As Cubans take to the streets, waving American flags and chanting “Freedom!”, the chances of this becoming a real revolution against the Communist revolution are growing.
Confidential sources revealed to the Freedomist, “Cuban generals are leaving the island. Something’s going on, the protests are just the tip of the iceberg. Cubans are about to rise.” This source is in Cuba.
Then there’s this from Congressman Kevin McCarthy:
A Cuban uprising to oust the communist regime may be long overdue, but are the US and Latin America ready for the fallout?
Cuba’s government had locked down the internet and are controlling movement within Havana in what may be a desperate attempt to nip this in the bud. The protests began as a response to slow distribution of Covid-19 vaccines but have begun to demand freedom from the dictatorship.
This is being described as “an historic day”…
Cubans are out en mass and now we get a possible scenario where the generals are leaving in haste. This may or may not be the end of the regime, but it will be the beginning of the end, we predict.
The protests occured in least 25 locations, people shouting “down with the dictatorship” and “freedom”, as police randomly arrested some protestors and grappled with others, failing to make an arrest. The wide-spread nature of the protests and the fact so many people are coming out is described by our source as “unsettling.”
Multiple posts on Twitter from many cities show large crowds in the thousands. But while there are protestors, the Cuban regime does also have its strong supporters, true believers, however mostly older people and party members who enjoy more benefits. Younger people, who have begun to see the greater world through the internet, are hungry for a better life and more opportunities, which a top-down, planned economy run by bureaucrats isn’t able to sustain.
While it is true, and cannot be dismissed, that the embargo of Cuba by the US has certainly curtailed economic growth, islanders may see the radical destabilizing policies of the regime, which seeks to export its authoritarianism abroad, as contributing to its pariah status. The Cuban economic morass cannot be mostly attributed to the effects of the embargo.
Not surprisingly, the UN, including 184 nations, called on the US to lift the embargo on the island nation and sided with the regime in blaming the embargo on the lack of response to Covid-19. But the citizenry aren’t having it and know where to lay the blame, something the rather totalitarian favoring UN cannot possibly grasp. If one ever needed proof most of the countries in this world side with dictatorships, this should be it.
The official UN news account did add this:
Meanwhile, Political Coordinator for the US Mission, Rodney Hunter, said during the vote that sanctions are “one set of tools in Washington’s broader effort toward Cuba to advance democracy, promote respect for human rights, and help the Cuban people exercise fundamental freedoms”.
He underscored that despite the blockade, the US recognizes “the challenges of the Cuban people” and therefore, the US was “a significant supplier of humanitarian goods to the Cuban people and one of Cuba’s principal trading partners”.
“Every year we authorize billions of dollars’ worth of exports to Cuba, including food and other agricultural commodities, medicines, medical devices, telecommunications equipment, other goods, and other items to support the Cuban people. Advancing democracy and human rights remain at the core of our policy efforts”, he said.
The US has not stifled the importation of medical supplies but the blockade is meant to stifle the economic flexing of a regime who, it is clear, would use that power to destabilize its neighbors. That being said, the blockade hasn’t worked and has mostly just made it hard on the people and easier for a corrupt regime to blame it on the regime’s own failed economic policies.
The only difference now is, many Cubans have had enough and are no longer willing to listen to the excuses which 184 countries at the behest of the corrupt UN are willing to swallow.
President Miguel Diaz-Canel blamed the U.S. for stoking the anger, according to the Washington Post.
“The order to fight has been given – into the street, revolutionaries!” he said in an address, according to the BBC.
So as Democrats demand “peaceful” behavior on the part of protestors, they have nothing to say about this invective by the regime.
