“Our people were ignorant of the most essential economic questions,
an ignorance which was the product of interests which always wanted
to keep the people uneducated. Why was it so? Because only in the absence
of political and economic consciousness could the government do the
things it did here, maintain the demagogy which always existed here
and invent all the lies it used here to explain something so essential
to the life of the people as economy is.”
Fidel Castro.
Spoken on September 17th. 1959, it is as relevant a thought today
in this country as it was then on that day in Cuba.
Islander.