How Cuba Hopes to Survive US Blockade

    One of the most important Cubans is Rodrigo Malmierca, the island's Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment. He now says: "We now know that President Biden and Democratic Senator Menendez will continue Miami's decades-old effort to try to starve Cuban families into overthrowing the Revolution for them. And we are fully aware that financial vessels like NED and USAID send bushels of tax dollars to create as many as dissidents as possible. Coupled with our own mistakes as well as other tragedies such as the pandemic, we ourselves must do a better job of battling the Blockade. Improving our economy with such things as revamping our island's new financial initiatives is a must."

     Rodrigo Malmierca realized by 2022 that President Biden would not change very much of President Trump's genocidal Cuban policies, and now he says that Cuba must revamp its economy into more market and entrepreneurial realms that allow more foreign investment in "private businesses."

    Rodrigo Malmierca said that Cuba has begun an extensive campaign to produce more of its own food as opposed to buying much of it from foreign sources. "That stands as a real weakness of the revolution," he said. The Revolution starting in 1959 guaranteed college educations, free healthcare, and free food if needed for every Cuban. But buying much of it from faraway nations adds to shipping costs and sometimes creates delays, because since 1962 the nearby U. S. Embargo bars buying it from U. S. farmers, many who would love to oblige. Recently Cuba, for example, had major problems providing powdered milk for babies because shipments from faraway New Zealand were delayed. Now across the island, as shown above, food and milk and beef products are being prioritized.

     Rodrigo Malmierca's boss, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, is shown above working a field along with young volunteers to encourage the production of more food. Thousands of college students have joined the effort. Diaz-Canel said, "While much of the vast amounts of money the U. S. uses to stabilize and disrupt this island is aimed at our well-educated young people...creating dissidence and encouraging defections. But by in the 1950s when the United States wildly supported the brutal Batista regime so U. S. companies could also make fortunes, while doing nothing to help non-Batistiano Cubans, the great supporters of Fidel and the Revolution came from the poorest Cubans and the universities. That is why Batista closed universities and sent goons to kill student leaders, including historic murders such as that of  Jose Antonio Echeverria, the Student Leader at the University of Havana, and many others. Recently we have lost many such talented young people to defections, but we still have many more who are determined to stay and help Cuba."

   Indeed, the name Jose Antonio Echeverria today still reverberates powerfully on the island in the history of the Cuban Revolution. Most of the do-or-die support for the revolution's anti-Batista fervor was on the eastern tip of the island in and around Santiago de Cuba, but in the western tip in and around Havana, the leader was Jose, the head of the Federation of University Students at the University of Havana. That's why Batista shut down the University and sent goons out to kill student leaders like Jose. Then, as shown above, his body was left for awhile just as a warning to others.

     And indeed, in these last days of July in 2022, many members of the Federation of University Students remain among the strongest supporters of Revolutionary Cuba. This photo, as an example of that support, was posted on Social Media platforms today -- July 27th, 2022.

     But, to be sure, this Reuters report today chronicles the fact that many young Cubans, including top athletes, are leaving the island and defecting to the United States. The article above starts with the defection of world-class discus thrower Yaime Perez who just defected while she was competing in the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon.

     And so...these are the Top Cuban Headlines that many Americans are reading today -- July 27th, 2022. As usual, the Miami Herald leads with an article telling or implying about how much of a hellhole Revolutionary Cuba is while heralding how rich, successful, and powerful the counter-revolutionary Cubans in Miami are. "Bank founded by exile in Miami...!!!" screams the Miami Herald headline today. WONDERFUL. The plan in Miami for six decades, it seems, is for rich Miami Cubans to keep getting richer while making sure to starve Cubans that choose to stay in Cuba. The secondary plan since 1959, it seems, is for Miami -- with the help of the superpower leaders in Washington -- to regain control of Havana. Eventually, of course, it might happen.

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