"Cuba In Crisis" on 60 Minutes on November 1, 2026

 A Fair UPDATE from Cuba

In November of 2026

      Billed as "America's #1 News Program", the iconic "60 Minutes" hour on the CBS Network on November 1st included a segment entitled "Cuba in Crisis." The sub-title said: "Intense U. S. pressure deepens Cuba's humanitarian and economic crisis." A significant segment from that "Cuba in Crisis" report is shown above from YouTube if you tap on the arrow. It is a fair and important update on the real crisis in Cuba.

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The UN headlined the US-Cuba War this week.

 

      Today on October 30th in 2026 this week's ongoing US-Cuba War is still sorting out the battle that created a massive confrontation at the United Nations in New York between the USA's Mike Waltz and Cuba's Bruno Rodriguez. That Waltz-Rodriguez battle was a prelude to the yearly October vote in the UN for or against the U. S. economic Embargo/Blockade that began way back in 1962 and under the Trump-Rubio leadership in Washington has been severely tightened in the past two years, helping to creat record shortages of food, medicine, and electric power on the nearby island. As shown above on the "Cuban News Roundup" today on October 30th in 2026, the 2026 vote on the U. S. Embargo continues to make news.

       As shown above by the two graphics, the nations of the world at the UN on October 28th in 2026 voted 130 to end the Embargo against Cuba while 17 nations voted to continue it and 25 nations did not vote at all but, somewhat cowardly, abstained.

      As indicated above, many headlines are still proclaiming that Cuba was the big winner because this October's UN vote showed that the nations of the world again "voted overwhelmingly against the US embargo on Cuba" with "130 nations voting to demand that the U. S. end it." But actually this October's UN vote was a defeat for Cuba because a record 17 nations voted for the embargo on Cuba to continue while 25 nations chose to not even vote on it. Such numbers are wildly unprecedented in the 34 years that the UN has voted on the U. S. embargo against Cuba!!

      As you can see above, often in the 34 years that the UN has voted on the U. S. embargo of Cuba the vote has been almost unanimous to end it...often as shown above with 187 nations voting to end it, two nations {the U. S. and Israel} to continue it, and just one nation {such as the Marshall Islands} abstaining and not voting at all. But drastically in October of 2026 only 130 nations voted to end the embargo while 17 voted to continue it and 25 nation didn't even care enough to vote at all!! So, in my opinion, the October vote this year was not a "win" for Cuba.

       With Cuba this year winning the UN vote with 130 nations voting for Cuba with 17 nations voting for the U. S. and 25 nation not voting at all is not "a resounding victory for Cuba" and certainly not compared to the previous 33 UN votes when Cuba could expect the overwhelming vote of 187 nations voting for Cuba with only two {the U. S. and Isreal} voting for the U. S. with only one such as the Marshall Island abstaining.

      Even more than the final US-Cuba vote in the UN in October of 2026, the passionate and somewhat violent words of Cuba's longtime Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez will linger poignantly in memory this time. Bruno has earned respect from many Americans over the years and this week at the UN his fiery uproar erupted for the whole world to see and hear, not just the U. S. UN aobassador Mike Waltz. Perhaps what Bruno Rodriguez couldn't hold back this time when he loudly and repeatedly called Mike Waltz "a liar" was because the old Cuban official has observed "too many Cuban babies that die because of a blockade maintained by the United States that the US claims does not exist but, in fact, has existed for almost the past seven decades."

       Cuba's veteran Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez has been around long enough to realize that things have changed in the past two years now that Marco Rubio, born in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood, is now the ultra-powerful U. S. Secretary of State and the leader of the U. S. foreign policy decisions.

      As headlined above, U. S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio this week personally expelled a Cuban UN delegate out of the United States....and this week "RUBIO CALLS FOR CUBANS TO PARTNER WITH THE CIA."

       Of course, Revolutionary Cuba has had some long-running wars with the USA's powerful CIA intelligence agency, notably in April of 1961 at the Bay of Pigs when Cuban soldiers captured many CIA-backed Miami Cubans who spearheaded the air-land-sea military attack against Cuba's revolutionary rule.

      In the final 24 hours of October in 2026 Miami's Litttle Havana Cubans still claim the U. S. EMBARGO against Cuba does not exist while Cuba claims it not only has existed since 1962 but now is history's longest "Genocidal BLOCKADE."

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Little Cuba Calls Big US "a Liar" at the UN

 

       The Spanish word for "liar" is "mentiroso." Yesterday -- October 27th, 2026 -- little Cuba, the island nation with ten million people, loudly called the superpower United States, which has over 340 million people, a "liar" at the United Nations in New York City. In what was an enormouisly HUGE news day for Cuba, the United States, and the world -- with massively important elections in Brazil, the U. S., Israel, etc., and even two world-involved wars reaching massive milestones, the Cuban depiction of the United States as a liar garnered massive news coverage not only in Cuba and the U. S. but it also got massive electronic and print coverage around the world.

     Cuba's long-time Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez created the uproar at the UN yeeterday when he vehemently interrupted the U.S. UN Ambassador Mike Waltz's speech from the famed UN podium. Rodriguez was sitting well back in the audience with the Cuban delegation when he rose from his seat shouting "liar" as Waltz denied that there has ever been a U. S. embargo/blockade against Cuba and Waltz claimed that members of Cuba's revolutionary families were living in wild luxury while the everyday Cuban people were facing drastic food and medical shortages and other drastic deprivations such as constant island-wide power shortages that Rodriguez says are killing even babies who need electric devices in order to live. It was at that point that Rodriguez raced to the isle and advanced to the front of the podium to engage Waltz while he was still loudly calling the speaker, Waltz, a "liar." 

      Yesterday while Cuba's Bruno Rodriguez and the USA's Mike Waltz were shouting at each other yesterday at the United Nations, the UN President was trying to demand order be restored at the august forum as much of the world has watched play out.

      After the massive US-Cuba/Mike Waltz-Bruno Rodriguez uproar at the UN yesterday in New York City, the U. S. Cuban-American Secretary of State Marco Rubio kicked a Cuban delegate out of the U. S. early. Born in Miami, Rubio viciously opposes Cuba's revolutionary leaders and now Rubio leads U. S. relations with other nations...including Cuba, of course.

      Today -- on October 28th in 2026 -- the United Nations for the 34th consecutive October held its vote designed to demand that the U. S. end its Embargo/Blockade against Cuba that began back in 1962. In previous years the votes were almost unanimous to end it with often just two nations, the U. S. and Israel, voting to keep it in place. But prior to today Cuba had voiced regret that the U. S. had persuaded many European and Latin American nations to switch to voting For the Embargo/Blockade. Thus, as shown above, today the UN vote had 130 nations voting against the Embargo/Blockade but 17 nations voted to keep it in place while 25 nations abstented and failed to vote either way.

      And so, today on October 28th in 2026 the United Nations voted 130 to 17 with 25 abstentions to demand that the U. S. end its EMBARGO against Cuba. During the previous 33 Octobers when the vote was held at the UN, the vote had often been 187-to-2 with only the U. S. and Isreal voting to continue it. So, today's vote at the UN with 17 nations, not just 2 nations, voting to keep the EMBARGO in place, it deeply saddens a lot of people -- including American-lovers and Democracy-lovers like me.

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US-Cuba Relations about to EXPLODE in November, 2026.

 At last the coda arrives!!

      The photo above of Fidel Castro includes one of his most famous quotations: "We do not like to be threatened." That was his revolutionary mantra following after his 1959 overthrow of Cuba's US-backed/Mafia-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista. The "threats" that he then faced daily came from the richest and most powerful nation in the world, namely Miami and Washington. History truthfully registers that Fidel Castro survived a world-record assassination attempts, often numbering in the hundreds by multiple documentaries and historians but the hard-to-kill Fidel died peacefully from old age in his own bed in Havana in 2016 at age 90. The quotation above is being revisited in the closing days of October of 2026 a decade after Fidel Castro's death to headline the fact that, in the closing days of October in 2026, that Cuba is being threatened more now than it has ever been threatened since it was founded back in 1492. Below are some graphics that update Cuba's situation at the end of October in 2026.

Still endless threats to Cuba.

       For decades, as shown above, the nations of the world at the United Nations in New York, have voted in near-unanimity to demand that the U. S. end its endless Blockade/Embargo against Cuba. Often the final vote has been 187 to 2 with only the U. S. and Israel voting to continue the Blockade/Embargo. In this final week in October of 2026 that vote again comes up in the UN and this time rumors claim that the U. S. has persuaded a few more nations to vote FOR IT, even Germany this time.

"We do not like to be threatened."

      In April of 1959, a mere three months after he had won the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro spent twelve {12} days in the United States where he was hailed as a rebel hero, even in Washington and New York City, for overthrowing the brutal dictator Batista. He had been told by the U. S. State Department and by the U. S. Society of Newspaper Editors that he would be allowed to meet U. S. President Dwight Eisenhower. It turned out to be a lie; he instead was met by U. S. President Richard Nixon who told him that...his trip to the U. S. was useless because he would be overthrown within a matter of days." A shocked Fidel Castro returned to Cuba determined to make sure that Richard Nixon, not himself, was the real liar. The Fidel Castro visit to the United States in April of 1959 has been conventiently lied about for many decades to make sure that the purpose of the visit never registers with the American people. But it was Fidel Castro's purpose for visiting the U. S. at that crucial time was to tell President Eisenhower that revolutionary Cuba wanted strong relations with the United States and that he would call for honest elections on the island that the U. S. could closely monitor to make sure they were indeed honest. He also wanted to remind Eisenhower that he would not be a candidate in any election because he wanted only to be a lawyer.

      In 1959 as the new leader of Cuba Fidel Castro first told the U. S. television superstar Ed Sullivan exactly what he wanted to tell President Eisenhower if he had been given the chance. Note the Castro-Sullivan photo and video shown above.

The top U. S. magazines heralded Fidel.

Later...the "Lion in Winter" was Fidel Castro.

       But during his 12-day visit to the United States in April of 1959, Fidel Castro was wildly celebrated, so much so that he had trouble even lighting his Cuban cigar.

"I am not a communist. I don't believe with the communists."

     And during his  12-day visit to the United States in April of 1959, Fidel Castro was the guest on the top televison news program in the U. S., Meet the Press, and he spent a half-hour answering questions asked by the three famed journalists. He spoke in English. Hit the button above to watch and listen to the historic time in 1959 when Fidel Castro was on "Meet the Press." Of couse, watching and listening to that Q & A of Fidel Castro would allow you to judge for your self what was happening in April of 1959 in US-Cuba relations.

And most of all.........!!!!

       Study the two historic photos shown above. They show the moment on April 19th in 1959 when Cuba's new leader Fidel Castro was double-crossed by U. S. Vice Prsident Richard Nixon. At a crucial time so soon after the victory of the Cuban Revolution in January of 1959, Fidel had made the trip only because he was told he would be allowed to meet with President Dwight Eisenhower, a man he respected for his monumental World World II leadership. But the double-crossed Fidel was not allowed to speak to Eisenhower while instead the pompous Nixon told him the visit was...totally useless and that he would be overthrown within a few days." 

        After that dire threat to Fidel Castro by U. S. Vice President Richard Nixon on April 19th in 1959 at the White House in Washington, the whole world would later learn that Fidel Castro meant what he said by his famous statement: "We do not like to be threatened." That statement was featured again in the last week of October in 2026 during a protest presentation in New York City. Yes, the quotation shown above still resonates from little Cuba in the Superpower United States althoiugh Fidel Castro died in 2016 in Havana at age 90. But his legacy still rules Cuba in the closing days of October in 2016 as Cuba is direly threatened by a looming military threat from the United States and even by a nearly declared MURDER warrant from the U. S. for Fidel's 95-year-old brother Raul Castro. The history and current news regarding US-Cuba Relations blend together to suggest these two questions: {1} Is Fidel still the only hope Cuba and Raul have? And {2} How different would US-Cuba Relations be at the end of October of 2026 if Fidel Castro would not have been double-crossed at the White House in Washington by Richard Nixon way back on April 19th in 1959?

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