Gil Duran
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first heard Jul 2026
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That is evidence of the Cuban government supporting black radicals in this way.
But again, segregation was a real thing.
Precisely, and not only that, you also leave out where Robert Williams ended.
After spending a few years in Cuba, based on his own papers, he got really frustrated because he felt that Cuba, similar to the United States, a society that was shaped by slavery, that was shaped by capitalism,
inequality and racial segregation, that Revolutionary Cuba, despite coming to power with this goal of bending racial discrimination in Cuban society, simply declared that racism had been solved as a function of class in 1961-62.
And thereafter, it really became taboo in Cuba to talk about continued evidence of racial disparity.
And so Robert F. Williams butts up against that and he becomes disillusioned with socialist Cuba and he leaves.
And he's not the only one.
There are Black Panthers who go into Cuba.
Who then leaves Cuba and writes an expose of the racism that he had felt in socialist Cuba itself.
These are just broader parts of the historical context that I think matter from our overall assessment of the role that Cuba played in its relationship to Black nationalism.
But if there is evidence that Cuba lends support to Black nationalist actors to leave open the idea that somehow Havana
pulling the strings entirely of these movements, utterly ignores the context domestically in the United States to which those actors were responding.
Again, whether or not you agree with the solutions that they were proposing for the time.
I think DSA is a good example.
Where I have a problem with an organization like DSA is in attributing the entirety of Cuba's crisis today to the impact of U.S.
sanctions and talk to Cuba's best economists, and they would say that that's an overly simplistic read.
The situation in Cuba is a result of a composite of factors that are, in fact, embedded with one another.
U.S.
sanctions policy over many, many years intensified over the last seven months, but also economic mismanagement internally and its unwillingness to embrace even moderate market reform.
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