Fidel Castro's Achievements

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Small Talk Highlighting the Achievements of the Cuban Revolution
I like reading some issues that you brought up on this site and they are valuable.

One thing that all of us need to know is that Castro had successfully done a revolution.

Revolution is always achieved through a sort of ideology which is a sort of belief that is being carried out by the rebels and they intend to fight to defend this sort of rooted belief.

Moreover, there is no revolution without bloodshed, tough fights, political imprisonment, assassinations and exile.

Castro fought against rich criminals in his country.

They were not criminals in killing others, but they were criminals in mistreating their fellow Cuban brothers like the rich elites in Haiti are doing against their own fellow citizens.

Castro could not be successful in dismantling the Batista's regime if CIA did not help him like they helped Duvaliers killing a lot of Haitians under the false premises of fighting communists.

Everyone that called for administrative or land reforms in Haiti during Duvaliers' era were called communists and they had to be killed.

Castro brought down one of the most the repugnant Cuban elites in 1958 and the whole world was supporting him during the first two years of the Cuban Revolution.

From 1958 to 1960, Castro was not a dictator although his revolution killed several people from the Cuban elites.

There are no differences between the old Cuban elites and the ones that are living in Haiti.

The old Cuban elites were predatory and self-enriching elites same like the ones in Haiti.

Cuba was among one of the poorest countries on earth and it was a place for prostitution for American tourists.

The illiteracy rate was very high and women had no chance than begging and prostituting.

If Castro had delivered Cuba to America right after the Revolution, he would not be classed as one of the world worst world dictators and businesses would continue as usual...

Remember I said earlier there is no revolution without ideology.

Castro's ideology was to dismantle religion as opium in Cuba. To do this, he taught Cubans Lenin-Marxism ideology which believes in the inexistence of social classes within the Cuban society.

He let them believe that social classes established differences among them and they had to fight or compete for scarce resources to sustain their humanities.

He told them that social classes did not promote equality among all Cubans under the Batista's regime and a majority of Cubans was considered as inferior by many of the elite members.

By killing some elite members during the revolution people believed that they were killing them to eradicate social classes to bring equality among them...

Are all Cubans equals in Cuba?

I do not know that. Is Cuba an equal society?

See United Nations Human Index Development Report to answer this question yourself.

Castro's achievements: It is true that numbers sometimes speak for themselves:
In Cuba illiteracy is 0.2% while in Latin America it is 11.7%.

Infant mortality rate in Cuba is 6.2% while in Latin America it is 32%.

Life expectancy is 76.5% in Cuba while in Latin America it is 70 years.

Primary school enrollment in Cuba is 100% while in Latin America it is 92%.

Secondary school enrollment in Cuba is 99.7% while in Latin America it is a dismal 52%.

While 100% of the students in elementary school achieve grade level only 76% achieve it Latin America.

In Latin America 12% of the population is illiterate that is 42 million do not know how to read and write.

Furthermore, there are 110 million people who never finished elementary school.

None of them Cubans.

There are 860 million absolute illiterates in the world.

None of them Cubans.

Let us not count the political illiterates, as this would be a huge amount.

In Cuba there are 590 doctors for every 100 thousand persons, while in Latin America there are only 160 doctors for every 100 thousand.

Cuba has the highest percentage of doctors per person in the world.

Aids in Cuba is only 0.05% while in Latin America it is 0.5%.

According to UNESCO Cuba has the lowest illiteracy rate and the highest matriculation rate of all the countries in Latin America.

In a report given by UNESCO in 1999 on education encompassing 13 Latin American countries, Cuban students rank number one in knowledge in all subject areas.

In Cuba, based on a population of approximate 11 million, more than 500 thousand have a university degree; 4 million are currently enrolled in a university.

In 2003 CEPAL (UN org) points out that 20% or 102 million people in Latin America and in the Caribbean live in extreme poverty.

None of them are Cubans.

In Honduras 67% of the population live in brutal misery.

None of them are Cubans.

In Latin America, 54 million in Latin America have malnutrition.

None of them Cubans.

In Mexico 34% of the children below 5 years old suffer chronic malnutrition.

In Guatemala this figure reaches 50%.

Every 7 seconds a child below 10 years old dies of hunger.

None of them Cuban children.

According to the UN 842 million people suffer from chronic malnutrition.

None of them Cubans.

One must add that there are no Cubans that have been tortured, assassinated or disappeared as a result of their political views.

What human rights are the US speaking of?

Are these the same rights that, Cheri Honkala, the director of Union for the Rights of People in Kensington, USA, alluded to when she stated that 80 million poor people in the US do not have social programs to aid them; and 42 million do not have any health program.

For two essential reasons Venezuela is another objective of US disinformation and attack.

On one side we have the oil and the "bad example" given by a government which enjoys massive support and which has put into place social programs which would astonish many.
The government of Hugo Chavez Frias which has often been the target of negative press not only within that nation but internationally as well, has taken on the task of eradicating illiteracy by 2005.
The illiteracy program has gone so well that it is estimated that by the middle of July Venezuela will announce to the world that it will join Cuba as a nation free of illiteracy.

The knowledge to read and write and to deal with numbers has given new hope to those who had none. In June thanks to the program "Mission Robinson" 1, 500, 000 Venezuelans have learned to read and write.

It must be added that the objective of providing primary education to all children - which was to meet its goal in 2005 - has already met its goal.
This information came from the article entitled Cuba: The Numbers Speak for Themselves, Cuban Socialista Organization.

What can you say about such achievements?

Can those exiled Cuban criminals accomplish that?

If they could beat Castro's records they would not be in exile today.

Cuba has the right people in exile where Haiti has wrong people in exile and that is why Haiti became the poorest country on earth.

Religion as an opium plays a great role in poverty in Haiti and Haiti needs to separate Church and State like they do in America by developing a social progressive agenda to avoid the elimination of religion in Haiti.

I am not for a society without religion, but religion should not lure people into accepting poverty as normal facts of life. Haitian people should not wait for a God to come from the sky or the heaven to lift them up from poverty, but that is the duty of the Haitian elites to do that. We need a revolution in Haiti and Haiti must have the right people in exile...

What can you say about Castro's legacy after 50 years of the Cuban Revolution?

Dessalines The Avenger, March 29 2010, 3:23 AM

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