Post #4296632

2026-07-31 22:54 UTC

@soberaim@todon.nl @Miro_Collas@masto.ai Sam, Some of your observations are correct, but your narrative is far off from reality. Yes, Cuba has problems with retaining teachers (mainly due to economic suffocation from the US), but neutral observers have admitted that the cultural and educational level of Cubans is very high. Look at how #Cuba reacted to COVID-19. They used their resources through close collaboration and came up with 2 vaccines that were hugely successful in Cuba. And they went on to help other Global South countries by sharing them at very low cost. And in 2021, when the mainstream media went on a feeding frenzy about the July protests, the Cuban leadership acknowledged shortcomings and spoke to many people directly about them. One rioter was killed. Compare that level of "repression" to Colombia or other Latin American countries when street protests break out. And it is widely known that the US was funding groups to use social media in an organized way to spread disinformation.

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@soberaim@todon.nl 2026-07-31 23:37

@Peter_Link@expressional.social @Miro_Collas@masto.ai of course Cuba did respond rapidly and properly. They don't get as many tourists as Brazil, France and others; and the people don't have as much freedom to move across their country. Now, the protests: sometimes you can't cover up stuff, but you can alter the numbers. I wasn't there, but here it's the same: they kill hundreds, report tens. They imprison tens, report 3 or 4. 🤷🏻‍♀️ The repression? Yeah you can't even imagine how old the gas cans are, nor picture how selective the SEBIN is (I still got videos of the houses marked with an X on the door in Caracas after the fraud 2 years ago. That's just what the Nazis used to do in Germany). And of course, you don't know what we've gone thru because the media here always lie to the people abroad. The news are not for us in here, but for an international audience. I have a serious, genuine question: if I was a communist and saw the level of corruption, violence and censorship a so-called "socialist" regime has: would criticising that make me less of a leftist? No. I should stand with the working class! Why can't we be like Norway? And have clean energy, free libraries, free speech? They just censor everything. What's so wrong about freedom? Ah right, you guys only care about countering Trump and his fascist PDF friends.

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