HEY!! It's ONLY 1 More Day!!
If you get your Cuba news from extreme right-wing media rags like Breitbart or extreme right-wing blogs like Babalu, you are probably convinced that Cuba's revolutionary government mows down thousands of Cubans each day with machine-guns set up in Havana's streets on the island's western end and Santiago's streets on the eastern end, with the carnage even worse in between those two major cities. But if you're smart enough to avoid right-wing propaganda, there are media sources off the island that actually report fairly about Cuban issues. For example, even the three major Cuban headlines from legitimate sources on December 28th-2018 indicated Cuba might after trouble surviving 2018 with just 3 days left in the old year. The first such Dec. 28-2018 headline I reference was illustrated by the above-right photo and it fronted a Reuters article written by Marc Frank, a great journalist and a true Cuban expert. This Dec. 28-2018 article is entitled: "Realty Bites: Cuba Plans More Austerity As Finances Worsen." That detailed update from the great Marc Frank is truly foreboding.
The photo on the left illustrated a major Dec. 28th-2018 article in the legitimate Miami Herald that is also foreboding. It is entitled: "After 60 years Of Revolution In Cuba, Cracks In Leadership Emerge." This updated article from a respected media source that monitors Cuba closely is also foreboding and therefore also should be legitimately heeded as 2018 draws to a close.
The photo on the right illustrated a Dec. 28th-2018 article by Bay News, which is a legitimate South Florida source dispensing updated Cuban news. This article is entitled: "First New Church In Cuba In 60 Years Built By Tampa Parish." While innocent enough, this article too is foreboding because it updates the growing influence of the USA state of Florida on the nearby Caribbean island. That emerging influence is not all bad, of course, because it reflects the desires of the majority of the 2+ million Cuban-Americans in South Florida who favor decent relations with Cubans on the island...but the foreboding aspect of this article hints that even such decent openings leave cracks that the indecent Counter Revolutionary Cubans can exploit.
In other words, I believe the three major legitimate articles about Cuba on Dec. 28th-2018 confirm that, just three days prior to 2019, the long-maligned island of Cuba is still being cruelly encircled by a minority of nefarious Cuban-American forces headquartered in Miami even as a majority of Cuban-Americans even in Miami, along with most Americans and most citizens of the World, have decent and compassionate feelings about 11.4 million Cubans on their island.
In the meantime, three days prior to the New Year of 2019, it is apparent to the world, and to America's and Cuba's friends and foes alike, that the vaunted U. S. democracy is not strong enough to shed the yoke of history's longest and cruelest EMBARGO ever imposed by a powerful nation against a weaker nation. And until it does shed that albatross, the United States of America will well deserve the unanimity of the 191-to-0 worldwide condemnation it received in the UN in 2016, the last year of the decent Obama administration when President Obama himself approved that unanimous vote. But even when a decent, two-term U. S. President couldn't budge the definitive image depicted above, the question that lingers as we prepare to enter 2019 is this: Does the EMBARGO shame the United States and Democracy even more than it harms innocent Cubans? A U. S. democracy unwilling to address that question is not the U. S. democracy crafted and molded by America's Founding Fathers. Instead, it is a U. S. democracy being crafted and molded to suit the greed and the whims of another generation from the long-ago overthrown {January 1, 1959} Batista-Mafia dictatorship on the nearby island of Cuba, dictators that fled and then resettled mainly in Miami's Little Havana initially but later became the dictators of America's Cuban policies and narratives from the USA's capital city.
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