Response to Lauren's Blog 9: When Someone Says Freedom...

I really liked the point you made here! Everything that we have learned about the relationships between the U.S. and Latin American countries lately have led me to see the U.S. as hypocrites and childish. The government continually made decisions that benefited the rich foreign companies in other countries over doing what is right for the people. No one is allowed to tell the U.S. what to do, but we can go and involve ourselves in everyone else's business.

I was really intrigued by your point that the U.S. tried to turn the world against Cuba and practically ignore their existence. I came across this picture yesterday, on twitter of all places, and it made me think of this point. 

 Overall the caption of it is "George Washington Dunking on Communism" and you see China's communist leader being dunked on and Abraham Lincoln boxing out Joseph Stalin in the background. The U.S. classifies Cuba as communist, so why wasn't Fidel Castro put in the picture? The Soviet Union has ended years ago, but Joseph Stalin was in the picture. It just adds the point that American curriculum basically ignores the huge part Cuba plays in recent history.