A 7-decade struggle to end USA's Cuban blockade.

 Now DEEP into September of 2026!!

      Today on September 18 & 19 in 2026 the Latin American notice shown above informed Cuba's neighbors that the severely tightened seven-decade-old U. S. Embargo/Blockade more than ever is starving, depriving, and making miserable the everyday people in Cuba for the purpose of inducing them to rise up and  overthrow their revolutionary government that way back in 1959 overthrew the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship. The Embargo/Blockade surrounding Cuba began in February of 1962 and has not overthown Cuba's rebel government but it indeed has starved, deprived, and made miserable generations of everyday Cuban people.

       As shown above, the headline today from the london-based Reuters, the world's most repsected News Agency, reminds the world that the ever-tightening U. S. Embargo of Cuba, as usual, has again totally shut off all energy to create island-wide blackouts.

      Since 1962 only rich and politically powerful Cuban-Americans have supported and approved of the drastic EMBARTO that has surrounded CUBA for almost seven decades, but the rest of the United States and the rest of the world cannot do anything about it. For example, every October for decades the United Nations has voted loudly to end the EMBARGO, usually with votes of about 189-to-2, but that near-unanimous plea by world opinion doesn't court. 

     But regarding the EMBARGO of Cuba, since 1959 Cuba's close prosimity to Miami has predicated the endless and drasic EMBARGO.

      U. S. politicians such as President Donald Trump are not about to defy Miami's rich and powerful Cuban-Americans when it comes to Cuban policies. Thus, the extreme measures of the EMBARGO that began way back in 1962 are routinely strengthened time-and-again...and AGAIN.

       As shown above, famed Cuban-Americans and Cubans in Cuba want some help for the everyday Cubans on the island, but they are routinely ignored.

These Cuban headlines now deep in September of 2026.

      The great Cuban and Caribbean photographer Vladimi Molina daily posts great photos and everyday messages on social media platforms such as Facebook. His message today says: "If Cubans offer love and friendship to the whole world, why do Trump and Marco Rubio want to destroy us?" 

      Today and many other days Vladimi Molina posted photos of beautiful Cuban women with messages such as: "Despite all the difficulties we face, we can never lose our beautiful Cuban smile." 

       But today -- September 19, 2026 -- Vladimir Molina also posted the above photo to suggest that this Cuban farmer is not a threat to the superpowr United States.

        And, sometimes of course, Vladimi Molina must post photos of beautiful Cuban women who are not still providing their beautiful smiles.

       Most regional leaders, such as Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum, are trying their best to help the masses of everyday Cuban people in Cuba.

        Miami-born Cuban-American Marco Rubio is now the ultra-powerful United States Secretary of State, which means he has enormous power "to help" the Cubans on the island. But Rubio also supports the endless EMBARGO.

      Back in 2016 while serving President Barack Obama, Ben Rhodes tried to end the EMBARGO and normalize relations with Cuba. Now in September of 2026 Ben Rhodes disagrees with President Trump's plans to "invade Cuba." 

      Back in March of 2016 this historic photo shows President Barack Obama and Ben Rhodes excitedly looking down at Havana from Air Force One as it was flyiing over Cuba's capital city!!! 

      On his historic trip to Cuba in March of 2016 President Obama went on national radio and television to make this sacred promise to the Cuban people: "Cuba does not need to fear a threat from the United States." Today on September 19th in 2026 there are ten million Cubans in Cuba who wish those words were and are true.

      But in September of 2026 -- with no power in their homes and with dire shortages of food, medicine, and other necessities -- there are ten million Cubans in Cuba who fear the United States.

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Miami Herald blames only Cuba!!!

          Like the two largest U. S. newspapers, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, the Miami Herald has prime anti-Cuban journalists reporting on US-Cuban Relations in September of 2026. Thus, the latest anti-Cuban diatribe/headline, as shown below, was written by the Miami Herald's counter revolutionary expert Nora Gamez Torres. It, of course, perpetrates the notion that Cuba, since 1959, is solely responsible for the daily devastations that the regular Cuban people have faced for the past six+ decades, or since the Cuban Revolution overthrew the US-backed and Mafia-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista on January 1st in 1959.

 

        History reports many assassination attempts against Cuba's rebel leader Fidel Castro failed in 1959 and 1960. Then the 1961 air-land-and-sea military attack known as the Bay of Pigs also failed to overthrow Fidel Castro and his Cuban Revolution. It was then that the U. S. in 1962 began an economic blockade/embargo surrounding the island of Cuba that, according to U. S. documents, was designed to starve, deprive, and make miserable the Cuban people to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. But that overthrow for six+ decades has not happened but  from 1962 until September of 2026, the blockade/embargo of the island has severely starved, deprived, and made miserable generations of Cubans on the island...while counter revolutionary Cuban-Americans in nearby Miami have, since 1959, become wealthy and politically powerful.

  

       All the while, the Miami Herald, and most of the rest of the U. S. news media, solely places the blame on Cuba for the drastic conditions devastating the Cuban people, and that is a lie. No small nation such as Cuba could be expected to survive such a blockade/embargo from a much larger nation for a few years and certainly not for six+ decades. Almost the whole world, including lifelong Democracy-lovers and American-lovers like me, decry the plight of the blockaded/embargoed Cuban people. But, deep into September of 2026, the Miami Herald and Nora Gamez Torres still always reflect the views of rich and powerful Miami Cubans while not considering the victimized Cubans in Cuba.,,as today's headlines from Miami, London, and the USA's AP reveal.

        Above in September in 2026 are some latest reports about the tragedy in Cuba from the Miami Herald, the worldwide London-based Reuters News Agency, and the U. S. News Agency Associated Press. You will note that those three sources use such words as "genocidal" to describe the effects the endless U. S. blockade/embargo of Cuba is having on the almost helpless Cuban people on their surrounded island. Even the U. S. AP news agency says, "The psychological toll of daily life in Cuba is pushing many to their breaking point." YET, for six+ decades neither the American people nor the American government have had the courage or decency to do anything about the blockade/embargo that began in February of 1962 and continues to worsen drastically in September of 2026.

"...policy of hostility and blockade..."

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Raul Castro Defies Both Age and Miami

 Cuba is still in the Crosshairs.

      At the end of the first week in September in 2026, Raul Castro continues to defy age, Miami, and rumors. At age 95 this week the headlines from both Havana and Miami reported that he was "gravely ill after a stroke." But then, as shown above, on September 6th he headlined a military celebration despite the rmpant "rumors about his health." 

Raul Castro shown receiving more awards today.

      Beaming right behind the smiling Raul Castro today was his beloved grandchild and prime bodyguard Raulito who as emerged a powerful and very forceful leader in Cuba.

Even Marco Rubio admires LRaulito.

       Back on May 20th-2026 the United States, trying to put a final nail on both Raul Castro's coffin and his legacy, indicted him with four murder charges in the shootdowns of two Miami-based Brothers to the Rescue airplanes back in 1996. By now he was supposed to have been tried and found guilty in a Miami/US courtroom. 

     But, with Raulito standing beside him as always, Raul today received yet another award from a little Cuban girl who was showing her pride for Raul as a supreme revolutionary icon.

    The word verdadero means "true." Indeed, Raul Castro is truly beloved as a true and supreme revolutionary hero in Cuba but in Miami he is truly hated as a first-class villian.

     Miami-born Marco Rubio gives the superpower United States a huge advantage in deciding the love-hate conundrum regarding Raul Castro. That, of course, is because Marco Rubio is now the ultra-powerful U. S. Secretary of State, making him the top U. S. official in the anti-Cuba Trump adminstration in charge of Foreign Afairs. Cuba, still a foreign nation as far as the U. S. is concerned, must survive the wrath of Marco Rubio who, all his adult life, has dreamed of overthrowing the Cuban Revolution. Now, presumably, he has the power to fulfill that dream.

     Yet, at the end of the first week in September in 2026 this photo on September 6th in 2026 shows 95-year-old Raul Castro flanked by his two prime protectors -- his grandson Raultio and Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel. This photo confirms that Raul Castro and the Cuban Revolution, amazingly, still rules Cuba. But, yes, Raul Castro is 95-years-old and powerful Miami Cuban-Americans such as Marco Rubio still hold most of the cards. So, stay tuned.

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Raul Castro Is gravely ill in Havana!!

 

        Today on September 1st in 2026 reports in both Havana and Miami have reported that 95-year-old Raul Castro has suffered a stroke and is gravely ill. Back in May, as the United States severely tightened its already punitive sanctions on Cuba, the U. S. indicted Raul Castro for the murders of four Miami residents regarding a controversial incident in the Caribbean Sea between Miami and Havana thirty years ago. Raul Castro and his older brother Fidel Castro started the Cuban Revolution against US-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista on July 26, 1953, and successfully ended their Revolution on January 1st in 1959. Fidel died at age 90 in Havana in 2016.

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Did the explorer Columbus describe Cuba best?

 "The loveliest land human eyes have ever seen."

       The great explorer Christopher Columbus made many historic and epic voyages, including the one that discovered the island of Cuba on October 27, 1492.

   By the time Columbus bedded down on the evening of October 27th in 1492, he wrote this famous sentence: "The loveiiest land that human eyes have ever seen." He was describing the island of Cuba: "The loveliest land that human eyes have ever seen."

       The greatest and most important of America's Founding Fathers was/is Thomas Jefferson. All of his adult life, Mr. Jefferson preached that, if the new United States was to become a great nation, it must obtain and control Cuba!!

        At age 33 in 1776 it was Thomas Jefferson who wrote the United States Declaration of Independence from England. Later as the third President of the United States, and otherwise, he was/is America's Greatest Founding Father. Mr. Jefferson and other Founding Fathers agreed that CUBA was acutely needed by the United States.

     As America's greatest and most important politician, Thomas Jefferson direly craved that the United States needed to possess CUBA!!! For example, Mr. Jefferson wrote the wrods shown above on October 24th in 1823. But while the new United States craved CUBA, the older imperative powers, such as Spain, already had massively craved what the explorer Columbus had told them was "The loveliest land that human eyes had ever seen."

       Actually, the United States war against Spain that was fought in Cuba in 1898 was to wrest control of CUBA from Spain, not to give CUBA freedom from Spain that had long been its colonial master. The emerging United States attacked Spain in Cuba in 1898 because the U. S. knew that Spain had been weakened by fighting and winning two Independence Wars that Cubans had waged against Spain in 1868-1878 and 1895-1898. Those two wars by Cubans tried to win Cuba's freedom but barely failed and yet left Spain's army weak and overly extended in Cuba. The two top U. S. newspaper publishers in New York and the yearning U. S. politicians such as soon-to-be President Teddy Roosevelt knew it was time to attack Spain in Cuba and easily take dominance of Cuba. It was/is called the Spanish-American War in Cuba in 1898, and it is the War that started the United States on the path to becoming the world's Superpower. 

      Yes, although often lied about by biased historians and politicians, the 1898 Spanish-American War in Cuba was an easy victory by the United States over a weakened Spain and it paved the way for the United States to become the World Superpower. The 1898 Spanish-American War should be viewed correctly, not by lies.

    But Cuba's fierce desire for independence spawned Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution in 1952 and on the first day of 1959 it shocked the world by defeating the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista Dictatorship. However, since 1959 Cuba's determined fight to maintain Revolutionary control of Cuba has been a daily and David-vs. Goliath struggle for the island on behalf of its Cuban Revolution.

        In all the annals of history no small nation has ever tried so hard and so long to defend itself from a much larger and much stronger foe. Yet, since January of 1959 until the end of August in 2026 Cuba, somehow, has managed to at least survive while being totally surrounded by the nearby United States, which all that time has been the world's economic and military Superpower.

      Cuba, the uniquely "lovely" island that Columbus discovered in 1492, is no longer "the paradise of the Caribbean" as August turns into September in 2026. But it is still ruled by the stubborn Cuban Revolution, and that alone remains remarkably historic. As continuous headlines heading into September of 2026 reveal, the prodigious odds against Cuba remain ongoing and relentless!!!!!!

     Rich and powerful Cuban-Americans in Miami and Washington, now led by the powerful U. S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in September of 2026 or soon thereafter, will be expected to take full control of Cuba. That hope for almost seven decades has filled the dreams of Little Havana Cubans in Miami such as Marco Rubio, and no doubt it is about to end the Cuban Revolution.

     A few months ago, back in May of 2026, U. S. President Donald Trump visited China and had very heralded and cordial private and public discussions with China's President Xi Jinping. Now in a few days, in September of 2026, Trump will host Xi in Washington. For sure, communist China is now the top economic and military competitor facing the United States. That situation is somewhat reminiscent to 1962 when U. S. President John F. Kennedy knew that the communist Soviet Union was the top threat to the United States at a time when the Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev and President John Kennedy were in a dire dispute about CUBA!!! Now in 2026 Trump has loudly proclamed that he wants "to take Cuba" while Zi doesn't want that to happen

        For 13 days in October of 1962 the United States and the Soviet Union and leaders John Kennedy and Nikita Khruschev almost started World War III with Cuba the catalyst. The Cuban Missile Crisis for 13 days in October of 1962 had the whole world trembling because the U. S. and Soviet Union even then had enough nuclear weapons to destroy the whole known world. And remember that was way back in 1962!! Now in 2026 countries such as the United States and China and Russia have nuclear weapons far, far more powerful stockpiles of nuclear weapons than Kennedy and Khruschev had in 1962!!! 

Through it all, the revolutionary Flag still waves over Cuba!!

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