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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."
© 2001 ABIP
Agustin Blazquez is a producer and director of the documentaries
Covering Cuba, Covering Cuba 2: The Next Generation, & Cuba: The Pearl
of the Antilles.
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