Prayers to save Cuba unite the diaspora

Frances Martel Via Brietbart Cuba

The prayers occurred alongside a massive event in Miami, Florida, that day April 26th 2026 titled “United for a Free Cuba” that featured a wide variety of artists, journalists, former political prisoners, activists, and notable individuals within the Cuban exile community. The event attracted national attention the United States, but, U.S.-based organizer Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat told Breitbart News, it was meant as a support event for what was taking place on the island – a collective prayer in the context of a larger Christian resurgence in a country with more than half a century of history of Christian persecution.

From far-west Pinar del Rio province to eastern Camagüey, worshippers organized under the banner of the “Save Cuba” initiative, which was launched in January as a spiritual accompaniment to the now-common anti-communist protests throughout the island.During one event, a speaker prayed for a future free of communist dictatorship, and for forgiveness from Jesus for the campaign waged against His faith following the Castro family coup.“We want change. We want to save our country. We ask forgiveness, Lord, because Cuba distanced itself from you,” the speaker shared, while those assembled took to their knees. “We ask for forgiveness, Lord, because every family distanced itself from you, because we took Christ out of our homes, because we gave our backs to the cross, to the tomb.”

The presence of Christian faith front and center in the struggle for Cuban liberation is not new – priests participated, for example, in the planning of the 1961 Bay of Pigs liberation attempt thwarted by Democrat President John F. Kennedy. For years, the Ladies in White – a group of mothers, wives, daughters, and sisters of political prisoners – protested against the regime solely by attending Catholic Mass dressed in white and carrying the photos of their imprisoned loved ones. In Florida, attendees at the “United for a Free Cuba” prayer rally explained the importance of faith in the movement.

Donro doctrine in Cuba Trump turns the screws on decrepit regime

No oil, no lights, few flights. Trump’s squeeze has Cuba in a dark place.

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Cuba healthcare collapsing

Via Spain's El Pais

No medicine or food

Finally, the Cuban government has been left with no choice but to recognize the “national epidemiological situation” that has Cubans in a state of panic. The outlook is so critical that some have appealed to the international community not to let their so-called diseased ship sink with its millions of people on board. While state officials downplay the matter, insisting that it is not an outbreak exclusive to Cuba, and that cases are being reported in Brazil and Colombia, the truth is that the general shortages and state of collapse in Cuba have severely undermined the authorities’ ability to control the disease.

Cubazuela's Impending collapse is happening

As Venezuela’s crisis deepens, another — quieter but just as dangerous — is unfolding just 90 miles from Florida. The drama may be smaller, but the danger is real. If Venezuela is wobbling, Cuba is starting to fall.

Via The Hill

Maduros glaring Venezuelan election fraud could sink the Castros in Cuba

After a glaring election steal in the Cuban Castro colony of Venezuela the Castro criminal cartel is sweating an imminent collapse of their most profitable racket with their puppet Maduro.

The surveillance and informant network installed by Cuba within the Venezuelan armed forces has so far prevented military conspiracies. But “the pitcher goes to the well until it breaks.” The danger of such a rupture is greater today than ever, as circumstances have changed.

What gives Raúl and his gang nightmares is that, despite how secure Maduro seems, in the end, the pitcher might break. They wonder how they would survive if that happens, where they would get the billions of dollars they currently steal from the salaries of approximately 10,000 Cuban doctors and healthcare workers and at least another 2,000 Cuban “collaborators” embedded in the Venezuelan dictatorship, many of whom have blood on their hands.

They also have no way to secure the $1.2 billion needed to import the oil and gasoline that Maduro currently gifts to Cuba, which, according to experts, covers between 35% and 40% of the Island’s consumption.

In Algeria, an oil-rich country, according to Cuban Prisoners Defenders (CPD), the Algerian government pays $6,700 monthly for each Cuban doctor, but each doctor receives only $450 a month. Assuming that in Venezuela the scale of Castro’s theft is similar to that in Algeria, the Castro regime pockets about $900 million annually, stolen from the doctors and other Cubans stationed there. 

Read more here via babalublog Babalublog

CCP spy operations in Cuba

Rumors of China snooping from the island have simmered for decades. The issue resurfaced in mid-2023 amid media reports of a Chinese “spy base” near Havana.

Cuba has a long history of hosting foreign espionage operations targeting the United States. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union operated its largest overseas intelligence site at the Lourdes Signals Intelligence Complex Bejucal

Satellite imagery and open-source information assessed by CSIS offers an unprecedented look at four active sites in Cuba capable of conducting electronic surveillance operations. Read more here Here

1914 Confederate Reconciliation Monument at Arlington threatened by historically ignorant bureaucrats but gets reprieve

During and after the Spanish American war 1898 we promoted Northern and Southern reconciliation to heal the wounds of our civil war in 1865. This monument is that reconciliation now threatened by nihilistic cultural marxists.

The statue, unveiled in 1914, features a bronze woman, crowned with olive leaves, standing on a 32-foot pedestal, and was designed to represent the American South. According to Arlington, the woman holds a laurel wreath, a plow stock and a pruning hook, with a biblical inscription at her feet that says: “They have beat their swords into plough-shares and their spears into pruning hooks.”

Some of the figures also on the statue include a Black woman depicted as “Mammy” holding what is said to be the child of a white officer, and an enslaved man following his owner to war.

David McCallister, a spokesman for the Florida heritage group, welcomed the judge’s order while acknowledging it is only temporary. He said the current case differs from the one that was dismissed because they now have evidence that the work is being done in a way that disturbs grave sites.

Generally, he said the memorial promotes reconciliation between North and South, and removing it erodes that reconciliation. Full story here

Hispanic Confederates

The  Cuba Libre Camp Project. From our Blogtalkradio show Conversa Cuba Companioni genealogically uncovering & preserving both Cuban & other Hispanic Confederate history with founder John O' Donnell Rosales; author of Hispanic Confederates and the bilingual blog History of the South.

Update 8/30/14: Cuban Confederate Soldiers from Alabama, 1861-1865  This booklet is the first in the series "Ethnic Minorities in the Confederate Military". It lists 20 Cuban born and or partial descendant's of Cuban's who served in the Confederate Military, from Alabama between 1861 and 1865. It lists their names, ranks and units, as well as known Biographical Information on each Soldier. This is a truly "forgotten" aspect of the Confederate Military, the Civil War and Cuban History. It makes a great resource for Historians, Genealogists, Civil War Scholars and anyone interested in Ethnic participation in the Confederate Military, as well a those interested in Cuba

Cuba Libre Camp Project Radio Show

El Tiante enters American hall of fame

Legendary Afro Cuban hurler Luis Tiant finally in. Smoke em if you got em. Via Silvio Canto on Babalu blog 

Tiante’s’ turn

September 24, 2022 by Silvio Canto Jr.

A few months ago, Cooperstown welcomed Tony Oliva and the late Orestes Minoso. It’s now time to vote and add Luis Tiant to Baseball’s Hall of Fame. Luis Tiant, or “El Tiante,” was flashy and one of the most popular players ever to wear a major league uniform. His performance in the 1975 post season was legendary with that pitching motion that drove batters crazy and fans wild.

Tiant, the son of a Cuban who excelled in the old Negro Leagues, won 229 games with a 3.30 ERA. He led the AL twice in ERA. He was plain dominant in 1968 when he went 21-9 with a 1.60 ERA.      

What is Cooperstown waiting for? Tiant should join the other great games of the game.

Genocidal Castro General Dead at 92. Led Angolan Atrocities

Via Babalublog.com

An authentic genocide died” wrote the famous Coco Fariñas, coordinator of the United Anti-Totalitarian Forum (FANTU), and Angola war veteran.

The 2010 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought winner assured that Lussón Batlle was one of the main creators of the “Olivo Front” in the Angolan War, “in which for 16 years invading Cuban military troops intervened in the African country.

Guillermo “Coco” Fariñas said that the “Olivo Front” in the Angolan War had the objective of fighting the guerrillas of that nation with the “use of murderous, cruel and heartless anti-guerrilla practices.”

This bat shit psychopath was also a founder of the Communist Party of Cuba .

Whole story HERE in Spanish