Posted on 07/11/2021 8:13:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As we previously reported there are thousands out in the streets across Cuba, from small towns to big cities, calling for freedom from the Communist government and chanting “we are not afraid!”
People are saying it’s the largest mass protest since 1959. If you know your Cuban history, that’s the last time the government changed hands — when Fidel Castro took power. So, that’s an incredibly significant thing to say.
I have been covering Cuba since the 1994 rafter crisis. I have never ever seen anything like the protests today.
https://t.co/h8Ukuvpfp3— Frances Robles (@FrancesRobles) July 11, 2021
Carolina Barrero, a Cuban activist, went even further. “It is the most massive popular demonstration to protest the government that we have experienced in Cuba since ’59,” she said by text message, referring to the year Fidel Castro took power. She called the public outpouring on Sunday “spontaneous, frontal and forceful.”
“What has happened is enormous,” she added.
Our Lady of Charity is taking the lead in one town.
Powerful image: South of Havana, in Bejucal, the townspeople bring out la Virgen de la Caridad, the Patroness of Cuba, as the people shout, “Liberty! Liberty! Liberty.” #SOSCuba
#VivaCubaLibre #Libertad pic.twitter.com/tgyP0AkQyq— Jose Felix Diaz (@josefelixdiaz) July 11, 2021
There’s also another powerful symbol that some are waving — the American flag — to them, a symbol of freedom. Imagine if the folks on our left in this country understood that meaning as well these Cubans do.
Freedom in Cuba is symbolized with the American 🇺🇸 flag. #SOSCuba #freedom https://t.co/bw9iLktUXy
— Ileana Garcia (@IleanaGarciaUSA) July 11, 2021
That shows you this is serious, too. Because waving that can get you locked up for awhile — and they’re not afraid.
An order went out to the police to crackdown and shut the protesters down, according to reports.
#Cuba|n police has start to arrest and attack protestors in the streets.
— 🇵🇹 ＭＯＤＥＲＮ ＥＲＡ ＮＥＷＳ ➐ 🇪🇺 (@ModernEraNews) July 11, 2021
But that’s not going particularly well. The people are fighting back, in some places overwhelming police and chasing them away.
🇨🇺 DÍA HISTÓRICO | Los cuerpos represivos castristas intentan controlar al pueblo deseoso de LIBERTAD, pero no lo consiguen.
pic.twitter.com/OUJuTXjlTD— Yusnaby Pérez (@Yusnaby) July 11, 2021
The scenes out of Cuba today — overturned police cars, looted government stores, people throwing rocks at police — are nothing short of astonishing.
https://t.co/04BeVQRzh8— Frances Robles (@FrancesRobles) July 11, 2021
#Cuba 🇨🇺: protesters in the town of Cardenas have reportedly flipped a police car as anti-regime rallies spread across the island. #SOSCuba #PatriaYVida
Source: https://t.co/BDSnno6bhb pic.twitter.com/gQ64T9ECck
— Thomas van Linge (@ThomasVLinge) July 11, 2021
Cuba is awakening. Its government is a dictatorship. #SOSCuba #CubaEsUnaDictadura #PatriaYVida pic.twitter.com/bevUXHAaSz
— Ernesto 🇨🇺 (@gnapse) July 11, 2021
LA FOTO 🇨🇺 #SOSCuba pic.twitter.com/WGgQ8pzJYI
— Yusnaby Pérez (@Yusnaby) July 12, 2021
Continúan llegando imágenes de las protestas el día de hoy… la violencia está escalando lamentablemente.#FuerzaCuba pic.twitter.com/UsIhEurAGb
— Mag Jorge Castro🇨🇺 (@mjorgec1994) July 12, 2021
#Cuba 🇨🇺: unimaginable scenes as protesters are throwing stones at the police.
Anger with the regime clearly runs deep after 62 years of repression. #SOSCuba #PatriaYVida
Source: https://t.co/sbncj5yt1m pic.twitter.com/sxnaAv3SKh
— Thomas van Linge (@ThomasVLinge) July 11, 2021
In at least one case, the police are seeing the writing on the wall and joining the crowds. That’s pretty amazing, all by itself.
The police in Santiago de Cuba join in the protests. See video. We have never seen that happen before. #SOSCuba #VivaCubaLibre pic.twitter.com/bzDEGl9wk9
— Jose Felix Diaz (@josefelixdiaz) July 11, 2021
How are Twitter and some in media reporting this? Upset with food shortages and COVID. They’re leaving out how this is anti-Communism and calling for the fall of the regime.
— Dr. Nickarama (@nickaramaOG) July 11, 2021
Joe Biden has been silent, while a variety of Republican politicians have tweeted their support for the Cuban people.
Florida supports the people of Cuba as they take to the streets against the tyrannical regime in Havana. The Cuban dictatorship has repressed the people of Cuba for decades & is now trying to silence those who have the courage to speak out against its disastrous policies#SOSCuba pic.twitter.com/H71EYoKdUZ
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) July 11, 2021
Remember the scene in “The Godfather,” where Michael Corleone was in Cuba and he told Hyman Roth how he knew that Castro could win in 1959? Because the protesters were unafraid and willing to give their lives. Now, look at this video and realize something like that is happening across Cuba today.
🚨#SOSCuba🚨
Cuban state security dressed in civilian clothes just pulled out a revolver and attacked a peaceful pro-democracy demonstrator.
The brave protestor told him: “Shoot me in the chest, motherfucker!” #PatriaYVida pic.twitter.com/6LkSZFrOeJ
— Giancarlo Sopo (@GiancarloSopo) July 11, 2021
When Pope John Paul II visited Cuba in 1998, he famously told the Cuban people: "Do not be afraid."
I think it's no coincidence that as thousands of Cubans march across the island today, they chant "We are not afraid!" God is with the people of Cuba.
#SOSCuba🇨🇺 #PatriaYVida pic.twitter.com/hLl1PIdC3V— Giancarlo Sopo (@GiancarloSopo) July 11, 2021
These protests are putting fake President Biden & the Left in a bind.
People especially Dem supporters are now getting a glimpse of what socialism really is. It’s not the glamorous Che Guevara shirt wearing hugs and kisses. It’s desperate people at the breaking point, 60 years of misery.
The Left’s only option will be a media blackout. Watch Twitter and Facebook start pulling posts of videos. They CANNOT let the truth come out.
Communism in Russia lasted for seventy years. If Communism in Cuba collapses after a similar time span ….
It’s either going to go Tien An Mein or it will go Ceaucescu’s trial and execution. Both messy. Latter preferred.
I wonder if FAKE NEWS will talk about this. I bet the fake media will call the protests ‘Racism’ or ‘White Supremacists’ or some BS like that...
The irony. They move to freedom and we move to single party communism
>>Can’t have our lives unsettled by demonstrating. Let’s pretend it will all get better by itself.<<
Castro never threatened to nuke his people but Biden did. That’s why Americans are so docile. Unless we get hold of F-35s and competent pilots willing to fight on our side we’re just held captive by Joe/Jill/Kamala. Anyone in the mood to fight US Marines or Special Forces, step forward and get with the program. Somehow, I don’t even trust my neighbor when I think of how the Deep State has a hold of this nation. Hell, I don’t even trust the local cop, mayor or governor. I will interrogate my wife(married 50 yrs) and adult sons. Then I’ll have a serious talk with my cute 6yr old granddaughter to see if she is a rotten demonicrat.
We had our chance with Iran. We could have used a variation of the playbook used during the covert support of Solidarnosc in Poland. Yet I am willing to bet that Obama not only threw the Iranian dissidents under the bus, but also exposed any agents we had there. If the latter is true, then that makes Obama or his underling worse than Philip Agee.
This is starting like the Revolution in Romania. That means violence is coming soon.
raft flotillas from US to Cuba?
You know, it’s good for Cuba, but it’s going to affect America. And with Biden at the helm, it might have some negative side effects for America.
Not sure how, but somehow Biden is going to turn Cuban freedom into an American disaster.
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Biden’s saying it’s because they want more vaccine...lol.
The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations system made up of 47 States responsible for the promotion and protection of all human rights around the globe. It has the ability to discuss all thematic human rights issues and situations that require its attention throughout the year.
No use complaining to the UN.
They should have done this when Trump was in office. Now it will only get them killed
I wish them success but timing is everything. They should have done this when Trump was president or wait until he is again.
Chanting “USA! USA!”
Cubans stood in front of the Communist Party headquarters chanting “Cuba does not belong to you.”
If this comes up, we may have to revisit our “Swim to Cuba” chant.
I do not think so. The disaster of communism reached finally the boiling point in Cuba. Dreaded Castro’s are out of business, and people are not as afraid of the new rulers.
I expect this to be like the 1989 in East Europe. The communists may be negotiating some life saving way out right now.
The local police is apparently joining the demonstrations. Those folks know, where the winds are flowing.
Communists will be out of Cuba - either by the way of Ceausescu (violent overthrow with executions In Romania) or by the way of Husak (Negotiated surrender/amnesty in Czechoslovakia).
This is 60 or at least 30 years late, but it is here NOW!
Thanks God.
Are the Cubans not watching the US slide into Marxist socialism? Why on earth would they be waving US flags and clamoring for freedom like the US has when the US freedoms and rights are being trashed by the Marxists edicts and exec orders of el presidents xiden and the Pelosi politburo legislations?
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