And Is Taking Advantage of It!!
The above photo this week reveals anew how much Russia loves U. S. President Donald Trump's ongoing efforts to reverse the massive diplomatic decency towards the island exhibited by his predecessor, President Obama. And that's rather significant considering that Russia is by far the biggest military threat to the United States. China, by far the biggest economic threat to the U. S., also welcomes Trump's antagonism towards Cuba. Both Russia and China want to increase their influence in the Caribbean and Latin America, and both anti-American powers consider Cuba a key pathway to those goals. Thus, in Cuba today more-and-more Chinese buses as well as sonar panels and wind mills are showing up. And 344 brand-new Russian Lada cars arrived on a recent Russian ship. The above photo shows a Russian locomotive arriving at the Port of Havana, one of 8 new ones in Cuba...and 28 more are on the way. The locomotive depot in Havana is being refurbished by a Russian Company.
Russia's electrical power generating company Inter RAO has signed a new deal with Cuba to have four new power plants operating on the island beginning in 2022.
Russia is very anxious to have its flag, as opposed to the American flag, flying side-by-side with the Cuban flag more-and-more during the Trump administration.
Meanwhile, Revolutionary Cuba is very proud when its flag flies solo because it represents the sovereignty it earned with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959, over the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia regime. Cuba's sovereign flag since 1959 has, symbolically and realistically, replaced five centuries of dominance by just two imperial powers -- Spain and the United States. This pivotal year of 2018 will witness the biggest political change in Cuba since Fidel Castro replaced Fulgencio Batista in 1959. Russia and China want to be more significant players in that transition than Cuba's neighbor, the United States.
In a few weeks, 86-year-old Raul Castro will retire as Cuba's President. In 2008 Raul had replaced his very ill brother Fidel Castro, who died at age 90 on Nov. 25-2016, as President of Cuba. In April of this year Miguel Diaz-Canel will be Cuba's new President, the first non-Castro Cuban leader since 1959 and one who was, significantly, born after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. This week -- from Feb. 19th to 21st -- six Cuba-friendly members of the U. S. Congress, led by Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Representative Kathy Castor of Florida -- were in Cuba. They met with President Raul Castro and other important Cubans, including entrepreneurs, in attempts to assess the damage so far perpetrated by Trump's reversal of many of Obama's Cuban advances. And the six members of the U. S. Congress this week also wanted to meet with Miguel Diaz-Canel but he ignored their requests although he was in Havana this week meeting with African leaders. Diaz-Canel is known to be "outraged that Trump has already double-crossed many of the mutual advantages our President and President Obama negotiated. If the American people allow such things what good is it to waste our time trying to normalize relations with the United States, mutually beneficial relations. We should use that time...most or all of it...negotiating with all the other nations that are our friends." That summation and foreshadowing of Miguel Diaz-Canel's intentions was revealed by a Vietnamese delegation that had met with the upcoming leader of Cuba. And the 56-year-old Diaz-Canel envisions a Vietnamese-style Cuban economy; and he has gotten encouragement on that front from three current Presidents -- Castro, Zi, and Putin.
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