Blockade, Covid, Tourism Converge!!
Today -- on Monday, Sept. 13-2021 -- Dr. Francisco Duran Garcia reported that in the past 24 hours there have been 74 more Covid deaths in Cuba as the total has now zoomed beyond 6,000.
Cuba has begun an ambitious campaign to vaccinate its entire 11 million citizens with its own homegrown vaccines. This includes vaccinating children ages 2 to 18.
While blaming the U. S. Embargo for massively hampering the island's fight against the Covid-19 Pandemic, Cuba has begun the new school term with in-home virtual television classes. And by mid-October the island plans to open more of its airports to international tourists.
With its strategic location right below Florida, Cuba is not only the Caribbean's largest island nation but, in the views of many, also its most beautiful island and millions of tourists believe that Cuba has far more beautiful beaches than Florida -- especially Varadero, which international polls have rated as the most BEAUTIFUL beach in the whole world.
In fact, in 2021 TripAdvisor now rates Cayo Santa Maria on Cuba's north-central coast as the Second Most Beautiful Beach in the World. In other words, none of the popular beaches in the vicinity of Cuba compare to Cuba's beaches and, therefore, except for the U.S. Embargo/blockade of the island, Cuba in 2021 would be a tourist mecca...just as it was back in the 1950s when the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship ruled the island.
Of course, in 2021 it doesn't matter what 340 million Americans, including 2+ million Cuban-Americans, say about the U. S. Embargo-Blockade of Cuba. Only the ten Cuban-Americans listed above are allowed to dictate America's laws regarding Cuba. And it so happens, I believe, that their political status as extreme Cuban Counter Revolutionaries account for their being members of the 535-member United States Congress.
If you study the two graphics above -- the magnet and the quotations -- you will understand, I believe, that from its early days as a Democracy that the United States of America has never had decent nor democratic thoughts about Cuba. In 1817 Thomas Jefferson said: "If we seize Cuba we will be masters of the Caribbean." In 1823 Thomas Jefferson, America's most renowned Founding Father, said: "I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could be made to our system of states." Surely the uniquely astute Thomas Jefferson judged Cuba's significance and importance correctly. And that is why, from at least 1817 till September of 2021 that the United States has been greedily trying to "seize Cuba."
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