CUBA IS STILL STANDING

After Vicious Summit in Peru!!
{Tuesday, April 17th, 2018}

Photo courtesy: Getty Images.

        This Thursday, April 19th, 2018, had been the day 57-year-old Miguel Diaz-Canel was scheduled to become Cuba's President, replacing 86-year-old Raul Castro. That historic transition has been moved up one day; it will take place tomorrow -- Wednesday, April 18th. Raul had considered but canceled a trip to Peru last week for the 8th Summit of the Americas. He is tired but not ill and will soon begin spending most of his semi-retirement time far from Havana in the Santiago de Cuba area.

      The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, yesterday hurled a wicked dagger at Cuba. He has ordered all family members of Canadian diplomats in Havana to return home. His excuse is the mysterious Sonic Wave Attacks, the same excuse the U. S. Trump administration used to totally gut its embassy in Cuba, basically leaving only maintenance crews. In the last 70 years, Canada has been Cuba's most consistent friend and over a million Canadians visit Cuba each year, although Trudeau may curtail even that. Trudeau's father Pierre and his mother Margaret were dear friends of both Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution. Pierre Trudeau was Canada's Prime Minister from 1968 till 1984. Now his son Justin, the Prime Minister, might be the only Canadian Prime Minister to align totally with the USA as Cuba's second major enemy. Canada and the U. S. are Super Trade Partners and Trump has criticized Canadian Trade advantages. Justin Trudeau may be tossing a Cuban bone into that fray, trying to appease Donald Trump's administration.

Canadian embassy in Havana. 

But the Cuban flag still waves.

      If you happen to be a well-known Cuban dissident in Cuba, rich and powerful Counter Revolutionaries in Miami and Washington will turn you into a globe-trotting celebrity as well as put you on a highly publicized mile-high sacrosanct pedestal. The photo above, taken at the just-completed Summit of the Americas in Peru, is a case in point. That's Cuban dissident Rosa Maria Paya on the left being canonized by U. S. Vice President Mike Pence in Lima, Peru. With such ultra-powerful allies as Paya & Pence, the mere survival of Revolutionary Cuba for six decades and counting is all the more unfathomable for most observers of the HUGE phenomenon.

      When Miami's U. S. Senator Marco Rubio arrived at the Summit of the Americas in Peru, it signaled that the Counter Revolutionaries had their self-adorned leader.

     In Lima, posturing himself as the Cuban spokesman for all of America, Marco Rubio indicated he would have an absolute conniption if Cuba succeeding in turning over its Presidency this week...April 18th...to 57-year-old educator Miguel Diaz-Canel. It obviously dismays Rubio and his ilk that such a transition is possible in April of 2018 at a time when the Revolutionary icons on the island and the Counter Revolutionaries in Miami have all either died or entered their 8th decade on this earth. Rubio's arrival in Lima paralleled the U. S. missile attack in Syria but, like other Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami and in the U. S. Congress, Rubio's quest to recapture Cuba seems to far exceed all other dire American concerns. Yes!! Cuba!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     In Lima this past weekend Luis Almagro, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States, continued his long-time vehement effort to rally forces to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba. In Lima Almagro said that today Latin American countries had "the tools" to finally end the Cuban Revolution after all these decades!

     But while Luis Almagro was on center-stage demeaning Cuba, the 100-member Cuban contingent in Lima, as shown above, shouted "Liar, liar!!" in denouncing Almagro as "a paid mercenary for the United States." The pro-Cuban Cubans above accused Almagro of wanting "rich foreigners to again freely rob Cuba as they did when Batista and the Mafia ruled Cuba from 1952 till 1959." After that rebuke, Almagro said his shout-down was "an example of Cubans from Cuba not allowing any dissent."

    As things evolved in Peru this past weekend, the most vehement defender of Revolutionary Cuba turned out to be a loud little lady named Mirthia Brossard Oris. At one point, as shown above, she took over a microphone and viciously assailed Counter Revolutionaries as "bugs paid by the empire as we all know." The Counter Revolutionaries roared back at Mirthia but she held firm and the large Cuban contingent shouted them down as Mirthia continued her hot barrage unimpeded.

     And so, Mirthia Brossard Oris, as Cuba's most vocal and volatile defender in Lima, became a star at the Summit of the Americas and therefore, as shown above, she received many requests for interviews, and used them to defend Cuba further.

     A Cuban star in Lima this past week, Mirthia Brossard Oris back in Cuba is one of the leaders of the island's powerful pro-Revolutionary Federation of University Students. Back in 1952 and 1953, University students were the biggest supporters of Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution against the Batista-Mafia dictatorship. In April of 2018, the biggest supporters of Cuba's soon-to-be new President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, are Mirthia Brossard Oris and her fellow Federation of University Students. In Lima this past week, Counter Revolutionaries like Rubio, Pence, and Paya didn't want that truth to see the light of day but Mirthia very vocally made it a pertinent issue.

      Just before she left for Lima, this photo shows Mirthia Brossard Oris, wearing her ubiquitous glasses, with her dear friend Rosy Amaro Perez. Rosy is a talented and popular television news anchor in Havana. Rosy and Mirthia represent a significant fact in Revolutionary Cuba that propagandized Americans are not supposed to comprehend, and that is this: There is today, as there has been for six decades, a very strong generation of YOUNG-ADULTS on the island who fervently support the Revolution. If that were not so, exiles from the Batista-Mafia rule, backed by the economic and military power of the world Superpower, would be ruling Cuba today.

      Revolutionary Cuba's free educational and health care, come hell or high water, has produced two generations of well-educated and healthy Cubans. The photo above taken this past weekend in Peru at the Summit of the Americas, illustrates that basic fact. The 21 Cuban journalists shown above were quite professional in reporting back to Cuba from Lima, and that included live regional reports from top-flight anchors. In the second row above, the big man wearing the white t-shirt emblazoned with the Cuban flag is Aroldo Garcia Fombellida. To his left the five young journalists are Daina Caballero, Gisela Serna Soza, Cristina Escobar, Roberto Suarez, and Alienn Fernandez Cabrera. In the front row second from the left and kneeling is Rosa Miriam Elizalde, one of Cuba's most powerful educators and an important mentor to young Cubans.

     Cuba's superstar news anchor Cristina Escobar, shown above in the red jacket, spent all of last week in Lima reporting back to Cuba on the Summit of the Americas. In fluent English or Spanish, Cristina is probably the best all-around broadcast journalist in the Western Hemisphere and her Lima reports enhanced that reputation.

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