Like in most communist countries, elections in Cuba are not aimed at changing previously selected officials, but rather at highlighting existing polices and mobilizing the population to support the communist system. Cuban parliamentary elections, late this month, without any opposition groups or parties, will ratify the weak and ineffective presidency of Miguel Díaz-Canel. More importantly, …
We must rally our allies and deter our adversaries before they pose a clear and present danger to our national security and to the region NÉSTOR T. CARBONELL The U.S. is right to focus on critical hotspots such as Ukraine, Taiwan, and Iran. But it can no longer afford to ignore the dramatic inroads China …
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*By Jaime Suchlicki Cuba’s new penal code introduced in the island this December, increased to 24 violations sanctioned with the death penalty to 24. The harsh new penal code follows the growth of opposition in Cuba and the massive demonstrations in July of last year. The Cuban regime fears a repetition of these demonstrations and …
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By Jaime Suchlicki * If the Democrats retain control of the Senate in the midterm elections, the administration may offer new concessions to the Cuban government. But the United States should expect very little in return from the regime in Havana. Cuba remains an enemy of the United States and an ally of Iran, Russia, …
In 1962, the Soviet Union surreptitiously introduced nuclear missiles into Cuba. A surprised, embarrassed and angry President John F. Kennedy blockaded the island and after eleven tense days the Soviet Union withdrew its missiles. The crisis, which brought the world to the brink of a nuclear holocaust helped, among other things, to shape the perceptions …
By Paulina Zelitsky, P. Eng. * Despite an aggressive blackmail campaign by the Kremlin with threats to repeat the Caribbean crisis and start a nuclear war with the West, unless the West agrees immediately to the Kremlin’s demands on Ukraine and NATO, there were no credible reports of Russian submarine visiting either Cuba or Venezuela. …
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GIVE CUBAN OPPOSITION WEAPONS AND MILITARY TRAINING For the first time in 60 years, there is evidence of growing opposition in Cuba against the legacy regime of the Castro era. Cubans have abandoned the policy of waiting for the regime to provide change “from above.” They now are seeking change “from below.” The nationwide popular …
* Staff Report Although President Barack Obama removed Cuba in 2015 from the U.S. State Department list of countries supporting terrorism, and President Trump included it again in 2020, the Cuban regime continues to collaborate with terrorist groups and countries, and harbors U.S., Spanish, and Colombian terrorists in the island. Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela have …
During the first few years of Batista’s regime, political parties exerted considerable influence in Cuba. The Ortodoxos were particularly popular and influential because of the party’s uncompromising attitude toward Batista, the mystique of its martyred leader, Eduardo Chibás (1951), and the fact that its more prominent members included several professors at the University of Havana. The National …
*By Paulina Zelitsky, P.Eng. “Russian support is requested by Latin American countries, where there is a threat of drug-related terrorism and color revolutions,” stated Russian Defense Minister Army General Sergei Shoigu at the Moscow Conference on International Security held in Moscow on June 23-24 of 2021 attended by about 700 delegates from 109 countries, including …
