Cuba's TWO Pandemics

From COVID & USA!!!

        As of today -- June 25, 2020 -- Cuba feels it has gotten a handle on the Coronavirus pandemic. As today's stats show, the deaths from COVID-19 has dramatically stalled in the mid-80s, with only one death, that of an 84-year-old patient in Havana, in the past three weeks. Cuba, in its recovery mode against COVID-19, is focused more than ever on surviving its own age-old pandemic -- the 6-decade-old U. S. Embargo of the island that was elevated to a genocidal Blockade in 2019 by the Little Havana-infected Trump administration in Washington.

       In 2019 -- as ordered by self-serving Little Havana zealots such as Claver-Carone, Rubio, Diaz-Balart, etc. -- President Trump activated the Title III portion of Little Havana's ageless and lucrative Congressional bible known as the Helms-Burton Act. Even President George W. Bush, who was also indelibly tied to the Little Havana extremists, refused to activate Title III because even Bush considered Title III too genocidal to impose on masses of innocent people on the nearby island.

     Since Trump activated Title III of Helms-Burton in 2019, a genocidal Blockade of Cuba has existed. Every decent and intelligent American citizen and journalist knows about this flagrant blight on the U. S. democracy, even though few have the guts to oppose it...apparently because of a long-standing fear of Little Havana extremists. 

     One of the most insightful and most important Cubans is Josefina Vidal, who has been Cuba's Ambassador to Canada since 2018. She is pleased that the island has begun its recovery stage against the Coronavirus pandemic but she says, "We had faith in our healthcare system to deal with the COVID pandemic but we also know that another Republican administration, especially Trump's, has created another pandemic for our people on the island that is an undertaking that also must be survived." Prior to her role as Cuba's Ambassador to Canada, Josefina Vidal for many years was the island's top diplomat regarding Affairs and Relations with the United States. In that role, during the two-terms of the Democratic Obama administration, Vidal negotiated near-normal and almost decent relations between the United States and Cuba. But even with Obama as President from 2009 till 2017, Vidal had to stand up to constand vitriol from the likes of Nikki Haley and Marco Rubio as well as news conference questions in the United States such as, "How, Ms. Vidal, can you claim Revolutionary Cuba is better than the U.S.-approved Batista government that preceded it?"

     And now, from her base as Cuba's Ambassador to Canada, Josefina Vidal admits that, "Recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, we knew, would be difficult but a lot easier than recovering from the pandemic represented by Republican leadership in the White House and Little Havana leadership in the Congress. If America doesn't one day rein in this second generation of anti-Cuban benefactors like Rubio, the great democracy that America once had will continue to crumble. That free-fall is illustrated today by the otherwise troubled Trump presidency being able to get away with generating a Blockade that  is committing genocide against the Cuban people on the island to benefit a small amount of American Cubans and their greedy acolytes like the conniving Rick Scott. But the resilience of Cubans on the island is legendary and I actually believe it will endure."

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