To paraphrase the old adage: You can take a communist out of the thugocracy, but you can’t take the thugocracy out of a communist.
The Castro dictatorship’s communist thugs are thugs in Cuba and will continue to be thugs wherever they are sent. It’s in their nature. It’s how they are bred.
Frances Martel reports in Breitbart:
Cuba Vandalizes Pro-Democracy Poster in Peru, Blocks Dissidents from Americas Summit
The official communist Cuban delegation arrived in Lima, Peru, this week for this year’s Summit of the Americas, chanting pro-Castro slogans and defacing art calling for a free society on the island.
Dissidents hoping to attend the summit have complained that the government has blocked them from traveling or forced the summit to relegate them to distant tangential events to prevent them from receiving international attention.
The Summit of the Americas typically occurs every three years and welcomes members of the Organization of American States (OAS). Due to its status as a dictatorship, Cuba is banned from the OAS, but received its first-ever invitation to the summit in 2015 at the behest of leftist governments in Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, and Peru, and amid a campaign to legitimize dictator Raúl Castro under the Obama administration (only Venezuela and Bolivia currently maintain far-left leaders). This will be Cuba’s second time attending the summit.
A communist youth coalition waving the Cuban flag landed in Lima, the host city of this year’s event, on Monday, chanting the slogan “don’t mess with Cuba” and claiming to represent civil society.
Cuban sympathizers appear to have vandalized a poster protesting Cuba’s presence at the summit in the city, showing a photo of one of the many violent arrests of Ladies in White leader Berta Soler and reading, “Cuba: Enough! Corruption, repression, and impunity. STOP violating human rights.”
By Wednesday morning, the billboard had been torn apart and the hashtag, in Spanish, #dontmesswithcuba spray painted where the poster used to be. Leaders of the communist youth groups invited to attend the summit have complained that the presence of dissidents would force them to share a stage with “mercenaries” and that pro-democracy voices “do not represent any legitimate Cuban organization.” Ronald Hidalgo Rivera, the head of the Union of Young Communists, described the dissidents in one interview as “terrorists.”
Berta Soler, who appears on the vandalized poster, was banned from leaving the island to attend the event. Cuban agents also prevented a diverse set of dissident leaders from traveling to Peru, including anti-communist punk rock artist Gorki Águila; santería priest and leader of the Free Yorubas of Cuba Jonniel Rodríguez Riverol; and the theater artist Adonis Milán, among others.
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