Belly of the Beast

@bellybeastcuba · United States · joined 18 Mar 2020

Belly of the Beast is independent media outlet from Cuba🇨🇺. We tell the stories corporate media misses. Subscribe, support, and join us below.

32 035Followers

486Following

3 632Posts total

128.9KViews on collected posts

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Belly of the Beast@bellybeastcuba7 Sep

The Trump administration Thursday sanctioned one of Raúl Castro’s grandsons and five Cuban entities, expanding Washington’s assault on Cuba’s oil and mining industries. Read more: https://t.co/fCShR5UZjz https://t.co/3bRjqEkLFe

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Belly of the Beast@bellybeastcuba4 Sep

A federal jury in Miami rejected a Helms-Burton lawsuit from two Cuban-American families who claimed Expedia profited from expropriated property in Cuba. This is Expedia’s second victory over a Cuba-related property claim in as many years. Read more: https://t.co/ZEqDAqrPvq htt

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Belly of the Beast@bellybeastcuba4 Sep

The Bahamian government announced it will not renew contracts for 31 Cuban teachers this school year — the latest in a string of Cuban overseas South-South collaboration programs to fall victim to U.S. pressure. Read more below: https://t.co/rx4f8kTH0Z https://t.co/hWWFfmKC80

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Belly of the Beast@bellybeastcuba3 Sep

Despite a U.S. oil blockade and sanctions, more than 1.4 million students returned to classrooms in Cuba this Tuesday. https://t.co/5qwHjwiuz2

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Belly of the Beast@bellybeastcuba14 Jun

@bellybeastcuba Modern slavery is the correct term. Even worse, did the dictatorship’s leaders ever tell you that in 2020 healthcare professionals were forced to convert their savings from CUC (Cuban Convertible Pesos) to CUP (Cuban Pesos) at the state’s official rate of 1 CUC =

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Belly of the Beast@bellybeastcuba13 Jun

@bellybeastcuba It does not matter how much you try to market it. Taking up to 90% of people’s wage and retaining their passports sounds like slave labor. 102 views · 4 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Belly of the Beast@bellybeastcuba13 Jun

@bellybeastcuba #Cuba is violating #DDHH & international labor laws. Doctors & others collaborators in those brigades are treated as slaves keeping their 90% of their salaries, taking passports away, restricting their mobility, not letting them be with their families & constant s 143 views · 9 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Belly of the Beast@bellybeastcuba13 Jun

The U.S. deems Cuba’s medical missions “forced labor.” The Cuban government calls the doctors heroes. We traveled to Calabria, Italy, to see how one of these missions actually works. Watch our documentary film “From Cuba to Calabria” https://t.co/m2sNqwtGSa 8.8K views · 114 likes · 60 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

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4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views2 589this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %8.08%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.66%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 589	924	2.80×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	8.08%	3.62%	2.23×
Engagement rate	1.66%	1.52%	1.09×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

8.8K13 Jun

143

102

11414 Jun

114.4K3 Sep

3K4 Sep

2.1K

1527 Sep

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.07%13 Jun

9.09%

5.88%

3.51%14 Jun

0.69%3 Sep

3.06%4 Sep

2.01%

1.32%7 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes67.0%803 in total

Reposts24.8%297 in total

Replies0.5%6 in total

Quotes2.3%27 in total

Bookmarks5.4%65 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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