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The Rolling Stones Blow The Doors Off Communist Cuba (VIDEO)
The Rolling Stones Blow The Doors Off Communist Cuba (VIDEO) DW Ulsterman
Mar 27, 2016
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This week saw among the most successful musical purveyors of capitalism snarling and strutting across a Cuban stage to the enthusiastic cheers of a HALF MILLION Cubans whose lives are now set to be vastly different than before Keith Richards sauntered onto the stage and with aged-eyes gleaming, ripped into the defiant, other-worldly opening chords of Jumping Jack Flash.
The Stones as a band and individually, have seen much change in the world, but Cuban communism has since their inception, remained a constant. Days earlier, President Barack Obama arrived in Cuba with much media fanfare, attended a baseball game with communist dictator Raul Casto, and then left. Despite the American media’s frenzied support of the “historic” moment, the Cuban people were themselves largely indifferent to Mr. Obama’s presence on the island. He is after all just another politician making promises that will likely fail to deliver and if anything, those same people were annoyed that the president’s visit delayed the historic Stones’ concert by a few days. Barack Obama was a tepid opening act. For Cubans having lived under the oppression of communism for generations, it was The Stones who were the real deal.
For six decades the Rolling Stones have been the music of rebellion, of self-assured swagger that speaks to the desire of the individual, of the want to be afforded the freedom to do what you want, when you want. It’s the kind of freedom that only comes to the masses via a free market system by which government steps aside and allows human ingenuity and competition to make the world better.
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Here is a video taken by a Cuban concert goer. The quality is a bit suspect, but the considerable excitement is still communicated and as that iconic Keith Richards’ riff cries out – so too is the sense that Cuba’s long awaited future is soon to be now.
