The sputtering Castro-ist regime in Cuba has managed to stick to its communist roots. It’s doing this by ensuring that while everyone is “equal,” foreign stooges and social influencers willing to spread propaganda for the regime are treated more equally than others.
That’s a time-honored, socialist tradition.
Over the weekend a junket of various activists and assorted clowns traveled to Cuba and partied it up while the locals starved and lingered in darkness.
“Hundreds of tone-deaf lefty radicals flocked into Havana this weekend to meet with Communist Party officials—staying in luxury hotels and traveling in air-conditioned buses—as the rest of the island grapples with a worsening economic crisis that’s starved it of electricity, food, water and medicine,” the New York Post reported Friday.
They were part of the so-called Nuestra America Convoy that went to Cuba, according to the Post, “under the guise of handing out 20 tons of humanitarian aid to protest the United States oil blockade on Cuba.”
It went something like this.
Given everything else going on in the world now, it’s easy to miss what’s going on 100 miles from Florida’s shoreline. But the international Left is keenly aware of what’s happening. They know that the Trump administration has dealt several blows to a coalition of states that carry water for their fading aspirations of global revolution.
Now the hard left is in panic mode. Here’s a collection of mostly over-the-hill Marxist academics at the City University of New York earlier this month casting their hopes with the theocratic Iranian regime, proclaiming that every drone Iran fires is “also a defense of Cuba.”
They know Cuba’s in rough shape.
Things took a turn for the worse recently as President Donald Trump deposed Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, who was notably surrounded by a Cuban praetorian guard when he was captured. The new Venezuelan management immediately cut off its Cuban oil subsidies.
Now Cuba is suffering through widespread blackouts because its economy and energy grid are in shambles.
That’s what triggered the leftist activists, including ones from Code Pink and other various groups, to go on a little paid trip to visit the Cuban Communist Party’s Politburo and gin up support for Cuban “democracy.”
As The Daily Signal’s Tyler O’Neil reported earlier this month, these leftist groups receive aid from activist organizations funded by Shanghai-based billionaire Neville Roy Singham. Obviously, the Chinese Communist Party has a strong interest in seeing the Cuban regime survive.
But rather than creating a sympathetic picture of the Cuban government, the activists demonstrated exactly why communism has been such an inhuman failure for the “working man.”
The Heritage Foundation’s Mike Gonzalez noted that while Cuba’s energy grid has entirely collapsed, it managed to keep the lights on at the fancy hotel the activists were staying at.
It wasn’t just the hotel that was opulent and disconnected for the country at large. The activists held a huge concert with the Irish rap band Kneecap so they could shout their solidarity with Palestine and other leftist causes.
Here’s rapper-activist Christian Smalls displaying some rather fancy jewelry.
And here’s New York City Mayor Zohran Mandani supporter Hasan Piker throwing food at children so they would dance for the cameras.
Oh, but some of the activists put in some work after all. A few Code Pinkers took some time away from their vacation to paint murals for the locals.
Let them eat paint, I guess.
Funny enough, here’s Greta Thunberg screeching about Cuba losing its oil despite her perpetual hectoring of Western leaders about how their fossil fuel consumption is killing the earth.
At the end of the day, Thunberg appears to be more red than green.
But this isn’t just an oil crisis for the Marxist, Cuban regime. It’s a political crisis borne of over half a century of failed socialist policies and ruthless authoritarianism.
I’d argue that Cuba’s miserable fate has been sealed since Fidel Castro and his gang took over the island in 1959. When Soviet Union collapsed—and Cuba lost its most powerful backer—the regime managed to limp along, prolonging the suffering of its people. But that can’t continue forever.
Raul Castro, the man considered the real power behind the Cuban government, is 94 years old. Their money is drying up. Their list of friends is growing shorter by the minute. And at this point, the Marxist regime has little to offer the world besides its authoritarian military-security expertise.
The Trump administration seems much less likely to throw this regime a lifeline, and protests of Communist Party offices are getting more frequent. They can’t jail everybody.
I don’t think a few wealthy leftist celebrities from abroad taking selfies and gobbling up the remaining energy on the island is going to pull the Cuban regime out of its death spiral.
