The Cuban capital, Havana, and several cities and towns have been the scene of rare protests against the dictatorship over the past two days. They chanted slogans of overthrow the dictatorship and let’s be free, pointing the finger at the current president of the country, Mr. Carnele. Some local party committees were stormed by the masses, and there were images of secretaries jumping out of windows and fleeing. The Cuban government, like the Chinese government, blamed the people’s outcry on U.S. incitement, saying that the U.S. had planned and instigated the civil unrest. It also said that the U.S. economic sanctions against Cuba were the cause. In short, it is the United States that is to blame.
Immediately after the protest movement in Cuba, U.S. President Joe Biden issued a statement, “The United States stands firmly with the Cuban people as they advocate for universal values, and we call on the Cuban government not to violently silence the voice of the people.” Rubio, a prominent Cuban-American Republican, took offense to Biden’s reference to Cuba as an “authoritarian regime,” changing his tweet to “socialist” and “communist regime “.
Cuba is one of the few remaining communist regimes in the world and has been ruled by Fielder and Castro, a one-party socialist regime that has seen reforms and recognition of private property after his brothers Raul and Castro took over. 2019 saw Canel take over, ending Castro’s family rule since 1959. But Carnell followed Castro, and although he made some reforms, such as the expansion of private enterprise and the ability to access the Internet via cell phones, he did not abandon the one-party dictatorship of the Communist Party for political reform. In 2015, U.S. President Barack Obama announced the restoration of diplomatic relations with Cuba, and visited the country to lift some economic sanctions against Cuba. It was agreed that Cubans in the U.S. could remit money to Cuba.
Cuba has more than 2 million people in the U.S. The first wave of emigration in 1965 saw more than 100,000 people with money flee to the United States. The second wave of exodus was in 1980 when another 150,000 people were smuggled into the United States by sea. Thus, the U.S. allowed Cubans in the U.S. to remit money to friends and relatives in Cuba, which played a pivotal role in the Cuban economy. However, the Cuban economy has not been reformed or reformed politically, and the socialist economy is still in place. Under Trump’s administration, sanctions against Cuba were reinstated and he was placed on the list of terrorist organizations and countries.
The socialist system of the Cuban communist regime doomed the economy to fail to develop. The difference between the Castro regime and the Chinese communist regime is that he practiced a more thorough socialism, although poor but health care, education, etc. are paid for by the state. China, on the other hand, has developed through economic reforms but the fruits have gone to the hands of the powerful, and even education and health care have been industrialized. Such a reform is worse than no reform in Cuba. This model of the Chinese Communist Party is neither fair, nor just, nor sustainable. The two communist regimes, Cuba and the CCP, one can be described as communist fundamentalism and the other as communist revisionism, are both far from universal values and enemies of human civilization. Sooner or later, the people of such a country will have to revolt.
Whether the protests of the Cuban people can be sustained and to what extent they can grow requires a combination of the power of the people, the internal power of the rulers to seek new ideas, and the support of external forces, especially the United States. This is a unique opportunity for the United States to support the Cuban people’s just struggle to make Cuba a democratic country and to remove the wedge of communism in the U.S. backyard. The uprising of the Cuban people is also an inspiration to the Chinese people.
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