Diaz-Canel Arrived Yesterday!!
Cuba's new President Miguel Diaz-Canel arrived in the United States yesterday -- Sunday, September 23rd, 2018. His primary mission is to starkly denounce the U. S. embargo against Cuba at the United Nations and in other venues, such as when he meets with New York City mayor Bill de Blasio and when he speaks at the historic Cuban-friendly Riverside Church. In fact, President Diaz-Canel had this bitter statement within minutes after he touched down on U. S. soil Sunday: "We bring the voice of Cuba that above all comes to denounce the abnormal policy of the blockade, a policy that has already failed, that will continue to fail, and that is the longest blockade in the history of humanity."
This is the Cuban airplane that now sits on United States soil at John F. Kennedy Airport after bringing President Diaz-Canel to New York City.
The highlight of President Diaz-Canel's first trip to the U. S. will be Wednesday's address at the United Nations when his primary focus will be on denouncing the U. S. embargo that he calls a "blockade." But the AFP photo above heralds the fact that Diaz-Canel not only made an anti-embargo statement when he first stepped on U. S. soil and a bit later when he told journalists, "Havana seeks a civilized relationship with the United States despite our ideological differences." He then added, "Of course, the administration of President Trump is difficult to form a relationship with."
The photo above courtesy of Dominio Cuba and Rosa Miriam Elizalde shows Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel besieged by journalists upon his arrival in New York City.
A non-Castro and a non-Revolutionary, Miguel Diaz-Canel took over as Cuba's new President on April 19-2018 and turned 58-years-old the very next day, meaning he was born after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. But make no mistake, he is a fierce defender of "everything the Revolution stands for -- namely, independence but also dignity for the Cuban people who have ruled their island since 1959 after centuries of rule and exploitation from Spain and the United States." Prior to becoming Cuba's President Diaz-Canel was the island's Education Minister and First Vice President. He has considerable support from Cubans all across the island -- including the well-educated, restive young-adults who bitterly oppose the "blockade" and strongly support Diaz-Canel's "reforma" policies.
Tasked with improving Cuba's economy and surviving the historic U. S. economic blockade, first imposed in 1962, President Diaz-Canel is stressing foreign investment, less bureaucratic obstacles to private enterprise, and he has keenly studied the market-fueled socialist economies in Communist China and Communist Vietnam, both of whom have flourished economically thanks to friendly deals with the USA. But, as with the quote above, Diaz-Canel abhors "capitalism" because he says it "shamefully enriches the few on the backs of the many."
Not only is Miguel Diaz-Canel Cuba's new President but the Cuban Parliament has recently drafted a new "reforma" Constitution that is remarkably different from the current one that has been in effect since 1976. The new constitution, which bears Diaz-Canel's imprint, is currently being publicly debated at 24,000 scheduled meetings all across the island and then will be submitted to a nationwide referendum vote early in 2019.
Cuba's new leader Diaz-Canel is the first non-Castro to lead the island since 1959. But that salient fact, as Diaz-Canel well knows, means very little to the vast Castro Cottage Industry in the United States that has profited so fantastically from its new capital of Little Havana in Miami since 1959. Diaz-Canel has referred to that industry as "a Golden Goose atop six decades of revenge against the necessary Revolution that has opposed them since the 1950s to this day and beyond."
While Cuba has a new President and is getting a new Constitution, both strongly supported by Cubans on the island, President Miguel Diaz-Canel is faced with an age-old problem: In all Republican administrations since 1959, America's Cuban policies have been dictated by a fierce minority of Counter Revolutionary Cubans who have never had problems acquiring the necessary amount of self-serving sycophants -- right-wing Congressmen, the Bush dynasty, the Tea Party, etc. And Diaz-Canel's refreshing leadership of Cuba coincides with another Republican U. S. President...Trump...who has reversed former Democratic President Obama's friendly gestures towards Cuba and shamefully returned the U. S. Cuban policies back over to the most greedy and vindictive miscreants in Miami and in Washington. About 90% of the mainstream U. S. media is currently engaged in a fierce media-coup to overthrow Trump, yet that 90% lacks the courage to even criticize Trump's genocidal policies against Cuban children on the island. Diaz-Canel, prior to his arrival in the U. S. Sunday, said, "The U. S. UN veto can dismiss a 191-to-0 vote of the world nations that favor our sustained protection of Cuba's children, and the U.S.'s unique military power can permit it to continue to punish another generation of Cuban children, but neither of those things means might is right. Most of the time might is wrong, unless it is wielded by decent people who respect other people."
Cuban President Diaz-Canel, after arriving in the U. S. Sunday, will address the UN Wednesday, September 26, 2018. That will be 58 years to the day after Fidel Castro's first UN address.
Yes, I repeat: Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel's first speech this week at the UN will take place Wednesday, September 26, 2018 -- EXACTLY 58 years to the day after Fidel Castro's historic first UN speech on September 26, 1960.
The photo above shows Fidel Castro making that speech at the UN on Sept. 26-1960. This was the Fidel who set a lot of all-time records during his 90 years on this earth...and he set a record on Sept. 26-1960 that will never be broken. This speech lasted FOUR HOURS and 29 MINUTES. No one has, or ever will, come close to that record at the UN although Fidel himself topped it multiple times in the open-air hot sun at Revolutionary Sqaure in Havana.
While in New York to speak at the UN, Fidel laughed at the front-page headline in the New York Journal-American about the latest assassination attempt against him, many of them admittedly by the CIA and also by bragging and well-known Cuban exiles. Credible sources, including the Guinness Book of World Records, confirmed "638" such attempts, a record -- like the 1960 UN speech -- that'll never be broken.
Fidel died of natural causes at age 90.
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