Are they still protesting in Cuba?
I do not know.
The Cuban government has cut the Internet off from the Cuban people.
The big protests started four weeks ago, triggered, oddly enough, by a rap song. The main word is: “Freedom! More Doctrine!
The “doctrine” refers to the “constant cycle of propaganda” of the government, explains Cuban emigrant Alian Collazo in my new video.
Sadly, stupid TV reporters in America have claimed the protests were about “hunger, pandemic restrictions and lack of COVID vaccination” or, according to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, “food and fuel shortages.”
“Absurdity!” said Collazo. The cause is clear. “The demonstrators were shouting, ‘Down with communism!’ and ‘Libertad! Freedom!'”
Democratic Socialist Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said: “They are protesting the lack of equipment during the pandemic, in particular the lack of medical supplies”.
Collazo is stunned. “She speaks Spanish! Can’t she listen to what the Cuban people are saying? “Libertad” means “freedom”! It’s true that Cubans want food, “but if you don’t have freedom, you don’t have food”.
Some say Cubans are running out of food because of what Ocasio-Cortez calls America’s “absurdly cruel” embargo.
The embargo is absurd and counterproductive.
But that misses the point.
“Do some research on what the embargo is!” Medicines, food and all of that can be traded, ”Collazo explains.
Yes they can. America exempts food and medicine from embargo.
In addition, at least 80 other countries trade with Cuba.
The real reason for the 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 received free health care.
But Collazo points out that “free” is misleading. “Go to a hospital in Cuba, they don’t even have aspirin! Yeah, free (health care). (But) it’s horrible.
When the recent protests began, a reporter asked President Joe Biden’s press secretary Jen Psaki: “Do you think people are leaving Cuba because they don’t like communism. She replied, “They are opposed to oppression (and) government mismanagement.
She wouldn’t condemn communism by name.
Fortunately, a few days later, her boss did. “Communism is a failed system, a universally failed system,” Biden said. “I don’t see socialism as a very useful substitute.”
Good for Biden for saying that.
Collazo wants him to do more.
“The Cuban people are not asking for military intervention,” he said. Instead, “Ask the President of the United States to provide the Internet.”
The current protests “happened spontaneously,” Collazo says, “because of social media. That’s why the regime didn’t even know about it… they were surprised by the huge number of people who came out at the same time.
Because of this, the Cuban government has now shut down the island’s only internet service provider. Future events will be hidden from the rest of the world.
The United States could transmit the Internet to Cuba.
I don’t know if it would make a difference.
But Collazo thinks so. “It’s historic. In Cuba, we have never seen this.
John Stossel est l’auteur de “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media”.
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