Matt Allison Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 Grab the popcorn, because this could get interesting very fast. Biden could be faced with a JFK-type decision whether or not to assist in Cuban political dissent. If he doesn't, he could face the same backlash from the right that Kennedy did. If he does, he might take away the biggest political weapon wielded in South Florida... https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/11/world/americas/cuba-crisis-protests.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bulman Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 1 hour ago, Matt Allison said: Grab the popcorn, because this could get interesting very fast. Biden could be faced with a JFK-type decision whether or not to assist in Cuban political dissent. If he doesn't, he could face the same backlash from the right that Kennedy did. If he does, he might take away the biggest political weapon wielded in South Florida... https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/11/world/americas/cuba-crisis-protests.html Well crap. I've run into this before, I believe with an article W. posted. The link wants me to create an account with the NYT to read the article. I think he found a way around that but I'm not familiar with such techniques. The article does sound interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Govus Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 Now I know there is someone besides me who won't create a free New York Times account. If someone who has an account wanted to, that person could use this facility to capture the webpage. You drop the desired URL in the slot, and the webpage archive app reproduces the page in a neutral Internet location. You'd then share the archived page. It can be useful as well to preserve the historical record of an evolving narrative. Then schmoes like Ron and I wouldn't have to bow to the likes of the Grey Lady. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Allison Posted July 12, 2021 Author Share Posted July 12, 2021 Righto, here ya go http://archive.today/nderm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James DiEugenio Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 If you read it, it looks like it was provoked. Also one had to wonder, why does Biden not continue what Obama was trying to do. Even though it was 45 years after JFK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Allison Posted July 12, 2021 Author Share Posted July 12, 2021 Jim, my guess would be that he doesn't feel like he has the political capital to do that just yet. It will be interesting to see if he's now forced to do something he hadn't planned on doing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James DiEugenio Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 I recall, Castro offered to help us during Katrina. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Kelly Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 Matt Thanks for sharing the link ... I found the following to be interesting: Since the start of the fiscal year last October, the U.S. Coast Guard has intercepted more than 512 Cubans at sea, compared with 49 for the entire previous year. The Cuban government attributes its longstanding economic problems to the American trade embargo, which cuts off its access to financing and imports. But the pandemic has worsened conditions ... the Cuban Ministry of Health website says the nation of 11 million now has about 32,000 active cases of Covid-19 (6,923 daily cases and 47 deaths on Sunday). Only about 15 percent of the population is fully vaccinated. The Foreign Ministry tweeted that "Cubans know perfectly well that the government of the United States is principally responsible for Cuba’s current situation ... Cuba and its streets belong to the revolutionaries.” The President urged government supporters to hit the streets and confront the protesters. He blamed the United States for restricting exports, access to funds and travel to Cuba, which led to widespread shortages. The protests were a form of “systemic provocation” by dissidents doing the bidding of the United States. He said Washington in recent months had sought to destabilize and weaken the island’s economy as part of a policy designed to “provoke a massive social implosion.” I recently read an interesting book entitled "To Catch a Spy, The Art of Counterintelligence" by James Olson, a former chief of counterintelligence at the CIA. In the book, he calls out the Cuban intelligence service as very competent and second only to China and Russia as threats to the US: “I worked a lot in my career against DGI and against Cuba in general. They are a very formidable adversary. They were very professional. They were very disciplined and they had a vendetta against the United States. Castro focused all of his efforts on national security to bringing down his Yankee neighbor, to attacking us. They were impenetrable. They were tough. We had very little success against them. We underestimated them. And we paid a real price for that. I stand by my ranking of the Cubans as the number three intelligence threat to the United States today. Miguel Diaz-Canel is as hardline as Stalin and as the communist as Fidel ever was. He’s holding it together. And the DI as it’s now called is still focused almost exclusively on the United States. And they’re causing a lot of issues. I’m getting tired of hearing about people like a Philip Agee or Ana Montes or Kendell and Gwen Myers, The Cubans have penetrated our government. They are all over South Florida. If you go to South Florida today and you know where to tune in on the shortwave dial, you can hear this sultry, female Cuban voice reading off numbers. And that is the DI communicating with its agents and its illegals in the United States of America and they are very aggressive and conducting a lot of operations. And I don’t like the way they do it. You know, they’re vicious. They’re all over Venezuela. We know they’re rolling in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas. We know what they did in Angola and elsewhere in Africa. They’ve been a thorn on our side forever. Because I guarantee you, we only know the tip of the iceberg. They’re much better than the KGB ever was. In terms of discipline, in terms of tradecraft, in terms of professionalism.” Gene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Allison Posted July 12, 2021 Author Share Posted July 12, 2021 It really would have been interesting to see what Cuba could have been like without the US trying to hurt it for the past 50 years. We'll never know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Prutsok Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 Things are hopping in the Caribbean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Carter Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 Social media users have noticed particular activity which in past have been linked to “color revolution” operations. Example: “Many accounts all created April 2021 with 0 followers/following suddenly spring into action in coordinated fashion during the protest in Cuba” https://twitter.com/EmpireFiles/status/1414371287787479040 In last couple of weeks CIA chief Burns has visited and held high-level meetings in such places as Columbia and Brazil, as the rollback to the so-called “Pink Tide” has sputtered over last year. Visits were followed by assassination in Haiti, unrest in Caracas and Cuba, election dispute continuing in Peru, and ominous statements by President and military in Brazil. Expect much more of same in near future. The “problem” remains: the Left is democratically popular in the region. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Allison Posted July 12, 2021 Author Share Posted July 12, 2021 I just want to know what the Cuban people themselves want. The reason there wasn't a "popular uprising" at the time of the BOP was because the vast amount of the populace were glad to have Batista out and Castro in. I hope we get solid reporting out of Cuba that gives us an accurate take on how the people feel about things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bulman Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 12 hours ago, Matt Allison said: Righto, here ya go http://archive.today/nderm Thanks Matt. Here's a similar article from the WSJ. Cuba Cracks Down on Protests Amid Worst Economic Crisis in Decades (msn.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Allison Posted July 12, 2021 Author Share Posted July 12, 2021 https://www.politico.com/newsletters/florida-playbook/2021/07/12/cuba-protests-could-test-biden-the-bridge-mystery-unraveled-former-fla-man-crashes-texas-governors-race-493533 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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