Let Freedom reign.

Maybe, just maybe. That would be a win for Cubans and the world.

Oh my! A proletariat counter-revolution.
I can see why the extremist Democratic Socialists (Commies) are struck dumb and in a dither.
Secretly they are hoping the miscreants will ‘face broken heads and bloodshed’

I see Biden called the demonstrations in Havana a ‘clarion call for freedom’.
In Washington, he would call it an insurrection.

Thousands of Cubans took to the streets from Havana to Santiago on Sunday in rarely seen protests, expressing frustration over economic conditions, the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations and what they said was government neglect.

President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who also heads the Communist Party, blamed the United States for the unrest in a nationally televised speech on Sunday afternoon.

Special forces jeeps, with machine guns mounted on the back, were seen in the capital, Havana, and Diaz-Canel called on supporters to confront "provocations."

Thousands of people gathered in downtown Havana and along parts of the seaside drive amid a heavy police presence. There were a few arrests and scuffles.

A Reuters reporter witnessed police pepper spray a few protesters and hit others with batons, but there was no attempt to directly confront the thousands chanting "Freedom" as they gathered and marched in the city center. Their shouts of "Diaz-Canel step down" drowned out groups of government supporters chanting "Fidel."

The protests broke out in San Antonio de los Banos municipality in Artemisa Province, bordering Havana, with video on social media showing hundreds of residents chanting anti-government slogans and demanding everything from coronavirus vaccines to an end of daily blackouts.

"I just walked through town looking to buy some food and there were lots of people there, some with signs, protesting," local resident Claris Ramirez said by phone.

"They are protesting blackouts, that there is no medicine," she added.

Diaz-Canel, who had just returned from San Antonio de los Banos, said many protesters were sincere but manipulated by U.S.-orchestrated social media campaigns and "mercenaries" on the ground, and warned that further "provocations" would not be tolerated.

There were protests later on Sunday hundreds of miles (km) to the east in Palma Soriano, Santiago de Cuba, where social media video showed hundreds marching through the streets, again confirmed by a local resident.

"They are protesting the crisis, that there is no food or medicine, that you have to buy everything at the foreign currency stores, and on and on the list goes," Claudia Perez said.

Economic crisis

"We are calling on all the revolutionaries in the country, all the Communists, to hit the streets wherever there is an effort to produce these provocations," Diaz-Canel said in his broadcast remarks.

The Communist-run country has been experiencing a worsening economic crisis for two years, which the government blames mainly on U.S. sanctions and the pandemic, while its detractors cite incompetence and a Soviet-style one-party system.

A combination of sanctions, local inefficiencies and the pandemic has shut down tourism and slowed other foreign revenue flows in a country dependent on them to import the bulk of its food, fuel and inputs for agriculture and manufacturing.

The economy contracted 10.9 percent last year, and 2 percent through June of 2021.

There has been a surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths this year, with a record 6,900 cases and 47 deaths reported on Saturday.

Cuba has two vaccines and has begun a mass vaccination campaign, with 1.7 million of its 11.2 million residents vaccinated to date and twice that many at various states of the three-shot process.

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/world/2021/07/501_311994.html 


Lead by Americans? It took Pedo Joe 2 days to even recognize he's missing out on a new voting bloc!

My how things have changed since Michael Moore was there!🐴

lol woooooo

Today thousands take to the streets with their corncobulators in hand en route to the great hall known as the DMV.

Traitors! Insurrectionists! Neoconfederates!
Don't these proles know that progressive President Miguel Diaz-Canel is trying to save the Union from being taken over by capitalist pig secessionists?

Then each side with corncobulators in hand...

There may not have been a present day Communist Cuba if President Kennedy had not canceled the air support for the Bay of Pigs invasion.

And conversely, there probably would not have been a Cubian missle crisis.

the plan was 100% conceived and planned during the Eisenhower Administration.
Kennedy had just taken office, was briefed, and decided to go with it despite the predictable failure his advisors warned against.
It was ludicrous, and counted on a surge of support from thousands of angry Cubans that didn't happen.
The air support was a factor but far from the determining factor as the land/sea portion had already taken a dump and no Cuban citizens showed up.

I agree that the missile crises would probably not have happened without this failed and ill advised mission...though it was clear that Castro was all in on the Soviet Union and likely would have turned to them eventually to allow for them to gain position in the Western Hemisphere anyway,

Kennedy took all the blame, btw. And actually parlayed the missile crisis into a show of strength as he faced down Nikita K.

Likely none of this happens without US Corporate nonsense for years prior.

And if the dog didn't stop to take a chit, he probably would have taken a large piece of your arse.

Frank, don't conflate capitalism and corporations with corporatism and all the state graft and corruption it must entail. (Sounds strangely familiar?:-k )
Batista's regime was no bastion of laissez faire by any stretch.

https://www.ascecuba.org/asce_proceedings/cuban-corporatism-batistas-three-year-plan-and-a-nation-betrayed/ 

also, Dan, Castro had already taken control over a year before Kennedy took office. Cuba was gonzo.

rayr, keep googling. I was very young, but it happened in my lifetime.

Frank, I will oblige but I don't Google, I Duck Duck Go. The Google corporatists spy on me and try to misdirect me. They suck.

can't argue.

Neither can he