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Questions & Help Mar 14, 2026 at 6:14 PM

Protesters in Cuba attack Communist party office in rare riot over blackouts

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https://www.nbcnews.com/world/cuba/protesters-cuba-attack-communist-party-office-rare-riot-blackouts-rcna263464
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Far_Radish7752 Mar 14, 2026 +19
From the article in NBC News: >HAVANA — Anti-government protesters attacked a Communist Party office in northern Cuba early on Saturday, a state-run newspaper reported, in a rare outburst of public dissent triggered by worsening blackouts that have been exacerbated by a U.S. oil blockade. >A rally against power cuts and food shortages appeared to begin peacefully in the city of Moron late on Friday then turned violent in the early hours of Saturday morning, Invasor newspaper said. >Videos on social media showed a large fire and people throwing rocks through the windows of a building as voices shouted “liberty” in the background. >Reuters was unable to confirm the authenticity of videos that posters said showed the unrest in Moron, a city on Cuba’s northern coast about 250 miles (400 km) east of the capital Havana near the tourist resort of Cayo Coco. >The ​United States has tightened the screws on Cuba this year since capturing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro — Cuba’s most important foreign benefactor — in January. >President Trump cut off Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba and threatened to slap tariffs on any country that sells oil to Cuba, piling pressure on the economy already struggling with shortages of food, fuel, electricity and medicine.
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SoItWasYouAllAlong Mar 14, 2026 +117
Just when I was beginning to worry that the CIA hasn't been CIA-ing enough lately.
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slax03 Mar 14, 2026 +37
People are smartening up at least. Even the Kurds are like "not falling for this one again".
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margotsaidso Mar 14, 2026 +5
Iran playbook round 2
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Thorceanswastaken Mar 15, 2026 -9
lmao I knew the gringo cope would be here cubans have been fed up with the regime for decades
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SoItWasYouAllAlong Mar 15, 2026 +20
Don't "gringo" me. As a citizen of a former commie country, I'm perfectly aware of how the Cuban people will be fucked if their government is replaced by a US puppet. By life expectancy, my nation fell from 42-nd place under the communist "regime", to 97-th place under the current "democratic" capitalist oligarchy.
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Thorceanswastaken Mar 15, 2026 -15
Cuba literally wasn't communist for decades and it was an actual prosperous functioning nation until the revolution came (people really just wanted a democratic nation not a communist one) Castro then killed and imprisoned thousands of people to cement his power as the new dictator and everything went downhill from there, I'd rather be a puppet than starve to death or be murdered by own government because I tried to grow my own food
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SoItWasYouAllAlong Mar 15, 2026 +11
\> it was an actual prosperous functioning nation Says who? The handful of rich families who owned all of the nation's resources? Do you know the difference between an *average* value and a *median* value? How easy do you think it is to make a prosperous population revolt? Do you think that Castro won without almost universal popular support? Oh, please tell me how great Batista's dictatorship was for the Cuban people: >receiving financial, military and logistical support from the United States government, Batista (...) revoked most political liberties, (...) widened the gap between rich and poor Cubans (...) most of the sugar industry was in U.S. hands, and foreigners owned 70% of the arable land (...) negotiating lucrative relationships both with the American Mafia (...) and with large U.S.-based multinational companies ([source:Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista)) \> Castro then killed and imprisoned thousands of people Yes, it is called "criminal justice". Let's see if these criminal convictions were against innocent people. Wikipedia: >Batista (...) censorship of the media (...) secret police to carry out wide-scale violence, torture and public executions. These murders mounted (...) estimates of the death toll (...) up to 20,000 victims. So please, tell me again how the Castro government's criminal proceedings against "our boys" were wrong.
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ComradeYoldas Mar 15, 2026 +8
You're talking with a gusano
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SoItWasYouAllAlong Mar 15, 2026 +4
I had to look up the term. I think you're right. Either that, or child/grandchild of one. If so, at least they're sincere in their false beliefs about how good Batista was, and how bad - Castro. I know the same type in my country - not emigrants, but people from rich families who 80 years later still see the wealth redistribution done by the commie government, as robbery. Never mind that their grandpa had 3 palaces and a bunch of servants, while the workers in his factory worked 14 hours 6 days a week. And died of pneumonia, because they couldn't afford the couple of half-decent meals, necessary for their immune system to do its job. And that's at 14/6 work week!
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HandleSensitive8403 Mar 15, 2026 -3
Hidden posts, opinion rejected
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moochs Mar 14, 2026 +23
Damned if they do, damned if they don't.  We exploited for Cuba for decades in the early 1900s, which led to their revolution. We're still exploiting them today. If the current Cuban regime does cave, Cuba won't be a better place for it, it'll just switch to another form of exploitation.  There's the argument that there's more wealth to be had by the populace under a capitalist society, but we all know what will happen -- American elites will buy up all the land like they did during the early 1900s for the sugar plantations, and normal Cubans will be no better off. Cuba never really got it's revolution: America's been holding it down this whole time.  Short-term gain for long-term pain
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UnitSmall2200 Mar 15, 2026 +3
We do our best to destroy their economies with sanctions and embargos, so we can prove ourselves right to say ours is the superior economic system. 
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InterestingSpeaker Mar 14, 2026 -39
At some point you gotta give up
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grain_delay Mar 14, 2026 +33
To what end? The only reason the working class doesn’t all live in bondage today is because of class struggle
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GarryofRiverton Mar 14, 2026 -21
You mean the "class struggle" that inevitably gets used to install dictators and their sychophants?
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ThatDM Mar 14, 2026 +15
The class struggle that has topped the institutions of slavery, monarchy, empire and fudalusm. Just because corruption of the system occurs after the class struggle didn't mean those struggles bore no fruit. The class war has been waged for thousands of years and we are better off for it. Do not lose sight of the forest when you see a tree.
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ThatDM Mar 14, 2026 +8
Bro you are so lost lmao. America, Great Brittan Rome have all killed far more people then any of their contemporary class minded peers. You just ignore the death caused by the institutions that repress class struggle because you consider that "norma"
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ThatDM Mar 14, 2026 +8
No point of your own to push back so u focus on third party attacks and the single spelling mistake In my comment. Nice one dude you are clearly a force to be reckoned with.
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ThatDM Mar 14, 2026 +6
Normal* One would hope you would be able to understand what was being said if a single letter was missing but alas I have wasted my time with you 😔
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GarryofRiverton Mar 14, 2026 +4
Ah gotcha. But you're wrong however. Mao's policies leading to the starvation of tens of millions and the Russians intentionally starving out "lesser Slavs" is way more death in a far shorter amount of time than any other group of people.
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CRUSTBUSTICUS Mar 15, 2026 +1
Comrade Piker will save the working class! Just don’t ask him about censorship laws or the police state in China. That’s only bad when it’s western.
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moochs Mar 14, 2026 +8
Right back at ya
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SessionGloomy Mar 14, 2026 -11
How is it possible that the US tolerates a communist regime like Cuba operating so close to its borders?
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moochs Mar 15, 2026 +1
It doesn't, that's why we've sanctioned it into destitution. As is the American way, bully everyone it can
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nohorsesjustangels Mar 18, 2026 +1
How is it possible that Cuba tolerates the pedofascist Fourth Reich operating so close to its borders?
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Willing_Journalist35 Mar 14, 2026 +17
Are they funded by some sussy US backed agency? Asking as an outsider with no prior knowledge on anything happening there, just gut feeling
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LorderNile Mar 14, 2026 +18
Gut feeling? Or a repeat of history.
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iheartmagic Mar 14, 2026 +16
First sanctions, then economic collapse, then Color Revolution. The regime change playbook is pretty stale at this point
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Marginallyhuman Mar 14, 2026 +4
Wouldn’t be far fetched if they were.
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Sedert1882 Mar 14, 2026 +5
The Cubans have been pushed to a tipping point by their own government for decades, and by the US also for decades. They need to catch a break somehow.
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millanstar Mar 14, 2026 +8
The CIA really is working overtime these days
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Wafflez424 Mar 15, 2026 -10
Lol you really gonna fall for this one again 😂😂 I’m embarrassed for you if you actually said that statement seriously 😂
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MakinBaconWithMacon Mar 15, 2026 +7
Life in Cuba is horrible beyond modern world comprehension. Like people hide farm animals in their kitchen cabinets or the government will confiscate the animals and imprison them. It’s all so they don’t starve. They have a shot to free the island. I hope they do.
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AnimeMeansArt Mar 15, 2026 +4
The main reason why there are blackout is because of US blockage.
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Niceromancer Mar 16, 2026 +2
Yes island nations tend to not do well when a super power blocades them in the hope they can forcefully assimilate them.
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Idainaru_Yokubo Mar 14, 2026 +4
interesting timing reminds me what happened with Iran recently. Hmm.. what does Cuba and Iran have in common
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Appropriate_Aside323 Mar 15, 2026
Season 2 of Blowback is about the US and Cuba after the revolution. Very interesting. I didn't know about all the American terrorist attacks on Cuba in the 60s https://open.spotify.com/show/2pibBnPuHqKr07hxEMZE41
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NovelDraft5175 Mar 15, 2026 -4
Trumpstein is sending in trouble makers for a reason to go there, just like our city's
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anubis1392 Mar 14, 2026 -6
Hey guys! The White House is over here!! The Communists ddnt f*** up your power. The capitalist White supremacists did
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jzkzy Mar 16, 2026 -2
They have a city called Moron?
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No_Listen5389 Mar 16, 2026 +1
Yes, it\`s a city full of very nice, normal people, the mostly work at the resorts in the Cayo's. I hope whatever happens the people on the island of Cuba have a future they can look forward to, it almost happened in 2018.
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Plane_Crab_8623 Mar 15, 2026 -3
What we have here is a failure to communicate. A failure to communicate.
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