casas de apartamentos
y echar al pueblo a sufrir

Y seguir de modo cruel
contra el pueblo conspirando
para seguirlo explotando...
y en eso llegó Fidel

Se acabó la diversión,
llegó el Comandante
y mandó a parar

Aquí pensaban seguir
tragando y tragando tierra
sin sospechar que en la Sierra
se alumbraba el porvenir

Y seguir de modo cruel
la costumbre del delito
hacer de Cuba un garito...
y en eso llegó Fidel

Se acabó la diversión,
llegó el Comandante
y mandó a parar
Aquí pensaban seguir
diciendo que los ratreros,
forajidos bandoleros
asolaban al país

Y seguir de modo cruel
con la infamia por escudo
difamando a los barbudos...
y en eso legó Fidel

Se acabó la diversión,
llegó el Comandante
y mandó a parar

Aquí pensaban seguir
jugando a la democracia
y el pueblo que en su desgracia
se acabara de morir

Y seguir de modo cruel
sin cuidarse ni la forma
con el robo como norma...
y en eso llegó Fidel

Se acabó la diversión,
llegó el Comandante
y mandó a parar

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