EDITOR’S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis): My few remaining friends on the Left do not lose any opportunity to call and ask me to take sides for the Palestinians and every other “oppressed” or “disenfranchised group in the world. This time, as the Cubans in Cuba and in the US take to the streets to demand the end of the communist regime that has left hungry and poor, nobody is calling…
The silence is deafening… This time they cannot even claim that the uprising in Cuba is a CIA operation, as the CIA is overtaken by woke left-leaning leadership!!
Karma is truly painful!…
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SOURCE: BREITBART.COM
Cuban-Americans Flood Cities Nationwide Calling for End to Communism
NORTH BERGEN, New Jersey – Hundreds, and possibly thousands, of Cuban-Americans have convened for peaceful assemblies nationwide this week in solidarity with their kin on the island, who have flooded the streets of nearly every major Cuban city since Sunday demanding an end to the communist regime.
Cuban-Americans and their allies in New Jersey, New York, Kentucky, Illinois, California, Ohio, and Washington, DC, have organized “free Cuba” rallies meant to encourage Cubans on the island to continue peacefully demanding an end to communism and to urge the government of the United States – particularly the administration of President Joe Biden – to act to protect Cuban lives.
Naturally, however, Florida – home to the nation’s largest Cuban-American population, hosted the largest and most recurring assemblies against communism on the island. Protesters there shut down the Palmetto Expressway, the largest highway connecting the city, on Tuesday, and have maintained a consistent presence at the historic Cuban restaurant Versalles urging an American military intervention in the situation.
In contrast to the overwhelmingly destructive riots in support of left-wing causes last summer, the Cuban freedom movement has organized peaceful protests nationwide, with minimal reports of police activity and no significant property damage.
In response to the protests, the face of the Castro regime, Miguel Díaz-Canel, issued an “order of combat” urging communist vigilantes to violently attack anyone peacefully protesting in their neighborhoods, essentially calling for civil war. The Cuban government shut down internet access nearly nationwide, making it difficult to track police activity, but dissident groups fear hundreds are missing and dozens dead after police began opening fire on crowds of protesters and detaining people in door-to-door raids.
On Tuesday night, hundreds of Cuban-Americans and allies marched on Bergenline Avenue in North Bergen, Guttenberg, and West New York, New Jersey – a historic commercial district largely rebuilt by Cuban refugees in the 1960s and 1970s following its collapse in the post-World War II era. While Hudson County, where these small municipalities are located, has been solidly Democrat strongholds for over a century, Democrat politicians in the area are traditionally vocally anti-communist. The mayors of several local cities attended the rally and pressured Washington to intervene in the violence in Cuba.
“We need to see military action,” Mayor Brian Stack of Union City, who also serves as a state senator, told NJ.com. “I believe the United States should’ve been there years ago. Just like we’ve liberated other countries, we should liberate Cuba, make that country free for the Cuban people. Stop all the politics all around.”
Across the Hudson River, Cubans spontaneously organized a rally in Times Square, Manhattan, on Sunday in the immediate aftermath of breaking news of nationwide protests. Protesters continued to inhabit Times Square on Tuesday and are
Demonstrators hold placards during a rally held in solidarity with anti-government protests in Cuba, in Times Square, New York on July 13, 2021. (ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)
Cubans also made their presence known in the nation’s capital, standing outside the White House carrying anti-communist images and posters with slogans calling for freedom.
People supporting protests in Cuba gather on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House grounds July 13, 2021, in Washington, DC. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
In another growing Cuban-American enclave – Louisville, Kentucky – hundreds of people organized a protest Tuesday urging American action to help prevent casualties on the island.
“Tuesday’s organizers tell us this was the largest event they’ve seen in Louisville,” local broadcasters WHAS 11 reported, “beating out nearly 900 people who showed up to Shively Park this past weekend.”
Cincinnati’s Fountain Square, about an hour and a half from Louisville, held its own pro-Cuba protest on Tuesday. Local outlets reported that about 80 people attended the rally, significant as Cincinnati does not boast a notably large Cuban-American population and is only about an hour and a half from Louisville, making that a likelier host city for such an event.
Chicagoans took the streets on Monday for the same cause.
“People have to say ‘enough is enough,’” Alberto Gonzalez, the owner of 90 Miles Cuban Cafe in the city, told local news station WGN. “I lived in Cuba and know what it’s like not to eat for a few days. I left in 1980. I can only imagine today how bad it is.”
One of Los Angeles’ oldest Cuban establishments, Porto’s cafe, hosted a rally on Sunday in solidarity with the cause, as well.
Florida’s protests were the nation’s largest, spanning throughout the panhandle. Hundreds organized a rally in Al Lopez Park, Tampa, on Tuesday, chanting pro-freedom slogans and calling for change. Multiple groups attended the rallies, causing a minor traffic disruption, despite the poor weather.
Miami has essentially experienced non-stop protests attracting likely thousands of people since Sunday. Protesters stormed the Palmetto Expressway on Tuesday and shut it down.
Protesters shut down part of the Palmetto Expressway as they show their support for the people in Cuba that have taken to the streets to protest on July 13, 2021 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
The sidewalk outside of Versailles – a restaurant known for its little window (ventanita) where older Cubans congregate to drink coffee and shout about politics – has hosted hundreds of people since Sunday.
Another historic Cuban-American location, Tamiami Park, also held multiple rallies this week.
People demonstrate,carrying Cuban national flags, during a protest against the Cuban government at Tamiami Park in Miami, on July 13, 2021. (EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI/AFP via Getty Images)
The Tamiami Park event on Tuesday also commemorated the 27-year anniversary of the March 13 tugboat massacre, in which the Cuban communist regime drowned 37 people in international waters attempting to flee the country. The group was unarmed and included several toddlers. The youngest victim was a six-month-old girl.
“We’re commemorating one massacre now, and we’re trying to prevent another one,” Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat, the head of the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance, told WPLG Local 10.
Thankfully, the wise Cuban descendants and immigrants living in Florida and elsewhere in the United States recognize the evils of Communism from which they have fled destroying all chance of livelihood and what little “liberties” may still (barely) exist in their native homeland. Family members who remain in Cuba are in serious personal danger with no means of communicating just how dire the situation is today.
Food and resources are extremely scare and whatever they have available is kept in private secrecy for fear of reprisal by either jail, theft and or murder by the regime. I have been told by many immigrants that they would raise pigs in their bathtubs or bathrooms for barter or to help feed their families. That’s how desperate the situation is for these people to provide for their family’s basic needs of survival.
Living in Southwest FL, we have hired over the last 20 years, a number of Cubans to work in our landscape business paying them above average wages to help them meet their needs. Some of them barely speaking a word of English. With their young families in tow, they braved the open waters between Cuba, the Keys and Miami to escape the oppression of a Communist regime for a more prosperous life and economic opportunity on American soil. We helped feed them, finding and giving them whatever donated food, clothing and furnishings we could obtain from the assistance of our wonderful clients and local food banks, temporarily housing these families with gainful employment until they could establish a firm footing on their own enabling them to perhaps move on to other more gainful employment; helping them to obtain financing to eventually purchase a modest residence where they continue to live frugally as if their life is still dependent upon their very survival of daily bread. The pain of Communism and oppression is still very real and will remain with them, all the days of their lives.
I am proud to say that these Cuban immigrants are hardworking, loyal and dedicated culture of people determined to change their past circumstances and are not looking for US governmental handouts to survive like so many others today seek.
Tuesday’s peaceful demonstrations shut down I-75 in south Lee County. Many Americans were beside them in the protest. Unlike the insidious George Floyd incidents which took place nationally, noticeably absent was the lack of burning of buildings and the destruction of private property. What the Democrats fail to take into account is that these immigrants are naturalized citizens upon reaching American soil. What the Democrats blindly choose to ignore is that as a group in large numbers, Cubans are conservative Christians escaping the very same oppression coming soon to America. What the Democrats fail to acknowledge is that this Cuban uprising will gain momentum giving passive, sleeping American’s the courage and impetuous to finally wake up and take a stance against and fight what the Biden/Harris/Obama administration are quickly revealing as the “new norm” here in America and will aid American’s in upending the corruption which seeks to take destroy the very same Civil Liberties as endowed upon by the US Constitution as which happened in Cuba decades ago.
To all Cubans, and Cuban-American’s, our family will gladly stand in protest beside you against the evils which have plagued and stolen your beautiful country and which we are finding out are to be the same circumstances coming soon to American soil.