Castro's Cuba Nearing Collapse (Widespread Protests in the Streets!)

The Real Cuba ^ | 7/26/05 | Unknown Dissidents

[FormerACLUmember]

For the first time in 46 years there was not going to be an outside mass rally to celebrate the 26 of July, the date in 1953 when Castro and a group of his followers attacked the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba. And now the rumors have been officially confirmed. It seems that Castro is afraid to hold a mass rally under the present conditions in the island, where there have been many protests taking place during the last few days. He feels more secure inside a theatre, where no one can get in without an official invitation.

Record heat and power cuts of 12 hours or more a day led to scattered protests, vandalism and rare anti-Castro graffiti this summer, veteran human rights activist Elizardo Sanchez said. Authorities have responded by mobilising rapid deployment brigades of militant supporters to disperse pockets of protest with batons, he and other dissidents said. "I have not seen such widespread discontent in four decades," said Mr Sanchez, head of the Cuban Commission for Human Rights.

[Cheburashka]

The nerve.

Next they'll want rice to put in them.

Some people are never satisfied.

[BunnySlippers]

It would be nice if it happened in his lifetime.

[JohnLongIsland]

i hope club gitmo doesn't get overrun with dissidents

[FormerACLUmember]

The seemingly demented Castro on Cuban TV pushing his bizarre rice cookers, like some kind of cheapo oven/roaster infomercial:

[FormerACLUmember]

Photo from last weeks protest:

[geopyg]

I hope the young gal with the smile on her face is still alive.

[Lady Jag]

Interesting that Japan would let that happen without a motive. Looks to me that much of the debt could be attributed to maintaining Cuba's tourist industry.

[Bogey78O]

There's a thread somewhere on here where they post pics of a "new" hospital right alongside the boasts of Castro.

The worker's paradise is hell.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[CyberAnt]

what favor ..??

[jdm]

Jimmy Carter is in tears.

[Enterprise]

I was thinking of Elian too. He graduates the sixth grade and his country collapses. Well, that's communism for you.

[Fledermaus]

Hmmm, must be why they recently rounded up almost all the "dissident" leaders. Biggest roundup since 2003.

[Enterprise]

I hope this is true. I hope that communism in Cuba collapses and it was FreeRepublic which documented it first!

[Enterprise]

"I hope that bastard dies at the hand of his people. He killed one of my aunts."

In that case I wish him a long, lingering, painful death.

[Tribune7]

ping

[Buck W.]

But the DUmmies say it's a paradise!

[ClearBlueSky]

It has to happen eventually!
May we see his ugly head on a spike VERY soon!

[Enterprise]

LMAO! Kind of a cheap imitation of Ron Popeil!