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Maximo Alvarez, a Cuban refugee expressed warning that Americans have swallowed the “poison pill” of communism, according to The Daily Wire.
“Not only have they swallowed it, they digested it.”
Alvarez found refuge in the U.S. In 1961 as a child under Fidel Castro’s totalitarian dictatorship.
“Listen to the media. They’re no longer objective. You can tell how much they hate this country.”
“Look at our, our academia!” he continued. “Our kids are not being … they’re indoctrinated! They are taught that America is a bad country.”
“That we’re a bunch of racists, that we’re bad people, and we have to pay back. If this country was racist, I wouldn’t be here.”
“If this country was a racist country, most of us wouldn’t be here because even some people in your family came from another country.”
“Gun control? Every time there’s a shooting, you want to have gun control. You know why? Because they’re afraid the only way out of this is a civil war.”
“Make sure that kids are no longer educated, they’re indoctrinated.”
“Make sure that people hate each other. Envy, hatred. Make sure that the blacks hate the whites.”
“Make sure that the rich hate the poor. Make sure that the people who live in the city hate the people who live on the farm.”
“It’s all part of the Communist Manifesto, and Saul Alinsky points that out very, very well.”
“I’m speaking to you today because I’ve seen people like this before. I’ve seen movements like this before.”
“I’ve seen ideas like this before and I’m here to tell you, we cannot let them take over our country.”
“I heard the promises of Fidel Castro. And I can never forget all those who grew up around me, who looked like me, who could have been me, who suffered and starved and died because they believed those empty promises.”
“They swallowed the communist poison pill.”
More from The Daily Wire:
A refugee who fled communist Cuba warned during a Wednesday interview that he believes many Americans have already swallowed the “poison pill” of communism.
Maximo Alvarez, who fled to the United States from Cuba under Operation Peter Pan in 1961, said on Wednesday’s episode of the podcast “The Truth with Lisa Boothe” that communism has successfully infiltrated American culture and institutions.
After Alvarez recounted how quickly rights evaporated for Cubans under Fidel Castro when he was a child, Boothe referenced Alvarez’s speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC) last summer when she asked him if he believes Americans have “swallowed the communist poison pill.”
Claiming communism has been a gathering storm in the United States for years, Alvarez placed particular blame on American Catholics for their failure to adequately denounce abortion, as well as on those who banned prayer in school, and those who want to restrict gun rights.
Alvarez made headlines for his speech at the RNC last summer, during which he warned that Democrats are doing to the United States what Castro did to Cuba.
As The Daily Wire reported:
“I know all about the past. I’ll never forget my own. My family has fled totalitarianism and communism. More than once. First my dad from Spain, then from Cuba,” Alvarez said. “I’m speaking to you today because my family is done abandoning what we’ve rightfully earned. There is no place to hide.”
“I’m speaking to you today because I’ve seen people like this before. I’ve seen movements like this before. I’ve seen ideas like this before and I’m here to tell you, we cannot let them take over our country,” he said. “I heard the promises of Fidel Castro. And I can never forget all those who grew up around me, who looked like me, who could have been me, who suffered and starved and died because they believed those empty promises. They swallowed the communist poison pill.”
