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The Fidel Castro School of
Medicine
Agustin Blazquez with the collaboration of Jaums Sutton
Monday, April 9, 2001
Finally, a humanitarian program owned and operated by Fidel Castro! Free
scholarships for poor students from underdeveloped and poor areas of the
world. It’s actually more than humanitarian and it's a classic!
Let’s take a look at it.
Bring these students to Cuba and treat them well. Not great, just a little
better than they were being treated at home. Take advantage of the young
minds of people who, for economic reasons, feel a bit abandoned by their
society. Their vulnerability gives them the tendency to feel resentment
toward their own culture and thus open to accepting all sorts of help,
influence and new ideas. Young people in this state of mind are easily
captured by the propaganda and have the mind-set for political
indoctrination.
The technique was developed early in the 20th century in communist countries
to create admirers and supporters where there were none, and to form future
cadres to spread the philosophy throughout the world. Castro began his
international scholarship program in the early 1960s.
It does not take a genius to realize what happens when those students return
to their countries of origin after graduation in Cuba. Castro and his
revolution have become their role models. And as planted in their minds by
their teachers in Cuba, they begin to spread their new beliefs developed in
the sheltered environment especially created for their "education." Their
stories about the ideal Cuba they experienced brings sympathizers into
Castro’s sphere of influence. The new converts repeat the tales to others
and so on, like a cult. This communist technique of spreading propaganda has
proven very effective for decades.
Communist infiltration in an open and democratic society where
discrimination for political beliefs is prohibited is very easy. This
insertion by seemingly genuine believers demoralizes and upsets people about
their own society, inciting desires for a drastic change, with the goal of
creating a "better world" that, of course, is based on principles of Marxist
theory.
It does not matter that Marxism has proven to be a dismal failure all over
the world. The Marxists – like members of any cult – are very persistent. In
spite of the collapse of most of their empire, they keep going and going
like the battery-powered bunny. Keep watching; communism is not dead.
Castro, although looking increasingly like a corpse, is still alive and
kicking. And no matter what the U.S. media and the uninformed say, he is
still a threat to the security of the U.S.
It is known that Castro has produced bacteriological agents for warfare.
That he is involved in the electronic spying of military, economic and
civilian targets in the U.S. That he is waging a cybernetic war by
developing, producing and sending computer viruses to disrupt military and
civilian computers in the U.S. The corrupt Clinton administration, with the
full cooperation of the U.S. media, kept this information hidden from the
American public.
And in a new scheme to further manipulate public opinion in his favor and to
create future problems and unrest in the U.S., Castro is now offering his
infamous scholarships to U.S. students.
Our "benevolent" tyrant to our south, in May 2000, offered to a group of
visiting U.S. lawmakers from the Congressional Black Caucus to provide free
"medical training" to 500 Americans, mostly minorities. And in September
2000, revealing the other side of the same coin, he offered to send
"doctors" to Mississippi and other states where trained medical personal are
in short supply. Which reminds me of his offer to send "election experts" to
the U.S. to help count votes in Florida. Cuba has not had a free and
democratic election in 42 years!
The irony of Castro’s offer of "doctors" and his well-publicized donations
of medicines to other countries is that common, vital medicines in Cuba are
not available to the citizens. Cuban Americans – called "Miami Mafia" by
Castro and the U.S. media – have been sending their relatives in Cuba
medicines and prescription eyeglasses for decades. And after the
legalization of the dollar in Cuba, they have been sending millions of
dollars to their relatives so they can purchase their own medicines at
Castro’s dollar-only stores. And some of the medicines donated to Cuba by
charitable organizations from the U.S. and many other countries are sold in
those dollar-only stores. Also, Cuban citizens have to pay for some medical
treatments and procedures made available to them in dollars only – in spite
of Castro’s claims of free health care.
In spite of all those facts, the members of the U.S. Congressional Black
Caucus have accepted Castro’s offer and are excitedly looking for low-income
minority students for his free "medical" study scholarships. Half of them
(250) will be blacks, and the rest will be distributed among other
disadvantaged minorities. Castro’s friend and admirer, New York Democrat
Rep. Jose Serrano, is looking for Castro’s easily influenced young minds in
the Bronx.
Castro’s generous program (without any ulterior motive, of course) will
house, feed and indoctrinate – oops, sorry – train in the "medical arts" 500
impressionable young Americans carefully selected by the Congressional Black
Caucus and other Castro lovers. And every year another 500. And in six years
we’d better move out when those trainees troop into U.S. hospitals. A real
invasion of the body snatchers. Let's make sure we have plenty of room for
the pictures of Che. They all come back with pictures of Che to hang up all
over the place.
It is almost like a tragicomedy, the fixation of the U.S. Congressional
Black Caucus with a tyrant who is a racist and a fascist communist. Castro
is what hippies used to call in the 1960s a "pig." And you have people such
as Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel of New York and Democratic Rep. Maxine
Waters of California, among others, fawning over him! Sometimes you doubt
their intelligence or the real intentions under their façade. Could it be
just a simple case of falling under the spell of a cult leader? With
Castro’s outrageous record, there is no other explanation.
How can black Americans who understand the evil of slavery and racism feel
any sympathy for Castro?
According to Stephan Archer’s article published by NewsMax.com on May 9,
2000, the "evidence suggests that black and mulatto Cubans are treated
unfairly and even harshly. Prison conditions continue to be harsh in Cuba,
but for the black prisoner, particularly those who speak out against the
government, conditions are even worse. The fact that there are black
dissidents is a tremendous slap in the face for the Castro regime." The
history of the political prisoners in Cuba is not only white but composed of
thousands of blacks who despise his tyranny.
But the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus is silent about that. They never
talk about, much less denounce, the tortures, abuses and injustices of black
political prisoners such as Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, Vladimiro Roca, Felix
Bonne and many of their brothers and sisters rotting away and dying in
Castro’s infamous gulag.
Archer said, "In 1997, Castro implemented Decree 217, which was designed to
control the migration flow from poorer provinces to the capital city of
Havana." In effect, this specifically targeted the poor black and mulatto
population concentrated in the eastern provinces. "The decree also resulted
in numerous credible reports that said many desperate blacks and mulatto
squatters, not having official permission to reside in Havana under Decree
217, are forcibly evicted from their homes and sent back to the
countryside."
How would those Castro-loving U.S. representative members of the
Congressional Black Caucus like it if a similar decree were in force in
their respective states? Well, if that would be unacceptable in the U.S.,
why is it acceptable in Cuba? And why send unsuspecting young Americans to
live and be "educated" – even for free – in such a devious political system
in a country classified for its terrorist activities as a "rogue nation"?
The only decent and honorable thing to do is to say: "No thanks, Mr.
Castro."
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