Cuba vs. USA at the UN

Still David vs. Goliath!!

{And still, Incredibly, A Stand-off}
{Sunday, September 30th, 2018}

    The photo above fronted an insightful Reuters article recapping Cuba's new President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, being introduced to the world this week in New York City, including two major speeches, as shown above, at the United Nations. Reuters is the international news agency based in London, so unlike the mainstream U. S. media, the article had the journalistic freedom and integrity to report fairly about the significant first touch-down on U. S. soil of Cuba's only non-Castro and only non-Revolutionary leader since 1959. The Reuters article stressed the fact that Diaz-Canel, first and foremost, is every bit as fervent a defender of Revolutionary Cuba as the Castro brothers, Fidel and Raul, were. That basic fact, highlighted all this week by former Education Minister Diaz-Canel, pitted little Cuba firmly against President Donald Trump's USA once again in front of the eyes of the world on an international stage. But, of course, Diaz-Canel's most demanding job is to continue to defend Cuba against the latest generation of Cuban-American extremists, always hiding behind the might of the USA government, to regain control of Cuba after all these decades. And that's a tall task for Diaz-Canel considering that Trump represents the 6th Republican administration since the 1950s fully aligned with the Batistiano-Mafiosi extremists who ruled the island brutally and lucratively in the 1950s and critically desire to do so again. Diaz-Canel is quite aware that Republican rule in Washington desires Batista/Mafia-like rule in Cuba and, even in New York City this week, Diaz-Canel was not afraid or reluctant to explain why: "If the Miami-Cuban Mafia regains control of Cuba, rich U. S. politicians and businessmen will again fully participate in the rape-and-robbery spoils just like they did three generations ago prior to the 1959 triumph of the Cuban Revolution. In Fidel's era, Cuba resolutely opposed that foreign assault in a life-or-death manner. My post-Fidel generation will do the same."

    Fidel Castro died at age 90 on Nov. 25-2016. Although his tomb is on the end of the long, alligator-shaped island hundreds of miles from Havana, President Miguel Diaz-Canel, as shown above, often visits the shrine to pay tribute to his idol.

     Although Americans are programmed not to believe it, there have always been enough do-or-die Fidel supporters to help him win his Revolution and then to help him defend it against supposedly overwhelming forces fueled by Cuban-exile extremists backed by the financial and military might of the world's superpower, the nearby United States of America. For example, back in the 1950s Fidel's most fervent do-or-die supporters were young and legendary female guerrilla fighters like Celia Sanchez, Haydee Santamaria, Vilma Espin, Tete Puebla, etc., etc. Today the most fervent do-or-die defenders of Fidel Castro's legacy are young, highly educated females...like the one shown above paying tribute at Fidel's tomb. Her name is...Rosy Amaro Perez.

    It so happens that Rosy Amaro Perez is a brilliant young news anchor on one of Cuba's state-owned television networks, which are both sophisticated and influential. And guess what? Rosy is not adverse to criticizing U. S. Counter Revolutionaries like Marco Rubio from Miami because she is a fiery defender of Revolutionary Cuba. Yet, she is just as apt to criticize The President of Cuba if she thinks some government policy is harming her beloved fellow Cubans. For example, recently Rosy blasted the government when it deleted from voting ballots the names of two candidates she thought were well qualified to be elected to the island's National Parliament. Earlier this month she blasted the government when she learned that a young female gymnast who had qualified for an event in faraway Doha was not being allowed to go, at least till Rosy intervened. And in this last week of September-2018 Rosy criticized the management at the famed state-owned Hotel Nacional for charging a Cuban worker five pesos when he wanted to just have a family visit to the hotel's beautiful gardens. Rosy's criticism got a strong...and positive...response from the government. On Friday, Sept. 28-2018 she got a long letter that began: "Dear journalist Rosy Amaro Perez: We have read your dissatisfaction expressed in social media where you explain that a worker had to pay five CUC to enter the Nacional Hotel of Cuba and see the gardens." Then the long, LONG letter went into great detail to address Rosy's defense of the Cuban worker. The letter was signed: "Atentamente, Antonio Martinez Rodriguez, Gerente General, Hotel Nacional de Cuba." {"Sincerely, Antonio Martinez Rodriguez, General Manager, National Hotel of Cuba."}

     I point out this accurate and typical snapshot of Cuba as related to Rosy Amaro Perez, the high-profile and highly influential young broadcast journalist on Cuba's state-owned television network Cubavision International. A passionate defender of the Revolution and everyday Cubans, she is as likely to berate Cuba's President Diaz-Canel as the USA's President Donald Trump if she feels they are responsible for harming any of her beloved fellow Cubans. With Counter Revolutionaries dictating America's Cuban narrative since 1959, Americans are convinced that someone like Rosy would quickly be reprimanded...or worse...for publicly criticizing the Cuban government. But Rosy's intention is solely to help Cubans on the island, not undermine or overthrow the government. Thus, inevitably, Rosy's critiques result in positive reactions from the government...which is rather well-known for not being reluctant to defend itself against anyone trying attempting to undermine or overthrow the revolutionary government. FOR AMERICANS NOT TO KNOW THAT CUBA HAS PRODUCED REMARKABLE YOUNG WOMEN LIKE THE INCOMPARABLE CELIA SANCHEZ IN THE 1950S AND LIKE ROSY AMARO PEREZ IN TODAY'S CUBA EXPLAINS WHY AMERICANS TO THIS DAY DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW THE CUBAN REVOLUTION TRIUMPHED IN 1959 AND -- EVEN MORE REMARKABLY  -- HOW IT HAS DEFENDED ITSELF FOR ALL THESE DECADES SINCE 1959. Not to know Rosy Amaro Perez in 2018 is akin to not knowing Celia Sanchez way back in 1953.

The great Celia Sanchez, early 1950s.

      Celia Sanchez in her Cuba made the two greatest and most definitive quotations related to her Revolution. The one I think is best is this: "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 on Jan. 11-1980; Fidel died of natural causes at age 90 on Nov. 25-2016. Her proclamation was fulfilled and it continues beyond her death and Fidel's. But Celia's quotation that THE WOMAN PROJECT.ORG thinks is best is: "We rebels...get far too much credit for winning the Revolution. Our enemies deserve most of the credit, for being greedy cowards and idiots." Celia was a mild-mannered, 99-pound doctor's daughter in 1953 when she decided, at all costs, the murderous, thieving, and U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship had to be overthrown. Her decision was critical. Fidel Castro all his adult life believed she had "the most" to do with the triumph and the longevity of the Cuban Revolution.

AND THE POINT I MAKE IS THIS:

      Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution succeeded and then survived because he and it had the do-or-die support of Cuban women like Celia Sanchez.

     Now in the closing months of 2018, two years after Fidel Castro's death, Cuba's new President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, has a chance to succeed and for his Revolutionary Cuba to survive because he and it have the do-or-die support of Cuban women like Rosy Amaro Perez. Americans, I believe, have no clue as to how and why the Cuban Revolution succeeded nor how and why Revolutionary Cuba has survived for all these decades, confounding the most powerful odds any small nation has ever confounded. And that's because, I believe, Americans don't have a clue about the significance of incredible Cuban women -- such as Celia Sanchez decades ago and Rosy Amaro Perez in today's Cuba. Without such women there would be no Revolutionary Cuba.

      So, who is Rosy Amaro Perez, the young woman who epitomizes why President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Revolutionary Cuba might survive the omnipotent Trump/Rubio-led Counter Revolutionary forces in today's USA? Well...let's see. Rosy almost a decade ago graduated from the University of Havana's School of Journalism. She is one of a plethora of young, influential female journalists on the island. She is the doting mother of a gorgeous and precocious daughter that turns 5 in October. As a high-profile television news anchor and very active on social media, Rosy, as noted, will assail President Diaz-Canel as scathingly as she attacks President Trump if she feels they might be responsible for harming everyday Cubans on the island. Rosy has visited the major capitals in Europe; she has close relatives that live in Florida, Virginia, Arizona, etc.; and she has been offered jobs by U.S.-based companies. But she loves Cuba and, like Celia Sanchez, she will defend it at all costs.

     This photo...Rosy Amaro Perez at Fidel Castro's tomb...explains why Fidel's legacy still dominates Cuba and why Cuba's first non-Castro leader since 1959, President Miguel Diaz-Canel, might survive the Trump presidency in the U. S...and beyond. Americans are not supposed to know that...and that's because they are not supposed to know the impact of Cuban women like the long-ago heroine Celia Sanchez and like the present-day journalist Rosy Amaro Perez. Americans, including the CIA, not knowing Cuba, you see, has always aided the Revolution. For example, the CIA-directed Bay of Pigs air-land-and-sea attack on Cuba in April of 1961 was historically reported as being based largely on two famed assurances the CIA gave neophyte President John Kennedy: {1} Don't worry, Mr. President, the moment Fidel hears the bombs dropping on Camp Colombia on the edge of Havana he will bolt for his getaway airplane; and {2} once the Cuban people realize Castro is being attacked by U. S. warplanes, they'll turn against him themselves. Well, uh...Fidel never had a getaway airplane and when he heard the U. S. warplanes, he raced to the front-lines at the Bay of Pigs to lead the famed defense of the island; and when the Cubans realized their Revolution was being attacked, not a single one turned against Castro but 400,000 in the next 48 hours rushed to support him, and that was far more than he needed. Therefore, after all these decades, Americans not knowing Celia, or Fidel, or Rosy has worked out well for Cuba. And Americans today, not knowing the meaning of the photo above showing Rosy at Fidel's tomb, is also already working out well for Miguel Diaz-Canel's Cuba.

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