A Gringo in Rural Mexico: THE CUBA AFFAIR - A Gathering of Marxists This Way Comes

Sunday, 21 December 2014

THE CUBA AFFAIR - A Gathering of Marxists This Way Comes

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Raul Castro Ruz

Beacon of Social Justice

and Fair Income

Re-distribution

"Once and for all, we and all fair-minded people in solidarity must mobilise to make that one, last two-year total assault against the horrid hegemony forced upon the exploited nations of the mestizo and indigenous races that have suffered far too long. Now, perhaps, finally Cuba will be free from the blockade that has kept us impoverished for much of the past Century and all of the present one. The arrogance of Gringismo and the notion of Anglo-Saxon supremacy is now conquered, and Glorious Socialism has won once more by vigorously defending the downtrodden."

Do not doubt that these are the words booming out over Radio Rebelde, late at night, from Santiago to the Isla de Pinos and the Isla de Juventud. Throughout the nation that has become essentially a junkyard, people are being shoved out one more time to tie Fidel onto his horse so that he lead one more triumphal entry into La Habana de Cuba.

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One might assume that the above hypothetical quote from Radio Rebelde is an over-the-top denigration of a poor stuggling national radio system, using bicycle-pedal generators just to struggle to stay on the air, due to the embargo, blockade, barricade, isolation, and quarantine of the Peoples' Republic of Cuba. It is all a lie. Every Pope since John XXIII has urged or even demanded that the United States end the illegal blockade. Over 3,000 of the world's 234 nations have demanded that the United States stop blockading Cuba. The United Nations issues up to 712 demands every hour of every day concerning the blockade of Cuba.

In keeping with the framing of all issues by the left, it is all a lie. Every nation in the world trades with Cuba. Japan, Spain, The United Kingdom, Red China, Canada, Brazil, Russia, and the powerhouses of Haiti and Venezuela. All of them. India, South Africa, South and North Korea, Taiwan, and BossoNova Gapuvia. Every one of them. The European Economic Community has 17,000 standing committees working 25 hours per day, year around, even during Kwanza and Global Warming, Cooling, and Climate Change Memorial Day, working against the Blockade.

In spite of all of this, and even the the world Communist and leftist movement's worshipping of Nelson Mandela's ghost via very respectful and meaningful in the greater sense selfies, Cuba remains something less than an overfilled septic tank in the order of things. Ernesto (Che) Guevara, the guy who established the T-shirt company, who murdered up to 2,500 Indians, Negroes, Mestizos, fellow communists, rustic traditionalists and other such folks by his own hand, thought that the problem with Cuba was probably the fact that it had too many Negroes. His solution was to send them all to the United States and let them drag that country down so that Cuba wouldn't have to send them back to Africa or have them liquidated. Reading further into his public writings, it is revealed that his opinion about the Mexicans was the same

Where some of the Castro's foreign

crony capitalists stay while

"doing business" in the

workers' tropical democratic

paradise

That Fidel and Raul Castro have apparently absconded with an estimated two billion dollars during their time and service should be no great surprise. Some estimates are even higher....much higher, all deposited in foreign banks under a maze of legal sounding names.
Fidel's "labyrinth" of subsidiary private business developments, shopping centres, gasoline station chain, events centre and industrial plaza have provided considerable income. And since Fidel and Raul are part of the 1/100th of the "One Per Cent" they pay no taxes, nor does anyone challenge their real estate leasing and purchase development, such as the one at Villa Armonia....."just 15 minutes from downtown Old Havana, set on beachside views and tropical wonder". There people can stay in segregated facilities....no stinking natives, save those who have been prepped to both attend and spy on the high ranking foreign business people and others who have been lured into the spider's web.

The foreign business people who were rushing into Cuba about ten years ago, have all mainly returned, mainly to Spain licking their wounds, because Raul began to treat them much more roughly after Hugo Chavez began to give Cuba free oil and refined product. The Castros did not need any new money to burn from the Gachupines so they were dumped as fast as the dog could scratch off the tick.

Now, the Great Hugo Chavez is being composted, and Maduro, the new madman of Venezuela has essentially turned his back on Cuba except to demagogue in their behalf occasionally. So it became necessary to play up to the stupidest, meanest, most anti-American administration available....so they decided to answer Valerie Jarrett's insistent robo-dialed apology line, finally.

For those who think that any "new Cuba opening" will somehow translate into great opportunity for the American investing, manufacturing, and labouring class, be aware that all of Cuba with 11,200,000 population produces 1/12th of what the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico produces with a population of 4,000,000.

And with all the nations who do business and send tourism to Cuba, which is any and all of them who care to, there is one nation that stands out in the greatest delivery of low cost or essentially free grains, processed food, and medicine. There is one nation that stands out as first in economic inter-activity with Cuba, from whence Cuba derives the great majority of all of its international hard currency. Derived from legal activity. One Nation. Under God. With liberty and justice for all. Adding an Embassy benefits only two men at this point.

It would take a minimum of 10 years to even think about putting Cuba back up on a 2nd World footing, and it would require a mainly private, Marshall Plan administered by someone of Mitt Romney's administrative level, plus much churching. Over one-third of fertile females in Cuba at this time are dedicated to prostitution. The much vaunted Cuban free medical system....The Best in the World....is a joke. The government jefes and their families almost all go to Spain or Mexico for almost any remotely serious procedure.

So, the idea of crony capitalists lining up to take "investment tours" into Cuba to pick up a lot of low-hanging fruit is something reserved only for "important" investors such as the Wizards of Solyndra and the Red Chinese who love to build bullet trains that Wiley Coyote would not buy, and dams in Peru whose walls collapse with dependability. Consider also the following sombre demographic:

FOR CUBA

Year	Population	Growth Rate
1960	7 141 130	N/A %
1961	7 289 830	2.08 %
1962	7 450 405	2.20 %
1963	7 618 358	2.25 %
1964	7 787 144	2.22 %
1965	7 951 916	2.12 %
1966	8 110 405	1.99 %
1967	8 263 513	1.89 %
1968	8 413 282	1.81 %
1969	8 563 130	1.78 %
1970	8 715 054	1.77 %
1971	8 869 924	1.78 %
1972	9 025 344	1.75 %
1973	9 176 167	1.67 %
1974	9 315 458	1.52 %
1975	9 438 366	1.32 %
1976	9 543 798	1.12 %
1977	9 633 669	0.94 %
1978	9 710 009	0.79 %
1979	9 776 117	0.68 %
1980	9 835 085	0.60 %
1981	9 886 228	0.52 %
1982	9 930 589	0.45 %
1983	9 975 082	0.45 %
1984	10 028 578	0.54 %
1985	10 097 020	0.68 %
1986	10 183 690	0.86 %
1987	10 285 920	1.00 %
1988	10 396 268	1.07 %
1989	10 503 898	1.04 %
1990	10 600 841	0.92 %
1991	10 684 831	0.79 %
1992	10 757 891	0.68 %
1993	10 821 551	0.59 %
1994	10 878 823	0.53 %
1995	10 932 013	0.49 %
1996	10 980 758	0.45 %
1997	11 024 249	0.40 %
1998	11 063 917	0.36 %
1999	11 101 580	0.34 %
2000	11 138 416	0.33 %
2001	11 175 465	0.33 %
2002	11 212 125	0.33 %
2003	11 245 926	0.30 %
2004	11 273 363	0.24 %
2005	11 292 078	0.17 %
2006	11 301 100	0.08 %
2007	11 301 674	0.01 %
2008	11 296 355	-0.05 %
2009	11 288 826	-0.07 %
2010	11 281 768	-0.06 %
2011	11 276 053	-0.05 %
2012	11 270 957	-0.05 %
2013	11 259 235	-0.10 %
2014	11 241 922	-0.15 %

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These statistics are fairly accurate, and it is known that the Cuban population has become almost hopelessly either old or saturated with fatherless children and a diminishing reservoir of young people. Further, what young people there are seem to be educated in useless things such as "how to love Fidel better" and the wonders of Socialism. Also, unlike in times past, the intellectual ability of the Cubans....regarded as uncommonly high during the first part of the 20th Century, has since diminished noticeably.

These are not politically correct things to say or point out. It is, none of it, the fault of the Cuban people per se. It is obviously the result of listless, pointless life, standing in ration lines, being propagandised instead of educated, having an horrid diet. It also is the result of being treated essentially as parade stuffing to glorify a petty fuhrer who suffers from both a well-deserved inferiority complex and a messianic complex rarely found among either the sane or insane.

We are being treated to the scene which includes one marxist wannabe dictator casting a life-line over to a fellow marxist dictator, and each hoping that the other will save what little there is left to save out of the wreckage they both have created.

El Gringo Viejo

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Click to visit our little Adobe Hideaway…

This is our rustic, but very comfortable place, out in the rural area to the northwest of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas…the State's Capital. From a bustling city of 400,000, we placed our domicile a bit more than 20 miles into the scenes of mountains, citrus groves, spring-fed creeks and rivers with crystal clear waters, and an abundance of bird species that make veteran birders shake their heads in wonder.

We are all but adjacent to the venerable Hacienda de Santa Engracia (about 500 yards away), which dates to the 1720s and has ancient structures still in use, very elegant, and mystical in many ways. It has operated as a guest hotel since the 1970s.

Our little place rests on three and a fraction acres, fronting on the Rio Corona, which is lined with over-1,000 year old cypress trees. The nearby Sierra del Cautivo…a major segment of the overall Sierra Madre Oriental that dominate most of eastern Mexico, lies to the west by about three miles. guards the many springs that maintain the almost perpetual flow from those heights (up to 12,000 fasl) while our place is situated right at 1,000 feet above sea level.

Give us a call, come by and visit…it is truly a different venture in the most positive sense. We can be reached by our email - privatouring@gmail.com - which is our preferred method of communicating.

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What is an OROG?

Once a person lands on our page, that individual becomes a member of the Order of Readers of the Old Gringo, (OROG). There are no dues or assessments to pay, no meetings, no requirements. We are not associated with the KKK, the WCTU, the French Masons, or the Global Warming Glacier

Protection Committee.

We do have a distant connection with the Knights of the Golden Circle and hold the maps to the internment sites of 34 tonnes of Confederate Gold, and 1,000 tonnes of Mexican Imperial Silver (bar and coinage) derived from the collapse of the Reign of Maximillian von Hapsburg, Emperor of Mexico (1863 - 1867). I think we can remember where we put it.

All kidding aside, we are acerbic, but we do not bite. We do believe in our antiquated philosophy, but we try to not impose our quirks and beliefs so far as to be disrespectful.

El Gringo Viejo

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Wise Words

Communism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill

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Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

I bark at no man's bid. I will never come and go, fetch and carry, at the whistle of the Great Man in the White House, no matter who he is.

I told the people of my district that I would serve them as faithfully as I had done. But, if such was not to be, then you may all go to Hell, and I shall go to Texas!

David Crockett

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And on and on it goes. The more the Government gives away, the more it takes, and the less Americans do for themselves, until finally, like Europe, there is nobody left to do anything, and there is nobody left to pay for, the nothing that is not done.

And, yes, Virginia, there truly is a Santa Clause, and he and Mrs. Clause and their helpers care greatly for the good children of the Planet. So long as there is happiness, kindness, charity, generosity, and the Spirit of Fellowship, Santa Clause will be there, representing those noble things, and he will always move in a spiritual way so as to provoke humankind to goodness.

El Gringo Viejo

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“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”

Booker Tallaferro Washington

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It is impossible to make a poor man rich by making a rich man poor.

Abraham Lincoln

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El Gringo Viejo: a fair description

Life for El Gringo Viejo began on the Texas-Mexico frontier, near McAllen, Texas literally on a real, live farm. The farmer, as one might imagine, was his father, who had moved with his parents from Gwinner, Sargent County, North Dakota in 1915 - 1916 period, down to the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. (And yes, Virginia, that is the way Sargent County is spelled.)

His parents farmed in an area close to the new community named after its founder, called Ed Couch, in Hidalgo County of Texas. My grandfather is buried in the Weslaco Municipal Cemetery about 10 feet away from his friend, Ed Couch.

After studies, and a stint in the 1st Cavalry, 12th Regiment (mounted), Headquarters Squadron of the United States Army...riding warhorses back and forth along the Rio Grande from the late 1920s and early 1930s. He did not speak much about his service, but we determined that he apparently made rank of 1st Lieutenant.

El Gringo Viejo's Father established his farming and citrus grove-care operation just north of McAllen, Texas. Mother was a housewife and a professional woman....a learned, eloquent, well-read woman.

They were educated people, my father winding up as a Superintendent of a major school/facility of the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation in Austin, Texas after a twenty year career in education at the secondary level. He had degrees in History, Psychology, and Education Administration.

El Gringo Viejo is the last of three children, all males. Number one was Milton Birchard, Jr. who was born in 1936 and died in a vehicular incident in 1988. He was narcoleptic. He held a doctorate in geography from Louisiana State University and was head of the Department there for a good while.

Number two is Norman Francis, who was born during the WWII situation in 1942 and became an important Republican political engineer and fundraiser. He served as Executive Director of the Republican Party of Texas during the late 1960s and early 1970s and as Senator John G. Tower's immediate Executive Assistant. The Senator is the Godfather of Norman's first son.

Norman died at age 77 in Austin, Texas and I was one of four eulogists who was chosen to speak at his en memoriam at the Austin Club in downtown most Austin…within sight of the State Capitol.

It was a personal duty and very rewarding

in every way.

My arrival was in 1947, and I was destined to confound my parents and all those around me. Educated entirely in public schools in McAllen, skipping the third grade, and stumbling out of my high school in the upper 90% of a class of 606. I

attended and graduated from Southwest Texas State University (now named Texas State University, unfortunately), being one of the few conservatives to graduate out of the School of Sociology, although my treatment at the hands of my tormentor-professors was not so unpleasant in those days. Emphasis of studies were social demography, and Latin American Affairs with a concentration on Mexico's history and current political evolution, with a minors in History, Geography, and Political Science.

El Gringo Viejo is one of the old, unreconstructed high-church Episcopalians. Politically, he is very fundamentally conservative. He prefers Baseball to football, and considers that baseball with a designated hitter for the pitcher should be called "poofy-ball". Favourite major league team of all times? The Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s. It will never be the same again.
El Gringo Viejo's father was born to a Hudson Valley-type girl and a man who had lost two older brothers who served in the Pennsylvania 96th Regiment of Volunteer Infantry during the War Between the States.

The surnamed line (Newton) originated from East Anglia, not far from a place called Washington in northeastern England. They came into Boston Harbour, Massachusetts in 1642 (the 1st voyage of the Mayflower had overbooked), and settled there and in Maine as well as spreading out to Vermont, New York, and Pennsylvania, over the generations for the first 220 years.
Another batch of folks, mainly Anglo, settled in the middle Hudson Valley. There was another group of Celto-Teutonics types from Saxony and Prussia, establishing and settling along the Hudson River from around what is Catskill County northward to Duchess and Rennselaer Counties around a place named Red Hook. The main group came in during the early 1650s.

My mother's people were another English line of long-term Southern and Tennessee people, from the Eastern part of that State, who originally came in during the 1660s through Virginia and North Carolina, and finally into Eastern Tennessee, settling in and around a county to be named Franklin, and helping to establish the city of Winchester. Almost all of these people originated from southwestern England, near the frontier with Wales.

Only recently did we verify that she had many people involved in the service of the Confederacy. One died in northern Mississippi, another Captain Asa Grant, 2nd Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, was severely wounded and succumbed to his wounds finally in 1869, and another hung around in an Ohio POW camp (Camp Chase) for about 13 months, while three others were either wounded or died in action, including David Limbaugh, Lieutenant, 42 Tennessee Infantry. Another five made it through relatively unscathed.

Almost all were, oddly enough, related to the great-grand uncles and gggg-grandfathers down to gg-grandfathers of Rush Limbaugh. The gggg-grandfather came into the Colonies in the early 1740s from a Prussia and Saxony background, and served in both civilian and military capacities to the Continental government and Army. He was the XO of a Militia Battalion of 3,000 Pennsylvania effectives. They honed their military readiness under the supervision of Gen. von Steuben and someone named Washington at some place called Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

A grandson of his, Isaac, settled in Tennessee after the War for Independence against King George III. So Rush and I share grandfathers, four generations deep on the American Continent.

It should be stated here that were I to be called to declare, my allegiance would still be with the Southern Cause, although I bear no rancor against those who feel the same about their instinct to maintain the Union. Oddly enough, both my mother (a Southerner) and my father (a true Yankee by blood) believed that we would have remained closer if we had separated, and each side gone the ways of their own yearning, but amicably.

The last of the English (El Gringo Viejo's) line came during the time between the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. They left County Wicklow, where they had been involved, apparently, in that peculiar Anglo - Scots/Irish practice of making whiskey by the use of peat for fuel. They were also involved in the business of production and processing of various types of grains as well as the production of whiskey, gin, and beer. By their surnames one would know that, while coming out of Ireland, they were actually English, one with the surname of Christian and the wife, Webster. They had, in fact, married in Christ's Church Cathedral, Anglican, in downtown Dublin in 1796. They landed in New York, set up shop in the City among previously arrived relatives, and then in Albany. We have some record that this Christian who married the Webster had actually lived in the colonies, but travelled several times back and forth between the Spirits businesses in England and Ireland and the New World. They wound up as the generations progressed in and around Minneapolis (St. Anthony) & Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Racine, Wisconsin. My particular line went from New York to Alabama, then North Carolina, and then Wisconsin to join up with the rest of the extended family, finally in Minnesota, before the War Between the States.

The Time Line of entry of all lines of my children's blood ancestry on their mother's side in the New World begins in 1578, when Spaniards of mixed Hebraic and Iberian peoples, and others of ancestry from Portugal, Galicia, and southern Spain entered into what was to become Monclova and Saltillo, Coahuila. They are brought under the auspices of the Explorer, Conquistador, and Colonizer Jose Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva, with elements settling in Lampazos and Cerralvo (Nuevo Leon), in Palofox (Texas), and Revilla (Tamaulipas) on the Rio Bravo.
Also, the Count of the Sierra Gorda, Col. Jose de Escandon brought another group of mainly Spanish, Portuguese, and Azoreans in the early 175os, settling along the Rio Bravo (Grande), and then on the north (Texas) side, spreading up to what is now Yorktown, Texas (near and southeast of San Antonio de Bexar, more or less) before and during the Texas Republican period.

My children and theirs are qualified to join the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Sons of Liberty, The Sons of the Grand Army of the Union, The Sons of Confederate Veterans, and the Daughters of the Confederacy. By my side they are 16th generation English Colonial - American and 6th generation Texian. By my wife's side, my children are 23rd generation northernmost New Spain, Texian, and American. Isolating Texas alone, my grandchildren are 15th generation Texian.

LIKE?

Cats, and then dogs.

Fishing, even a bit of bird watching, now and then.

Really good music..antique, old, 1950s and early 1960s rock and roll, classical - Hayden, Mozart, Beethoven, both Strauses, and many others, African tribal sounds en chorus, Mexican bolero...mariachis when they play out-of-doors, some country and quite a bit of the old western (Sons of the Pioneers, the Texas Ploughboys, Marty Robbins "Gunfighter Ballads, for instance.), even some of my own piano works, bagpipes, Enya, marimba, Caribe.

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess always seemed to me to have been, and remains, a true masterpiece of Americana.

Well maintained Firearms, smooth running small equipment, old autos that respond to repair and upkeep and keep going. Used to have BMWs and so forth, but being old helps tone things down a bit.

Antiques, and antiquities...Meso-American archeology...and religious history. Formal religious services among the Orthodox..as in Anglican, Roman, Orthodox and Conservative Jewish services and celebrations. Hard to find, now.

Overnight radio, rightwing talk radio until it becomes overly tedious and repetitive.

Weather and climate.

And strangely during the past few years,cooking. Not just barbequeing...but actually dishing up gourmet-type stuff...and gardening to a purpose.

We grow a lot of our own spices for our little bed and breakfast and we specialise in flowerng plants, bushes, and trees that attract bees and literally hundreds of species of common to extremely rare birds to our place.

Lifelong Republican, honourably discharged - United States Army (conscripted).

Now drifted into the position of favouring the amicable withdrawal of Texas from the American Union. My grandchildren are 15th generation Coahuila/Texas by my wife and 8th generation Texas by me and my will is to have them answer for the debt of Texas and not for the debts incurred by the National Socialists who have taken possession of the central government in Washington, D.C.

DISLIKES?
Any kind of socialism...bolshevik, national, marxist, social democratic, Trotskyite, progressive, ....and any kind of socialist.

The Ku Klux Klan and such types who figure that they have to hate somebody because of how he/she was born. They are just role players, resucitated by the Communist Party USA in the 1920s, whose members are fueled by a well deserved sense of inferiority.

And almost all social activism.

Almost all labour union officers and almost all labour unions. (There are some exceptions.)

Public assistance of any kind. All welfare and/or charity should and must be privately handled in order to avoid the trap wherein we have fallen, that being the multigenerational slide into the abyss of forlorn hopelessness that is government slavery and dependence. That slide is cheerfully supported by politicians who love to buy votes with other peoples' money.

Lotteries operated by governments.

Litter, filth, graffiti, gangs, and waiting in line for people using food stamps whil'st they argue with the cashier about how they "need" this or that to be covered...when they have three carts with 450 USD of snacks and things we cannot afford because we are in an 'upper income" category.

Church reformers who want to change my church instead of them going to another church and just leaving me alone.

Medications for boys who are over-active, and medications in general.

Lite beer, lite Coca Cola, fat-free, lo-cal, artificial sugars and sweeteners, anything marked "healthy" on food packages, sugar-free, margarine, and driving 23 miles to buy gasoline over there because it is 2 cents per gallon cheaper.

Any government programme designed to help anybody; 94% of the time the programme winds up morphing into some kind of monster. Then liberals and do-gooders will propose another programme, twice as costly, to cure the ills caused by the first cure-all.

Officiousness, and the term "non-profit", as if there is some kind of moral superiority in the failure to produce wealth.

Physical abuse of an animal, an extraterrestrial, a child, slave, woman, or anything like a tractor or power tool, firearm, sewing machine, or an auto, etc.
Loud and/or sharp noises, especially when such noises have no particular purpose.

Wasting anything, from paper towels to Clorox to cake and cookie batter...anything. And....waiting in a line.