cubaninsider: Female-Powered Cuba

19.3.17

Female-Powered Cuba

Women at the Forefront!

The Cuban Revolution and Revolutionary Cuba have both always been star-studded with fearless female guerrilla fighters and prime decision-makers. In Cuba today one such power is Ana Maria Mari Machado. She is one of the most vibrant Vice Presidents in Cuba's National Assembly, and one of the most admired Cuban officials with the general population. No trio of males in Cuba's Revolution matched the overall contributions of Celia Sanchez, Haydee Santamaria, and Vilma Espin...which is a basic fact whether on not the Cuban narrative in the United States admits it. Today in Revolutionary Cuba, the most powerful judicial judge is a woman; the top diplomat related to all issues involving the U. S. is a woman; the most popular news anchor on state television is a woman; the leader of the Federation of University Students and the island's most virulent defender of sovereignty is a woman; the leader of Cuba's vital Mariel Port Economic Zone is a woman, and the beat goes on in Cuba.

A powerful Vice President in Cuba's National Assembly, Ana Marie Mari Machado is a top strategist and one of the island's most popular leaders according to everyday Cubans. She says, "We are now traveling to all the municipalities to get feedback from our people. Popular rule is something I will always champion. What is best for all our people is my goal."

Significantly, Ana Maria Mari Machado has discovered that the "prime concern" of everyday Cubans across the island remains the economic embargo first imposed by the United States back in 1962.

Very influential and popular with everyday Cubans across the island, Ana Maria Mari Machado also often represents Cuba at important international forums, such as the one above in Belgium that involved the European Union.

Ana negotiated & signed the Brussels agreement.

Ana Maria Mari Machado is the Cuban leader most involved in the "No More Blockade" campaign. Her dire condemnation of it on behalf of the Cuban people now also gets a unanimous 191-to-0 condemnation in the UN.

Ana calls the U. S. embargo "a crime."

Ana Maria Mari Machado blames "the cowardice of the America people" for the embargo. "The few in America who benefit from it," she says, "are one factor but the biggest factor is the cowardice of the American people who sit back and let it happen while they show no respect, certainly not for precious Cuban children, but also not even for the scorn it causes their democracy."

At international forums, Ana Maria Mari Machado has no trouble convincing U.S.-friendly world leaders that the embargo of her island "is the longest and cruelest blockade ever imposed by a strong nation against a weak nation."

And yet.....

.........easily intimidated or propagandized Americans, decade after decade after decade, are successfully told that anti-embargo stalwarts on the island -- like Ana Maria Mari Machado -- are the "bad guys" while.........................