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.

[xkaydet65]

Not meaning to put a damper on this, but could CNN not be reporting because this is no happening on anywhere near the scale as described. The Emigres have been predicting things like this for 45 years. Hell they even convinced Allen Dulles and John Kennedy. I was 11 years old when i saw Castro enter Havana on TV Jan 1 1959.I'll include the Cuban people in the Prayer of the Faithful Sunday, but I'll believe this news when I see Castro leave or be carried out of Havana, live on TV.

[clyde asbury]

Skeptically hopeful bump

[linkinpunk]

Cubans are ready to revolt?

I cannot believe how powerful Karl Rove is!

Wow!

[NautiNurse]

This situation has been brewing since Hurricane Dennis raked
Cuba. Civil unrest is common in the Caribbean islands following
major storms, typically because the workers aren't paid for their
long hours of work toward restoration.

Godspeed to the long opressed Cubans. May this catalyst be
your key to freedom.

[traviskicks]

I cannot believe a democratic government would lend to the communist killers. That is amazing that so many 'western' countries have lent Castro billions. So sad. Paraphrased from the 'black book of communism':

Communism is the greatest evil that man has ever known. It is responsible for more than 100 millions deaths (more than all the wars in history combined), millions and millions of refugees and the subjugation and slavery of over 2 billion people since WWII. Communist regimes always follow a similar pattern. A Communist regime has never been elected, so first Communists must orchestrate a revolution, often with the support of funding from preexisting Communist regime. Next, Communists dissolve private property, nationalize media and begin a brutal purge of political prisoners and the upper classes. To conduct it's class warfare and maintain control of the revolting people, the state will militarize, establish a large secret police presence, and create horrific labor/reeducation camps. The economy collapses, failed farm policies result in starvation, refugees flee, and the government begins to export Communist revolution abroad. How far the government is willing to push the Communist philosophy will directly equate with the severity of these events and the suffering of their people. This exact pattern has come to pass in the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, North Korea, Angola, Eastern Europe, Yugoslavia, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Cuba. A few countries on this list have not experienced the true hell of Communism because the governments either didn't last long enough to take full root, or total Communist policies were not pursued in earnest. (67)

[tophat9000]

This would be sweet... add in the worlds MSM's be shown to had propagated a lie and suppressed the fact about Cuba...that would open a few eyes

[Mr. Jazzy]

Good God in Heaven!

Cuba in debt like that makes Hati look like an economic giant!

[Gondring]

It claims the source is Reuters/"from correspondants in Havana"

[maica]

..I wonder if that Elian Gonzalez speech could have been a spark.
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I am wondering the same thing. That "nice little communist" speech was stomach-turning, wasn't it!

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

One more Hurricane Lord, and this dude is toast.

[Gondring]

That is an AUSTRALIAN site.

Well...the dateline on the story is 27 July 2005...that hasn't even come in the US, so what do you expect them to do...see into the future? ;-)

[Californiajones]

Using Cuba for purely military reasons makes some sense, but more than that is the chokehold China currently has on the Panama Canal and the strategic importance of the former Soviet spy facility at Lourdes -- now China has their own spy station on Cuba at Bejucal, Cuba, and I'm sure Castro pockets the rent money. They use it for industrial/commercial and political espionage.

All Castro has to sell now that he's raped his own country of its beauty and natural resources, destroyed its economy and demoralized the populace -- is Cuba's proximity to the evil United States. For that, the Chinese are willing to pay. Formerly, the Russians had been willing to pay and when they pulled out right after 9/11, Castro was hopping mad again at the loss of dough.

Commie tyrants like Castro just don't understand how to make money the hard way because they are too busy projecting their own materialistic greed onto the amorphous "evil Capitalists".

[clyde asbury]

CUBA: HARD CURRENCY DEBT* (Dec. 2004)

Thanks for the info. Could you include the source?

[Californiajones]

Thanks and the Black Book of Communism should be required reading for all Freepers, if it already isn't.

[Fred Nerks]

Thanks for the links!

It's happening on your doorstep but the MSM is silent. Read All About It IN AN AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER!



http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,16064115%255E1702,00.html

http://www.therealcuba.com/index.htm

Check out Castro's Heaven, Free Health Care! (Send this link to the Peanut Farmer and Hitlery?)

[nicmarlo]

reporting gets worse everyday

It's not only bad reporting, though that's also become apparent over time....but their stripes became obvious to me quite some time ago. It's not a matter of being conservative or liberal....it's a matter of being NONBIASED and FINDING the TRUTH and TELLING the TRUTH.

Fox doesn't report the truth on issues or tell ALL the FACTS on a regular basis on every NEWS portion of their programming.

As far as their other programming, i.e., Greta (all serial killers/murders/perverts, ad nauseum), Bill O (the arrogant spin doctor himself), weekend programming (Julian a/k/a overt socialist), who needs that?

On Fox, though I used to watch it everyday, at every opportunity, for several years, I've quit watching turning on Fox except for Fox and Friends weekdays for an hour, and will only periodically turn on Brit Hume or Sean Hannity. That's it. Fox spins and/or regurgitate talking points that they've adopted.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

So, Castro's goons wear Stalin era hats?

[i_dont_chat]

You said: Great photos; however, consider that it is people who squatted and stole these beautiful mansions and stores from their rightful owners that are the very ones neglecting them.

Reply: Being a 63-year old American, thank God, I don't know much about communism, but I thought that with communism, the government/dictatorship owned all property. I don't know that there IS private ownership of property in Cuba. I thought that the Cubans who were able to work were paid a very small wage (pittance) by the government, for their labor. More like slave labor. And what they receive is too meager to spend on improving the "public" housing. Looks like they can barely get enough to eat and stay healthy.

These photos display for the world the end-game of communism -- please don't try to cloud the issue by saying these people could have done better -- it is a miracle they are surviving, IMO.

[WoofDog123]

" but more than that is the chokehold China currently has on the Panama Canal"

How is having H-W and the minority entities through PPC lease balboa and cristobal ports a 'chokehold?'

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I remember seeing Lynne Russell newscasting for CNN on post Communist Romania.

She seemed to be lamenting the demise of Ceausescu and opining how poorly the economy was doing there... it made me want to puke...