Without Oil, Cuba Is Burning

From John Sexton, the fall has begun.

WSJ:

"Libertad, libertad," shouted hundreds of demonstrators as they faced off against police outside the precinct in Morón, a city of about 70,000 near Cuba's northeastern coast. Protesters then marched to the offices of the ruling Communist Party, according to the Cuban government and videos posted on social media.

Residents threw rocks at the building and tried to set it ablaze. Others climbed on the building's second story and threw papers and furniture into the street, which they then set on fire. At the time of the protest, Morón hadn't had any electricity for 30 hours...

Alberto Echemendía, the head of the Communist Party in Morón, held a rally of "revolutionary reaffirmation" in front of the ransacked party headquarters. "We live in complicated times," he told El Invasor, a regional official newspaper, blaming U.S. economic sanctions for the riots.

My translation:

This is exciting. Freedom is beginning to breath in Cuba. Eighth consecutive night of protests, but it has already begun to be massive. All of the city of Ciego de Avila is in the streets. The city united against the dictatorship.

Eso es mi Trump:

Obama's "Second Brain," the failed novelist and communist who used his fiction-writing ability to create the Iran Echo Chamber, is once again bemoaning the fall of his communist frenz:

Ben Rhodes @brhodes

This is dangerous, immoral, and illegal - the third government he's tried to overthrow in the first three months of this year. We are in a worst case scenario of authoritarianism.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:43 PM

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