Cubans in Cuba Cheering August 8, 2021!!
Early this Sunday morning -- August 8th, 2021 -- Cubans on the island got up early to watch Andy Cruz win yet another boxing Gold Medal in the Olympics in Tokyo!! A 25-year-old superstar from Matanzas, Andy Cruz won his gold for Cuba this morning by beating the American Keyshawn Davis by a 4-the-1 score. Cubans on the island, reeling from the ever-tightening Trump-Biden Blockade and from the deadly upsurge of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in the cities of Matanzas and Havana, finally had something to cheer for.
This Getty Images photo shows Cuban Andy Cruz, in the blue, defeating American Keyshawn Davis to win the Gold Medal for Cuba early this morning in the Tokyo Olympics.
Cuba finished the Tokyo Olympics with 15 overall medals -- 7 gold; 3 silver; and 5 bronze. Only 13 nations in the world...all much larger and not blockaded by a Superpower...won more medals than little, blockaded Cuba. The three Gold medals in Boxing continued the island's all-time dominance of that sport. Cuba is also the all-time baseball powerhouse in all of Olympic history. But this year of 2021 the Cuban baseball team had the vast misfortune of having to play its pre-Olympic tournament in SOUTH FLORIDA, which is controlled by rich and powerful Counter Revolutionary Cubans. Thus, when the Cuban baseball team arrived at its South Florida hotel, a waiting car was running and then whisked away Cuba's best baseball player. Later in the games, the remaining Cuban players were booed and otherwise intimidated by the sanctimonious Cubans in South Florida. Yet, even without its baseball players, Cuba still sent 36 men and 34 women to Tokyo, the smallest delegation Cuba has had in the past 60 years in the Olympics. But Cubans in Cuba, as shown by the graphic above, this morning of Aug.-8th-2021, shed a lot of happy tears for their Olympic winners...not the sad tears they normally shed because of the genocidal Blockade that South Florida continues and which exacerbates the deadly uptick of COVID-19 cases on the vulnerable island.
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