Latin America Advisor

Julio M. Shiling, political scientist and director of Patria de Martí: “Since its inception, Cuban communism has cleverly made use of geography. Facilitating exoduses every time a social crisis threatens its existence, Havana’s Marxist regime has indirectly fostered escape valves for Cubans. This has been done like clockwork. The Freedom Flights, Operation Peter Pan, Camarioca Flotilla, Mariel Flotilla, Rafter Exodus, third country exits and subsequent U.S. border crossings are just some of the large-scale mechanisms employed. The Cuban regime’s reasoning is premised on pure logistics. Promoting political inefficacy among the discontented population is better achieved if they can be transferred outside its territory, placed in jail or domesticated. The communist government also came to realize that the division of the Cuban family made for good economics. Remittances from Cubans residing in exile have proved to be…”