US cruelty to Cuba enters eighth decade

In the last year of the 1950’s, the US embarked on a campaign of cruel economic sanctions to overturn the Cuban revolution which was necessary and inevitable. On January 1, 2020, the US entered its eighth decade of such cruelty, continuing punishment of 11 million Cubans and millions outside Cuba from enjoying this small, poor but still wonderful island country. The Trump administration’s latest jab at human decency toward Cuba involves banning charter flights to Santiago and eight other cities outside Havana. Charter flights to the capitol itself are being reduced. Why? According to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, it’s to further strangle the Cuban economy as punishment for the government’s treatment of its people and its support for socialist Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro. That represents a twofor as the US wants to change out both socialist regimes to ones subservient to US capitalist exploitation and subservience. Why is reducing charter flights so harmful? Simple. Cuba is not blessed with remarkable interstates like America. Travel becomes treacherous on poorly maintained and dangerous roads, taking 12 hours just to go from aforementioned Santiago to Havana. The charter flights greatly facilitate such countrywide travel.

Come to think of it, the US has really entered it fourteenth decade of economic and political cruelty against Cuba. It all started in 1898 when the McKinley administration launched an illegal war to steal Cuba away from its imperialist overlord Spain, replacing it with imperialist overlord America. US freedom and democracy extend no further than the US shoreline. Ninety miles out it’s “Our way or no travel for you.”