This is Andre Manuel Lopez Obrador shown at a news conference today -- May 10th, 2022. He is the President of Mexico, the huge & influential nation on the southern border of the United States. Lopez Obrador is leading the international fight to end the U. S. Embargo/Blockade of Cuba. He calls it: "An abomination and a criminal act that has existed for over six decades. In the last few years, taking advantage of the Pandemic, the Trump and Biden leaderships in Washington have greatly expanded the torment for Cuban families to satisfy a few rich U. S. Cubans. The U. S. media and another generation of Americans are shameful for allowing this to exist."
Next month -- June of 2022 -- the U. S. in Los Angeles will host the Summit of the Americas. Today -- May 10th, 2022 -- President Lopez Obrador said he will not attend the event if Cuba and two of its friends, Nicaragua and Venezuela, "are excluded." He said: "If a few Cuban enemies in the U. S. can continue, year after year, to dictate the giant U. S. democracy in this criminal way, is the U. S. still the world's most notable democracy? I have my doubts now...and I just returned from Cuba where the Cuban people are reeling from the Blockade, and coping with a massive and deadly explosion in the center of their capital city while, of course, coping with the pandemic and the blockade."
The President of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, is the bravest leader in the world that has the guts to call out the United States for what he calls" "It's Miami-obsessed Cuban policies that make a few people rich while tormenting every family in the much poorer, much weaker nation of Cuba."
Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador are friends and they visit each other's capital cities. Lopez Obrador was in Havana for two days this past week as Cubans are being devastated by the deadly explosion that destroyed the famous Saratoga Hotel in the heart of Havana on Friday morning, May 6th, 2022. Back in Mexico City Lopez Obrador said: "It breaks my heart that, in the midst of the blockade and the pandemic, the Cuban people must suffer further because of the explosion that rocked Havana on Friday."
As of today -- Tuesday, May 10th-2022 -- the death toll in Friday's explosion that demolished the 5-star, 96-room Saratoga Hotel in the heart of Havana is 35. Dozens more are hospitalized, some in critical conditions, as the salvage operations continue. As you can see from the AFP-Yamil Lage photos above, the blast was so powerful it destroyed or ruined vehicles and buildings close to the Saratoga Hotel.
In May of 2022, as has been the case since 1962, the U. S. EMBARGO of Cuba overshadows all news related to Cuba...and that includes the explosion that destroyed the Saratoga Hotel, the Summit of the Americas in LA in June that the U. S. says Cuba is too mean to attend, etc. Of Course, in reporting such things the U. S. media doesn't have the courage or integrity to mention that, prior to 1959, the U. S. loved the thieving and brutal Batista-Mafia dictatorship that allowed rich Americans to partake in the rape and robbery of the Caribbean's largest and, arguably, its most beautiful island nation.
Of course, Cuban families since 1959 have different memories of the 1950s than what Americans are told about it. The U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista rule was indeed brutal; and since 1959 it is not true that...all the good Cubans are in Miami and in the U. S. Congress!!
If you happen to be a Miami Cuban in the U. S. Congress the U. S. media will allow you 24-hours-a-day coverage to tout the virtues of pre-1959 Cuba while defaming everything about post-1959 Cuba.
But in May of 2022 if you happen to be this Cuban who has lived all of her life in Guantanamo, Cuba, the U. S. media pretends that you don't have opinions about U.S.-Cuban relations. But in fact, she has very important opinions on such things as the Blockade and she often expresses them on both Social Media and Cuba's Media.
This well-educated Cuban mother was born and still lives in Guantanamo, Cuba. She has pertinent opinions about such things as...the massive U. S. Military Base at Guantanamo Bay, the Embargo, and other important things.
On Sunday, May 8th-2022 these two Guantanamo-born mothers {above} celebrated Mother's Day in their hometown with other Cubans in Guantanamo, Cuba. Both of them have lived all their lives as victims of the U. S. embargo, which began in 1962, and all their lives they have lived with the knowledge that the U. S. Military Base at Guantanamo Bay has been an unwanted blemish to Cuba since 1903. Maybe...one day...the U. S. media will permit these two mothers to give their thoughts about...such things.
Uh...I mean...if two ultra-decent mothers who happen to be mother & daughter have lived all their lives in the Cuban town of Guatanamo, Cuba, shouldn't they be allowed to have opinions about massive things that have affected them all their lives...such as the ultra-foreign Embargo or the unwanted ultra-foreign U. S. Military Base next to their town? Uh...JUST ASKING!!!
Indeed...on May 10-2022 the President of Mexico, ANDRES MANUEL LOPEZ OBRADOR loudly continued his fervent campaign to make the United States end "the indecent and criminal blockade of Cuba." As shown above, he maintains that Cubans in Cuba, not just Cubans in Miami, should be allowed to have opinions about "indecent things a foreign power is doing to their families."
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