Mario J. Pentón

🚨 At CUNY’s Cuba Conference, DSA's Danny Valdes Says Cuba Dictatorship Question Is “Completely Irrelevant,” Mullin Says Activists Must “Defend the Cuban Revolution” Before Corinna Mullin jumped in, DSA organizer Danny Valdes dismissed the question of whether Cuba is a dictatorship as “completely irrelevant” to what is happening on the island. That line is revealing on its own. In a room full of activists eager to defend Cuba, even raising the nature of the regime itself was treated as beside the point. Then Mullin took it a step further, arguing that it is “a problem for us to separate out our support for the people versus the state,” praising the Cuban Revolution for having “expropriated the wealth of the expropriators,” and insisting that “we must in our messaging defend the Cuban revolution.” Valdes did not resist the escalation. He nodded along as Mullin argued that activists should openly defend the revolution itself.

Rocio Monasterio es hija de padre cubano y madre española. Sus antepasados fueron terratenientes latifundistas en Cienfuegos, propietarios del ingenio azucarero Manuelita con miles de trabajadores explotados y sin derechos laborales, además dominanan la Compañía Azucarera Atlántica del Golfo, que llegó a cotizar en la bolsa de Nueva York por sus grandes negocios en EEUU. Tras la revolución cubana de 1959, llegó el Comandante y mandó a parar: Fidel Castro le entregó la propiedad de la tierra a los campesinos pobres con las leyes de reforma agraria. – Décadas después y los oligarcas siguen respondiendo a los mismos intereses.