On 60th Anniversary, Cuba Remains Supreme Symbol of US Defeat

By: Kayhan Int’l 

As we in the Islamic Republic confidently cruise towards February 11 for celebrating the grand 40th anniversary of the triumph of the dynamic revolution
in Iran that changed global equations and rubbed in the dirt the nose of the
Great Satan which continues to bleed profusely, another iron-willed nation that
defeated the might of the US is celebrating the 60th anniversary of its victory
which changed Latin America.

It was New Year’s Day 1959 when the US-supported Cuban dictator Fulgencio
Batista fled by air to the Dominican Republic, after lying glibly the day before
that his army had won the Battle of Santa Clara against Che Guevara’s revolutionary forces when the fact of the matter was that the people in the capital had
lined up to give a warm welcome to the latter. 

On January 8, when revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro, entered Havana to a
hero’s welcome, it was clear to the whole world that all Cuba was with him, in
spite of the frenzied efforts of the western media to try to deceive people all over
the globe.

Batista had fled with almost all the money on which he could lay his hands, and
along with him went the property owners, leaving Cuba with its debt and with
the tentacles of multinational corporations dug deep into the exploited country.
With the US scheming to derail the revolution, Castro’s victorious forces faced
a gargantuan task and they admirably accomplished it in the face of heavy odds
by pivoting from an armed struggle to building a state. 

To the exasperation of Washington, the revolutionary government, with its
desire for equality, made use of whatever social wealth that was available in
order to mobilise the nation and turn into a firm bastion against any American
designs. 

Over the next years and decades, despite the most stringent US sanctions,
as Cuba built a solid base for national development and welfare of the people
whose endeavours inspired a string of revolutions in Latin America, the CIA
tried at least six hundred times from 1960 onwards to assassinate Fidel Castro,
but failed. 

By the time, the long-bearded Fidel died in 2016 at the age of 90, he had outlived many of those who had tried to kill him. It means the Cuban revolution has
outlived its cowardly enemies across the Straits of Florida in the US.

Today Cuba, which withstood several direct assaults by the US and survived
the collapse of the USSR, is confident as ever in defeating the renewed plots
being hatched against its people and government by the quixotic US President
Donald Trump, who similar to his violation of the international nuclear accord
with the Islamic Republic of Iran, has threatened to overthrow the legal government of Cuba in contrast to the historic move for reconciliation and peaceful
co-existence that Barak Obama had initiated during his presidency.

Trump’s National Security Adviser, the bespectacled bozo named John Bolton,
has openly called for regime change on the island, either through further sanctions or war, but in view of the steadfastness of the Cuban people and their
unflinching support for the system of government established by Fidel Castro, it
is obvious the US will not succeed.

This was evident in the speech on the 60th anniversary of revolution given by
Communist Party leader Raul Castro who blasted Trump and his team of thugs
for resorting to the outdated path of confrontation by intervening in the internal
affairs of Latin America.

Raul and his late elder brother Fidel, had led the revolutionaries in 1959 to
overthrow the US-backed dictator and liberate Cuba, triggering social movements almost throughout Latin America,
Raul said in his speech in the city of Santiago de Cuba where Fidel proclaimed
victory six decades ago: "Once again, the North American government is taking
on the path of confrontation with Cuba, but it will fail again.”

Raul Castro, who stepped down as president in April but remains head of the
Communist Party until 2021, said "the Cuban Revolution is on a secure footing
thanks to the transition to a competent younger generation of leaders such as the
58-year old President Miguel Diaz-Canel and his administration of committed
personnel.”

This means, the US may tighten sanctions and flood mercenaries with dollars
to try indulge in sabotage and incite the people against the government, or hope
for a miscalculation on the part of the Cuban administration, but it is obvious
Trump will not be able rock the boat. Even military intervention will not succeed,
except making the life of the people miserable. 

To sum up, the morale of the Cuban people remains as strong as it was in 1959,
and no amount of US pressures will dent their resolve to support the sovereignty
and territorial integrity of the nation which they had defended for the past 60
years through the revolutionary process