Al Goodwyn Editorial Cartoons by Al Goodwyn for July 14, 2021

It’s as peaceful as it is socialist, i.e. not at all!

It’s so EASY to make ol Al’s donkey look stupid: He gets to choose what words it’s saying.

Al is still trying to claim the insurrection was just a tourist excursion — ‘mostly peaceful’.

Any special reason for this, even by Goodwyn standards, totally inane cartoon?

You supported Trump calling BLM peaceful protestors terrorists and Jan 6 insurrectionists “peaceful people”. Your opinion on anything is largely and imminently ignorable.

Mr. Goodwyn, I think you just enjoy pushing our buttons just to see how wound up it makes us. It is disappointing though, to think that some people actually believe such things and are too lazy to investigate such silly inferences. You can do much better for the good of our country.

Never heard any Democrat say that. But I, a liberal, will say this: I toured Cuba a couple of years ago. People are very friendly and violent crime is almost unknown. I hope the Cubans get a much better government and that the USA will help however it can.

Don’t forget that we were tight with that murdering dictator Fulgencio Batista

After Jan. 6, we have no right to critique the politics of other countries.

OK, dude, not Dems are saying that. Dems support the people in Cuba as the Dems support the people in the US. It’s the Repubs that sit on their hands, cower to the Cuban immigrants in Florida and let dictatorships in Cuba impoverish the people.

Clearly Al does not know the difference between socialism and communism.

I wonder if Goodwyn looked around this country before he drew this? What is so different between Cuba and an urban ghetto here other than here there are more guns in the hands of the inhabitants.

I suppose Goodwyn would prefer life under a fascist dictator like Batista.

I’m going to say to our government, please let Cubans figure this out for themselves. We’ve meddled in enough countries’ affairs, and it has rarely ever turned out for the better. Same with Haiti. I wish them well, and hope that things get better for the people of both countries, but Biden needs to just say no to any kind of military intervention.

Gee, we didn’t have such a peaceful regime in the nation’s capital on 1/6/21… but I suppose if Trump can call his supporters “Antifa” and other GQP Congressmen can call what happened “peaceful”, then it makes sense that Goodwyn would call those protesters “socialists”…

I mean what do you expect when GOP controlled government in 2017 reapplied sanctions on the country. Instead of diplomacy and exposing the country to US capitalism and tourism, the GOP wanted to embolden a crisis that didn’t have to happen. Sanctions not Socialism is hurting that country.

I’ve never been a backer of Castro. But when we evaluated how he managed his revolution we might want to include some historical context. Just a couple of years before the Cuban Revolution the US engineered the overthrow of a moderate left government in Guatemala. (And of course there had been decades of US interference in Central America and the Caribbean before that.) So when Castro came to power he fully expected that the US would try to engineer his overthrow as well. And lo and behold, the Pay of Pigs. It was surely a gross violation of international law to try to overthrow his government, and it was also an act of war. One could hardly expect Castro to look with friendly eyes on the US.

Cuba is no longer the Americas’ lonely outpost of communism.

This Caribbean island has become a nation of entrepreneurship, democratic aspiration, even pro-Americanism. About 13% of Cuban workers are in the private sector, operating their own businesses. They are called “cuentapropistas,” meaning “people who work for themselves” – not for the government.

Much of this economic activity is due to former president Raul Castro, who expanded the rights of Cuban business owners, albeit in fits and starts.

Raul’s brother Fidel Castro, who led Cuba’s 1959 communist revolution and ran the country until 2008, would not recognize his country today.

The United States remains a major obstacle to Cuba’s economic development.

Rejecting Obama’s policy of more open relations with Cuba, the Trump administration has waged economic war on the regime, putting severe restrictions on travel to and investment in Cuba. https://theconversation.com/fidels-cuba-is-long-gone-120271

President Biden has roundly criticized the Communist regime in Cuba, so it isn’t clear to whom Mr. Goodwyn is referring. Bernie Sanders, maybe, in which case this cartoon has some truth to it.

Get real! Normalizing relations with Cuba could not happen decades ago, Castro was acommunist. He did not want good relations. The Soviets were giving him aid. The Republicans or Democrats could do nothing.

Communist regime, not socialist.