Yahoos Try to Invade Cuba
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It’s far from the first time crazy Cuban exiles have united with crazy Americans and tried to invade Cuba, but we should probably talk about the newest time since you never know when Donald the Dove will use it as an excuse to take the island over.
The brother of one of the men who was killed after taking a U.S.-registered speedboat into Cuban waters and allegedly opening fire on the country’s border patrol said his sibling was fixated on overthrowing Cuba’s government.
Misael Ortega Casanova, brother of Michael Ortega Casanova, told The Associated Press that his brother had fallen into an “obsessive and diabolical” quest to free Cuba from its communist government. Cubans in the United States and Cuban Americans have long protested the current Cuban government, and accused the island’s leadership of human rights violations.
“They became so obsessed that they didn’t think about the consequences nor their own lives,” Casanova said of his brother and the nine other men who were aboard the boat.
The Cuban government said Wednesday afternoon that a speedboat registered in Florida had entered Cuban waters carrying weapons and 10 Cuban nationals who lived in the U.S. However, the White House confirmed to CBS News on Thursday that at least one American was one of four people killed by Cuba’s coast guard after the occupants of the boat allegedly opened fire on the Cuban military. The news was first reported by Axios.
Four people were killed and six others aboard the boat, which came from Florida, were wounded and arrested, according to Cuba’s Interior Ministry.
In addition to the American citizen who was killed, a U.S. official confirmed to CBS News that at least one U.S. citizen was also among those arrested. At least one of the boat’s occupants had a K-1 visa, the official said, which allows a citizen’s fiancé to travel to the U.S. to get married, and others are believed to be legal permanent residents of the U.S., although it was not clear how many.
Cuba is, of course, a mess. But nothing does more to allow the current government to remain in power more than it being able to repeatedly point to the United States and its imperialism as the major cause of their problems. It’s of course far from the only reason. But it is part of the reason.