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Cuba’s bloggers are as sharp abroad as at home

“And daily milk production ought to increase 4 million liters more a year… The rate will increase until we reach a production of 30 million liters of milk a day in 1975”, Castro July 1968. The annual production in 2018 was 571 million liters, only 59% of the one in 1958 of 968 million liters.
 
“And without question it will be a great triumph for our revolution to see that in 1970–after 11 years–Cuba’s total agricultural output will have increased 100 percent! In 1970, agricultural output will be doubt that of 1958.” Castro on July 1968. In 1958 Cuba produced 75% of the food consumed by the population, and currently imports 75% of the food. According to the statistics of the regime, in 2013, $2 billion was spent on the importation of food and agricultural products, due to the inability of the regime to increase agricultural production.
 
The Castroist regime thought about it and realizing that few people was going to attend the May Day parade, decided to cancel it and say that was due to the fuel crisis. The regime doesn’t need a parade since is not supported by the people anymore. The regime will cling to power at any cost.
 
After seeing the excessive repression by the Castroist communist regime of peaceful protesters in the town of Caimanera who chanted slogans against the regime, it makes questionable the legitimacy of the regime that hold power in Cuba. Supposedly those in charge of the government institutions are democratically chosen by the people, why then they beat and arrest the same people that asks to correct the course of the government. The people of Caimanera represents the voice of the Cuban people. Hunger and lies have fill them with anger and resentment.
 
Yoani’s article, gives a perfect description that includes more than 60 years of parasitism and surrender of sovereignty. Why can't the island of Cuba be self-sufficient? For a number of reasons. First, due to the lack of incentives for those that produce; second, due to the massive tendency of the last decades to move to the cities, neglecting the work in the countryside, and third, because of the increasingly tendency of the Cubans to avoid working in the countryside under harsh condition and low wages.
 
These reasons, are he direct and complete fault of the Castroist communist regime, that cause of all these problems due to squanderers and thieves. It is necessary to begin by removing the regime that segregates the Cuban to benefit the foreigner. They want to stay in power forever. Today Cuba is a country that cannot even provide the people with eggs, sugar, coffee and other essential farm products. A total catastrophe.
 
The Cuban people have spent 63 years going backwards due to the Castroist communist regime who has implemented a system that stopped and reversed the progress of the island, bank running it.
 
The Cuban people have become aware of the maliciousness of the Castroist communist regime. The hatred of the regime shows in the streets, the lack of food, the restriction of water supply, the increase of blackouts, are creating the conditions for a huge coordinate national protest that would be very difficult to put it down by the regime.
 
CDR, diabolical spawn that has contributed to plunging the Cuban people into a police state since 1959. Those that form part of the CDR, like the rest of the Cuban people, are hungry, have no drinking water, no electricity, no transportation, no medicine, so they have to resort to robbery to survive. CDR members shall change the name to Committee of Dissidents against the Revolution.
 
One of the two reasons of the deterioration of the Stadium, is the poor quality of the materials and the low quality of labor used in its construction. The other one is that over time it has deteriorated due to lack of attention and maintenance.

It is true that exposition of reinforced concrete structures built near the coast, are affected by the salt and moisture in the air. But with careful workmanship it will takes a long time to affect the structure. The Stadium, built 32 years ago, has been heavily affected.
 
The two tower of 17 stories of the Girón Building of reinforced concrete, built in the Malecon of Havana 56 years ago, have been heavily affected too by the salty air. The Fossa Building of 30 stories built in 1956 and the Hotel Riviera of 21 stories built in 1957, both of reinforced concrete and near the Malecon, exposed to the same marine elements during 66 years, are in good condition.
 
In Old Havana, Almost Half of the 20,000 Homes Are Not Habitable (Official Data) – Translating Cuba

Rescuers on October 4, 2023 after the collapse of a building in Old Havana (Cuba). (EFE/Ernesto Mastrascusa)
. In Old Havana, according to official data, near half of the 20,000 houses are not fit for people to live in. Castroism had caused more lasting damage to the city of Havana than an earthquake or the atomic bomb. What it couldn’t accomplish during the missile crisis with nuclear warheads stationed in Cuba, the extinction of the island in a nuclear confrontation, it is accomplishing it through the course of time.
 
The Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) established by Castro, were copied from Hitler’s blockwarts (block wardens). The main mission of the CDR is to monitor and control the public and private lives of all the neighbors on their block, acting as spies of the regime in order to keep a grip on the people. The CDR have been involved in acts of repudiation, intimidating and physically attacking those who the regime catalogs as “counter-revolutionaries”, and it is one of the organizations responsible for the wave of repression through the island. Another Castro copy from the Nazi propaganda is the word “gusano” (worm) used against its opponents, as the word “würmer” was used against the Jews.
 
The Committees for the Defense of the Revolution are a diabolical spawn that has contributed to sinking the Cuban people in disgrace since 1959. Without a doubt they commemorated the 63rd anniversary, no one was happy, everyone was upset, the least important thing is the CDR, the main problem is that the dictatorship is faltering.
 
Thousands of people have been leaving Cuba this way, and the regimes of Cuba and Nicaragua have pocketed millions of dollars from the inflate cost of the tickets. The immigration of young people creates a generational problem for the Castro’s regime, but seams that the those in power are only interested in keeping it, not the future of the country.
 
In odder words, they have Interned in Cuba, but they do not have it. Castro’s communist regime directly prevents access to many websites. Lately, censorship of the Internet has increased, limiting its access by periodically shutting down it.
 
After 64 years under the control of the Castro’s communist regime, the Cuban people that for generations fought without fear of death, is now afraid to even speak, since any critical phrase can have unforeseen consequences. According to Yoani, “is a summary of the terror that has been instilled in us towards our own words.”
 
Diaz Canel, whom the people did not elected, was hand picket by Raul Castro to be president of Cuba. His travel to Cauto Cristo is a political sting, an insult and disrespect of the people, lying to them about the solutions of their problems. Very soon the people will start to mocker him.
 
Diaz Canel, whom the people did not elected, was hand picket by Raul Castro to be president of Cuba. His travel to Cauto Cristo is a political sting, an insult and disrespect of the people, lying to them about the solutions of their problems. Very soon the people will start to mocker him.
 

The Castro’s regime had exhausted all resources. The Cuban people have lost the fear and are protesting in the streets. Rebellion, a general strike against the regime that is destroying the country, will be the beginning of the long-awaited end of Castro-communism. As the proverb says” the pitcher goes to the well so often that it eventually breaks.”
 
The Castroist regime has the nerve to say that when the power goes out, life becomes calmer and more peaceful, calmer and more natural. Soon, when things on the island become zero, then the regime will say that if we go to live in the caves of the mountains that there are in Cuba, life will be much better. The problem is the regime, its continuity in power without results. Dead dog, no more rabies, meaning that once the source of a problem is eliminated, the issue itself is resolved.
 
The emigration of CPC militants have been happenings since 1990 during the special period, only that now it is occurring with great frequently. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a mass exodus of East Germans. What is happening now in Cuba is quite similar.
 
There are still those who believe that the “Castro revolution is benevolent.” Sentencing young people to years in prison for the mere fact of filming and peacefully expressing their disagreement against the Castroist communist regime, are accused by the regime of “sedition”, converting it into an act of state terrorism that deliberately and systematically violate the rights of the citizens.
 
Obama had the right policy towards Cuba, Trump messed it up.

I don't think the regime is perfect in any way and disavow Communism strongly, but I also know that Batista's regime that came before it was disgustingly unfair, unjust and cruel.

Out of all the Communist countries in the world, Cuba might be the only one that half-way succeeded, if not for the US embargo and heavy sanctions and repeated coup attempts, it's entirely possible it would be a successful country.

If we want to go to Cuba, we have to go via Mexico and avoid having our passports stamped, when it's just a few miles away from the Florida coast. We've never been to Cuba and I'm not suggesting for a second we would go, if it was found out we did, the USA might never let us enter again

Dropping the embargo would mean more people spending time in Florida too, helping their local economy most probably and using soft power as a way to help Cubans become more prosperous, while gently showing that the system over there is sub-optimal in many respects, by contrasting it with what people have in Florida.

But we can't have any sensible policies, like Obama instituted. Biden needs to punish the Cubans hard even though it transpires Russia was behind the Havana syndrome attacks...

We also know that Cuba are hosting Chinese spy bases which is alarming to say the least, there should be diplomatic pressure to remove them in return for an end to the embargo.
 
The regime courts have ratified the sentences against more than 380 protesters and bystanders, including several boys and girls. Every individual has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; This right includes the right not to be punished because of one's opinions, to investigate and receive information and opinions, and to disseminate them, through any means of expression.
 
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