NY Times Pinpoints Cuba's Disaster on Dec. 27, 2024.

Americans Need to Know About it!!

      Today is December 27th in 2024 and above is the glaring headline and sub-headline today in the New York Times. It is an extremely long and extremely important update about the severe tragedy unfolding just below the USA's southern border in Cuba. And the superpower United States is largely responsible although the majority of Americans have for decades been programmed not to give a damn.

    Above is the start of the New York Times article on December 27th in 2024 that is telling the world of the severe tragedy everyday families in Cuba are experiencing without any help from the nearby United States, and, in fact, largely because of the United States. For decades, of course, democracy-loving Americans like me have been told to pretend that the U. S. was right to lavishly support the thieving and brutal Mafia-fueled Batista dictatorship in Cuba until it was amazingly overthrown in 1959 by the Cuban Revolution. And since 1959 the United States has cruelly punished Cubans on the island as one of the many drastic schemes to get them to help overthrow their revolutionary government. Today's huge New York Times article explains all that but, as usual, Americans are programmed not to care.

      Today's New York Times article today -- on December 27th in 2024 -- reported that only once since 1959 has the U. S. tried to normalize relations with Cuba. That, of course, was when President Obama visited Cuba in 2016 and used a nationwide radio & television broadcast to tell the Cuban people: "Cuba Does Not Need To Fear A Threat From The United States." The New York Times today reported that, thanks to President Obama, Cuban families for the next "two and a half years" breathed huge sighs of relief, but then soon learned that Obama's promise became just another U. S. lie.

      When another generation of Americans are persuaded to accept what many believe are genocidal measures by the U. S. against innocent Cubans, the four short paragraphs shown above in the long New York Times article on December 27th in 2024 is what citizens in the U. S. democracy need to know. As revealed each year by the almost unanimous vote of the 189 nations at the United Nations in New York, the rest of the world EACH YEAR begs the United States to treat Cuba the way the U. S. treated Batista's Cuba in the 1950s and the way it has treated Cuba's neighbors since 1959, such as allowing Cuba to also have trade and tourism dollars reach the island of Cuba.

    Indeed, as the New York Times tells the world on December 27th in 2024, the United States showers its Caribbean neighbors with massive tourism dollars including having major money-creating events-such as golf, basketball, etc., tournaments in the Bahamas, Jamaica, etc., and having all of the 30 Major League Baseball Teams having very lucrative year-around baseball facilities operating in the Dominican Republic, etc. Meanwhile...the word "GENOCIDIO" is something that Cubans on their island see on billboards everyday. The New York Times today -- on December 27th in 2024 --- seems to be asking this question: "WHY HAS THIS TRAGEDY EXISTED FOR ALL THESE MANY DECADES?"

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Little Cuba vs. Big US Heading into 2025

 

CUBA is now a Billion-to-One UNDERDOG!!

After mostly being only a million-to-one underdog since 1492.

    On October 28th in 1492 the explorer Columbus discovered the New World when he landed on the island that became Cuba. Columbus claimed the island for Spain and named it "Juana" after a Spanish princess. Also very famously, as Wikipedia and other historic sources proclaimed, Columbus posted in his diary that "Juana is the most beautiful land that human eyes have ever seen." That epic discovery and that famous depiction of the island along with its strategic geographic location meant that, for all the centuries since 1492, the island known as Juana/Cuba would be wildly coveted and fought over by all the world's MOST POWERFUL nations and empires.

      The map above shows North America in 1794 as emerging countries included Mexico, Canada, the United States, and Cuba.

     The most famed Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson, wrote the U. S. Declaration of Independence {from England} in 1776, became the third U. S. President, etc., etc. As his quotation above explains, Mr. Jeffersson from the beginning of the United States craved possessing Cuba as a political, geographical, economic, and practical necessity.

      But through it all, as this image by Kerne Erickson mentions, "Cuba became the Paradise of the Tropics and the Caribbean." This happened even as all the imperative powers -- especially Spain and the United States -- fought over who would dominate it.

    Not surprisingly, as it evolved into a superpower economically and militarily, the nearby United States dominated Cuba after the U. S. easily won the Spanish-American War that was fought in Cuba in 1898.

     But in 1959 Fidel Casstro's Cuban Revolution defeated dictator Fulgencio Batista's powerful forces, and Castro quickly ended the vast United States business enterprises that Batista, because of huge financial kickbacks, had allowed to thrive, along with vast profiteering by Mafia goldmines such as gambling, tourism, prostitution, etc.

       But, when the Cuban Revolution ended, the Batistiano, Mafiosi, and American business enterprises in Cuba ended but starting in 1959 became CUBA in MIAMI. 

       Starting in 1959 LITTLE HAVANA began to dominate nearby MIAMI FLORIDA, and that remains the case 65 years as 2024 turns into 2025!!! And as its wealth and political power increased, Little Havana in Miami Florida soon was powerful enough to dictate Cuban policies nationally from the White House and U. S. Congresss in Washington.

     While the superpower United States loved the Batista-Mafia dictatorship in the 1940s and 1950s, since 1959 little Cuba has continually had to survive drastic efforts by Miami and the United States to keep the Revolution intact and viable.

       Historically, the three most famed efforts by the United States to overthrow the Cuban Revolution were: {1} The air-land-sea Bay of Pigs military attack on Cuba in 1961; {2} the U. S. economic embargo on Cuba that started in 1962 and has continued to this very day over six decades later; and {3} the ungodly number of assassination attempts against revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, with one respected documentary saying there were 538 assassination attempts while another one says there were 634.

     Despite surviving the All-Time record number of assassination attempts, Fidel Castro died peacefully in his own bed in Havana at age 90 in 2016. And at the start of a new year in 2025 it is Fidel Castro's LEGACY last remains the best defense for his Revolution, which admittedly is barely holding on as it begins its 66th Year since ousting the US/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship.

      At the end of 2024 dedicated Cubans such as Zaily Perez are working tirelessly to help Cuban families survive drastic shortages of food and medicines as well as other drastic deprivations such as island-wide power blackouts. Zaily says, "Yes, we plead with the United States to help us, not to starve us, or at least not punish us while we try our best to help ourselves. Three generations of Cuban mothers on this island have remembered how much the United States helped dictator Batista who did nother but brutalize everyday Cubans. Fidel Castro and the Revolution beat Batista but the United States should atone for helping Batista, not continue depriving normal Cuban families who have tried to exist for the generations since 1959. We in turn could help the United States in some ways."

     At the end of the 65th Year since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, Cubans are abundantly aware that the return of Donald Trump as the U. S. President starting on January 20th in 2025 is the latest of the MANY PROBLEMS that the vulnerable island faces heading into 2025. The fact that President Trump will have Senator Marco Rubio from Miami as his powerful Secretary of State makes Cubans in Miami rejoice BUT makes Cubans on the island shiver!!

   Cuba's closeness to the United States, heading into 2025, scares Cubans more than ever, evoking memories of past Cuban-US Relations, including the Batista years.

        For sure, prior to 1959 Batista and the Mafia and the U. S. businesses loved the vast number of dollars that tourists flooded Cuba with. But by not tossing a few crumbs to the majority peasants, the BATISTA YEARS created the CUBAN REVOLUTION as well as LITTLE HAVANA in MIAMI.

     Since 1959 in Revolutionary Cuba, Varadero remains the "World's Best Beach" and it is still located on Cuba's northern coast right below Key West, Florida. But since 1959, and unlike during the BATISTA YEARS, the U. S. since 1959 has not wanted tourists or any other revenue to help Revolutionary Cuba. That will change drastically starting in 2025 if the Cuban Revolution is finally overturned.

     Meanwhile, starting in 2025, the two Spanish-owned Hotel and Resort giants --Iberostar and Melia -- still will have over forty 4-star and 5-star Hotels and Resorts on the island craving tourists to return to the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful nation, just as they flocked so famously to Batista's Cuba.

So in 2025, even if the end of the Cuban Revolution makes headlines, post-revollutionary Cuba will remain much more than iust a footnote in world history. And, moreover, Cuba in 2025 will still be just a little bit south of the United States.

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Cuba's drastic Isolation Will Worsen Drastically Early in 2025

 Then likely collaspe its Revolution completely!!

But first, a little US-Cuban history!

     If America's most important Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson, was alive today WHAT WOULD HE WANT FOR HIS UNITED STATES PRIOR TO CHRISTMAS IN 2025???? The answer is this: He would want Cuba to be a thriving and vital 51st State in the United States, which he founded. Mr. Jefferson was born April 13, 1743 in Shadwell on the edge of Charlottesville, Virginia, and he died at 83 on July 4th, 1826 in the mountains just above Charlottesville at his famed Monticello home. He thus died on the 50th anniversry of the U. S. Declaration of Independence from England that He had written at age 33 on July 4th, 1776. He also founded the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He also was the President of the United States from 1801 till 1809. He also...well, Mr. Jefferson accomplished many things as America's greatest Founding Father and because of his incomparable fame we know WHAT JEFFERSON WOULD want to happen to CUBA!!!!! He would want Cuba to be the 51st U. S. State. A brilliant writer, Mr. Jefferson famously championed the vast importance of Cuba:

    Repeatedly during his adult lifetime Thomas Jefferson extolled the addition of Cuba as a vital and extremely important part of the United States. And as you see below, while Thomas Jefferson led the way he was joined in championing Cuba by many other important politicians and newspapers in the United States.

      But, for ssure, it was top Founding Father Thomas Jefferson that led the continuous fight to have Cuba as an integral part of his United States.

     But, of course, there have been mulltiple reasons that Cuba has never become a U. S. state although non-continuous states such as Alaska and Hawaii have been allowed. For one thing, Cuba always furiously fought for its independence as a sovereign country, including two major but losing Wars of Independence against Spain in the 1890s and, after the United States won the Spanish-American War in Cuba in 1898, Cuba has continuously fought the superpower United States to maintain its independence...including Cuba's startling victory in the Cuban Revolution on January 1st, 1959. A young lawyer named Fidel Casstro had started the Revollution in 1952 because of what he believed was extreme brutality and theivery in the 1940s and 1950s by the US-backed and Mafia-backed Fulgencio Batista dictatorship in Cuba.

      The U. S. Mafia, notably kingpin Lucky Luciano, wildly supported Batista in the 1940s and 1950s with cruelty that spawned the Cuban Revolution beginning in 1952. During that period rich U. S. companies, with kickbacks to Batista, teamed with Luciano's Mafia to make vast business financial windfalls in Cuba. Backed by the strongest criminal organization in the world, the Mafia, and by the strongest nation in the world, the United States, Batista simply saw no need to even toss a few crumbs to the majority peasants, so he didn't!!!! 

          Thus, in Batista's Mafia-run Cuba the rural peasant families, such as the one above, were left without adequate food, homes, educations, and medical care. And poor families like this one craved Fidel Castro's Revolution would help them, and everyday Cubans supported the Revolkution to the end -- which ended with the victory that shocked the world on January 1st, 1959.

     And so,  the Lucky Luciano-Meyer Lansky-Fulgencio Batista Mafia-led rule in Cuba created the victory that  Fidel Castro led to a Cuban Revolution VICTORY that chased the Mafiosi bandits off the island starting at 3:00 A. M. on January 1, 1959.

     One of the massive offshoots of the Cuban Revolution, of course, was that -- starting in January of 1959 -- it created Little Havana in nearby Miami Florida, where Mafia kingpins such as Luciano, Lansky, and Batista already owned homes and other property. The richer that Little Havana in Miami became, the more powerful it became politically, soon largely dictating Washington's Cuban policy, which was to overthrow the Cuban Revolution.

     Since 1959 generations of Cuban-American families with extreme ties back to Batista's Cuba have greatly influenced Miami's desires to overthrow the Cuban Revolultion. For example, Rafael Diaz-Balart was a key Minister in Batista's Cuba. The triumph of the Revolution in 1959 chased Rafael to Miami where he became one of the richest and most powerful Cuban-Americans in Miami's Little Havana. And now for the past two decades Rafael's sons -- Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Malrio Diaz-Balart have represented Little Havana/Miami in the U. S. Congress in Washington, either at the same time are separatelly. Along with an unending string of other counter revolutionary Cuban stalwarts from Miami, the Diaz-Balart brothers have led the U. S. efforts to end the Cuban Revolution.

       And now, starting on January 20th in 2025, Miami/Little Havana's U. S. Senator Marco Rubio will be newly re-elected President Donald Trump's Secretary of State. That means Marco Rubio in a few weeks will be leading the USA's fervent effort to destroy Cuba's revolutionary government, which has survived the past 65 years since 1959.

The Havana Mob that helped Batista rule Cuba prior to the Revolution.

         Everyone in Little Havana/Miami and Washington, of course, knows the short distance from the United States to Cuba. So in the coming year, 2025, expect that the dollars, the tourism, and notable U. S. businesses will soon return to Cuba, just like prior to the Revolution's victory in 1959!!!!!

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