@anonymously99stwin,
I'be explained it already, young feller, but here we go again.
Pretend that for your entire existence and even that of your parents there was this strong nation that wanted to crush your country, steal all your wealth so you had very little to eat every day.
Often brutal henchmen would be sent around to rape, torture and kill you, your neighbours, your family and friends. Your houses would be set on fire and your animals killed, your crops destroyed. These people turn your sisters and mothers into prostitutes and have Mafia gangs run your economy.
After 50 years of this you rise up and expel the invading mongrels and set up your country to take care of all the people.
Scary enough story? But this story is true. I'll let an author take over.
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La Demanda:
The People of Cuba
vs. the U.S. Government
by William Schaap
CovertAction Quarterly, Fall / Winter 1999
In Cuba, it is known simply as la demanda-the legal complaint.
On May 31, 1999, a lawsuit for $181 billion in wrongful death and personal injury damages was filed in Havana Provincial Civil Court against the government of the United States. The plaintiffs are eight national organizations, on behalf of their members, representing nearly the entire population of the island.
The complaint describes, in considerable detail, forty years of U.S. acts of aggression against Cuba, and specifies, often by name, date, and particular circumstances, each person known to have been killed or grievously wounded as a direct victim of this campaign. In all, 3,478 people were killed and an additional 2,099 seriously injured. (These figures do not include any indirect victims of the economic pressures, the blockade, the difficulties in obtaining medicine and food, all due to deliberate U.S. policy)
The complaint was served upon the United States through the appropriate diplomatic channels: from the Court, to the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to the United States Department of State. As expected, the U.S. chose not to respond, and twenty days later was declared by the Court to be in default, in accordance with Cuban law.
Nevertheless, under Cuban law, as in most jurisdictions, a default by the defendant does not, by itself, authorize a judgment in the amount of damages requested. The plaintiff must still prove the two elements of such an action, that the defendant caused the damages and that the damages were in the amount claimed. Consequently, on July 5, 1999, what was ultimately to be a 13-day trial with testimony from 196 witnesses commenced in the large, elegantly marbled chamber where the Supreme Court of Cuba once sat. The trial ended on July 21, 1999, and the five-judge court recessed to prepare its judgment. As of this writing, the decision has not yet been announced.
