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05/20/09
By Ana Paula Coquet Dávila* / Seinforma Correspondent
Mexico City.- The mainstream media has created in us a vision of Cuba very different from reality. It has manipulated information at the service of the capitalist system with the purpose of showing Cuba as a totalitarian and dictatorial regime.
The end of the cold war marked the triumph of capitalism, but the failure of an alternative in the American continent didn’t happen. Cuba is proof of it.
Nowadays, Cuba and the rest of the Latin American countries have few differences in the migration statistics. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) emphasizes that the highest percentages of migration correspond to El Salvador (14,5%), Nicaragua, (9,6%), Mexico (9,4%), Dominican Republic (9,3%), Cuba (8,7%) and Uruguay (8,3%). [1]
Cuba occupies the fifth place and according to these statistics we can affirm that Cuban migration is similar to other Latin American countries and that it is not an isolated phenomenon. In fact, 4,5% of Latin American population lives outside their original countries. The tendency is that people migrate to more developed countries.
According to a report published by the Cuban Ministry of External Affairs, migration in the island is not as high as it is shown. [2] “Before Fulgencio Batista’s defeat in 1959, Cuba was sending out more migrants to the United States than Central and South America together. Today it occupies the fifth place, according to ECLAC.”[3]
Law of disdain
Migrant waves have grown and decreased, depending on the economy of the country. But in 1966, a US law marked forever the migration from Cuba to the United States: The Cuban Adjustment Law.
Disdain form US to the Cuban government was made clear with the Cuban Adjustment Law. A difference with the rest of the American countries began when the illegal immigrants became exiles.
The law grants any Cuban citizen that migrates to the US by any means, legal or illegal, the green card and the permanent residence after one year. The law applies when the Cubans reach American shores, but the ones that are found on the sea, are repatriated.
The core of the matter is different and the intentions are clear. Americans treat Cuban immigrants the same way they do with others. Fidel Castro has declared, “The policy of the revolution is that, anyone that wants to leave the country they are authorized if another country allows it. Our nation doesn’t forbid that families emigrate, because building a revolutionary and a right society is a free and a voluntary decision.” [4]
The policy is not restrictive; Cuba’s doors are open, although getting out is extremely hard, because Cuba seeks to maintain its population, its labor force; not to stimulate brain drain and promote imperialism.
Economic war and genocide
The economic situation and a big part of the poverty that hurts Cuba is a consequence of one of the greatest economic blockades ever seen. It has provoked economic damages that exceed 86 thousand million dollars. The economical war perpetrated by the US, constitutes a violation to international law and to United Nations. [5]
The embargo forbids American citizens any commerce with Cuba and they are not allowed to visit the country as tourists. Dollar cannot be used in external transactions or in American banks around the world. The World Banc and the Inter - American Development Bank cannot give credits.
The future of the American - Cuban relationship is a critical time. The change in the government of both countries can be the end of a war and the beginning of a policy based in respect with the opportunity to prove the success of alternative to capitalism.
Barack Obama is giving the first steps of approach, but he has made it only to benefit the Cuban-Americans and their families, but not to the islanders in general.
The expansive policy of the US and its attempt to discredit other economical systems has misinformed the western world, so capitalism in maintained along with a liberty that has been proven to act as oppression. Media at the service of the corporation and free market keep the Latin American masses drowning in poverty. Qualifying Cuba with extremist and alarming words has terrorized the world, and a true understanding of others has not had a chance to exist.
In order to understand socialism in Latin America, the concept of liberty has to be analyzed. Communist Cuba understands the term “freedom” not as individual but as a whole community that fights to survive and grow together to avoid the economical separation that the rest of the world live.
*Ana Paula Coquet Dávila is a Mexican social communicator. At present she is working in TV post-production at the Federal District, at Circuit 24, House of Representatives.
Notes:
[1] <https://mail.resist.ca/images/blank.png> HERNAN Córdoba, Diego, Mitos y verdades de la emigración cubana, Kaosenlared.net, 05/07/2008, www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/mitos-verdades-emigracion-cubana
[2] <https://mail.resist.ca/images/blank.png> Ibid.
[3] <https://mail.resist.ca/images/blank.png> LAMRANI, Salim, Desinformación sobre la inmigración cubana, CubaPeriodistas.cu, Speech at the World Social Forum. Caracas, January 27, 2006.
[4] <https://mail.resist.ca/images/blank.png> HERNAN Córdoba, Diego, Mitos y verdades de la emigración cubana, Kaosenlared.net, 05/07/2008, www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/mitos-verdades-emigracion-cubana
[5] <https://mail.resist.ca/images/blank.png> Speech by Felipe Pérez Roque, Cuban Foreign Minister, at the United Nations General meeting, under the 18th agenda topic called "The need of stopping the US embargo against Cuba". New York, November 8, 2006.
By Ana Paula Coquet Dávila* / Seinforma Correspondent
Mexico City.- The mainstream media has created in us a vision of Cuba very different from reality. It has manipulated information at the service of the capitalist system with the purpose of showing Cuba as a totalitarian and dictatorial regime.
The end of the cold war marked the triumph of capitalism, but the failure of an alternative in the American continent didn’t happen. Cuba is proof of it.
Nowadays, Cuba and the rest of the Latin American countries have few differences in the migration statistics. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) emphasizes that the highest percentages of migration correspond to El Salvador (14,5%), Nicaragua, (9,6%), Mexico (9,4%), Dominican Republic (9,3%), Cuba (8,7%) and Uruguay (8,3%). [1]
Cuba occupies the fifth place and according to these statistics we can affirm that Cuban migration is similar to other Latin American countries and that it is not an isolated phenomenon. In fact, 4,5% of Latin American population lives outside their original countries. The tendency is that people migrate to more developed countries.
According to a report published by the Cuban Ministry of External Affairs, migration in the island is not as high as it is shown. [2] “Before Fulgencio Batista’s defeat in 1959, Cuba was sending out more migrants to the United States than Central and South America together. Today it occupies the fifth place, according to ECLAC.”[3]
Law of disdain
Migrant waves have grown and decreased, depending on the economy of the country. But in 1966, a US law marked forever the migration from Cuba to the United States: The Cuban Adjustment Law.
Disdain form US to the Cuban government was made clear with the Cuban Adjustment Law. A difference with the rest of the American countries began when the illegal immigrants became exiles.
The law grants any Cuban citizen that migrates to the US by any means, legal or illegal, the green card and the permanent residence after one year. The law applies when the Cubans reach American shores, but the ones that are found on the sea, are repatriated.
The core of the matter is different and the intentions are clear. Americans treat Cuban immigrants the same way they do with others. Fidel Castro has declared, “The policy of the revolution is that, anyone that wants to leave the country they are authorized if another country allows it. Our nation doesn’t forbid that families emigrate, because building a revolutionary and a right society is a free and a voluntary decision.” [4]
The policy is not restrictive; Cuba’s doors are open, although getting out is extremely hard, because Cuba seeks to maintain its population, its labor force; not to stimulate brain drain and promote imperialism.
Economic war and genocide
The economic situation and a big part of the poverty that hurts Cuba is a consequence of one of the greatest economic blockades ever seen. It has provoked economic damages that exceed 86 thousand million dollars. The economical war perpetrated by the US, constitutes a violation to international law and to United Nations. [5]
The embargo forbids American citizens any commerce with Cuba and they are not allowed to visit the country as tourists. Dollar cannot be used in external transactions or in American banks around the world. The World Banc and the Inter - American Development Bank cannot give credits.
The future of the American - Cuban relationship is a critical time. The change in the government of both countries can be the end of a war and the beginning of a policy based in respect with the opportunity to prove the success of alternative to capitalism.
Barack Obama is giving the first steps of approach, but he has made it only to benefit the Cuban-Americans and their families, but not to the islanders in general.
The expansive policy of the US and its attempt to discredit other economical systems has misinformed the western world, so capitalism in maintained along with a liberty that has been proven to act as oppression. Media at the service of the corporation and free market keep the Latin American masses drowning in poverty. Qualifying Cuba with extremist and alarming words has terrorized the world, and a true understanding of others has not had a chance to exist.
In order to understand socialism in Latin America, the concept of liberty has to be analyzed. Communist Cuba understands the term “freedom” not as individual but as a whole community that fights to survive and grow together to avoid the economical separation that the rest of the world live.
*Ana Paula Coquet Dávila is a Mexican social communicator. At present she is working in TV post-production at the Federal District, at Circuit 24, House of Representatives.
Notes:
[1] <https://mail.resist.ca/images/blank.png> HERNAN Córdoba, Diego, Mitos y verdades de la emigración cubana, Kaosenlared.net, 05/07/2008, www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/mitos-verdades-emigracion-cubana
[2] <https://mail.resist.ca/images/blank.png> Ibid.
[3] <https://mail.resist.ca/images/blank.png> LAMRANI, Salim, Desinformación sobre la inmigración cubana, CubaPeriodistas.cu, Speech at the World Social Forum. Caracas, January 27, 2006.
[4] <https://mail.resist.ca/images/blank.png> HERNAN Córdoba, Diego, Mitos y verdades de la emigración cubana, Kaosenlared.net, 05/07/2008, www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/mitos-verdades-emigracion-cubana
[5] <https://mail.resist.ca/images/blank.png> Speech by Felipe Pérez Roque, Cuban Foreign Minister, at the United Nations General meeting, under the 18th agenda topic called "The need of stopping the US embargo against Cuba". New York, November 8, 2006.
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