Posted on 07/11/2021 8:13:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As we previously reported there are thousands out in the streets across Cuba, from small towns to big cities, calling for freedom from the Communist government and chanting “we are not afraid!”
People are saying it’s the largest mass protest since 1959. If you know your Cuban history, that’s the last time the government changed hands — when Fidel Castro took power. So, that’s an incredibly significant thing to say.
I have been covering Cuba since the 1994 rafter crisis. I have never ever seen anything like the protests today.
https://t.co/h8Ukuvpfp3— Frances Robles (@FrancesRobles) July 11, 2021
Carolina Barrero, a Cuban activist, went even further. “It is the most massive popular demonstration to protest the government that we have experienced in Cuba since ’59,” she said by text message, referring to the year Fidel Castro took power. She called the public outpouring on Sunday “spontaneous, frontal and forceful.”
“What has happened is enormous,” she added.
Our Lady of Charity is taking the lead in one town.
Powerful image: South of Havana, in Bejucal, the townspeople bring out la Virgen de la Caridad, the Patroness of Cuba, as the people shout, “Liberty! Liberty! Liberty.” #SOSCuba
#VivaCubaLibre #Libertad pic.twitter.com/tgyP0AkQyq— Jose Felix Diaz (@josefelixdiaz) July 11, 2021
There’s also another powerful symbol that some are waving — the American flag — to them, a symbol of freedom. Imagine if the folks on our left in this country understood that meaning as well these Cubans do.
Freedom in Cuba is symbolized with the American 🇺🇸 flag. #SOSCuba #freedom https://t.co/bw9iLktUXy
— Ileana Garcia (@IleanaGarciaUSA) July 11, 2021
That shows you this is serious, too. Because waving that can get you locked up for awhile — and they’re not afraid.
An order went out to the police to crackdown and shut the protesters down, according to reports.
#Cuba|n police has start to arrest and attack protestors in the streets.
— 🇵🇹 ＭＯＤＥＲＮ ＥＲＡ ＮＥＷＳ ➐ 🇪🇺 (@ModernEraNews) July 11, 2021
But that’s not going particularly well. The people are fighting back, in some places overwhelming police and chasing them away.
🇨🇺 DÍA HISTÓRICO | Los cuerpos represivos castristas intentan controlar al pueblo deseoso de LIBERTAD, pero no lo consiguen.
pic.twitter.com/OUJuTXjlTD— Yusnaby Pérez (@Yusnaby) July 11, 2021
The scenes out of Cuba today — overturned police cars, looted government stores, people throwing rocks at police — are nothing short of astonishing.
https://t.co/04BeVQRzh8— Frances Robles (@FrancesRobles) July 11, 2021
#Cuba 🇨🇺: protesters in the town of Cardenas have reportedly flipped a police car as anti-regime rallies spread across the island. #SOSCuba #PatriaYVida
Source: https://t.co/BDSnno6bhb pic.twitter.com/gQ64T9ECck
— Thomas van Linge (@ThomasVLinge) July 11, 2021
Cuba is awakening. Its government is a dictatorship. #SOSCuba #CubaEsUnaDictadura #PatriaYVida pic.twitter.com/bevUXHAaSz
— Ernesto 🇨🇺 (@gnapse) July 11, 2021
LA FOTO 🇨🇺 #SOSCuba pic.twitter.com/WGgQ8pzJYI
— Yusnaby Pérez (@Yusnaby) July 12, 2021
Continúan llegando imágenes de las protestas el día de hoy… la violencia está escalando lamentablemente.#FuerzaCuba pic.twitter.com/UsIhEurAGb
— Mag Jorge Castro🇨🇺 (@mjorgec1994) July 12, 2021
#Cuba 🇨🇺: unimaginable scenes as protesters are throwing stones at the police.
Anger with the regime clearly runs deep after 62 years of repression. #SOSCuba #PatriaYVida
Source: https://t.co/sbncj5yt1m pic.twitter.com/sxnaAv3SKh
— Thomas van Linge (@ThomasVLinge) July 11, 2021
In at least one case, the police are seeing the writing on the wall and joining the crowds. That’s pretty amazing, all by itself.
The police in Santiago de Cuba join in the protests. See video. We have never seen that happen before. #SOSCuba #VivaCubaLibre pic.twitter.com/bzDEGl9wk9
— Jose Felix Diaz (@josefelixdiaz) July 11, 2021
How are Twitter and some in media reporting this? Upset with food shortages and COVID. They’re leaving out how this is anti-Communism and calling for the fall of the regime.
— Dr. Nickarama (@nickaramaOG) July 11, 2021
Joe Biden has been silent, while a variety of Republican politicians have tweeted their support for the Cuban people.
Florida supports the people of Cuba as they take to the streets against the tyrannical regime in Havana. The Cuban dictatorship has repressed the people of Cuba for decades & is now trying to silence those who have the courage to speak out against its disastrous policies#SOSCuba pic.twitter.com/H71EYoKdUZ
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) July 11, 2021
Remember the scene in “The Godfather,” where Michael Corleone was in Cuba and he told Hyman Roth how he knew that Castro could win in 1959? Because the protesters were unafraid and willing to give their lives. Now, look at this video and realize something like that is happening across Cuba today.
🚨#SOSCuba🚨
Cuban state security dressed in civilian clothes just pulled out a revolver and attacked a peaceful pro-democracy demonstrator.
The brave protestor told him: “Shoot me in the chest, motherfucker!” #PatriaYVida pic.twitter.com/6LkSZFrOeJ
— Giancarlo Sopo (@GiancarloSopo) July 11, 2021
When Pope John Paul II visited Cuba in 1998, he famously told the Cuban people: "Do not be afraid."
I think it's no coincidence that as thousands of Cubans march across the island today, they chant "We are not afraid!" God is with the people of Cuba.
#SOSCuba🇨🇺 #PatriaYVida pic.twitter.com/hLl1PIdC3V— Giancarlo Sopo (@GiancarloSopo) July 11, 2021
My first experience with the horror of Castro was when I moved to OC California when in 9th grade. I met two girls my age at school and walked home with them. Met their Moms. A family of Cuban women who had lost the Men in their family to the brutal Castro regime. They managed to escape with girl children and one toddler boy. Despite this they held onto hope their dads, uncles, sons and brothers were somehow still alive. I was 13 years old, their stories were shocking to me.
Get ready southern Florida. Here they come. By the boat load.
News Flash from CNN and MSNBC - Protests in Cuba largely violent. However, thousands of “support the secret police” counter-protestors peacefully flood the streets of Havana in favor of more funding for the DGI and its street goons. Agitators claiming to want “more freedom” in Cuba ignored by the masses”.
“More communist propaganda at 11” /Sarc - NOT
Cubans, doing the jobs Americans won’t do
Imagine a world where Americans in an attempt to escape Socialist Tyranny will have to take their chances by sailing the open sea in home made rafts trying to get to Cuba.
Same stuff in my country. Real airheads, the whole lot of them. :-(
I think this utterly disproves the notion that leftists are rational beings. :lol:
Genocidal tyrants get to call the shots at the UN.
Who can foirget the genocide of Che Guevera and Fidel Castro?
They should invite Ceausescu back from the dead.
The Left’s only option will be a media blackout.
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Nary a mention this morning on cable.
Tiananmen, not Tien An Mein
The problem here is:
The government has guns and IS willing to use them;
We have guns but are NOT willing to use them
perfect recipe for the rise of a dictatorship.
Don’t worry. The CIA is down there arming the government right now.
Who knows what’s in store for Cuba and the United States? Perhaps a year from now we will be fleeing the U.S. in rubber rafts for the freedom of a New Cuba. ;-)
“It’s not the glamorous Che Guevara shirt wearing hugs and kisses. It’s desperate people at the breaking point, 60 years of misery.”
I have had this dream about super gluing the Che Shirts on these bastards and dropping them off in the Bay of Pigs.
Then, let them swim through the sharks to meet the good Cubans.
Stupid State Department claims the protests are over COVID.
“Viva Trump! Viva Trump!”
The mask mandates are starting to backfire.
The Covid masks are helping to give the protestors more backbone, just as the masks encouraged protests, looting, vandalism, & shoplifting in the US.
You are correct. Most of the Cuban protesters were wearing masks.
The mask mandates are starting to backfire.
The Covid masks are helping to give the protestors more backbone, just as the masks encouraged protests, looting, vandalism, & shoplifting in the US.
Suppose the Cubans succeed in ousting the Communists & attempt to form a democratic government. How many Cuban Americans would return to Cuba? How many would attempt to influence the process, for good or bad?
There is a lot of rich Cuban American’s who could get richer & help the country quickly recover from Castro. Cuba could once again become a very popular tourist destination, being the largest island in the Caribbean. The potential opportunities are huge in every sector of the economy.
What you’re talking about is a reverse 2nd Amendment. The people boast of the 2nd A but never had the intention of using it. That is the reason there is no 2nd A anywhere else in the world. No need for one. The average human wants a job more than he wants a gun.
What you’re talking about is a reverse 2nd Amendment. The people boast of the 2nd A but never had the intention of using it. That is the reason there is no 2nd A anywhere else in the world.
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No I’m talking about WILL, not intent. And no its not the reason. you just think its the reason.
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