Reply #10: I addressed both the issues and your rightwing, racist views. The latter is

[Peace Patriot]

very definitely useful is addressing the former, for my rule of thumb for people with views like yours--that whatever you say, the opposite is true--pointed me toward the truth about the Communist Party in Cuba. If you don't like it, then it must have great value--and I discovered that value as I wrote my reply.

Latin American countries in which the rightwing elites have sold out their country and their people to U.S. corporate/war profiteer interests no longer have anything like real democracy--equitable societies, majority rule, clean elections and positive goals such as social justice. The worst one, Colombia, is run by narco-thugs, the military and their death squads who have killed thousands of union leaders, human rights workers, peasant farmer leaders and others for opposing the government, and have displaced 4 million peasant farmers with reigns of terror in their regions. Honduras is now heading in the same direction. Haiti has long been a ravaged U.S. client state. The countries most dominated by the U.S. are the poorest and the least democratic countries in Latin America.

And most other countries rank high on good leadership. social justice, democracy and other positives in direct proportion to their resistance to U.S. domination--with, say, Mexico on the poor end (not yet Colombia or Honduras), and Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador on the high end (almost as resistant to U.S. domination as Cuba is). But those latter three had to go through decades of exploitation/interference by the U.S. to finally and firmly reject U.S. rule.

The Communist Party in Cuba has been the most resistance force in Latin America against the horrors of U.S. dictation, for 50 years, and has thus preserved Cuba from the worst that the U.S. can do to Latin American societies. It has made democracy possible in Cuba, whereas under Batista and any of his would-be successors in Miami, and with almost every U.S. administration from Reagan onward--if they had succeeded in their plots against Cuba--conditions would be simply terrible and Colombia-like in Cuba.

That is what corporations like Chevron-Texaco want in Latin America--countries where the poor have no rights, and where corrupt governments let corporations do anything they want, including destroying a portion of the Amazon rainforest the size of Rhode Island (in Ecuador). Your personal viewpoint, as a Chevron-Texaco apologist and propagandist, and as a DUer who has made a racist comment about "Indians," is most certainly relevant to your viewpoint on the Communist Party in Cuba. To ignore what you have previously said would be stupid, and for those who don't know what you have previously said, they might think that your wish to be rid of the Communist Party in Cuba is an objective view. It is not.

But, as I said, it is useful in thinking about the Communist Party in Cuba and what it has managed to do for the Cuban people, despite 50 years of nefarious U.S./Miami plotting, lies and punishment. Cuba has survived as an equitable society with many excellent social programs that we should all be studying to try to improve our own ravaged country, because of the Communist Party in Cuba and its strong stance against the U.S.

Do keep on commenting, "protocol rv," so we can learn more of the truth by reversing whatever you have to say and going from there.