Posted on 07/14/2021 4:51:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Cuban people are once again rebelling against the communist prison state Fidel Castro established after he seized power in 1959.
Large demonstrations have occurred in over 30 towns and cities, with Havana the focal point. Haphazard reports of protests, arrests and confrontations flood North American and European media, but the reports make it clear thousands of Cubans are in the streets demanding food, medicine and freedom. The demonstrators also accuse the regime of utterly mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic.
Moreover, a large and angry segment of the Cuban population supports the demonstrators and their insistent demands for basic survival necessities and competent government.
Does an overwhelming majority of the population support economic and political change?
My guess is yes, because the Fidelista regime's reaction indicates it fears the people en masse. Like the Chinese Communist Party's reaction to Tiananmen Square 1989's demands for democracy, Cuba's communist elites know permitting freedom means an end to their communist regime and their luxury lifestyles.
Remember, Tiananmen's demonstrators built a ten-meter-tall papier mache statue they called the Goddess of Democracy. On June 4, 1989, the CCP government demolished the statue and murdered demonstrators by the thousands.
Cuba's communists know repression can work. However, the Cuban thugs are not anywhere near as powerful as their Chinese compadres. The U.S. is just 90 miles away.
On July 12, the 21st century Castro dictatorship, now led by President Miguel Diaz-Canel, blocked several social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. On July 13 one source reported the regime had imposed a partial internet blackout.
The communist regime believes the protests and the demands are coordinated. By whom? Cuba's foreign minister claimed -- without evidence -- the U.S. had financed the protests. Typical communist narrative warfare -- blame the U.S. The CCP blamed the U.S. for inciting Tiananmen's and Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests.
Fidel Castro had charisma. International "progressive" leftists -- sad cases like Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT, and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY -- still venerate Fidel and excuse the regime's vicious tyranny.
Diaz-Canel has minus personality, so 2021's regime suffers from a severe charisma deficit it cannot blame on America. He just isn't capable of jiving mass audiences with "hope" and utopian rhetoric. However, he is as long winded as Fidel. The BBC reported he gave a four-hour-long televised rant calling protestors "counter-revolutionaries." He stated, "The order of combat is given, the revolutionaries take to the streets."
More narrative warfare: "Revolutionaries" translated from Commie propaganda means "armed thugs the regime provides with food and toilet paper." Diaz-Canel was ordering his security forces to attack the demonstrators. He hopes repression works.
There's an argument made that since the late 1960s, when it became apparent Castro's Cuba was a satellite of the Soviet Union, significant numbers of Cubans have been in constant rebellion.
Defecting athletes would receive some media attention. The most prominent rebels were and still are those who take to boats and rafts and try fleeing to elsewhere in the Caribbean, 21st century Chavista Venezuela excepted. Cubans know Nicolas Maduro commands another communist hellhole, though one buoyed by oil income and Russian and Iranian gunrunning.
Mass "boat lifts" occurred in 1980 and 1994. They were rebellions of a sort, with thousands of Cubans rejecting Castro's self-proclaimed workers' paradise and becoming refugees.
Many died fleeing. On social media, Senator Marco Rubio, R-F.L., pointed out "that on July 13, 1994 the Cuban coast guard deliberately sank a tugboat carrying Cubans fleeing the island and then refused to rescue the passengers." The Cuban attack killed 41 Cubans seeking freedom. Rubio followed that with video of a 2021 protestor "shot by regime forces" arriving at a hospital in a horse-drawn ambulance.
Right. Horse-drawn. Under the leadership of Fidel and his brother, Raul, Cuban agriculture has moved from tractors to oxen, transportation from buses to bicycles. The Cuban Army became a larger presence in the economy. The same thing has happened with China's People's Liberation Army.
Cuba's July 2021 demonstrations may not topple the regime, but the protests indicate Cuba is on the verge of a cultural and political rebellion against Marxist tyranny.
Maybe their biggest problem, is they don’t have guns. If they did, they would have already overthrown the commie bastards.
The hammer will eventually come down because the protestors don’t have an ally in their corner. At the end of the cold war, Reagan’s mission was to defeat the Soviet Union. Do you think China Joe will speak out against communism. If he does, he’ll be cutting off his major source of funds.
Once Venezuela and Russia send in their thugs its over.
It really is true what they say, the only good commie is a ….. well, you know. 😀
It’s been more than 24 hours since the internet blackout began in Cuba. Time enough for Commies to murder thousands and imprison thousands more, never to be seen again.
Viva Fidel!
Meanwhile, somewhere in some cushy pad , Carlos Santana is wearing his Che jammies and guzzling soy milk.
“Once Venezuela and Russia send in their thugs its over.”
Venezuela will send a few thousand goons, too.
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Putin and the FR Putinistas have been strangle quiet
Nothing for them to worry about.
Biden just ended sanctions against Venezuela, creating a lifeline for the Castro government, and the PRC is coming to the rescue as well.
At this point, I’d say the insurrection is doomed.
Ah, yes, the wisdom of the 2nd Amendment.
But Democrats and other dumba$$es think it has to do with hunting.
***Cuban agriculture has moved from tractors to oxen,***
What happened to those 500 tractors actually bulldozers the US used to ransom the Bay of Pigs Freedom Fighters?
Only a dumba$$ would think like that. 😀
Castro made the Cubans register their guns in 1959 and then promptly confiscated them.
Cubans are not commies at all and they never was. I would say that on this planet there never was any commie regime ever. Socialism was before and is today but never commies. Especially if you look EU. This is a real socialism. And US is becoming socialistic more and more. See under your noses.
Cuba or Venezuela are just refusing to be am American vassals. It is only sin. Nothing else.
American have guns like pistols and rifles. But against modern army those with rifles are like nothing more than middle-east rebels with same result.
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