Guest Post by John Stossel
Are they still protesting in Cuba?
I don’t know.
The Cuban government has shut off the Cuban people’s internet.
The big demonstrations began four weeks ago, sparked, curiously, by a rap song. The key lyric is: “Freedom! No more Doctrine!”
“Doctrine” refers to the “constant cycle of propaganda” from the government, explains Cuban emigre Alian Collazo in my newest video.
Sadly, silly TV reporters in America claimed the protests were about “hunger, pandemic restrictions and the lack of COVID vaccinations,” or, according to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, “food and fuel shortages.”
“Nonsense!” says Collazo. The cause is clear. “The protesters were yelling, ‘Down with communism!’ and ‘Libertad! Liberty!'”
Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed, “They are protesting the lack of materials during the pandemic, particularly the lack of medical supplies.”
Collazo is bewildered. “She speaks Spanish! Can she not listen to what the Cuban people are saying? ‘Libertad’ means ‘freedom’!” It’s true that Cubans want food, “but if you don’t have liberty, you don’t have food.”
Some people say Cubans lack food because of what Ocasio-Cortez calls America’s “absurdly cruel” embargo.
The embargo is absurd and counterproductive.
But that misses the point.
“Do research on what the embargo is! Medicine, food, and all of that can be traded,” says Collazo.
Yes, they can. America exempts food and medicine from its embargo.
Also, at least 80 other countries do trade with Cuba.
The real reason for shortages and suffering in Cuba is communism. “When the government controls your business,” says Collazo, “people don’t have food. All resources end up in the hands of the state.”
Other American “useful idiots,” like Michael Moore, praise Cuba’s “free” services.
In his documentary “Sicko,” Moore took a group of Americans to a Cuban hospital and celebrated how they were given free health care.
But Collazo points out that “free” is misleading. “Go to a hospital in Cuba — they don’t even have aspirin! Yeah, (health care’s) free. (But) it’s horrible.”
When the recent protests began, a reporter asked President Joe Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki, “Do you think that people are leaving Cuba because they don’t like communism.” She responded, “They are opposed to the oppression (and) mismanagement of the government.”
She wouldn’t condemn communism by name.
Fortunately, a few days later, her boss did. “Communism is a failed system, a universally failed system,” said Biden. “I don’t see socialism as a very useful substitute.”
Good for Biden for saying that.
Collazo wishes he would do more.
“The Cuban people are not asking for military intervention,” he says. Instead, “Get the president of the United States to deliver internet.”
The current protests “happened spontaneously,” says Collazo, “because of social media. That’s why the regime didn’t even know about it … they were surprised by the enormous amount of individuals that went out at the same time.”
Because of that, Cuba’s government has now shut down the island’s only internet provider. Future protests will be hidden from the rest of the world.
The United States could beam internet into Cuba.
I don’t know if it would make a difference.
But Collazo thinks it would. “This is historic. In Cuba, we have never seen this.”
John Stossel is author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.”
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Hello Silence, our old friend.
We are not importing Cubans because they would recognize the Communists in Power for what they are…
Let me see if I got this right.
The “People” are clamoring for regime change so they can replace the existing government with the freedoms and LIBERTY we have traditionally given to satellite countries we have conquered and the great mouthpiece of Lobotomotarianism is complaining because the existing government isn’t playing fair and cut off cell phone usage.
Well alrighty then.
No, no. They are demanding the right to turn their kids into surgically mutilated trannies and other fag stuff, and an utterly corrupt government controlled via child-rape video blackmail of the political class by Israel, and a Jew-run private central bank, and an opioid epidemic, and massive immigration to slowly genocide their native population.
You know, what America stands for.
That’s basically what I said except I was using sarcasm. Stossel is upset because their present government was smart enough to turn off the B3RGs ablility to conduct the Cuba Spring operation by phone.
Gaddafi’s ghost is still lamenting being crazy enough to surrender his supply of Sarin Gas.
…or stay asleep.
Imagine a country where you can’t speak freely on the internet!
Guantanamera: Cuban song representing freedom and nationalism.
The last thing this POS administration can afford is for folks to see people in a Communist country, rising up against tyranny -especially that close to here.
You know, when Trump wanted to make recess appointments, all 100 senators voted (“unanimous consent”) to maintain the farce that they were never in recess. That was McConnell showing Trump who was boss. Of course, Trump deserves contempt for signing all of those continuing resolutions like a pussy. Still, the point is that Rubio and Cruz (and even Rand Paul, sadly) were complicit in hobbling Trump’s ability to get non-Swampers into key position. So fuck Cuba. I won’t give a single fuck about Cuba or Venezuela or Israel while our elected “representatives” are letting January 6th protesters be tortured in solitary confinement. I will pray for those poor Israeli settlers in the West Bank who aren’t able to buy Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. The horror.