New President Changes Cuba

 The Miguel Diaz-Canel Imprint Sharpens!!

Photo courtesy: Enrique de la Osa/Reuters

     The photo above was used Wednesday, July 18th, 2018, to illustrate an article written by Rachel England for Reuters. She said: "The Cuban government has launched a program that will see mobile internet rolled out nationwide by the end of the year. Cuba is one of the least connected countries in the Western Hemisphere due to a lack of resources, the U. S. trade embargo, and low tolerance for outside support of public dissidence. But new President Miguel Diaz-Canel says, 'greater internet access will help boost the economy and help Cubans defend the revolution.'"

       In the days after April 19th, 2018, when he became President of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel spent considerable time touching base with Cuba-friendly world leaders. He firmly stated, "We must work as best we can with the Trump administration in Washington but unlike during the Obama term it now involves wasting too much of our time that can better be spent with international leaders of friendly nations."

      Cuba's new President backs up his comments. Diaz-Canel is shown above with an international leader that is very friendly to Cuba, Federica Mogherini. She is the High Representative for the 28 European Union nations that include key trade-partners.

     In addition to the July 18th-2018 Reuters report that President Diaz-Canel is aiming for nationwide internet access by the end of the year, he earlier this week reaffirmed a key decision in which he ordered his Ministers "to appear regularly on Cuba's excellent television channels to tell the people what each of you are doing to address the concerns of the people, so they can judge your efforts for themselves."

     This week, in reaction to Diaz-Canel's new orders stressing that televised news and cultural reports should connect the Cuban people more with their leaders, the photo above was taken at a national journalistic session. Diaz-Canel valued the input of two very popular television news anchors -- Rosy Amaro on the left and Cristina Escobar on the right. Journalist Sergio Gomez is in the middle of the above photo.

       Within the first month of his Cuban presidency, Diaz-Canel was confronted by a major tragedy -- the crash on the edge of Havana of a Cuban airplane in which 112 people were killed on May 18th, 2018. Diaz-Canel immediately went to the scene of the crash {above}. Standing in front of the burning wreckage, Diaz-Canel faced live television cameras and explained what he knew at the time about the crash. He explained why the 39-year-old Boeing 737 was leased from a tiny Mexican airline and had a Mexican crew, and he blamed the U. S. embargo as the reason Cuba cannot get needed spare parts or newer planes. After allowing both the U. S. and Mexican experts to investigate the cause of the crash, this week "pilot error" was blamed.

     The flight had taken off from Havana on the island's west end bound for a 450-mile flight to Holguin, a major city on the eastern end of the island. The crash site just southwest of Havana is depicted above by the red star. Since then, 16-hour bus rides have replaced the domestic flight as Cuba grounded all but 3 of its 16 major planes.

     Two of the passengers aboard the ill-fated Havana-to-Holquin flight on May 18th were...Dr. Monica Leyva Garcia and her precious baby girl. Waiting for them at the Holquin airport was Dr. Leyva's husband and the baby's father. He too is a doctor at the Holquin hospital. Monica Leyva had posted the above photo on her Facebook page on April 8th, 2018. Victims of the U. S. embargo? Diaz-Canel thinks so.

      U. S. Senator Marco Rubio -- a product of the Bush dynasty, the Tea Party, and Little Havana in Miami -- is currently in control of the U. S. Cuban narrative. He says...he lies...that the embargo is in place and should be strengthened TO HELP the Cuban people. The Trump administration, in compliance with the easily manipulated mainstream U. S. media, enables the self-absorbed Rubio to revel as America's latest Cuban dictator, reveling in the political power he gets from policies that torture innocent people, including babies, in a nearby much weaker nation. The gutless mainstream U. S. media that excoriates Trump for torturing migrant children who cross the U.S.-Mexican border illegally has neither the courage nor the integrity to criticize either Trump or Rubio for torturing totally innocent babies in THEIR OWN COUNTRY, which is the Caribbean island of Cuba.

      Meanwhile, the rest of the world -- including former U. S. President Barack Obama and Fabiola Sanchez, the Cuban-born editorial chief & top columnist at the Miami Herald -- agree with the unanimous UN vote {191-to-0} condemning the embargo against Cuba. It has, of course, existed SINCE 1962 to appease a mere handful of self-serving Counter Revolutionaries like Rubio who could not care less about the shame it bestows on the United States and on Democracy...OR how it effects the precious lives of Cubans on the island like Dr. Monica Leyva and her baby. {The above internationally accepted image of the U. S. embargo of Cuba was crafted by Brazilian journalist Carlos Latuff after he read the DE-classified U. S. document that detailed the reason for the embargo from 1962 till today and that reason was-is to starve, deprive, and make miserable the lives of Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government}. Through all these decades since 1962, cowardly and unpatriotic Americans have not had the guts or the intelligence to do something about history's longest and cruelest embargo ever imposed by a powerful nation against a weak nation. Carlos LaTuff speaks the truth; Marco Rubio revels in lies as he gloriously hides behind the skirts of the Superpower U. S. government, THE VERY SAME THING THE BATISTA-MAFIA DICTATORSHIP DID IN CUBA TILL THE CUBAN REVOLUTION IN 1959 CHASED IT TO LITTLE HAVANA IN MIAMI, Florida.

      Improving Cuba's fragile economy while trying to deal with yet another Republican administration in Washington {that is tightly aligned with counter-revolutionary Miami and Congressional hard-liners}, remains a daunting task for President Diaz-Canel's nascent leadership of the vulnerable and historically targeted nation that, unfortunately, lies just 90 miles from Key West, Florida. But the Cuban people all across the Caribbean's largest island got to know Diaz-Canel during his stint as a motorcycle-riding Education Minister and they strongly support him in these early stages of Cuba's first non-Castro and non-Revolutionary presidency since 1959.

The Diaz-Canel ledger.

     But, first and foremost, President Diaz-Canel's idol will always be Revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, who died at age 90 on November 25th, 2016. Improving Cuba's economy is #Two on Diaz-Canel's priority list; protecting Fidel Castro's revolution and legacy is #One. The so-called "Cuban experts" in Washington have rarely judged Cuba correctly, accounting for the island's Revolutionary victory over the vile U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship; over the vile Bay of Pigs attack in April of 1961; and over six decades of constant U.S.-CIA-Cuban exile-Mafia attempts to recapture the island. The Washington "experts" pre-judging Miguel Diaz-Canel as merely a "figurehead leader" once again plays into little Cuba's hands against its colossal northern enemy.

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