07-12-2021, 10:49 AM
** 12-Jul-2021 World View: Cuba street protests at start of Crisis era
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Cuba's government is in turmoil in the face of large anti-government
protests that started over the weekend.
Analysts are blaming three factors:
Analysts are comparing this to the 1994 student protests, which
fizzled fairly quickly.
However, today's protests are different because this is the beginning
of a generational Crisis era.
Cuba's last generational crisis war was Fidel Castro's revolution that
climaxed in 1960. The new Crisis era began 58 years later, in 2018.
Prior to 2018, Cuba was in an Unraveling era, when many of the
Communist policies imposed by Fidel Castro began to unravel. They
moved hundreds of thousands of people from government employment to
private sector employment, including self-employment. They abandoned
the core principal of Marxist Socialism, "From each according to
abilities, to each according to needs." Instead, workers in the
private sector will be able to earn high salaries.
Today's new anti-government protests are larger and more widespread
than the 1994 student protests. Since this is the beginning of a
generational Crisis era, it's quite possible that it will spread, in
the following weeks and months, into a re-fighting of Castro's
revolution.
-- Cuba: Thousands turn out to anti-government protests
https://www.dw.com/en/cuba-thousands-tur...a-58234158
(Deutsche-Welle, 12-Jul-2021)
-- Cuba protests: Three key issues that explain the rare unrest
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-57802170
(BBC, 12-Jul-2021)
-- Hundreds of people take to Tampa streets to show their support for
protesters in Cuba
https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/regio...rs-in-cuba
(ABC, 12-Jul-2021)
** 16-Sep-10 News -- Cuba's seismic shift has global implications
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e100916
** 20-Apr-18 World View -- Cuba's new president Miguel Díaz-Canel makes delusional promise to continue Socialist revolution
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e180420
- Angry protesters confront Cuba's President Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez
Cuba's government is in turmoil in the face of large anti-government
protests that started over the weekend.
Analysts are blaming three factors:
- Mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, and lack of vital
medicines. (Cuba is supposed to be this great country for medical
research, but was not so great during the pandemic.)
- Bad economy -- growing inflation, blackouts, and shortages of
food, medicine and basic products.
- Access to internet social media, used to spread the news of the
protests.
Analysts are comparing this to the 1994 student protests, which
fizzled fairly quickly.
However, today's protests are different because this is the beginning
of a generational Crisis era.
Cuba's last generational crisis war was Fidel Castro's revolution that
climaxed in 1960. The new Crisis era began 58 years later, in 2018.
Prior to 2018, Cuba was in an Unraveling era, when many of the
Communist policies imposed by Fidel Castro began to unravel. They
moved hundreds of thousands of people from government employment to
private sector employment, including self-employment. They abandoned
the core principal of Marxist Socialism, "From each according to
abilities, to each according to needs." Instead, workers in the
private sector will be able to earn high salaries.
Today's new anti-government protests are larger and more widespread
than the 1994 student protests. Since this is the beginning of a
generational Crisis era, it's quite possible that it will spread, in
the following weeks and months, into a re-fighting of Castro's
revolution.
-- Cuba: Thousands turn out to anti-government protests
https://www.dw.com/en/cuba-thousands-tur...a-58234158
(Deutsche-Welle, 12-Jul-2021)
-- Cuba protests: Three key issues that explain the rare unrest
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-57802170
(BBC, 12-Jul-2021)
-- Hundreds of people take to Tampa streets to show their support for
protesters in Cuba
https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/regio...rs-in-cuba
(ABC, 12-Jul-2021)
** 16-Sep-10 News -- Cuba's seismic shift has global implications
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e100916
** 20-Apr-18 World View -- Cuba's new president Miguel Díaz-Canel makes delusional promise to continue Socialist revolution
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e180420
