Virtue Signalers Arrive in Cuba
Ship of Fools
Delegates from 33 countries and 120 organizations began arriving in Cuba last week as part of a solidarity caravan transporting humanitarian aid as the island grapples with a severe energy crisis.
Members of “Our America Convoy to Cuba” arrived by air from Italy, France, Spain, the United States and several Latin American countries. More arrived by sea via a three-boat flotilla from Mexico.
Hope they made reservations, all the good hotels are booked.
Far-left activists stay in 5-star Cuban hotel as island suffers total blackout
Cuba suffered mass power outages throughout the weekend as activists filmed for social media
By Anders Hagstrom
Far-left activist groups and personalities flocked to Havana, Cuba, this week in an effort to protest the economic sanctions imposed on the country by President Donald Trump’s administration.
The far-left group CodePink sponsored flights to the communist-led island, and the group was joined by Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and left-wing Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, an ally of democratic socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The group has faced heavy backlash for staying in expensive hotels to meet with government officials even as Cuban residents go without electricity.
Trump imposed an oil blockade on Cuba earlier this year after the U.S. captured former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
Some delegates in the “Nuestra America Convoy,” including Piker, were staying at the 5-star Gran Hotel Bristol Meliá Collection and similar resorts. Piker defended the move on social media, saying U.S. law required that they stay at the ritzy hotels.
We’re back!
Some real steely-eyed philanthropists right there. I had happily forgotten all about Code Pink. They haven’t changed a bit, unfortunately.
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One thing I am confused about here is how will sending more communist authoritarians to the failed communist authoritarian state help? Sitting around on their collective asses isn’t going to do much.
It is like bringing a tanker truck of contaminated muddy water to a flood zone or sending boxes of road flares to the Palisades. Let us call it , less than helpful
Piker is a dual US-Turkish citizen, why would he give a zip about US law? Be that as it is, there are plenty of cheaper places to stay that aren’t on the list of places prohibited from staying (those owned by Cuba are prohibited, everywhere else is fine, including air BNBs). If they were serious they could just do like Sean Penn and stay in a tent.
Because these are the enlightened, wise communists. The communists that will show Cuba the error of their ways. People who are wise in all things socialist. You know, morons.
Remember, Code Pink was founded by Neville Singham’s wife – the spouse of the man financing much of the anti-ICE protests.
That looks like the SS MINNOW from Gilligans Island.
Ship of fools. Again.
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This guy???:
I haven’t heard of any boats sinking.
Won’t they think of the poor, hungry sharks.
Yep, and many of those influencers were wearing designer clothes whose price tag could feed a Cuban family for months! Communism is SO much better than Capitalism! (Sarcasm heavily implied)