Before he became President of Cuba in 2018, Miguel Diaz-Canel was already popular with everyday Cubans who knew him as their energetic Education Minister. Although born right after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, Diaz-Canel is a fervent defender of the Revolution. As the leader of Cuba, he has faced an ever-expanding six-decade-old U. S. Embargo that he says, "Has been expanded into an even worse genocidal war against Cuban families by both the Trump and Biden U. S. presidencies." As shown above, Diaz-Canel almost daily finds some street or park in Cuba where he speaks directly to the Cuban people.
Also just about every day, as shown by this image today on Feb. 13-2022, President Diaz-Canel takes advantage of Cuba's ubiquitous News Programs to speak daily to the Cuban people. He often reacts to the TOP CUBAN HEADLINES that he is abundantly aware of in the U. S. media.
As of today -- on Feb. 13th-2022 -- these are the TOP FOUR CUBAN HEADLINES that Americans are supposed to be reading or viewing about Cuba. As has been basically true since January of 1959, Americans have been saturated with two basic "facts" related to Cuba, namely that: {1} That the Batista-Mafia-U.S. dictatorship in Cuba during the 1950s was the best and most wonderful government in the Caribbean's history; and {2} Revolutionary Cuba since January 1-1959 has been the worst and most brutal Caribbean regime in history. And as you can see above, top U. S. media sources such as The New York Times and The Boston Globe routinely join the many well-funded media outlets that spawned like mushrooms merely to dispense anti-Cuba/pro-Miami U.S.-based propaganda that has flourished unchecked since Jan. 1-1959 till Feb. 13-2022.
Uh, let's see...the New York Times today -- Feb. 13-2022 -- is telling us that Cafe Habana that plans to open a branch in Little Havana/Miami is running into problems with the Mexico City restaurant "where Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were rumored to have planned the Cuban revolution, according to a history now deleted from the restaurant's website. The Miami Herald first reported the story." Of course, the New York Times is not about to mention that the Miami Herald, basically since January of 1959, has published stories designed to make Miami Cubans ultra-rich and politically powerful while trying to make Cubans in Cuba to...be starved, be deprived, and be made miserable for the purpose of getting them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary leaders -- presumably paving the way for the return of the 1950's rulers known to history as Batista, the Mafia, and the U. S. businesses that long-ago owned the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful island nation.
And, uh, let's see today -- Feb. 13-2022 -- what the Boston Globe is telling its readers...Oh, all about "a journalist with Cuba's state TV channel" defecting to Colombia. She said: "'I couldn't work, I couldn't publish anything, so with my husband...I had to leave the country', said Yailen Insua." Wonderful!! That actually might be happening...but the Boston Globe, on a heavy News Sunday, surely would never have made such a huge story about it if it had not been NEGATIVE news that FIT THEIR anti-Cuba narratives. Obviously, in Cuba there are many journalists and other Cubans who will still fight to the death to defend the Revolution, and if that was not true since 1959 then for sure Miami would have RECAPTURED Cuba LONG AGO. Also, if the Boston Globe wants to defame Cubans on the island, why not ask just one of them why they haven't succumbed to the many vast inducements to defect and then defame the island nation that they would have just departed from.
For example, this is a well-educated young Cuban man very active on social media who says publicly that he will fight to the death to defend Revolutionary Cuba. Maybe the U. S. media might want to ask him...why he says that.
This is a well-educated woman in Cuba who is very active on social media and is very fluent in Spanish and English. She has no plans to overthrow her leaders and her prime wish is to "Eliminate the Blockade." Perhaps the U. S. media might one day ask her how she feels about Cuba and about the Blockade.
This well-educated young woman in Cuba has no plans to overthrow her leaders nor does she want to defect to richer pastures. This photo was taken just before she stepped to her left to the platform and said, "The blockade must finally be eliminated because it is designed to aim genocide at Cuban families. For over two years the COVID pandemic has threatened Cuban families but the blockade has threatened Cuban families for over 60 years...and the blockade is also a virus. The American people who allow this to happen, decade after decade, are either extremely cruel or extremely uninformed."
For sure, everyday Cubans on the island have dire opinions about things, especially such things as the six-decade-old+ EMBARGO and the two-year-old+ COVID PANDEMIC. The United States media should be honest enough to tell both sides of the EMBARGO and the PANDEMIC as they direly relate to the Cubans on the island, not just saturate the U. S. media about how those twin perils are one-sidedly promoted by the most Counter Revolutionary/Revengeful/Profiteering Cubans in the United States. And, perhaps, one day sources like THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE BOSTON GLOBE, etc., might even honestly report on how much LITTLE HAVANA has impacted the United States...and not just Cuba...since January of 1959.
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