The Cuba Libre Story: lessons for Cyprus

 https://cyprus-mail.com/2020/12/06/the-cuba-libre-story-lessons-for-cyprus/#comment-5178736892

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...indeed, perhaps it is the history of islands; not mere possessions, which prove essential to social-exchange: that some are cross-roads,

...how is it that Fidel built at his own expense an Orthodox Church? How is it that Che, and Castro, declared of
Makarios and Grivas, them, as their inspiration against Imperialist Agendas, at the advent of Guerrilla Warfare.

What were Cubans to do, in America?

What of Cypriots, against the British?

Rule of Law, respect, equality, trust; the irony: what were they asking for (in affect as chattel)?

...let's not forget 1960, what Cypriots, as Cypriots did. Not one asphalt road existed, from one end of the island to the other. No water, from Civil Works.

Makes me wonder how Cypriots have come so far since then; from "being" an Ottoman possession, a backwater with barracks and services, and since the British took it as "theirs": how much as Cypriots their lives improved.

Makes me wonder how it is Cypriots could get so far, without the interlocutors' "influence"; basically in just three short years. And how far they could go without "them" today.

...so it is with "Turkishness", now; what "Greekness" brought upon Greeks and Turks, in Cyprus, then.

Oppression has many forms. In that regard, comparing Cuba to Cyprus is not so easy, except that as Identities, they are ignored through the same denial, by those attached to dogmas which include Imperialistic notions...

...without Cyprus, as a State, just like without a Cuba where Cubans live, is a world less safe, less Free.