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or about 35 percent of all hospitals in Cuba.
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Furthermore, polio and malaria have been eliminated, and the causes
of death have shifted from those associated with under-development
(diseases of early infancy, etc.) to those of the developed world
(congenital abnormalities, diabetes, etc.). 98 These are the crimes for
which Cuba must pay dearly; the real ones are of little interest to policy
makers, except for their propaganda effect.
As for the NLF in South Vietnam, its crime was explained ruefully by
the bitterly anti-Communist journalist Denis Warner: “in hundreds of
villages all over South-East Asia the only people working at the grass
roots for an uplift in people’s living standards are the Communists,” 99
the reason for the popular support that forced the US to resort to
violence and to undermine any political settlement.
Those who set their priorities in this way are evidently deficient in
their understanding of US needs and priorities. They have therefore
joined the ‘‘monolithic and ruthless conspiracy,” and must be driven into
the hands of the Russians and subjected to aggression, terror, embargo
and other means, in accord with their status as “an incident, not an
end.”
We turn next to a closer examination of just how it is done.