requiem for a revolution?

the link at the bottom of this post is to a breakthrough news report on the great peril the cuban revolution now faces due to the trump administration's unhinged militarist imperialist foreign policy against socialist countries in latin america. it lauds the generous peaceful spirit of it that may be about to be violently shattered, which made me think of it in terms of the title of this post.

here's a comment i posted to the video:

the quote below comes from the last paragraph of bill blum's anti empire report #75 (link below). if i recall correctly, somewhere else he wrote (paraphrasing) 'the real reason the usa wants to destroy the cuban revolution is because it can't tolerate having a successful socialist country in latin america to serve as an example for others to follow'. now for the quote:

"On April 6, 1960, Lester D. Mallory, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, wrote in an internal memorandum: “The majority of Cubans support Castro … The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. … every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba.” Mallory proposed “a line of action which … makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.” Later that year, the Eisenhower administration instituted the suffocating embargo."

https://williamblum.org/aer/read/75

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