Juan Téllez, Agencia Libertad
LAS TUNAS, May – Up to 1958 Cuba was a country of immigrants. More Spaniards, Chinese, and others came to the island every year to live than left to live elsewhere. After the Revolution in 1959 and every year thereafter Cuba has been a country of emigrants.
Now, the Cuban government is waging a campaign against the United States’ Cuban Adjustment Law of 1966, which allows Cubans to adjust their immigration status once in the U.S., claiming that the law encourages Cubans to emigrate and calling it, among other things, a "criminal law."
In its campaign, the Cuban government doesn’t say anything about the causes of Cuban emigration, or about the criminality of laws that allow the jailing of people for expressing opinions contrary to those of the government, or that deprive the rightful owners of their property, that
circumscribe people’s right of assembly, and that allow paying workers with pesos and selling them life’s essentials in U.S. dollars.
The government doesn’t say anything about hotels, beaches and resorts that are only open to foreigners or high Communist Party officials and closed to the common people who build them and pay for them. It does talk about "social security," "universal education," and "free
health care," while the old languish, the universities are open only to revolutionaries and there are no aspirins to sell to the people.
The government doesn’t speak of discontinuing children’s milk rations at age 7 and of selling people a can of condensed milk for 30 pesos or U.S $1.50; it doesn’t speak of women who go into prostitution because they can’t see any other way out of their misery.
The government, the supreme puppet master, stages a new show decrying the Cuban Adjustment Law to keep the people down and to continue fooling the world.
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