Lyric discussion by EveryMn 

Oiroberto, to be fair...

The Cubans who invaded the Bay of Pigs were trained and equipped by the CIA. They were not stabbing their own country in the back, they were counter-backstabbing the communists, who were the original backstabbers. No one in their right minds willingly embraces communism. Cuba was only independent due to American aid in the first place. They have always liked us, for the most part. Castro, Che, etc do not represent what Cuba is about. When a couple of revolutionaries on an island near your country ally with another country threating to destroy you and all of your people, you don't sit there and do nothing. And when those same commies attempt to repress their own people for their own political ends (power, not equality) you give them a hand. Win win. Pretty obvious really.

Great song, too.

@EveryMn We note that "Hooray for the USA" turns into "Hooray for Havana." I wonder if my ex-fiance was havina afair! That Ramona, lovely locket!

@EveryMn We note that "Hooray for the USA" turns into "Hooray for Havana." I wonder if my ex-fiance was havina afair! That Ramona, lovely locket!

On Commies, we note that the Detroit Communist revolutionary about whom Bowie's
"Panic in Detroit" is written in the end just needed someone to phone. Human conectedness is frustrated, and so these imagine communism. Strange. That Bowie. But the Ramones too are critical of the "hippies."

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