Blas Roca Calederio, born on July 22 in 1908, was a Cuban communist revolutionary and radical journalist. Roca helped lead the 1933 general strike that ousted Gerardo Machado, and served in Fidel Castro's revolutionary government.
Born into a poor family, Roca began working at age eleven, shining shoes. According to Castro, Roca was already a prominent communist organizer in the province of Oriente at 21 years old.
At age 25, Roca helped lead a two week general strike that ousted dictator Gerardo Machado. By 1936, he was head of the Cuban Communist Party and began serving as a politican, helping author the 1940 Cuban Constitution.
Under Roca's leadership, Cuban communists were instrumental in providing an organizational and ideological structure for Castro's revolution, as well as playing a pivotal role using the party's long-standing ties with the Soviet Union to promote increasingly closer ties during the early days of the revolution.
In 1961, Blas Roca, leading a party delegation, presented a Cuban flag to Nikita Khrushchev during a meeting of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Roca served on the first central committee and politburo of the new Communist Party of Cuba, founded in 1965.
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Venezuelan elections are on the 28th.
All my Venezuelan friends are anti Maduro and they say hes corrupt and hes a modern populist figure like Trump. They blame him for the failures of the government.
They never know what an embargo is and what it does. The other conclusion I reached is that corruption is not why a government fails, sure it can be, but the US is corrupt and we are still "successful."
The other problem I have is the amount of evangelist and religious people in the country, it seems like a real problem. One of my friends cousins is a Trump dipshit, worships white people and is super religious.
My other problem is the selection bias regarding the people I know, theyre all musicians and generally not poor and not black. They say that theyre not racist over there and that Maduro bad is a common opinion but I've never met a black Venezuelan or someone who disagrees with them.
What frustrates me is the most is really the embargo thing, that destroys economies and your opinion on socialism is flawed if you dont understand or care what the context around your own country is. "I'm from Venezuela, I know it better than you do. You don't know" Maybe but that doesn't fly if you apply that same logic to Americans. Most of us are completely ignorant animals.