Daily Archives: July 14, 2021

2021-07-14: News Headlines

The Socialist Program (2021-07-14). U.S. Strangles Cuban Economy & Seeks Counter-Revolution. liberationnews.org Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how the U.S. government and corporate media are hoping for regime change in Cuba, but the Cuban people and government are mobilizing to defend their revolution in spite of the severe hardships caused by the U.S. blockade.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-07-14). Mayor of Miami Calls for Airstrikes on Cuba. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News The Mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez, has called for United States military intervention in Cuba, saying that airstrikes should be considered an option for imposing regime change. "What should be being contemplated right now is a coalition for potential military action in Cuba. Similar to what has happened in both administrations, both Republican…

Peter Bolton (2021-07-14). Washington's Weaponization of Protests in Cuba Takes Its Regime Change Efforts to New Heights of Hypocrisy. counterpunch.org On 11 July, Cuba saw thousands of demonstrators take to the streets in cities across the island. The protests are believed to have started in the Artemisa Province before spreading to neighboring Havana and further afield, including Cuba's second-largest city, Santiago de Cuba. Press reports largely claim that protesters are motivated by shortages and the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

Harvey Markowitz (2021-07-14). Venceremos Brigade defends Cuban Revolution. workers.org Defending the Cuban Revolution, Havana This slightly edited statement was issued July 12, 2021. The Venceremos Brigade is in solidarity with Cuba and the Cuban people who are enduring the coronavirus pandemic on top of the U.S. Blockade. The United States and its blockade literally do not allow Cuba to . . . |

Karl Engels (2021-07-14). Source of Cuba's suffering is in Washington, not Havana. peoplesworld.org Mainstream media, the U.S. government, and some otherwise well-intentioned progressives have latched onto the demonstrations in Cuban cities this past weekend as evidence of the Cuban government's supposed economic mismanagement and political repression. The Cuban people are certainly experiencing serious suffering related to economic shortages and the pandemic right now; no one denies that. But …

Peoples Dispatch (2021-07-14). Cubans take to the streets in rejection of destabilization attempts. peoplesdispatch.org In response to the anti-government protests that took place in different parts of Cuba hundreds of Cubans hit the streets to express their support for the government and the Cuban Revolution.

Andrew Korybko (2021-07-14). Cuba: US-Backed Color Revolution or Legitimate COVID-Inspired Protests? globalresearch.ca

Leonardo Flores (2021-07-14). Protests in Cuba Stirred by the Hidden Hand of the United States. progressive.org Anti-Cuba propaganda is being pushed by the right, but the protests in Cuba are more of a condemnation of U.S. foreign policy than a reflection on the Cuban government.

Farooque Chowdhury (2021-07-14). Cuba faces looting, whose hands are behind it? mronline.org The Cuba "protest-story" is not a single incident. Similar foreign interference happened in other countries. The Cuba-protest-incident is not going to be last attempt by the Empire. | July 14, 2021 | Commentary…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-07-14). Cuba has endured and will endure: Roger Waters. peoplesdispatch.org Roger Waters and Vijay Prashad talk about Cuba's iconic history and inspiring actions as a beacon of resistance to imperialism and the example it has provided across the globe…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-07-14). Cuba Proves U.S. Involvement in Destabilization Actions against the Cuban People. libya360.wordpress.com Milagros Pichardo The member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, accused the U.S. Government of being directly involved and of having serious responsibility in the incidents that occurred in our country on July 11th. The member of the Political Bureau of the Communist…

Editor2 (2021-07-14). Fake Social Media Operation from Abroad Catalyzed Cuba Incident. orinocotribune.com The renowned Spanish analyst Julián Macías Tovar has broken down the intense campaign extended across social media networks against the Cuban Revolution in the last few days. It was launched from outside of Cuba and one of its directors was the Argentinean Agus Antonelli, a right-wing political operator who has participated in several campaigns against leftist movements in Latin America. | The operation made extensive use of robots, algorithms, and accounts recently created for the occasion, intended to amplify the messages issued by the directors of the manipulative campaign. | The first account that used the ha…

Staff (2021-07-14). "We Just Want the Basics": Rare Protests in Cuba Amid Deep Economic Crisis, Ongoing U.S. Blockade. democracynow.org We go to Havana, Cuba, to look at what is behind protests that brought thousands of people into the streets of Havana and other cities in rare anti-government protests denouncing the island's economic crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cuba is facing its harshest phase of the pandemic with skyrocketing infections, and people are scrambling to cope amid shortages of medicine, food and other resources due to catastrophic U.S. sanctions. Thousands of others in Cuba led counterprotests in support of the Cuban Revolution and President Miguel Díaz-Canel. Cuban journalist Daniel Montero, a journalist with the independ…

José dos Santos (2021-07-14). Cuba: Nueva hora de definiciones. globalizacion.ca Se presentía que no tardaría en llegar lo que ahora está sucediendo en Cuba y en su entorno: sólo hay que tener algo de memoria y ver las cosas como son y no como uno quisiera que fueran. La unidad…

Elmer Pineda dos Santos (2021-07-14). En Cuba, malestar popular, bloqueo sesentón e injerencismo. globalizacion.ca Miles de cubanos se manifestaron el domingo último en distintos sitios de la isla contra el desabastecimiento de artículos básicos, la carestía y los cortes de energía eléctrica, entre otras demandas, pero se registró algo inusual en los actos de…

_____ (2021-07-14). 'Shameful': Biden DHS Chief Says Haitian and Cuban Refugees Will Be Turned Away From US. commondreams.org It can be done. It must be done. For there is no tomorrow if we fail to decarbonize and thus rescue the planet from a climate catastrophe.

Dave DeCamp (2021-07-14). Miami Mayor Says the US Should Consider Bombing Cuba. globalresearch.ca

DLI (2021-07-14). USA regime fans anti-Cuba protests. indybay.org 2 weeks after thoroughly embarrassed by a UN vote(184-2!) on the illegal & immoral blockade on Cuba, the Evil Empire strikes back, by promoting and hyping street protests in Cuba. Trying to salvage "face" in the international community, Washington tries to channel global opinion away from its criminal culpability in the rising domestic tensions on the Caribbean island socialist government.

ANSWER Coalition Bay Area (2021-07-14). Sunday 7/25: San Francisco Caravan: End the U.S. Blockade of Cuba – U.S. Hands Off Cuba! indybay.org Gather at 1875 Marin Street, SF…

_____ (2021-07-14). Cuba and Color Revolution: A Cautionary Tale of the Next Phase of Forever-War. strategic-culture.org Today, we are seeing only the start of a fresh wave of global destabilization efforts, never-ending wars, Joaquin Flores writes. | If one believes that the protests in Cuba can be explained within the rubric of 20th century economic systems, and then believes they can go on to extract some great truths about socialism vs. capitalism, then they are misinformed. No, this is about technocracy, color revolution, and forever-war. | The events in Cuba were caused by the staged economic collapse directed by the IMF under the advisement of the World Economic Forum, under the pretext of supply-line stoppages and economic…

Staff (2021-07-14). Thousands in Cuba Protest Amid Deep Economic Crisis and Ongoing US Blockade. truthout.org We go to Havana, Cuba, to look at what is behind protests that brought thousands of people into the streets of Havana and other cities in rare anti-government protests denouncing the island's economic crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cuba is facing its harshest phase of the pandemic with skyrocketing infections, and people are scrambling to cope amid shortages of medicine, food and other resources due to catastrophic U.S. sanctions. Thousands of others in Cuba led counterprotests in support o…

A Guest Author (2021-07-14). U.N. vote and car caravan for Cuba. workers.org By Bill Sacks New York City Of the 39 countries on which the U.S. imposes deadly economic and financial sanctions, the longest and most onerous sanctions have been imposed on Cuba through a 60-year blockade. And while Cuba, in defiance of the blockade, has survived and even thrived by establishing . . . |

Manolo De Los Santos (2021-07-14). The United States tries to take advantage of the price Cubans are paying for the blockade and the pandemic. mronline.org This small island of 11 million people has created five vaccine candidates and sent its medical workers through the Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade to heal people around the world. | July 14, 2021…

Peter Bolton (2021-07-14). Washington's Weaponization of Protests in Cuba. zcomm.org Any change to Cuba's political and economic system and constitutional set-up must come exclusively from the Cuban people themselves — not from the outside…

Medea Benjamin (2021-07-14). The Hidden Hand of the US Blockade Sparks Cuba Protests. zcomm.org The protests should be understood in the context of a brutal economic war waged by the United States against the island nation for more than 60 years…

G. Dunkel (2021-07-14). Roots of turmoil: U.S. — Hands off Haiti! workers.org In Haiti, around 1: 00 a.m., July 7, brand new SUVs without license plates pulled up to the private residence of President Jovenel MoàØse in Pétion-Ville. A team of assassins got out, slipped through his security and shot him dead. His spouse was severely injured. Since 2019 Haitian people have been . . . |

Staff (2021-07-14). Headlines for July 14, 2021. democracynow.org Biden Condemns Republican "Election Subversion" But Does Not Call for End to Filibuster, U.S. Starts Vaccinating ICE Prisoners; Calls Mount for Germany to Support Vaccine IP Waivers, More Suspects Sought in MoàØse Assassination as Groups Call on U.S. to Welcome Haitian Asylum Seekers, 72 Killed Amid Growing Unrest in South Africa, Mourners Gather in Ramallah for Funeral of Human Rights Activist Suha Jarrar, U.N. Rapporteur Says Israeli Settlements Constitute War Crimes, Calls for International Action, More Unmarked Graves Found at Another Canadian School for First Nations Children, Reproductive Rights Grou…

Tanya Wadhwa (2021-07-14). What we know about who is behind the assassination of Haiti's president. peoplesdispatch.org Investigations reveal that the US and at least one of its regional allies, Colombia, are implicated in the assassination of Haiti's de-facto president Jovenel MoàØse.

Editor (2021-07-14). A preemptive counter-revolution in Haiti? mronline.org Haiti Liberté editor and writer Kim Ives talks about the possible motivations behind the assassination of President Jovenel MoàØse, revealing developments about a possible uprising that the U.S. press rarely reports. | July 14, 2021…

Staff (2021-07-14). Links Between Hitman Recruiter Tony Intriago and Iván Duque Revealed. orinocotribune.com The recent assassination of the president of Haiti, Jovenel MoàØse, has once again exposed the tactics and plans of the United States and Colombia to overthrow governments of countries around the world, as evidence continue to surface of the links between Colombian President Iván Duque and detained Venezuelan businessman Antonio "Tony" Intriago, who was the recruiter of the Colombian hitmen arrested in Haiti. | An article published in La Nueva Prensa newspaper has disclosed that Antonio Intriago was the sponsor of the concert Venezuela Aid Live together with Iván Duque, held in Cúcuta in 2019 and which ser…

Staff (2021-07-14). Declassified US Documents Reveal Conspiracies Against Venezuela. orinocotribune.com In a meeting with the Special Commission for Dialogue, Peace and Reconciliation of the Venezuelan National Assembly, President Nicolás Maduro informed that "recently, a group of researchers from the United States have sent us a series of declassified documents which record the permanent conspiracy, the plots and the evil ways in which the sanctions were prepared. These documents also records the aggressions, the economic persecution and the attacks on our electrical grid and our public services, all of that to lead to an unmanageable situation with the purpose of creating an implosion of distress and discontent i…

Staff (2021-07-14). End of the Hyperinflationary Cycle? New Signs of Economic Recovery in Venezuela. orinocotribune.com By Orlando Rangel Y — Jul 13, 2021 | Sudden increases in parallel foreign exchange market relative to the local currency are becoming less frequent. | Venezuela has been going through years of a hyperinflationary cycle that seems to have no end, which got exacerbated with the economic blockade imposed by the US and the sanctions of the European Union (EU). This has created a content in which the quality of life of its citizens is pressured to the limit, deteriorating their purchasing power and increasing inequality. | However, the sudden price increases that were recorded from time to time in the parallel…

Staff (2021-07-14). Jorge Rodríguez Denounces New Drone Assassination Attempt on President Maduro & Connection Between Extreme Right and Cota 905 Terrorism. orinocotribune.com This Tuesday, July 13, during a press conference held at the Federal Legislative Palace, the president of Venezuela's National Assembly (AN), deputy Jorge Rodríguez, presented new evidence of destabilization attempts perpetrated by the extreme right, which armed and trained the gangs of Cota 905 to try overthrowing the government of President Nicolás Maduro. | Rodríguez stated that on June 22 an attack was thwarted that would have targeted President Nicolás Maduro while he was inaugurating the monument for the Bicentennial of the Battle of Carabobo. Four drones were used in the attack, which were intercepted and…

José Luis Granados Ceja (2021-07-14). Venezuelan Gov't Shows Evidence of Alleged Opposition Ties to Violent Groups in Caracas. venezuelanalysis.com Far-right leader Leopoldo López was reportedly looking to take advantage of the violence in the popular barrios of Caracas in order to advance destabilization efforts.

Staff (2021-07-14). Javier Tarazona of Fundaredes Allegedly Involved in Foiled Kidnapping Operation Requested by Colombia's Duque. orinocotribune.com The president of Venezuela's National Assembly (AN), deputy Jorge Rodríguez announced on Monday, July 13, that in the next few days a press conference will be held to give more details of the case of Javier Tarazona. Rodriguez explained that Tarazona intended to cooperate in a kidnapping operation aiming at "removing by force" a woman from Venezuela to Colombia. Rodriguez choose not to give more details and suggested journalists to wait for the upcoming press conference with all the details about this case. | "We have evidence on the so-called Tarazona case that we are going to be showing in the coming days," Rod…

adapted from Damany Fisher, Ph.D (2021-07-14). Afro-Latino Presence in Early California – Negro Bar, Sacramento County. indybay.org Afro-Latinos migrated to California in significant numbers. By 1790, they made up nearly 20 percent of California's population, or one out of every five residents. More importantly, the concept of "race" had far less significance in California than in the United States. While European-born Spaniards controlled California society, Afro-Latinos and mestizos did manage to gain political and economic influence during the Spanish and Mexican periods of California history. Established in 1849, Negro Bar, today's Sacramento County is a singular remnant of a golden legacy.

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