Crush Castroism Now to Finish Islamic Iran
Julio M. Shiling - 04-17-2026Crush Castroism Now to Finish Islamic Iran Leer en Español The Islamic Republic of Iran is reeling. Its senior leadership has been decapitated, its missile factories and air defenses lie in ruins,...
Cuba’s Spy State Next Door: Time to End the Castro Regime
Julio M. Shiling - 04-09-2026Cuba’s Spy State Next Door: Time to End the Castro Regime Leer en Español The recent announcement by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirming that communist Cuba has functioned as a...
Remember the Combative Christ During Holy Week
Julio M. Shiling - 04-01-2026Remember the Combative Christ During Holy Week Leer en Español A dangerous distortion has crept into Christian theology across Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox traditions alike. Jesus is recast...
Helms-Burton Locks in Regime Change for Cuba
Julio M. Shiling - 03-27-2026Helms-Burton Locks in Regime Change for Cuba Leer en Español As Donald J. Trump advances his second term with a bold initiative in Cuba, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is playing a central role in...
Cuba’s New “Investment” Law: Castroism’s Piñata
Julio M. Shiling - 03-22-2026Cuba’s New “Investment” Law: Castroism’s Piñata Leer en Español On March 16, 2026, communist Cuba’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment, Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga,...
U.S. Force, or Threat of it, Must Be Used in Cuba
Julio M. Shiling - 03-14-2026U.S. Force, or Threat of it, Must Be Used in Cuba Leer en Español Cuba is not merely authoritarian. It is a totalitarian regime. For over six decades, the Castro-Communist apparatus has exercised...
The Shield of the Americas Summit: A Shield in Defense of Freedom
Julio M. Shiling - 03-06-2026The Shield of the Americas Summit: A Shield in Defense of Freedom Leer en Español The Shield of the Americas Summit, convened by President Donald J. Trump, will be held this Saturday, March 7,...
Cuba’s Dictatorial Transition Should Not Fool Anyone
Julio M. Shiling - 02-21-2026Cuba’s Dictatorial Transition Should Not Fool Anyone Leer en Español President Donald J. Trump’s January 29, 2026, Executive Order declaring a national emergency over Cuba and authorizing tariffs...
Castro-Communism’s Last Stand
Julio M. Shiling - 02-06-2026Castro-Communism’s Last Stand Leer en Español Donald J. Trump has elevated regime change in Cuba to a cornerstone of U.S. regional policy, framing it as essential to national security. Public...
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The Republican Party Will Lead the United States in a Time of ‘Deep Change’: Armando Ibarra.
Miami Young Republicans President Armando Ibarra sat down for an extensive exclusive interview with El American to talk with our contributor, Julio M. Shiling, about the role of the Republican Party in the political future of the United States.
First, the interviewee talks with Shiling regarding the future of the GOP which, in his view, was dormant for decades as the more radical left moved to take over the Democratic Party.
Times of “deep change”: back to Reaganomics?
Ibarra, a strategic advisor and public policy executive in Florida, thinks the Republican Party “fell into the sleepwalk” in the 30 years prior to Donald Trump’s administration, in which totalitarian governments like China were allowed to advance on the geopolitical chessboard.
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The Verdicts of the Castro-Communism Kangaroo Courts
Freedom-loving people and their democratic leaders are fallen victim to the corrupt verdicts of these courts
Totalitarian regimes are not a thing of the past. Despite the practical revision and re-adaptation of its traditional operational model following the collapse of the Soviet Union, its monopolistic control of mass media, the economy and its relations of production, the military, the courts, all social institutions, and the espousal of a predominant ideology, all run by a single political party, has remained intact. The appearance of normalcy is a constant pursuit. Hence, the exercise of legality to validate despotic rule is the norm. Castro-Communism’s kangaroo court verdicts are a prime example of this.
Nazi Germany called them the “People’s Court.” The Bolsheviks, rising out of the 1917 decree decades earlier, labeled this simulated farce, “Revolutionary Tribunals.” The common thread among these variants of socialist legalism is the subservience of the courts to the ruling party’s elite power enclave. Throughout socialism’s history, whether fascist or communist, the judicial system serves to promote regime survivorship. This means exercising terror by way of its laws.
Cuba is undergoing an intense session of “revolutionary justice” following the 11th of July Cuban Uprisingth (11J), that mammoth display of mass, spontaneous demonstrations in over 60 localities, across the island, involving hundreds of thousands of citizens. The expected crackdown has been brutal and was fast in happening. Long prison sentences are being handed down. The Castro regime’s objective by way of hard-core terror is social domestication in general and the crushing of the opposition and potential opposition, in specific terms.
During the week of January 24, nearly 50 show trials are taking place across Cuba, all stemming from accusations borne out of the 11J protests. Cuban communism’s mock justice chief organ has declared that it has already “legally” processed 790 persons, including 55 minors. Among the preposterous charges the communist dictatorship has been drumming up are sedition, sabotage, assault and battery, public disorder, sexual assault, and contempt of court. The ludicrous nature of these fake legal accusations is that many of the protesters were victims of the very charges they are facing by criminal acts committed against them by the regime’s repressive forces, either during the protests or while in captivity.
Evidence that one of the primal goals of the Castro regime is the complete neutralization of all real or imagined opposition has been the arrest and trials of Félix Navarro Rodríguez, president of the Pedro Luís Boitel Party for Democracy, and his daughter, Saylí Navarro, a Ladies in White member, and human rights activist. Both are currently undergoing mock trials. Félix Navarro Rodríguez already served an 8-year sentence in what was known as the Black Spring, a brutal regime crackdown in 2003. Now at 68 years of age, he faces a 15-year jail term.
The incredible thing is that the leader of the movement named after Pedro Luís Boitel, an epic political prisoner who challenged the communist oppressors from inside Cuba’s prisons and died because of a 53-day hunger strike in 1972, was arrested the following 11J. Navarro Rodríguez while inquiring as to the whereabouts of members of his party who had disappeared at the local police precinct in Perico, Matanzas. Saylí Navarro, who accompanied her father on July 12, is facing an 11-year jail term.
Unfortunately, Cuban communism’s kangaroo courts will continue to arbitrarily hand down vicious sentences to all that rise against tyranny. The Navarro family is a typical case of the horrific injustice being carried out 90 miles from American shores. Freedom-loving people and their democratic leaders cannot say that they did not know. These show trials are there for the world to see. This is customary behavior for the Castro-Communist regime. When will the international apathy stop?
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Julio M. Shiling is a political scientist, writer, columnist, lecturer, media commentator, and director of Patria de Martí and The CubanAmerican Voice. He holds a master’s degree in Political Science from Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida. He is a member of The American Political Science Association, The PEN Club (Cuban Writers in Exile Chapter) and the Academy of Cuban History in Exile.
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Here’s Why Russia Bullies the U.S.
The doddering Biden-Harris administration, frail and without a moral compass, appears to be no match for the Russian despot.
The Biden-Harris administration celebrated its one-year anniversary, embarrassed and defeated. Its project to bring socialism to the U. S. has so far failed. Both, in the popular front by the non-elitist, non-woke, traditionalist American society (the majority) and in Congress, the Left is witnessing an adamant resistance. The inflation rate is the highest in nearly four decades. Its one-dimensional, unscientific covid policy is a disgrace. The missed liberation opportunity in Cuba, and the collapse of Afghanistan demonstrate that American resolve, under this presidency, is infirm. Russia has added to the country’s woes and is now bullying America.
Despite denying that an invasion of Ukraine is imminent, Vladimir Putin has amassed over 100,000 Russian troops on the sovereign country’s border. In 2014, confronting the flimsy leadership of another Democratic president (Barack Obama), Russia transgressed Ukrainian territory and stole Crimea. Putin has been making the same arguments about the Russian minority in Ukraine that Adolf Hitler made about ethnic Germans in the Sudetenland and Austria when Germany invaded and seized those territories. Had Hitler not had a weak counterpart like Neville Chamberlain, history may have taken a different course. Likewise, Putin is acting on his perceptions of the Biden-Harris leadership formula.
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Why Does the Left Dishonor MLK?.
The truth is that Martin Luther King, Jr. was not a socialist. The left hates him because he believed in our great nation and advocated for a colorblind society.
As the United States honors Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK), the American Left has been comprehensively engaged in dismantling his work, belief system, and legacy. MLK believed in America and embraced her exceptionalism creed. Equality under the law, in a colorblind society, was what the civil rights activist peacefully fought for. Black Lives Matter (BLM), the Biden-Harris administration, the Democratic Party, Marxist Critical Race Theory (CRT) pundits, and corporate media are just some of leftism’s entourage that antithetically seek to deconstruct MLK’s dream.
There are vast philosophical, epistemological, and methodological differences between the civil rights movement that MLK founded and lead, and the socialist revolution that CRT activists conspire to bring about. The Left’s source of knowledge that underpins its actions are worlds apart from MLK’s. The BLM’s strategy for dealing with perceived deficiencies in race relations contradicts the Baptist minister’s mode of challenging the system.
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