The cartoonist’s memoir, Worm, considers his life in Cuba, how he came to the US and the dangers of political extremes

Did you know Cuba has a Capitol in Havana that closely resembles its American counterpart? Edel Rodriguez does, and that’s one more reason why he, a Cuban American political cartoonist, was so disturbed by what happened in his adopted homeland on January 6.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    1081·
    1 year ago

    Just in case anyone wasn’t aware

    The Cline Center is essentially the governing body that classifies coup d’etats. If the world is wondering “hey wait was that technically a coup?” The Cline Center is already writing the paper that explains why it was or wasn’t, and if it was, why it was the particular flavor of Coup that it was.

    So, if anyone wants to tell you that Jan 6th wasn’t a coup, they’re wrong. It was a “failed auto-coup.”

    The more you know.

    (It was a coup).

    I’ll save you some clicks. Here is their TL;DR statement on Jan 6th:

    Bottom Line: Using the Cline Center’s Coup d’État Project definitions, the storming of the US Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 was an attempted coup d’état: an organized, illegal attempt to intervene in the presidential transition by displacing the power of the Congress to certify the election. In terms of the type of coup attempt, the complex nature of this event leads it to be categorized as both an attempted auto-coup and as an attempted dissident coup, reflecting the distinctive activities of different actors involved in the event.