Today -- on August 22nd, 2022 -- Jim Wyss/Bloomberg News -- reported that nations such as Canada are helping Cuba recover from the COVID Pandemic and also helping Cuba survive the strengthened six-year-old U. S. Embargo/Blockade of the island. Bloomberg says that the vital tourist industry, "led by a surge in visitors from Canada," rebounded to 1.2 visitors from January-July, "compared to 217,364 visitors during the same period in 2021."
With a surge of visitors from the U. S. seeking flights to Cuba, American Airlines has asked the U. S. government for permission "to increase its 6 daily roundtrip flights between Miami and Havana to 8 daily roundtrip flights."
Iceland also opposes the U. S. blockade of Cuba: "The US Department of Transportation has approved an application by Icelandair to fly up to 31 round-trip flights a weeks between the United and Cuba on behalf of Florida-based World Atlantic Airlines."
India, the world's most populace Democracy, has asked Cuba to greatly increase Trade Relations between the two countries.
A few days ago -- on August 19th, 2022 -- Italy requested 497 more Cuban doctors "to Italy's Calabria region" and Italy asked Cuba, if possible, to send many of the same Cuban doctors that had so powerfully helped Italy during the height of the COVID pandemic. And as you can see above, when the great London-based News Agency, Reuters, reported on Italy's latest request for Cuban doctors it added these facts: "Around 40 countries across five continents, including Italy, received Cuban medics during the COVID-19 pandemic, as the island nation -- home to just over 11 million inhabitants -- has punched far above its weight in medical diplomacy." While Reuters can tell the world such facts about Cuba, the U. S. media can't...because the U. S. Embargo-Blockade severely sanctions Cuba for what the U. S. conveniently claims that Cuba's sending the island's excess doctors to foreign nations constitutes slavery...and violates the tenets of the Blockade because it presumably allows some foreign money to flow back to Cuba, which since 1959 has provided free education through college for all its citizens, free health-care for all its citizens, etc....things the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship didn't even remotely consider when Batista, the Mafia, and U. S. businesses raked in fortunes on the island prior to the Cuban Revolution's victory in January 1 of 1959.
In fact, although Americans are not supposed to know it, for decades U. S. medical students have traveled to Cuba to get totally free six-year medical degrees with poor little Cuba taking care of the expenses of "around $10,000 to $15,000 a year" while only requiring the U. S. students agree to return to their poor U. S. areas for at least five years to help sick Americans.
President Lopez Obrador of Mexico, the huge country on the USA's southern border, is actually the most out-spoken leader denouncing the U. S. Embargo-Blockade of Cuba: "The longer it exists the more innocent families in Cuba are being criminally assaulted and deprived by rich people in a much larger and more powerful country. And that shames us all."
As a fierce critic of the U. S. Blockade of Cuba, Mexico's President Lopez Obrador has renewed his already close friendship with Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel...and offered "trade and other help." This month when the latest monstrous explosion and fire spent days wiping out Cuba's main Oil Depot in Matanzas, Mexico was the first nation to quickly send help to fight the inferno that raged for five days.
Of course, Americans who are told to support or condone the cruel Embargo-Blockade of Cuba are not told why "future U. S. doctor Chasiti I. Falls is a fifth year medical student in Havana...Under full scholarship to a six-year medical degree program courtesy of Cuba..." Like other poor Americans, her U.S.-to-Cuba-and-back-to-the-U.S. story, as shown above, is not told by the Cuban media nor by the mainstream U. S. media but was told by Amy Goodman, the renowned anchor of the "Democracy Now!" program that is carried on 1400 radio and television stations. You see, such stories don't compute with the continuation of the six-decade-old blockade of Cuba...and thus Americans are not supposed to Google the history of "ELAM" -- the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana. Amy Goodman often reminds her viewers and listeners that the United States is the "only" nation in the world that supports and benefits from the Blockade.
If the only country that wants the Blockade of Cuba would end it, perhaps the whole world would benefit from such a change.
The tropical sun deserves to shine in Cuba.
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