Articles by Julio M. Shiling

Castro-Communism’s Decomposition.

NON-DEMOCRATIC regimes base their ability on maintaining societal compliance, predicated mostly on one of two premises. The first is legitimation stemming from performance and results. The other is sheer brute repressive force. Totalitarian models are particularly inclined to need comprehensive schemes of social control, opposition inefficacy, and power arrangements that serve those ends. Communist Cuba never obtained legitimacy to govern based on performance-generated mass support. Authority has come, since 1959, through the leviathan of terror. The consistent string of public demonstrations on the island, since last summer, are palpable signs that Castro-Communism is decomposing.

The Cuban people have energetically challenged Marxist tyranny from the onset of the country’s totalitarian turn. Historically, this war of liberation has been, both, violent and non-violent. The U. S. has been, at times, an ally in that fight. Communist penetration of American institutions, particularly seats of political power, however, have proved to be detrimental to both nations. Spies and fellow travelers quite often depicted an inaccurate picture of Castroism’s nature and its threat to the Western Hemisphere. Consequently, America has not been morally consistent or logistically reliable in the cause for Cuba’s freedom.

The FBI Has Become The American Left’s Political Police.

THE FEDERAL Bureau of Investigation (FBI) appears to have metastasized into a political police, rather than the premier domestic law enforcement agency of a free republic. This is likely because Barack Obama weaponized the institutions of government. In 2015 and 2016, it was at times unimaginable that Hillary Clinton would not be able to serve the 44th president’s third term. Obama’s Department of Justice (DOJ), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and FBI became ideological components in that quest for woke continuity. The result is that in America today, we have in power a monumental structure that resembles more a regime than it does a government. The FBI, sadly, is at the forefront of this “long march through the institutions”, as Rudi Dutschke, the German communist coined it in 1967, echoing the sentiment of Italian cultural Marxist, Antonio Gramsci.

Falsifying information on applications seeking the authority to spy on American citizens, namely the 2016 presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump, and his campaign, was precisely what happened in 2016 and 2017. This was what “Crossfire Hurricane”, was all about. The doctoring of data to gain the permission for domestic espionage on bogus Trump-Russia “collusion” conspiracy theories, via the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”) application process. This most regrettable assault on American rule of law and the democratic counted on the complicity of the principal federal agencies of enforcing the law (quite ironic), the DOJ and the CIA.

Cuba 69 Years After Moncada Barracks.

CASTRO-COMMUNISM’S signature celebration is, ironically, a failed, poorly planned and worse executed attack on Cuba’s second-largest military garrison. It was a total failure. Perhaps this fiasco is truly the best personification of the regime it produced. The botched and barbaric July 26, 1953, attack on the Moncada Barracks, which Fidel Castro directed yet mysteriously managed to avoid capture, is sixty-nine this year. Cuba under the tyrannical system that showcases this unsuccessful coup as its moral starting point is falling apart and, paradoxically, is host to the continent’s socialist offensive.

Penury

Cuba was impressively advanced measured by world socioeconomic indexes and standards, when the USSR-backed Castro brothers eliminated the democratic elements of the anti-Batista movement and consolidated power in 1959. It was all downhill from there. Today, communist Cuba is immersed in penury and competing to be the continent’s most miserable place to live. Dengue fever, mostly a pre-twentieth-century ailment, has found, again, fertile ground on the island. Blackouts are commonplace. Even though Havana controls Venezuelan oil production and distribution, Cubans, except for the Politburo elite-connected, re living without electricity for long hours in many parts of the country.

The Pope’s Relationship with Cuba’s Dictator Is a Disgrace to Christianity.

It is morally reprehensible for anyone, especially the titled head of the world’s largest Christian church, to consider a vile tyrant and the system he helped build, a “friend”.

JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO, the Bishop of Rome who adopted the papal name of “Francis”, continues to publicly demonstrate that he is closer to Marx than to Christ. This time, similar to other occasions, it is showcased with Cuba. This past Monday marked the first-year anniversary of the 11th of July Cuban Uprising^th. On that momentous occasion, hundreds of thousands of Cubans protested for basic natural rights and demanded the end of communist tyranny. The actions of those two days of mass demonstrations throughout the island were met with the customary sadistic exercise of state terrorism by the ruling Marxist-Leninist dictatorship. Pope Francis adamantly stepped forward, again, and served as a premier apologist for the criminal Castro regime, illegitimately in power since 1959.

Univision’s María Antonieta Collins and Valentina Alazraki interviewed the Supreme Pontiff that very day. They requested from the Pope a message to the Cuban people. The obvious relevance of the reporter’s solicitation was the ensuing barbaric crackdown carried out by Castro-Communism in the aftermath of 11J, a tragedy that is still in motion. Moreover, the overarching fact that the same regime has held absolute power for over 63 years was important.