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Cuba blames US for stoking protests amid power cuts and food shortages
The Guardian ^ | 3-18-24 | Ruaridh Nicoll in Havana

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Cuba; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bayamo; benjaminziff; cuba; elcobre; energy; foodsupply; fuel; globohomo; hunger; power; poweroutages; protests; santamarta; santiagodecuba; unrest; ziff
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To: T.B. Yoits

There you go again with the weaponized psychiatry. Josef Stalin made a practice of it ... it’s a hallmark of leftist “thought”.

You talk like a leftist.


41 posted on 03/19/2024 8:38:13 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

Again, projection.


42 posted on 03/19/2024 9:05:33 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

Again, weaponized psychiatry. Your inner Stalin is showing.


43 posted on 03/19/2024 9:09:16 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: BobL

“How about you guys tell us why we need to bomb the crap out of Serbia. Did they THREATEN us in any way, did they threaten their neighbors, or did the United States simply HATE THEM because they are Christian nation?”

Spoken like a true cuck who’s never seen or been down wind from a mass grave created by your comrades the Serbs.

1992, in and around Srebrenica, 296 villages were destroyed, 70,000+ civilians forcibly displaced, of which 3,166 men, women, and children were killed.

Then in 1995 those peaceful Serbians of yours went all out and massacred over 8,000 innocent civilians.

“A Serb, says Subasic, “told the mother to make the child stop crying. But when the baby continued to cry, he took it from the mother and slit its throat. Then he laughed.””

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/criminal-negligence-srebrenica-survivors-sue-netherlands-united-nations-a-486755.html

Sworn testimony of Zumra Šehomerovic before the ICC:

“There was a girl, she must have been about nine years old. At a certain moment some Chetniks recommended to her brother that he rape the girl. He did not do it and I also think that he could not have done it for he was still just a child. Then they murdered that young boy.”

Testimony of Ramiza Gurdić:

“I saw how a young boy of about ten was killed by Serbs in Dutch uniform. This happened in front of my own eyes. The mother sat on the ground and her young son sat beside her. The young boy was placed on his mother’s lap. The young boy was killed. His head was cut off. The body remained on the lap of the mother. The Serbian soldier placed the head of the young boy on his knife and showed it to everyone. … I saw how a pregnant woman was slaughtered. There were Serbs who stabbed her in the stomach, cut her open and took two small children out of her stomach and then beat them to death on the ground. I saw this with my own eyes.”

On 13 July, near Konjević Polje, Serb soldiers summarily executed hundreds of Bosniaks, including women and children.

No wonder why you Russians view the serbs as being “kindred spirits”.


44 posted on 03/19/2024 4:08:55 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.)
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To: buwaya

Boo Hoo

I don’t have time to cry about the commies


45 posted on 03/19/2024 4:12:45 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: 2CAVTrooper

Figured that you guys had NOTHING meaningful to say.

Go back to Reddit, lots of IDIOTS there that will believe your crap.


46 posted on 03/19/2024 4:25:09 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: BobL

So your kindred spirit serbs never engaged in genocide?


47 posted on 03/19/2024 8:22:36 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.)
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To: 2CAVTrooper

“So your kindred spirit serbs never engaged in genocide?”

Not my kindered, just a bunch of people MINDING THEIR OWN BUSINESS...until the Leftists showed up and started bombing the crap out of them.

As far as ‘genocide’ goes, pretty much EVERY CLAIM against the Serbs was either greatly exaggerated, unable to be backed up by evidence, or totally debunked.

But that doesn’t matter now, you guys got your 78 Days of BOMBING CIVILIANS (since trying to bomb military targets at 30,000 feet didn’t work), so instead of bitching, you guys should be CELEBRATING.


48 posted on 03/19/2024 8:33:53 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: BobL

“As far as ‘genocide’ goes, pretty much EVERY CLAIM against the Serbs was either greatly exaggerated, unable to be backed up by evidence, or totally debunked.”

Hundreds of eyewitness accounts (including statements by UN peacekeepers and doctors on the ground) were greatly exaggerated?

Hundreds of mass graves, and mountains of forensic evidence is somehow not evidence?

Solid convictions for the crimes of genocide, mass rape, war crimes, crimes against humanity, etc is considered being debunked?

Small sample of those peaceful serbs who were convicted for minding their own business:

Radovan Karadžić:
Bosnian Serb politician convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Ratko Mladić:
Former Bosnian Serb military officer who led the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) during the Yugoslav Wars. Convicted of committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

Biljana Plavšić:
Bosnian Serb former politician, university professor and scientist who served as President of Republika Srpska convicted of crimes against humanity.

And yes, YOU russians and the serbs are kindred spirits.


49 posted on 03/22/2024 9:22:28 AM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.)
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To: 2CAVTrooper

No links, like I said, DEBUNKED. The UN later went to Serbia and no one on the Albanian side would give them the time of day.


50 posted on 03/22/2024 4:32:58 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: BobL

No links? Just like you offer NO LINKS to support your claim of this being debunked.

Here’s more of your genocidal Serbian kinfolk who have been CONVICTED of genocide, etc:

Radislav Krstić

Ljubiša Beara

Ljubomir Borovčanin

Drago Nikolić

Vinko Pandurević

Vujadin Popović

Radivoje Miletić

Milan Gvero

Zdravko Tolimir

Goran Jelisić

Momčilo Krajišnik

Milomir Stakić


51 posted on 03/24/2024 9:10:28 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.)
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