Cuba announced yesterday that they've created their very own version of Wikipedia. Well, more like a government-edited, propaganda-filled encyclopedia that Raul Castro tells people is like Wikipedia.
It's called Ecured, and it runs so slowly you will have flashbacks to waiting for AltaVista to load in 1995. But we endured the long wait to do little vanity search and find out what Cubans know about Kansas City. Turns out, they don't know a whole lot about us, which isn't surprising.
There's no standalone entry for Kansas City, but there are 13 references. They like jazz, they're cool with Ernest Hemingway, and Harry Truman apparently was an imperialist jackass who never should have left the haberdashery.
With the help of Google Translate (some of us took four years of Latin in high school instead of a useful language), let's piece together what the
Cubans know about about us, or what their government overlords want them
to know about us.
First, our 33rd president. Ecured has pretty accurate biographical information about
Truman. They even get a jab in at Truman's brief flirtation
with the Ku Klux Klan. It goes on to rip into him for dropping the
nuclear bombs, and establishing America's anti-communism foreign policy.
In 1947 Truman proposed a new foreign policy by the UnitedStates. The Marshall Plan and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO) were the most salient manifestations of this policy, which led
the U.S. to seize a position as world leader. Truman announces its
policy to combat the spread of communism, the "Truman Doctrine. "
This doctrine endorsed in Latin America the imposition of the Monroe
Doctrine. Under the Truman administration, the U.S. managed the signing
of the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR), the
guarantor of U.S. meddling in the continent, encouraged coups in Brazil,
Paraguay and Venezuela, supported the suppression of communist and
socialist parties...
Damn meddling America.
Hemingway's entry notes that he wrote for the Kansas City Star for a
little while.
He excelled as a football player and boxer in his collegeExcessive addiction to boxing and hunting! And here we thought hisseason. In 1917 he finished his studies but instead the university to
work for a few months in the Kansas City Star as a reporter. From his
youth he felt an excessive addiction to boxing and hunting, sports with a
practice of journalism make it a world traveler and student of human
nature. The writer traveled to various countries in Europe and Africa.
addiction to alcohol is what did him in. His post also has a lengthy section about Hemingway's time living in Cuba. This is where the propaganda gets really good.
Although Hemingway was not involved directly in the CubanIt continues:Revolution, the fact that if he sympathized with her and many of its
leaders.
Modest, quietly, at the locallevel of Finca Vigia (his house outside of Havana), is helping to support and that is why, the U.S.
government forced him to leave the country.
... Hemingway told a reporter: "I am very happy to be back here,because I consider myself a Cuban more.
Ido not believe any of the information published on Cuba and abroad.
I sympathize with the Cuban government and with allour difficulties.
And we don't believe any information published in Ecured.
Ecured's other posts mentioning Kansas City include one for legendary pool player Alfredo de Oro, Jazz, Dizzy Gillespie, August 29th (it's Charlie Parker's birthday), Kansas City Monarchs pitcher and manager Jose Mendez, and one titled "Imperialism" mentions Kansas.
But, alas, the Cuban Wikipedia now appears to have crashed or gone on the fritz. Surely this is the work of imperialist pig writers overloading the site with traffic to mock it in blog posts.
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