The western hegemonists hate Cuba just as they hate what I first described as “The Cuba of Africa” fifteen years ago. The similarities between these two small, independent, revolutionary socialist countries are so striking that the analogy is easy to make.
First, Cuba came to power through the armed struggle against imperialism, successfully driving the western installed compradores out of their country. Cuba is the only country in Latin America to achieve a peoples government through the armed struggle, via the “barrel of a gun”.
The “Cuba of Africa” achieved its independence in the same way, through the armed struggle for national liberation, militarily defeating the occupying colonial army, driving it out of the country and liberating itself via “the barrel of a gun”. As is the case with Cuba, the “Cuba of Africa” is the only country in Africa to win its independence via the armed struggle, through the “barrel of a gun”.
No “negotiations” with their oppressors, no western sanctioned “elections”, no deals, period. The peoples of both countries literally destroyed their enemies and send them packing with their tails between their legs.
In the transition from imperialist domination to independence both Cuba and the “Cuba of Africa” rejected western neo-colonialist economic control by refusing to fall into the debt trap of the western banksters, today known as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB). Cuba was the only country in Latin America to do this.
The “Cuba of Africa” was one of only 3 in Africa to do this, thought the other two, Libya, rich from oil exports, and Botswana, wealthy from diamond exports had no need for outside funding. “The Cuba of Africa” had nothing at independence, literally less than nothing with a economy in ruins after a 30 years independence war ravaged by a genocidal policy by its colonial occupiers.
Cuba and the “Cuba of Africa” are both socialist, whether they call themselves such or not. Both nationalized all the land in the country and do not allow land to be bought or sold. This is a hallmark of a socialist society.
Both countries provide universal, free, education for their people including higher education.
Both countries work hard to provide free medical care to their peoples.
Both countries reject so called “western democracy”, refusing to be controlled by bought, stolen or rigged elections dominated by western capital and economic sabotage.
Both countries have faced brutal western economic sanctions for many years.
Both countries have been hammered by western instigated climate disasters, with Cuba being hammered by a growing number of major hurricanes, due to “global warming” while the “Cuba of Africa” has been repeatedly hit by multiyear drought, climate disaster in a country still dependent on rain fed agriculture.
Both countries continue to struggle to provide for their people while being confronted by so many obstacles. Yet both countries “Never Kneel Down”, the national motto for “The Cuba of Africa”. As is said there “we only kneel down to pray…and to shoot”.
The western countries hate both Cuba and “The Cuba of Africa” because both countries refuse to allow themselves to be controlled and exploited by the bankster regimes in the west and as such are role models for other countries in the world, especially in Latin America and Africa, both critical for the western banksters ability to extract super profits to use to bribe their populations into continuing to accept their rule.
This Saturday, May 24, Eritrea, the “Cuba of Africa” marks 34 years of independence with a nationwide outpouring of pride expressed in the saying “Victory to the Masses”, Awet N’Hafash”!
Thomas C. Mountain is an educator and historian who lived and reported from Eritrea from 2006-2021. At one time he was the most widely distributed independent journalist in Africa. You can follow him on X/twitter at thomascmountain or best contact him at thomascmountain at g mail dot com
