Turmoil in Cuba

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Esquerda Online

Translated from Portuguese
🇨🇺 CUBA | The current U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has spoken about Cuba again. In a statement given in Spanish, Rubio attacked the island's government and spoke of a "new Cuba." Rubio's boss, Donald Trump, who claims to be the world's lord and policeman, after attacking Venezuela and Iran, now wants to criminalize Raúl Castro, seize the Caribbean island, and impose a government aligned with his interests. We reject this cynical, demagogic, and blackmailing discourse directed at the Cuban government and people. Just as we reject the criminal embargo that the United States has sustained against Cuba for several decades, the main cause behind the economic difficulties the country is going through


https://x.com/esquerdaonline/status/2057206873330225483

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Tere Felipe reposted

Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez

Translated from Spanish
The purported accusation against Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, just announced by the U.S. government, only reveals the arrogance and frustration that the representatives of the empire feel toward the unyielding resolve of the Cuban Revolution and the unity and moral strength of its leadership.

This is a political maneuver, devoid of any legal foundation, aimed solely at padding the fabricated dossier they use to justify the folly of a military aggression against #Cuba.

The U.S. lies and distorts the events surrounding the downing of the planes belonging to the narco-terrorist organization Brothers to the Rescue in 1996.

It knows full well—given the abundance of documentary evidence—that no imprudent action was taken nor was international law violated, as U.S. military forces have indeed been doing with their coldly calculated and openly publicized extrajudicial executions against civilian vessels in the Caribbean and the Pacific.

On February 24, 1996, Cuba acted in legitimate self-defense within its jurisdictional waters, following repeated and dangerous violations of our airspace by notorious terrorists—a fact of which the U.S. administration at the time was alerted on more than a dozen occasions, yet it ignored the warnings and allowed those violations to continue.

The ethical stature and humanistic spirit of his legacy demolish any infamy that might be attempted against Army General Raúl Castro. As a guerrilla commander and as a statesman, he earned the love of his people, along with the respect and admiration of other leaders in the region and the world. Those values are his greatest defense and a moral shield against this ridiculous attempt to diminish his stature as a hero.

#RaúlEsRaúl

https://x.com/DiazCanelB/status/2057157886208606381

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Manuel Marrero Cruz

Translated from Spanish
The supposed accusation against Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, which the US government has sought to fabricate, lays bare the lack of arguments to sustain its attacks against #Cuba and its inability, despite all the sanctions, to break us.

#CubaEstáFirme

https://x.com/MMarreroCruz/status/2057170341726675450

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Carlos

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The US has indicted 94-year-old Raúl Castro – one of the truly great heroes of socialist construction and revolutionary internationalism – on Cuban national day.

The pretext: the 1996 downing of two terrorist ‘Brothers to the Rescue’ aircraft that had violated Cuban airspace at least 25 times in two years, despite Cuba’s formal complaints to the US State Department, the FAA and ICAO. Cuba’s action was legitimate self-defence under the UN Charter and the 1944 Chicago Convention.

Meanwhile this same US government has recently murdered nearly 200 people in international waters of the Caribbean and Pacific, on patently false drug-trafficking allegations. The accuser is the world's most prolific extrajudicial killer.

What we’re seeing is in fact regime-change theatre, dressed up as international indictment. Furthermore it’s part of a pattern: genocide in Gaza; war on Iran; assassination of Khamenei; kidnapping of Maduro; energy blockade against Cuba; and now international lawfare.

The US empire is on a rampage across the Global South.

Solidarity now. Hands off Raúl. Hands off Cuba.
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https://x.com/agent_of_change/status...37260542632102

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THE ISLANDER

American intelligence is actively mapping out Cuba's possible reactions to any US military intervention. The Pentagon and defense intelligence have begun crafting military options tailored for the Trump administration according to officials.

Cuba has been acquiring advanced systems that would make any operation far more costly. This development coincides with Havana strengthening its ties beyond the reach of Western pressure.

The US never tires of testing the limits in its backyard. Cuba has outlasted sanctions, invasions and isolation for generations. These latest preparations only serve to drive the island further into the arms of strategic partners like Russia and China while underscoring the futility of one-sided dominance.

https://x.com/IslanderWORLD/status/2057238348108845471

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Sputnik Mundo

Translated from Spanish
🇨🇺🩺🇲🇽 Nearly a hundred Cuban doctors are serving in the most dangerous areas of northwestern Mexico

📍 In the last two years, 80 health professionals from the island have carried out their work in parts of the state of Sinaloa (northwest) that "nobody wants to go to" due to their remoteness and insecurity, according to Julio César Quintero, coordinator of IMSS-Bienestar in the entity.

🏥 According to the official in statements to the local newspaper La Jornada, most are family doctors assigned to health centers in areas like Badiraguato, San Ignacio, Tamazula, and Choix. However, "when conflicts escalate and violence risks increase," they have to relocate to a hospital, even though the people adore them.

🗣 "There are problems, but the population embraces them; they have a good relationship because, on top of that, the doctors are empathetic with people and the health issues they face. They treat the patients and their families very well," Quintero assured

https://x.com/SputnikMundo/status/2057212770718794147

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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil

🇺🇸🆚🇨🇺 US FILES CHARGES AGAINST FIDEL CASTRO'S 94-YEAR-OLD BROTHER RAÚL, FORMER PRESIDENT OF CUBA

🚀The charges against Castro may relate to the 1996 incident involving planes shot down over the Florida Strait, in which Americans died.

🤩At that time, two light aircraft belonging to the organization "Brothers to the Rescue," which opposes the Cuban government, flew over the island, dropping leaflets.

⚠️The planes were shot down by Cuban MiG-29s that had been scrambled. Later, the Cuban Air Force explained that the crews of the downed planes did not respond to radio warnings and refused to comply with the order to land on the island.

🔎The US Department of Justice opened a criminal case against Raúl Castro amid rumors in the American press about preparations for his abduction, similar to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. This may be used to put pressure on the Cuban government.

The island is currently under a blockade by the US Navy, which is interfering with energy supplies. Trump has repeatedly admitted that he will try to take Cuba in the near future.

🧐It didn't work in Iran — will they try their luck in Cuba

https://x.com/ivan_8848/status/2057161419687113170

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teleSUR TV

Translated from Spanish
🚨 Díaz-Canel Rejects U.S. Accusation Against Commander Raúl Castro

📌Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel rejected on social media the recent U.S. accusation against Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, describing it as "alleged" and lacking any legal basis. Díaz-Canel stated that this action is a political maneuver to justify a possible military aggression against the island, and that the U.S. lies and manipulates the facts related to the downing of "Brothers to the Rescue" planes in 1996.

🔴 The Cuban leader maintained that, in February 1996, Cuba acted in legitimate self-defense within its jurisdictional waters, after repeated violations of its airspace by "notorious terrorists," of which the U.S. administration was alerted with no response.

🔴Díaz-Canel highlighted the ethical stature and humanist spirit of Raúl Castro as a moral shield against what he considers an infamous attempt to undermine his figure.

https://x.com/teleSURtv/status/2057166381486063955

teleSUR TV

Translated from Spanish
🚨Cuba Condemns U.S. "Farce" Against Commander Raúl Castro; Foreign Minister Rodríguez Denounces "Lie" and Aggression

🔴Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla condemned on his X account the accusation by the U.S. government against the leader of the Revolution, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, describing it as "illegitimate and illegal." Rodríguez Parrilla stated that the action is a "farce" that "rests on a lie and conceals duly documented historical truths" about the downing of two "Brothers to the Rescue" aircraft in 1996, which occurred in Cuban airspace and in legitimate self-defense.

🔴The minister denounced that the U.S. seeks to reinforce a "fraudulent narrative to justify escalated aggression" against Cuba. He emphasized that this government has been "complicit" in terrorist actions against the island and has carried out extrajudicial executions in international waters.

🚨In response to the unfounded legal and judicial accusations, Cuba presents the facts of February 24, 1996, within the framework of defending its national sovereignty:

🔴 On that day, Cuba shot down two aircraft from the "Brothers to the Rescue" organization that were violating its airspace and disseminating subversive propaganda.

🔴 The organization, of counterrevolutionary origin and with ties to the CIA, had been repeatedly warned by Havana about the provocations.

🔴 U.S. government documents confirmed attempts by the Federal Aviation Administration to revoke the license of the group's leader, José Basulto, for illegal flights over Cuba prior to the incident.

🔴 The U.S. denied Cuba's request to access satellite photographs from February 24, 1996, near the island's north coast, where the MiGs shot down the small planes, demonstrating a refusal to provide evidence that would support the Cuban position.

🔴 Thirty years later, this new accusation is framed within a persistent campaign of manipulation that ignores Cuba's warnings and its right to defend national sovereignty.


https://x.com/teleSURtv/status/2057172009700774174?s=20

🔴 The Revolutionary Government of Cuba, through its Foreign Ministry, condemned on this May 20 the "cowardly accusation" by the United States Department of Justice against Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution. Havana described the action as a "despicable and infamous act of political provocation," arguing that Washington lacks legitimacy and jurisdiction.

🔴 The Cuban statement underscores that the accusation is based on a "dishonest manipulation" of the February 1996 incident, when two aircraft from the "Brothers to the Rescue" organization were shot down over Cuban airspace.

🔴 Cuba recalled having filed multiple formal complaints with the State Department, the FAA, and the ICAO regarding more than 25 "serious and deliberate" violations of its airspace by said organization between 1994 and 1996, as well as direct warnings to the President of the United States

🔴 Cuba's response was an "act of legitimate defense" protected by the UN Charter and the Chicago Convention.

🔴 Cuba's foreign ministry pointed out the "great cynicism" of the United States, a country that does not tolerate hostile violations of its territory, in making this accusation. Cuba interprets this action as part of "desperate attempts" by anticuban elements to "build a fraudulent narrative" and justify the "collective and ruthless punishment" against the Cuban people, through the strengthening of unilateral coercive measures, including the blockade, and threats of armed aggression.

🔴 The Revolutionary Government reaffirmed its commitment to peace, the inalienable right to legitimate defense, and its "unrestricted and unwavering" support for Raúl Castro Ruz

https://x.com/teleSURtv/status/2057189700776104102

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Going Underground

Former CIA Officer Philip Agee explains why the US🇺🇸 has been waging economic warfare on Cuba🇨🇺 for decades and trying to strangle & overthrow the socialist system:

‘They know that if the Cubans are successful of their example in being able to provide, as a poor country, the best medical care in the third world…it’s a very bad example for the United States.

There is a large mass of people in the US who can look to Cuba and say ‘wow if they can do it on a per capita income of $2K—2.5K, where ours is $22,500 a year, what’s wrong with our system? Maybe we ought to consider an alternative.’ That’s why Sandinista Nicaragua had to be destroyed, that’s why Grenada had to be destroyed.

Because any movement that comes to power with the idea of providing for all the people and escaping the control of the US and its economy, that is bad news for the United States and among the upper circles of power and influence.’

H/t:
@sov_media

https://x.com/GUnderground_TV/status...78405772530027

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Carlos

Chinese Foreign Ministry responds to the US’s absurd and illegal indictment of comrade Raúl Castro:

“China consistently and firmly opposes unilateral sanctions that have no basis in international law. We stand against abusing judicial means and exerting pressure on Cuba under any pretext by external forces. The US should stop brandishing sanctions or judicial proceedings at Cuba and stop resorting to the threat of force at every turn. China firmly supports Cuba in safeguarding its sovereignty and national dignity and opposing external interference.”

https://x.com/agent_of_change/status...33847864729809

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Max Blumenthal

May 20
The Trump indictment of Cuba's Raul Castro is a sham

Not only did the Clinton admin attempt to stop Brothers To The Rescue from "taunting" Cuba a month before Havana exercised its right to protect its airspace

The org was part of a CIA-backed exile terror network that bombed a civilian airliner, Cubana 455, killing 73 passengers


https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/2057271552593244569

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COMBATE |🇵🇷 reposted

José Luis Granados Ceja

Raúl Castro didn’t murder anyone, Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces shot down two planes contracted by a self-confessed CIA operative.

https://x.com/GranadosCeja/status/2056902104208269646

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Cuban Embassy in US

May 20
🛩️🇨🇺MythBreakers: Exposing the Brothers to the Rescue hoax

Is it true that the illegal flights over national territory in the mid-1990s were simple humanitarian or civil activities?

The facts demonstrate the aggressive operational coordination amongst actions. These were not random flights; they were calculated incursions designed to support provocations from the sea and drop subversive propaganda, that could have evolved in any sort of aggression. This was recorded in the chronology of the air defense:

➡️July 13, 1995: Two light aircraft violated the restricted zone north of the capital, overflying Havana at a very low altitude in direct support of an anti-Cuban naval flotilla that had penetrated jurisdictional waters.

➡️September 2, 1995: Five Cessna aircraft and five helicopters carried out maneuvers in support of another flotilla off the coast of Varadero.

➡️January 9 and 13, 1996: Three light aircraft once again violated the Cuban airspace, over Guanabo and Santa María del Mar, dropping leaflets across several points along the coastline.

➡️The systematic nature of these operations evidences an agenda of open provocation that flagrantly defied aeronautical laws.

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@NSArchive

https://x.com/EmbaCubaUS/status/2057119552492699685

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Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 reposted

The Gulag

Cuban president posts from the Anti imperialist Tribune

For Cuba. For Raúl

The island doesn't bow. It never did

https://x.com/WelcomeTheGulag/status...23544810106949

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This short (2.30-minute) video gives a fairly good idea of how the Cuban situation should play out in the coming months. Of course, anything is possible, but there is little doubt that the Cuban people desire change even though the Cuban military is well entrenched, fierce mercenaries, exceptionally corrupt and very much in control.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5pO54onUfzE

I posted this Rubio address to the Cuban people a couple of days ago; it is worth watching if you haven't seen it.

Marco Rubio addressed the Cuban people on their Independence Day (May 20, 2026). Some of his claims are probably a bit exaggerated, but overall, his message appears to be accurate. He does get into a little detail about GAESA, which is a military/government-controlled company that is at the heart of the corruption. (Video is 5 minutes)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JFFS7os5CCs

AI content below

GAESA (Grupo de Administración Empresarial S.A.) is a Cuban military-controlled business conglomerate that owns and operates dozens of companies across critical sectors of the Cuban economy, including tourism, banking, retail, foreign trade, and logistics. It is estimated to control between 40% and 70% of Cuba’s economy, with revenues reportedly more than three times the Cuban state budget, and functions as a "state within a state" due to its financial opacity and lack of government oversight.

Founded by Raúl Castro in the 1990s during the economic crisis following the Soviet Union's collapse, GAESA was designed to provide financial stability to the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR). It operates through major subsidiaries such as:

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@CubanaFMC🇨🇺

Translated from Spanish
On Children's Day, we congratulate our boys and girls; they are the hope of the world, the future of our Cuba. #DiaDeLaInfancia 🇨🇺
#CubaEsAmor

https://x.com/CubanaFMC/status/2061611271003209856

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MFA Russia 🇷🇺

✉️ Russia's FM Sergey #Lavrov to
@RaulCastro_Ruz
:

Please accept my best wishes on the occasion of your 9️⃣5️⃣th Birthday.

🎉 For millions of people around the world, you remain a symbol of resilience, courage, patriotism, and unbendable will.

http://t.me/MFARussia/30209

#RussiaCuba

https://x.com/mfa_russia/status/2062058427946266834

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Daniel Mayakovski

Translated from Spanish
"Cuba needs a system reform but the people who hold power cannot make it, so new people are needed to take control of the country and impose another mentality."

The worm Narco Rubio threatened Cuba and called for a regime change while strangling the people with an economic blockade that has lasted more than 60 years.

The U.S. terrorists want a new Monroe Doctrine, a new Operation Condor where all South American countries serve the empire

https://x.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2062094892075999283

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La Jornada

Translated from Spanish
The Government of China, through high-ranking representatives of the Communist Party and the Foreign Ministry, reaffirmed its support for Cuba's sovereignty and demanded that the Donald Trump administration immediately end the economic blockade and any coercive measures against the Caribbean island.

During a tribute held in Beijing for the 95th anniversary of the birth of former President Raúl Castro Ruz, the Party official Ma Hui criticized Washington's recent judicial actions and reiterated the Asian giant's systematic opposition to unilateral sanctions that lack foundation in international law.

The Chinese diplomat expressed his confidence that Cuba's leadership and people will overcome the impact of the energy siege imposed by the White House, which keeps the country in a severe supply crisis with prolonged blackouts.

More information at:

https://x.com/lajornadaonline/status...17756120904130

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teleSUR English

Over 1,700 tons of humanitarian aid arrived to support the Cuban people. Our teleSUR correspondent Evelyn Leyva reports from the Port of Havana on the arrival of the "Asian Katra," a ship from Mexico and Belize loaded with essential food resources. This is the 9th donation of its kind to arrive this year, serving as a powerful symbol of international solidarity. The aid comes at a critical time, as Cuba faces an intensified commercial, economic, and energy blockade... #teleSUREnglish #Cuba #HumanitarianAid #Mexico

https://x.com/telesurenglish/status/2064040221776494783