Raul Rodriguez

Doctor en Historia, Director Centro de Estudios Hemisfericos y sobre Estados Unidos, Universidad de La Habana

[Arturo Lopez Levy @turylevy]

https://t.co/uP2Nd7Xxui

[Raul Rodriguez @RaulRdguez]

One more sign of the hegemon's decline. When international organizations can not be instrumentalized in its favor. It is time to attack, discredit and overlook them

[U.S. Mission to the UN @USUN]

.@AmbUNReform: The UN human rights system has been losing credibility for decades.

Volker Türk led it to its deathbed.

Today’s vote kicked the bucket.

[Belly of the Beast @bellybeastcuba]

On July 21, Reps. Maxine Dexter (D-OR) and Mark Pocan (D-WI) took to the House floor to condemn the U.S. government’s “inhumane” policy toward Cuba a week after visiting the island — something Secretary of State Marco Rubio has never done.

[Raul Rodriguez @RaulRdguez]

Good Question.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Why does Saudi Arabia get to have a civilian nuclear program, but Iran does not?
- Because US companies get priority access in Saudi Arabia, and this puts "America first".

[Rep. Mark Pocan @RepMarkPocan]

Last week, @repdeliaramirez, @RepDexterOR, @RepTeresaLF, and I got back from a fact-finding trip to Cuba. Cubans are suffering from a humanitarian crisis because of the decades-long American embargo and current fuel blockade.

Yet, the State Department just published a ridiculous report about the threat to America from Cuba. It may be the stupidest, most fantastical, most biased thing I’ve ever read from a governmental agency.

We will continue to do everything in our power to change American policy and end the blockade hurting the Cuban people.

[Raul Rodriguez @RaulRdguez]

Macarthism , straight

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

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[Rep. Mark Pocan @RepMarkPocan]

It's worth remembering that under the Obama administration, the U.S. restored diplomatic relations with Cuba and nothing bad happened.

We should not impose a blockade that has fueled a humanitarian crisis for political reasons rather than genuine national security concerns.

[Raul Rodriguez @RaulRdguez]

It is strong enough for me. It is about US foreign policy and the macarthyist push of this administration. It is not about Cuba

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

This statement’s defense of Americans’ free speech rights to criticize US Cuba policy would be stronger if it also included a similar defense of, or even gesture toward, the free speech rights of the Cuban ppl to criticize their own govt.

https://t.co/pL1ziwEN4F

[Raul Rodriguez @RaulRdguez]

‘Death’ and ‘Mass Murder’: Abby Martin on U.S. Policy Toward Cuba https://t.co/8FFU0xWKe1 via @YouTube

[Arturo Lopez Levy @turylevy]

'We Doubled The Infant Mortality Rate!': Pocan Relentlessly Grills Waltz... https://t.co/EDQjmQK44K via @YouTube

[Raul Rodriguez @RaulRdguez]

Si somos honestos, no debemos tener dudas, esto es una burda manipulación del departamento de estado.

[Ricardo Herrero @ric23]

Seamos honestos: toda ayuda humanitaria es bienvenida. Pero esto no deja de ser una gota en el océano frente a la magnitud de la crisis humanitaria que vive Cuba.

Si el objetivo es realmente aliviar el sufrimiento de los cubanos, esta administración podría hacer mucho más para facilitar el flujo de ayuda proveniente de organizaciones religiosas, ONG y otras entidades estadounidenses. Hasta ahora, se ha negado a hacerlo.

Si, en cambio, el objetivo es proyectar la imagen de que el gobierno de Estados Unidos está ayudando, y no simplemente estrangulando una economía ya moribunda, supongo que estos “photo ops” cumplen su cometido.

[Raul Rodriguez @RaulRdguez]

Ademas de eso muchos republicanos en el congreso se suben al tren del neomacartismo trumpista para intentar salvar su asiento en noviembre

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

“En el periodo macartista…hubo una tendencia…a asociar cualquier movimiento de izquierda con una proyección…del comunismo. Lo que ha producido el trumpismo…es algo equivalente, pero más amplificado, porque se produce desde la jefatura del partido y desde la Casa Blanca.”

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

“En el periodo macartista…hubo una tendencia…a asociar cualquier movimiento de izquierda con una proyección…del comunismo. Lo que ha producido el trumpismo…es algo equivalente, pero más amplificado, porque se produce desde la jefatura del partido y desde la Casa Blanca.”

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

Marco Rubio:

‘The Cuban regime has spent years destabilizing the region.’

Leaders of nations in Latin America overthrown either directly by the USA or in coups with US involvement:

🇬🇹 Jacobo Árbenz, Guatemala, 1954

🇵🇾 Federico Chaves, Paraguay, 1954

🇨🇺 Fidel Castro, Cuba, 1961
(attempted)

🇬🇾 Cheddi Jagan, British Guiana, 1964

🇧🇷 João Goulart, Brazil, 1964

🇩🇴 Juan Bosch, Dominican Republic, 1963/65

🇧🇴 Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivia, 1964

🇧🇴 Juan José Torres, Bolivia, 1971

🇨🇱 Salvador Allende, Chile, 1973

🇺🇾 Juan María Bordaberry, Uruguay, 1973

🇦🇷 Isabel Perón, Argentina, 1976

🇬🇩 Maurice Bishop, Grenada, 1983

🇵🇦 Manuel Noriega, Panama, 1989

🇭🇹 Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti, 1991 & 2004

🇻🇪 Hugo Chávez, Venezuela, 2002 (attempted)

🇭🇳 Manuel Zelaya, Honduras, 2009

🇧🇴 Evo Morales, Bolivia, 2019

🇻🇪 Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela, 2026

[Tamanisha J John @TamanishaJohn]

This reaffirms that imperialism is a racist project not ever disconnected from (Anglo) empire, capitalism, +imperialist foreign policy.

Imperialist surveillance +repression today specifically targets ALL autonomous & anti-colonial thought, politic, states
https://t.co/yArXThCANC

[Raul Rodriguez @RaulRdguez]

Indeed too early. Mr Rubio, the paladin of western civilization offers a distopian miamesque vision of the World. It turn out now that Cuba is the aggressor. 100 pages ideologically slanted with no histórical coherenence, empirical verification or conceptual consintency.

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

Going to need more time to digest this doozy of a report.

But a skim already reveals highly questionable assertions that perversely replicate how Cuban govt portrays internal dissent as nothing but a foreign plot.

It's selective, infuriating history.

https://t.co/Td4NjUD3xa

[Raul Rodriguez @RaulRdguez]

Agree, he finished his sentence, so he must be in his home.

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

Seeing reports on other networks his US parole/visa was issued. Good.

Never any justification to detain him past sentence. Less so now.

[Raul Rodriguez @RaulRdguez]

EEUU va a por la izquierda internacional con Rubio a la cabeza ¿Qué peli... https://t.co/u07uad9mbh via @YouTube

[Raul Rodriguez @RaulRdguez]

o un cerco medieval contra un pequeño país vecino

[Raul Rodriguez @RaulRdguez]

Las administración estadounidense lanza en tono macartista un llamado luchar contra el “terrorismo de izquierda” una categoría sin consistencia conceptual, verificabilidad empírica y coherencia histórica. Marco Rubio son amanazas apara EEUU y la civilizcion occidental los.

[Raul Rodriguez @RaulRdguez]

movimientos populares, organizaciones sindicales, experiencias comunitarias, intelectuales críticos, plataformas de solidaridad internacional y expresiones de protesta contra hechos como el genocidio en Gaza, las ejecuciones extrajudiciales sin debido proceso o