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Human rights activist & advocate for ordered liberty via nonviolence. Recalling: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.-George Santayana
Jan 15, 2022 54 tweets 19 min read
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/
Dec 20, 2020 55 tweets 18 min read
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/
Nov 25, 2020 6 tweets 4 min read
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/
Nov 25, 2020 46 tweets 14 min read
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/
Nov 24, 2020 4 tweets 3 min read
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/
Nov 23, 2020 13 tweets 5 min read
Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of John F. Kennedy: Cui Bono? cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2020/11/lee-ha… 1/ Image 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/ Image
Nov 22, 2020 5 tweets 3 min read
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/
Aug 28, 2020 119 tweets 40 min read
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
Jun 27, 2020 12 tweets 3 min read
"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/
Jan 13, 2020 24 tweets 9 min read
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
Jan 11, 2020 21 tweets 23 min read
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
Jun 9, 2019 25 tweets 11 min read
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
May 12, 2019 13 tweets 8 min read
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
Nov 24, 2018 16 tweets 8 min read
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
Nov 14, 2018 10 tweets 5 min read
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…