Prince Charles Makes Salient Point!!
{Wednesday, March 27th, 2019}
{Wednesday, March 27th, 2019}
Last November Cuba's new President Miguel Diaz-Canel became abundantly aware that President Trump had given permission for Marco Rubio and John Bolton to use the economic and military might of the USA to execute a regime-change in Cuba. One of Diaz-Canel's first reactions was to meet in London with his friend Prince Charles.
On Sunday, March 24th, Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, arrived in Havana on a Royal Air Force plane.
This week President Diaz-Canel and all Cubans on the island are getting A HUGE KICK out of this extremely important visit.
Monday night Prince Charles was hosted by President Diaz-Canel at a state dinner and also for images like the London Daily Mail photo above.
Images like this of President Diaz-Canel and Prince Charles are intended to convey to Washington that the UK will make its own decisions in regards to Cuba, and the UK government has made it clear that it supports Prince Charles and the Royal Family's respect for Cuba's independence.
This photo shows Prince Charles and Camilla in Havana's Revolutionary Square with the iconic, world-famed image of Che Guevara as the backdrop.
Prince Charles attended this ceremony honoring him and the British flag. It also was intended to remind the world that Revolutionary Cuba overcame "THE LONGEST OF LONG-SHOTS" in 1959 to gain its independence from Batista, the Mafia, and the USA and that it would fight against "even longer odds against foreign imperialism to keep our sovereign island."
This photo shows Prince Charles eagerly accepting Cuban Churros, the traditional gift that all visitors are offered when they inspect the most historic area of Old Havana. Cuban journalist Rosy Amaro used this photo and said, "It is Cuba...its culture, its people."
Except to ridicule the UK for allowing Prince Charles to visit Cuba, the conservative and right-wing U. S. media doesn't mention the visit. But more significantly, both the left-wing and mainstream U. S. media are basically too afraid to mention anything positive related to Cuba. However, the British media and especially BBC NEWS, which has a vast and respected international reach, is pointing out the topical justification for a visit to Cuba by the future King of England. Prince Charles himself makes these points: "Cuban has a new non-Castro and non-revolutionary President whom the people know and love as their former Education Minister...Cubans with totally free educations through college are extremely well-educated...Cubans with totally free healthcare for life are remarkably healthy....Cuba has a new Constitution that opens up private businesses and ownership even though the government does not want it to create a vast rich-poor disparity...almost all Cubans now have access to the Internet and Social Media and therefore they know what's happening on their island and in the nearby United States..." Etc., etc. from a brave and surprisingly Cuba-savvy Future King of England.
Major London-based news sources -- such as the BBC, London Times, The Guardian, London Daily Mail, Reuters News Agency, etc. -- report fairly on Cuban issues. Reuters is one of the world's 3 biggest news agencies and its excellent staff in Cuba includes Sarah Marsh. Even major U. S. media sources are restricted to virtually getting all their quotes regarding Cuba from only Counter Revolutionary extremists such as Little Havana's Rubio and the Diaz-Balart brothers or from Republican politicians who take their orders from Little Havana, and that includes all major Republican politician like President Trump. But Sarah Marsh in her Reuters article about the Prince Charles visit to Cuba had the freedom to stress quotes from a 26-year-old Cuban historian, Aaron Rubio, and from one of America's greatest Cuban experts, notable American University Professor William LeoGrande. Aaron Rubio said, "It's always good for Cuba to strengthen its relations with important international actors but all the more so when the United States has a president responding to the interests of extreme right-wing people who want to harm Cuba." And then Sarah Marsh published this exact quote from William LeoGrande: "Such visits as Prince Charles and the UK are making to Cuba lend legitimacy to the Cuban government and represent an implicit warning to the United States that hostile actions against the Cuban people may incur a diplomatic cost with important allies."
As a democracy-loving American, I wish journalists in the United States still had the freedom to cover Cuban issues the way Sarah Marsh can cover them for Reuters. Sarah is shown above getting first-hand knowledge from a Cuban farmer before she wrote a Reuters article about the pros-and-cons of farming in Cuba, complete with renewed efforts by the Cuban government to produce more of its own food despite fertilization and equipment obstacles presented by the U. S. embargo that has existed since 1962.
The London Times has a headline that reads: "PRINCE CHARLES HELPS UK WOO CUBA." The British media reports that 200,000 Brits visit Cuba each year and more would "like to." Prince Charles will visit Cuba's deep-water and state-of-the-art Mariel Port/Investment Zone 28 miles southwest of Havana where the UK already has one project and plans more, which would vitally help Cuba's economy.
On their extended visit to Cuba, Camilla and Charles are seeing a lot of Cuba's Deputy Foreign Minister Ana Teresita Gonzalez. That's because Camilla is fascinated with "the history of the Cuban Revolution that during the war and after the victory has always had women at the forefront." Both Camilla and Charles have asked to see a Cuban facility that is famed for its cancer research and is getting assistance from the UK's University of Manchester. Charles has also asked to visit the recording studio in Havana of one of his favorite bands, the famed Buena Vista Social Club. Camilla has asked to attend a performance of the ultra-famous Cuban Ballet where the omnipotent Alicia Alonso since 1959 has trained many of the greatest UK and USA ballet stars. AND, OH, YES!! Both Camilla and Charles have asked Ana Teresita Gonzalez to "make sure we get to ride in some of the 1950s-era American convertibles." Ana asked, "What color would each of you like to ride in?" Camilla said "Yellow" and Charles said he preferred "Red." Ana smiled and replied, "No problem, yellow or red."
A yellow convertible for Camilla.
And a red convertible for Charles.
OH, YES!! Cuba has spent considerable time and money since 2013 completely refurbishing its Capital Building because a 500th Cuban anniversary will be celebrated soon. And Cuba was proud to show their Royal visitors a rejuvenated El Capitolio.
This photo shows El Capitolio while re-construction was still underway. But now that it has been restored, Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla will be told this week that El Capitolio will soon be home to Cuba's 508-member General Assembly.
Friends: Charles & Miguel.
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