20 Replies to ““Sun, Salsa, and Smiles””

    1. That cool, tickling sensation running down Xi’s leg right about now, is piss.. He can’t bring himself to admit it just yet, but he’ll come round..

  2. l have a strong hunch koobah got wind of whats happening in lran.
    it takes a ‘spark’ a certain apropriate triggering event. a beloved advocate tortured,
    a natural catastrophe the officials shrug off. *something* grossly offensive and then
    *by coincidence* huge numbers are fuming. some hit the streets, others hear of it and join in
    as a matter of routine. then it builds. next day its ’causescu effect’.
    COME ON CUBA DO IT WHAT THE BLAZES HAVE YOU GOT TO LOSE? NUTHIN. GAIN? EVERYTHING

    1. Cuba is awash in CIA backed domestic agitators, and black-op subversives, sparking the kindling of revolt right now, while the Trump administration is reviewing various Adobe and Pantone palette boards to select the ‘color’ for their inevitable ‘revolution’. The U.S. has done this many times in the past, and will continue to do it again and again.. but, they don’t always turn out.. well.. That being said, the U.S. shouldn’t be fostering this sort of discontent in friendly, allied nations, but sadly.. I believe that if Commissar Carmey continues down his current obnoxious path, Alberta and Saskatchewan will get their own ‘colour palette’ just in time for their independence referendum.. Then again, it is probably incredibly naive of me to assume that the ball isn’t already rolling on that one..

    2. nah. first we gotta ‘run out of’ all the accumulated wealth and goodies from the period roughly 20th century. savings gone, house sold far below asking, working fits and starts.
      and a phenomenon across the world, *disenfranchished younger generation*
      oh look the Liberals are giving out more ‘free’ money.
      we need lots more of that to happen.
      plus dont count on 30% of the population made up of immigrants to join in.
      me, pffft. l wont be fighting ‘for’ much of anything. lm gonna spend my time making huge
      ‘TOLD YA SO’ banners.

  4. I had expected this in Cuba by June 2026, some in the USA had been saying by April 2026
    The fuel embargo after Venezuela met their FAFO moment started that ball rolling much more quickly.
    Should expect the gov’t supported Canadian media to circle their wagons for this and perhaps the Canadian Gov’t will send “observers” … as they do…
    They may muddle their way through again, at the end of the Soviet era things were looking rough in Cuba, and they referred to that as “the special period” …

    None of the online commenters I cited in years past for Cuba insights are still functioning,
    babalublog.com therealcuba.com octavocercoen.blogspot.com are gone, or not posted to since 2011.
    I’d expect Humberto Fontova to have something to say… when he was a child, his family was set on fleeing from Cuba, his father was taken by Castro’s people while he told his family to keep running as they weren’t going to be brought up in Havana, and his father was shot the next morning, with a few hundred others.

  5. ElBoWZo Canadians will not like this at all.
    Resort staff might actually have to be paid decent wages.
    Their cheap vacations will no longer be.

  6. I must admit I am surprised. I thought the Cuban people would be angry at Trump for cutting off their oil supply, not their leadership. But then again, The Blind Squirrel could well be right. The CIA is very good at this kind of thing.

    1. We learned quite a bit about the application of ‘soft power’, including the covert and clandestine, from the old man after the war. The UK were once masters at it.. before the EU took their balls.. They destabilized potential regional enemies, subverted uprisings, played hostile factions off against one another, and maintained control over their massive empire with the application of soft and covert power.. and military intervention.. . Before the second world war, military interventionism was about the only tool in our box, but we were cautious about using it. I guess the old man decided to take the U.S. seriously after the war though, so we earned a seat at the adult’s table.. One of our greatest earliest successes’ was probably Operation Ajax, the source of our biggest current headache in the middle east (the color revolutions being our second biggest headache, in Europe). We went in with the old man on behalf of their British National Petroleum, and altered the course of Persian history together. Our solo adventures after that, mostly in central and South America were a mixed bag, at best.. A lot of sloppy, hamfisted coups, assassinations, and whatnot.. We installed brutal dictators, and made waaaaay too many headlines back in the day. We got better with it over time though. Learned from our partners, and our ‘mistakes’, and honed our skills. I would imagine the unexpected ‘rightward shift’ throughout the Americas was largely the CIA’s doing.. but it was accomplished with subtlety and discretion for a change.. Watch out for it with the Alberta referendum..

      1. I loved your all your comment BUT “Watch out for it with the Alberta referendum.. Alberta should not need any help on our way to independence. However since Ottawa has been led along by Communist China I do not think many Independence minded Albertans would mind any help they could get.

        1. Ottawa isn’t going to let you go without a fight.. that should be abundantly clear by now. AB/SK are more than just a battered piggy-bank, and socialist slushfund generator. They hold the only real bargaining power Canada has as a nation, while propositioning the EU, and flirting with China. The Chinese are probably rethinking their U.S. proximity ambitions right about now, so oil, minerals and potash are about the only things Canada has that China even remotely gives a sh!t about anymore, although they are getting way too expensive. They humor Carney by buying canola, but that won’t last. Carney knows this, so there is a 100% probability that his regime will use every dirty trick in the book to intimidate and demoralize the separatists, then derail their initiative and sap their drive. I would if I were in his shoes.. The U.S. has their own goals and ambitions, and I see this administration potentially acting upon them as the referendum draws closer.. if the intel looks favorable. Agitators, shills and disinformation agents from both Washington and Ottawa will probably be plentiful in the coming months. See them for who and what they are, that is all I am suggesting..

          1. Ottawa isn’t going to let you go without a fight.

            Ottawa can KMHUA. Not on the left side. Not on the right side. But right in the middle…

  9. I’m not much of a world traveler, but I have to admit that Cuba is one place I would love to visit as soon as these commie pukes are overthrown. To see all those 50s cars in one place primarily, but also to witness with my own eyes the devastation of almost seven decades of communist rule. Heck, I’d like to see North Korea someday too, assuming they eventually become a free nation.

  10. It is so pointless that Cuba can’t make a deal with the US. It was pointless they didn’t do it when the Iron Curtain fell. It was pointless they didn’t do it in the 1960s. They went from one of the wealthiest Latin American countries to abject poverty because they chose to steal American assets instead of paying for them. This could have all ended in 1960.

  11. I thought Cubans were fiercely proud of their revolution. At least that’s what every travelogue used to parrot for 30 years. Who knew?

  12. Hungry desperate Cubans, sweating in the dark, looking at a world of supermarkets and McDonalds on their phones, until the battery dies.

    Viva la Revolution!

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