A Profile of Cuba

From Real Cubans!!
{Updated: Friday, August 18th, 2017} 

      This profile of a beautiful but worried Cuban, I think, is also a profile of today's Cuba. It captures the essence of the island this week as we navigate in the second half of August, 2017. So what is she worried about? The American President and Commander-in-Chief Trump attacking Cuba? Marco Rubio and other Miami counter-revolutionaries in the U. S. Congress recapturing her island after all these decades? Uh, no...nothing like that. This young Cuban was photographed at a moment when she was worried because her favorite team, the Industrialistas, was losing. This fleeting moment-in-time was chronicled by photo-journalist Jennifer Romero Andreu.

      This photo at the same game was taken by Cuban journalist-blogger Ismael Francisco Gonzalez Arceo. On the left is the outstanding young Cuban television anchor Rosy Amaro Perez and with her is photo-journalist Jennifer Romero Andreu. They were covering the game for the Cuban media and as interested spectators.

      I judge the rhythm, pulses, and nuances of Cuba by the perpetual smiles of Rosy Amaro Perez, a skilled broadcast journalist and a respected leader of Cuba's very vital young-adult generation. And as long as Rosy keeps smiling, I believe Cuba will survive Trump, Rubio, and even the less devious natural and domestic hurricanes.

And Rosy is still smiling.

Thus, Cuba is still surviving.

     This gorgeous photo is courtesy of Ismael Francisco. It also is a profile of today's Cuba. As you can see, the twins are healthy, happy and well-cared-for. That's Ambar on the left and Geradito beside him. Revolutionary Cuba has one of the world's lowest infant mortality rates and one of the world's best, and totally free, health and educational systems. Americans are not supposed to comprehend any of the ten up-to-date color photos shown above. That's why a mere handful of counter-revolutionary Cuban-Americans have mandated for decades that Americans are the only people in the world without the freedom to travel to Cuba...LEST THEY JUDGE IT FOR THEMSELVES?

      By the same token and for the same reasons, Americans are not supposed to comprehend the black-and-white photo above. It shows a typical everyday Cuban family in the pre-Revolutionary Batista-Mafia era from 1952 till 1959. These seven children and their female care-taker, and others like them, were non-entities health-wise, education-wise and otherwise. But Americans to this day are told that Batista's pre-Revolutionary Cuba was "the richest nation per capita in Latin America." Indeed, the Batista, Mafia and American elites were extremely wealthy but that is never factored into the per capita lies. But the seven children and that Cuban woman depicted above didn't have any say in Batista's Cuba and this black-and-white photo is not supposed to have any relevance or resonance today in the United States.

Now another color profile-photo:

       Cubans all this week are celebrating what would have been on August 13th the 91st birthday of revolutionary icon Fidel Castro, who died on Nov. 25-2016. Paying tribute above is First Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel. He is due to become the next President of Cuba when 86-year-old Raul Castro steps down in February of 2018. Standing just to Diaz-Canel's left is Ena Elsa Velazquez, Cuba's Minister of Education.

      Since January 1, 1959, Cuban women from incomparable revolutionary heroine Celia Sanchez to today's Ena Elsa Velasquez have held extraordinary power in Revolutionary Cuba, over and above anyone named Castro when it came to or comes to everyday domestic decisions. If you are told differently, you are being lied to.

          The above tribute to Fidel Castro this week on what would have been his 91st birthday is courtesy of Mariela Castro Espin, the notable daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro and his late wife, the superstar revolutionary heroine Vilma Espin.

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