Elio Delgado-Legon’s Diary

On October 10th 1868, the Cuban Revolution began and as a result, it has just turned 150 years old. The Cuban people’s struggle for their freedom has undergone different phases, depending on the historic context at the time. It kicked off with the first Independence war against the Spanish Empire and continues today against another Empire’s attack…

When History repeats itself with all the same mistakes and disastrous consequences, it means that something has gone wrong: education hasn’t fulfilled its purpose in educating following generations and the media hasn’t done one of its main jobs which is to never let history be forgotten.

The United States has proclaimed themselves to be the world’s defenders of democracy, without anyone asking them to be, and this alleged defense is doing away with democracy, ironically enough, at least in Latin America.

During his visit to Cuba, Barack Obama publicly stated that the US embargo (blockade) was a failed policy that hadn’t managed to achieve its objectives and only caused suffering and shortages for the Cuban people. “I’m sure that Congress will inevitably lift an embargo which should no longer be there,” the then US president said.

Cuba’s 2018-2019 academic year began on Monday September 3rd. I hadn’t thought about writing this article, as it’s the same or similar scenes can be seen all over the country every year, and I have never written about this because it is something natural in my eyes and something we have all assumed as an inherent part of our socialist society.

Diplomacy is a word that invokes the idea of good relations between countries, and even between people, in contrast to violence, threats and blackmail in order to get the other side to act in a certain way. In the old days, diplomacy didn’t exist. Everything was subject to the law of the jungle…

Critics of the Cuban Revolution ignore or want to ignore the fact that Cuba (in spite of the blockade for nearly 60 years) has what millions of people in the world want and can’t have because they live in a system where meeting the needs of its people isn’t the most important thing on its agenda.

People who declare themselves to be defenders of democracy (read here: the US imperialist government and the international Right, pillars of neoliberal capitalism) have constantly proven that they care very little about real democracy.

A few days ago, a news report that was taken from Telesur TV and published in the Cuban newspaper Granma got me thinking about a subject that we don’t generally worry about too much: youth unemployment. The article, which was only a few short lines long, reflects a reality that we should all be worried about.

The process of approving reforms to Cuba’s Constitution has sparked different expectations and comments, especially from people who hope that Cuba makes a move backwards towards capitalism, playing into US Imperialism’s game, which has been trying to destroy the Cuban Revolution for 60 years already.