But hasn't
Raul been faithful follower of his brother Fidel's failures? Read this
interesting description of former bodyguard Juan Reinaldo Sanchez: "Cuba
is the Fidel's "thing". He is its lord and master, in the manner of a
nineteenth-century landowner. It is as if he had transformed and expanded his
father estate to make Cuba a unique eleven million people hacienda. He uses the
country work force at will. For example,
when doctors are formed in the Medicine school,
they are not allowed to freely exercise their profession, but instead,
they become "missionaries" sent under his orders to shanty towns
of Africa, Venezuela and Brazil, according to the internationalist policy
imagined, determined and imposed by the head of state. And while in mission
abroad, these good Samaritans do not perceive but a portion of the salary that
the host country should pay them, because the most important part returns to
the Cuban Government, which acts as a service provider. Similarly, the foreign
hotel, French, Spanish or Italian, hiring Cuban personnel on the island do not
directly pay their employees, as in any free society; they pay the Cuban state,
that invoices such labor bill in the price of gold (and currency), before
delivering a a very small fraction to the workers in question (in Cuban pesos,
which are worth almost nothing). This modern form of slavery doesn't fail to
recall the dependency ratio that existed in the nineteenth century plantations regarding
the almighty lord. Furthemore, it is in absolute contradiction with the
principles of the International Labour Organization (ILO), which stipulates
that «all workers are entitled to a salary without the intervention of an
intermediary." Has the regime's policy changed anything under Raul
Castro's misrule? To be continued... That's another reason why we ask you to sign in this Petition: http://t.co/3OzWhbzQmP
