CubaBrief: Is cooperation between Havana and Washington resulting in the US turning a blind eye to the Castro regime's crimes? 1/ cubacenter.org/archives/2023/…






On August 10, 2023 Andrea Mitchell reported on MSNBC News about cooperation between Cuba and the United States in combating drug trafficking. This CubaBrief will address what was left out, and provide some context. 2/ cubacenter.org/archives/2023/…

"Having the Castro regime 'work together' with the U.S. "to fight drug trafficking" is the equivalent of the City of London Police 'working together' with Jack the Ripper to reduce knife violence." - @JohnJSuarez

Please read this thread & sources.

cc: @Mitchellreports 1/

https://twitter.com/mitchellreports/status/1689731486658842624

Cuba's involvement in flooding the United States with drugs began in the early 1960s. Recommend reading "RED COCAINE THE DRUGGING OF AMERICA AND THE WEST" by Joseph D. Douglass for information in the early years. 2/amazon.com/Red-Cocaine-Dr…

CubaBrief: Remembering the crackdown on March 18, 2003 that ended a Cuban Spring. Cuban prisoner of conscience Sayli Navarro rejects offer of exile. cubacenter.org/archives/2023/… 1/ The crackdown that ended the Cuban black spring began 20 years ago today, the massive roundup of dissidents by the Castro regime's secret police. cubacenter.org/archives/2023/… 2/

#PressAdvisory: CFC President Ambassador Otto J. Reich says arrest warrants issued for Vladimir Putin, and his assistant are a positive development.

Calls for scrutiny of the Cuban government's backing of Russia's criminal and illegal war. cubacenter.org/articles-and-e… 1/ Center for a Free Cuba. Washington DC. March 17, 2023. The @IntlCrimCourt issued arrest warrants earlier today for Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and his assistant Ms Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova for war crimes in Ukraine. cubacenter.org/articles-and-e… 2/

Aviso de Prensa: Declaración del Centro para una Cuba Libre sobre la liberación de la espía Ana Belén Montes cubacenter.org/articles-and-e… 1/ Ana Belén Montes, la analista principal del Pentágono para los temas de Cuba, quien fue arrestada el 21 de septiembre del 2001 por espiar a favor del régimen de Castro durante 17 años, será liberada de una prisión estadounidense en cuestión de horas. cubacenter.org/articles-and-e… 2/

CubaBrief: Ana Belen Montes was released from federal prison tonight after serving 20 years. A summary of the harm she caused the US. cubacenter.org/archives/2023/… 1/ Ana Belen Montes, the Pentagon's top analyst for Cuba who was arrested on September 21, 2001 for spying for the Castro regime for 17 years was released today from the Federal Medical Center (FMC) - Carswell, in Fort Worth, TX where she was being held. cubacenter.org/archives/2023/… 2/

Press Release:
CFC Statement on the release of Ana Belen Montes
cubacenter.org/articles-and-e… #Cuba #DI #Espionage 1/ Ana Belen Montes, the Pentagon's top analyst for Cuba who was arrested on September 21, 2001 for spying for the Castro regime for 17 years will be released from a U.S. prison in a matter of hours. cubacenter.org/articles-and-e… 2/

CubaBrief: Castro dictatorship's repressive apparatus and true nature exposed again on #15N. What's next? cubacenter.org/archives/2021/… 1/ No one should have been surprised by the Cuban dictatorship's "successful" crackdown on the announced civic marches called for on November 15, 2021. cubacenter.org/archives/2021/… 2/

CubaBrief: Castro dictatorship's repressive apparatus and true nature exposed again on #15N. What next? cubacenter.org/archives/2021/… 1/ No one should have been surprised by the Cuban dictatorship's "successful" crackdown on the announced civic marches called for on November 15, 2021. cubacenter.org/archives/2021/… 2/

We (@cubacenter, @VoCommunism & others) made an appeal to world civic, religious and political leaders to help peaceful Cuban dissidents and oppose Cuban government violence targeting them. cubacenter.org/articles-and-e… #15NCuba #15NCubaLibre 1/6 We made specific asks to the international community among them are:

Establish a global arms embargo on Cuba.

Suspend economic and military cooperation agreements with the Cuban dictatorship, such as the EU-Cuba cooperation agreement. cubacenter.org/articles-and-e… 2/6

Press Release: Appeal to world civic, religious and political leaders to help peaceful Cuban dissidents and oppose Cuban government violence targeting them. cubacenter.org/articles-and-e… #15NCuba #15NCubaLibre #Cuba 1/ Rights advocates, religious leaders, writers, artists, intellectuals, journalists, businessmen, fmr diplomats & academicians appeal to world civic, religious & political leaders to condemn Havana dictatorship's attempt to suppress & oppress civil society & undermine democracy. 2/

Cubans in Washington DC held procession today for our political prisoners & for those targeted for planning #CivicMarch's in Cuba. Struggle for #PatriayLibertad is not over!
#PrayerWalk #EndInjustice #EndDictatorshipInCUBA #EndPoliceBrutality #15NCuba 1/4 Prayer Walk for Cuba held Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 2pm at Meridian Hill Park (16th St NW & W St NW, Wash, DC ) with activists gathering in the park. At 3pm walked in prayer to the Cuban Embassy (2630 16th St NW ) & stayed until 6pm praying, reading poetry, & listening to music. 2/4

CubaBrief: The "13 de Marzo" tugboat sinking, the Brothers to the Rescue shoot down, and the Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero killings: The importance of remembering Castroism's crimes cubacenter.org/archives/2021/… 1/ Wednesday, July 13, 1994 at three in the morning three extended Cuban families set out for a better life aboard the "13 de Marzo" tugboat from Havana, Cuba and were massacred by Cuban government agents. cubacenter.org/archives/2021/… 2/

CubaBrief: Cuban dictatorship begins to liberalize Cuban economy in response to US economic sanctions. How to push for a democratic opening. cubacenter.org/archives/2020/… 1/ The Cuban dictatorship is taking steps to liberalize the Cuban economy in response to U.S economic sanctions and the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. cubacenter.org/archives/2020/… 2/

CubaBrief: Human Rights Watch denounces rights violations against Cubans trying to protest the killing of a young black man in Cuba in June 2020 by police cubacenter.org/archives/2020/… 1/ On June 24, 2020 in Guanabacoa, Cuba an unarmed 27 year old Black Cuban, Hansel E. Hernández was shot in the back and killed by the police. cubacenter.org/archives/2020/… 2/