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May 27, 5 tweets

🚨 Manolo’s Cuba “Aid” Pitch Turns Into a Call for Political Upheaval Inside America

In an interview yesterday from Havana, The People’s Forum executive director Manolo de los Santos essentially said material aid is not what Cuba needs most right now.

What will “help Cuba the most,” he says, is “massive mobilization” inside the United States to “change the reality within the United States.” He says that would also help Mexico, Iran, and “the people of the world.”

You need a far-left dictionary to know what Manolo means by “massive mobilization” and “reality,” but he is pretty clearly calling for a mass uprising to change America’s political reality.

This fits Manolo’s broader thesis. America has mass mobilizations, but never the revolution, because there is no vanguard to discipline the chaos and turn it into power.

That sounds insane to say out loud, but listen to him say it himself.

This is from the Youth Brigade trip to Cuba.

His latest interview gives you a taste of the anti-imperialist worldview, but this clip makes it clearer.

Cuba is part of a global anti-American front that connects Havana to North Korea, Iran, and beyond.

Despite all the scrutiny around The People’s Forum, nothing has happened.

Meanwhile, saying Manolo has been jet-setting is an understatement. He even had a high-level Havana meeting with Cuba’s president and top figures from the Singham network.

Another wild stop on Manolo’s global tour was Burkina Faso, where he went to study anti-Western, Sankara-style revolutionary politics.

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