Rest of the Island Is Open!!
The great Reuters journalist Marc Frank today, September 12th-2020, used the photo above to illustrate his latest report from Cuba. He revealed that "On Saturday interprovincial transportation has been shutdown and the curfew in Havana has been extended from September 15th till at least till September 30th." Except for Havana, Cuba is pleased with its containment of the Coronavirus in all of its 14 provinces.
In fact, this Air Canada flight this week shows that Canadian tourists are now flying to their beloved vacations on Cayo Coco.
This is the Sol Hotel at Cayo Coco.
This the Melia Hotel at Cayo Coco.
According to TripAdvisor, both the Canadian and Cuban governments are sure that Cayo Coco and the other four popular Cuban cays are safe destination sites for tourists.
As the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful island nation, Cuba's close to proximity to Miami, where two generations of Cubans have controlled Little Havana, remains Cuba's greatest obstacle to dominating the vital tourism sector in the Caribbean. So, even in the Age of COVID-19, Little Havana continues as the prime enemy of Cuba...as it has been since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1-1959 that chased leaders of the US-backed Batista dictatorship to Miami, where Little Havana quickly sprung up.
Even UNESCO, the UN's children monitor, recognizes that Cuba's proximity to Little Havana-Miami remains, along with COVID-19 and devastating Hurricanes, a dire threat to everyday Cubans.
Today on Sept. 12th-2020 Cubans on the island are celebrating the anniversary of when, during the USA's Obama presidency. Five Cuban Heroes were returned to the island instead of serving up-to-lifetime sentences in five different U. S. federal prisons. The U.S., meaning Little Havana, claimed the five Cubans were "spies" in Miami while Cuba proclaims they were in Miami to inform the U. S. of well-known Counter Revolutionary Cubans they said were contemplating more vicious terrorist attacks against everyday Cubans, such as the infamous bombing of Cubana Flight 455 in which all 73 people on board were killed.
In March of 2016, during the last year of his 8-years as the U. S. president, Barack Obama became the first U. S. president to visit Cuba since Herbert Hoover arrived in Havana on a warship in 1928. Obama had the decency and bravery to inform the Cuban people: "CUBA DOES NOT NEED TO FEAR A THREAT FROM THE UNITED STATES." He was sincere...and he normalized relations with Cuba by releasing the Five Cuban Heroes but also by re-opening the U. S. Embassy in Havana for the first time since 1962, permitting airplanes and cruise ships to take tourists to Cuba, etc., etc. By 2017, the year Obama left office, Cuba thus was amassing record-making tourist visits.
But in January of 2017 Republican Donald Trump replaced the Democrat Barack Obama as the president of the United States. Since the 1950s every Republican president has been tightly tied to the Batista-Batistiano group in Havana and Little Havana, especially Trump. Thus, as shown above, Trump took his presidency to Little Havana and informed the Counter Revolutionary Cubans he was totally reversing all of Obama's decent Cuban policies and turning his indecent policies over to self-serving anti-Cubans such as Cuban-American zealots Marco Rubio, Mauricio Claver-Carone, and the Diaz-Balart brothers. Trump's activation of Title III of Helms-Burton actually imposed genocide on masses of innocent Cubans on the island to appease the Rubio/Claver-Carone/Diaz-Balart brothers disciples. Not even the Little Havana-aligned George W. Bush presidency, from 2000-2008, would activate Title III/Helms-Burton because even Bush considered it too genocidal to activate against masses of Cuban women and children on the island. But Trump activated Title III.
So on September 12th, 2020, masses of innocent Cubans on the island are facing genocide because President Trump, taking his Cuban orders from Rubio/Claver-Carone/Diaz-Balart, activated Title III/Helms-Burton. And that genocide is a fact EVEN THOUGH neither the American people nor even the fierce anti-Trump media simply don't GIVE A DAMN.
So, while Revolutionary Cuba is changing and in drastic transition in mid-September of 2020, one thing remains the same: The rich and powerful Cubans in Little Havana, supported by the wealth and power of the world's most powerful and richest nation, continue their fervent quest into a 7th decade to recapture Cuba. It also appears that the two-party U. S. political system is unable to deal with the situation in either a decent or INTELLIGENT manner.
For Sure, Marco Rubio's idea of a "BETTER DEAL FOR CUBA" is crafted to make Little Havana/Miami Cubans like him even more Richer and POWERFUL than they already are.
When Americans accept a "GENOCIDIO" blockade against masses of innocent people on a nearby island, America should have a Democracy to do something about it BUT........
Since the 1950's this has been the prime international image of the United States regarding Cuba. And yet, it persists as another generation of Americans accept it...or at least don't have the decency or courage to deal with it.
And another generation of Cubans on the island, like this young Cuban woman, struggles to keep the island from again becoming controlled by foreign powers such as Spain and then, after the 1898 Spanish-American War, by the United States...at least until the Cuban Revolution on Jan. 1-1959 finally overthrew the US-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship. The young Cuban above knows about the Spanish-American War, Batista, the Mafia, and the Cuban Revolution. But, since 1959, Americans have gotten only Little Havana's perspective of US-Cuban relations. Perhaps it is time for Americans to question the difference, if any, between the Batista DICTATORSHIP and Little Havana's DICTATORSHIP. At least, the Cuban girl shown above would like to know what Americans think is the DIFFERENCE.
Three generations of Revolutionary little Cuban girls also have wondered why Little Havana needs to dominate their lives with cruel embargoes and genocidal blockades.
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