April 16, 2026: More Tragedy in Cuba!!!!

      Today -- on April 16th in 2026 -- Cuba's most trusted TV journalist, Lazaro Manuel Alonso, informed the island's citizens of another massive tragedy. One of the most unique and most beautiful areas in Cuba and in the world, the province of Pinar del Rio, is on fire. Lazaro has over 315,000 follows on Facebook alone and his TV plus Social Media journalism lately has mostly involved extreme reports on the tightened seven-decade U. S. blockade, a possible U. S. military attack, food & medicine shortages, island-wide electricity blackouts that plague homes and hospitals, etc. But today his news told the Cuban people about the horrific fires!!!

     These tragic fires today are ravaging one of Cuba's and the world's most beautiful and most unique places -- Pinar del Rio Province that is home to Vinales Valley. That Province and that Valley are a short and scenic drive southwest of Havana and, if the U. S. Blockade would allow it, the area would again be a huge tourist attraction.

      Just north of the city of Pinar del Rio, the 10th largest city in Cuba, is the gorgeous town of Vinales that is the gateway to the incomparable Vinales Valley. In 2004 when I visited Cuba I was astounded by Vinales, which remains the most beautiful area I've ever seen. I am now 85 years old and I lived in Wyoming for 18 years, which has many beautiful jewels but none as beautiful and unique as Vinales Valley.

      So, for sure, it pains me today to learn about Lazaro Manuel Alonso's reports on the fires ravaging the province of Pinar del Rio and Vinales Valley.

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Cuba's President Diaz-Canel is on Meet the Press

"He indicates he will...fight to the death!"

Cuba's President and the US threat.

        Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel has told Kristen Welker of NBC News that he will fight to the death against U. S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's suggestion that he leave Cuba. He says, "I am willing to give my life for the revolution."

     Despite being deeply in the US-Iran War and other historic news, the U. S. jounalist keeping the U. S. and the world updated about U. S. plans to finally create the long-awaited and anticipated regime change in nearby Cuba is Kristen Welker. She is the top journalist at NBC News. As the anchor on Meet the Press, the longest and most iconic News or Television Program in history, two Sundays ago she provided Cuba's Deputy Premier Carlos Cossio a half-hour to express the island's now very dangerous relations with the United States. Tomorrow -- on Sunday, April 12th, 2026 -- she will interview Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Meet the Press. Already this week, while in Havana she spent a lot of time with the Cuban President. Thus, NBC on its nightly primetime news program that got more than six million viewers, Kristen Welker's interview with President Diaz-Canel was aired across the U. S. and also picked up by major networks around the world...even on YouTube. Below is a 7-minute clip from her interview with Diaz-Canel. Watch and listen:

      One thing for U. S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to know is that Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel is very popular on the island IF not in Rubio's hometown of Miami. He is 65-years-old and he often is shown working with Cubans, most of whom love him. He was born on April 20th in 1960, which was AFTER the victory by Fidel Castro's Cuban Rovolution on January 1st in 1959 that overthrew Cuba's US-backed/Mafia-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista. All of his life Diaz-Canel has worshipped Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution. He was Cuba's longtime Education Minister before becoming President in 2018. This week -- the second week in April in 2026 -- he told NBC's Kristen Welker that he "will give my life for the revolution."  He apparently means it. Moreover, he believes that millions of Cuba's ten million people will support him.

Tomorrow on Meet the Press Cuba's President speaks.

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Cuba Says It Will "Fight" Rubio and Trump

If they will not negotiate fairly!!

     Cuba's targeted President Miguel Diaz-Canel says "We Will Fight back" against what he claims are the "criminal efforts" of U. S. President Donald Trump and his Miami-born Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He said the island will "fight" to defend the Cuban Revolution, which has ruled Cuba for 67 years since it shocked the world by overthrowing the US/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship on January 1st in 1959. Born in 1960 after the victory by the Revolution, Diaz-Canel has been Cuba's President since 2018 and before that he was the very popular Education Minister on the island.

       Although he was born on April 20th in 1960 after the victory by Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel worships his two favorite Cuban revolutionaries -- Fidel Castro and Jose Marti. In the specch above, Diaz-Canel recently told about his abiding love for Fidel Castro and Jose Marti.

     Today -- on April 7th in 2026 -- Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel wasn't making speeches about Trump or Rubio but, as shown above, he was making a speech about his favorite revolutionaries -- including Vilma Espin, who was born exactly 96 years ago on April 7th in 1930 in Santiago de Cuba. As President since 2018 and as Education Minister before that, Diaz-Canel is smart enought to know that Vilma Espin was one of the Top Four superstars of the Cuban Revolution.

       Yes, as Miguel Diaz-Canel knows, the BIG FOUR among the most important people before, during, and after the victory of the Cuban Revolution were -- left to right -- Vilma Espin, Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, and Celia Sanchez. For their own purposes the U. S. government and the U. S. media deny that fact, but Miguel Diaz-Canel and other experts on the Revolution are correct about the BIG FOUR.

    Before, During, and After the Revolution two of the greatest guerrilla fighters were Celia Sanchez and Vilma Espin, shown above during the war. But moreover, they were prime decision-makers during the war and even more powerful after the victory on January 1st, 1959. Fidel Castro verily worshipped the ground that Celia Sanchez walked on; and Raul Castro verily worshipped the ground that Vilma Espin walked on.

       During the revolutionary war, Vilma Espin and Raul Castro fought side-by-side and after winning the Cuban Revolution in January of 1959 they got married that very month. At age 94 Raul is still alive but Vilma died from cancer at age 77 on June 18th in 2007. While she lived in Revolutionary Cuba Vilma was idolized by Fidel Castro and deeply loved by her husband Raul Castro. Totally supported by the Castro Brothers and most of the Cuban people, Vilma Espin had a major and lasting impact on the decision-making during the war and in Revolutionary Cuba.

      One of the first things that Vilma Espin did in Revolutionary Cuba was to create The Federation of Cuban Women. To this day -- April 7th in 2026 -- on what would have been Vilma's 96th birthday -- The Federation of Cuban Women is still cherished in Cuba. If Trump and Rubio overthrow her Cuban Revolution, will her beloved Federation be overthrown too? 

     During the war, as the above photo shows, Celia Sanchez was a tireless decision-maker even as she held a candle for Fidel Castro to read a Hemingway novel as they were in their nighttime mountain Sierra Maestra camp trying to avoid U.S./Batista bombers and search planes.

       And after the war in Revolutionary Cuba this famous Lee Lockwood photo shows the tireless Celia Sanchez writing down a new law while Fidel Castro casually rocks in his rocking chair. And whatever the new law was, it is sure that Fidel would later totally support it, such as the new block-by-block Committees to Defend the Revolution that Celia devised and powerfully defended. Celia Sanchez died at age 59 of cancer on January 11th in 1980.

      This month -- in April of 2026 -- Cuba issued a new peso banknote as it is trying to improve and upgrade its financial situation. And, as you can see above, although she died in 1980, the new banknote bears the photo of the incomparable revolutionary heroine Celia Sanchez.

       Yes, today -- April 7ith in 2026 -- Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel made two speeches in Havana. One, he said "We will fight back" against Trump and Rubio. And two, he made a long speech honoring the birthday anniversary of one of his favorite revoluionary heroines Vilma Espin.

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Cubans believe their own journalists, not Miami journalists!!

 

     Cubans in Cuba are bombarded with "news" by Little Havana journalists from Miami but they prefer news reported to them by their own journalists such as superstar TV anchor Lazaro Manuel Alonso. Also very influential on social media, on Facebook alone Lazaro has over 315,000 followers. He reports sanely on the dire problems Cubans face but he also tells about how everyday citizens on the island, who are most important to him, are doing to cope with their situations. Below on Easter Sunday in 2026 -- while much of the news media only reports on the impending overthrow of the Cuban Revolution by Little Havana's USA Cubans and the Trump-Rubio administration in Washington, Lazaro stressed the thoughts and dreams of everyday Cubans in beautiful Villa Clara, Cuba. See some of those images below:

      The images above on Easter Weekend in Villa Clara shows everyday Cubans coping with dire shortages such as energy-depleted power blackouts by opening a new solar energy source, as reported by their superpower journalist Lazaro Manuel Alonso.

     One of the most beautiful spots in North America, Villa Clara-Cuba is both a city and a Province in central Cuba and is due south of Florida. It is very close to other awesomely beautiful Cuban areas such as Varadero, Santi Spiritus, Cienfuegos, etc. And it is also home to some of the most beautiful beaches in the world.

     Yes indeed, Santa Maria Beach and Varadero Beach have each been voted "The World's Best Beach" in international tourism polls. So Cuba's Villa Clara Province due south of Florida is the place to go if Little Havana Cubans in Miami would allow Americans and citizens of the world to freely visit Cuba. But of course, since 1959, Little Havana Cubans have dictated to the U. S. government that tourists must be restricted from going to Cuba because it might provide some money for the island's revolutionary government!!!!!

      But, meanwhile, study this photo for a few monents. It shows a typical and ubiquitous ad promoting U. S. and World tourism to Cuban spots such as Varadero Beach back in the 1950s when the United States government and the Mafia backed Cuba's brutal dictator Fulgencio Batista. Fueled by lavish and giddy tourism in Batista's Cuba, the Batistianos, the Mafia, and top USA companies raked in vast fortunes...till the victorious Cuban Revolution in January of 1959 decided the majority peasants deserved some crumbs for educational and medical attention too.

         It was on January 1st in 1959 when Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution overthrew the Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship, drastically changing Havana and Miami.

      Then starting in January of 1959 counter-revolutionary Cubans began the creation of Little Havana in nearby Miami Florida. And since January of 1959 rich and politically powerful Cubans in Little Havana/Miami Florida have dictated the USA's counter-revolutionary Cuban policies. And understand...from January of 1959 till April of 2026 is a very long time!

     Back on January 17th in 1954 Carlos Gimenez was born in Havana in Batista's Cuba. Then after the victory by the Cuban Revolution in January of 1959 he grew up in Miami with a lot of privileges including a Harvard Law Degree. He then became Mayor of Miami/Dade County from 2011 till 2020 and since 2023 he has been a member of the U. S. Congress in Washington. Before the end of this month of April in 2026 it is widely predicted that Miami Cubans such as Carlos Gimenez will finally get their wish to end the Cuban Revolution and watch the U. S. again dominate Cuba.

      One thing is sure, Americans and the World will soon discover that, like in the 1950's in Batista's Cuba, the Miami Cubans like Carlos Gimenez will suddenly and loudly allow unrestricted tourism to incomparable Cuban attractions such as...Varadero Beach. Wonderful. So soon just like the rest of the world, Cuba will be allowed to have tourism MONEY!!  But the next question might be: How much will go to MIami?

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