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Judi Lynn

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1. Cuba: Unrest and interference
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 06:29 PM
Jul 2021

By La Jornada On Jul 14, 2021

A La Jornada Editorial

Thousands of Cubans demonstrated last Sunday against the shortage of basic items, the shortage and the intermittent power cuts, among other demands. In a completely unusual way in the protests that take place on the island, during the marches there were looting of shops and attacks on police patrols, as well as violent arrests of those who caused excesses.

In response, President Miguel Díaz-Canel appeared at the protest held in the town of San Antonio de los Baños to listen to the demands of the population and explain the reasons for the hardships afflicting the country. The president acknowledged that not all the protesters are “far from being counterrevolutionary,” but “dissatisfied” people, but he also denounced the destabilization campaign hatched by the Cuban-American mafia, and argued that “those who encourage these demonstrations do not want the well-being of the people, but the privatization of health and education, neoliberalism.”

It would be childish to deny that in that country, as in many others, there is a social sector dissatisfied with the authorities and determined to take to the streets to make their demands. It is known, on the other hand, that this malaise has been exacerbated and widened as a result of the prolonged pandemic that has paralyzed tourism, one of the main sources of employment and income on the island. On the other hand, it is clear that the difficulties experienced by millions of Cubans originate, in part, from government inefficiencies and bureaucratic inertia.

However, it would be enormously naive to believe that there is no promotion of these demonstrations from Washington and Miami, and it would be absurd to ignore the weight that the six decades of the U.S. blockade against the island have had in the gestation of this social anger, since this brutal and permanent violation of the human rights of all Cubans is expressly designed to generate discontent against the regime and subdue it through hunger and general deprivation.

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Cuba: Unrest and interference Judi Lynn Jul 2021 #1
Exactly how it had to be handled Budi Jul 2021 #2
It's one thing to call out represive regimes. And another to cut another country off ... marble falls Jul 2021 #3
Tell me what proactive thing can the US do right now? Budi Jul 2021 #4
Just let them be MiroJarvis Aug 2021 #5
welcome to DU gopiscrap Aug 2021 #6
Thank you MiroJarvis Aug 2021 #7
absolutely gopiscrap Aug 2021 #8
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