As the Sun Sets in Charlottesville!
{Charlottesville is my hometown}
{Charlottesville is my hometown}
The beautiful, peaceful sunset above is courtesy of Rosy Amaro Perez. It depicted the start of a typically calm Saturday night in Cuba on August 12th, 2017.
This photo is courtesy of the New York Times. It was taken just prior to sunset on August 12th in Charlottesville, Virginia, the site of a violent racist white-vs.-black extremism that resulted in many injuries and three deaths. I am a native of Charlottesville and I wish the sunset today over Charlottesville was as peaceful as the sunset in Havana. Charlottesville is a very rich city of 47,000 people and where Thomas Jefferson's Monticello home and his University of Virginia is located.
The violent turmoil in my hometown of Charlottesville-USA today was the top international news story on August 12th, 2017. As noted above, some of the worldwide coverage actually chose to warn its viewers of the "graphic content."
After sunset on Saturday, August 12th, 2017 in Cuba, this was a typical street on the island. It is politically incorrect in the USA to say so, but Revolutionary Cuba just happens to be one of the safest nations in the world. In the USA many big cities like Chicago and, yes, even little cities like my Charlottesville are prone to violence.
A Cuban street Saturday, Aug. 12-2017.
All of these updated Cuban photos are courtesy of Rosy Amaro Perez. That's her with the usual smile as she shares a moment with a friend. As long as Rosy keeps smiling, I believe, Revolutionary Cuba will survive its many problems -- both domestic and foreign. She is a highly respected leader of the young-adult generation of Cubans that fervently support the island's sovereignty and independence.
In the middle, Rosy with friends.
Rosy is a skilled broadcast journalist.
On a Cuban street, Rosy at work.
As a high-profile and influential young Cuban, Rosy Amaro Perez is quite active online in social circles, especially Facebook. For example, on April 16th when U. S. President Donald Trump savaged Cuba to the cheers of counter-revolutionary Cubans in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood, Rosy watched Trump's speech live on Cuban television. She then said on her Facebook page: "The Cuba that Trump described is not the Cuba I know, and I've lived here all my life." The mainstream U. S. media ubiquitously allows, without daring to question, counter-revolutionary zealots like profiteering U. S. Senator Marco Rubio from Miami to savage Revolutionary Cuba to their heart's content. Rubio has never been to Cuba. But Rosy Amaro Perez lives there. And she has opinions too. So, there are two sides to the U.S.-Cuban equation.
A Cuban sunset courtesy of Flickr.
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