07-12-2021, 11:04 AM
Under the radar... it looks as if generational change might bring an end to Castro-era practices. The Commie regime in Cuba has only one arguable ally that can give it any effective support. The new boss is someone roughly the age of Barack Obama, which is now comparatively old (Obama turns 60 this year) for political leaders in much of the world. Generation X is approaching elderhood, at least among its first (Obama) wave.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/worl...chromepush
The new boss of Cuba can perhaps look to the nonagerian Mikhail Gorbachev as a reminder that the demise of a Commie regime is not personal doom. It has been thirty years now...
Freedom, vaccines, a generous pensioning-off of President Miguel Díaz-Canel, and keeping any semblance of a Cuban-American mafia (see also Sicilian, Neapolitan, Albanian, and Russian... also the Yakuza, Chinese triads and Latin-American drug cartels... it looks like a win-win as the best possible solution. I'd be delighted to see Cuba become another Costa Rica.
Quote:President Joe Biden said Monday that the United States stands with the Cuban people, as thousands protest against food and medicine shortages amid the coronavirus pandemic. It has been said to be the biggest anti-government protest in 30 years.
“We stand with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom and relief from the tragic grip of the pandemic and from the decades of repression and economic suffering to which they have been subjected by Cuba's authoritarian regime,” Biden said in a statement.
The president also called on the Cuban regime to “hear their people and serve their needs at this vital moment rather than enriching themselves.”
“The Cuban people are bravely asserting fundamental and universal rights,” Biden said in a statement. “Those rights, including the right of peaceful protest and the right to freely determine their own future, must be respected.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/worl...chromepush
The new boss of Cuba can perhaps look to the nonagerian Mikhail Gorbachev as a reminder that the demise of a Commie regime is not personal doom. It has been thirty years now...
Quote:Although many people tried to take out their cellphones and broadcast the protests live, Cuban authorities shut down internet service throughout the afternoon. Officers also charged protesters, barraging them with tear gas and arresting some.
“As if pandemic outbreaks had not existed all over the world, the Cuban-American mafia, paying very well on social networks to influencers and YouTubers, has created a whole campaign ... and has called for demonstrations across the country,” President Miguel Díaz-Canel told reporters.
Freedom, vaccines, a generous pensioning-off of President Miguel Díaz-Canel, and keeping any semblance of a Cuban-American mafia (see also Sicilian, Neapolitan, Albanian, and Russian... also the Yakuza, Chinese triads and Latin-American drug cartels... it looks like a win-win as the best possible solution. I'd be delighted to see Cuba become another Costa Rica.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
