Capitulation Is Not An Option!!
Cuba's Minister of Tourism, Juan Carlos Garcia, is a key Havana official charged with making sure the pugnacious revolutionary island survives the twin perils of the Coronavirus pandemic and the Little Havana-dominated Trump administration in Washington. Back in March Garcia announced that Cuba was imposing an island-wide lockdown to battle the dire COVID-19 threat. The lockdown included airports and blocked international tourism, which is vital to the island's meager economy.
But now that Cuba's health sector has gotten a handle on the pandemic, Tourism Minister Juan Carlos Garcia now says the island is opening up tourism avenues once again. He stated: "Already 62,000 Cubans stayed in Varadero, the island's most important resort, in the first 12 days of August, despite the Pandemic and despite the increasingly tight U. S. Blockade against Cuban families on the island at the urging of a few Counter Revolutionary Cubans who are the only ones dictating Trump's U. S. Cuban policies. There are 9,000 workers in the Varadero area trained in bio-safety measures to avoid infection of the coronavirus among visitors and employers."
Taking full advantage of the Pandemic, the U. S. in the last few days has added private group charter flights to Cuba to be added to its genocidal Blockade because Little Havana zealots in Miami and in Congress are trying to end all possible ways for Cuba to have any remaining ways to have any money. But one of the international airlines planning to resume flights to Cuba as early as next month, September, is Air Canada. Travelweek confirms that Air Canada, within a few days...on September 4th, 2020...will begin flights from Montreal, Toronto and Quebec City to Cayo Largo...followed by flights to Cayo Largo, Holguin and Santa Clara. Air Canada's spokesperson Nino Montagnese said: "Cuba has always been a key strategic destination for Canadians. We have always enjoyed safe travel to Cuba. The Cuban government has implemented all the right safety protocols to keep our customers safe, including the pandemic."
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Canadiens love the cays just on the north-central Cuban mainland...Cayo Santa Maria, Cayo Guillermo, Cayo Coco, Cayo Cruz, and Cayo del Sur. The hotels catering to the Cays are now reopened.
Royalton Cayo Santa Maria Hotel.
The beach at Cayo Santa Maria.
This map shows the location of Cayo Santa Maria and the other cays off Cuba's north-central coast that are beloved by Canadian tourists. Starting on September 4th, 2020, Air Canada will begin flying Canadians to the Cuban cays.
The Trump-Little Havana administration in Washington, of course, stopped all U.S.-related cruise ships from going to Cuba and also used the USA's unique economic influence to persuade other cruise lines to not to visit Cuba. But the Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines based in the UK has just announced it will buck the U. S. blockade and begin to send its cruise ships to Cuba because the British people have demanded the freedom to go to their favorite Caribbean island, Cuba...a freedom denied to Americans, especially whenever there is a Republican administration in the White House that takes its Cuban directions only from a few self-serving extremists Counter Revolutionary Cubans.
In fact, Fred.Olsen Cruise Lines has just announced that Cuba will be its Caribbean embarkation and disembarkation hub for the 2020-2021 season. The company's statement said: "Using Havana as our new home port allows us to really show the Caribbean in all its glory. It also means that we can offer extensions in Havana so that our guests have time to enjoy this vibrant city, with port departures at night and overnight stays when possible. Havana has always had good satisfaction scores for our customers, so it is great to offer them more opportunities to get to know it."
Prior to President Trump, President Barack Obama had showed enormous courage and decency by becoming the only U. S. president in six decades to allow cruise ships to go to Cuba. That opened the way for scores of Cuban women to become entrepreneurs with businesses that catered to the record number of tourists arriving in the cruise ships. That all changed when the Republican Donald Trump replaced the Democrat Barack Obama as the U. S. president in January, 2017. With Trump taking all of his Cuban orders only from self-serving and extremists Little Havana zealots like Marco Rubio, Americans didn't seem to care what that meant to their U. S. democracy. But the hard-working, decent, and well-educated female entrepreneurs in Cuba knew exactly who to blame for keeping them from properly feeding and clothing their families -- and it is a light-weight Little Havana politician named Marco Rubio.
A letter signed by hundreds of the Rubio-targeted female Cuban entrepreneurs was sent to Marco Rubio in Washington and then a group of those Cuban women went to Washington hoping to meet with Rubio. They wanted to tell Rubio that President Obama had allowed them to start thriving businesses to support their families but Rubio had blocked their livelihoods once Trump gave him permission to do so. Of course, Rubio didn't have the decency or the guts to react positively to the letter or the request to see him. But at least Rubio's hometown newspaper, the Miami Herald, provided the space for four of the Cuban female entrepreneurs to write their own article expressing their outrage that one unchecked self-serving Cuban from Little Havana was allowed to dictate policy in the U. S. designed to starve and deprive the children of the would-be female entrepreneurs in Cuba. As for what it's worth, Americans can see above some of what the Cuban women said in the Miami Herald, exactly what they had wanted to say to Rubio's face. Those four Cuban women as named above are Niuris Higueras, Yamina Vicenta, Julia de la Rosa, and Marla Recio. Obviously, those four Cuban women are much more intelligent and far more decent people than Rubio. But, of course, the problem they have is that Rubio and a handful of other Little Havana extremists have iron-clad grips around the throats of all Republican presidents...and, unfortunately, the U. S. has only a two-party political system.
When the U. S. democracy permits a Marco Rubio to routinely dictate genocidal U.S. POLICY TOWARDS CUBA, the U. S. democracy has veered closer-and-closer to the U.S.-backed BATISTA-MAFIA DICTATORSHIP in the 1950's, which was prior to 1959 when the Cuban Revolutionary chased the Batistianos to nearby Miami, which quickly and permanently spawned Little Havana, which now has spawned a second generation of Rubio-types. The image above depicts a day in which President Trump came to Little Havana to speak to and empower Cuban Counter Revolutionaries...and prior to Trump speaking, as the image shows, Rubio actually explained Trump's Cuban policy. This image was, of course, taken at the plush Manuel Artime Theater in Little Havana that is named for one of the leaders of the Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba in April of 1961 that famously failed to recapture Cuba. "U.S. POLICY TOWARDS CUBA." When a Marco Rubio can dictate that policy, perhaps the United States of America has more problems than Cuba.
When four smart and decent Cuban female entrepreneurs use the pages of the Miami Herald to explain why having Marco Rubio as the USA's Cuban dictator is as harmful to America as it is to them, then perhaps it is time that brave and intelligent Americans believe them.
By not giving a CLOSER LOOK to having Marco Rubio as America's Cuban dictator in 2020, Americans today are making the same mistake Americans made in the 1950's when they didn't take a CLOSER LOOK at America's support of brutal-thieving Dictator Batista in Cuba prior to the Cuban Revolution. And by not taking a CLOSER LOOK at Rubio in 2020 the American people are paving the way for Little Havana to one day dominate not only the Republican Party but both Havana and WASHINGTON.
Prior to Trump and Rubio imposing genocide on Cubans in Cuba, President Obama had visited Cuba in March of 2016 and made a solemn promise to the Cuban people on statewide radio and television: "Cuba does not need to fear a threat from the United States."
Obama spoke sanely and decently to both the Cuban people and the American people about Cuba. But then his successor as President, Trump, shook hands with Rubio, erasing Obama's decency and sanity regarding U.S.-Cuban relations.
When Americans are not ashamed about this ubiquitous worldwide image of America's greedy and cruel EMBARGO of Cuba, perhaps America is in more trouble than Cuba.
When the Rubio-goated Trump administration imposed a historic genocidal blockade {"EL GENOCIDIO MAS LARGO DE LA HISTORIA"}, perhaps America is in more trouble than Cuba.
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