To Germany:
But you are exactly right in that we DO stand for democracy. That is why we are fighting liberate the people of Latin America from the yoke of Spanish oppression. Perhaps you have never visited Cuba. Perhaps you have never seen the poverty in the cities, where mothers sell their bodies for the money to feed the children left behind by men murdered by the Spanish marshall government. Perhaps you have not seen the sugarcane plantations, where men work like slaves for as little pay as the Spanish can provide without breaking their nation's offhand laws banning slavery. Perhaps you have not seen the cemeteries, the vast tracts of land in the hills outside Havana where the strong Catholic piety of the Spanish is the only thing that compelled them to bury the tortured and mutilated bodies of those who dared to dissent against the Spanish governor. Perhaps you have never been to the rest of Latin America, where all the same abuses and more are perpetrated every day by these monsters, in the name of the glory of the Spanish Empire. But I have. I have seen it all, seen it with my own eyes, eyes that in their days have seen pain and suffering, but never on the scale I experiences in Cuba. The air is heavy with it; one cannot turn their head a degree in Havana without catching sight of another family of starving children, or another begger in the street, once a freeman, but broken by years of work on the cane plantations as punishment for a crime... the crime of stealing food from a Spanish aristocrat to feed his family. This is what I have seen in Cuba, and this is why I cannot, in good conscience, allow it to continue any longer. If you have not seen these sights, then consider yourself lucky, Wilhelm. I do not know how many nights the faces of the Cubans have haunted my dreams, how many nights I have relived the days I spent in the streets of Havana, how many times I have watched the children starve, able to do little more than hand out morsels of food to one or two of the hundreds. I wish I were as you, Wilhelm, unpossessed of these memories. But I am not, and therefore, my armies will fight for the freedom of the Spanish colonies. The people of Cuba shall be free, no matter what the cost.