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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"Oh thank goodness, a social worker is going to call me Monday morning and speak with me about my mentally and physically unstable father's deplorable living conditions, I'll finally get some advice and resources on what to do"
(Morning comes and goes, social worker doesn't call, so I call the social worker's listed number myself)
(social worker doesn't answer)
(social worker doesn't answer)
(social worker answers, speaks very quietly, sounds uncertain about gathering basic information needed from me)
"Okay, let me redirect you to the case manager"
"Okay"
(Case manager answers, immediately sounding both pissed off and too quiet to hear)
Me: "I'm calling on behalf of my father, I was told someone would call me and I'd like to speak about his circumstances"
Case manager: "Who are you? Are you [Goadstool's brother]? Or are you Goadstool?"
Me: "I'm Goadstool. Sorry, one second, let me move somewhere quieter...
(Call disconnects)
(I call original number again, tell them the call got cut off, get redirected again)
(Case Manager doesn't answer, leave a voicemail I'm pretty sure they won't call back for)
this has been my whole ass life for 2 years now
I'm sorry. I'm going through something similar trying to help my in-laws. The bureaucratic systems the boomers set up making their last years a living hell would be funny in a karmic justice sort of way if it wasn't directed only at the poor.