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Plan Bush for "Assistance to a Free Cuba"
Chronicle of a war foretold
"There is nothing covered up that will not be
uncovered,
nothing hidden that will not be made known." (Luke
12.2)
by Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada
President of the National Assembly of People's Power
July 5, 2006
Reprinted from Granma Internacional
El Plan Bush de "Asistencia a una Cuba Libre"
Crónica De Una Guerra Anunciada
"Porque nada hay encubierto, que no haya de
descubrirse;
ni oculto, que no haya de saberse." (S. Lucas 12.2)
por Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada
Presidente de la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular
5 Julio, 2006
Reimprimado de Granma Internacional
On May 20, 2004, with all pomp and ceremony, George W.
Bush announced his Plan for the annexation of Cuba.
The interminable monster document of more than 450
pages provoked a volley of criticism from all sides.
Above all, from the Cuban people, who are threatened
with extermination and with the liquidation of their
nation. As the sinister Plan states in plain language,
Cuba would simply disappear, would cease to exist. Let
us quickly review what would happen here if what Bush
has approved was to be applied:
The return to their former owners of all properties,
including all homes from which millions of families
would be evicted, in less than one year and under the
supervision and control of the U.S. government via the
U.S. government Commission for the Return of
Properties.
All aspects of the economy would be completely
privatized including education and health services;
all cooperatives would be dissolved and the old
latifundia restored; social security and assistance
would be eliminated, including all pensions and
retirement plans, and a special program of public
works would be organized for senior citizens which
would employ them as long as their state of health
allows it; the guidelines of the crudest neoliberalism
would be rigorously applied. Another Yankee government
apparatus, the U.S. Standing Committee for Economic
Reconstruction, would be in charge of all that.
In order to carry out what is perceived as meeting the
tenacious and invincible resistance of the people ("It
will not be easy," Bush acknowledges in the
abovementioned document), they would give maximum
priority to mass and generalized repression: of all
Party members, all members of social and mass
organizations and "other government sympathizers,"
according to the text, which warns (is there any
need?) that the list of the victims of repression will
be a long one." The U.S. government would also
directly supervise this with a repressive apparatus
"organized and directed by the State Department."
The leadership of this program would be in the hands
of a bureaucrat appointed by Bush with the pompous
title of "Coordinator for the transition and
reconstruction of Cuba," a species of administrator
and governor general for the island, as was General
Leonard Wood more than one century ago. He would have
the same function including the same title as that
carried out by Mr. Brenner in invaded and destroyed
Iraq. Only in the case of Cuba, the coordinator has
already been appointed, a Mr. Caleb Mc Carry, who has
visited certain European countries to receive shameful
complicity. His anticipated appointment was presented
by Bush himself as evidence that his Plan against Cuba
and Cubans is a serious matter and not just words.
Plan Bush also included specific measures against
Cuban Americans, whose links with their families on
the island were drastically reduced. Their general
licenses to visit them were eliminated and the
discriminatory limitation of only being able to do so
every three years if granted a special permit to do so
was imposed on them, and all of that within a cruel
and arbitrary redefinition of the concept of the
family, from which uncles and aunts, nephews and
nieces, cousins and other relatives were excluded.
In order to achieve its goal, the U.S. government
would intensify its actions to do away with the Cuban
Revolution by following three basic lines: a
constantly more rigorous economic blockade, an
increase in funding and material support for internal
mercenary grouplets and an ever-growing campaign of
propaganda and disinformation.
Anyone knows that undertaking to defeat the government
of another country; change its political, economic and
social regime; and subject it to its domination is a
scandalous outrage to international law only
conceivable in people with a fascist mentality.
The illegal and aggressive nature of Plan Bush is so
evident, such its delirious lack of moderation, that
it was overtly objected to even by agencies and
individuals opposed to the Cuban Revolution and
defenders of imperialist policies and interests. That
was the case of various members of the so-called
Inter-American Dialogue including known enemies of
Cuba who sent out a public letter rejecting that
Plan because they see in it a call to warfare and
violence. One individual described it as "terrifying"
and "the most explosive in relations between the
United States and Latin America for the last 50
years."
Bush obtained something that is the dream of any U.S.
politician: to unite the broadest front, from the left
to the right. Only this time they came together to
criticize him and his devilish Plan.
But he did have something in his favor. The media
itself, the famous media that accompanied him in May
2004 and echoed his publicity show, knew how to keep a
hermetic, disciplined silence from that point up until
the end of that year and afterwards. Something that
was "the most explosive" thing in half a century,
simply disappeared from the attention of the
"information networks." The subject simply ceased to
exist. And that was the situation for a year and a
half. Up until December 2005.
Suddenly, out of the blue, when everybody had
forgotten about it, it was announced from Washington
that there was to be another report on Cuba in May
2006.
Speculation abounded. Among the politicians and
academics who criticized the simplistic barbarities
from the right, there were even those who imagined the
possibility of a rectification.
May 20, 2006 arrived. The media became edgy and asked
questions. But nothing happened that day or in the
following days and months. Official spokespersons
responded with evasions to inquiries from journalists.
Until, once again, they forgot about the matter.
The third week of June arrived and strangely,
stealthily, it appeared on the State Department
website datelined 06/20/2006. But it would appear that
nobody saw it. A week went by while spokespersons and
informers maintained a total silence. Until some of
the Miami media and certain news agencies "discovered"
what they decided to baptize a "draft." Curiously, the
discovery was simultaneous. And not at any moment, but
precisely coinciding with the most prolonged U.S.
holiday in the United States, which goes on up until
Tuesday, July 4. As if the information was to be
buried in the midst of firework displays, patriotic
rhetoric and special sales in commercial centers,
which is how people over there recall the anniversary
of Independence.
The text that has now been published does not stray
one millimeter from Plan Bush. On the contrary. It
begins by noting its ratification, greeting the
supposed successes that its application has had and,
on that "solid base," announces "additional measures"
to "accelerate" the end of the Cuban Revolution.
Those measures are worthy of analysis and I propose to
do that later.
But there is something that demands the most energetic
and urgent condemnation. Something totally unusual.
Before detailing the "additional measures," those that
have been made public, the Report states that there
are others contained in an appendix that is to remain
secret for "reasons of national security" and to
ensure their "effective realization."
After having divulged everything that they have
divulged tens of millions of dollars more for their
mercenaries, new economic restrictions and illegal
actions against international trade and the
sovereignty of Cuba and other nations, additional
punishments for Cubans and for citizens of other
countries and having made public more than two years
ago their Plan that describes to the finest detail
their intention to re-colonize Cuba; after all that,
what is there at this height to conceal with maximum
secrecy? What are they hiding for reasons of "national
security and effective realization?"
More terrorist attacks? New assassination attempts on
Fidel? Military aggression? In the case of Bush and
his buddies anything is possible.
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