Something is brewing in Cuba

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Looks like there is a great deal of unrest in Cuba against the regime.

I bet there is a repeat of 2009, when Obama didn't take advantage of internal turmoil in Iran.
 
I'm following this. My neighbors are Cuban. He is hoping for an overturning of the government within the next year. If capitalism takes over he will move back immediately. People need to wake up. Cuba is communism. Cuba has a system called "Libreta de Abastecimiento" or "Supplies Booklet". It is a coupon book and it is taken to a ration shop. One gets minimums for rice, sugar, matches and oil. To put things in perspective, a wage of $30 per month is not uncommon. The following is the rations based on 2000 data. It is less now.

This is per person per month:

Rice - 6 lbs
Beans - 20 ounces
White sugar - 3 lbs
Dark sugar - 3 lbs
Milk (for children under 7) - 1 liter per day
Eggs - 12
Potatoes/bananas - 15 lbs

And, don't just think that you will go out, pull your bootstraps up and make money. It doesn't work that way. The government will stop you.
Edit: I noticed that the list that I pulled didn't mention bread, but they also issue bread. It was a roll per day that amounted to about the size of a fist. That has been reduced so that only children get one a day, and it is smaller in size.
 
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'Down With Dictatorship': Thousands of Cubans Demonstrate Against Communist Regime

Thousands of Cubans took to the streets on Sunday in a number of cities to protest against human ...
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Down With Dictatorship’: Thousands of Cubans Demonstrate Against Communist Regime​

The regime is shutting off the internet, says Florida Congresswoman
BY JACK PHILLIPS

July 11, 2021 Updated: July 11, 2021
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Thousands of Cubans took to the streets on Sunday in a number of cities to protest against human rights abuses, a lack of freedom, and a worsening economic situation in the communist-ruled country.
Videos uploaded to social media appear to show demonstrations in a number of towns and cities, including the capital, Havana, on Sunday. Protesters, chanting in Spanish, said they “weren’t afraid” of the regime led by Miguel Diaz Canel, and said they wanted access to COVID-19 vaccines and an end to the regime.
It comes amid reports of gas, electricity, and vaccine shortages across the Caribbean island nation. Some analysts noted online that Sunday’s demonstrations are the first time that so many had protested the government since the Maleconazo uprising in 1994, which prompted a number of Cubans to leave the country by boat to the U.S.
Shouts of “down with the dictatorship,” “freedom,” and “homeland and life” were also heard during the demonstrations, according to footage uploaded online.
During different live broadcasts across Facebook, thousands of people can be seen marching through the streets of cities like San Antonio de los Baños, Guira de Melena, and Alquízar, reported South Florida’s WTVJ-TV.

Spontaneous street protests breaking out in several cities in #Cuba right now with chants of #NoTenemosMiedo (We Are Not Afraid)
Frustration with the dictatorships incompetence,greed & repression is mounting rapidly pic.twitter.com/eSAr8Xrxpf
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) July 11, 2021
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“I just walked through town looking to buy some food and there were lots of people there, some with signs, protesting,” local resident Claris Ramirez said by phone. “They are protesting blackouts, that there is no medicine,” she added, reported the Reuters news agency.
In response to the demonstrations, Diaz-Canel echoed an often-repeated claim by other Marxist governments and blamed the protests on a foreign smear campaign initiated by the United States.
“The order of combat is given, the revolutionaries take to the streets,” he said on a state-run radio and television network, apparently ordering his security forces to disperse the demonstrators.
cuba-protest-7-600x408.jpg A policeman stands while watching police cars overturned in the street in the framework of a demonstration against Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel in Havana, on July 11, 2021. (Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images)
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who is of Cuban descent, chronicled the protests on Twitter.
“Spontaneous street protests breaking out in several cities in #Cuba right now with chants of #NoTenemosMiedo (We Are Not Afraid),” he wrote in a tweet. “Frustration with the dictatorships incompetence,greed & repression is mounting rapidly.”

Here come the Communist repression squads in #Cuba
Still largely being ignored so far by US corporate media outlets. pic.twitter.com/ldprYCmk46
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) July 11, 2021
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The Senator also appeared to take note of security forces that were deployed.
“Here come the Communist repression squads in #Cuba … Still largely being ignored so far by US corporate media outlets,” Rubio wrote.
Florida Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar, the daughter of Cuban exiles, said that Diaz-Canel’s regime is now shutting off internet on the island.
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, also the son of Cuban exiles, whose city has a significant Cuban diaspora, called for an American-led intervention.
“Cubans are worthy and ready to rule themselves without tyranny,” Suarez said during a press conference. “It can end today and it must end today. The implications of this moment can mean freedom for millions of people in the hemisphere, from Nicaraguans and Venezuelans and so many more.”
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Mikel said:
I bet there is a repeat of 2009, when Obama didn't take advantage of internal turmoil in Iran.
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I see no reason we should be intervening or "taking advantage" of turmoil in Cuba.

They are no threat to us. They can deal with their own damn problems. If they want to kick out the commies and do business, great. If not well we have plenty of other people to do business with.
 
Ummm..... there's something off with this picture but I can't quite put my finger on it.....



Broncokyle88 said:
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That kind of freedom? Because that’s the only kind we are good at spreading, but I don’t think that’s what the Cuban people want
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arse_sidewards said:
I see no reason we should be intervening or "taking advantage" of turmoil in Cuba.

They are no threat to us. They can deal with their own damn problems. If they want to kick out the commies and do business, great. If not well we have plenty of other people to do business with.
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Of all the places in the world, this is one where I would strongly consider our clandestine options to catalyze things. It’s not because of being a “threat”
 
My Dad escaped Cuba through the Peter Pan program. Lived on the streets of Miami for a year or so till the rest of the family could make it.
I've been there and the people and country are quite beautiful.
This is extremely exciting and could be totally awesome. Hopefully the blundering fawks don't fawk this up.
 
We could send our military there and liberate them until they really hate us.
 
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Biden Administration Claims Cuban Anti-Communist Protests Are About ‘Rising COVID Cases/Deaths’
Biden Administration Claims Cuban Anti-Communist Protests Are About 'Rising COVID Cases/Deaths'

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President Joe Biden’s administration responded to protests in Cuba against the Communist regime on Sunday by issuing a statement through a minor official commending protests “about rising COVID cases/deaths & medicine shortages.”
On Sunday, protests broke out in Havana and several other Cuban cities, during which people chanted “Freedom!” and “Down with the dictatorship!” while marching against Communist Party institutions. The New York Times noted that while the demonstrations were triggered by “food and medicine shortages,” they also “openly protested against the Communist government” for the first time in nearly 30 years. Some activists called it the largest spontaneous popular protest since Fidel Castro took power in 1959, with protesters openly denouncing the regime of Miguel Diaz-Canel.
JUST IN – Mass protests erupt in several cities in #Cuba over the poor state of the socialized medical system. Protesters demand freedom from communist dictatorship.pic.twitter.com/NOSdVgP0By
— Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) July 11, 2021
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More incredible footage coming out of #Cuba. Protestors chanting in front of Communist Party Headquarters chanting "Cuba isn't yours!" pic.twitter.com/a8oFIjJnyF
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) July 11, 2021
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This is deeply moving.
Watch as Cubans wave the American flag while marching against the island’s 62 year-old communist dictatorship on the streets of Havana.
Never forget what America represents to millions across the world. #SOSCuba🇺 #PatriaYVida
pic.twitter.com/rbEZmL7YgB
— Giancarlo Sopo (@GiancarloSopo) July 11, 2021
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Julie Chung, Acting Assistant Secretary for the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, said via Twitter that Cubans were exercising “their right to peaceful assembly” to protest COVID and “medicine shortages.”
Peaceful protests are growing in #Cuba as the Cuban people exercise their right to peaceful assembly to express concern about rising COVID cases/deaths & medicine shortages. We commend the numerous efforts of the Cuban people mobilizing donations to help neighbors in need.
— Julie Chung (@WHAAsstSecty) July 11, 2021
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The administration’s statement ignored democracy and freedom altogether.
Cubans do not have the “right to peaceful assembly”; like many rights in the Cuban Constitution, it exists only in theory.
The Biden administration’s attempt to spin the protests as a demonstration about COVID-19 mirrors the rhetoric of the 2020 presidential election, during which Democrats charged that the Trump administration had failed on the pandemic.
It could also be an effort to defend the Obama administration’s “normalization” policy toward Cuba, in which then-Vice President Biden participated, which restored full diplomatic relations with the regime but failed to demand democratic reforms or progress on human rights.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. His recent book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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Assemble all protestors and sent them over to take back the island
 
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