Kenneth T. Tellis: Lord Muck of Roguehaven

VHeadline commentarist Kenneth T. Tellis writes: I came across article written by Lord Muck of Roguehaven in which he calls Fidel Alejando Castro Ruz's rule of Cuba, 50 years of misgovernment.

I was not too impressed by the article, since it came from a person who has been tried in a court of law in the very U.S. for embezzlement.

The article is filled with innuendoes from top to bottom. Cuba under Castro was never a vassal state of the Soviet Union. Yes! Cuba under constant threat of a U.S. invasion had to have an ally, so it was an alliance of necessity.

The Soviet Union never ruled Cuba as Lord Muck made out in his article.

While his article points out that Cuba permitted the deployment of Soviet intermediate-range nuclear missiles in 1962, he makes no mention that this was done to off-set the missiles that U.S. had in Turkey, which were aimed at the Soviet Union and other COMINTERN States. What is really being derided here is that Fidel Castro did not cozy up to the U.S. as other Latin American leaders of the time did. But, he does not mention the fact that President Richard Nixon had asked U.S. Secretary of State Heinz (Henry) Kissinger to draw up plans for the assassination of Chilean President Salvador Allende Gossens. That plot was hatched at the U.S. Embassy at Santiago, Chile.

Here U.S. Ambassador Nathaniel Davis, Heinz Kissinger, General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte and a team of CIA men met and set the dayte for the assassination of Allende.

Under the U.S. puppet Fulgencio Batista Cuba was not the third most prosperous state in Latin America, but the most destitute state in Latin America, because its riches were being sent to its U.S. owners. The Cuban people were not of Cuba, but peons working on the land, which was owned, lock, stock and barrel by U.S. crime syndicates etc.

What Lord Much means by prosperous, is that it was in hock up to its neck to U.S. corporations. All that changed with the Castro administration taking over the country in January 1959. That is the very reason that the U.S. began its embargo.

What we are seeing today, is that same story being played out in Venezuela.

The U.S. wants control of the oilfields there, and is livid that a Venezuelan has taken the step of nationalizing them. That is what makes the Bush regime mad as hell. But never you mind the people of Venezuela and its leader, Chavez will weather the storm and bring prosperity to all of Latin America and the Caribbean as times goes on.

Today, we are seeing the result of how an ordinary person like Chavez is giving the U.S. a run for its money.

The Yanqui power is no more, and Latrin Americans can hold their own in the present day world.

Kenneth T. Tellis
kenttellis@rogers.com