Posted on 03/18/2024 8:04:47 PM PDT by dynachrome
The Cuban government has summoned the US ambassador, Benjamin Ziff, to its foreign ministry, accusing Washington of stoking a protest which saw hundreds of people take to the streets in the island’s second city of Santiago de Cuba.
The demonstration late on Sunday was a rare public show of disenchantment against Cuba’s communist government, and was apparently led by parents struggling to feed their children in the face of a worsening food crisis. The protesters reportedly chanted: “Without electricity and food, the people get hot.”
Power cuts of up to 18 hours a day have meant that as the island heads into summer it is almost impossible to preserve what little food there is.
Sunday’s protests reportedly began when mothers turned up at a government building complaining they could not provide for their children, chanting: “We are hungry.”
Similar protests broke out in El Cobre and Bayamo, while smaller groups gathered in Santa Marta, near the Varadero beach resort, and in the city of Matanzas.
The US embassy in Cuba tweeted: “We urge the Cuban government to respect the human rights of the protestors and address the legitimate needs of the Cuban people.”
But a US state department spokesman said it was “absurd” to suggest Washington was behind the protests.
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Victoria Nuland may be freelancing since leaving her taxpayer funded job in the State Department.
Why does Cuba use any energy at all?
Save da Erf.
“El Presidente Díaz-Canel blamed Sunday’s protests on “enemies of the revolution”, “mediocre politicians” and “terrorists” in south Florida.”
What? “Wreckers” is out of vogue now?
Just another day in Socialist Paradise! Coming to America via the Socialist Democrat Party!
Plan accordingly for you and yours.
You can vote Socialism in , but only shooting gets it out.
No fan of Cuba, but if they’re able to STICK IT TO THE NEOCONS, they get a plus in my book!
Castro took over by force. Cuba used to be very close to the United States in per capita wealth.
Then the Democrats, excuse me, communists took over.
Isn’t it interesting that the enemy on a border across farmland is supposed to be no big deal, for Russia.
But a proxy separated by 90 miles of ocean is a strategic threat to the GAE.
This is where your value system has left the zone of sanity.
Sticking it to the neocons is somehow better than causing actual, physical misery to millions?
Michael Moore and every liberal’s fantasy island.
Cubans: Give us freedom!
Americans: Give us Marxism!
No kidding!
“Sticking it to the neocons is somehow better than causing actual, physical misery to millions?”
If the Neocons aren’t stopped, it will be FAR WORSE than just ‘physical misery to millions’.
Yes, the words are interchangeable.
Workers paradise... Right???
“...causing actual, physical misery to millions? “
If you were actually worried about that, your priorities would be closer to home.
Not sending more $$$ to Ukraine.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/11/28/netherlands-close-3000-farms-comply-eu-rules/
We have a Globohomo Regime that is closing farms in many countries.
But your priority is a Color Revolution in Cuba and sending money to ukraine.
Cuba won’t feed its people and somehow it’s OUR fault?
Nope. Not buying it.
There was a time when uprisings against communist dictatorships were something to celebrate. You belong to the group of nutcases that uould lament Ceacescu being brought down or the East German regime were it happening today Are you a communist yourself? If not, is there any commo regime you’d behappy to the see end of via an uprising
Cheering for communists against anticommunists. Sometimes I wonder how many fentanyl users are freeping.
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