Articles by Julio M. Shiling

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.

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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.

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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.

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Important Lessons From the Cuban Uprising of July 11, One Year Later.

Cuba's liberation war continues. 11J was a fundamental step on the road to victory.

THIS MONDAY marks the one-year anniversary of the July 11 Cuban Uprising (11J). Throughout the island, in over 72 localities, hundreds of thousands of everyday Cubans took to the streets to demand freedom and an end to communist rule. Over 1,235 people, according to Prisoners Defenders, are languishing in jail for political reasons. Most of them are young and without any previous activism against the government or history in dissident movements. What does this seminal event tell us a year later?

The Cuban people have a democratic consciousness

The fact that on that epic Sunday the chants of the massive demonstrations were calls for systemic change, tells us a lot. Urgency for respect for natural and basic human rights was the norm in all the protests. A democratic transition, following an orderly process of liberation, was the common denominator. Claims for food, toiletries, and other essential items, as limited as they are in Castro’s Cuba, were not grieved for. The fact that this immense, peaceful civic uprising was unrehearsed, drives home the point of a developed culture of liberty among Cubans. 

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