Tone-deaf radicals flock into Havana, staying in 5-star hotels while island in crisis: Mockery of Cuban people
Hundreds of tone-deaf lefty radicals flocked into Havana this weekend to meet with Communist Party officials — staying in luxury hotels and traveling in air-conditioned buses — as the rest of the island grapples with a worsening economic crisis that’s starved it of electricity, food, water and medicine.The “Nuestra America Convoy” sent socialists from North America and Europe to Cuba by air, sea, and land, under the guise of handing out 20 tons of humanitarian aid to protest the United States oil blockade on Cuba.The convoy includes Mayor Zohran Mamdani ally and influential streamer Hasan Piker – who recently went on a Beijing-sponsored propaganda trip – to Havana, from where he broadcast to his 1.6 million Instagram followers Saturday with a somehow spotless internet connection and promised to film “content.”Isra Hirsi, the 23-year-old unemployed activist daughter of embattled “Squad” Rep.Ilhan Omar (D-Minn), is also taking part in the voyage — as is a delegation of Mamdani’s Democratic Socialists of America comrades.The convoy also includes groups identified by the US State Department as vectors of Chinese influence – like Neville Roy Singham’s People’s Forum and his wife’s, Jodie Evans’ Code Pink.
Evans was all smiles as she posed for a picture with Piker Saturday, wearing a pink keffiyeh.Some delegates were reportedly staying at the 5-star Gran Hotel Bristol Meliá Collection, where a room costs between $130 and $520 a night.Others posed for pictures riding in comfy air-conditioned buses, and meeting with President Miguel Díaz‑Canel at the Palacio de Convenciones in Havana.Cuban officials reported an island-wide blackout this week in the embattled communist nation of some 11 million people, after President Trump in January threatened tariffs on any nation selling it oil, effectively choking off its energy supply.“While nearly the entire country is suffering from power outages lasting over 20 hours, the left is welcomed ...