[Marxism] "Elián opened a window for the world to see what Cuban child is."

[Walter Lippmann]

(The full interview is much longer than this one final excerpt.)
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“Elián opened a window for the world 
to see what Cuban child is.” 

Amalia Gómez Marcheco* 2006-10-07 
* A seventh grade pioneer in the Popular Republic of Angola School 
in Alamar, Havana and delegate to the IV Congress of Pioneers. 

An interview with the attorney who defended, from the United States,
the return of little Elian to his father and homeland by a Cuban
pioneer.

José Pertierra was born in Cuba but has lived in the United States
since the age of nine, when his family emigrated during the beginning
of the Revolution, although not for political reasons. During the
70s, he joined the Antonio Maceo Brigade, a brigade of young Cuban
residents in that country to find their roots. As a lawyer he
currently represents the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles
requested by Venezuela. In Cuba he is has been known longer,
beginning when the entire nation mobilized to rescue the child
kidnapped by the extreme right of Cuban origin, in Florida.
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HEARTS CANNOT BE CONQUERED AT THE POINT OF A GUN

You cannot conquer hearts at the point of a gun. Part of their
problems in Iraq is that they have destroyed the Iraqi army but have
made the Iraqi people an enemy of the United States with the
massacres they have committed, and the torture of prisoners in Iraqi
jails. United States military power is much greater than its economic
and political power. Movements are rising up with an important
economic component. The countries of Latin America have understood
for the first time that they cannot ally themselves economically with
the United States because that is an uneven alliance where the United
States dominates and the Latin Americans obey. They have understood
this and said no.
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Pertierra: I believe that the battle of ideas is very important for
many reasons, primarily because it means that the time of rifles is
now history, at least in this continent. This time the climate that
exists is not one of war and what is happening is that through the
battle of ideas, the peoples of Latin American are taking power and
applying different measures in different countries.

Bolivia has a president who represents his people and he even looks
like the people of Bolivia. I remember having seen Bolivian
politicians that looked like Frenchmen or Germans. I even remember a
President who had an English accent and later learned that he had
studied in the United States. Evo Morales has an accent but an
indigenous accent because his first language is an indigenous
language. In Venezuela Chavez looks like his people: mulatto,
indigenous and that manner of his of talking like his people. It is
something that goes beyond politics and demonstrates that something
important has changed in those countries.

At the same time you find other countries that are also changing,
perhaps not as much as Bolivia and Venezuela. For example in Chile a
woman has assumed power, a woman who was tortured by the Pinochet
regime. She is not as radical as Evo Morales, but represents the
Chilean people and we will have to wait and see to what point she can
resist the economic and political pressure of the United States
 but
little by little these countries are joining in terms of an economic
and political alliance to confront the United States.

I don’t think that the United States is going to join this
progressive battle any time soon. What must be done is to neutralize
the US government and prevent it from dominating the continent as if
it is Washington’s backyard, like the U.S. has done for decades. This
is possible. And in this the example of Cuba is very valuable because
Cuba has always been the leader of progressive movements in Latin
America and the world.

FULL:
http://www.walterlippmann.com/docs984.html