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14 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Thanks to the socialist revolution, former colony Cuba has a lower infant mortality rate than the ultra-rich United States, as well as a slightly higher life expectancy.

And this is in spite of the murderous, illegal, 60-year US blockade and nonstop terrorist war on Cuba.
At the end of the right-wing US puppet dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959, the infant mortality rate was a staggering 47.1 deaths for every 1,000 live births. Today it is a mere 3.8 (compared to 5.6 for the US).
data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.D…
When anti-imperialist revolutionaries liberated Cuba from US colonialism in 1959, the life expectancy for the average Cuban was only 63 years. Today it is roughly 79 (just above the USA's rate).
data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.D…
The USA is Earth's richest country, the center of world capitalism, with the largest empire in history.

Yet Cuba—a small, underdeveloped, formally colonized island nation suffocated for six decades under a US blockade and nonstop CIA terrorist war—treats its people more humanely

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13 Jul
Cubans just held this massive rally in the city of Camagüey IN SUPPORT of their anti-imperialist revolution and their socialist government.

This demonstration is much bigger than the tiny US-backed right-wing protests -- but don't expect mainstream corporate media coverage.
More photos of PRO-government rallies in Cuba, in support of the revolution
Photos of pro-government Cubans marching and chanting "Long live the revolution!"
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12 Jul
The disinformation on Cuba is so blatant: Pro-war, neoliberal British newspaper The Guardian used a photo of Cubans rallying with the July 26 flag (the name of the revolutionary movement founded by Fidel Castro) and falsely claimed they're "anti-government protesters"

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This shameless fake news from The Guardian (of Blairism) is archived here:
archive.ph/5fCUe
More fake news on Cuba: This corporate media outlet in Puerto Rico is using a photo of Cubans rallying in support of the revolution with the July 26 Movement flag, and falsely claiming they are "anti-government"
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11 Jul
This (very small) protest in Cuba is part of another US-backed astroturfed "color revolution" (read: regime-change) attempt, led by right-wing activists funded by the US government through CIA cutouts.

But there's a massive global propaganda campaign amplifying this tiny protest
That these US govt-backed regime-change operatives & their PR flacks in corporate media are claiming Cuba's highly funded socialist health care system is supposedly inadequate shows how cynical imperialist propaganda is, while the privatized US health hellscape bankrupts millions
Even this propagandist for US govt mouthpiece the NY Times, in her lie-filled article, admits there are only "hundreds" of Cubans participating in the tiny US-backed protests

And of course she only mentions the suffocating, criminal US blockade in passing
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10 Jul
The 28 mercenaries suspected of killing Haiti's president include 26 Colombians, some former soldiers trained by the US, and 2 US citizens linked to rival Haitian oligarchs who had a falling out with Jovenel Moïse

via @dancohen3000
mintpressnews.com/haiti-suspecte…
The US government has a long history of supporting reactionary authoritarian leaders when they serve its interests, but turning on them when they're no longer useful -- like Panama's Noriega, DR's Trujillo, Iraq's Saddam, and possibly Haiti's Jovenel Moïse
The operation in Haiti is now so obvious: after US-trained mercenaries assassinated the president, the unelected right-wing US puppet appointed "interim prime minister," Claude Joseph, is openly calling for another US military occupation of the country
apnews.com/article/busine…
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23 Jun
For the 29th year in a row, basically the entire world voted at the United Nations against the illegal, murderous US blockade on Cuba.

184 countries voted to end the US blockade.

Only 2 voted for it: the USA and Israel.

3 US client regimes abstained: Colombia, Ukraine, and UAE
Every year, practically every single country on Earth votes against the criminal US blockade on Cuba.

The only nations that vote in support of it -- Washington and its 51 state Israel -- are the true rogue regimes, that spit on international law and norms
thegrayzone.com/2015/10/29/rog…
The US rogue regime and its colonial outpost Israel are consistently the only countries in the world to vote against pro-peace, pro-human policies -- such as UN resolutions calling for a nuclear weapons-free Middle East and to stop an outer space arms race
thegrayzone.com/2019/11/08/us-…
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22 Jun
100%. The soft-imperialist Global North fake "left" demonizes Nicaragua precisely because it defeated the US-backed 2018 coup, and is now preventing the possibility of a Nicaraguan Juan Guaidó.

Social chauvinist purists only support the left when it loses power and is victimized
Much of the North American "left" is obsessed with purity (although it has never had power), and only supports socialist movements when they're in opposition or overthrown, but demonizes them when they defeat attacks by imperialism and keep governing, like Nicaragua and Venezuela
The sad truth is many of the "leftists" demonizing Nicaragua (and Venezuela) today would have done the same to Salvador Allende when he was actually in power, trying to govern despite US economic warfare.

Before the CIA coup, Allende was attacked for not being "pure" enough
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