Ovidio Jimenez was born and lived near Sancti Spiritus in Cuba. He was 29 in 1959 and by then he had worked in his father’s small farm, 7.7 hectares, that is about half a caballeria.
They produced taro (malanga), cassava, rice and sweet potatoes. They also produced milk because they had three cows. They also had a horse and a plow.
A few days ago the Castro regime commemorated the signing of the first agrarian reform law of the revolution signed at La Plata in the Sierra Maestra in 1959. According to what was understood back then, the Cuban farms that did not produce and had an area larger than 20 caballerias (268.4 hectares) were to be expropriated in order to make them produce.
Well, as things were in the Cuban revolution, in 1962 the revolutionary communist government confiscated the half- caballeria farm form Ovidio and his father. The farm stopped production of taro, cassava, rice, sweet potatoes and milk. In 1963, Ovidio was taken prisoner charged with "cooperating" with rebels in the hills of the Escambray and relocated to Sandino in Pinar del Río.
He now lives in a trailer by Okeechobee and the Palmetto Expressway in the peninsula of Florida. What happened to the farm of Ovidio? How come there is no taro (malanga), , cassava (yuca) , rice, sweet potatoes and cow's milk? In summary, what is the achievement and great contribution claimed by the Cuban communists. What exactly is the legacy of the revolutionaries that, even today, they think they deserve honor, power and glory? Where is the achievement?
