Another Cuban Milestone

Just 24-hours old!!

        As of today -- April 27th, 2017 -- Cubans have much better and much faster Internet service as the above Desmond Boylan/AP photo shows. Google Global Cache is now available on the island. It's a big deal and another milestone for Cuba. GGC marks the first time a foreign company has launched and hosted Internet service on the island. It enables Cubans to quickly and easily store content from Google services such as GMail and YouTube. The Cubans surfing the Internet above are in Havana and there are now 240 such Wi-Fi hotspots across the island, plus an additional 2,000 new in-home hooks-ups.

         This Adalberto Roque/AFP photo shows enthused Internet users in Havana who now have faster and better service starting today with the newly available Google Global Cache access.

        The world Internet giant Google now has its own technology center in Havana in the office shown above. It's located in the studio of artist Alexis Leiva Machado who is shown here just to the right of the two ladies. The man right behind him is Brett Perlmutter, the head of Google's Cuban office. The password to access the Internet in the studio is AbajoElBloqueo, which means "Down With The Blockade."

          This future Internet user in Cuba is also projecting an anti-blockade sentiment, the consensus opinion on the island pertaining to the U. S. economic embargo that has severely hurt Cubans like this little girl and her parents and grandparents since 1962. In 2017 the international vote in the United Nations is 191-to-0 in condemnation of the embargo, which only the 535-member U. S. Congress can end but for decades a mere handful of Cuban-American extremists have maintained with the self-servicing aid of a handful of right-wing sycophants. But today's new Google Global Cache on the island is a reflection that former U. S. President Barack Obama, at least temporarily, bravely and significantly sliced into the Batistiano dictation of America's Cuban policy, meaning that Mr. Obama was the first U. S. President since the 1950s to show proper, non-imperialist respect for innocent Cubans, like the little girl depicted above.

        This amazing Reuters photo shows that Playa Giron in Cuba has been invaded once again in April of 2017. Americans refer to "Playa Giron" as the Bay of Pigs. In April of 1961 the U.S./Cuban-exile military attack commenced at this very spot in a famously failed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution. This week in April of 2017 the invasion above is by a massive army of crabs. They have swarmed out from the forest and fields around the famed Playa Giron-Bay of Pigs spot in a desperate attempt to reach the welcoming sea waters so they can spawn.

A driver forced to crush crabs at Playa Giron.

In April of 1961, Fidel Castro led the Bay of Pigs defense.

Cuba calls the 3-day battle by its Playa Giron location.

The Bay of Pigs location at Playa Giron.

       This photo was taken from the Hotel Playa Giron and shows the very site where the Bay of Pigs attack commenced in April of 1961 and where the mass invasion of crabs is taking place in April of 2017. It's now a peaceful and picturesque part of Revolutionary Cuba. And after spawning in the sea the crabs don't return...and presumably neither will attacking soldiers from counter-revolutionary foreign forces. 

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