The meeting is Thursday, April 21-2022
This map shows a long migrant route that thousands of desperate Cubans are making to reach their goal of crossing the Mexican border to get into the United States.
For almost three years now Cuba has loudly proclaimed that both the Trump & Biden administrations in Washington have been trying to take advantage of the COVID Pandemic to further tighten the 6-decade-old EMBARGO against the current generation of Cuban families on the island. Of course, Cuba doesn't expect the U. S. government nor the U. S. media nor the U. S. people to give a damn. Yet...incredibly...Cuba is stunned that this Thursday -- on April 21st, 2022 -- that the embargoed-blockaded island nation has been invited to discuss U.S.-Cuban issues in the United States.
And thus...today -- on April 19th-2022 -- the Cuban headlines inform the world that the U. S. wants to talk with Cuba about MIGRATION. The Miami Herald, of course, can be dismissed as anti-Cuba Fake News, but the London-based Reuters News Agency is worth reading.
The Reuters article above, unlike most of the Fake News U. S. media, reports fairly on how Cubans are now affecting the USA's southern border, which is being overwhelmed with massive immigrants, especially since Biden became President on January 20th, 2021. As shown above, 16,531 Cubans in one month were stopped at the border...but many came into the U. S. across the sieve that is now the U.S.-Mexican border. The Trump-Biden expansion of the Embargo has direly impoverished Cubans on the island and many are trying to migrate...illegally or legally...to the U. S., particularly trying to make it to the Cuban-mecca of Miami. While the Biden White House is being accused of purposely opening the border because it anticipates that most of the migrants will soon become Democratic, not Republican, voters in the USA's money-crazed two-party political system. But Cuba believes Biden believes Cubans tend to vote as Republicans so Biden is trying to send most of them back to Cuba...but Cuba is saying...you got 'em, you keep 'em!! Three times, in fact, Fidel Castro himself made it easy for Cubans who didn't like the Revolution to debark to the United States...including 125,000 during the Mariel Boatlift, many of them being what movies like Scarface claim were criminals and drug-kingpins that Castro purposely sent to Miami so he wouldn't have to deal with them in Cuba. In any case, apparently on April 21st-2022 the Biden White House wants to ask Cuba why it won't accept the return of the Cubans who have recently bolted the island for the freedom and riches of America!!
Cuba's highly respected Diplomat in charge of Affairs with the United States is Carlos Fernandez de Cossio. On April 18th-2022 he was surprised that the Biden White House called and actually invited Cuba to a meeting on Thursday --April 21st-2022 -- that actually will supposedly include input from Cuba. Incredible!! For more than five years during the administrations of Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden Cuban officials have never been consulted as 43 devastating U. S. sanctions have been added to the U. S. Embargo against Cuba that began in 1962 when the devastating Embargo began for the purpose of starving, depriving, and making miserable the Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary government, which back in January of 1959 had overthrown the brutal U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship. Cossio, as he is known in Washington by that one-word name, has said, "In the last five years both Trump and Biden have severely increased the original 1962 goals of starving, depriving, and making miserable Cuban families to appease the ongoing goals of Cuban-Americans such as Rubio and Menendez whose wealth and power derives from unmercifully punishing totally innocent Cuban families, generation after generation. After six decades, perhaps it is time for the U. S. government to stop lying to the American people and the world about why it is profitable to starve and deprive Cuban families so their misery will please a few rich U. S. Cubans."
Washington journalists who are allowed to have unbiased thoughts about Cuba consider Cossio to be a pleasant, mild-mannered, and skilled diplomat...but in the past five years Trump and Biden have unleashed his fire. After President Obama visited Cuba and then had the guts to be the first U. S. leader to try to normalize relations with Cuba, and even re-opened the embassies in Havana and Washington, Cossio and 11 of his aides had to duck for cover when a Trump supporter fired 30 high-powered rifle bullets at and in the Cuban embassy building in Washington. Needless to mention, Cossio knows first-hand how much Trump, Rubio, Biden, and Menendez have drastically increased the USA's starvation-goals against Cuban families on the island to appease U. S. Cubans and their acolytes. Cossio, before becoming Cuba's top diplomat regarding U. S. Affairs, had carefully studied U.S.-Cuban Affairs: "From 1952 till 1959 the U. S. and the Mafia had raped and robbed Cuba, spawning the Cuban Revolution. Since 1959, to greedily regain that ability, the U. S. has tried to attack, assault, starve, deprive, and make miserable everyday Cuban families. Since the 1950s, it seems, the American people have been successfully told that is what a strong Democracy is supposed to do to the people in a much smaller neighboring nation."
Both the United States and Cuba know that the United States has tried to starve Cuba into submission ever since 1962 -- or since the Bay of Pigs military attack in April of 1961 failed to recapture Cuba for the Miami Cubans. And now in April of 2022 both the United States and Cuba know that one of the offshoots of the Embargo's starvation tactics against Cubans on the island is so many of them will try desperately to come to America!!!!
This Thursday -- on April 21st, 2022 -- the United States will hold a meeting to "discuss migration." Just speaking to Cuba is something the U. S. has failed to do since 1959, so it will be interesting to see if Carlos Fernandez de Sossio, or one of his top aides, will be allowed to actually express Cuba's position regarding the Embargo. Carlos, more than once, has repeated what he thinks: "We learn everyday that if you are the world's richest and most powerful nation you can do what ever the hell you want to do, especially against littler nations. But that doesn't make it right. The United States knows full well that using the Embargo and other means to starve, demean, and try to destroy everyday Cubans in Cuba epitomizes greed and genocide. Lying about those two facts to the world is wrong, but lying about it...decade after decade...to generations of Americans is, perhaps, the worse thing the United States democracy has done."
A powerful international Cuban diplomat named Johana Tablada is Cuba's Deputy Minister related to United States Affairs. If her boss Carlos de Cossio doesn't speak on April 21st-2022 with the U. S. officials, Johana is fully and forcefully capable of doing so.
This photo shows Cuba's U. S. expert Johana Tablada, 4th from the left in the polka-dot dress, with some of her colleagues. If afforded the chance, these Cubans would like to express their opinions about America...to Americans.
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