[lbo-talk] Cuba's painful transition from sugar economy

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

> Hi,
>
> Trivia:
>
> My great uncle Frederick Todd was a U.S. commercial attache to  
> Cuba. He refused to support the idea of turning the island into a  
> single crop sugar export plantation since he realized it would  
> destroy the economy. He even wrote about this in 1934:
>
> "Hay que Dar a Cuba Instituciones Propias y Vida Económica  
> Independiente" por Frederick Todd
> "It is necessary To give to Cuba Own Institutions and Independent  
> Economic Life" by Frederick Todd
>
> Bohemia, May 20, 1934
>
> Guggenheim was sent by the U.S. State Department to deliver the  
> ultimatum: agree to making Cuba a U.S. plantation or resign. Being  
> a Victorian, he chose the suicide option. His widow told us never  
> to go to the Guggenheim art museum because it was built on blood.
>
> Chip Berlet
> http://www.publiceye.org

Chip, you should write an article about your great uncle if you  
haven't already (preferably for MRZine.org :->).  BTW, I found a Web  
site that posts the cover and TOC of the Bohemia issue in which his  
article appeared: <http://www.guije.com/public/bohemia/2618/>.

Yoshie Furuhashi
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