50 years of trying to isolate Cuba didn’t do much to undermine Castro. Just as isolation did little to undermine Mao in China.
Flake’s objective is to expose the Cubans to what they’re missing and, thereby, stimulate dissatisfaction from within Cuba. If this strategy worked to lessen China’s harsh communism, maybe it can work in Cuba.
Flake is not a friend of the regime in Cuba. He is looking for a more effective way to over turn it.
During more than three decades, Castro’s regime was sustained by the Soviet Union to the tune of 5 billion dollars annually. There is no doubt that Castro aided in the bankruptcy of the communist Soviet empire. To Castro’s rescue, then came Spain, Canada, and Mexico. Japan and Argentina, along with 140 other nations that traded with Castro on a credit basis, enabling his billionaire status since he never repays the debts. In spite of his debt delinquency, for the last 48 years, hundreds of thousands of tourists and businessmen from around the world have visited and invested in Cuba. Nevertheless, the Cuban people have not experienced the slightest change toward personal or economic freedom, instead misery and oppression has remained unabated. Now the useful idiots of Capitol Hill, such as Jeff Flake and William Delahunt, want the American taxpayers to take on the role of the Soviet Union under the pretense that American entrepreneurs and tourism will transmit a stronger strain of the democracy virus and freedom for which the Cubans lack immunity.
AMERICAN TAXPAYERS BEWARE!
The Cubans do not need congressman Flake to realize that they lack freedom and that food and cloth have been ratioaned by castro’s regime during 45 years.
REP. FLAKE, THERE ARE POWERFUL REASONS FOR NOT TRADING WITH CASTRO
By Jesús J. Chao*
Columnist
La Nueva Cuba
May 11, 2002
When Castro sees American congressman, Jeff Flake, he keeps “laughing day and night” at this valuable and useful idiot who works diligently for him, perhaps without pay, instead of representing the best interest of the American taxpayers and the security of his own country.
Flake maintains that Castro “is not a man who has missed too many meals because of the embargo.” Certainly no, Castro is among the richest heads of state in the world with over 1.5 billion personal fortune.
Cuba can freely trade with the rest of the world, but he starves his people as Stalin did with the Ukrainian peasants. The big problem is that whoever trades with Castro is never paid back. Flake, wants you, American taxpayers, to feed and maintain Castro’s repressive apparatus.
THERE ARE POWERFUL REASONS FOR NOT TRADING WITH CASTRO.
1st.— Cuba is, and has been a terrorist state for 43 years (NOW 48), and counts with advanced chemical, biological and cyberwarfare capabilities aimed against our country. The cooperation between the Cuban regime, Iraq and Iran in the chemical and biological research is well documented.
Just a few days ago the Bush Administration made public their deep concern about Castro’s menace to our security.
A few months before the September 11 attack Castro affirmed at the University of Tehran that their cooperation would put the U.S. down to its knees. That was an ominous threat that materialized on the 9/11 attacks to our country.
Castro plays a central role in the international terrorist network as recognized by the U.S. State Department, with strong nexus with the Islamic terrorism. Right after the attack without even counting with Fidel Castro, Prime Minister Putin dismantled their most important Russian spy and electronic base, which was located in the outskirts of Havana.
Castro went berserk when he found out about it by the media. Did Castro’s partners in the Islamic terrorism gather the necessary intelligence for the success of the attack through Castro’s access to the Russian spy base?
Castro once tried to nuke our cities and he has the means and the will to fulfill his dream of destroying our country.
If we are involved in a worldwide war against terrorism, Cuba at 90 miles from our coast should be a prime target in that war; so, those involved in appeasement policies towards Castro and in the promotion of the lifting of the commercial embargo against Cuba are in fact aiding and abetting our worst enemy.
2nd.— Cuba has defaulted in all its international financial deals and Castro encourages other Third World nations to follow his example. Why are we going to sell to someone without the expectation to ever be repaid. The American taxpayers should be aware that they are the targets of the scam by which the multinationals sell to Castro whatever he needs and we, the taxpayers, end footing the bill.
Castro for 42 years has been with commercial ties with over 150 nations. Now when he has exhausted the patience of nations foolish enough to have given him credit. Castro’s puppets in the media, and the Congress in cahoots with some greedy commercial circles are wanting for the American taxpayers to shoulder the heavy burden of subsidizing his regime to the tune of 9 billion dollars annually.
Is not enough the billions of dollars in pork just approved by the Congress for the benefit of ADM and the powerful agriculture lobby? How much blood does Rep. Flake and Castro’s lobbyists want to extract from the overburdened American taxpayers?
3rd.— The American companies can not legally conduct business with Cuba without violating several American laws.
A.- Trading with the Enemy Act.
B.- U.S. Commercial Embargo Against Cuba.
C.- Helms-Burton Law.
D.- Involvement in bribes in commercial dealings with another nation.
Foreign companies must hire the workers through Castro who keeps 96% of their salary for himself and the repressive apparatus.
E.- Involvement in slave labor of foreign workers in connivance with the local authorities. This is another factor necessary to reconcile with. Every deal; every investment in Cuba is a “joint venture” in partnership with the Cuban tyrant, and that includes being part of slave labor practices, for which those entrepreneurs and multinationals, sooner or later, will pay dearly just as it happened with the companies involved in slave labor during the Nazi era. The scam consists that for each worker they employ, the foreign companies must pay Castro $300 to $500 monthly in dollars and the Cuban dictator pays them 500 to 600 worthless Cuban pesos, which is the equivalent of $12 to $20 dollars or 96% bribe, an outrageous bribe without parallel in the world.
That outrageous business practice is in violation of international and American labor laws and will expose those companies to huge law suits for the slave labor exploitation of the Cuban worker in cahoots with the corrupt communist regime.
We have to wonder why there are so many American politicians promoting the violations of our trading laws, and in the process, they are endangering the security of the U.S. Why is the Treasure Department authorizing all those business trips and all kind of conventions in Cuban soil by which American citizens circumvent and break the U.S. laws? Why is Rep. Flake betraying President Bush’s war against terrorism and stabbing the American taxpayers in the back?
As Senator Jesse Helms rightly stated: “Unfortunately, some in Washington are all too willing to give Castro what he wants. At the least they should stop pretending that they are doing this to promote Cuban democracy and American values.