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learning about government
So, we've been learning about government in school, and the three types of government, and we had used a country for an example of each type: Canada,parliamentary, Cuba, dictatorship, and democracy, why not USA, best country on Earth (if you disagree, don't mention it, it seems that when I write a little thing that doesn't matter everyone goes into outrage about it and ignore my ACTUAL question)and we were watching an interesting video about life in Cuba, and for some reason everyone's always shouting something about some sort of revolution. I don't know much about revolutions except America had one to earn freedom. If a Cuban did something like that, then wouldn't they be jailed or killed? So, what is the Cuban revolution? What is it for? Are they planning a war on Amarica? If they are, I personally think they are wasting their time. America's much to huge for a small island like Cuba to defeat (once again, don't say anything about this)
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No one in Cuba is planning on a war with the US.
You are exactly right. That's just nuts.
The US has over 300 million people living on 3.79 million square miles. Cuba has a little over 11 million people, living on less than 50,000 square miles. Even if the levels of technology and wealth weren't what they were, no nation of 11 million isn't going to take on a nation of 300 million. Not ever. No one is that stupid.
The Cuban Revolution that you are hearing about already took place. It happened during the 1950s, and it resulted the current communist government that is still in power today in Cuba. The revolution was widely supported by Cubans at the time, and it removed a dictator, Fulgencio Batista, who had enjoyed a great deal of support from the American government. Even President Kennedy acknowledged at the time that America had to accept a good deal of responsibility for the current situation on human rights violations in Cuba, due to all the financial, military and diplomatic support the that had been offered to Batista by the US, even while he was using the military to suppress and kill Cubans who disagreed with him, and he was blocking the free elections that he was sure to loose.
Early on in the Cuban revolution (just like in virtually all revolutions) people were jailed, tortured and killed for trying to start a revolution against a dictator. Batista censored the media, and carried out torture and public executions. He killed thousands of people who disagreed with his government.
That is also what would happen today in the US if people tried to start a revolution. A revolution is, by it's very nature, an illegal act against an existing government or power structure. A revolution only happens when enough people are desperate enough to risk imprisonment or death in order to drastically change their government. So yeah, revolutions tend to begin with a lot of arrests and deaths.
You may believe communism is morally wrong (There is virtually nothing about the current Cuban government that I personally like or agree with) and you may believe that America is the best country on the planet, but but when it comes to Cuba-US relations, the facts are pretty shameful one for the States as well. America supported a dictator in nearly every way it could, and when that dictator was overthrown, American leaders regularly crafted plans to assassinate the new Cuban leaders and provoke a war with Cuba. I don't think any leaders in Cuba has ever seriously intended to begin a war with America. In fact, Cuba has been forced to put up with violations they would rather not have to deal with because of their inability to take on the American military. For example, Cuba's current position on Guantanamo Bay prison is that it's illegal for America to be running that prison within their country, and is violation of international law. They would like that prison to close, but Cuba doesn't have the power to insist on their own sovereignty. They can't stop the American military from doing what it wants on even within Cuba itself.
I'm not trying to argue with you about which nation is the best, and I'm not trying to defend Cuba's government in all it's behaviours, but you do need to recognize when the American government fucks up - and when it comes to Cuba, there is a long history of fucking up, and war-mongering, on the American side.
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