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 documetaries 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 Cast'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?
