Cuba Made Its Case on Meet the Press

 On Sunday, March 22nd-2025!!

     The most iconic news program in the United States and in the world is Meet the Press. It debuted in December in 1947 and it is the longest running news show or television program in history. And it remains a legendary NBC News feature on Sundays till this very day. Now Kristen Welker anchors Meet the Press. A rare thing in U. S. journalism occurred yesterday on Sunday, March 22, 2026. That was when Kristen Welker and Meet the Press for a half-hour allowed a top Cuban spokesman to make Cuba's case as it tries desperately to survive against the unchecked power of Miami Cubans. Normally since 1959 the U. S. media has only permitted only Miami Cubans to comment on the decades-long/rich-poor lopsided struggle between the two sides, but amazingly yesterday on the massive Meet the Press forum on NBC News Cuba got to also make its own comments for a half-hour.

   From Cuba's standpoint on Meet the Press yesterday the island's Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez De Cossio, Cuba's top U. S. expert, for a half-hour answered all of Kristen Welker's questions and he did so in fluent English and quite precisely. The entire interview is still easily obtained on the Internet if you care to study his pertinent answers.

       Tap the arrow above to see and hear Fidel Castro on Meet the Press on April 19th in 1959 soon after his Cuban Revolution had overthrown dictator Fulgencio Batista in Cuba.

       Tap the arrow above to see and hear Fidel Castro on the famed Face the Nation news half-hour program on CBS News soon after his Cuban Revolution had overthrown dictator Fulgencio Batista in Cuba on January 1, 1959. In this interview he speaks in English for a half-hour about his democratic plans for Cuba, about the U. S. support of Batista until it appeared that Castro's rebels could actually win, about how he felt about the vicious Dominican Republican dictator Trujillo that liked the U. S. but hated Cuba, etc.

    Yes, history registers the fact that Fidel Castro was the guest speaking English on both Face the Nation on CBS News and on Meet the Press on NBC News soon after his Cuban Revolution took over Cuba on January 1, 1959. It was on Sunday, April 19, 1959 that he was on Meet Press. That was a mere three months AFTER he had shocked the world by leading the Cuban Revolution over the powerful Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista who had been supported by the powerful United States and by the powerful MAFIA. Americans to this day have gotten their Cuban news mostly from Miami Cubans who, starting in January of 1959, created their rich and powerful anti-Castro haven/sanctuary in Miami known as Little Havana. Every day since January in 1959 Little Havana has tried frantically to overthrow Castro's Cuban Revolution, but seven decades later the Cuban Revolution still lives although Fidel Castro himself died at age 90 in 2016. Amazingly, a few weeks after he overthrew the Batista dictatorship in Cuba, Fidel Castro spent 12 days in the United States trying to make friends with its northern neighbor but, while being wildly welcomed by the American people, Richard Nixon and the U. S. government, of course, showed Fidel Castro that they preferred Batista because U. S. companies had made vast fortunes in Batista Cuba's. Speaking English during his half-hour on Meet the Press on April 19th, 1959, he explained that he, unlike Batista, wanted a democratic government in Cuba. That entire interview, for what it's worth in late-March in 2026, is shown above. Just tap the arrow to see and listen to it. And below the Meet the Press/NBC is the Face the Nation/CBS interview. Listen to him speak in English, in 1959, about how he felt about the U. S. Democracy for Cuba, enemies such as dictator Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, and even about the "several dozen" executions the revolution carried out in 1959 after trials demanded by the Cuban people who had lost loved ones, especially children {"ninos"}, murdered by the Batista dictatorhip.

     To this day in Havana the largest Children's Hospital in Cuba is the William Soler Children's Hospital. Little Willie Soler was one of the children the revolution said was murdered by "Batista" as a warning for the parents to not oppose Batista. But marches like this one fueled the revolution and fueled Fidel Castro's fervor. The great New York Times reporter Herbert L. Matthews told about marches like these. The woman in sunglasses and wearing the white blouse above was Little Willie Soler's mother. She and other mothers like her marched with huge signs saying exactly why they marched: "Batista is killing our children." Yes, there is two sides to the Cuban Revolution. Little Willie Soler is one of the key sides as Herbert L. Matthews of the New York Times tried to tell the American people back in the 1950s.

A great journalist, Herbert L. Matthews.

1959 Fidel Castro interviews in English are important.

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Marco Rubio is about to rule Cuba but...

 ...then a resistance could SURPRISE!! 

      For the now nationally popular News Nation channel, Brooke Shafer today, on March 21st in 2026, did a very rare thing in the U. S., which was to broadcast an honest update to the American people about the Miami-US/Havana-Cuba War.

      The News Nation report today by Brooke Shafer revealed the dire stress this generation of Cuban women and children are enduring as they try to live with the Blockade that the U. S. first imposed on their nearby island almost seven decades ago -- back in 1962. The photo/video shown above was broadcast across the U. S. today, March 21-2026, on News Nation. Today as Trump-Rubio/Miami-US have sharply tightened the Blockade, the Cuban woman shown above has no idea she will survive.

     And so, at least today on March 21st in 2026, one national news source -- Brooke Shafer on News Nation -- reported fairly on the Miami-vs. Havana War. This report even suggested that the suffering women and children in Cuba, nor even the island's revolutionary government, are not solely to blame for what has been happening to generations of Cuban families since 1959. Cuban-born Cubans such as Rafael Diaz-Balart, Mas Canosa, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, etc., started creating the rich and powerful Little Havana community in Miami in 1959 and then Little Havana mentored and groomed other generations of Miami Cuban-Americans, most notably...54-year-old Marco Rubio who is now the USA's ultra-powerful Secretary of State. Cuban-born Little Havana superpowers in Miami such as Rafael Diaz-Balart and his sons, Mas Canosa and sons, and Havana-born Ros-Lehtinen and her Miami pupils such as Marco Rubio for decades have dictated Cuban policies in the U. S., but none have had the unique and unquestioned power of...U. S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Now how will Marco Rubio reshape Cuba?

This Havana woman waits for an answer from Rubio.

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Rubio Overwhelms Cuba's Best Caribbean Friend

 March 17th in 2026 

        The largest and, arguably, the most beautiful island in the Caribbean is Cuba. Its closest neighbor and best friend is Jamaica. For decades they helped each other out.

     Jamaica, for example, has long paid Cuba's highly skilled doctors to take care of the critical medical needs of the Jamaican people. This month of March in 2026 Jamaica very reluntantly was persuaded to give up that cooperative alignment with Cuba.

     While other nations have routinely bowed to the sanctions/embargo/blockade that the superpower United States has imposed on Cuba since 1962, Jamaica for decades has tried to help the Cuban people. But in January of 2025 Miami-born Cuban-American Marco Rubio became U. S. President Donald Trump's ultra-powerful Secretary of State. All of his adult life the 54-year-old Rubio has dreamed of overthrowing Revolutionary Cuba and as U. S. Secretary of State he now certainly has been provided with that ability. Early on in 2025 Rubio visited the Caribbean, including the above meeting with Jamaica's Prime Minister Andrew Holness, Cuba's close friend. For months Holness resisted bowing to Rubio's Cuban plans. But, as mentioned below, even Andrew Holness in March of 2026 has finally caved in to the powerful and persuasive Marco Rubio.

    Yes, now even Jamaica has been persuaded "to cave to U. S. pressure" while Miami Cubans finally, after 67 years of dreaming, are watching their dreams come true.

        On live TV today -- March 17-2026 -- this photo shows Fox News coverage at the White House during a news conference featuring President Donald Trump, Vice President J. D. Vance, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. This was the point that Trump said: "We'll do something with Cuba 'very soon'" 

        Also today President Trump said: "I will have the honor of taking Cuba but I think Cuba's seen the end." The new Cuba, many think, will resemble dictator Batista's money-crazed Cuba in the 1950's prior to the Cuban Revolution.

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Cuba MUST "deal" with the US to SURVIVE

 The way Dictator Batista richly did in the 1950s!!

      Study the photo and captions shown above. Back in February of 2026 the new U. S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was touring nations in the Caribbean to get support to "deal" with Revolutionary Cuba for once and for all. And his "BREAKING NEWS" headline shown above is from today on March 16 in 2026: "PROTESTS AND POWER OUTAGES ACROSS CUBA." Below are headlines and articles flashing today on March 16-2026 depicting Cuba on its knees after the U. S. totally shut off its oil.

In other words, Miami-born Marco Rubio is winning.

     Born 54 years ago in Miami to counter-revolutionary Cuban parents, Marco Rubio all his adult life has "dreamed" of overthrowing the Cuban Revolution that overthrew the US-backed/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship way back in 1959. Now that he is the U. S. Secretary of State, Rubio's dream "is a GO." His only boss, President Donald Trump, has provided Miami and Rubio a free hand regarding Cuba.

The above comments are by President Trump.

     Both Marco Rubio and President Trump, however, don't want to destory Cuba. They appear to realize that the island's beauty, size, location, etc., can again be a burgeoning Gold Mine financially as it was back in the 1950s during the Batista DICTATORSHIP prior to the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959.

    In the 1950s prior to the Revolultion the Mafia-fueled Batista Dictatorship permitted the Batista leaders, the Mafia, and TOP U. S. COMPANIES to rake in vast fortunes that seemed to be an Endless Gold Mine...till the REVOLUTION intervened!! 

The dictator Fulgencio Batista & the rebel Fidel Castro.

   Back in 2016 the rebel/dictator Fidel Castro died at age 90 in Havana but his Revolution somehow still lived on for another decade.

      But since January in 1959 the rich and politically powerful Cuban-Americans in nearby Little Havana Miami Florida have tried furiously to overthrow Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution. Now in March in 2026 their "dream" will come true now that Little Havana's own homegrown hero Marco Rubio is the USA's Secretary of State.

     As he reshapes Cuba and permits its vast potential to flourish, IT IS HOPED that Marco Rubio will help Cuba's regular people prosper too. Back in the 1950s prior to the Revolution, dictator Batista, the Mafia, and the U. S. businesses raked in vast fortunes in Cuba but they didn't think to toss a few crumbs to the island's regular families...like the one below:

When Cuba gets rich again, distribute some of the wealth/loot.

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Cuba Government Attacked March 14th, 2026

 Rare Attack Today!!

     Today -- Saturday, March 14th, 2026 -- major news outlets in the U. S. are reporting about a serious attack on the Cuban government in the city of Moron. See above.

     As shown by the two maps above, the city of Moron is on Cuba's north-central coast near several key tourist beaches and due south of Florida. Fires and gunfire were seen and heard at the government building. The protest, Cubans in the area said, resulted from frustrations about food and electricity shortages in Moron. There are other suggestions that elements from Florida were involved in an effort to trigger faster efforts from the U. S. government to drastically change or overturn Cuba's revolutionary government that has ruled the island since January of 1959. It is reported that one person in Moron has been shot and several have been arrested.

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Trump and Rubio Won't Forget CUBA

 

      On March 13th in 2026, even as the Ukraine-Russia War and the US-Iran War rage on, the blazing headlines above still herald the fact that U. S. plans to finally and drastically transform Cuba's endlessly embargoed and blockaded revolutionary government continues high up on the agenda of the United States government. The quagmires in Ukraine and Iran have postponed those plans but only briefly.

And the billionaire Trump envisions a rich Cuba.

As shaped by Miami Cubans.

    The U. S. President Donald Trump confirms that his powerful Miami-born Cuban-American Secretary of State Marco Rubio is making time to even talk with Cuban officials in Cuba before He {Rubio} decides how to reshape Cuba. Most observers believe that Rubio envisions a Cuba dominated by massive Miami and U. S. businesses -- just like it was dominated by major U. S. companies back in the 1950s when the US-backed/Mafia-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista ruled Cuba till he was overthrown by Fidel Castro's historic Cuban Revolution on January 1st in 1959.

    While Cubans in Miami since 1959 have dictated the USA's Cuban policies and narratives, the truth is...back in the 1950s while dictator Batista, the Mafia, and the rich U. S. companies were raking in massive fortunes in Cuba, they simply failed to even toss a few crumbs to non-Batistiano mothers and children. That spawned Castro's Revolution that promised free food, free educations through college, and decent homes for all of the Cuban citizens. The photo above shows a totally neglected Cuban mother/grandmother who supported the rebel Fidel Castro before, during, and AFTER his Revolution.

     Since 1959 rich and politically powerful Cubans in Little Havana in Miami Florida have controlled Cuban politics in Miami, Florida, and in the United States. But now, in 2026, Little Havana's Marco Rubio as Washington's ultra-powerful Secretary of State is in a prime position to determine Cuba's FUTURE, and all of his adult life the 54-year-old Rubio has tried to overthrow the pugnacious Cuban Revolution.

In 2016 Fidel Castro died at age 90.

But his Revolution lived on.

      Since 2018 Miguel Diaz-Canel has been Cuba's President and most of Cuba's people like him just as they did when he was the island's Education Minister. Now in March of 2026 President Diaz-Canel is keeping wary eyes on Marco Rubio, the Little Havana/Miami-born Cuban-American who is the powerful U. S. Secretary of State. Of course, Rubio likely will decide Diaz-Canel's and Revolutionary Cuba's fate.

The statement above is from President Trump.

And below Diaz-Canel talked to the Cuban people.

In Cuba Diaz-Canel hopes to avoid Madura's fate.

     Meanwhile, in mid-march in 2026, a few timid nations -- even Canada -- are thinking about defying the U. S. and sending a little help to Cuba's 10 million people.

   Of course, as the image above shows, back in the 1950s during Dictator Batista's Cuba, the largest and most beautiful island in the Caribbean was also the richest. That was when the island's northern neighbor, the USA, massivelly supported both tourism and trade with Cuba!!

And meanwhile on March 13 in 2026:

       The great photographer Roberto Suarez today posted over thirty photos from Cuba on Facebook, including the three posted below:

Thank you, Roberto Suarez.

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