LaRouche dice que Fidel Castro tiene que aprender historia

December 3 (LPAC)--Statesman Lyndon LaRouche commented today that Cuban President Fidel Castro obviously never learned the history of his own country, or of the rest of Ibero-America. LaRouche was referring to the Nov. 29 commentary by Castro published in the daily Granma on the situation in Venezuela and the region.

Noting that the Venezuelan people had inherited the ideas of the Liberator Simon Bolivar, "whose ideas transcend his era," Castro asserted that Venezuela today faces a "world tyranny"--referring to the United States--"a thousand times more powerful than Spain's colonial force combined with that of the recently-born Republic of the United States, which through [James] Monroe proclaimed its right to the continent's natural wealth and the sweat of its people."

LaRouche pointed out that the Monroe Doctrine was authored by then-Secretary of State John Quincy Adams in 1823 against the British Empire, which had designs on South America then, and is still the major source of problems in the region today--using its U.S. agents like Dick Cheney to do its dirty work.

When British Prime Minister George Canning suggested that the United States join Britain in an alliance by which the two would jointly deal with South America, it was Adams--unlike some other members of the cabinet at the time--who firmly replied that the offer should be refused, stating that the United States should never act as a "cockboat in the wake of a British man-of-war." There could never be any "permanent community of principle" between the U.S. and Britain, Adams said.

If Castro had ever learned anything about history, LaRouche said, he would have known that the British deployed their Foreign Office agent Jeremy Bentham to capture several South American "Liberators," including Simon Bolivar initially, in their attempt to take over the Spanish colonies. It was Bentham who exercised control over Scottish Rite freemasonic "revolutionaries" in South America and the Caribbean and deployed them as part of British takeover plan.

And, LaRouche noted, the Bolivar so admired by Castro as the model of anti-imperialist liberation, was smart enough to realize that after a lifetime of cooperation with Bentham and his agents, he had made a mistake, and proceeded to repudiate his former associate. In 1828, he first issued a decree banning in Colombia all secret societies and fraternities described as groups "disrupting public tranquility and the established order." At the same time, Bolivar issued another proclamation outlawing the teaching of Bentham in the university, attacking Bentham and his school as "opposed to religion, to morality, and to the tranquility of the people," and as a contributing cause in conspiracies and disorders in Bogota, including an assassination attempt against him. The Liberator concluded that youth was being "given a deadly poison through those authors, which destroyed their religion and morals."