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| Cuba Intimidates Dissident Youth with Military Event to ‘Defend Socialism' on College Campuses |
| 2026-03-26 |
| [Breitbart] Colleges across Cuba announced on Tuesday that they would organize a “University Student Bastion Exercise” forcing students to engage in military training and “revolutionary, patriotic, and anti-imperialist activities.” Statements from the universities, according to the independent outlet Cubanet, explained that the event, scheduled for March 27, would honor the upcoming 100th anniversary of the birth of mass murderer Fidel Castro and serve to prepare the nation’s most elite youth to engage in an “all people’s war” in the context of the economic collapse of the country. Cuba is currently facing nearly unprecedented levels of dysfunction and acute poverty following the arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro in January. As a communist state, Cuba’s economy does not produce any significant profits for the vast majority of people and relies on parasitic relationships with wealthier communist states to stay afloat. Under Maduro, Venezuela regularly traded free oil to the country for security, torture, and espionage expertise; 32 Cuban soldiers were killed while defending Maduro in the American operation to arrest the dictator. The lack of fuel has made tourism via plane to the country nearly impossible and exacerbated growing electrical failures caused by 67 years of negligence of the nation’s power grid. Without electricity, food is rotting at a faster rate, causing shortages, and the already barely functional hospitals in the country have struggled to offer anything resembling health care. Locals — who have been protesting ceaselessly since the July 11, 2021, uprising — have taken advantage of the darkness during blackouts at night to protest on a nightly basis, on some occasions targeting Communist Party buildings for destruction. In this context, the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces Ministry (MINFAR) announced that an annual military training and recruitment event would take place on every college campus in the country on March 27. In addition to alleged military exercises with college students, Cubanet reported that the regime expects to “update the military registry of all students” and improve the “political-ideological climate” at colleges. |
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