The Last Week of March-2022
Since the day in 1492 that the Spanish explorer Columbus discovered Cuba, the powerful imperial nations in the world -- especially Spain, England, France, and the United States -- have been marching unrelentingly to capture the Caribbean's largest island, which Columbus famously noted in his diary as "The most BEAUTIFUL LAND THESE EYES have ever seen." In this last week of March in 2022, as reported above by Reuters, millions of crabs from the sea are marching on Cuban land at the famed Bay of Pigs on their migration to lay eggs in the soft Bay of Pigs Cuban sand.
Of course, the fame of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba derives from the march of U.S./Miami soldiers, supported by U. S. air and naval power, that took place in mid-April of 1961. It was supposed to be a 3-day defeat of Revolutionary Cuba but ended up being a 3-day victory for Revolutionary Cuba.
Today, in late March of 2022, this is a photo of the Bay of Pigs. Now it is very peaceful and it accepts the breeding march of the crabs. It also now is well known as one of the favorite snorkeling spots in the Western Hemisphere. Of course, since failing to regain control of Cuba with the April-1961 air-land-&-sea Bay of Pigs attack, the U. S. and Miami have not failed to curtail their relentless efforts to starve and overwhelm Revolutionary Cuba with vicious attacks that include the longest and cruelest Embargo-Blockade {from 1962 till today} ever imposed by any powerful nation against any much-smaller nation.
Surviving the United States EMBARGO has been, for over six decades, even more astounding than winning the Revolutionary War in 1959 or winning the Bay of Pigs battle in 1961.
In the USA's two-party political system, since the 1950s the Republican presidents have all been totally aligned with Little Havana in trying to destroy Revolutionary Cuba, with the Republican President Donald Trump from 2016 to 2020 being the most vicious, even more than the three 4-year terms of the two totally Little Havana-dictated Bush Presidents. So when Election 2020 elected the Democrat Joe Biden as President, many Cubans and Americans believed that Trump's genocide against Cuban families would at least be lessened somewhat. But Biden has followed Trump's devious efforts designed to starve Cuba into submission while, of course, adding substantially to the economic power of the already rich and politically powerful Little Havana Cubans who are deemed the dictators of Florida's important 29 Electoral Votes that can predicate the outcome of Presidential Elections. So, the money-crazed 2020 Election, to the surprise of some, didn't ease the incredible torment the Superpower United States, on behalf of Miami, has created for Cuban families for six decades...and counting.
Yet, incredibly, there have always been, since 1959, generations of Cubans in Cuba to resist the lures, threats, deprivations, and turmoil they have been subjected to all their lives by Little Havana as well as the omnipotence of the U. S. Congress and the U. S. White House. And during the ongoing Trump/Biden era in Washington, the well-funded efforts to starve Cuba by enriching Little Havana have reached crescendos not even seen when the Bush dynasty was enriching and empowering Miami's request to recapture Havana. With almost three years left in the Biden presidency, even the "proud" Cubans depicted above seem resigned to the inevitable reality they have tried so hard to prolong for all of their lives.
The notable photojournalist Roberto Suarez took this photo of the Bay of Havana at dusk today.
But the specter of the Bay of Pigs in 1961 has colored the conflicts between Miami and Havana. Those conflicts, unfortunately, will never cease till the Little Havana Cubans in Miami regain control of Havana...which may finally happen in 2022.
And that, of course, evokes the unforgettable specters of what Havana was like in the 1950s prior to the startling victory of the Cuban Revolution in 1959.
.gif)
No comments:
Post a Comment