On board this Guagua we bring you today four questions related to ideas formulated by Lester D. Mallory, then Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, in a secret memorandum of the State Department where he explained on April 6, 1960, the philosophy of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed.
Below this note, readers can leave their digital comments that in future trips of this Guagua we will bring them to exchange among all.
Here are the questions we invite comments on:
Which of Lester Mallory’s precepts is fulfilled by the disorganization of the U.S. dollar exchange rate?
Are economic discontent and material hardship causing the effects predicted by Lester Mallory in 1960?
Is Lester Mallory’s 1960 statement of undermining support for the Revolution through disappointment and dissatisfaction being achieved?
Is Lester Mallory’s 1960 assessment that most Cubans support the Revolution still valid?
Just in case you do not remember this declassified document, we show it here:
The majority of Cubans support Castro (…) the only foreseeable way to undermine his internal support is through disappointment and dissatisfaction arising from economic malaise and material difficulties (…) all possible means must be rapidly employed to weaken the economic life of Cuba (…) a line of action which, being as skillful and discreet as possible, will achieve the greatest progress in depriving Cuba of money and supplies, to reduce its financial resources and real wages, to provoke hunger, despair, desperation, and the destruction of the Cuban economy (…). ) a line of action which, being as skillful and discreet as possible, will achieve the greatest progress in depriving Cuba of money and supplies, in order to reduce its financial resources and real wages, to cause hunger, despair and the overthrow of the Government.
