Promise Made In Havana This Week!!
Russia's powerful Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Havana this week and, perhaps for the first time, stated that Russia will use its military to keep the Trump administration from "destroying the Cuban people." Here are his exact words at the above news conference:
"We shall fully support Cuba's people not only politically, not only by means of developing military-technical cooperation, but also through trade and economic projects to help the country's economy become more resistant to all kinds of external threats. Washington's neocolonialization is unacceptable and its economic coercion, as everyone knows, is unlawful and criminal. Sanctimonious Americans sometimes accuse us of picking on small nations for economic and political reasons but the Trump White House has established the record for such behavior. The Cubans won their Revolution against U.S.-supported criminals...and their tenacity to protect it since 1959 is worth our support. Military? If it comes to that."
The extremely strong words by Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov were later conveyed directly to Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel.
It is believed that Sergei Lavrov's declaration in Havana this week is Russia's most pertinent vow to defend Cuba since...well, since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis that pitted the Soviet Union against the United States in what evolved into the closest the world has ever come to a nuclear holocaust. Russia today cannot come close to matching the USA's economy but its nuclear arsenal is a different dynamic altogether...and it is hoped the anti-Cuban zealots in the Trump administration fully comprehend that fact.
Even as Sergei Lavrov was in Havana this week, President Trump's two top Foreign Affairs advisers -- National Security Adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo -- were making additional threats against Cuba. They were threatening even more "sanctions" against the island, which is interesting considering that, after the activation of Helms-Burton Title 3, the U. S. is already engaging in the harshest and longest genocidal sanctions ever imposed by a powerful nation against a much weaker nation. But even the George W. Bush presidency thought Title 3 was too extreme and cruel to impose on the Cuban people. Yet, Bolton and Pompeo are famed longtime war-mongers against Cuba and they obviously relish the power Trump has given them to destroy revolutionary Cuba and give it back to the Republican-allied Little Havana zealots in Miami and in the U. S. Congress. Will Bolton and Pompeo go to war against Russia to fulfill their Cuban zeal? Incredibly, that may be what is happening.
Meanwhile, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel yesterday -- July 26th, 2019 -- was almost 500 miles southeast of Havana in the city of Bayamo. As this Roberto Suarez photo shows, Diaz-Canel and his wife Lis arrived in Bayamo to lead the celebration of National Rebellion Day. July 26th, 1953, was the official start of the Cuban Revolution in the Bayamo-Sierra Maestra region of Cuba and the anniversary each year is lavishly celebrated because of the astounding rebel victory over the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship on January 1, 1959.
President Diaz-Canel was warmly received in Bayamo yesterday. He was born after the triumph of the Revolution and is best known in Cuba as the island's former Education Minister. Several times while mingling with Cubans in Bayamo, Diaz-Canel made this statement: "I am clear that today I speak in the name of the grateful." He was expressing the gratitude for the rebels who began the revolution on July 26, 1953, and those who continued to lead it to a successful conclusion on January 1, 1959. Then Diaz-Canel released this official statement: "Washington is trying to cut off electricity and water, and even food in cruel extraterritorial acts of blockage. Today they are trying with all possible means to prevent tankers from docking in Cuban ports, brutally threatening shipping companies, governments of many countries, and all sorts of companies that have or might do business with us. They scare nations where ships are registered, and insurance companies. We must survive these enemies that are intent on destroying us and suffocating us. In their democracy, a few can do this backed by a scared Congress and evil president who is directed by greedy, revengeful, and evil people. When the majority United States population is scared to intervene, it leaves us with no choice but to do all we can to both survive and protect our sovereignty. Those who fought for our independence, especially those who won in 1959, deserve that from us on this historic anniversary day and the days to come in our sacred homeland."
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Cuban flag in Bayamo.
"It flies proud, free, and sovereign."
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