With immigration being such a hot topic, you have to ask if lifting U.S. imposed economic sanctions on Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela might alleviate some of the migration. Root causes are not widely discussed because we can only point the finger at ourselves. Gotta love those C.I.A. sharps.
I'm not voting for Trump but really can't figure out, besides having a 'D' by her name, why anyone wants to vote for Harris. The anti-Democratic Party of starting wars has become a Borg collective and will absolutely continue this embargo crap.
Starvation siege warfare against poor countries, to enforce the doctrine of an imperialist pos like Monroe from 200yrs ago, exemplifies empire's exceptionalism.
Vote for the Green Party. It is going to be ugly no matter who wins - both major parties are just a bunch of assholes serving their masters - corporations and mercenaries. They cause havoc in the whole world, support genocide, hate poor people - see what is happening to unsheltered people who, in Florida, are being chased in the woods, the only place they thought they were allowed to sleep. The more votes the Green Party gets, the stronger it grows. I am not registered Green Party but it is the only party right now that can cause some disturbance and discomfort. It is a matter of building a whole new party and there will be a lot of suffering in the near future because I believe Trump will win and this country will see things we think only happen elsewhere (mostly because we cause them), things we say we are "shocked by" but ultimately just go on living our relatively comfort and safe lives. We have never really experienced what we cause around the globe. We are about to get a bit of our own terrorism - yes, I do think we are a terrorist state. Half the world would agree with me. If we keep passing the problems to the next election, then the next, then the next, those two parties are only going to get worse. I live in a red state and my vote will not matter but I do hope, even if I fear a Trump administration, that the uncommitted block in the swing states stays true to their resolve to not vote for Harris or Trump and I hope they vote for a third party
USA - spreader of misery wherever its "foreign policy" goes. BTW Blinken must be one of all time worst and most destructive secretaries of State ever. A dangerous fool. And a POTUS who has not been fit for the job since getting elected. On the edge of a precipice, with an ally on the rampage, and we don't even know who's making the decisions. Americans should be mad at this current "administration" - and demanding that someone keeps an eye on Blinken.
This is Biden’s legacy on so many fronts. Promises made, never fulfilled, quickly forgotten. Joe may be the worst US president (despite claims to the contrary) ever. Trump has met his match. Democrats are supposed to be better than Republicans but with a year of genocide and unending support for widening war, it’s not easy to discern the lesser of two evils. I met a retired MD this past weekend who had been to Cuba in February of this year. He told me the Cuban people were suffering greatly. And now this piece from Drop Site arrives confirming what he saw.
I keep clicking the red "Heart" button because I like the reporting. But I don't like the news, so my emotions are conflicted whenever I read another story about tragedy- which is happening every day. Can you install a black "Broken Heart" icon for readers who like the reporting, but hate the news?
Ed, I may be wrong. But I think that "Those with relatives who can pay an airfare fly to Nicaragua before taking the perilous trek across the Darien Gap up to the U.S.-Mexico border" in fact do not have to cross the Darien Gap. Which is a good thing.
I don't understand why Harris doesn't come out for obvious causes, like this Cuba situation and things like our executing innocent people, let alone the gratuitous killing of Palestinian civilians that Israeli soldiers engage even if geopolitics has us disgustingly funding Israel's genocide. Can you explain?
Who exactly are you standing in the gap for- the Cuban people?
Chronology doesn’t lie. Numbers don’t lie and the mass exodus of Cubans who have died and survived risking their lives in order to flee to the U.S. and elsewhere, beginning in 1959 until present day, also does not lie.
Your inaccurate statements and misrepresentation of events disregard a number of facts about modern Cuban history. The most obvious pecados of Fidel Castro’s regime, marking the 65-year reign of the Castro family’s stranglehold are:
1. The Castro regime has undermined, starved, cheated, stolen from and pilfered the Cuban People since 1959 until present day.
2. The Castro regime exports revolution. First on behalf of the USSR and more recently on behalf of President Putin. The most obvious are: Central and South America (Nicaragua, Venezuela, Mexico, Bolivia, etc.), Africa (Angola) and Ukraine. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68949298
3. The Castro regime exploits and trafficks Cuban children, men and women in Cuba and abroad; for labor (Doctors for sale), sex (prostitution) and organ harvesting. Cuba is a source, transfer and destination country for human trafficking.
4. The Castro regime continues to censor and terrorize its citizens and media organizations.
5. The Castro regime continues to suppress and imprison political dissidents.
6. The Castro regime refuses to hold free elections.
7. The Castro regime does not have the capacity to supply its citizens with the necessary medication, technologically advanced medical facilities, a modernized healthcare system, and medical supplies to care for its 11 million citizens.
8. The Castro regime continues to ration the citizens food supply.
9. The Castro regime has a dual currency economy. One for tourists (US dollar) the other for the underpaid Cuban citizens (Cuban peso),
10. The Castro regime sponsors terrorism.
11. The Castro regime has exported hundreds of spies to the United States, Venezuela, Brazil, and other countries. The Cuban spies have been instructed to extract information and provoke hatred, violence and discord among American citizens and the large Cuban-American community.
Need I say more.
If the Cuban people are starving, lacking basic necessities including: food, potable water, electricity, and medicines; and are denied their rights to freedom of speech, religion and political dissent, a basic secondary education, and feel miserable, it is not Presidents Biden, Trump, Obama, and or Bush who are to blame. It is not their legacy.
The fault lies directly upon the Castro regime, its sweeping injurious policies and the unstoppable rhetoric goading anti-US sentiment across the globe since 1959. It is time the Cuban people expose the Truth, stand up to the current dictatorship; and pave the way for free elections.
With immigration being such a hot topic, you have to ask if lifting U.S. imposed economic sanctions on Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela might alleviate some of the migration. Root causes are not widely discussed because we can only point the finger at ourselves. Gotta love those C.I.A. sharps.
I'm not voting for Trump but really can't figure out, besides having a 'D' by her name, why anyone wants to vote for Harris. The anti-Democratic Party of starting wars has become a Borg collective and will absolutely continue this embargo crap.
Starvation siege warfare against poor countries, to enforce the doctrine of an imperialist pos like Monroe from 200yrs ago, exemplifies empire's exceptionalism.
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Vote for the Green Party. It is going to be ugly no matter who wins - both major parties are just a bunch of assholes serving their masters - corporations and mercenaries. They cause havoc in the whole world, support genocide, hate poor people - see what is happening to unsheltered people who, in Florida, are being chased in the woods, the only place they thought they were allowed to sleep. The more votes the Green Party gets, the stronger it grows. I am not registered Green Party but it is the only party right now that can cause some disturbance and discomfort. It is a matter of building a whole new party and there will be a lot of suffering in the near future because I believe Trump will win and this country will see things we think only happen elsewhere (mostly because we cause them), things we say we are "shocked by" but ultimately just go on living our relatively comfort and safe lives. We have never really experienced what we cause around the globe. We are about to get a bit of our own terrorism - yes, I do think we are a terrorist state. Half the world would agree with me. If we keep passing the problems to the next election, then the next, then the next, those two parties are only going to get worse. I live in a red state and my vote will not matter but I do hope, even if I fear a Trump administration, that the uncommitted block in the swing states stays true to their resolve to not vote for Harris or Trump and I hope they vote for a third party
Vote for Trump, holding your nose. The alternative is FAR worse, and there will be no going back.
America, that shining city on the hill. Making miserable the lives of people world-wide.
USA - spreader of misery wherever its "foreign policy" goes. BTW Blinken must be one of all time worst and most destructive secretaries of State ever. A dangerous fool. And a POTUS who has not been fit for the job since getting elected. On the edge of a precipice, with an ally on the rampage, and we don't even know who's making the decisions. Americans should be mad at this current "administration" - and demanding that someone keeps an eye on Blinken.
This is Biden’s legacy on so many fronts. Promises made, never fulfilled, quickly forgotten. Joe may be the worst US president (despite claims to the contrary) ever. Trump has met his match. Democrats are supposed to be better than Republicans but with a year of genocide and unending support for widening war, it’s not easy to discern the lesser of two evils. I met a retired MD this past weekend who had been to Cuba in February of this year. He told me the Cuban people were suffering greatly. And now this piece from Drop Site arrives confirming what he saw.
I keep clicking the red "Heart" button because I like the reporting. But I don't like the news, so my emotions are conflicted whenever I read another story about tragedy- which is happening every day. Can you install a black "Broken Heart" icon for readers who like the reporting, but hate the news?
Ed, I may be wrong. But I think that "Those with relatives who can pay an airfare fly to Nicaragua before taking the perilous trek across the Darien Gap up to the U.S.-Mexico border" in fact do not have to cross the Darien Gap. Which is a good thing.
The US always has to have an enemy. Preferably one that can't fight back. Remember Grenada?
Excellent context from a first-class reporter. Thank you.
I think the CIA means Corporate Insurance Authority?
Cuba is just one of a really long line of stupid disasterous
Biden policies..
I don't understand why Harris doesn't come out for obvious causes, like this Cuba situation and things like our executing innocent people, let alone the gratuitous killing of Palestinian civilians that Israeli soldiers engage even if geopolitics has us disgustingly funding Israel's genocide. Can you explain?
Who exactly are you standing in the gap for- the Cuban people?
Chronology doesn’t lie. Numbers don’t lie and the mass exodus of Cubans who have died and survived risking their lives in order to flee to the U.S. and elsewhere, beginning in 1959 until present day, also does not lie.
Your inaccurate statements and misrepresentation of events disregard a number of facts about modern Cuban history. The most obvious pecados of Fidel Castro’s regime, marking the 65-year reign of the Castro family’s stranglehold are:
1. The Castro regime has undermined, starved, cheated, stolen from and pilfered the Cuban People since 1959 until present day.
2. The Castro regime exports revolution. First on behalf of the USSR and more recently on behalf of President Putin. The most obvious are: Central and South America (Nicaragua, Venezuela, Mexico, Bolivia, etc.), Africa (Angola) and Ukraine. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68949298
3. The Castro regime exploits and trafficks Cuban children, men and women in Cuba and abroad; for labor (Doctors for sale), sex (prostitution) and organ harvesting. Cuba is a source, transfer and destination country for human trafficking.
4. The Castro regime continues to censor and terrorize its citizens and media organizations.
5. The Castro regime continues to suppress and imprison political dissidents.
6. The Castro regime refuses to hold free elections.
7. The Castro regime does not have the capacity to supply its citizens with the necessary medication, technologically advanced medical facilities, a modernized healthcare system, and medical supplies to care for its 11 million citizens.
8. The Castro regime continues to ration the citizens food supply.
9. The Castro regime has a dual currency economy. One for tourists (US dollar) the other for the underpaid Cuban citizens (Cuban peso),
10. The Castro regime sponsors terrorism.
11. The Castro regime has exported hundreds of spies to the United States, Venezuela, Brazil, and other countries. The Cuban spies have been instructed to extract information and provoke hatred, violence and discord among American citizens and the large Cuban-American community.
Need I say more.
If the Cuban people are starving, lacking basic necessities including: food, potable water, electricity, and medicines; and are denied their rights to freedom of speech, religion and political dissent, a basic secondary education, and feel miserable, it is not Presidents Biden, Trump, Obama, and or Bush who are to blame. It is not their legacy.
The fault lies directly upon the Castro regime, its sweeping injurious policies and the unstoppable rhetoric goading anti-US sentiment across the globe since 1959. It is time the Cuban people expose the Truth, stand up to the current dictatorship; and pave the way for free elections.
As we are days away from a Presidential election, I think this article is missing an analysis or opinion on what either candidate would do if elected.
CSPAN has a livestream of the debates and an excellent Washington Today podcast, that plays long-form press statements for bipartisan candidates.