Whether it’s Persian Gold bribing a Roman or American senator, or ordinary bribes under the table, Catholic Fundamentalists always look to the money.
Looking at ‘who benefits’ shows us why Castro was allowed to take power in Cuba. The most valuable real estate in North America is along the coast. Limiting the supply of accessible coastline increases the value of remaining coastal property.
Few places are as beautiful and varied as Cuba’s 4,000 miles of coastline. It’s much nicer than the unrelieved flatness of Florida, and the air-time to Cuba is only a few minutes more than a trip to Miami. The billions of dollars that would have been spent in a free Cuba, on beachfront property alone, were directed to Florida, instead.
Many groups of selfish Americans benefited by keeping other Americans from being able to buy affordable Cuban coastal properties. First and foremost, those who survive and thrive on property taxes, the teachers’ unions, wanted American real estate to be more valuable so they could get more money from it. Their Marxist beginnings gave them an innate affinity for Fidel.
Oil companies were not interested in developing new fields. They had established cash flows from existing fields all over the world, and new fields around Cuba would interrupt them.
Cuba was also ripe for American business interests. Lack of unions, Batista’s let-live government of moderate, comfortable corruption, and proximity to the United States made Cuba a potential beehive of activity, much of which would have been transferred from big U.S. commercial interests.
Cuba was also strongly Catholic. No modern government approves of that. A generation or two of thieving, bloodthirsty Marxists greatly weakened the Church’s power in Cuba, causing great joy among the Church’s enemies.
Those are some of the reasons US economic interests gave Cuba and its people to Castro and his goons.
And, piling lie upon lie to heights of magnificent splendor, the same U.S. interests that wanted a free Cuba eliminated as an economic competitor blame all the problems on their allies, the Communists.
