Multiple news sources are reporting relatively wide-spread demonstrations and perhaps rioting in Cuba, people are in the streets demanding freedom. Once the government would have been able to suppress the news of these disturbances. Not now, cell phone video is showing up on the Internet.
It would be serious irony if Cubans revolt against socialism at the same time the Bolivians, Peruvians and perhaps Chileans vote for it. Latin Americans thrash about politically, trying both leftist and rightist governments, frustrated I’m sure that whatever they try doesn’t produce the sort of largely comfortable, mostly safe lives first world nations take for granted.
I have a hunch Latin America’s underlying problem is the Iberian colonial culture they inherited. That same culture held back Spain and Portugal for decades until they were finally able to mostly move past it, in the 1970s.
The multiculturalist’s insistence that all cultures are equally praiseworthy is simply wrong, some while colorful are toxic to varying degrees. In spite of this handicap, COTTonLINE wishes the Cuban people good fortune in their struggle to shake off the Communist yoke.
