Supports New Cuban Leader!!
{Saturday, May 12th, 2018}
{Saturday, May 12th, 2018}
A powerful contingent from the United Nations in New York arrived in Cuba this week and showed its support for the island's first non-Castro/non-revolutionary leader since 1959. This photo shows Alicia Barcena, the UN's Latin American & Caribbean leader, chatting with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel.
A Mexican, Alicia Barcena heads the United Nation's Commission for Latin America and the Carribbean {ECLAC}. In Cuba, as reported by journalists Nelson Acosta and Sarah Marsh of the London-based Reuters News Agency, Alicia Barcena made this important and updated statement: "This country which welcomes us today is testing its own ways to face the brutal human costs it has sustained during an unjust blockade. We evaluate it every year as an economic commission and we know that the blockade costs the Cuban people more than $130 billion at current prices and has left an indelible mark on its economic structure." But Alicia Barcena's conclusions are so important, so updated, and SO CORRECT that the U. S. mainstream media is, generally speaking, not courageous enough to report those words to Americans.
The U. S. embargo/blockade of Cuba, as depicted above by Brazilian journalist Carlos LaTuff, was first imposed in 1962 after the 1961 Bay of Pigs military attack, repeated terrorist attacks and assassination attempts, and a myriad of other salacious efforts had failed to recapture Cuba for the Batista-Mafia dictatorship that had fled to Little Havana in Miami after being overthrown by the Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959. That entrenchment on U. S. soil, and eventually in the bowels of the U. S. government, has shamed America and Democracy for over six decades, as the UN's Alicia Barcena explained again this week. While generations of Americans have not had the patriotism or the courage to correct that insult to democracy, the unanimity of the UN vote condemning it...191-to-0...in 2016 during the final year of the decent presidency of Barack Obama...preceded the UN's blistering update this week.
With the help of a mere handful of right-wing thugs in Washington, a mere handful of Counter Revolutionary Cuban exiles in 1962 were rich enough and powerful enough to create the embargo/blockade. DE-classified U. S. documents have since revealed the purpose of the embargo/blockade: To starve, deprive, and make miserable the lives of Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. It hasn't worked because, obviously, there have always been enough Cubans on the island who remember {or now know of} the unconscionable brutality and thievery of the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship from 1952 till 1959. As the graphic above clearly illustrates, a mere handful of self-serving Cuban-exiles in Miami and in the U. S. Congress have, decade-after-decade {even during the Obama presidency} managed to keep the embargo/blockade in place...defying the wishes of most Cuban Americans and the entire world.
So this week a great and powerful lady, Alicia Barcena, representing the United Nations, again powerfully condemned the U. S. embargo of Cuba. But a few miscreants hiding behind the skirts of the World Superpower can overrule the sanity and decency of someone like Alicia Barcena, a disaster that has existed since 1962.
United Nations stalwart Alicia Barcena.
The Batista-Mafia dictatorship that ransacked Cuba from 1952 till 1959 has, deep into a third generation now, been allowed to ransack America from 1959 till May of 2018...with no end in sight.
As long as the United States government has a two-party system and one of them is the Republican Party, the past 60 years of Batistiano-Mafiosi insults to America and to Democracy will undoubtedly continue for ANOTHER 60 years or so!!!!
And that seems to be precisely what Alicia Barcena, representing the United Nations, told Cuba's new President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, this week. In other words, Barcena probably and Diaz-Canel possibly believe that the Cuban Revolution says a lot more about the United States than it says about Cuba.
Brazil's Carlos LaTuff is among those who admire little Cuba's pugnacious defiance for six decades of the embargo-blockade that the UN's Alicia Barcena called "unjust" this week.
But as the U. S. tries to secure its southern border, it seems, to some, to leave openings for "Anti-Cuba Terrorists Only."
But even during very fierce man-made or natural hurricanes, Revolutionary Cuba's Caribbean flag still waves...very fiercely.
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