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Rumors, Rumors everywhere - Is the Revolution on the way?
I know Rantburgers prefer articles, but Babalu Blog has some interesting rumors about discontent within Cuba's military:A new sign castro's army is restless Babalu writers were among the first to notice signs of trouble brewing in castro's military. To recap, castro's army is rife with discontent - Cuban enlisted men recently shot two of their officers near a Santiago prison. It was triggered when a group of enlisted men had made friends with a prisoner who offered to take them to freedom's shores if the soldiers would let him out. The enlisted men went for it, but their officers tried to stop them. In the end, the enlisted men fired at the castroites trying to stop them. It was, quite simply, military mutiny, the kind that proved such fertile ground for Lenin's violent takeover of Russia in 1917. Read it here. That's one incident that we know of. Then things got wilder when a Cuban exile group called Commandos F4 recently broadcast their takeover of a whole regiment's worth of weapons from a Cuban army unit. From the comments section in Babalu blog, readers heard this report over the radio, and said that the Commandos F4 said the Cuban army was fed up and more than willing to join forces with potentially a brewing rebellion. See the whole thing here. Obviously, there are severe signs of trouble in the Cuban army and these are just two of the instances we know about. Proving the point, though,is today's perfect counterindicator - word from raul castro, fidel's little brother, that all is hunky dory in the Cuban army. Now why would raul say that? Yes it's a counterindicator, castroites hate the fact that word is getting out about Cuba's growing revolts in the army. Word out about matters like this might encourage even more troops to revolt or look for Commandos F4. These are very dangerous times for the castroites. If you can stand to open Prensa Latina, the state-controlled castroite propaganda organ, the link with raul praising the Cuba army is interestingly timed, and posted as the top story, here. Posted by: anonymous2u 2007-02-27 |
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