The Business of Counterrevolution in Cuba - Elio Delgado-Legon

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http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=103885

HAVANA TIMES — “This is my livelihood, kid, this is my livelihood!” This phrase, spoken by renowned “dissident” Ricardo Boffil while being interrogated at Cuba’s State Security Department in Havana expressed the true essence of counterrevolutionary activity in Cuba: a business that allows one to live well without having to work, on the money of US taxpayers.

It is no secret for anyone that the organization of Cubans who fled to the United States because they had been involved or had complicity in Fulgencio Batista’s bloody dictatorship, as declassified documents show, was directed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with a view to destroying the Cuban revolution.
As early as March 17, 1960, at a meeting held to “define Cuba’s future,” President Eisenhower told everyone at the gathering that they ought to be prepared to swear they didn’t hear anything spoken at the meeting and that the “hand of the United States” should not be seen in any actions against Cuba. That is to say, the idea was to use Cuban exiles to carry out actions against the revolution directed by the CIA and, to achieve this, the United States was willing to spend large sums of money.

Since then, many enterprising Cubans have discovered a means of becoming rich in the United States without having to work: with the simple business of counterrevolution.
One of the declassified reports is by General Kirkpatrick. It literally calls for the “formation of an organization of exiles” and the “creation of an opposition within Cuba.” How could these two objectives be reached? Handing out a lot of money, for neither that organization of exiles or opposition existed in Cuba before the CIA started its “work.”

Every year, millions of dollars from the US government budget are destined to fostering subversion in Cuba. Over the last six years, nearly 7 thousand dollars were spent to pay journalists in other countries to write anti-Cuban propaganda aimed at turning public opinion against the island. That is to say, more than a hundred thousand dollars a year were destined to that little “task” alone.