Cuban anti-riot police deploying alongside”‘revolutionaries” (regime thugs in civilian clothing). Source: @JimenezEnoa
Antonio García Martínez: The Real Cuba Isn't a Potemkin
Airbnb Antonio García Martínez on what people taking to the streets are protesting.
The difference between the communist system and the capitalist one is that both kick you in the ass, but in the communist one they kick you and you have to applaud, while in the capitalist one they kick you and you can scream. I came here to scream.
— Reinaldo Arenas, Antes Que Anochezca
It’s hard to convey to those who live in the free world what life is like under a totalitarian dictatorship. I’d never experienced anything remotely like it before I traveled to Cuba in 2017 to report a story for WIRED magazine, and it was one of the most memorable and unpleasant experiences of my life.
The first thing is the fear: you as an individual exist naked without any recourse against the depredations of the state. I was reporting illegally, with no journalist visa, which would have taken at best months to get. The police could have knocked on the door and hauled me away to the cuartico (little room) at Villa Marista, the Cuban Lubyanka, or disappeared me into some other extrajudicial hole. The authorities did just that yesterday to Camila Acosta, a correspondent for the Spanish newspaper ABC for “crimes against state security.” The Founding Fathers’ warnings about tyrannical kings and their obsession with habeas corpus hit differently when you’re confronted with an unaccountable state machine and no recourse to rule of law or individual rights.
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WNU Editor: Growing up in the former Soviet Union, I can relate to the above post. In the meantime, the White House Press Secretary just cannot voice the obvious .... Biden's Press Secretary Jen Psaki refuses to condemn communism in Cuba, blames "mismanagement".
Hat Tip: Instapundit
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