Bleeding Palm

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The palm tree is a typical plant of tropical climates. They are abundant in the islands of the Caribbean Sea. There are many variations of this kind of tree. The Royal Palm tree is one of them. It is the tallest, slenderest and most beautiful of the palm trees. It is also the national plant of the island of Cuba. Its leaves are huge and of a deep olive green color. The native Indians of the island used them to make the roofs of their shacks before the Spaniards arrived. The typical Cuban peasant followed the same tradition. Well intertwined, they formed a formidable barrier against the strongest showers, and only hurricanes could persuade them to leave their guarding positions. Once, in 1959, Fidel Castro was asked if his revolution was tinted with the classical red color of communism. He answered that his revolution was not red, but that his revolution had the green color of their uniforms and the Royal Palm trees. In 1962, he finally declared that he had always been a Marxist-Leninist, and that he would be one until his death. Ever since that time, the color of the palm trees in Cuba has been tinted red with the blood of so many Cubans spilled in the name of that sadistic doctrine.

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