A 1980s Style "Repudiation Rally" Replayed in 2009 Against My Husband [VIDEOS]

The images of what happened yesterday, in G Street, with my husband, Reinaldo Escobar, and other friends are, to me, too reminiscent of repudiation rallies of 1980. Look for yourself and tell me if it doesn't seem the same.

Note: The first video is of the 'spontaneous demonstration' against the bloggers

Note: This second video shows Reinaldo Escobar attacked by the crowd, before he is taken away by State Security agents. Reinaldo is in a grey shirt, with dark curly hair. Some of the people clinging tightly to him are his friends, trying to protect him from the crowd.

Yoani's blog, Generation Y, can be read here in English translation.

 

 

 

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Comments

[OldSchoolLiberal]

09:17 AM on 11/23/2009

Amazing how people here consistently need to compare their bourgeois experiences with the truly life and death struggle of this courageous woman, just because her story of being oppressed by a brutal government is off the script they hand out in radical 101 at the local college.

[Ira7]

10:35 AM on 11/23/2009

Fanned squared.

[randyjet]

11:18 AM on 11/23/2009

The ONLY life and death struggles were HERE in the USA during the civil rights movement, and the antiVietnam war movement. WE had plenty of people who were MURDERED by government officials and forces. WE had plenty of terrorist actions against US by the US government. She only gets roughed up. WE got DEATH in many cases. WHICH do YOU think is worse? Sen. Kerry had his VVAW headquarters BOMBED in Boston by US government agents or hirelings. The list of violence and death against us is too long to recount here.

The life and death struggles were in the hundred of thousands of dead who were murdered by the US sponsored dictatorships throughout Latin America. Castro and his regime while not one that I like or approve of, is NOT even close to those US bloodsoaked regimes. Let's get REAL and get some perspective!

[randyjet]

08:47 AM on 11/23/2009

THAT reminds me of the police and government sponsored attacks on the anti-Vietnam war movement . While I agree that it is not a legitimate thing for any government to surpress those who it disagrees with, this is FAR nicer that what I personally experienced in the USA. The organizations that I was with had our houses shot at, people murdered, our headquarters bombed, people lynched, people jailed, framed up on bogus charges, sent to prison and destroyed, etc.
I recall what the US did to Japanese Americans right after Pearl Harbor. If there had been any people rallying in favor of the Japanese in the USA at the time, they would have been killed on the spot. You also have to remember the response of the Japanese Americans who had themselves and their families treated so unjustly. They understood the fact that this was a temporary measure for wartime, and that it was not what the US government was all about. So despite their imprisonment, many of them volunteered to go and fight for the US and many gave their lives. It took decades before their heroism and devotion to the US was acknowledged. They continued their fight after the war and they were successful. I hope for similar success in your fight to restore democratic norms in Cuba. It is a poor choice to look for allies in the US government since you will only be used as tools for their benefit..

[LMPE]

05:04 PM on 11/22/2009

You note that the repudiation rallies are falsely spontaneous. Also falsely spontaneous are the teabagging rallies.

[SigmundF]

09:35 AM on 11/23/2009

I agree, These pogroms called repudiation rallies are falsely spontaneous and usually ends in beating, property destruction, looting and blood spilling ......