It is TODAY: July 26th!!
Today is July 26th, 2019...in both Cuba and the United States. It is a date that is massively celebrated in Cuba but considered a day of infamy in the United States, at least as far as U.S.-Cuba relations are concerned. July 26th, 1953, is officially registered in Cuba as the start of the Cuban Revolution and it has been lavishly commemorated on this date each year since then as the pugnacious island's Day of Rebellion. The rebels, of course, went on to shock the world, especially the United States, by overthrowing the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship on January 1, 1959 -- an historic event that reshaped both Cuba and the United States forever. That's because, although still not acknowledged in the USA, the rich but timid Batista-Mafiosi leaders began fleeing Havana in the wee hours of January 1-1959 and within days had turned nearby Miami into what is now known as Little Havana. The photo above reflects how Cuba today on JULY 26th-2019 is celebrating its Day of Rebellion anniversary. That's Havana-based Cuban journalist Rosy Amaro conducting a Day of Rebellion interview 500 miles to the southeast in Bayamo, the capital of Granma Province. In the above interview, Oriente official Manuel Santiago is explaining to the Cubavision International television anchor what some of the Day of Rebellion ceremonies will entail today in Bayamo.
Bayamo, an historic Cuban city with a population of 220,000, is a centerpiece of the Day of Rebellion celebrations in Cuba today because throughout the island's struggles for independence Bayamo has been at the forefront. Founded in 1573 by Diego Valazguez, Bayamo has been a catalyst for all its wars against foreign domination, including the losing 1868-1878 war against Spain and including the winning 1953-1959 war against the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship. On today's Day of Rebellion commemorating July 26th-1953's start of the victorious Cuban Revolution, Bayamo remains a centerpiece of resistance against the Miami-based and Washington-based forces that, for over six decades now, have been expected to recapture Cuba for the Batista-Mafiosi exiles. The fact that the so-far failed effort is still ongoing full-bore today -- July 26th, 2019 -- is even more shocking than the triumph of the Cuban Revolution way back on January 1, 1959.
This photo was taken last night, on the eve of today's July 26th Day of Rebellion anniversary, and it confirms that the lights were still on in Bayamo. The recent activation of Helms-Burton Title 3 by the Little Havana-controlled Trump administration has, indeed, caused blackouts and food shortages in Cuba...as intended. Title 3 is a Batistiano-written LEGAl U. S. law designed to grossly enrich already rich Little Havana Counter Revolutionaries and, secondarily, to starve and punish Cubans on the island. Even the George W. Bush administration considered Title 3 too cruel and too extreme to activate, but it's recent activation shows how badly Trump covets Florida's 29 electoral votes heading into his possible re-election in 2020 as a Little Havana-dictated U. S. President.
The city of Bayamo headlines today's celebrations on the island to commemorate the July 26th-1953 start of the Cuban Revolution, which chased the Batistianos to their new capital of Little Havana {Miami} in January of 1959. Bayamo is in the heart of the Sierra Maestra region where the rebel guerrilla counter-attacks and then guerrilla frontal attacks against Batista's vastly superior, U.S.-supplied army began in 1953. Since fleeing the Cuban Revolution in January of 1959 for the safe haven of Miami, U. S. soil has been even more of a Batistiano Piggy Bank than Cuba was back in the 1950s. Yet, as the celebrants in Bayamo today can attest, the Batistianos on July 26th-2019 still rule Little Havana but, INCREDIBLY, they have yet to recapture Havana.
But not welcome back to Havana, Cuba!!!
Meanwhile, today -- July 26th, 2019 -- Helms-Burton remains a legal United States law purely designed to grossly enrich a selected few Cuban-Americans while also grossly committing genocide against innocent Cubans on the island. Sadly, as a democracy-loving American, I must admit that such a harsh depiction is true.
And, as middle-fingered graphics like this point out, the saddest fact of all is: Yet another generation of Americans do not have either the guts or the patriotism to challenge such Batistiano insults to Democracy as Helms Burton Title III.
But on this historically rebellious day -- July 26th, 2019 -- in Cuba, the 1953 start of the Cuban Revolution is being celebrated by rebel-minded citizens all across the island.
In Cuba Castro is still hailed by most Cubans as the "good guy" while Batista is condemned as the "bad guy." Of course, with the Batistianos dictating the Cuban narrative in the United States since 1959, just the opposite is true.
But at least history correctly concludes that The Cuban Revolution started on July 26, 1953, and ended with a gigantic victory on January 1, 1959. At least today --- July 26th, 2019 -- Cubans on the island can celebrate that fact in their torrid relations with the SUPER-powerful United States.
This historic photo shows Fulgencio Batista -- Cuba's brutal, thieving U.S.-backed dictator -- entertaining his close buddy, Mafia kingpin Meyer Lansky in Havana. The Batista-Mafia dictators at this time had been gifted with a U.S.-armed 20,000-man Cuban army to wipe out "Castro and his little rebellion once and for all."
As late as July of 1958, Batista was still telling his supporters in Washington, "Don't worry. We now have the army that will wipe out all the rebels around Bayamo and therefore in the Sierra Maestra within three weeks. That will finish the rebellion once and for all. That I guarantee." In this photo Batista is staring at and pinpointing on his war-map the city of Bayamo "as the cancer we will destroy next, and then be done with it. No problem."
Of course, his supporters in Washington accepted Batista's "guarantee." But...a young rebel named Fidel Castro had other ideas. And the rest is history. And that's why July 26th is a very special anniversary all across Cuba TODAY!!
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