On Sunday, May 1, 2022 -- MAY DAY in Cuba -- Cubans on the island are recovering from the Pandemic but, perhaps more so than usual, they are deeply worried about the U. S. Blockade that began six decades ago, in 1962, as an economic Embargo designed to starve them into a revolt against their revolutionary government.
May Day brings back vivid memories of their revolutionary leader Fidel Castro who died at age 90 in 2016.
For sure, Fidel's mystique remains a formidable force on the island, but there are also palpable signs that what would be yet another full seventh decade of resisting the awesome power of the nearby superpower United States will simply be too much to ask of the Revolution.
January 1st of 1959, the day the Revolution began creating Little Havana/USA in the heart of nearby Miami, is still celebrated with pride on the island, but the last two generations of Cuban youth have grown tired of being the only people in the Western Hemisphere to have lived their entire lives under the threatening yoke of a foreign superpower. Therefore, sometime within the next five years, that situation...one way or the other...must end.
The Embargo, the Pandemic, and now the tightening of what more-and-more Cubans on the island consider a genocidal Blockade has finally taken a toll that cannot endue much longer. In reality, pleas to Eliminate the Blockade will never be heeded because it pleases and/or benefits some very rich and very powerful people.
Yet, the successful generation of Cubans on the island who vowed to fight to the death for the Revolution will forever be revered. For sure, both their illimitable & illuminable courage as well as their honorable vision will forever remain historic.
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