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Is Havana weaponizing Cuban migration? A look at Castro family hierarchy. Castro regime commits political plagiarism. Canadian call for Cuban solidarity.
The Sandinista government in Nicaragua announced that on November 22, 2021 it would lift visa requirements for Cubans traveling to the Central American country. Sebastián Arcos spoke with José Díaz-Balart of NBC News to discuss this new policy from Daniel Ortega that would open a new path for Cuban migrants to reach the United States, and create an even greater crisis on the U.S. Mexican border. “If we allow this to take place, not only we’ll have a growing problem in the southern border, but we’ll have again a Cuban regime firmly in control of the situation in Cuba,” says Arcos. “And it will only kick the can down the road for another crisis in Cuba, and with Cuban immigrants.”
Notice that beginning on November 22, 2021 Cubans will not need a Visa to enter Nicaragua
Story Maps offers an analysis of what happened in 2015 with a bridge setup in Central America for thousands of Cubans to travel through, and asks if this is a "hybrid attack" against the United States.The answer appears to be yes, and there is a long historical pattern.
Kelly M. Greenhill, an American political scientist and an associate professor at Tufts University, in her 2002 paper "Engineered Migration and the Use of Refugees as Political Weapons: A Case Study of the 1994 Cuban Balseros Crisis" described how a pattern was first established in the Camarioca crisis during the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration by Havana using "coercive engineered migration" to create instability in the United States. CubaBrief looked at this question back on June 3, 2021 and how the pattern continued with Mariel in 1980, the 1994 rafter crisis, and through Central America during the second Obama Administration.
There is still time for the Biden Administration to prevent a greater humanitarian disaster on the U.S.-Mexican border.
Cuban migrants in Costa Rica in 2015
Family discord: death threats, drug addiction, and a looming power struggle when the "dinosaurs" die.
Yale Professor and author CarlosEire writing in Babalu Blog highlights news of the inner workings of the Castro dynasty and the belief of Carlos Alejandro Rodríguez Halley, the disaffected nephew, now living in Spain, of Raul Castro’s ex-son-in-law, "forced into exile due to death threats from his drug-addicted cousin, Raulito Castro, a,k.a. 'The Crab', who serves as King Raul’s bodyguard.
Nephew of Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Calleja reveals Castro family secrets
These threats were issued after he committed the mortal sin of siding with the July 11 protesters. His uncle is not only the father of some of King Raul’s grandchildren, but also the oligarch who runs GAESA, the Castro, Inc. monopoly that controls the entire Cuban economy. Now in exile, this privileged child of the so-called Revolution is giving glimpses of life at the royal court, and predicting a fierce power struggle in the near future, as soon as King Raul and all the other elite “dinosaurs” who have been ruling Castrogonia finally die."
Castro regime commits political plagiarism on fifth anniversary of Fidel Castro's death
Embassy of Norway posts photo with children with foreheads scrawled "Yo Soy Fidel" [I am Fidel]
The Castro regime claims there is no cult of personality encouraged around Fidel Castro, but school children have their foreheads scrawled with the phrase "I am Fidel" with marker, and posted above by the Embassy of Cuba in Norway on their Twitter account. Important to remember that this was the same Embassy from which a Cuban diplomat emerged to insult, threaten and bite a young Norwegian-Cuban woman who was filming her mom in 2010 when she was engaged in a peaceful protest remembering Cuban prisoner of conscience Orlando Zapata Tamayo, who died on hunger strike on February 23, 2010. This is the face of Castroism that too many Cubans know.
On Thursday for a “Walk for Fidel” to observe the fifth anniversary of Castro’s death. Officials "insist that it is an action that has been repeated 'every year' since 2016, the walk has awakened not a few misgivings because it is very similar to what the Archipelago Group intended to do on November 15tt that State Security blocked in a nationwide crackdown in which 80 dissidents were arbitrarily detained. Participants in the regime activity were asked to wear “white shirts and bring a white flower,” which is what the playwright Yunior Garcia wanted to do. Today he is in Madrid, where he arrived on Wednesday the 17th. During the activity participants will carry a “artisan Granma” boat which they will throw into the sea.
In the face of the criticism that officials received for the similarity with the Archipelago group's plan, the organization edited the invitation posting a link to a video they claim is from the first march and another with photographs of others taken in other years. In addition on November 25th in some neighborhoods of Havana loudspeakers were placed "at full volume with the voice of the deceased [Fidel Castro] giving speeches, accompanied with songs by Silvio Rodríguez and the entire musical repertoire that for years has accompanied the official acts of the regime." In several schools in Revolution Plaza municipality, teachers called on students to write the hashtag #YoSoyFidel [ #IAmFidel] with chalk on the ground, and to paint, draw or write texts 'in homage to Fidel.'"
Despite these and other efforts by regime officials "Cuba’s streets show less enthusiasm each year to commemorate the death of the architect of the Cuban Revolution," reports Luz Escobar in 14ymedio.
Using young children as political props with signs saying "Yo Soy Fidel" [I am Fidel] should raise concerns.
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