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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What IS the Trump-Rubio plan for Cuba?

 Some comments on that......

  Miami-born Secretary of State Marco Rubio and President Donald Trump surely have dire and massive plans for Cuba...at least as soon as they get more of a grip on the sticky Iran problem. Today -- March 31st, 2026 -- I will try to provide some of my beliefs on their impending changes in Cuba.

      Both Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his boss Donald Trump have talked about a "friendly" regime change in Cuba. I simply don't think that will happen, although some immediate changes probably will financially help the everyday Cubans in Cuba.

      This past Sunday night on Air Force One President Trump told journalists that he would allow this Russian Oil Tanker to dock in Cuba carrying thousands of tons of oil. It sounded like a surprise and "friendly" statement from the Rubio-Trump administration towards the Cuban people, but that is in dire contrast to the extreme tightening of the already extreme seven-decade U. S. EMBARGO that since 1962 has already "starved, deprived, and made miserable" generations of everyday Cubans on the island to encourage them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government that overthrew the lucrative US/MAFIA-backed Batista dictatorship on January 1st in 1959. The victory by the Cuban Revolution quickly spawned Little Havana in nearby Miami that since 1959 has produced generations of Cuban-Americans such as Marco Rubio and thousands of other rich and powerful Miami Cubans who have essentially dictated the U. S. Cuban policies from 1959 till this very day as April 1st in 2026 arrives!! In the last 67 years the Cuban people in Cuba have not overthrown their revolutionary government but neither has Miami's Little Havana even with the ubiquitous help of the superpower United States!! 

    For decades the 187 nations in the United Nations, excluding the U. S. and Israel, have voted in near unanimity to beg the United States to lift its cruel economic EMBARGO/blockade against Cuba and to stop using the USA's vast influence to keep other nations from trying to help the masses of everyday Cubans in Cuba. Rarely do other nations defy Little Havana/United States dictates regarding Cuba but this week, as March turns into April in 2026, that Russian oil tanker now in Cuba and Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum are trying to get much-needed help to the Cuban people who are suffering mightily from total energy/electricity blackouts as well as drastic food, medical shortages, etc.

      Since 2018 Miguel Diaz-Canel has been Cuba's President and for many years before that he was the island's Education Minister. This week he used the word "recrudecimiento" to describe what the U. S. and Little Havana are doing to the collective masses of Cuban people on the island. The word "recrudecimiento" means "PUNISHMENT." 

      Cuba's top United States expert is the island's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Carlos Fernandez de Cossio. Normally the U. S. media only allows Little Havana Cubans in Miami to speak about U.S.-Cuban relations. But, as shown above, last Sunday NBC News gave Carlos a half-hour to speak on Cuba's behalf on NBC's legendary Meet the Press program, which is history's longest-running television program of any kind. Speaking fluent and decisive English, the highly respected Carlos used his time to make many valid points, including this one:

            The United States economic embargo/blockade against Cuba has existed since 1962. It is history's all-time longest, cruelest, and most devastating economic blockade/embargo ever imposed by a much-larger and much-stronger nation against a much-smaller and much-weaker nation. To deny that fact is a lie. And to say that the revolutionary Cuban governement and the Cubans in Cuba are solely to blame for the collective devastations on the island is an even bigger lie.

A blockaded Cuban trying to survive this week.

     Back in the 1940s and 1950s prior to the victorious Cuban Revolution, Cuba's brutal US/Mafia-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista was triumphantly paraded around Washington in a convertible. Back then Batista, the Mafia, and dozens of U. S. companies used Cuba as a veritable financial Piggy Bank at a time when Cuba was widely hailed as "The Paradise of the Tropics." 

     But in Batista's Cuba in the 1950s, the "Paradise of the Tropics" that was a PIGGY BANK for Batista, the Mafia, and the United States made one stupid mistake: IT FAILED TO TOSS A FEW CRUMBS TO THE MAJORITY PEASANTS.

       The Cuban "Paradise" for Batista, the Mafia, and the United States in the 1950s should have tossed a few crumbs to the everyday Cuban people, because dire poverty across the island spawned the anti-Batista Cuban Revolution.

     In January of 1959 the victorious Cuban Revolution drastically changed the government in Havana but just as quickly spawned Little Havana in Miami.

      What if the Cuban Revolution had not created Little Havana in nearby Miami? If Little Havana in Miami had not evolved so quickly and so powerfully and so eternally starting in 1959, what would Havana look like today? In his great book "Havana Nocturne" the great writer T. J. English asked those two questions many times.

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