The only ‘freedom’ the US Government and it’s reactionary, gusano supporters want for the people of Cuba is the freedom to starve.
Anyone in the West who makes public criticisms of the Cuban Government or disingenuously calls for “nuance” at this very moment – when there is a clearly a dangerous intensification in US subversion against it – is doing the work of imperialists.
People with grass for brains like this:
Philip Agee, the CIA whistleblower who died in exile in Cuba, explains why the US wants to destroy the revolution in Cuba, and anywhere else that offers an alternative to capitalism.
This is an illustrative example of the difference between successfully expelling US-led capitalist exploitation of your country's resources and falling victim to such exploitation through repeated US invasion and other interventions.
Fanon: The apotheosis of independence is transformed into the curse of independence, & the colonial power through its immense resources of coercion condemns the young nation to regression. In plain words, the colonial power says: "Since you want independence, take it and starve".

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Contrary to this cheap propaganda from Amnesty, the Cuban government is in virtually constant dialogue with its population regarding its policies and actually incorporates its feedback and criticism into policy making in a way literally unimaginable in Western “democracies”. Image
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It’s function is very clear. For instance re. Venezuela:
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It is baffling to me that after everything, and no longer under the immense pressure of being leader, Corbyn still decides to make such misleading and milquetoast statements like this.
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Compare and contrast. Lies and reality.
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