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Posted on 03/10/2026 2:35:47 PM PDT by Angelino97
Pedro Quiala Carmenate says he’s not religious but he’s praying for President Donald Trump to liberate Cuba.
“There’s no food, there’s no electricity and there’s no medical care,” he told The Post from his neighborhood, Old Havana, where he was speaking on his cell phone Monday during one of the frequent blackouts on the island.
In addition to power outages, an increase in crime, no trash collection and climbing inflation, the 34-year-old pro-democracy activist can barely find enough food to feed his children.
Due to lack of food, he’s keeping his kids, aged six and fifteen years old, from class, although he also notes teachers have stopped showing up to the government-run schools.
“I am not a religious person, but I pray to God for Donald Trump. He is our only hope for freedom.”
The capture of former Venezuelan strongman president Nicolas Maduro in a US military special operation earlier this year had two effects on Cuba. It cut off the main supplier of oil to the nation, and gave dissidents against the Communist Cuban government — led by President Miguel Diaz-Canel — hope.
Activist José Daniel Ferrer’s cell phone blew up with messages from fellow activists in Cuba on January 3, the day Maduro was captured.
“The majority of Cubans want the Americans to intervene because they are living through the worst period of the 67-year dictatorship.”
Blackouts and shortages are nothing new in Cuba since Fidel Castro seized power in 1959 in the name of Communism. However, hardships have increased in recent years, leading to a mass exodus of over 800,000 people in each of the last four years. This is equivalent to around 25% of the population, leaving less than eight million on the island, according to The Guardian.
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Neocons at the NY Post urging Trump into yet another regime change war.
I think Americans of the past would cringe at your cynical mockery of the Cuban plea for freedom.
The vast majority of mariolito’s are how you describe
The lazies who grew up under Castro
NO incentive
Work your ass off get paid the same as a slacker
Cubans who came here to flee Castro are hard working good folks mostly
It’s going to be a problem. I am sure the Cubans in Miami are chomping at the bit to return to the island and run things, which could create some resentment.
It’s not unlike what happened in Germany after reunification where the “Westies” took over the businesses.
Uh oh. The Left isn’t going to be happy with this. Where’s Che Guevara and his windsucker .45 when you need him?
They had food, electricity and medical care ?
Where did it say the Cuban people were asking for “FREE” food, medical care, and electricity?????
**I am sure the Cubans in Miami are chomping at the bit to return to the island and run things, which could create some resentment.**
Marco should run the country. He’s got the political capital to get through there resentment.
I hope Cubans can get freedom in my lifetime. Communism has destroyed the country.
As a Miamian who’s very involved with Cuban-American Republicans, I can attest that there is zero reason for any US involvement in that island. It’s a basket case with a destroyed infrastructure and no strategic or economic assets.
Any Cuban with any skill or ambition has left: the island has seen its population plummet by over TWENTY PERCENT in the past five years. Young workers have fled, leaving behind a disproportionate senior pension-dependent cohort.
My younger self of 40 years ago would cringe at my cynical mockery of the Cuban plea for freedom.
But you know the ones in Miami won’t let Cuba turn into another Haiti.
Sure they are. Lindsay Graham says we’ll be treated as liberators. Time to get neo conned again.
I’d be surprised if even 5% of Cuban-Americans would resettle back there. Even for a vacation home, there would need to be billion upon billions in foreign investment to provide infrastructure and logistics simply to begin the necessary rebuilding process to provide basic services.
On top of which, most Cuban-Americans have never set foot on the island.
You may be describing the Cuba of today. What we need, and what Trump does so well, is defining the Cuba of tomorrow.
Certainly, they are not able to fix their problems. But freedom, and especially economic freedom, could make Cuba a wonderland instead of a wasteland.
**I hope Cubans can get freedom in my lifetime. Communism has destroyed the country.**
My wish was to watch Fidel watch it fall. Too late. I’d blame republicans for not holding the democrats in the WH feet to the fire.
The ENTIRE ARTICLE is about them demanding food, electricity and medical care.
Do you think they can afford it? Or that it matters to them? Or that they're worried about how to pay for it?
They want food, electricity, and medical care. They expect Trump to deliver it.
The idea of paying for it probably never entered their minds.
Cubans think Trump is God?
I guess that’s OK.
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