Boris Iglesias

Designer, Architect & Filmmaker

[The Washington Times @WashTimes]

A U.S. military operation against Cuba and its outdated defense equipment and badly outmatched armed forces could be simpler and more straightforward than January's high-stakes raid in Caracas to capture then-Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. https://t.co/ELqC5ziSk3

[Vesper @vesperdigital]

🚨𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗜𝗧... 𝟮 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗛𝗦!!!🚨

Carney admits on tape: When voters blocked his ESG plans, "We" Central Bankers acted like "Regulators" going around the voters through the BACK DOOR!

Manipulating fossil fuel prices by withholding lending.

Now he's PM!🙃

[Boris Iglesias @BorisOnT]

@JasonPoblete @Charliesway4eve Once legal battles on American-seized property get settled, short-term costs would kick in: a Cuba Marshall Plan $100B, infrastructure built from zero, deep ports, tapping on nickel and cobalt, trained labour force. These factors lead to medium-term returns for US taxpayers

[Boris Iglesias @BorisOnT]

@JasonPoblete @Charliesway4eve Considering that Cuba was as close to a Soviet state, and assimilation of their culture and standards came as an imposition, the 51st-state idea is not that far-fetched, it would get assimilated more organically, due to history, geography and the pull of American culture.

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Don’t worry.

Not everyone is suffering.

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

Headlines regarding Mark Carney abusing tax payers dollars since 2014.

This is a man that expects to live like King at your expense. If you think he cares about your struggles, think again.

“I will always be straight about the challenges that we have to face and the choices we must make. And to be clear, we won’t transform our economy easily or in a few months — it will take some sacrifices and it will take some time."

~ Mark Carney - you make the sacrifices so I don’t have to.

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

Just a month ago our Minister of Finance Philippe Champagne stood in the HOC & told Canadians how great our economy is.
Fast forward a month & the reality is our GDP has completely stalled & we are in a recession.
These individuals are lying to Canadians.

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

DERNIÈRE HEURE : Mark Carney est le SEUL leader du G7 à avoir conduit son économie à la RÉCESSION. Tous les autres pays du G7 sont confrontés aux mêmes problèmes avec les tarifs et aux mêmes défis mondiaux, mais aucun n’est en récession.

Les excuses, les discours, les belles paroles et les cérémonies de signature ne font pas croître l’économie.

Le Canada est le seul pays du G7 en récession parce que les libéraux de Mark Carney ont augmenté la taxe carbone industrielle, maintenu des lois anti-développement et doublé le déficit de Justin Trudeau.

[Michael J Bustamante, Ph.D. @MJ_Busta]

Teamed up with @ric23 on this new piece for @ForeignAffairs. A sort of hail mary pass on our part, and a depressing thing to write.

https://t.co/QOLK9FO68N

[Boris Iglesias @BorisOnT]

@ric23 @ForeignAffairs @MJ_Busta “The logic of resistance is intelligible. It is also a slow form of suicide.” Beautifully put.

[Ricardo Herrero @ric23]

Today @ForeignAffairs published a 2,800-word essay co-authored by @MJ_Busta and me on why Cuba should negotiate. TL;DR:

“The best path forward is a negotiated deal in which Havana makes concessions substantial enough for Trump to sell as a victory, and in so doing staves off a humanitarian collapse and puts Cuba on the road to recovery. Anything short of that raises the risk of deepening social unrest and U.S. military intervention to stabilize a cratering economy just 90 miles from Florida, an outcome both governments would prefer to avoid.” https://t.co/86n5t586nZ

[Boris Iglesias @BorisOnT]

@MJ_Busta @nytopinion Excelente opinión.

[Alberto E. Martinez @albertemartinez]

Failed novelist Ben Rhodes flew to Havana with Cuban-American millionaires and billionaires, sipped daiquiris in luxury hotels ordinary Cubans are barred from entering, and watched his boss do the wave with Raúl Castro while the regime's political prisoners rotted in cells a few miles away. His vainglorious Cuba opening threw a bankrupt dictatorship a lifeline at the precise moment it was teetering. The Castros couldn't believe their luck at having such feeble opponents as Obama and Rhodes. The regime gleefully spent all the real and political capital Rhodes gave them enriching themselves and the military oligarchs of GAESA while beating, jailing, and silencing the peaceful reformers Rhodes never bothered to help.

There is not a single initiative Ben Rhodes touched in eight years at the Obama White House that did not end in catastrophe. But the Cuba opening stands apart a self-indulgent vanity project, sold on lies, that handed a dying communist regime a decade more of life and condemned a generation of Cuban democrats to prison cells, exile, or the bottom of the Florida Straits.

History will remember Ben Rhodes as one of the most spectacularly incompetent and self-deluded operatives ever to be handed power in Washington.

[Vincent Geloso @VincentGeloso]

So here it is -- now accepted -- The paper that disentangles Cuba's socialist revolution from Soviet Aid and the US trade embargo. TLDR: The embargo explains nothing, Soviet aid ... aided (duh), and the Revolution takes the lion's share.

[Rep. María Elvira Salazar @RepMariaSalazar]

Today is a glorious day.

Not only for the Cubans on the island, but for every Cuban in exile, for every family torn apart, for every neighbor, every friend, every loved one who spent their life waiting to go home.

For 67 years, a group of gangsters seized a nation and turned it into their business.
But today, is the beginning of the end. The forces of freedom are coming, and the Cuba that was born free in 1902 is finding its way back.

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

🚨 BREAKING

Canada’s Finance Minister paid $12,168 for an outside contractor to write his budget speech.

Canada’s Finance Minister has:

-A press secretary

-A communications director

-A communications manager

-4 communications officers

-5 communications advisors

-4 correspondence strategists

-4 correspondence analysts

And an actual employee with the job title “Legislative Speech Writer.”

23 people!

$2 million in salaries

He still paid $12,000 to an outside contractor to write his budget speech.

The Canadian Taxpayer Federation correctly pointed out that Winston Churchill wrote his own speeches while fighting the Nazis.

Champagne couldn’t write one while running a $67 billion deficit.

$200 per minute.

While Canada borrowed $7.6 million during the hour it took to deliver it.

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

Signal, the non-profit, encrypted-messaging app, just warned, it would rather leave Canada than comply with Bill C-22.

Here’s what Bill C-22 actually does:

✅ Forces tech companies to build surveillance backdoors into their systems

✅ Mandates that every cell phone in Canada be trackable

✅ Allows the Minister of Public Safety to issue SECRET orders to turn your Amazon Alexa into a listening device

✅ Requires metadata retention for up to one year: who you called, when, and where you were

No comparable Western nation has adopted surveillance powers this broad.

Meta called it conscripting private companies into “the government’s surveillance apparatus.”

The US wrote directly to the minister warning it compromises American citizens’ privacy.

A lawyer told committee: “As written, the minister could issue a secret order to turn your smart TV into a listening device.”

Imagine: this is the same government that froze bank accounts without a court order.

The same government that turned off committee cameras.

The same government with 638 unresolved wrongdoing complaints.

Now wants inside your phone.

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

On the weekend these 4 individuals had closed door meetings with our elected officials & not one mainstream media organization has brought up any concerns over it. I remember when MP Christine Anderson had lunch with some MP’s and the media had a collective meltdown over it.
This is the double standard that we are dealing with in our Country.
The entire Obama speech in Toronto had a complete media blackout & clearly no one was allowed to record during any of it as well. Why? What did they need to hide?

[Caroline Elliott @NVanCaroline]

Are you ready to beat the NDP and bring change to BC?

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 I was almost taken hostage in Cuba...
I went to Cuba to document the humanitarian crisis and show life under 60+ years of communism and now amid the US blockade. Once I landed, they seized all my cameras except my iPhone and had intelligence agents following me all day until my security noticed their spies tailing us to the hotel where they waited all night for us to come down.

Under communism there is no free speech, and those who show the reality or speak up are imprisoned. Me going without a planned Cuban government guide nearly got me and my security taken hostage or imprisoned.

The situation in Cuba is much worse than anyone knows.