LMAO

Meh, would be nice to see a truly freed people and what the place could look like/again, not just a zoomed-in flag:

It was once https://t.co/U6poTvy6QC

— Patricia (@puj_rit) January 11, 2026

2) "From training Marxist terrorists in the 1960s, to the pro-Hamas mayhem at U.S. universities in 2024 and 2025, to the spread of transnational crime syndicates in U.S. cities, Cuba’s rulers have long plotted America’s demise."https://t.co/0jBhDyo8Af

— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) January 12, 2026

Good piece: "The House of Terror: How Cuba has exported death and chaos for 6 decades."

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The People's Forum is hardly the only organization with Cuban or Foro ties to be involved in the violence on American streets. The 2017 Foro meeting in the Washington, DC, area featured not just BLM and the Democratic Socialists of America, but a lesser known group, the ANSWER Coalition.

"Memoria del 2do Encuentro Anual del Foro de So Paulo del rea de Washington DC, Maryland y Virginia" (Report of the 2nd meeting of the Foro de So Paulo of the Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia Area).

ANSWER has ties to the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the Workers World Party, two communist organizations in the United States, and has organized many of the marches and riots that have taken place since the Hamas attack on Israel.

Gonzalez and Mobley, "How the Revolutionary Ecosystem Sustains Pro-Palestinian Protesters and the BLM Movement."

ANSWER has, through the years, also had many, many ties to both Cuba and Venezuela.80
The ANSWER Coalition, "Announcing the Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee!" https://www.answercoalition.org/announcing_our_new_organization (accessed January 6, 2026).

But American radicals do not need intermediaries to get their marching orders from the Cuban and Venezuelan regimes. They send their senior officials here to communicate. On September 28, 2024, the Cuban and Venezuelan foreign ministers, Bruno Rodriguez and Ivan Gil Pinto, addressed a packed Apollo Theater in Harlem alongside the executive director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, Vijay Persad. Rodriguez, speaking without a hint of irony, spoke in Harlem, telling the same lies he is used to telling the Cuban people:

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The U.S. government and its intelligence agencies know only too well that Cuba does not practice, support, or sponsor terrorism. Imperialism keeps dreaming about the end of the Cuban revolution. They dream several times in history. It has made the mistake of assuming that the end of the Cuban revolution is near. Life has shown that this is a terrible, misguided and recurring error.

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Meanwhile, in December 2025, two Venezuelan generals in prison in the U.S. after pleading guilty to having participated in "narco-terrorist activities," Hugo "El Pollo" Carvajal, Venezuela's spy mastermind, and Cliver Alcala Cordones, the highest Venezuelan military officer behind bars in the U.S, both separately wrote letters to President Donald Trump airing bales of dirty laundry on narco-trafficking to the United States. Both wrote that Cuba's regime hatched the plot to flood U.S. streets with drugs, to undermine America's moral fiber from within.

"Former Maduro Spy Chief's Letter to Trump Seeks to Expose Narco-Terrorist War Against U.S.," The Dallas Express, and Petit, "Urgente: Cliver Alcala Cordones Envia Carta a Donald Trump" (Urgent: Cliver Alcala Cordones Sends a Letter to Donald Trump).

The conspiracy, wrote Carvajal, "was suggested by the Cuban regime to Chvez in the mid-2000s." It was "successfully executed with help from FARC, ELN [both Colombian guerilla groups], Cuban operatives, and Hezbollah," he wrote.

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Long piece, well sourced. Karen Bass and Obama could not be reached for comment.

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I asked this yesterday

what kind of job can a semi-retired guy in his 50s, good physical shape

get in Ukraine / Venezuela / Cuba / Iran

is there some class to become "American Rebuilder Contractor"

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How well do you speak the language for those places?

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great question!!

spanish in high school in Austin 40 years ago.

I speak Hebrew though I am sure it will come in handy.

„U.S. allows Mexico to provide oil to Cuba despite @realDonaldTrump's vow to cut off supply”

Jan. 12, 2026@CBSNews https://t.co/7oRvgtYGPD

— 𝕭𝖗𝖎𝖆𝖓 𝕮𝖆𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖕𝖚𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖔𝖇𝖊 2 (@FDehyd) January 12, 2026

Grumble, bad words.

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„U.S. allows Mexico to provide oil to Cuba despite @realDonaldTrump's vow to cut off supply”

Jan. 12, 2026@CBSNews https://t.co/7oRvgtYGPD

— 𝕭𝖗𝖎𝖆𝖓 𝕮𝖆𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖕𝖚𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖔𝖇𝖊 2 (@FDehyd) January 12, 2026

Grumble, bad words.

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Mexican oil is $20 per barrel more. This costs Cuba $3.755 million more per day which they don't have. Trump comes out looking like he isn't killing the Cuba people by starving them completely without oil but their communist policies did. It is actually a smart move by Trump.

a free Cuba would be Amazing!

imagine what a country of total idiots one has to be-


to prefer being a poor communist living in a @#$@#$ city to a rich capitalist living in a beautiful city!

So what is going on?

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a free Cuba would be Amazing!

imagine what a country of total idiots one has to be-


to prefer being a poor communist living in a @#$@#$ city to a rich capitalist living in a beautiful city!

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…it isn't as if the Cuban people have a choice. They aren't choosing to live in a dictatorship. Those are the circumstances they've been dealt. Most of them weren't even alive before the revolution. They were born into this mess.

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So what is going on?

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Thank you for sharing. This is the only source I've seen for this. Have you found any others?

My contacts in Havana also have not heard anything about fighter jets being scrambled. I could be wrong, but I think their government would brag about scrambling jets to the Cuban people to drive home the belief that the U.S. is out to kill everyone and the Cuban government is there to protect and defend Cuba. Of course, maybe they can't brag about it because they power is out. (Only half-joking about the power.)

I'm also not certain they'd let any of them actually fly at this point. During the Cold War there were a couple of instances where pilots flew to Key West and defected…and Cuba is 1,000 times worse off now than it was in the early 90s.

Reports of a heavier than usual Cuban military presence in Holguin today. Holguin is out of food, water, electricity, you name it. It's over 400 miles from Havana, so the people there are likely suffering even more than the poor souls in Havana. Speculation is they are ramping up a military presence to quell any thoughts of protests.

Or...Cuba being Cuba, Raul could have stubbed his toe and decided to flex his "might" by scaring starving people.

The Cuban regime’s so-called medical missions are modern-day slavery.

Cuban doctors are sent abroad with confiscated passports, paid pennies on the dollar, and forced to spy on host countries, all while their families back in Cuba are threatened and held hostage.

This forced… https://t.co/HUQdHMGKpR

— Rep. María Elvira Salazar (@RepMariaSalazar) January 15, 2026

I'd never heard of that trick, makes sense though.

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The Cuban regime’s so-called medical missions are modern-day slavery.

Cuban doctors are sent abroad with confiscated passports, paid pennies on the dollar, and forced to spy on host countries, all while their families back in Cuba are threatened and held hostage.

This forced… https://t.co/HUQdHMGKpR

— Rep. María Elvira Salazar (@RepMariaSalazar) January 15, 2026

I'd never heard of that trick, makes sense though.

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Unpossible: Michael Moore told me Cuba uber alles.

Countries watching each other to see who Trump bombs next🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/R1odvPUAHZ

— Victor (@_Vicktor90) January 12, 2026

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Thank you for sharing. This is the only source I've seen for this. Have you found any others?

My contacts in Havana also have not heard anything about fighter jets being scrambled. I could be wrong, but I think their government would brag about scrambling jets to the Cuban people to drive home the belief that the U.S. is out to kill everyone and the Cuban government is there to protect and defend Cuba. Of course, maybe they can't brag about it because they power is out. (Only half-joking about the power.)

I'm also not certain they'd let any of them actually fly at this point. During the Cold War there were a couple of instances where pilots flew to Key West and defected…and Cuba is 1,000 times worse off now than it was in the early 90s.

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Honestly IDK. This guy has popped up in my youtube suggestions a couple of times. Have watched two including that one. So I asked. And that would be consistent after the Cuban Prez was saber rattling after Maduro was seized.

Cuba's Air Force, as with their decrepit airline and military, are functionally in shambles.

I find it highly doubtful they managed to 'scramble' any of their 11 ancient (and impotent) Mig-21's this year. I think they are early 1970's builds, but I dunno, and am feeling too lazy to even look it up. It's not real likely they have pilots who are even current/safe to fly the aircraft. They still had 3 Mig-29's a few years ago, but I doubt those are flyable either.

🇨🇺 | Cuba presentó en redes sociales a sus supuestas tropas de élite como demostración de “fuerza” y ejemplo de “acero inquebrantable” y “defensa sagrada de la Patria”.

Pero las imágenes hablan solas: estos son los “Delta Force” de Cuba, integrantes de las Avispas Negras, las… pic.twitter.com/AmSpegFwqj

— Alerta Mundial (@AlertaMundoNews) January 13, 2026

They had to fly a dilapidated IL-96 which was rejected from VZ airspace after Maduro's capture, to try to retrieve the 'black wasps' (presumably the bodies were allowed to be shipped back a couple days ago).

I see Trumps plan now free hot Venezuelan women, then free the hot Persians, and now Hot Cubans that have great rum and cigars. This is what I voted for.

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Oh no. Where will Michael Moore get his health care if Cuba flips?

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Michael Moore would flip Cuba.

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Are you guys going to fight as hard as those Cuban Special Ops that were guarding Maduro?

Attacking Cuba would be Grenada 2.0. Would be over just as fast.

The people are literally starving. Resistance would be minimal.

The aftermath is the hard part.

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Attacking Cuba would be Grenada 2.0. Would be over just as fast.

The people are literally starving. Resistance would be minimal.

The aftermath is the hard part.

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Yes! The aftermath might actually be what's preventing it from happening. It is an extremely complicated situation with no easy route for erasing the last 67 years and bringing Cuba into 2026.

Que drama…

NYP: Trump aims to topple Cuba regime this year.

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The Jan. 3 military operation to arrest Maduro required help from an asset within the Venezuelan dictator's inner circle.

To identify a similar potential asset in Cuba, the Trump administration has been meeting with Cuban exiles and civic groups in Miami and Washington, US officials told the Journal.

The Trump administration could ratchet up the pressure on Cuba while simultaneously negotiating "an off-ramp" for the country's leaders, namely 94-year-old Ral Castro the brother of deceased longtime dictator Fidel Castro and Cuban President Miguel Daz-Canel.

President Trump warned Cuba earlier this year that it's time to "make a deal."

"THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA ZERO!" Trump wrote in a Jan. 11 Truth Social post.

"I strongly suggest they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE," he added.

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I know/believe most Cubans would be righteously pissed to see Raul Castro and Diaz-Canel live out their lives in retirement safe haven somewhere, but if it were to provide an orderly transition I think it would be a good thing, net.