YES, Cuba Has A New President

But be real quiet Because....

Americans Are Not Supposed to Know!
{UPDATED: Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018}

    In a major Miami Herald article yesterday {Oct. 2-2018} written by Nora Gamez Torres, Miami readers, including those in Little Havana, were told that Cuba's new President Miguel Diaz-Canel was treated like a Superstar during his week in New York City at and all around the United Nations. He was hosted and wined & dined by Harlem's Riverside Church, by many Cuba-friendly U. S. politicians including Miami-born Kathy Castor who has represented Tampa in the U. S. Congress since 2007, by top U. S. executives including Google's Top Boss Eric Schmidt, by A-list Hollywood celebrities including Robert De Niro, AND by an enthusiastic throng of well-known Cuban-Americans that included Saul Berenthal, Isabel Alfonso, and Hugo Cancio...with some of them singing the Revolution's famed July 26th theme song. Cancio, a notable Cuban-American businessman in Miami, was quoted by the Miami Herald as saying, "To attend an event with the President of your country is more than an opportunity. It is a duty. Those of us who were there had something in common, our love of Cuba. I was moved by Diaz-Canel..."

     It was President Diaz-Canel's first time on U. S. soil but he mingled well with famed U. S. admirers like Robert De Niro.

    Some celebrities who met President Diaz-Canel, such as Robert De Niro above, took to social media to advocate for normal U.S.-Cuba relations, excoriating U. S. belligerence.

     The generational exiles in the United States who fled the Cuban Revolution in 1959 have been permitted to dictate the Cuban narrative in the USA for all these decades, while also dictating most of the USA's egregious Cuban laws. While still failing to recapture Cuba, the USA Castro Cottage Industry has been so incredibly rewarding, economically and politically, that it is very hard for rich and powerful Batistianos to let go of their Gold Mine. Therefore, Americans are not supposed to know...or at least acknowledge...that Cuba has a new leader who is not a Castro, not a revolutionary icon, and in fact is the island's former Education Minister, not a guerrilla fighter. Always clean-shaven, President Miguel Diaz-Canel spent this past week making a great impression around New York City...at the UN, at Google headquarters where he met with top U. S. executives, at famed Riverside Church in Harlem where the parishioners still remember and still love Fidel Castro, at the famed Dakota Apartments where John Lennon was slain and where Diaz-Canel was wined and dined by Hollywood elites, at a session where he was feted by Cuba-friendly politicians such as Miami-born Kathy Castor who represents Tampa-Florida in the U. S. Congress, at a session where he was hosted by significant Cuba-friendly Cuban-Americans like Arturo Lopez-Levy, etc.! AND, OH YES: Diaz-Canel, as indicated by the above photo, joined a notable Cuban band and enthusiastically displayed his skill as a drummer. The video of his lively performance as a talented drummer, by the way, has gone viral on the Internet.

     So, yes, America!! Cuba has a new President. His name is Miguel Diaz-Canel, the drummer shown above. And Perhaps...the U. S. government should be democratic enough to acknowledge that basic fact and it would also be nice if the mainstream U. S. media had the guts to admit it -- even if it might harm the economic and political might of the Castro Cottage Industry in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

     {P.S.: Cubans on the island love their new President but Batistianos in the United States hate him, perhaps because they haven't created a Diaz-Canel Cottage Industry yet}.

And by the way:

     One of the world's top providers of energy information -- S & P Global Platts -- reports that Cuba is investing $100 million and Russia is investing $165 million to upgrade Cuba's steel industry. The island's two steel companies are Antillla de Acero and Acinox.

     Cuba's Energy Minister Raul Garcia Barreiro spent this week in India and then announced yesterday -- on October 2nd, 2018  -- that India will help the island build two badly needed bio-electric plants. They will take advantage of two great Cuban resources that are both abundant and renewable -- SUN & WIND.

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