Please God. Massive demonstrations have broken out throughout Cuba today:
Thousands of people took to the streets at several locations in Cuba including the capital Havana on Sunday to call for the end of the decades-old dictatorship and to demand food and vaccines as shortages of basic necessities have become commonplace and COVID-19 cases have soared in recent weeks.
From the Malecón, Havana’s famous boardwalk near the old city to small towns in Artemisa province and Palma Soriano, the second-largest city in Santiago de Cuba province, videos live-streamed on Facebook showed thousands of people walking and riding bikes and motorcycles along streets while chanting “Freedom,” “Down with Communism,” and “Homeland and Life,” which has become a battle cry among activists as it turns the revolutionary slogan “Homeland or Death” on its head.
“We are not afraid!” chanted Samantha Regalado while she recorded hundreds of people walking along a narrow street in Palma Soriano.
Go here to read the rest. More on this as news comes in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj5j0Gh0d9w
May Our Lady of Charity be with the brave demonstrators.
Never seen images from #Havana. Thousands are mobilising across #Cuba demanding the end of the communist dictatorship while screaming “we are not afraid…we are not afraid.”#SOSCuba #Democracypic.twitter.com/QSomExnzDw
— Alexandre Krauss (@AlexandreKrausz) July 11, 2021
Update:
The police in Santiago de Cuba join in the protests. See video. We have never seen that happen before. #SOSCuba #VivaCubaLibre pic.twitter.com/bzDEGl9wk9
— Jose Felix Diaz (@josefelixdiaz) July 11, 2021
President Biden will give an impassioned public endorsement of these protests on the second Tuesday of next week.
Raul Castro has a life expectancy of about 4 years. Condign punishment for him would be to have to watch while it all comes crashing down around him. (I have a suspicion his brother was non compos mentis for some time before shuffling off).
In 1925, the most affluent hispanophone country in the world was Argentina. The next rank consisted of Spain, Uruguay, and Chile. The third rank consisted of Mexico, Peru, Cuba, and Costa Rica. Cuba, like Costa Rica and the Southern Cone republics, had evolving electoral institutions. Now as we speak, the rear rank consists of Nicaragua, Honduras, Bolivia, Guatemala, El Salvador, and…Cuba. (Venezuela not assessed). The most abusive and retrograde states in the region are Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba. Heckuva job.
@Greg,
Pope Francis will will also “give an impassioned public endorsement of these protests on the second Tuesday of next week.”
Starving the population for decades whilst showing the rest of the world what a lovely place Cuba is as a vacation spot. Cubans have had enough and have nothing more to loose. God Bless them.
Meanwhile the lying media beclowns itself with its asinine [totally self unaware] reporting.
The NYT [seen at Instapundit] posted “The crowds chanting, ‘Freedom!’ and other anti-government slogans, . . .”
One cannot fabricate such stupidity.
I love how “Freedom” is an anti-government slogan to the NYT. Their idiocy knows no bounds… it’s an anti-SLAVERY slogan, and that is exactly what Communism is, slavery to the government. And just weeks after they were cheering for Juneteenth “finally” being made a federal holiday. Apparently they have already forgotten what people say the day was about.
Yes! Do it! Go for it and be free, Cuba! Few things would give me greater joy than to see every communist regime lay broken and buried in the soil of history within my lifetime.
Editors of The NY Times are pukeing their guts out.