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Thursday, August 12, 2021

Silenced! What’s Happening Now in Cuba?


Are they still protesting in Cuba?

I don’t know.

The Cuban government has shut off the Cuban people’s internet.

The big demonstrations began four weeks ago, sparked, curiously, by a rap song. The key lyric is: “Freedom! No more Doctrine!”

“Doctrine” refers to the “constant cycle of propaganda” from the government, explains Cuban emigre Alian Collazo in my newest video.

Sadly, silly TV reporters in America claimed the protests were about “hunger, pandemic restrictions and the lack of COVID vaccinations,” or, according to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, “food and fuel shortages.”

“Nonsense!” says Collazo. The cause is clear. “The protesters were yelling, ‘Down with communism!’ and ‘Libertad! Liberty!'”

Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed: “They are protesting the lack of materials during the pandemic, particularly the lack of medical supplies.”

Collazo is bewildered.

“She speaks Spanish! Can she not listen to what the Cuban people are saying? ‘Libertad’ means ‘freedom’!”

It’s true that Cubans want food, she says, “but if you don’t have liberty, you don’t have food.”

Some people say Cubans lack food because of what Ocasio-Cortez calls America’s “absurdly cruel” embargo.

The embargo is absurd and counterproductive.

But that misses the point.

“Do research on what the embargo is! Medicine, food, and all of that can be traded,” says Collazo.

Yes, they can. America exempts food and medicine from its embargo.

Also, at least 80 other countries do trade with Cuba.

The real reason for shortages and suffering in Cuba is communism.

“When the government controls your business,” says Collazo, “people don’t have food. All resources end up in the hands of the state.”

Other American “useful idiots,” like Michael Moore, praise Cuba’s “free” services.

In his documentary “Sicko,” Moore took a group of Americans to a Cuban hospital and celebrated how they were given free health care.

But Collazo points out that “free” is misleading. “Go to a hospital in Cuba—they don’t even have aspirin! Yeah, [health care’s] free. [But] it’s horrible.”

When the recent protests began, a reporter asked President Joe Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki, “Do you think that people are leaving Cuba because they don’t like communism?” She responded, “They are opposed to the oppression [and] mismanagement of the government.”

She wouldn’t condemn communism by name.

Fortunately, a few days later, her boss did. “Communism is a failed system, a universally failed system,” said Biden. “I don’t see socialism as a very useful...




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4 comments:

Tim said...

Democrats like the people silent. Once again the DNC love the Cuban Leadership.

Advo said...

Obama’s campaign people that had a Mao poster on the wall makes a lot more sense about the cabal in charge of the government from 2008-2016 and 2020+.

IR said...

I am a former Marine who proudly served my country. I am sincerely embarrassed by the actions, or lack there of, by Biden and his administration. The Cuban people, along with the U.S., have waited for 60+ years for such an uprising to overthrow the Castro communist regime. And when the Cuban people finally revolt, where is the U.S.? ABSENT! Aside from boots on the ground, the U.S. should have been supplying the Cuban rebels with everything necessary to overthrow the government. I am totally disgusted.

IR said...

True! While the people of suppressed countries like Cuba and Venezuela are fighting to overthrow their socialist/communist governments, the U. S. is running to it. May God help us.