Why Cuba's Revolution Survives

Against ALL Odds!!!
{Updated: Friday, September 29th, 2017} 

     It is my belief that democracy-loving Americans should take time to study the photo depicted above, for this reason: Since January of 1959, when the Cuban Revolution defeated the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship, Americans have been lied to regarding why there was a revolution in Cuba in the first place and about why the world's greatest democracy allowed the leading remnants of the overthrown regime in Cuba to quickly re-establish their dictatorship on U. S. soil with undeserved and mostly unchecked dictation of America's Cuban policy from 1959 till today. In that milieu, Americans -- with the Batistiano-Mafiosi control of the Cuban narrative in the U. S. -- are shocked that Revolutionary Cuba has survived, against all odds, for all these decades. The photo above, I believe, explains why. From 1952, when the revolution started, till today there have been enough young-adult Cubans strongly supporting the Revolution and Revolutionary Cuba to counter the ultra-powerful counter-revolutionaries hiding behind the skirts of the nearby World Superpower. Representative of today's young-adult Cubans on the island who firmly support the Revolution, this photo defines why Revolutionary Cuba still exists. Their names, clockwise left-to-right, are: Rosy Amaro Perez, Jessica Blanco Sotolong, Barbara Caridad Farinas Rodriguez, Reynaldo Rodriguez Castillo, Yaritza Hernandez, Ramadan Arcos, and {standing} Yanet Perez Moya. Americans don't need to remember all those names but, just for America's sake, they should remember this photo.

     A brilliant and influential broadcast journalist, Rosy Amaro Perez epitomizes why young-adult Cubans can counter a second generation of vicious counter-revolutionaries in the U. S. -- such as Miami's U. S. Senator Marco Rubio who, as far as Cuba is concerned, is today President Trump's unchecked Commander-in-Chief. Back on April 16th, President Trump -- at the behest of Rubio -- went to Little Havana in Miami and sanctimoniously vilified Cuba in a cowardly speech that was televised live in the U. S. and in Cuba. Within minutes Rosy Amaro Perez had posted these words on her Facebook Page: "The Cuba that President Trump described is not the Cuba that I know. And I have lived here all my life." She is extremely smart, well educated, and firmly focused. As her quotation indicates, she resents a half-century of unchecked, propagandized lies about her Cuba that Americans have been saturated with since 1959. Rosy Amaro Perez today is a reminder of the long-ago words that Cuba's greatest revolutionary heroine, Celia Sanchez, used to described the Batistianos-Mafiosi that she had chased off the island...all the way to America...as it turned out.

     Americans today, for reasons already stated, are not supposed to know about Celia Sanchez because the machismo U. S. counter-revolutionaries can't vilify the child-loving doctor's daughter so they had rather Americans not know about her historical importance. But those who believed she was the most vital cog in the Cuban Revolution included...Fidel Castro. And today the three top still-living Revolutionary experts in Cuba -- Marta Rojas, Roberto Salas, and Pedro Alvarez Tabio -- agree with Fidel regarding the significance of Celia Sanchez. Fittingly, her two historic quotations best define the Cuban Revolution and the counter-revolution in the United States: {1} "The Batistianos will never regain control of Cuba as long as I live or as long as Fidel lives." {Celia died of cancer at age 59 in Jan.-1980 and Fidel died of old age at 90 in Nov.-2016}. And {2} "We rebels get far too much credit for winning the revolution. Our enemies deserve most of the credit for being greedy cowards and idiots."

      And, yes, Celia Sanchez quotes that define the Cuban Revolution are registered in history by THE WOMAN PROJECT.ORG and other respected and brave organizations.

    Posters like the one above became ubiquitous in Cuba because Fidel Castro believed the two most important figures in the Cuban Revolution were Frank Pais and Celia Sanchez. Why? Because Frank and Celia started the revolution and devoted their lives to defending it. Batista put his two largest bounties on their precious heads. Because the bounty on Celia was never collected, the Revolution survived and triumphed. Cuba's top historian, Pedro Alvarez Tabio, correctly engraved that fact with these words: "If Batista had managed to kill Celia Sanchez anytime between 1953 and 1957 there would have been no viable Cuban Revolution, and no revolution for Fidel and Che to join." But the bounty on Frank was collected. He was captured at age 23 and brutally murdered, as was his 17-year-old brother Jesus.

     But the murder of Frank Pais back-fired on Batista's dictatorship and tremendously aided Celia Sanchez's all-important recruitment of vital rebels and supplies. As shown above, the hearse carrying the body of Frank Pais through the streets of Santiago de Cuba was bravely followed by thousands of Cubans who displayed their hatred of Batista and their renewed support for Celia Sanchez's "still viable" Cuban Revolution.

      But this is not to diminish the role in the Cuban Revolution played by its most famous player: Comandante Fidel Castro who is depicted above by Trabajadores.com. Yet, perhaps Fidel's most significant contribution was his everlasting support of his soulmate, Celia Sanchez. In fact, after she died of cancer on Jan. 11-1980, in 2005 Marta Rojas, the greatest living expert on the Revolution and Revolutionary Cuba, told me: "Since Celia Sanchez died of cancer in 1980, Fidel has continued to rule Cuba only precisely as he believes Celia would want him to rule it."

      And of interest to some, Cille85.com reminds us that the Fidel Castro legacy should also register the fact that he was a "Great Lover" of women. The number is somewhat of a secret but he fathered at least 12 children, 9 boys and three girls.

     Yet, the one person that Fidel Castro worshiped was his eternal soulmate, Celia Sanchez. To not understand that fact, I believe, is to not understand Cuba today.

     An historian named Helen Yaffe understands both the Cuban Revolution and the Celia-Fidel nexus. Ms. Yaffe created the photo-montage shown above. It purposely shows Celia Sanchez standing much taller than Fidel Castro. It thus agrees with Fidel that the petite, 99-pound doctor's daughter stood above him and everyone else when it came to the most important players in the ongoing Cuban Revolution.

     The look back at history brings us around to today's reality as depicted above. The Miami Herald photo shows five fiercely powerful counter-revolutionaries in Miami attending a news conference promoting Miami's contribution to the U. S. Senate, MARCO RUBIO, as the next President of the United States. That eventuality, they apparently believe, would instantly AND FINALLY end the Cuban Revolution.

      During the very contentious 2016 presidential campaign, longshot Donald Trump and Miami's United States Senator Marco Rubio unmercifully mocked and vilified each other, till Trump eliminated Rubio and 15 other Republican candidates.

       But that mocking photo was then and the photo above is now. It shows Rubio sucking up to President Trump. Even before Rubio resumes his own presidential bid, he believes he can persuade President Trump to finally put an end to the Cuban Revolution. Since 1959 counter-revolutionaries from Miami are accustomed to saying anything about Cuba and assuming the American people must accept it. Rubio made it all to the way to the Senate from Miami claiming his parents escaped the tyranny of Castro's Cuba for the freedom of Miami. THEN it was pointed out that Rubio's parents actually escaped the tyranny of Batista's Cuba long before Americans ever heard of Fidel Castro. But U. S. lies about Cuba are still standard fare. In Cuba, to counter counter-revolutionaries like Rubio, the truth is a major weapon used by the all-important young-adult generation of pro-revolutionary Cubans.

       For example, very boldly on Cuban soil and U. S. soil, Cuba's brilliant young broadcast journalist, Cristina Escobar, has said: "Cuban journalists have more freedom to tell the truth about the U. S. than U. S. journalists have to tell the truth about Cuba."

          And remember Rosy Amaro Perez? Don't forget her. She's another young, brilliant, and influential Cuban broadcast journalist. After watching the live broadcast of President Trump's vilification of Cuba while surrounded by the counter-revolutionary choir in Miami on April 16th, Rosy Amaro Perez posted this significant comment on her Facebook page: "The Cuba that President Trump described is not the Cuba I know. And I've lived here all my life." Shortly after posting those words on Facebook, there was this reply from Cristina Escobar: "May I quote you?"

         I think Americans, to be honest with themselves and true to democracy, should not just know the distorted quotations about Cuba, such as Rubio's, but also should get acquainted with the quotes from historic Cuban women like Celia Sanchez as well as modern Cuban women like, yes, Cristina Escobar and Rosy Amaro Perez.

And by the way:

       Study this photo. The three young-adult Cubans are Yesika Garcia, Yodani Maso Aguila, and Rosy Amaro Perez. The photo taken today illustrates why the Cuban Revolution has survived...against all odds. The latest leader of the counter-revolutionaries, Mr. Rubio, has a few advantages, such as...the U. S. military, the U. S. economy, the U. S. Congress, the U. S. CIA, and...perhaps most significantly...the apathy of the American people. But he still might not finish off Cuba's revolution.

And this photo might explain why that is so.

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