This montage of photos of Cuban TV anchors was used to promote television news on multiple stations and networks on the island this week in mid-July of 2022. The revolutionary Cuban government has said, "The U. S. polls confirm that most Americans dislike and distrust their last two Presidents and most Americans also dislike and distrust their news media, especially giant newspapers like the Washington Post and New York Times as well as all the major television networks such as NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and Fox. By contrast, even foreign observers confirm that most Cubans strongly support their President Diaz-Canel and most Cubans strongly trust their news media, especially TV news."
Indeed, in the U. S. major polls, including Gallup, reveal that, increasingly, "Americans Distrust the Mass Media." And, of course, since 1776 Americans have been told and most agree that Democracy depends on having a media that the citizens trust.
Today -- July 15th, 2022 -- the Cuban people were shown this photo and video of President Diaz-Canel, as usual, spending time in the barrios and streets with everyday Cubans. Indeed, it appears that Diaz-Canel is a popular President just as he was a popular Education Minister prior to 2018. Moreover, indeed it appears that most of Cuba's 13 million people trust their mass media, especially the television networks.
And, indeed, this image this week -- mid-July of 2022 -- is getting much attention, including on Social Media, of a TV journalist showing emotion as she interviews an everyday Cuban mother about her family coping with dire problems, "...the largest of which is the U. S. blockade that continues to try to starve us but also make us prone to dying of COVID...and even things like Dengue that we thought our scientists had eradicated long ago."
And, indeed, in Cuba this week -- mid-July of 2022 -- a Cuban mother mentioned that her family was being direly facing calamities, including Dengue Fever, that she blames on the effects of the ageless "U. S. blockade of my island." The headline as shown above was about the surge of Dengue Fever that hit Cuba in both the 1990s and again in 2010, which many Cubans blamed on the U. S. Embargo and which many Cubans praised their scientists for leading the way in discovering vaccines to combat it, the way their scientists have recently apparently discovered vaccines that have combatted COVID-19, which earlier had killed about 5,800 Cubans but now any such deaths from it are rare.
And, indeed, the Cuban media allows everyday Cubans to speak up about what ails them most, which is the Embargo, but also Cuba says it allows its media and government to be criticized "whenever they deem it necessary to do so, as long as the criticism is not funded by the United States, especially Miami Cubans."
In that Milieu, as U. S. polls and Cuba claim that the U. S. media is not to be trusted, above are the top U.S.-Cuban Headlines today -- July 15th, 2022!! It seems that U. S. TV networks NBC & ABC -- both fierce anti-Trump propaganda machines -- today zero on President Biden allowing U. S. airlines to fly to Cuban cities that Trump had banned in the belief that such tactics would finally doom Cuba's Revolution. Also today the London-based Reuters News Agency reports that Russia has begun sending oil to Cuba in defiance of the U. S. blockade.
Above NBC News today actually had an important story about the U. S. bucking Trump genocide against Cuba by at least allowing major U. S. airlines to fly into Cuban cities, not just Havana. But, while NBC once was extremely trustworthy, now it is deemed untrustful because of its extreme tilt to left-wing propaganda...and most Americans understand that.
This important headline regarding Cuba is from a source -- London-based Reuters -- that is trusted when it reports news concerning Cuba. While Cuba refused to use its vote in the UN to support Russia's War in Ukraine, when it comes to the survival of Cuba's people, Cuba will import what it needs from nations that will trade with it in defiance of the U. S. embargo. Reuters has the guts to report that fact, and report that the basic fact that Cuba would prefer to trade with nearby U. S. ports than with FARAWAY NATIONS because of the drastic added cost of longaway shipments. For example, Cuba since 1959 has guaranteed food and college educations and free healthcare free for all Cubans but the U. S. embargo and other U. S. sanctions try to block that. Recently Cuba briefly ran out of powdered milk that it guarantees to all its children because the shipments from faraway New Zealand were late in arriving. As Cuban scientists fought the COVID-19 crisis some vital equipment it needed to import was blocked by the U. S. embargo, even from nations that wanted to help Cuba fight COVID-19. While Reuters has the guts and integrity to report such things, the U. S. media simply doesn't have such guts and integrity...especially when it comes to Cuba. But, at least, today we learned that American Airlines is going to be allowed to fly into some more Cuban cities and that some much-needed Russian oil has arrived in Cuba in defiance of the blockade.
Little girls in Cuba are precious...too!!
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