Letter From Cuba To All Americans

[Kosherboy]

Written by: Alina M. Pereda.

Taken and translate from: Juan F. Pérez Home Page
Dear North Americans, Is this the way your country will end up ?


What it is to be born in Cuba Today


I was born in Cuba


I was born In Cuba but a foreigner has more rights than I


I'm free But I can't Speak what I think or share my dreams.


I live in a democracy, but all my life I have only seen one ruling party, one point of view and one Governor.
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I can Vote in elections but only for one candidate


My education is free, but I had to do volunteer work in farms so that they would not throw me out of free schooling.
I Can't choose what I want to study.

I have a university Degree but have to work in a restaurant that officially does not exist, or can't advertise it or it will be shut down.

Officially there is lack of everything due to the embargo, yet tourists can get everything they need, the embargo is not for them.

My mother says in the past governments if there was no food ,you could eat corn meal,... What is corn Meal ?
My Medical is free but in the cabinets of the pharmacy there is no medicine and the doctor I'm suppose to see is too busy driving a taxi for a living and the nurse is solving her situation as a prostitute and since she works at night she sleeps all day and she can't be bothered.



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I have a TV but only 2 stations and I see the same face on both Channels.



I have a fan but no electricity

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I love to bathe ,but there hasn't being running water in my neighborhood in 3 years.

When I have a toothbrush , there is no tooth paste, when there is tooth paste there is no toothbrush.


I have a pencil but no paper.


When I have a pencil and paper I remember , I can't write what I think.
Someone said you only live once, I can see whoever wrote that never lived in Cuba.

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Here you don't live life you only observe it.

Liberty is slow ,but eventually it will arrive, That we trust in God. [/align] Or Perhaps He is at The door and we will be truly free.

[Snooky]

Howwould the letter read, if the USA and Kennedy lived up to our pledges in the Bay of Pigs? If it happened as I remember, the Cubans are very forgiving as a whole.

[happytrigger]

How will this letter read when our government buys up all companies and gain all power in one party?

[Kosherboy]

ORIGINAL: happytrigger

How will this letter read when our government buys up all companies and gain all power in one party?

Or what she meant, is who will be writing a letter and to whom ,if Obama Continues to take this nation in the path of Cuba ?.

[Kosherboy]

One Thing you won't find in History Books But You will at the Library of Congress, without the Cuban Women there might not have being a USA


The Cuban Intervention



The million that was supplied Saint-Simon to pay his troops by the "Ladies of Havana"...may, with truth, be regarded as the "bottom dollars" upon which the edifice of American independence was erected.*
In 1777-78 George Washington and his troops were in dire need. The Revolutionary forces were in desperate shape and near mutiny because there was not enough money for supplies.
In 1780 Admiral de Grasse was on his way from France to America with a powerful French fleet. He stopped in Haiti in the West Indies for reprovisioning. There he got word from Rochambeau, Commander of the French Forces in America, about the tragic economic situation of the American revolutionaries. De Grasse sent Saint Simon to nearby Cuba with an appeal. In Cuba Francisco Miranda heard about the situation and organized a fund- raising drive.
One particular group, the "Ladies of Havana" responded with great enthusiasm. Over 1,200,000 pounds of silver (25 million dollars in today's equivalent) were collected within a few hours. This generous offering was made to the American and French military not as a loan, but as a willing gift.
Admiral de Grasse proceeded northward to unite his navy with the Revolutionary forces. The silver was divided between Washington and Rochambeau, and the army was able to move ahead toward their destined victory against the superior force at Yorktown in 1781.
And NOW the American people and officials have forgotten or never knew what the Cuban ladies said when they asked for the money in Havana. The Cuban ladies said that the purpose of the gift was "So the American mothers' sons are not born as slaves.
Now the American sons are free. And the Cubans need help. The Cuban exiles are now asking the American nation to NOT support Castro's regime. The Cubans are not asking for a free favor. It's a privilege which they have earned through their efforts and sacrifices. Let's not support Castro. Let's maintain the embargo.
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*When the French Were Here by Stephen Bonsal, Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc. 1945, pp. 119-120.
by Lillian Martinez

Source: RECE newsletter, P O Box 011898, Miami, FL 33101. February 1975