by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

Fifty-four(54)years since Fidel Castro declared Cuba a
Marxist-Leninist country, today Cuba is so poor and so in
need of help that soon the USA will have it first embassy in
Havana for over half century. Cuba will be removed from the
terrorist list, and they were there for good reason, if you go
back and see the countries they associated with, every enemy
of America was a friend of Cuba.

So who won the Cold War between the USA and Cuba?
Obviously the USA. Did anybody expected anything else, after
70 years of communism collapsed in Russia in 1989, Cuba was
to follow. But that is not the way some here in
the USA will portray the moment we “set shop”and
open the US Embassy in Havana. They would say that
cooperation is essential, that Obama was right, that we need
the same health care system as Cuba and they will pick what
they like about Cuba. Some idiotas(idiots in Spanish)will go
the length of praising Cuba’s beauty and Cuban’s
sensational beaches, like Fidel Castro put them there, and
not God.

But most of these people, quick to talk about
violations of human rights, never really spoke about those
violations of human rights, the Cubans in the island are
still subjected to.

Last week USA Today, revealed a poll,
they said it was taken without the authorization of the
Cuban government, inside Cuba and it showed that Obama was
more popular than Fidel Castro. Well, the USA Today should
know that anybody would be more popular in Cuba than the
Castros. As a matter of fact(going back for a
while)I remember as a young man when John F.Kennedy, after
getting elected President of the US, was also more popular
than Castro on the island.

My father Joaquin left Cuba as a Cuban-exile in 1964.
At that time, radio WQBA in Miami had an Open Mic at Miami
International Airport, with reporter Tomás García-Fuste.
The microphone was for Cubans arriving in the US a country
of freedom. My father said at that microphone, right at the
airport: “Caballero, el comunismo es una
mierda” -translation- “Gentleman, communism is crap”. Joaquin was
absolutely correct.

Sometimes history gets in the way of our Presidents.
Re-establishing relations with Cuba was going to happen,
just like when we captured Osama Bin Laden, there are
certain things(like history)that gets on the way of leaders.
I knew that we would prevail at the end, and capitalism has
prevailed also in Cuba over
socialism-communism-totalitarism.

I knew when I first arrived in this country in 1961,
that Communism would fall before Democracy. And(if I may say
it also)I was right like my father Joaquin, Cuba’s
system has been a monumental failure. The blockade was not
the issue, because Cuba during the past few decades, traded
with Canada, and many countries in Europe, so it was not the
American blockade that brought the Castro’s to their
knees, it was their own failure of a bankrupt system.

The famous one-percent(1%)that the left in American
made so important on their debates, they forget to mention
that in Cuba, the one-percent is the government. Cuba’s
rulers do not lack food, private transportation or many
other luxuries, that the average Cuban in the island is lack
of. But they will never tell you that here in the land of
plenty, because many people that are born in this country
failed to realize, that there is no other country like the
United States of America, and that our system of government
as flaw as it may be, still is the best on earth.

Cuban baseball players should be happy, they soon will
not have to risks their lives trying to escape the
island in the middle of the night in small and dangerous
craft, looking for the Freedom THE CUBAN PEOPLE STILL DOES
NOT ENJOY.

I am sure there will be more news about this in the
future.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Angels Spanish TV voice and the A’s Spanish radio voice and does News and Commentary each week for http://www.sportsradioservice