"It appears that the Assad dynasty that ruled Syria over two generations of incredible levels of brutality and terror has come to an end. Let us pray that what comes next after so many decades of depravity and repression is an improvement."
1/4reuters.com/world/middle-e… "Assad's decision to engage in the mass murder of the Syrian nonviolent opposition in 2010 sparked a civil war that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives." 2/4cfr.org/article/syrias…

Note to His Admirers: Comandante Ernesto "Che" Guevara is still dead, and his ideals are toxic.

"I'd like to confess, at that moment I discovered that I really like killing." - Che Guevara, in a letter to his father after executing an unarmed man.
1/ cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2024/10/note-t… Ideas have consequences and those ideas are sometimes represented in iconic images. This is the case of the image of Ernesto "Che" Guevara and his toxic philosophy of political action that others seek to emulate.  2/cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2024/10/note-t…

Reverend Martin Luther King Jr was born 93 years ago today cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2022/01/revere… 1/ Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was born 93 years ago today in Atlanta, Georgia but never saw his 40th birthday because he was assassinated on April 4, 1968. cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2022/01/revere… 2/

Connections: From the European Frankfurt School to Black Lives Matter and Critical Theory, an exploration cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2020/12/connec… 1/ We are in the midst of a battle of ideas against an adversary that is skilled and has been hard at work over decades in our academic and cultural institutions. cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2020/12/connec… 2/

Re: A Nov. 18 letter to the editor comparing the U.S. and Cuba election systems. herald-dispatch.com/letter-to-the-… via @heralddispatch 1/ The U.S. electoral system is imperfect and sometimes sloppy, but elections in the United States are about contesting power and competing political parties. herald-dispatch.com/letter-to-the-… via @heralddispatch 2/

First Secretary, President, Prime Minister, and Secretary-General, Comandante Fidel Castro is still dead 1,461 days later cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2020/11/first-… 1/ The Cuban autocrat was friendly with his Spanish counterpart Francisco Franco, and declared days of mourning when the Generalissimo, Prime Minister, Head of State, and Caudillo died on November 20, 1975. cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2020/11/first-… 2/

CubaBrief: Castro regime escalates violent repression against the San Isidro Movement while activists call to protest in public parks across Cuba cubacenter.org/archives/2020/… 1/ Over the weekend events at the San Isidro Movement's headquarters escalated with acts of violence perpetrated by agents of the dictatorship against the nonviolent protesters. cubacenter.org/archives/2020/… 2/

Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of John F. Kennedy: Cui Bono? cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2020/11/lee-ha… 1/ Fifty seven years ago on November 22, 1963 John F. Kennedy was assassinated. At 12:30pm Central Standard Time the Kennedys in their convertible limousine turned off Main Street at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2020/11/lee-ha… 2/

German documentary filmmaker @whuismann described the circumstances surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy & the subsequent cover up by the Johnson White House with the tacit approval of Robert Kennedy in his 2006 doc Rendezvous with Death. cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2019/11/presid… 1/ At the time of the film's release he gave an interview in @DeutscheWelle on January 5, 2006 titled "Castro ordered Kennedy's Assassination." cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2019/11/presid… 2/

Communists Lie and Communism Kills: Brief overview of a terrible idea cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2020/08/commun… 1/ #Communism #CommunismKills Communism prior to Marx
The word and idea of communism predates Karl Marx and first arises out of Enlightenment ideas that would fully express themselves in the French Revolution. cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2020/08/commun… 2/ #Communism #CommunismKills

"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead." - G.K. Chesterton 1/ Why do I care so much about a statue paid for by former black slaves and inaugurated by Frederick Douglas in 1876? Because #BlackLivesMatter yesterday, today, and tomorrow. 2/

Travel restrictions, Cuba and the ideological foundation of the Castro regime's anti-family policy cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2020/01/travel… 1/24 On January 10, 2019 Secretary of State Pompeo requested that the U.S. Department of Transportation suspend all public charter flights between the United States and Cuban destinations, with the exception of Havana's Jose Marti International Airport. cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2020/01/travel… 2/24

Underestimating Cuba and Russia in Venezuela and the failure of Neo-Appeasement
cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2020/01/undere… #Cuba #Russia #Venezuela #NeoAppeasement #appeasement 1/21 5 years ago, the then Secretary of State John Kerry before heading to Venezuela on Aug 14, 2015 in an interview with @oppenheimera stated that "the United States & Cuba are talking about ways to solve the Venezuelan crisis." cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2020/01/undere… #Cuba #Russia #Venezuela 2/21

Detente with the Castro regime had and continues to have negative and unintended consequences. The consensus with Europe established in 1996 in the EU Common Position, linking improved relations to improvement in human rights, was ended. cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2019/06/review… 1/25 The influx of cash and international legitimacy during the Obama Administration emboldened the dictatorship to behave more aggressively in the region, and against the democratic opposition in Cuba. cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2019/06/review… 2/25

Castro regime agents beat down and arrest Gay activists at Pride Parade in Havana cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2019/05/castro… 1/12 #PrideMonth On Saturday, May 11, 2019 the Castro regime's efforts at Pinkwashing its totalitarian edifice came crashing down as gay rights activists were beaten down, arrested and taken away for carrying out a Gay Pride march in Havana. cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2019/05/castro… 2/12 #PrideMonth

Not mourning the death of Fidel Castro is punishable by prison, beatings and death in Cuba. cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2018/11/not-mo… 1/15 Two years ago, on a Black Friday that fell on November 25, 2016, Cuban tyrant Fidel Castro died at the age of 90 never having had to answer for his many crimes against humanity both in and out of Cuba. 2/15

Journalist Tracey Eaton reported that there is evidence that "Drug Enforcement Administration may have provided training to Cuban drug agents in 2017, cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2018/11/did-dr… The DEA reported spending $752 on a course for two unidentified people in Cuba." This is not a good idea. Consider the following: cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2018/11/did-dr…