Two 1960 quotes reveal U.S. mendacity toward Cuba still today

“The U.S. Ambassador to Cuba is the second most powerful, if not the most powerful person in Cuba, next to the Cuban President."

- Earl T. Smith, last U.S. Ambassador to Batista ruled Cuba,

1957-59

“The U.S. must make life so miserable for the Cuban people, they will overthrow the new Castro regime. This includes a line of action, which while adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of the government.”

- U.S. State Department memo, 1960

Sixty-two years on, the U.S. still wants to pull the strings of Cuba’s leaders to benefit America at the expense of the Cuban people.

Sixty-two years on, U.S. policy degrading life for the Cuban people is neither adroit nor inconspicuous. It is heavy handed and obvious.