Cubans tired of shortages, stage historic large-scale protests

Monday, July 12th 2021 - 08:56 UTC

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Scores of impoverished Cubans took to the streets of nearly every city in the country Sunday to protest against the shortages in food, electricity and medicines, in addition to the already usual restrictions upon individual liberties. Read full article

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Brasileiro
USA Empire SEEMS to be winning. The fight between David and Goliath. Oh God!
Jul 12th, 2021 - 03:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Brasileiro

I sincerely hope the best outcome for the Cuban people — but remain pessimistic.

I remembered Fidel visiting my country for an ENTIRE month celebrating the Unidad Popular government of Allende’s promised Marxist paradise.

Years later, Fidel was still alive and in control — and as Madame was very insistent — while our children were still young (our oldest daughter was 17) — we took them to Cuba on a Cubana Ilyushin Il-62M to see the country before it collapsed.

We stayed at an all inclusive 5 star luxury resort at the end of the Varadero peninsula and visited Havana to see Communism as it really was. (The resort and dining was all first class with the white sandy beaches strictly reserved for the tourists.)

We took our children to see the several markets and show them to see how the selection food was strictly rationed and just how impoverished the people really were. (This was well before the economic collapse of Venezuela.)

My son and I hired a taxi to visit the farmland collectives as well as the tiny independent plots producing vegetables and fruit. (It reminded me of what occurred in my own country.)

Everything we had taught our children was ten times worse than they could have imagined — which was the purpose of our instructional visit!

As a boy I was educated by the dictum that “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few” was translated into most of our family farmland expropriated.

In the early ‘70s our new socialist paradise became a nightmare where Chile went from being a net food exporter — to being unable to feed itself within a matter of months.

Only by what seemed as a miracle — our country broke the chains of Communist enslavement in 1973 and because of embracing free market capitalism has become the success it is today.

Although we are seeing reports of unrest — I sincerely think that Cuba Libre is still far unrealistic as the majority of the people there still believe in LA REVOLUTION!

¡Saludos de Chile!
Jul 12th, 2021 - 04:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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