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US govt, celebrities, bots fuel astroturfed Cuba protests to push regime change

Moderate Rebels

Moderate Rebels

Foreignpolicy, Politics, War, Journalism, Middleeast, News, News Commentary

4.7673 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

We briefly discuss how the US government and corporate media are heavily amplifying small protests in Cuba to destabilize the country. While Washington suffocates the Cuban people with an illegal, 60-year blockade that the entire world just voted against at the UN, C-list celebrities are promoting #SOSCuba propaganda, and thousands of bots are spreading fake news on social media.

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0:00.0

Hello, this is Moderate Rebels and I'm Ben Norton.

0:07.6

This is a continuation of an episode that we originally had done on Haiti, on the horrible

0:13.4

assassination of the President Joana M.O.E., allegedly by Colombian paramilitary groups

0:19.5

that were apparently contracted by a firm based in Florida

0:24.6

in this hub of the right-wing anti-traviso Venezuelans.

0:28.6

And this firm also had allegedly hired this Colombian special forces, elite units who were trained by the U.S. military, and a cousin of the

0:41.9

Colombian narco leader, Avaro Ribe, the most powerful political kingpin in the country.

0:48.7

That was in the first part.

0:49.8

Definitely check out that episode and the very strange details.

0:53.2

This is a continuation where we started talking about Cuba.

0:57.0

And the situation going on in Cuba in July of 2021,

1:01.0

there have been some very small protests,

1:03.0

but they've been getting insanely disproportionate coverage

1:07.0

across the Western corporate media.

1:09.0

It's very clear that the US.S. government has some kind of

1:11.4

color revolution, regime change operation afoot. It's kind of similar to the beginning of the

1:17.3

very bloody coup attempt backed by the U.S. against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua that began

1:23.3

in April 2018. We've talked a lot about that. In this segment, it's just a brief segment.

1:28.9

We're going to have a whole special episode dedicated, especially to Cuba and the suffocating

1:35.6

U.S. blockade and U.S. meddling in that country. In this brief section, just kind of summary

1:41.4

of what's going on, we talk about these kind of shady protests.

1:45.2

Again, we're talking about a few hundred people participating, but they were being promoted by

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