Happy New Year! Here's an excerpt from a must read https://www.amazon.com/Lights-Out-Memoir-Betrayal-Survival-ebook/dp/B01MG5NEL6/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1
“In the Cuba before Castro and as far back as colonial times, dreams could be achieved. Life wasn’t easy, but there was hope, and hope nourished dreams, which with work could be fulfilled...”
“Before Fidel, Cuba belonged to the Cuban people. In 1958, 62 percent of the sugar mills were owned by Cubans, and only 14 percent of the capital invested in the island came from the United States. 3 With the exception of a few U.S. companies and some other foreign businesses, which were mostly in Havana, almost all businesses in Cuba’s cities and towns were family owned. U.S. products played a vibrant role in the economy, but Cuba never belonged to the United States or to any other country. The productive, industrious, and successful Cuban people created their own robust economy, with more than fifty thousand small and medium-sized family owned businesses...”
“In communist societies, neighbors spy on neighbors; people disappear to prison camps for minor infractions or imagined ones; the government seeks to control the very minds of its citizens; the centrally planned, government-dictated economy strangles itself, leaving shortages of almost everything; and the human spirit of innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity, generosity, and reverence is systematically stifled. Fidel sold out our cherished national hopes, accomplishments, and dreams. He gave Cuba, body and soul, to the Soviet Union in exchange for his own power. Our vibrant nation became a communist satellite, a soulless entity whose colorful, diverse, and passionate national identity was deliberately snuffed out...”
©Dania Rosa Nasca
12/30/2016
