The Annexationists on Social Media and the Aggression Against Cuba

The new annexationists flooding social media—as part of the psychological war unleashed against the Island—are celebrating after the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Now "it's Cuba's turn," they proclaim, echoing their masters' frustration by predicting naval blockades, bombings, and invasions against Cuba. They repeat, over and over, the old yearning of the anti-Cuban mafia in Miami that "now Cuba, finally, will be free."

The Paradox of Foreign "Liberation"
Blinded by hatred and perfidy, they brazenly overlook the paradox of their declarations. Will Cuba be freed thanks to the intervention of the military power of a foreign nation, coincidentally the most powerful in the world?

Undoubtedly, in the best-case scenario, the stipend they receive as media terrorists clouds their judgment, if they ever had any to begin with.

Historical US Disregard for Cuban Independence
The charlatans of social media should know that the United States has never cared about Cuba's independence. They did not care when, during the time of the Island being subjected under the Spanish yoke, they did everything possible to prevent its independence—whether to avoid a slave uprising that could infect the plantations of the Southern states or to patiently wait for the weakness of the Iberian lion to precipitate the "ripe fruit" that the "manifest destiny" of the nascent empire's hemispheric superiority would, in time, let fall into its hands.

Nor did they care at the culmination of the so-called Spanish-Cuban-American War in 1898, when they snatched victory from the Liberation Army, forbade its entry into Santiago de Cuba, and even less so when they turned the Island into a pseudo-republic, shackled by amendments and under the command of the proconsuls of the time—the Yankee ambassadors of the day.

True Freedom Came After 1959
Cuba became free after '59 when, following the triumph of the Revolution, Cubans took their destiny into their own hands—despite invasions, bacteriological wars, acts of terrorism, media campaigns, and the dictates of the Lester Mallory memorandum, which decreed that the United States should, through economic warfare, eliminate popular support for the triumphant revolutionary government via hunger and misery. The same government they now accuse of oppressing the Island's people, despite having already removed—with threats of naval blockade and invasion—the false mask of an "embargo."

The Motives of the New McKinley
According to the new McKinley residing in the White House today, Cuba must be free because there are many good people in Florida who have been mistreated by the current Cuban government, whom he would like to help.

The new annexationists of social media should know that if Cuba, despite the commercial interests at stake, was never annexed by the United States, it was thanks to the Teller Amendment, adopted on the eve of the Spanish-Cuban-American War. It was supported by figures like Redfield Proctor, who, to ensure its approval, gave a famous speech in the Senate declaring his opposition to annexation, since "it was not an intelligent policy to incorporate any people of foreign language and experience, lacking a strong American element to guide it," making it clear he was referring to the Black Cubans.

The Irony of Miami's Privileges
As Fidel expressed years ago in a journalistic interview with Kennedy's daughter, and I quote from memory: the Cuban emigrants in Miami should thank him and the Revolution for all the advantages they had enjoyed compared to other immigrant groups.

Distinctions that, by the way, now seem to be fading due to the betrayal by representatives of the anti-Cuban mafia and their submission to the new immigration policy of "affectionate" Donald Trump—a policy whose blatantly racist character has nothing to envy in the reasons of the anti-annexationist Senator Redfield Proctor.

Translated by Sergio A. Paneque Díaz / CubaSí Translation Staff