Airplane Tragedy in Cuba

112 On Board Perished!
{Updated: Monday, May 28th, 2018}

      On May 18th a Cubana Airlines airplane that took off from Jose Marti Airport in Havana crashed on the edge of the capital city. There were 113 people on board and as of May 28th only one, 19-year-old Mailen Diaz, survived. The plane was a 39-year-old Boeing 737 leased from a small Mexican airline. The head of Cubana Aviation said that the 6-decade-old U. S. embargo, which restricts how Cuba deals with other nations and their companies, forces him to lease older planes as opposed to being able to purchase newer ones. The mainstream U. S. media, typically, has treated this enormous tragedy unfairly or mostly just ignored it. Perhaps the unkindest cut of all came from the New York Times when it quoted Radio-TV Marti, the vast tax-funded Counter Revolutionary anti-Cuban propaganda machine that has been based in Miami since the 1980s at grave expense to United States taxpayers and to America's prestige.

      Cuba's new President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, immediately went to the scene of the tragedy as shown above. On the media, he was the first to confirm to the Cuban people regarding the high death toll. After reaching the scene, he started by saying, "It's not promising." It was due to be a 435-mile Havana-to-Holguin flight.

      Of the 112 who tragically perished, 68 were from Holguin. That included Dr. Monica Leyva Garcia and her daughter Alexia who turned 15-months-old that day. Monica's husband and Alexia's father is a doctor at the Holguin hospital.

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