Posted on 07/28/2026 7:12:45 AM PDT by dynachrome
Cubans across the island nation banged pots and pans in a mass protest event against the regime on Friday and Saturday nights, demanding an end to the communist regime as the nation’s elites prepared to celebrate the anniversary of Fidel Castro’s first large-scale terrorist attack.
July 26 marks the anniversary of the 1953 attack on the Moncada military barracks in Santiago de Cuba by a terrorist cell organized by Fidel Castro, at the time an unpopular law student attempting to elevate his political profile. The attack killed 54 people and was, at the time, a massive failure for Castro’s movement, resulting in Castro’s arrest. Castro himself, according to the communist Cuban government, arrived “late” to the attack because he “got lost” on the way, abandoning 135 of his militants.
While the attack itself was a failure, the Communist Party celebrates it as the beginning of the “Cuban revolution,” the coup d’etat that brought Castro to power in 1959 after former President Fulgencio Batista pardoned Castro on three separate occasions for terrorist activities. The Castro dynasty has repeatedly attempted to replace the Republic of Cuba’s true independence day, May 20, with July 26, punishing citizens who choose to publicly celebrate the correct national day.
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I will be disappointed if the Castro crime family has not been overthrown by the end of Trump’s term. Its well past time for them to go and we have all the resources to do it. And there is no Russia or China or any other power to rescue them this time. We don’t need to invade. Just ratchet up the economic pressure until the regime realizes its time to go.
They were a russkie colony for a long time. I wonder if there are stashes of Mosin or AK rifles floating around.
Those pardons were Batista’s worst mistake.
Banging pots and pans is an ineffective means of regime change.
**President Fulgencio Batista pardoned Castro on three separate occasions for terrorist activities.**
Batista had to be scared of taking out Castro. Bin Laden was offered to Clinton because he was a hot potato. Anyone remember 3 muslim terrorists who ‘committed suicide’ in German jails? How about Steven Bilko whose head was smashed in in a South Africa jail? Pinochet got away with it-grabbed the bull by the horns. Ferdinand Marcos didn’t when he took out Benjie Aquino.
When an uprising takes place the new regime has to be ruthless and kill all it’s enemies at once. Forgiveness will be granted as long as the killings don’t go on.
Something tells me the Cubans are more than ready to accept change. No need to kill or imprison anyone.
I wonder what this protest would look like if they had 2nd Amendment rights? Banging pots is just annoying.
“Banging pots and pans is an ineffective means of regime change”
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Cuba’s Capitalists are selling ear plugs...
Perhaps there is hope for a free Cuba!
One of my favorite types of books are What if stories. That would be a great read...
More broadly, Batista's regime fell not just because it was brutal and corrupt but because Batista was incompetent and a bit stupid when the supreme crisis came. Otherwise, Castro and his band could have been rounded up in a matter of a few weeks.
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