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ODEBRECHT
The CEO of Odebrecht, the company that built the port of Mariel in Cuba at a cost of $800 million and is currently involved in a $207 million expansion project at José Martí Airport in Havana, was arrested today in Brazil on corruption charges: Brazilian police on Friday arrested Marcelo Odebrecht, the head of Latin America’slargest
THE CASTRO FAMILY CLAN The Castro family clan. In a country where the average salary is $20, the dictator and his family live a very different life from the 11 million Cubans enslaved by his brutal regime. Castro and his first wife, Mirta Diaz-Balart with their son, Fidelito, in 1952. “Fidelito” Castro, THE INFAMOUS FIRING SQUADS The Infamous Firing Squads. Thousands of Cubans have died in front of Castro’s infamous ‘paredón’ (the wall). There was no discrimination, as far as sending people to the firing squad was concerned. Young and old, black and white, rich and poor were sent to ‘el paredón’. Many of those who helped Castro gain power, likeComandantes
CUBA’S OLDEST BEER, LA TROPICAL, BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE IN It’s truly a staple of what Cuba was,” said Rosa, 32, named for great-great aunt Rosita, whom her father called the “Paris Hilton of beer.”. La Tropical got new life recently with America’s surge in craft beer interest. Portuondo met Concrete Beach founder Alan Newman, who loved the idea of bringing back Cuba’s first beer.MURDERED BY CHÉ
The true face of a terrorist mass murderer, by the Young America's Foundation. Che Guevara was an international terrorist and mass murderer. During his vicious campaigns to impose communism on countries throughout Latin America, che Guevara trained and motivated the Castro regime's firing squads that executed thousands of men,women and children.
CASTRO’S GULAG
His only crime was collecting books to open a Public Library at his home. For that, Ariel and his brother were sentenced to 20 years in Castro’s Gulag. Before Ariel Sigler Amaya went to jail he used to be a heavyweight boxer. Now look at these photos of Ariel Sigler Amaya, when he arrived at his home after 7 years in Castro’s Gulag.FREE HEALTHCARE?
Free Healthcare? One of the greatest fallacies about the so called ‘Cuban Revolution’ has to do with healthcare. Foreigners who visit Cuba, are fed the official line from Castro’s propaganda machine: “All Cubans are now able to receive excellent healthcare, which is also free.”. But the truth is very different. WHY FLEE EQUALITY? COLLECTIVISM’S “GREATER GOOD Why Flee Equality? Collectivism’s “Greater Good” Subjugates the Individual. When discussing the exodus of peoples from communist regimes such as Cuba’s, it is common practice to describe their escape as a flight from oppression, or a search for freedom. These labels are evocative and correct, but in order to deepen ourunderstanding of
FIDEL CASTRO: THE HOMOPHOBIC DICTATOR AND HIS FORCED LABOR Fidel Castro was a murderer, and his supposed good intentions now towards the gay community do little to compensate the victims of his dictatorship. He was a criminal of the worst kind, who famously placed the following sign above the labor camp’s entrance: “Work will make you men.”. Seeing a homosexual defending Fidel Castro is as CUBA THREATENS TO PROSECUTE EXILES IN ABSENTIA FOR ANTICASTRO’S GULAGCUBA B.CFIDEL CASTRO’S SON ENJOYING A MILLIONAIRE VACATION, WHILE CUBANS ARE STARVING POLITICO March 16, 2021. A new poll of Cuban-American voters in Florida shows that an overwhelming majority is solidly opposed to the Biden administration reengaging with the island dictatorship — and their brief drift toward Democrats has been totally reversed.ODEBRECHT
The CEO of Odebrecht, the company that built the port of Mariel in Cuba at a cost of $800 million and is currently involved in a $207 million expansion project at José Martí Airport in Havana, was arrested today in Brazil on corruption charges: Brazilian police on Friday arrested Marcelo Odebrecht, the head of Latin America’slargest
THE CASTRO FAMILY CLAN The Castro family clan. In a country where the average salary is $20, the dictator and his family live a very different life from the 11 million Cubans enslaved by his brutal regime. Castro and his first wife, Mirta Diaz-Balart with their son, Fidelito, in 1952. “Fidelito” Castro, THE INFAMOUS FIRING SQUADS The Infamous Firing Squads. Thousands of Cubans have died in front of Castro’s infamous ‘paredón’ (the wall). There was no discrimination, as far as sending people to the firing squad was concerned. Young and old, black and white, rich and poor were sent to ‘el paredón’. Many of those who helped Castro gain power, likeComandantes
CUBA’S OLDEST BEER, LA TROPICAL, BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE IN It’s truly a staple of what Cuba was,” said Rosa, 32, named for great-great aunt Rosita, whom her father called the “Paris Hilton of beer.”. La Tropical got new life recently with America’s surge in craft beer interest. Portuondo met Concrete Beach founder Alan Newman, who loved the idea of bringing back Cuba’s first beer.MURDERED BY CHÉ
The true face of a terrorist mass murderer, by the Young America's Foundation. Che Guevara was an international terrorist and mass murderer. During his vicious campaigns to impose communism on countries throughout Latin America, che Guevara trained and motivated the Castro regime's firing squads that executed thousands of men,women and children.
CASTRO’S GULAG
His only crime was collecting books to open a Public Library at his home. For that, Ariel and his brother were sentenced to 20 years in Castro’s Gulag. Before Ariel Sigler Amaya went to jail he used to be a heavyweight boxer. Now look at these photos of Ariel Sigler Amaya, when he arrived at his home after 7 years in Castro’s Gulag.FREE HEALTHCARE?
Free Healthcare? One of the greatest fallacies about the so called ‘Cuban Revolution’ has to do with healthcare. Foreigners who visit Cuba, are fed the official line from Castro’s propaganda machine: “All Cubans are now able to receive excellent healthcare, which is also free.”. But the truth is very different. WHY FLEE EQUALITY? COLLECTIVISM’S “GREATER GOOD Why Flee Equality? Collectivism’s “Greater Good” Subjugates the Individual. When discussing the exodus of peoples from communist regimes such as Cuba’s, it is common practice to describe their escape as a flight from oppression, or a search for freedom. These labels are evocative and correct, but in order to deepen ourunderstanding of
FIDEL CASTRO: THE HOMOPHOBIC DICTATOR AND HIS FORCED LABOR Fidel Castro was a murderer, and his supposed good intentions now towards the gay community do little to compensate the victims of his dictatorship. He was a criminal of the worst kind, who famously placed the following sign above the labor camp’s entrance: “Work will make you men.”. Seeing a homosexual defending Fidel Castro is asPOVERTY IN CUBA
April 9, 2020 Coronavirus, Cuba, Poverty in Cuba Coronavirus, Cuba Jorge. HAVANA (Reuters) – From the seafront capital Havana to the foothills of the Sierra Maestra mountains, Cubans are defying fear of the new coronavirus to search for food as global trade disruptions worsen shortages of basic goods on the Caribbean island. CUBA CONFIRMS 40 CASES OF CORONAVIRUS BUT SUSPECTS MANY Cuban doctors are closely watching more than 37,000 people across the island with symptoms similar to those caused by the coronavirus, as the number of confirmed cases rose to 40, the Ministry of PublicHealth said Monday.
CASTRO’S GULAG
His only crime was collecting books to open a Public Library at his home. For that, Ariel and his brother were sentenced to 20 years in Castro’s Gulag. Before Ariel Sigler Amaya went to jail he used to be a heavyweight boxer. Now look at these photos of Ariel Sigler Amaya, when he arrived at his home after 7 years in Castro’s Gulag.CUBA B.C.
Cuba B.C. (Before Castro) Photos of Havana before the Castro brothers destroyed it. Miramar’s Quinta Avenida (Fifth Avenue) The same Quinta Avenida at night Quinta Avenida before the tunnel was built and cars had to use the iron bridge that is seen to the center-right The tunnel of Linea Street while it was still under construction. It was built by Cuban engineers and constructors betweenLA TROPICAL
The Miami Herald. Ramon Blanco Herrera carries his ghosts in a shiny, black tin box. His liver-spotted hands carefully remove relics he never imagined would become so nostalgic for him when he was a boy inCuba.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT RUNS EVERYTHING A government run butcher shop in Havana, an example of cleanliness and hygiene. This is probably another thing that Obama would like to copy and bring to the U.S. CUBA THREATENS TO PROSECUTE EXILES IN ABSENTIA FOR ANTI Cubans protesting on Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach. By Fabiola Santiago Miami Herald. Travelers to Cuba and Cuban Americans, beware. President Joe Biden, his administration, members of Congress, take note.JINETERAS
From an article in The Spectator United Kingdom:. Visit Cuba – it’s the perfect holiday destination for poverty fetishists. Since last December, when officials from Cuba and the United States announced that the two countries, locked in a Cold War stand-off for 54 years, would seek to normalize relations, the tourist industry has been admonishing us to travel to Cuba ‘before it changes’.CHILD PROSTITUTION
U.S. diplomats documented the same money-for-child-sex system operating with the knowledge and permission of families in a 2009 cable to Washington. “Some Cuban children are reportedly pushed into prostitution by their families, exchanging sex for money, food or gifts,” it reads. The cost of forbidden youth is startlingly cheap:as little
DR. DARSI FERRET, WHO HELPED EXPOSE THE LIES ABOUT CUBA’S I am very sorry to report the death of Dr. Darsi Ferret, a well-known Cuban dissident and human rights activist, who in 2007 worked closely with me to help expose the lies about Cuba’s ‘free healthcare’ that were portrayed on Michael Moore’s document “Sicko”, which claimed that healthcare in Castro’s Cuba was “free and much better than healthcare in the U.S.”. CUBA THREATENS TO PROSECUTE EXILES IN ABSENTIA FOR ANTICASTRO’S GULAGCUBA B.CFIDEL CASTRO’S SON ENJOYING A MILLIONAIRE VACATION, WHILE CUBANS ARE STARVING POLITICO March 16, 2021. A new poll of Cuban-American voters in Florida shows that an overwhelming majority is solidly opposed to the Biden administration reengaging with the island dictatorship — and their brief drift toward Democrats has been totally reversed. THE INFAMOUS FIRING SQUADS The Infamous Firing Squads. Thousands of Cubans have died in front of Castro’s infamous ‘paredón’ (the wall). There was no discrimination, as far as sending people to the firing squad was concerned. Young and old, black and white, rich and poor were sent to ‘el paredón’. Many of those who helped Castro gain power, likeComandantes
THE CASTRO FAMILY CLAN The Castro family clan. In a country where the average salary is $20, the dictator and his family live a very different life from the 11 million Cubans enslaved by his brutal regime. Castro and his first wife, Mirta Diaz-Balart with their son, Fidelito, in 1952. “Fidelito” Castro, CUBA’S OLDEST BEER, LA TROPICAL, BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE IN It’s truly a staple of what Cuba was,” said Rosa, 32, named for great-great aunt Rosita, whom her father called the “Paris Hilton of beer.”. La Tropical got new life recently with America’s surge in craft beer interest. Portuondo met Concrete Beach founder Alan Newman, who loved the idea of bringing back Cuba’s first beer.MURDERED BY CHÉ
The true face of a terrorist mass murderer, by the Young America's Foundation. Che Guevara was an international terrorist and mass murderer. During his vicious campaigns to impose communism on countries throughout Latin America, che Guevara trained and motivated the Castro regime's firing squads that executed thousands of men,women and children.
ODEBRECHT
The CEO of Odebrecht, the company that built the port of Mariel in Cuba at a cost of $800 million and is currently involved in a $207 million expansion project at José Martí Airport in Havana, was arrested today in Brazil on corruption charges: Brazilian police on Friday arrested Marcelo Odebrecht, the head of Latin America’slargest
FREE HEALTHCARE?
Free Healthcare? One of the greatest fallacies about the so called ‘Cuban Revolution’ has to do with healthcare. Foreigners who visit Cuba, are fed the official line from Castro’s propaganda machine: “All Cubans are now able to receive excellent healthcare, which is also free.”. But the truth is very different.CASTRO’S GULAG
His only crime was collecting books to open a Public Library at his home. For that, Ariel and his brother were sentenced to 20 years in Castro’s Gulag. Before Ariel Sigler Amaya went to jail he used to be a heavyweight boxer. Now look at these photos of Ariel Sigler Amaya, when he arrived at his home after 7 years in Castro’s Gulag. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT RUNS EVERYTHING A government run butcher shop in Havana, an example of cleanliness and hygiene. This is probably another thing that Obama would like to copy and bring to the U.S. FIDEL CASTRO: THE HOMOPHOBIC DICTATOR AND HIS FORCED LABOR Fidel Castro was a murderer, and his supposed good intentions now towards the gay community do little to compensate the victims of his dictatorship. He was a criminal of the worst kind, who famously placed the following sign above the labor camp’s entrance: “Work will make you men.”. Seeing a homosexual defending Fidel Castro is as CUBA THREATENS TO PROSECUTE EXILES IN ABSENTIA FOR ANTICASTRO’S GULAGCUBA B.CFIDEL CASTRO’S SON ENJOYING A MILLIONAIRE VACATION, WHILE CUBANS ARE STARVING POLITICO March 16, 2021. A new poll of Cuban-American voters in Florida shows that an overwhelming majority is solidly opposed to the Biden administration reengaging with the island dictatorship — and their brief drift toward Democrats has been totally reversed. THE INFAMOUS FIRING SQUADS The Infamous Firing Squads. Thousands of Cubans have died in front of Castro’s infamous ‘paredón’ (the wall). There was no discrimination, as far as sending people to the firing squad was concerned. Young and old, black and white, rich and poor were sent to ‘el paredón’. Many of those who helped Castro gain power, likeComandantes
THE CASTRO FAMILY CLAN The Castro family clan. In a country where the average salary is $20, the dictator and his family live a very different life from the 11 million Cubans enslaved by his brutal regime. Castro and his first wife, Mirta Diaz-Balart with their son, Fidelito, in 1952. “Fidelito” Castro, CUBA’S OLDEST BEER, LA TROPICAL, BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE IN It’s truly a staple of what Cuba was,” said Rosa, 32, named for great-great aunt Rosita, whom her father called the “Paris Hilton of beer.”. La Tropical got new life recently with America’s surge in craft beer interest. Portuondo met Concrete Beach founder Alan Newman, who loved the idea of bringing back Cuba’s first beer.ODEBRECHT
The CEO of Odebrecht, the company that built the port of Mariel in Cuba at a cost of $800 million and is currently involved in a $207 million expansion project at José Martí Airport in Havana, was arrested today in Brazil on corruption charges: Brazilian police on Friday arrested Marcelo Odebrecht, the head of Latin America’slargest
MORE POVERTY THAN EVER BEFORE After more than 56 years, there is much more poverty in Cuba than ever before. Except for Castro and his gang who are the new millionaires, the 11 million Cubans have to suffer the exploitation of the omnipotent state, rationed food, lack of housing and the indignity of being second class citizens inMURDERED BY CHÉ
The true face of a terrorist mass murderer, by the Young America's Foundation. Che Guevara was an international terrorist and mass murderer. During his vicious campaigns to impose communism on countries throughout Latin America, che Guevara trained and motivated the Castro regime's firing squads that executed thousands of men,women and children.
FREE HEALTHCARE?
Free Healthcare? One of the greatest fallacies about the so called ‘Cuban Revolution’ has to do with healthcare. Foreigners who visit Cuba, are fed the official line from Castro’s propaganda machine: “All Cubans are now able to receive excellent healthcare, which is also free.”. But the truth is very different. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT RUNS EVERYTHING A government run butcher shop in Havana, an example of cleanliness and hygiene. This is probably another thing that Obama would like to copy and bring to the U.S. FIDEL CASTRO: THE HOMOPHOBIC DICTATOR AND HIS FORCED LABOR Fidel Castro was a murderer, and his supposed good intentions now towards the gay community do little to compensate the victims of his dictatorship. He was a criminal of the worst kind, who famously placed the following sign above the labor camp’s entrance: “Work will make you men.”. Seeing a homosexual defending Fidel Castro is asPOVERTY IN CUBA
April 9, 2020 Coronavirus, Cuba, Poverty in Cuba Coronavirus, Cuba Jorge. HAVANA (Reuters) – From the seafront capital Havana to the foothills of the Sierra Maestra mountains, Cubans are defying fear of the new coronavirus to search for food as global trade disruptions worsen shortages of basic goods on the Caribbean island.CASTRO’S GULAG
His only crime was collecting books to open a Public Library at his home. For that, Ariel and his brother were sentenced to 20 years in Castro’s Gulag. Before Ariel Sigler Amaya went to jail he used to be a heavyweight boxer. Now look at these photos of Ariel Sigler Amaya, when he arrived at his home after 7 years in Castro’s Gulag. MORE POVERTY THAN EVER BEFORE After more than 56 years, there is much more poverty in Cuba than ever before. Except for Castro and his gang who are the new millionaires, the 11 million Cubans have to suffer the exploitation of the omnipotent state, rationed food, lack of housing and the indignity of being second class citizens in THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT RUNS EVERYTHING A government run butcher shop in Havana, an example of cleanliness and hygiene. This is probably another thing that Obama would like to copy and bring to the U.S.LA TROPICAL
The Miami Herald. Ramon Blanco Herrera carries his ghosts in a shiny, black tin box. His liver-spotted hands carefully remove relics he never imagined would become so nostalgic for him when he was a boy inCuba.
CUBA’S MILITARY DICTATORSHIP IN COMPLETE CONTROL The Miami Herald. In the early 1990s, with Havana in ruins and Cuba mired in a devastating economic crisis, the island’s government granted historian Eusebio Leal Spengler and his office broad and rare powers to return Old Havana to its former glory. FIDEL CASTRO: THE HOMOPHOBIC DICTATOR AND HIS FORCED LABOR Fidel Castro was a murderer, and his supposed good intentions now towards the gay community do little to compensate the victims of his dictatorship. He was a criminal of the worst kind, who famously placed the following sign above the labor camp’s entrance: “Work will make you men.”. Seeing a homosexual defending Fidel Castro is asRACISM IN CUBA
Racism in Cuba. Contrary to what the Castro regime and its foreign apologists say, there is more racism in Cuba than ever before. So called ‘Black leaders’ like Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover, Maxine Waters, Jesse Jackson and many more have had a love affair with the Castro brothers for 56 years. They go to Cuba and are wined and dinedby
JINETERAS
From an article in The Spectator United Kingdom:. Visit Cuba – it’s the perfect holiday destination for poverty fetishists. Since last December, when officials from Cuba and the United States announced that the two countries, locked in a Cold War stand-off for 54 years, would seek to normalize relations, the tourist industry has been admonishing us to travel to Cuba ‘before it changes’.CHILD PROSTITUTION
U.S. diplomats documented the same money-for-child-sex system operating with the knowledge and permission of families in a 2009 cable to Washington. “Some Cuban children are reportedly pushed into prostitution by their families, exchanging sex for money, food or gifts,” it reads. The cost of forbidden youth is startlingly cheap:as little
CUBA THREATENS TO PROSECUTE EXILES IN ABSENTIA FOR ANTICASTRO’S GULAGCUBA B.CFIDEL CASTRO’S SON ENJOYING A MILLIONAIRE VACATION, WHILE CUBANS ARE STARVING POLITICO March 16, 2021. A new poll of Cuban-American voters in Florida shows that an overwhelming majority is solidly opposed to the Biden administration reengaging with the island dictatorship — and their brief drift toward Democrats has been totally reversed. THE INFAMOUS FIRING SQUADS The Infamous Firing Squads. Thousands of Cubans have died in front of Castro’s infamous ‘paredón’ (the wall). There was no discrimination, as far as sending people to the firing squad was concerned. Young and old, black and white, rich and poor were sent to ‘el paredón’. Many of those who helped Castro gain power, likeComandantes
THE CASTRO FAMILY CLAN The Castro family clan. In a country where the average salary is $20, the dictator and his family live a very different life from the 11 million Cubans enslaved by his brutal regime. Castro and his first wife, Mirta Diaz-Balart with their son, Fidelito, in 1952. “Fidelito” Castro, CUBA’S OLDEST BEER, LA TROPICAL, BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE IN It’s truly a staple of what Cuba was,” said Rosa, 32, named for great-great aunt Rosita, whom her father called the “Paris Hilton of beer.”. La Tropical got new life recently with America’s surge in craft beer interest. Portuondo met Concrete Beach founder Alan Newman, who loved the idea of bringing back Cuba’s first beer. MORE POVERTY THAN EVER BEFORE After more than 56 years, there is much more poverty in Cuba than ever before. Except for Castro and his gang who are the new millionaires, the 11 million Cubans have to suffer the exploitation of the omnipotent state, rationed food, lack of housing and the indignity of being second class citizens inMURDERED BY CHÉ
The true face of a terrorist mass murderer, by the Young America's Foundation. Che Guevara was an international terrorist and mass murderer. During his vicious campaigns to impose communism on countries throughout Latin America, che Guevara trained and motivated the Castro regime's firing squads that executed thousands of men,women and children.
ODEBRECHT
The CEO of Odebrecht, the company that built the port of Mariel in Cuba at a cost of $800 million and is currently involved in a $207 million expansion project at José Martí Airport in Havana, was arrested today in Brazil on corruption charges: Brazilian police on Friday arrested Marcelo Odebrecht, the head of Latin America’slargest
FREE HEALTHCARE?
Free Healthcare? One of the greatest fallacies about the so called ‘Cuban Revolution’ has to do with healthcare. Foreigners who visit Cuba, are fed the official line from Castro’s propaganda machine: “All Cubans are now able to receive excellent healthcare, which is also free.”. But the truth is very different. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT RUNS EVERYTHING A government run butcher shop in Havana, an example of cleanliness and hygiene. This is probably another thing that Obama would like to copy and bring to the U.S. FIDEL CASTRO: THE HOMOPHOBIC DICTATOR AND HIS FORCED LABOR Fidel Castro was a murderer, and his supposed good intentions now towards the gay community do little to compensate the victims of his dictatorship. He was a criminal of the worst kind, who famously placed the following sign above the labor camp’s entrance: “Work will make you men.”. Seeing a homosexual defending Fidel Castro is as CUBA THREATENS TO PROSECUTE EXILES IN ABSENTIA FOR ANTICASTRO’S GULAGCUBA B.CFIDEL CASTRO’S SON ENJOYING A MILLIONAIRE VACATION, WHILE CUBANS ARE STARVING POLITICO March 16, 2021. A new poll of Cuban-American voters in Florida shows that an overwhelming majority is solidly opposed to the Biden administration reengaging with the island dictatorship — and their brief drift toward Democrats has been totally reversed. THE INFAMOUS FIRING SQUADS The Infamous Firing Squads. Thousands of Cubans have died in front of Castro’s infamous ‘paredón’ (the wall). There was no discrimination, as far as sending people to the firing squad was concerned. Young and old, black and white, rich and poor were sent to ‘el paredón’. Many of those who helped Castro gain power, likeComandantes
THE CASTRO FAMILY CLAN The Castro family clan. In a country where the average salary is $20, the dictator and his family live a very different life from the 11 million Cubans enslaved by his brutal regime. Castro and his first wife, Mirta Diaz-Balart with their son, Fidelito, in 1952. “Fidelito” Castro, CUBA’S OLDEST BEER, LA TROPICAL, BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE IN It’s truly a staple of what Cuba was,” said Rosa, 32, named for great-great aunt Rosita, whom her father called the “Paris Hilton of beer.”. La Tropical got new life recently with America’s surge in craft beer interest. Portuondo met Concrete Beach founder Alan Newman, who loved the idea of bringing back Cuba’s first beer. MORE POVERTY THAN EVER BEFORE After more than 56 years, there is much more poverty in Cuba than ever before. Except for Castro and his gang who are the new millionaires, the 11 million Cubans have to suffer the exploitation of the omnipotent state, rationed food, lack of housing and the indignity of being second class citizens inMURDERED BY CHÉ
The true face of a terrorist mass murderer, by the Young America's Foundation. Che Guevara was an international terrorist and mass murderer. During his vicious campaigns to impose communism on countries throughout Latin America, che Guevara trained and motivated the Castro regime's firing squads that executed thousands of men,women and children.
ODEBRECHT
The CEO of Odebrecht, the company that built the port of Mariel in Cuba at a cost of $800 million and is currently involved in a $207 million expansion project at José Martí Airport in Havana, was arrested today in Brazil on corruption charges: Brazilian police on Friday arrested Marcelo Odebrecht, the head of Latin America’slargest
FREE HEALTHCARE?
Free Healthcare? One of the greatest fallacies about the so called ‘Cuban Revolution’ has to do with healthcare. Foreigners who visit Cuba, are fed the official line from Castro’s propaganda machine: “All Cubans are now able to receive excellent healthcare, which is also free.”. But the truth is very different. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT RUNS EVERYTHING A government run butcher shop in Havana, an example of cleanliness and hygiene. This is probably another thing that Obama would like to copy and bring to the U.S. FIDEL CASTRO: THE HOMOPHOBIC DICTATOR AND HIS FORCED LABOR Fidel Castro was a murderer, and his supposed good intentions now towards the gay community do little to compensate the victims of his dictatorship. He was a criminal of the worst kind, who famously placed the following sign above the labor camp’s entrance: “Work will make you men.”. Seeing a homosexual defending Fidel Castro is asPOVERTY IN CUBA
April 9, 2020 Coronavirus, Cuba, Poverty in Cuba Coronavirus, Cuba Jorge. HAVANA (Reuters) – From the seafront capital Havana to the foothills of the Sierra Maestra mountains, Cubans are defying fear of the new coronavirus to search for food as global trade disruptions worsen shortages of basic goods on the Caribbean island. MORE POVERTY THAN EVER BEFORE After more than 56 years, there is much more poverty in Cuba than ever before. Except for Castro and his gang who are the new millionaires, the 11 million Cubans have to suffer the exploitation of the omnipotent state, rationed food, lack of housing and the indignity of being second class citizens inCASTRO’S GULAG
His only crime was collecting books to open a Public Library at his home. For that, Ariel and his brother were sentenced to 20 years in Castro’s Gulag. Before Ariel Sigler Amaya went to jail he used to be a heavyweight boxer. Now look at these photos of Ariel Sigler Amaya, when he arrived at his home after 7 years in Castro’s Gulag. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT RUNS EVERYTHING A government run butcher shop in Havana, an example of cleanliness and hygiene. This is probably another thing that Obama would like to copy and bring to the U.S.LA TROPICAL
The Miami Herald. Ramon Blanco Herrera carries his ghosts in a shiny, black tin box. His liver-spotted hands carefully remove relics he never imagined would become so nostalgic for him when he was a boy inCuba.
CUBA’S MILITARY DICTATORSHIP IN COMPLETE CONTROL The Miami Herald. In the early 1990s, with Havana in ruins and Cuba mired in a devastating economic crisis, the island’s government granted historian Eusebio Leal Spengler and his office broad and rare powers to return Old Havana to its former glory.RACISM IN CUBA
Racism in Cuba. Contrary to what the Castro regime and its foreign apologists say, there is more racism in Cuba than ever before. So called ‘Black leaders’ like Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover, Maxine Waters, Jesse Jackson and many more have had a love affair with the Castro brothers for 56 years. They go to Cuba and are wined and dinedby
FIDEL CASTRO: THE HOMOPHOBIC DICTATOR AND HIS FORCED LABOR Fidel Castro was a murderer, and his supposed good intentions now towards the gay community do little to compensate the victims of his dictatorship. He was a criminal of the worst kind, who famously placed the following sign above the labor camp’s entrance: “Work will make you men.”. Seeing a homosexual defending Fidel Castro is asJINETERAS
From an article in The Spectator United Kingdom:. Visit Cuba – it’s the perfect holiday destination for poverty fetishists. Since last December, when officials from Cuba and the United States announced that the two countries, locked in a Cold War stand-off for 54 years, would seek to normalize relations, the tourist industry has been admonishing us to travel to Cuba ‘before it changes’.CHILD PROSTITUTION
U.S. diplomats documented the same money-for-child-sex system operating with the knowledge and permission of families in a 2009 cable to Washington. “Some Cuban children are reportedly pushed into prostitution by their families, exchanging sex for money, food or gifts,” it reads. The cost of forbidden youth is startlingly cheap:as little
CUBA THREATENS TO PROSECUTE EXILES IN ABSENTIA FOR ANTICASTRO’S GULAGCUBA B.CFIDEL CASTRO’S SON ENJOYING A MILLIONAIRE VACATION, WHILE CUBANS ARE STARVING POLITICO March 16, 2021. A new poll of Cuban-American voters in Florida shows that an overwhelming majority is solidly opposed to the Biden administration reengaging with the island dictatorship — and their brief drift toward Democrats has been totally reversed. THE INFAMOUS FIRING SQUADS The Infamous Firing Squads. Thousands of Cubans have died in front of Castro’s infamous ‘paredón’ (the wall). There was no discrimination, as far as sending people to the firing squad was concerned. Young and old, black and white, rich and poor were sent to ‘el paredón’. Many of those who helped Castro gain power, likeComandantes
THE CASTRO FAMILY CLAN The Castro family clan. In a country where the average salary is $20, the dictator and his family live a very different life from the 11 million Cubans enslaved by his brutal regime. Castro and his first wife, Mirta Diaz-Balart with their son, Fidelito, in 1952. “Fidelito” Castro, CUBA’S OLDEST BEER, LA TROPICAL, BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE IN It’s truly a staple of what Cuba was,” said Rosa, 32, named for great-great aunt Rosita, whom her father called the “Paris Hilton of beer.”. La Tropical got new life recently with America’s surge in craft beer interest. Portuondo met Concrete Beach founder Alan Newman, who loved the idea of bringing back Cuba’s first beer.MURDERED BY CHÉ
The true face of a terrorist mass murderer, by the Young America's Foundation. Che Guevara was an international terrorist and mass murderer. During his vicious campaigns to impose communism on countries throughout Latin America, che Guevara trained and motivated the Castro regime's firing squads that executed thousands of men,women and children.
ODEBRECHT
The CEO of Odebrecht, the company that built the port of Mariel in Cuba at a cost of $800 million and is currently involved in a $207 million expansion project at José Martí Airport in Havana, was arrested today in Brazil on corruption charges: Brazilian police on Friday arrested Marcelo Odebrecht, the head of Latin America’slargest
FREE HEALTHCARE?
Free Healthcare? One of the greatest fallacies about the so called ‘Cuban Revolution’ has to do with healthcare. Foreigners who visit Cuba, are fed the official line from Castro’s propaganda machine: “All Cubans are now able to receive excellent healthcare, which is also free.”. But the truth is very different.CASTRO’S GULAG
His only crime was collecting books to open a Public Library at his home. For that, Ariel and his brother were sentenced to 20 years in Castro’s Gulag. Before Ariel Sigler Amaya went to jail he used to be a heavyweight boxer. Now look at these photos of Ariel Sigler Amaya, when he arrived at his home after 7 years in Castro’s Gulag. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT RUNS EVERYTHING A government run butcher shop in Havana, an example of cleanliness and hygiene. This is probably another thing that Obama would like to copy and bring to the U.S. FIDEL CASTRO: THE HOMOPHOBIC DICTATOR AND HIS FORCED LABOR Fidel Castro was a murderer, and his supposed good intentions now towards the gay community do little to compensate the victims of his dictatorship. He was a criminal of the worst kind, who famously placed the following sign above the labor camp’s entrance: “Work will make you men.”. Seeing a homosexual defending Fidel Castro is as CUBA THREATENS TO PROSECUTE EXILES IN ABSENTIA FOR ANTICASTRO’S GULAGCUBA B.CFIDEL CASTRO’S SON ENJOYING A MILLIONAIRE VACATION, WHILE CUBANS ARE STARVING POLITICO March 16, 2021. A new poll of Cuban-American voters in Florida shows that an overwhelming majority is solidly opposed to the Biden administration reengaging with the island dictatorship — and their brief drift toward Democrats has been totally reversed. THE INFAMOUS FIRING SQUADS The Infamous Firing Squads. Thousands of Cubans have died in front of Castro’s infamous ‘paredón’ (the wall). There was no discrimination, as far as sending people to the firing squad was concerned. Young and old, black and white, rich and poor were sent to ‘el paredón’. Many of those who helped Castro gain power, likeComandantes
THE CASTRO FAMILY CLAN The Castro family clan. In a country where the average salary is $20, the dictator and his family live a very different life from the 11 million Cubans enslaved by his brutal regime. Castro and his first wife, Mirta Diaz-Balart with their son, Fidelito, in 1952. “Fidelito” Castro, CUBA’S OLDEST BEER, LA TROPICAL, BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE IN It’s truly a staple of what Cuba was,” said Rosa, 32, named for great-great aunt Rosita, whom her father called the “Paris Hilton of beer.”. La Tropical got new life recently with America’s surge in craft beer interest. Portuondo met Concrete Beach founder Alan Newman, who loved the idea of bringing back Cuba’s first beer.MURDERED BY CHÉ
The true face of a terrorist mass murderer, by the Young America's Foundation. Che Guevara was an international terrorist and mass murderer. During his vicious campaigns to impose communism on countries throughout Latin America, che Guevara trained and motivated the Castro regime's firing squads that executed thousands of men,women and children.
ODEBRECHT
The CEO of Odebrecht, the company that built the port of Mariel in Cuba at a cost of $800 million and is currently involved in a $207 million expansion project at José Martí Airport in Havana, was arrested today in Brazil on corruption charges: Brazilian police on Friday arrested Marcelo Odebrecht, the head of Latin America’slargest
FREE HEALTHCARE?
Free Healthcare? One of the greatest fallacies about the so called ‘Cuban Revolution’ has to do with healthcare. Foreigners who visit Cuba, are fed the official line from Castro’s propaganda machine: “All Cubans are now able to receive excellent healthcare, which is also free.”. But the truth is very different.CASTRO’S GULAG
His only crime was collecting books to open a Public Library at his home. For that, Ariel and his brother were sentenced to 20 years in Castro’s Gulag. Before Ariel Sigler Amaya went to jail he used to be a heavyweight boxer. Now look at these photos of Ariel Sigler Amaya, when he arrived at his home after 7 years in Castro’s Gulag. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT RUNS EVERYTHING A government run butcher shop in Havana, an example of cleanliness and hygiene. This is probably another thing that Obama would like to copy and bring to the U.S. FIDEL CASTRO: THE HOMOPHOBIC DICTATOR AND HIS FORCED LABOR Fidel Castro was a murderer, and his supposed good intentions now towards the gay community do little to compensate the victims of his dictatorship. He was a criminal of the worst kind, who famously placed the following sign above the labor camp’s entrance: “Work will make you men.”. Seeing a homosexual defending Fidel Castro is asPOVERTY IN CUBA
April 9, 2020 Coronavirus, Cuba, Poverty in Cuba Coronavirus, Cuba Jorge. HAVANA (Reuters) – From the seafront capital Havana to the foothills of the Sierra Maestra mountains, Cubans are defying fear of the new coronavirus to search for food as global trade disruptions worsen shortages of basic goods on the Caribbean island.CASTRO’S GULAG
His only crime was collecting books to open a Public Library at his home. For that, Ariel and his brother were sentenced to 20 years in Castro’s Gulag. Before Ariel Sigler Amaya went to jail he used to be a heavyweight boxer. Now look at these photos of Ariel Sigler Amaya, when he arrived at his home after 7 years in Castro’s Gulag. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT RUNS EVERYTHING A government run butcher shop in Havana, an example of cleanliness and hygiene. This is probably another thing that Obama would like to copy and bring to the U.S. MORE POVERTY THAN EVER BEFORE After more than 56 years, there is much more poverty in Cuba than ever before. Except for Castro and his gang who are the new millionaires, the 11 million Cubans have to suffer the exploitation of the omnipotent state, rationed food, lack of housing and the indignity of being second class citizens inCUBA B.C.
Cuba B.C. (Before Castro) Photos of Havana before the Castro brothers destroyed it. Miramar’s Quinta Avenida (Fifth Avenue) The same Quinta Avenida at night Quinta Avenida before the tunnel was built and cars had to use the iron bridge that is seen to the center-right The tunnel of Linea Street while it was still under construction. It was built by Cuban engineers and constructors betweenLA TROPICAL
The Miami Herald. Ramon Blanco Herrera carries his ghosts in a shiny, black tin box. His liver-spotted hands carefully remove relics he never imagined would become so nostalgic for him when he was a boy inCuba.
FIDEL CASTRO: THE HOMOPHOBIC DICTATOR AND HIS FORCED LABOR Fidel Castro was a murderer, and his supposed good intentions now towards the gay community do little to compensate the victims of his dictatorship. He was a criminal of the worst kind, who famously placed the following sign above the labor camp’s entrance: “Work will make you men.”. Seeing a homosexual defending Fidel Castro is asRACISM IN CUBA
Racism in Cuba. Contrary to what the Castro regime and its foreign apologists say, there is more racism in Cuba than ever before. So called ‘Black leaders’ like Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover, Maxine Waters, Jesse Jackson and many more have had a love affair with the Castro brothers for 56 years. They go to Cuba and are wined and dinedby
JINETERAS
From an article in The Spectator United Kingdom:. Visit Cuba – it’s the perfect holiday destination for poverty fetishists. Since last December, when officials from Cuba and the United States announced that the two countries, locked in a Cold War stand-off for 54 years, would seek to normalize relations, the tourist industry has been admonishing us to travel to Cuba ‘before it changes’.CHILD PROSTITUTION
U.S. diplomats documented the same money-for-child-sex system operating with the knowledge and permission of families in a 2009 cable to Washington. “Some Cuban children are reportedly pushed into prostitution by their families, exchanging sex for money, food or gifts,” it reads. The cost of forbidden youth is startlingly cheap:as little
CUBA THREATENS TO PROSECUTE EXILES IN ABSENTIA FOR ANTICASTRO’S GULAGCUBA B.CFIDEL CASTRO’S SON ENJOYING A MILLIONAIRE VACATION, WHILE CUBANS ARE STARVING POLITICO March 16, 2021. A new poll of Cuban-American voters in Florida shows that an overwhelming majority is solidly opposed to the Biden administration reengaging with the island dictatorship — and their brief drift toward Democrats has been totally reversed. THE INFAMOUS FIRING SQUADS Thousands of Cubans have died in front of Castro’s infamous ‘paredón’ (the wall). There was no discrimination, as far as sending people to the firing squad was concerned. THE CASTRO FAMILY CLAN Which one? He has at least 7 known sons and 2 daughters, including 3 who were born in 1956 alone, with 3 different women. But other sourcesmention as many as
CASTRO’S GULAG
“I don’t want to be rude, but what happened to this site?” This site went online 10 years ago, in March of 2005, using Microsoft FrontPage. That software was discontinued by Microsoft a few years ago and in May of this year I was advise by my hosting company that as of June 1 they would no longer support FrontPage extensions, which were required for the site to work properly.FREE HEALTHCARE?
THIS IS THE FAMOUS ‘GREAT AND FREE HEALTHCARE’ THAT REGULAR CUBANS RECEIVE One of the greatest fallacies about the so called ‘Cuban Revolution’ has to do with healthcare. CUBA’S OLDEST BEER, LA TROPICAL, BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE IN The Miami Herald. Ramon Blanco Herrera carries his ghosts in a shiny, black tin box. His liver-spotted hands carefully remove relics he never imagined would become so nostalgic for him when he was a boy inCuba.
SUGAR INDUSTRY
Cuba’s sugar mills have not been able to survive 61 years of Hurricane Castro. In 1958, there were 161 sugar mills operating in Cuba. According to Castro and his apologists, the majority of the sugar mills were owned by American companies, but that is just anotherlie.
MURDERED BY CHÉ
The true face of a terrorist mass murderer, by the Young America's Foundation. Che Guevara was an international terrorist and mass murderer. During his vicious campaigns to impose communism on countries throughout Latin America, che Guevara trained and motivated the Castro regime's firing squads that executed thousands of men,women and children.
ODEBRECHT
The CEO of Odebrecht, the company that built the port of Mariel in Cuba at a cost of $800 million and is currently involved in a $207 million expansion project at José Martí Airport in Havana, was arrested today in Brazil on corruption charges: THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT RUNS EVERYTHING A government run butcher shop in Havana, an example of cleanliness and hygiene. This is probably another thing that Obama would like to copy and bring to the U.S. CUBA THREATENS TO PROSECUTE EXILES IN ABSENTIA FOR ANTICASTRO’S GULAGCUBA B.CFIDEL CASTRO’S SON ENJOYING A MILLIONAIRE VACATION, WHILE CUBANS ARE STARVING POLITICO March 16, 2021. A new poll of Cuban-American voters in Florida shows that an overwhelming majority is solidly opposed to the Biden administration reengaging with the island dictatorship — and their brief drift toward Democrats has been totally reversed. THE INFAMOUS FIRING SQUADS Thousands of Cubans have died in front of Castro’s infamous ‘paredón’ (the wall). There was no discrimination, as far as sending people to the firing squad was concerned. THE CASTRO FAMILY CLAN Which one? He has at least 7 known sons and 2 daughters, including 3 who were born in 1956 alone, with 3 different women. But other sourcesmention as many as
CASTRO’S GULAG
“I don’t want to be rude, but what happened to this site?” This site went online 10 years ago, in March of 2005, using Microsoft FrontPage. That software was discontinued by Microsoft a few years ago and in May of this year I was advise by my hosting company that as of June 1 they would no longer support FrontPage extensions, which were required for the site to work properly.FREE HEALTHCARE?
THIS IS THE FAMOUS ‘GREAT AND FREE HEALTHCARE’ THAT REGULAR CUBANS RECEIVE One of the greatest fallacies about the so called ‘Cuban Revolution’ has to do with healthcare. CUBA’S OLDEST BEER, LA TROPICAL, BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE IN The Miami Herald. Ramon Blanco Herrera carries his ghosts in a shiny, black tin box. His liver-spotted hands carefully remove relics he never imagined would become so nostalgic for him when he was a boy inCuba.
SUGAR INDUSTRY
Cuba’s sugar mills have not been able to survive 61 years of Hurricane Castro. In 1958, there were 161 sugar mills operating in Cuba. According to Castro and his apologists, the majority of the sugar mills were owned by American companies, but that is just anotherlie.
MURDERED BY CHÉ
The true face of a terrorist mass murderer, by the Young America's Foundation. Che Guevara was an international terrorist and mass murderer. During his vicious campaigns to impose communism on countries throughout Latin America, che Guevara trained and motivated the Castro regime's firing squads that executed thousands of men,women and children.
ODEBRECHT
The CEO of Odebrecht, the company that built the port of Mariel in Cuba at a cost of $800 million and is currently involved in a $207 million expansion project at José Martí Airport in Havana, was arrested today in Brazil on corruption charges: THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT RUNS EVERYTHING A government run butcher shop in Havana, an example of cleanliness and hygiene. This is probably another thing that Obama would like to copy and bring to the U.S. CUBA IS AN ACADEMIC FRAUD Cuba Is an Academic Fraud. Few educational stats are available, and they are highly suspect. By Paul E. Peterson. The Wall Street Journal. March 16, 2020 1:37 pm ETCASTRO’S GULAG
“I don’t want to be rude, but what happened to this site?” This site went online 10 years ago, in March of 2005, using Microsoft FrontPage. That software was discontinued by Microsoft a few years ago and in May of this year I was advise by my hosting company that as of June 1 they would no longer support FrontPage extensions, which were required for the site to work properly.POVERTY IN CUBA
Benito Morejón arrived at the supermarket before dawn to claim a spot near the front of the queue. The supermarket in Havana is one of a number of shops opened by the Cuban government on the island in which basic food and hygiene products can be paid for withCUBA B.C.
Cuba B.C. (Before Castro) Photos of Havana before the Castro brothers destroyed it. Miramar’s Quinta Avenida (Fifth Avenue) The same Quinta Avenida at night Quinta Avenida before the tunnel was built and cars had to use the iron bridge that is seen to the center-right The tunnel of Linea Street while it was still under construction. It was built by Cuban engineers and constructors between MORE POVERTY THAN EVER BEFORE Many Castro apologists try to justify the poverty in Cuba saying that you can find the same poverty in many other countries. But what these people do not say is that those other countries didn’t have to suffer a so called ‘robolution’ that caused tens of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, the loss of all liberties, and that all of that supposedly was needed in order to improveLA TROPICAL
The Miami Herald. Ramon Blanco Herrera carries his ghosts in a shiny, black tin box. His liver-spotted hands carefully remove relics he never imagined would become so nostalgic for him when he was a boy inCuba.
JINETERAS
From an article in The Spectator United Kingdom:. Visit Cuba – it’s the perfect holiday destination for poverty fetishists. Since last December, when officials from Cuba and the United States announced that the two countries, locked in a Cold War stand-off for 54 years, would seek to normalize relations, the tourist industry has been admonishing us to travel to Cuba ‘before it changes’.RACISM IN CUBA
Contrary to what the Castro regime and its foreign apologists say, there is more racism in Cuba than ever before. So called ‘Black leaders’ like Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover, Maxine Waters, Jesse Jackson and many more have had a love affair with the Castro brothersfor 56 years.
LADIES IN WHITE
A right-wing Chilean congressman just back from a private visit to Cuba complained Monday that he was beaten, handcuffed and held for nearly three hours by Cuban authorities for participating in a peaceful demonstration by the Ladies in White dissident organizationin Havana.
FIDEL CASTRO: THE HOMOPHOBIC DICTATOR AND HIS FORCED LABOR PanamPost Español. Fidel Castro passed away last week and many apparently have ignored the murderous tendencies of the perpetual dictator. Or, like Colombia‘s influential magazine Semana, they simply pardon him for being a Communist. CUBA THREATENS TO PROSECUTE EXILES IN ABSENTIA FOR ANTICASTRO’S GULAGCUBA B.CFIDEL CASTRO’S SON ENJOYING A MILLIONAIRE VACATION, WHILE CUBANS ARE STARVING POLITICO March 16, 2021. A new poll of Cuban-American voters in Florida shows that an overwhelming majority is solidly opposed to the Biden administration reengaging with the island dictatorship — and their brief drift toward Democrats has been totally reversed. THE INFAMOUS FIRING SQUADS Thousands of Cubans have died in front of Castro’s infamous ‘paredón’ (the wall). There was no discrimination, as far as sending people to the firing squad was concerned. THE CASTRO FAMILY CLAN Which one? He has at least 7 known sons and 2 daughters, including 3 who were born in 1956 alone, with 3 different women. But other sourcesmention as many as
CASTRO’S GULAG
“I don’t want to be rude, but what happened to this site?” This site went online 10 years ago, in March of 2005, using Microsoft FrontPage. That software was discontinued by Microsoft a few years ago and in May of this year I was advise by my hosting company that as of June 1 they would no longer support FrontPage extensions, which were required for the site to work properly.FREE HEALTHCARE?
THIS IS THE FAMOUS ‘GREAT AND FREE HEALTHCARE’ THAT REGULAR CUBANS RECEIVE One of the greatest fallacies about the so called ‘Cuban Revolution’ has to do with healthcare. CUBA’S OLDEST BEER, LA TROPICAL, BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE IN The Miami Herald. Ramon Blanco Herrera carries his ghosts in a shiny, black tin box. His liver-spotted hands carefully remove relics he never imagined would become so nostalgic for him when he was a boy inCuba.
SUGAR INDUSTRY
Cuba’s sugar mills have not been able to survive 61 years of Hurricane Castro. In 1958, there were 161 sugar mills operating in Cuba. According to Castro and his apologists, the majority of the sugar mills were owned by American companies, but that is just anotherlie.
MURDERED BY CHÉ
The true face of a terrorist mass murderer, by the Young America's Foundation. Che Guevara was an international terrorist and mass murderer. During his vicious campaigns to impose communism on countries throughout Latin America, che Guevara trained and motivated the Castro regime's firing squads that executed thousands of men,women and children.
ODEBRECHT
The CEO of Odebrecht, the company that built the port of Mariel in Cuba at a cost of $800 million and is currently involved in a $207 million expansion project at José Martí Airport in Havana, was arrested today in Brazil on corruption charges: THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT RUNS EVERYTHING A government run butcher shop in Havana, an example of cleanliness and hygiene. This is probably another thing that Obama would like to copy and bring to the U.S. CUBA THREATENS TO PROSECUTE EXILES IN ABSENTIA FOR ANTICASTRO’S GULAGCUBA B.CFIDEL CASTRO’S SON ENJOYING A MILLIONAIRE VACATION, WHILE CUBANS ARE STARVING POLITICO March 16, 2021. A new poll of Cuban-American voters in Florida shows that an overwhelming majority is solidly opposed to the Biden administration reengaging with the island dictatorship — and their brief drift toward Democrats has been totally reversed. THE INFAMOUS FIRING SQUADS Thousands of Cubans have died in front of Castro’s infamous ‘paredón’ (the wall). There was no discrimination, as far as sending people to the firing squad was concerned. THE CASTRO FAMILY CLAN Which one? He has at least 7 known sons and 2 daughters, including 3 who were born in 1956 alone, with 3 different women. But other sourcesmention as many as
CASTRO’S GULAG
“I don’t want to be rude, but what happened to this site?” This site went online 10 years ago, in March of 2005, using Microsoft FrontPage. That software was discontinued by Microsoft a few years ago and in May of this year I was advise by my hosting company that as of June 1 they would no longer support FrontPage extensions, which were required for the site to work properly.FREE HEALTHCARE?
THIS IS THE FAMOUS ‘GREAT AND FREE HEALTHCARE’ THAT REGULAR CUBANS RECEIVE One of the greatest fallacies about the so called ‘Cuban Revolution’ has to do with healthcare. CUBA’S OLDEST BEER, LA TROPICAL, BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE IN The Miami Herald. Ramon Blanco Herrera carries his ghosts in a shiny, black tin box. His liver-spotted hands carefully remove relics he never imagined would become so nostalgic for him when he was a boy inCuba.
SUGAR INDUSTRY
Cuba’s sugar mills have not been able to survive 61 years of Hurricane Castro. In 1958, there were 161 sugar mills operating in Cuba. According to Castro and his apologists, the majority of the sugar mills were owned by American companies, but that is just anotherlie.
MURDERED BY CHÉ
The true face of a terrorist mass murderer, by the Young America's Foundation. Che Guevara was an international terrorist and mass murderer. During his vicious campaigns to impose communism on countries throughout Latin America, che Guevara trained and motivated the Castro regime's firing squads that executed thousands of men,women and children.
ODEBRECHT
The CEO of Odebrecht, the company that built the port of Mariel in Cuba at a cost of $800 million and is currently involved in a $207 million expansion project at José Martí Airport in Havana, was arrested today in Brazil on corruption charges: THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT RUNS EVERYTHING A government run butcher shop in Havana, an example of cleanliness and hygiene. This is probably another thing that Obama would like to copy and bring to the U.S. CUBA IS AN ACADEMIC FRAUD Cuba Is an Academic Fraud. Few educational stats are available, and they are highly suspect. By Paul E. Peterson. The Wall Street Journal. March 16, 2020 1:37 pm ETCASTRO’S GULAG
“I don’t want to be rude, but what happened to this site?” This site went online 10 years ago, in March of 2005, using Microsoft FrontPage. That software was discontinued by Microsoft a few years ago and in May of this year I was advise by my hosting company that as of June 1 they would no longer support FrontPage extensions, which were required for the site to work properly.POVERTY IN CUBA
Benito Morejón arrived at the supermarket before dawn to claim a spot near the front of the queue. The supermarket in Havana is one of a number of shops opened by the Cuban government on the island in which basic food and hygiene products can be paid for withCUBA B.C.
Cuba B.C. (Before Castro) Photos of Havana before the Castro brothers destroyed it. Miramar’s Quinta Avenida (Fifth Avenue) The same Quinta Avenida at night Quinta Avenida before the tunnel was built and cars had to use the iron bridge that is seen to the center-right The tunnel of Linea Street while it was still under construction. It was built by Cuban engineers and constructors between MORE POVERTY THAN EVER BEFORE Many Castro apologists try to justify the poverty in Cuba saying that you can find the same poverty in many other countries. But what these people do not say is that those other countries didn’t have to suffer a so called ‘robolution’ that caused tens of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, the loss of all liberties, and that all of that supposedly was needed in order to improveLA TROPICAL
The Miami Herald. Ramon Blanco Herrera carries his ghosts in a shiny, black tin box. His liver-spotted hands carefully remove relics he never imagined would become so nostalgic for him when he was a boy inCuba.
JINETERAS
From an article in The Spectator United Kingdom:. Visit Cuba – it’s the perfect holiday destination for poverty fetishists. Since last December, when officials from Cuba and the United States announced that the two countries, locked in a Cold War stand-off for 54 years, would seek to normalize relations, the tourist industry has been admonishing us to travel to Cuba ‘before it changes’.RACISM IN CUBA
Contrary to what the Castro regime and its foreign apologists say, there is more racism in Cuba than ever before. So called ‘Black leaders’ like Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover, Maxine Waters, Jesse Jackson and many more have had a love affair with the Castro brothersfor 56 years.
LADIES IN WHITE
A right-wing Chilean congressman just back from a private visit to Cuba complained Monday that he was beaten, handcuffed and held for nearly three hours by Cuban authorities for participating in a peaceful demonstration by the Ladies in White dissident organizationin Havana.
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protesting on Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach By Fabiola Santiago Miami Herald TRAVELERS TO CUBA AND CUBAN AMERICANS, BEWARE. President Joe Biden, his administration, members of Congress, takenote.
The Cuban government has struck a new repressive blow — and is reaching across the Florida Straits to impose repressive measures onU.S. citizens, too.
In a desperate bid to quash unprecedented opposition at home — and the visible mounting support abroad for dissidents — the Cuban regime has threatened to prosecute and jail any Cuban national living abroad who stands with them. No matter U.S. residency or citizenship status, if and when people born in Cuba return to the island to visit, they will be arrested and tried if the person has participated in what the regime calls “subversive actions,” a top prosecutor for the regime said onCuban television.
This can be anything from merely supporting a street protest on social media to physically attending an anti-regime rally on Calle Ocho. EVEN IF CUBAN NATIONALS DON’T RETURN TO CUBA, HE THREATENED, THEY WILL BE TRIED “IN ABSENTIA.” And, if they travel to another country, Cuba will seek extradition to the island, said prosecutor José Luis Reyes Blanco, a department head in the Criminal Proceedings Directorate of the Attorney General’sOffice.
“The laws allow the trial of people who are not in the country. Those individuals who fund, convene or coordinate these actions may be prosecuted in absentia. Or they can be extradited through international legal cooperation,” Reyes Blanco said on the television show Hacemos Cuba (We Make Cuba) on Caribe television. His words, reported in Spanish-language media like el Nuevo Herald, spread through Cuban Miami like a roadside brush fire.CUBA’S OVERREACH
“Terrifying,” a Cuban American academic who frequently travels to Cuba told me. “It’s another repressive mechanism in their arsenal to try to intimidate people.” It’s a push back against the power of social media to mobilize public opinion and against the power of a song, “Patria y Vida,” to rally the masses in a similar way to the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States. IS CUBA’S OVERREACH ENFORCEABLE? “It would be impossible to apply it to everyone,” the academic said, “but they will choose a few people as scapegoats and they can build a case out of nothing. They can put drugs in your luggage or a pack of dollars and claim it’s CIA money. It’s a sort of terrorist roulette to create a maximum state of terror. There is fear, a lot offear.”
Silencing artists in Cuba & U.S. The real reason the state is issuing such threats is to keep Cuban Americans in the United States from disseminating news about the dozens of dissidents, independent journalists and artists the regime right now has under house arrest, police posted at their doors. Or, who are in arbitrary, Machiavellian detention. One of them is San Isidro Movement founding artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, last year jailed for using the Cuban flag in his performance art and for his protest against a law that criminalizes making independent art. On a hunger strike to protest the trespassing of government agents into his house to confiscate and destroy his critical artwork, Otero Alcántara, 33, was forcibly removed from his house. He has been hospitalized under heavy security for two weeks and remainsincommunicado.
Throughout the hunger strike, Alcántara posted to social media poignant videos explaining to the world why he was willing to die. He’s so well-known, he’s now on Wikipedia. Most importantly for the Cuban government, respected Cuban American intellectuals who aren’t right-wingers — and have traveled to Havana to participate in official events like the book fair and art biennial — have stood openly and firmly behind the humble San Isidro artist movement’s fight against censorship. They’ve got the resources and stature and are using it to call international attention to Cuba’s brutal repression under new dictator Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel. They created and distributed 27N, a manifesto, that eloquently outlines what a new, truly revolutionary Cuba should look like. On April 27, 20 Cuban intellectuals from the island and the diaspora live streamed a choral reading of the legendary mea culpa the Cuban government forced jailed Cuban poet Heberto Padilla to make againsthis own poetry.
Fifty years ago, the Padilla affair, as it was known, brought the end of support for Fidel Castro from major Latin American, European and American intellectuals like Mario Vargas Llosa, Susan Sontag andJean-Paul Sartre.
Today, from Miami to Berlin, museums and other art venues are disseminating the reading, “Padilla’s Shadow,” directed by New York-based Cuban artist Coco Fusco. Looks like the Cuban regime, the world’s eyes on them, will have to hold hundreds of thousands of Kafkaesque trials. Travelers to Cuba, beware. AFTER 62 YEARS OF DICTATORSHIP CUBANS CAN FINALLY ENJOY THE “EXPLODING CROQUETA” April 3, 2021 UncategorizedGutset
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resident Anselmo López Galves suffered burns all over his body when he tried to fry the croquetas. These croquetas in Cuba are explosive. Maker warns about ‘violence’ if not cooked rightThe Miami Herald
Dozens of people in Cuba have complained in recent weeks that croquetas made by a state company are exploding when cooked and causing burns. Cubans have shared images of burned faces — and videos of the croquetas jumping out of hot oil — on social media. After a multitude of complaints, the state company, Prodal, admitted its croquetas are prone to “violence” and warned customers to prepare them carefully. “It is a common mistake when frying them. The oil should be about 180 degrees the croqueta should be at room temperature and you should not fry many at the same time. In the case of the Croqueta Criolla, they have a denser mass, and they open up with more ‘violence’,” Prodal posted on Twitter. Havana resident Anselmo López Galves suffered burns all over his body when he tried to fry the croquetas. Other customers also shared videos and photos of the explosions and their consequences on their socialmedia accounts.
López Galves said he started frying the croquetas after buying them at a state market on March 24. “To my surprise, these croquetas began to explode in my face, causing burns all over my body and disfiguring my face,” López Galves said on Facebook. López Galves said the doctor who treated him at the Calixto García hospital assured him that several people had come the same day with burns, victims of the explosive croquetas. According to official data, Prodal produced 20,000 tons of food last year, including sausages, cold cuts and croquetas, which are sold ingovernment stores.
Raúl Rodríguez, sports editor at Radio Havana Cuba, warned Cubans of the danger involved in frying croquettes, which he said blew up in afriend’s face.
“Be careful with the croquetas,” Rodríguez said on Facebook, and wondered if some of the ingredients in the popular item are the reasonthey can explode.
In Cuba, a country suffering severe food shortages, croquetas are popular, especially among lower income people. Prodal has launched a campaign to teach Cubans how to fry its product. “For your Croqueta Criolla Prodal to be perfect you have to fry them correctly. Before frying, bring them to room temperature. Heat plenty of oil to cover them. Take care that the oil does not blow away, ” the company said on Twitter. Many users responded to the post with demands for an apology from the company and for the croquetas to be recalled. “Make yourselves responsible and compensate the victims of your ineffectiveness, irresponsibility and lack of professionalism,” José Núñez Carvajal said on Twitter. Tweeted Daniel Granda Fernández: “They should stop production until the problem is solved.” NEW POLL SHOWS CUBAN-AMERICAN VOTERS ALIGN WITH GOP March 16, 2021 UncategorizedGutset
POLITICO
March 16, 2021
A new poll of Cuban-American voters in Florida shows that an overwhelming majority is solidly opposed to the Biden administration reengaging with the island dictatorship — and their brief drift toward Democrats has been totally reversed. During Barack Obama’s presidency, studies, exit polls and voting patterns indicated that the exiled community’s hardline positions about Cuba had begun to soften, prompting Obama to make a historic visit to the island in early 2016 — a move that brought a torrent of criticism from Florida Republicans including then-Gov. Rick Scott andSen. Marco Rubio.
But now 66 percent of those polled by Bendixen & Amandi International opposed reverting back to Obama policies toward Cuba. In a poll done by the same group in 2015, 51 percent backed the former president’s effort. The new poll also showed a major shift in support for keeping the decades-old trade embargo against Cuba. Six years ago, only 36 percent favored retaining the embargo. Now 66 percent say they favor keeping it in place. The poll also found a majority — 56 percent — oppose easing travel restrictions. “We see the Cuban-American electorate has recalibrated and defaulted back to the hardline positions,” said Fernand Amandi, president of Bendixen & Amandi, who called it a “Back to the Future” moment for Cuban-Americans where their positions are similar to the ones they held in the 1980s and 1990s. Cuban-Americans are one of the largest bloc of Hispanic voters in the state — and their support in the past for Republicans have helped the GOP maintain its winning record in the state. In the run-up to the 2020 election, Republicans successfully slammed Democrats as socialists, a message that resonated with Cuban-Americans and other groups that had fled Latin American countries led by dictators. In 2016 in Florida, Trump won over an estimated 54 percent of Cuban-American voters to 41 percent for Hillary Clinton, who lost the state by nearly 113,000 votes. The new poll of 400 Cuban-American voters — all of whom voted in November — showed that 62 percent backed Trump this time around. And that support for Trump hasn’t cooled as 62 percent had a favorable opinion for the former president, compared to 45 percent who had a favorable opinion for Biden. Trump’s surge due to support from Cuban-Americans was evident in Miami-Dade County. Four years earlier, Trump won only 34 percent of the nearly 1 million votes cast there. In 2020, he took 46 percent of the vote, losing the county by only about seven percentage points. The Biden administration so far has taken a cautious approach to Cuba. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki earlier this month told reporters that a “Cuba policy shift is not currently among President Biden’s top priorities.” Psaki did say the administration was “carefully reviewing policy decisions made in the prior administration, including the decision to designate Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism.” The Trump administration made that change just days before Biden was sworn into office. Scott, now a senator, said he was “not surprised” at the findings. “The Cuban-American community rejected the Obama/Biden policy of dictatorship empowerment,” Scott said in a statement. “In contrast, the Trump administration implemented a policy of marginalizing the dictatorship to empower the Cuban people. The community has seen the direct impact of both policies and understands that now would be the worst time to throw another life-line to that murderous dictatorship.” Rubio, in a statement, said Florida Democrats “naively believe” that the Cuba’s regime can be persuaded to change through tourism. “Anyone that sides with this so-called ‘re-engagement’ doesn’t just play into the regimes hands, they also do so at their own political peril,” he said. Amandi said the survey suggests that Democrats “are almost back to square zero when it comes to this group politically.” “A lot of the gains Democrats were making and did make during the Obama years seemed to have been wiped out as a result of Trump’s four years in office,” said Amandi, who also works as a Democraticconsultant.
The poll also had one other warning sign for Democrats: Some 40 percent of Cuban-Americans surveyed said they don’t believe the results of the 2020 election. Amandi called this finding an “ominous challenge” to win over Cuban-Americans in the future. “As a Cuban-American it’s very troubling and disturbing that an uncomfortably high percentage of Cuban voters, many of who came to the United States to live in a democratic and free society, discounted the election results and buy into the big lie that the election was rigged,” Amandi said. The latest poll was conducted March 8-11 among 400 registered Cuban-American voters and questions were asked in both Spanish and English. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 4.9 percentagepoints.
A note to consider for Cubans that have forgotten the facts of what aDictator is :
* Wants military parades * Holds huge rallies for no reason * Is a narcissist who loves to see his name on buildings * Appoints family members to important government positions * Talks about jailing the press and his opponents * Dreams about being president for life * Keeps his finances a secret * Enriches himself while in office * Suppresses the voteRemember Trump?
BIDEN’S NO. 1 TASK IN CUBA? FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED IN HAVANA. March 11, 2021 UncategorizedGutset
We still don’t know exactly how 26 American diplomats were injured in Havana in 2016 and 2017. But the evidence suggests Cuba at minimum failed to protect them.POLITICO 03/11/2021
With President Joe Biden in the White House, Democratic lawmakers and Washington think tankers are bustling with ideas about how the United States might ease economic pressure against the Cuban regime. While the new administration has said U.S. policy toward Cuba is currently under review, Biden promised during the presidential campaign to reverse Donald Trump’s policies toward Cuba and return “in large part” to the level of engagement under his former boss, President Barack Obama, who took the step of normalizing relations with Havana. But these are not normal times in which the United States has the luxury to debate the best approach to Cuba on normal terms—Republican or Democratic policies, sticks or carrots, maximum pressure or engagement. The starting point of any conversation about U.S. policy toward Cuba needs to be a piece of unfinished business from the previous administration: the still-unfolding mystery of how 26 American diplomats were injured in Havana in 2016 and 2017. The exact origins of the injuries remain uncertain, but the known and emerging evidence suggests the Cuban regime is guilty, if not by commission then at least by omission, of injuring U.S. personnel. This episode represents a likely direct attack on one country’s citizens by another, and there has yet to be a full accounting of who is responsible and how it all happened, or a resolution. If the Biden administration is tempted to engage anew with Havana, it must first hold the Cuban government to account for what these American diplomatsendured.
I had a unique window into the mystery of the Havana attacks while serving from 2017-19 in the State Department. A few months before my arrival, at least as early as December 2016, U.S. personnel in Havana began hearing loud, piercing sounds and feeling pressure in their heads. At first, American officials on the ground reasonably assumed this was another form of harassment or surveillance by Cuban security services, who had long antagonized U.S. personnel (and even their pets) in Havana—attempts to signal that the regime was watching and was fully in control. But by early 2017, it became clear that what was happening to U.S. personnel was causing them injury. Their symptoms included headaches, balance problems, cognitive issues, hearing loss and sleep disruption. The U.S. chargé d’affaires in Havana raised the issue multiple times with the Cuban government starting in February 2017, including with then-President Raúl Castro. Yet the “incidents,” as they were called by State Department officials at the time, continued. As a result, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made the decision to reduce U.S. staff in Havana and issue a travel warning in late September 2017, the month after the attacks became public. Cuba consistently denied involvement. Instead, the regime has peddled the theory that the cause was mass psychogenic illness—aka. mass hysteria—among America’s diplomatic personnel. Conveniently, this theory absolves Cuba of blame, shifting it instead to the victims. Yet the theory doesn’t hold up to scrutiny now, and never did. For one, neurospecialists in Miami, as well as at a premier U.S. brain injury center in Pennsylvania, have documented physical injuries in the victims. The latter group published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2018 documenting that the 21 victims who were studied “appeared to have sustained injury to widespread brain networks.” What’s more, it wasn’t just the cohort of Americans living in Cuba who were affected. U.S. officials who traveled to Havana on temporary duty, some for only a few days, also suffered injuries. So did at least 15 Canadian diplomats, who were working under less stressful conditions than their American counterparts, given that the Canadian government has long maintained a good relationship with the Cuban regime. Canada took the attacks so seriously that it, too, drew down its staff in Havana. The most recent research—including a State Department-commissioned report released last year by the National Academy of Sciences—has concluded that the victims’ symptoms and experiences are consistent with the effects of directed, pulsed radio frequency energy on brain networks. The study concludes further that directed energy is the “most plausible” explanation for the symptoms suffered. Directed energy is not new as a tool of espionage; it has been used for years, including against the U.S. Embassy in Moscow in the 1970s. The United States can draw three reasonable conclusions from the research suggesting pulsed energy was involved. First, the energy had to have been directed by actors, meaning at least one nation-state likely was involved. Second, U.S. and Canadian diplomats were deliberately targeted. Third, the “incidents” can appropriately be called “attacks” for which the Cuban government is at least partially responsible. Even if the original intent was spycraft and even if Cuba itself did not author the attacks, they continued for months after the United States had told the Cuban government that U.S. personnel were injured on Cuban soil, and Cuba failed to protect those Americans from injury. It is possible that a third-country actor was involved in the attacks or was the primary actor. Media reports have pointed to Russia as the most likely perpetrator, or sometimes Iran or China. In 2017 and 2018, U.S. personnel in Guangzhou, China, experienced injuries consistent with those in Cuba. There also have been subsequent media reports of attacks against U.S. government personnel in Poland, Georgia, Australia and Taiwan. Even if other countries were involved, however, it is impossible to conclude that dozens of attacks could have taken place in Havana without at least the knowledge—and tacit support—of the Cuban government. The Cubans are known for having air-tight control of the population in Havana, including closely tracking dissidents and foreign diplomats. Some of the American victims were staying in Cuban government-owned hotels, several of which were included in the travel warnings issued by the State Department in 2017 as a result of the attacks. In one case, a U.S. diplomat was attacked within hours of arriving in country. It is implausible that Cuban security services had no idea American travelers were attacked—and far more likely that the security services, or some factions within them, facilitated or carried out the attacks. As to the Cubans’ potential motive, the timing is suggestive. Fidel Castro, the country’s longtime leader, died on November 25, 2016, just a month before the first attacks were reported to U.S. leadership at the embassy in Havana. Some observers have floated theories about internal tension within the Cuban regime after Fidel’s death, with different factions holding competing views about the opening with the United States, the Cuban economy and other policies. The attacks, the thinking goes, might have been the work of a faction that opposed warmer relations with Washington. So, what should the new U.S. administration do now? The Biden administration recently signaled a continued focus on the Havana attacks by appointing a high-level coordinator in the State Department, mirroring the Trump administration’s tapping the deputy secretary of State to be the lead official coordinating the response. This is a good first step, but it is not sufficient. Meanwhile, Democratic lawmakers are urging the new president to lift restrictions on Cuban travel and remittances, as well as the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba. These calls demand nothing in return from the Cuban government—neither progress on human rights and democracy nor the cessation of support for the Maduro dictatorship in Venezuela, much less answers to how at least 26 Americans were injured in Havana. Cuba almost certainly has information about the tools and method of attacks that could help the United States protect its personnel around the world. The United States should not ease economic pressure until that information is shared. If the new administration were to do so without first holding Cuba to account for the attacks, this would send the message that U.S. diplomats all over the world are fair game. The implication would be that there is no cost for injuring Americans, and in fact doing so wins you U.S. tourism and dollars. The Biden administration has signaled that it will use a variety of strategies to hold other countries to account for their actions. The United States recently sanctioned Russian officials for the poisoning of a Russian opposition leader, for example, and launched airstrikes after rocket attacks against the U.S. facilities in Iraq. The administration must send a clear message that attacking or facilitating attacks on U.S. diplomats is not acceptable either. Accountability for the injuries of these 26 Americans must begin where the attacks started, in Havana. ‘I CAN’T BUY FOOD’: AS CUBA’S ECONOMY WORSENS, DESPERATE RAFTERS RISK THEIR LIVES February 25, 2021 UncategorizedGutset
The Miami Herald
Marisol Monteagudo’s son gave her a kiss goodbye as he headed out the door to spend a night out with friends in Cuba’s Isla de laJuventud.
What he didn’t tell her: That instead of grabbing a drink or watching a movie, they were planning to board a flimsy raft en routeto Mexico.
That was three months ago. She hasn’t heard from him since. “Only a mother can understand this pain,” Monteagudo, 62, said. “I know my son is alive. I just hope someone helps me find him.” In recent months, U.S. Coast Guard officials have detected a new uptick in Cuban rafters, with the number intercepted at sea in the fiscal year that started in October already surpassing the total for the previous 12 months. Though still vastly lower than previous surges, the recent increase has sparked concern that as economic and humanitarian conditions in Cuba worsen, more will risk their lives at sea. U.S. President Joe Biden’s proposal to transform the immigration system is also believed to be a driving factor. “It’s a combination of the rising desperation of a good part of the Cuban population over deteriorating life conditions, as well as the illusion of getting to the United States under a president who is more tolerant of undocumented immigrants,” said Jorge Duany, director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida InternationalUniversity.
According to U.S. Coast Guard figures, more than 100 Cubans have been caught at sea in the last five months, compared to 49 in all of the2020 fiscal year.
Those rescued in recent weeks include three Cubans stranded on an island in the Bahamas for 33 days, surviving off of coconuts, rats, conch and snails. On Tuesday, authorities announced they’d rescued six men and two pregnant women aboard a raft made of Styrofoam and metal rods and apparently powered by a car engine. “I threw myself into the sea because it’s not possible to live like this anymore,” said Beatriz, 28, who the Coast Guard found on a raft near Key West in January. “There’s nothing in the stores and with what I earn, I can’t buy food for my daughters.” The mother of two daughters said she boarded a raft with eight neighbors after receiving a WhatsApp message indicating the new U.S. president would allow Cubans to enter. After being returned, Cuban authorities told her she’d be fined 10,000 pesos – the equivalent of $416 – if she tried to flee again, said Beatriz, who asked only to be identified by her first name for fear of reprisal. On a recent afternoon, she said state security officials showed up to ask the neighborhood “Revolutionary Defense Committee” about her behavior. “It’s as bad here as it has ever been,” she said. Cuba is in the throes of its worst economic crisis since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The nation’s GDP contracted 11% last year as the nation closed its borders to international travelers and tourism plummeted as a result of the pandemic. New economic reforms designed to boost the ailing economy have increased inflation. Many Cubans now wait in long lines to buy increasingly sparse supplies of basic goodslike food.
Ramón Saúl Sánchez, a Cuban exile who for decades has helped the “balseros,” described the current situation as “an exodus in slow motion that each day is more visible.” He said Coast Guard figures don’t convey the full magnitude of the situation, since those who arrive go undetected, living as undocumented residents. In 2017, the Obama administration ended the so-called “wet foot, dry foot” policy granting residency to Cubans who reached U.S. soil. The vast majority of those caught at sea are now returned, except those who can prove a well-founded fear of persecution. “Those who reach land hide like any other undocumented migrant,” Sánchez said. “What is happening should send an alarm signal about Cuba’s situation.” Duany said that “for the moment” he doesn’t expect to see a rise like that seen in 1994, when 35,000 people fled after Fidel Castro announced that anyone who wanted to leave could go, or in the lead-up to the end of “wet foot, dry foot.” “The regime in Havana probably wouldn’t allow the flight of thousands of people without U.S. visas,” he said. “And Washington wouldn’t accept their arrival.” For Monteagudo, the long days since her 32-year-old son’s departure have been marked by worry and futile efforts to locate her son, Yerandy Paz. His girlfriend has written to U.S. and Cuban authorities asking for their help in finding him. “A mother will always wait,” Monteagudo said. “Gold and dollars are are worth nothing if you don’t have family and life.” SEN. BOB MENENDEZ ASKS FOR ‘TANGIBLE RESULTS’ IN POSSIBLE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CUBA UNDER BIDEN February 19, 2021 UncategorizedJorge
A group of senators, Cuban-American politicians, exile organizations, and members of the island’s opposition asked President Joe Biden Wednesday to condition any eventual negotiation with Cuba on improvements in human rights and political freedoms. Cuban-American Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., the new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that one of his priorities is to restore the promotion of human rights and democracy as fundamental pillars of U.S. diplomacy. “And that absolutely includes the policy of the United States towards Cuba,” he said in a video shown at an event in Miami, in which he switched from English to Spanish several times. The issue “is deeply personal for my family,” he noted. Without referring directly to a possible policy change under Biden, Menendez, one of the most vocal critics within the Democratic Party of the thaw promoted by former President Barack Obama, said that U.S. policy toward the island should obtain concrete results. “As the U.S. strives to strengthen respect for democracy and human rights in Cuba and around the world, we must make sure our efforts produce tangible results on these fundamental issues,” he said. “We must guarantee that the conduct of U.S. diplomacy, in turn, requires and demands that our adversaries and authoritarian regimes take steps to restore and respect the rights of their citizens.” The Biden administration has said it is reviewing policy toward the island. Biden has vowed to reverse former President Donald Trump’s sanctions, starting with lifting restrictions on remittances and travel. But it remains unclear whether he would completely dismantle the previous policy to foster a new thaw in relations. The event, organized by the Inspire America Foundation, a nonprofit organization that seeks regime change on the island, offered its vision for bipartisan unity on Cuba policy, which is not the prerogative of a single party, said the group’s president, lawyer Marcell Felipe. In the past, Felipe has organized events to rally support for Trump’s Cuba policies and other Republican politiciansamong Cuban exiles.
“Elected officials in this community have differences, but if something unites us, it is asking for the freedom of Cuba,” said Republican U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez, former mayor of Miami-DadeCounty.
But the majority of Republican politicians at the event openly pushed back on pursuing normalization with Cuba or called for conditioning it on the release of political prisoners and the holding of freeelections.
“It is important that we make it clear that any rapprochement with the Cuban regime will not change the future of Cubans at all,” said Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio in a video recorded in Spanish. “Trying to reestablish relations with Díaz-Canel, Raúl Castro’s puppet, is not viable and much less reasonable considering his ties to terrorist groups such as the FARC, the ELN and the narco-regime of Maduro,” added Rubio, who was one of the architects of the sanctions against Cuban military companies under the Trump administration. The Cuban dissident and leader of an island-based opposition group known as the Patriotic Union of Cuba, José Daniel Ferrer, also asked the administration “not to make concessions that oxygenate this iron grip dictatorship,” in a video sent from Santiago de Cuba. He was released from jail last year after an international outcry but sentenced to house arrest under charges that several human rights organizations labeled as political. In other video messages, Miami Republican Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart described the rapprochement promoted by Obama as “disastrous.” Florida Sen Rick Scott accused the Cuban government of sowing violence and destabilizing the region. The organizer of the event, Felipe, said that he favored keeping Cuba on the list of countries that sponsor terrorism. Wednesday’s event comes after several memos and letters published by groups that favor a rapprochement with Cuba, asking Biden to eliminate sanctions and resume the process of normalization of relationsinitiated by Obama.
The participation of Menendez, an influential voice in the Senate, and that of several mayors representing a large part of the Miami-Dade electorate, illustrates the obstacles that Biden will face if he decides to reverse Cuba policy. In past presidential elections, a majority of Cuban Americans supported Trump, in part drawn by his harsh rhetoric against the governments of Cuba and Venezuela.Leave a comment
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