๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ฃ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ง ๐๐๐๐ช ๐ง๐ข ๐๐จ๐๐ ๐ง๐ข "๐ฆ๐ง๐๐ก๐ ๐ช๐๐ง๐ ๐ง๐๐ ๐๐จ๐๐๐ก ๐ฃ๐๐ข๐ฃ๐๐." ๐๐๐ง ๐ ๐ ๐ง๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ ๐ช๐๐๐ง ๐ง๐๐๐ฌ'๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ง๐จ๐๐๐๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐๐ก๐.
โ M.A. Rothman (@MichaelARothman) March 21, 2026
A Code Pink activist chartered a plane full of medicine to Havana, made a video from herโฆ pic.twitter.com/jPi7VItywr
๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ฃ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ง ๐๐๐๐ช ๐ง๐ข ๐๐จ๐๐ ๐ง๐ข "๐ฆ๐ง๐๐ก๐ ๐ช๐๐ง๐ ๐ง๐๐ ๐๐จ๐๐๐ก ๐ฃ๐๐ข๐ฃ๐๐." ๐๐๐ง ๐ ๐ ๐ง๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ ๐ช๐๐๐ง ๐ง๐๐๐ฌ'๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ง๐จ๐๐๐๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐๐ก๐.
A Code Pink activist chartered a plane full of medicine to Havana, made a video from her seat on a chartered plane calling Trump's Cuba policy "cruel, inhumane, and barbaric," and congratulated herself on her solidarity with the Cuban people.
Here's the question nobody in that video asked: where were you for the last several decades?
Cuba has had chronic medicine shortages for decades. Chronic food shortages for decades. Frequent power outages. Internet censorship. Wages so low that families survive on remittances from relatives who escaped. Criticizing the government there is not just unpopular โ it can get you imprisoned.
๐ก๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฝ๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ณ๐น๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐. ๐ง๐ฟ๐๐บ๐ฝ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฑ.
The moment Donald Trump started applying real pressure on the communist regime that has oppressed Cuba for sixty years โ the moment there was a credible possibility that the regime might actually fall โ suddenly these activists discovered the Cuban people and their suffering.
Think about what that means. They are not flying to Cuba because Cubans are suffering. Cubans have been suffering their entire lives. They are flying to Cuba because Trump might end that suffering, and they cannot allow Trump to get credit for it.
So they will bring medicine, take photos, post videos, call themselves virtuous โ and then fly home to their comfortable American lives and lobby against the policy most likely to actually free the Cuban people from the government that is causing the shortages in the first place.
That is not solidarity. That is using the Cuban people as a prop in a performance about Donald Trump.
If you are Cuban and you are reading this: they are not there for you. They are there against him. And the difference between those two things is the difference between your freedom and your continued oppression.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐'๐น๐น ๐ณ๐น๐ ๐ต๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ด๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ. ๐ง๐ต๐ฎ๐'๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฟ ๐๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ต.
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