Within a few hours after the presidential election, the communist state, Cuba, was warned by Donald Trump. The new regime plans not to continue the progress made by the Obama administration, i.e. trade embargo change, recognition of our flag in front of the new 2015 embassy and other steps to reunite after 50 years. President-elect Trump won’t budge until “my way or the highway” demands are met. When Fidel Castro died a few days ago, Trump called him a “thug.”
Before 1960, Cuba was enslaved by a greedy ruler. Batista allowed “wealthy thugs” to buy beach-front properties to build brothels and other decadent structures. So, who are the real thugs here, the mafia or the revolutionary Castro?
Unlike the people who were allowed to leave the Castro regime, my grandfather, in the early 1900s, was forced to flee Mexico during a revolution led by Pancho Villa.
He died, leaving six children and a wife. A Chinese woman that taught me how to cook fled a takeover from where she was born in the middle of the 1900s. The list goes on forward and backwards to the beginning of time.
Revolutions could be non-violent. Amazing, “intelligent adults” have allowed centuries of war. In my opinion, the world should allow children to break this destructive cycle.
I am actively working to get fifth-graders here to communicate with fifth-graders in Cuba.
If all goes well, other countries we talk about going nuclear with will have children refusing to let go of the olive branch.
Why encourage scriptures that say the end is near?
Sally Florence
Durango
