The Cuba Communism ‘Protest’
Did you see this photo of an enormous march in Havana, Cuba earlier this year? It was circulating on right-wing social media channels as proof that the Cuban people are sick and tired of the Communist government. But the photo is actually a few years old. And, ironically, it’s a rally where the participants are decidedly pro-Communist.
Matt Couch, a peddler of disinformation associated with a website called The DC Patriot, helped spread the photo across his social media channels. But in reality, this photo, which is available through Getty Images, was taken on May 1, 2018 in Havana. The people are marching to Revolution Square and they’re celebrating the Cuban Revolution that installed Fidel Castro as leader in 1959. Castro died in 2016 of natural causes, much to the dismay of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Couch has since been suspended from Twitter.
