cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/22162

Testimony of a Cuban combatant who defended President Maduro

The following is an interview of Cuban internationalist combatant Yohandris Varona Torres, who was in the unit that confronted the U.S. imperialist invasion of Caracas on Jan. 3. The interview was done by Ignacio Ramonet (author of “100 Hours with Fidel”). Translation: Walter Lippmann, publisher of Cuba News, a daily . . .

Continue reading Testimony of a Cuban combatant who defended President Maduro at Workers.org


From Workers World via This RSS Feed.

  • TreadOnMe [none/use name]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    edit-2
    19 days ago

    It’s not even that they had the best PR machine in the world, is was that Plato was a fascist little shit who was a Sparta-boo, and he was the primary source for most Greek history for a very very long time. Most Athenians thought Spartans were a joke because their ability to create a navy sucked (because they ran a slave economy).

    • BanMeFromPosting [none/use name]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      19 days ago

      I always love the Sparta story about Philip of Macedon saying “if I invade sparta you will be destroyed, never to rise again”
      Spartas response? “If.”
      Very cool.
      What happened next was that they got invaded and destroyed. They’re like the original fascists with how much shit they suck