Professor of Latin American Political Economy, University of Glasgow. Author: We Are Cuba! How a revolutionary people survived in post-Soviet world
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Helen Yaffe retweeted
🇨🇺 Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez confronted US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz at the podium and called him "a liar" during Tuesday's General Assembly debate on Washington's decades-long embargo of Cuba, as a US oil blockade strangles the island.
Since February, the US has intercepted tankers bound for Cuba, cutting off the fuel that runs its power plants, water pumps and hospitals. Blackouts have stretched to 22 hours a day. By June, food production had fallen about 60%, medicine supplies had dropped to roughly 30% of normal and infant mortality had risen significantly, according to the UN human rights office.
Waltz blamed Cuba's government for the crisis and accused Fidel Castro of sending gay people, Christians and Afro-Cubans to concentration camps, EFE reported. As the Cuban delegation banged on tables, Waltz shouted: "Back away! Do you understand who you're dealing with? This is the United States of America. Back up."
Rodríguez accused Waltz of "lying shamelessly" and attacking "the dignity of the Cuban people," as General Assembly President Khalilur Rahman threatened to suspend the session.
The Assembly is set to vote on its annual resolution condemning the U.S. embargo this week.
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El gobierno de EEUU miente de forma grosera y permanente en la Asamblea General de @ONU_es.
Su Representante Permanente en Naciones Unidas, con su prepotencia y soberbia, olvida que se encuentra en Naciones Unidas, no está en el Consejo de Seguridad Nacional de EEUU ni en una unidad de boinas verdes ni en un grupo de Signal, donde ha mostrado reiteradamente su incompetencia e incapacidad.
El gobierno de EEUU, con sus burdas mentiras en la Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas, lanzó un nuevo intento desesperado por justificar la agresión económica contra Cuba y su criminal cerco energético. Sus declaraciones de hoy forman parte del circo mediático, de amenazas y de campaña electoral, al que el gobierno estadounidense dedica cuantiosos recursos económicos y humanos.
No hay pretexto para sostener el acto de castigo colectivo al que someten al pueblo cubano.
#CubaNoEsUnaAmenaza El Bloqueo Sí
Helen Yaffe retweeted
The U.S. Permanent Representative Mike Waltz is a disgrace to what it means to be a diplomat.
The man talk, walks, and acts like a character from the film Idiocracy.
Cuba will not stay idly as this person eviscerates the principles of the United Nations.
Helen Yaffe retweeted
The U.S. consistently and shamelessly violates UN procedural rules.
That's why Cuba, A SOVEREIGN STATE, will not permit Waltz's offenses vs the dignity of the Cuban people.
Waltz seems clearly shook up!😅
#CubaIsNotAThreat, the blockade is!
Helen Yaffe retweeted
Cut it, frame it and hang it on a wall.
Suggested title: Recognition of failure.
RT @BenjaminNorton: Huge news for Latin America, and the world:
Lula da Silva has won reelection in Brazil, despite blatant electoral meddl…
Helen Yaffe retweeted
Correction: Cuba's future belongs to Cubans.
Concentrate on your own domestic problems and leave Cuba alone.
The U.S. acts like an irresponsible bully with zero self-awareness.
#CubaIsNotAThreat, the blockade is!
“Cuba's future belongs to those who act. Seize the moment and build the change you want to see. No more broken promises, rampant corruption, or tolerating an elite class living in luxury while the citizens are ignored. Now is the time.” -#SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan
Helen Yaffe retweeted
🇨🇺As the annual UN resolution vote to lift the blockade on Cuba approaches, we must stand in solidarity with Cuba. Solidarity is not a crime the blockade is!
The Trump administration, Marco Rubio, and ultra-right interventionists want you to believe their genocidal lies. The only threat to the lives of millions of Cubans is the blockade, which blocks food, medicine, and fuel and disrupts everyday life—it is a silent war.
Cuba is not a threat, the blockade is. We say no to the blockade and no to war. Let Cuba Live!
Helen Yaffe retweeted
They'll say this shit right out in the open and then you'll STILL get called a crazy conspiracy theorist if you say the CIA is behind the next wave of anti-government unrest in Cuba.
Helen Yaffe retweeted
🇨🇺 @CarlosFdeCossio: "During the 1970s, the U.S. Senate devoted a long period of work and resources to a Senate committee dedicated to investigating and denouncing the CIA’s excesses, violations of the law, abuses, and crimes.
The committee was chaired by then-Senator Frank Church, and under his leadership, operations involving assassinations, kidnappings, torture, coups d’état, operations to destabilize legitimate governments, and other activities of the agency were uncovered.
Also uncovered was the recruitment and training of some of Latin America’s most violent and ruthless henchmen and repressive forces; likewise uncovered were the agency’s links to organized crime to plan and carry out criminal and terrorist actions.
The CIA is an organization of state terrorism. Its dirty record is well documented—and that is only with what is publicly known."
Helen Yaffe retweeted
‼️ Cubanos se mofan de Marco Rubio
Tras la oferta de ayer del Secretario de Estado para que cubanos se sumen a las acciones de la CIA contra Cuba, ha aparecido en Revolico (una página web de anuncios y venta de productos nuevos y usados en la isla) una publicación en "busca de colaborador a tiempo parcial" cob la agencia.
Con el sarcasmo característico del cubano, la oportunidad de colaboración ofrece un "gran paquete de beneficios" y como uno de sus requisitos está el "tener ganas de cambiar las cosas desde la tranquilidad de tu casa".
Para rematar, no hace falta tener experiencia previa para trabajar con la CIA y de estar interesado solo debe llamar a "Marquitos". 😅
Helen Yaffe retweeted
Warmonger Marco Rubio is so desperate for regime change in Cuba that he is publicly asking Cubans to help the CIA organize a coup attempt.
The US empire used to organize its many coups in secret. Now it puts job postings for treasonous CIA coup-plotters on Twitter.
Helen Yaffe retweeted
Flávio: "Lula, ¿puedes explicar por qué el 73% de los presos votaron por ti?"
Lula: "¡Lo que yo quiero es el 100%, hasta tu padre! ¡Bolsonaro, vota por mí, hasta tú sabes que soy mejor que él!"
Barrida HISTÓRICAAAAAAAAA 😅
Helen Yaffe retweeted
This is a huge scandal: The campaign of Brazil's far-right, US-backed presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro paid a US company that sells an AI system for manipulating elections.
Bolsonaro's right-wing party also paid the US company, which maps voters and makes fake social media accounts to spread disinformation online targeting crucial voters.
This revelation comes after Meta admitted that it censored the accounts of left-wing candidate Lula da Silva and promoted Bolsonaro on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp.
This is the source (only in Portuguese): intercept.com.br/2026/10/16/…
Helen Yaffe retweeted
🇨🇺 Cuba está a oscuras y la red eléctrica no da más. Hay barrios de La Habana con más de 34 horas sin luz, y en el resto del país los apagones duran todavía más.
La raíz es una sola, no hay petróleo, pero no hay petróleo porque desde finales del año pasado la isla no ha podido comprar combustible por el cerco energético de Washington.
Una asfixia, un genocidio ante los ojos del mundo, más de 10 millones de personas siendo castigadas por la impunidad de unos psicópatas que están haciendo sufrir a todo un pueblo!
Helen Yaffe retweeted
Meta employees admitted the US corporation censored the Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp accounts of Brazil's left-wing President Lula da Silva in the lead-up to this month's election.
Meta also promoted the accounts of far-right pro-US candidate Flávio Bolsonaro.
Meta claimed this was supposedly because of "technical issues".
But what this really shows is how real democracy is impossible when US Big Tech corporations are used to manipulate elections around the world, to put in power right-wing US puppets who will sell out their country to US corporations and the US government (see: the recent US electoral interference in Colombia, Honduras, Peru, Argentina, etc.)
The CIA previously focused on organizing military coups to overthrow independent left-wing leaders and install right-wing pro-imperialist ones. Now it's much easier: Silicon Valley helps the US empire carry out soft coups by manipulating public opinion and interfering in elections.
Helen Yaffe retweeted
"Access to food cannot be a privilege. It must be a right for all human beings"
In a message sent to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, President Miguel Díaz-Canel condemned the US blockade that keeps Cuba from fully developing its food system and advocated for a more equal world order that helps countries fight hunger and poverty.
He noted that Cuba is developing "far-reaching changes" to ensure food security for its citizens, despite the blockade.
Helen Yaffe retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: Cuba’s UN envoy Ernesto Soberón blasts U.S.-convened UN event as a political stunt and attack on a sovereign state. Says U.S. is pressuring votes before the Oct. 27–28 blockade resolution.
#CubaIsNotAThreat, the blockade is!
Helen Yaffe retweeted
This story is extremely important:
A whistleblower revealed that Brazil's far-right Bolsonaro family dynasty met with Meta to discuss US plans to interfere in Brazil's election, to prevent Lula from winning.
Lula's Facebook and Instagram accounts were censored a few days before the first round of the presidential election.
This had a huge impact on the election, because Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, which are all owned by Meta, are the most popular apps in Brazil, and are hugely influential all across Latin America. (Jair Bolsonaro's son Flávio was declared the winner of the first round of the vote, by a narrow margin.)
Meta later admitted that Lula's accounts had been restricted, but it claimed that this was supposedly due to a "technical error"...
The whistleblower who disclosed this is Nadia Beller, a Bolivian journalist who was almost killed by hitmen hired by Fernando Cerimedo, a far-right Argentine political operative who oversees election interference, bots, and disinformation campaigns.
Cerimedo is closely linked to the US government and has worked for pretty much every right-wing leader in Latin America. He was photographed with Donald Trump Jr. and members of the Bolsonaro family, and he received an award at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida a few months before he was arrested for the failed assassination attempt against Beller, his pregnant ex-girlfriend.
Link here: panamericandispatch.org/p/na…
Helen Yaffe retweeted
🌞🇨🇺 Solar energy is delivering results for Cuba's power generation capacity. Effective maintenance of thermoelectric plants and cooler temperatures are also helping to cut down on blackouts.
But make no mistake: What could have been a steady, low-cost, and well-organized transition of the energy matrix has effectively turned into a race for Cuba's survival amid a criminal U.S. fuel blockade.
#CubaIsNotAThreat