Divest! Divest! Exiled Cuban dissidents call for an end to investments in Castrogonia

Highly selective outrage

Are you old enough to remember the massively successful campaign against investments in apartheid South Africa?

Divest!  Divest! was all one could hear on college campuses.

Very quickly, all sorts of institutions and businesses — not just colleges — were shamed into withdrawing their investments in any firm or enterprise that did business in South Africa.

Now, finally, some Cuban dissidents are calling for the same kind of campaign against apartheid Cuba.  And since everything in Cuba is owned by Castro, Inc., to divest would be to sink the Castro pirate ship.

Admirable move, but let’s see what happens.  This campaign is only aimed at businesses in Florida.

Imagine massive rallies calling for divestment in Castro, Inc. on college campuses everywhere, and on the streets of major cities around the world!

Don’t hold your breath….

Announcement from the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance 

Campaign against investments with the Castro regime “All for a Free Cuba” plan gets underway

Miami, Florida, February 7, 2018 – Assembly of the Cuban Resistance. The Assembly of the Cuban Resistance will hold a meeting with the Cuban community on Thursday, February 8 at 6:30 pm, at the headquarters of the Brigade 2506 Veterans Association, 1821 SW 9th Street, Miami Florida, 33135 to start organizing a civic mobilization against investments from South Florida that are channeled into the Castro regime’s pockets.

“United Cubans outside the Island have the essential means to achieve a successful transition to democracy that will bring about a productive democratic system that will truly serve the well-being of the Cuban people,” said Rafael Pizano, leader of the new generation of Cuban exiles in Cuba, Tampa. “For too long, criminals have kept in bondage the rights of the Cuban people,” Pizano added.

“One of the activities comprised in the “All for a Free Cuba Plan” is citizens’ mobilization against companies that are contributing to the slavery of the Cuban people by becoming commercial partners of the Castro regime, or subsidiaries of their businesses,” stated. Dr. Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat, member of the Secretariat of the Assembly.

“At the meeting we will analyze how to organize effective, disciplined and coherent protests that express the rejection of the Cuban exiled community to the commercial transactions that exploit the Cuban people,” said Horacio Garcia, member of the Secretariat of the Resistance Assembly and the Cuban Liberty Council.

“The exiled community knows how to organize and behave in a civil way to achieve their patriotic goals. We are going to protest with dignity against profiting with the suffering of the Cuban people,” said Sylvia Iriondo, president of MAR for Cuba.

During the meeting, groups of volunteers will also be created to support political prisoners in the Castro prisons, as well as groups tasked with creating awareness and provide information in Cuba and internationally.

This meeting is one of the first steps of the “All for a Free Cuba Plan” to accelerate freedom in Cuba. The plan was announced on January 16 at a meeting attended by representatives of both, current and historical Cuban organizations. The plan also has the support of the Cuban exiled communities in New Jersey, Chicago, Tampa, Houston, California, and Santo Domingo. Representatives of Iranian and Venezuelan Resistance movements were present at the unveiling of the plan on January 16, 2018 at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables.

Oh… but we love apartheid in Cuba….

1 thought on “Divest! Divest! Exiled Cuban dissidents call for an end to investments in Castrogonia”

  1. Nice idea, but it won’t fly. All victims are definitely not equal, and some of them aren’t even recognized as victims. We keep thinking that because the hypocrisy and double standard applied to Cuba are so blatantly obvious, that surely sooner or later the world will do right by Cuba, but it won’t happen. It is what it is.

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