The Americas 🇨🇺 Protests in Cuba

[DarthOne]

Not yet.

It will be an island when the San Andreas Fault is done with them

That’s unlikely to happen in reality. The ‘best’ we can hope for is for parts of the country to get flattened by the Big One.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Quick work by DC Mayor (and Mario Villainness) Bowser in scrubbing clean the hideous graffiti that was scrawled across the street in front of the Cuban Embassy in the District of Colombia.

The Bowser administration defended the decision to crackdown on the anti-Castro activists. "The ‘Cuba Libre' painting on the street was unauthorized, so DPW crews power washed to remove it," Erica Cunningham, the public information officer for D.C. Public Works, told the Free Beacon.

The Cuban Embassy is located on the same street where the Department of Public Works painted "Black Lives Matter" in large yellow letters at Bowser's behest in June 2020. The section of road is now designated as "Black Lives Matter Plaza" and maintained by the city. At the time, Bowser said the plaza, near historic St. John's Church, which was nearly burned down by rioters last summer, was supposed to honor those who took to the streets following the death of George Floyd. Bowser has yet to acknowledge the pro-freedom Cuban protesters who, Gonzalez says, have had enough of communist rule.

DC Mayor Scrubs Anti-Castro Slogan From Cuban Embassy Entrance

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D.) removed a pro-freedom slogan in front of the Cuban Embassy a day after it was painted on the street to protest Cuba's communist regime, sparking criticism from Cuban Americans.

freebeacon.com

Lives that matter...

 

[Captain X]

At some point, I'm really hoping that street graffiti comes back to bite the city government in the ass.

 

[Husky_Khan]

So Cubans can travel to Russia pretty freely on tourist visas so that apparently leads to situations like this:

Russia stops Cubans from entering Estonia on air mattresses

The Cubans were caught by Russian border guards on the River Narva trying to paddle into the European Union country of Estonia on air mattresses.

nypost.com

Entering the EU on said Russian visas is still verboten. They were apparently going to enter the EU and attempt to enter Spain where they had relatives. Instead they'll likely be fined and deported back to Cuba.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Why would the Trump Administration do this? The Orange Man is just dedicated to needlessly ruining the Obama Legacy.

The U.S. Treasury Department said on Friday it was imposing sanctions on two Cuban Ministry of Interior officials and a military unit over the Cuban government's crackdown on protesters last month.

US Treasury Sanctions Cuban Officials, Military Unit Over Violence

US sanctioning Romarico Vidal Sotomayor Garcia and Pedro Orlando Martinez Fernandez and the Tropas de Prevencion of the Cuban Ministry of Revolutionary Armed Forces

www.voanews.com

 

[Sergeant Foley]

In the long term the Cuban communist government is not long for the world.

As you can see Cuba as a naval base has the ability in theory to cut the US's missippi trade from the rest of the world. The united states thus has a very good reason to never allow a hostle regieme to exist on the island. The fact that they have been allowed to exist after the end of the cold war was an act of generosity. As the US withdrawls back to its back yard its going to pay more attention to its back yard and getting rid of the commies is just good fincial sense.

When do you think that'll happen?

 

[Cherico]

When do you think that'll happen?

After China's economy goes boom, it becomes obvious that russia's fucked. Or as soon as america gets out of its self absorbed internal drama and gives Cuba a mean look.

Quite simply put their running out of people who can give them outside support and are next to a super power, and the current regime isn't all that popular.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

After China's economy goes boom, it becomes obvious that russia's fucked. Or as soon as america gets out of its self absorbed internal drama and gives Cuba a mean look.

Quite simply put their running out of people who can give them outside support and are next to a super power, and the current regime isn't all that popular.

Translation: Xi and Putin can only back Cuba for so long as long as they're breathing.

 

[Cherico]

Translation: Xi and Putin can only back Cuba for so long as long as they're breathing.

fair intrepretation, thus fair cuba exists as it does out of intertia and american laziness.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

fair intrepretation, thus fair cuba exists as it does out of intertia and american laziness.

Same thing with Venezuela.

 

[49ersfootball]

New York Times description of the protestors as "chanting 'freedom' and other anti-government slogans" was/is worthy of a hearty chuckle. Especially with the fawning coverage the regime or Castro himself while he was alive (or in his obituaries) has received by them and others in that vein of 'news'.

Hopefully the protestors can engender some change or, best case, send Diaz-Canel and the Communist Party of Cuba the way of the dodo. But communist regimes have the amazing ability of killing or disappearing enough 'enemies of the revolution' to maintain their power once they achieve it to keep themselves alive and on top no matter how shitty the impacts of their governance on everyone below them (See Venezuela for a modern contemporary example). Somewhat amazing, that.

Big question is whether the regime will fall in the 2020s or 2030s ?
A.) YES
B.) NO
C.) TBD