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Black Lives Matter reacted to Cubans engaging in pro-freedom demonstrations by praising the communist Cuban regime that oppresses its own people, over a million of whom are black. The Black Lives Matter organization also blamed the United States for the current upswell of unrest in Cuba. BLM was blasted on social media for its official stance on the anti-government protests in Cuba.
On Wednesday night, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation posted its official statement about the mass demonstrations in Cuba where protesters chanted, "Liberty!" and "Freedom!"
"Black Lives Matter condemns the U.S. federal government's inhumane treatment of Cubans, and urges it to immediately lift the economic embargo," the post on Instagram reads.
BLM described the embargo as a "cruel and inhumane policy" that is "at the heart of Cuba's current crisis."
"Since 1962, the United States has forced pain and suffering on the people of Cuba by cutting off food, medicine and supplies, costing the tiny island nation an estimated $130 billion," BLM claimed, when in fact, the U.S. embargo allows the export of agricultural products, food, medicine, medical equipment, and humanitarian goods into Cuba.
"Without that money, it is harder for Cuba to acquire medical equipment needed to develop its own COVID-19 vaccines and equipment for food production," Black Lives Matter proposed.
"The people of Cuba are being punished by the U.S. government because the country has maintained its commitment to sovereignty and self-determination," BLM argued. "The U.S. government has only instigated suffering for the country's 11 million people – of which 4 million are Black and Brown."
Black Lives Matter praised the authoritarian Cuban regime for protecting "Black revolutionaries like Assata Shakur," who is a convicted cop-killer and was a leader in the Black Liberation Army, "an underground, black nationalist-Marxist militant organization." Shakur, who was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, escaped prison and fled to Cuba, where Fidel Castro granted her asylum.
BLM declared, "Now we look to President Biden to end the embargo, something President Barack Obama called for in 2016. This embargo is a blatant human rights violation and it must come to an end."
Black Lives Matter has released a statement on Cuba:pic.twitter.com/NgnT1o1oZE— Sabrina Rodr\u00edguez (@Sabrina Rodr\u00edguez) 1626315672
Black Lives Matter was bashed on social media for supporting Cuba's authoritarian one-party system, instead of backing Cubans calling for freedom.
Many online commenters were not surprised that BLM supported Cuba's communist regime since co-founder Patrisse Cullors admitted that the organization's creators are "trained Marxists" and was once ecstatic that a book she was promoting was compared to the "Little Red Book" by Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong.