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Judi Lynn

(160,415 posts)
7. The right-wing reactionary racist elites who were the first wave to run to Miami
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 12:48 AM
Jul 2021

were the big fish in the small bowl against whom the Cuban masses revolted, they comprised the very large landowners, the industrialists, the enormous sugar barons, the people with United Fruit (later Chiquita), the ones who owned and controlled everything, even the death squads, like Batista pal and newspaper owner, and rancher, Rolando Masferrer owned the "Masferrer's Tigers" death squad, roaming the streets in cars, kidnapping, torturing, murdering leftist dissidents, even dismembering their bodies and hanging them from trees as they did in Santiago de Cuba.

The US rightwing citizens who continue to pass around disinformation about Cuba and its history are either deliberately attempting to keep fellow idiots in the dark, or they are simply ignorant, and too lazy to start finding out what actually has happened OVER THE YEARS by researching, talking to people, asking questions, LISTENING, and breaking down and expending some energy trying to READ, to study, to research, for christ's sakes.

No time like the present to wake up.

Thank you very much for your sane, intelligent post. ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

I suspect these "spontaneous protests" are being organized and funded jcmaine72 Jul 2021 #1
Not necessarily Warpy Jul 2021 #2
I would think it's in the US' interest to normalize relations with Cuba Sapient Donkey Jul 2021 #15
I know a few lefties who went there with stars in their eyes Warpy Jul 2021 #16
The right-wing reactionary racist elites who were the first wave to run to Miami Judi Lynn Jul 2021 #7
No, thank you! As always, you provide sorely needed context with a wealth of factual information jcmaine72 Jul 2021 #12
I would think in a nation with no political freedom, which sums up Cuba GulfCoast66 Jul 2021 #8
I think it has more to do with the fact that life sucks for many in Cuba . JI7 Jul 2021 #10
That's interesting UnderThisLaw Jul 2021 #19
It seemsvthat you think that Cubans can't think for themselves Jose Garcia Jul 2021 #24
People are fed up with living 40 yrs behind. oldsoftie Jul 2021 #3
Never understood the love for Cuba we used to get on DU. GulfCoast66 Jul 2021 #4
Good post. n/t Eyeball_Kid Jul 2021 #6
"No other system creates wealth like capitalism" cf China. speak easy Jul 2021 #9
Or racism. jcmaine72 Jul 2021 #14
and slavery itself speak easy Jul 2021 #17
Agreed Nederland Jul 2021 #18
It's a reflexive reaction to the right eissa Jul 2021 #23
Could be a Cuban Spring IronLionZion Jul 2021 #5
Why start the article with, "Communist Cuba ...?" HUAJIAO Jul 2021 #11
Capitalist countries are more common Polybius Jul 2021 #20
Several reasons I can think of. GulfCoast66 Jul 2021 #22
Congressman Ruben Gallego: brooklynite Jul 2021 #13
Biden characterized this as a "clarion call for freedom and relief" rictofen Jul 2021 #21
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