Posted on 07/17/2021 10:30:31 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
After stemming historic protests across Cuba by shutting down digital communications this week, the island’s beleaguered Communist government is now beefing up a more traditional way of stifling opposition — citizen spies.
The rapid-response brigades, which are made up of civilian snitches — neighbors, co-workers and plainclothes cops loyal to the regime — are out in force after protesters demanding food, medicine and freedom took to the streets beginning July 11, according to dissident bloggers on the island.
Cuban journalist Yoani Sanchez reported an increase in the activity of the brigades, and “a heavy police presence” on the streets of many large cities across the country on her “Ventana 14” podcast Friday.
“The government lost the street and are using anything they can to stop the protests,” said Ted Henken, a Baruch College sociology professor and expert on Cuba.
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Isn’t that what the FBI is doing here, asking for people to rat people out and turn them in for being anywhere near the Capitol on January 6th? Then they have BLM and Antifa terrorizing people into silence by letting them attack people free of consequences.
This is what this country is becoming with this administration.
Biden’s taking notes from the Cubans. He wants to do it right.
Taking a page out of the buyDUNG playbook eh?
Trump needs to tell the Cubans to take the names of the informer rats as well as the thugs. Use Marco Rubio as a spokesman.
Is the Fey Wray conducting FIB training down there?
Yup.
If you say no the implication is you're not an ally. Very semantical in the argument they're making as an ally has always been viewed as the good guys.
Yep.
Cuba’s had this for years.
It’s called “The Committee For the Defense of the Revolution”, basically every building has one person who spies on everybody.
Yes it does and it explains why the Biden Administration won't denounce the Communist government and deflects by blaming Covid 19 and US sanctions instead. The Commies in the US are one with the Commies in Cuba.
A lot of secrets in Cuba, we know Epstein’s plane went there regularly.
I was going to post the same, what’s the difference?
Is this headline supposed to make us think this is a new development? Cuba has always used citizen spies, plainclothes cops to crush dissent. The Soviets taught them how to do it.
We is there. I read about children turning their fathers in for being at the Capital Building. In my day it would have been unthinkable. But we did not have abortion on demand where mothers murder their children. So I guess turn about is fair play.
USA is doing it too, but the idiot public doesn’t know, thanks to lies by democrats and the media.
I imagine Canadian sex tourists are taking this badly.
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