Today -- on September 20th, 2022 -- this top engineer reported to the Cuban people on nationally televised newscasts the progress being done to rebuild the island's most important power station in Matanzas 65 miles southeast of Havana. It was destroyed recently in the latest in a series of explosions and fires that have devastated Cuba's energy and tourist sectors, killing dozens of Cubans. Prior to the Matanzas disaster even the famed Saratoga Hotel in the heart of Havana had been destroyed with the loss of two dozen lives. Accidents? Sabotage?
The Cuban government has said that the deadly explosions have been caused by coincidental accidents or natural causes but Cuba's prime minister/diplomat regarding the United States, Carlos Cossio, is not adverse to cast blame on Cuba's superpower northern neighbor: "After the explosions in the Mariel Economic Zone and the Saratoga Hotel, we did not ask for foreign help. But we did ask for help, even from the United States, after the deadly fires in Matanzas took us, with help from Mexico and Venezuela, five days to extinguish. Our phone call to the U. S. was not helpful. It came at a time when the U. S. was offering more millions of dollars to people who wanted to receive the money in exchange for helping in the six-decade-old U. S. efforts to overthrow Cuba's revolutionary government, apparently to restore the cruel previous Batista-Mafia-style rule that made the U. S. businessmen so rich throughout the 1950s till the revolution intervened in 1959. Still in late 2022 the U. S. is openly still pumping millions of dollars into attacking Cuba...and also now in late 2022 the Miami and Congress stalwarts are urging the U. S. FBI to begin investigating certain organizations that are trying to help Cuban children and their families who are being severely assaulted by the U. S. blockade that has severely harmed generations of children and families on this island."
A large group of Puerto Ricans dedicated to helping Cuban families during the endless blockade of Cuba "says it has been targeted by the FBI for visiting Cuba." Both Cuba and Puerto Rico came under the U. S. umbrella in 1898 after the U. S. won the easy Spanish-American War fought in Cuba. After losing two revolutionary wars against Spain, Cuba in 1952 began a revolutionary war against the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship, and finally the Cuban Revolution in January of 1959 was finally successful, shocking the world. But then Cuba has had to spend the last six+ decades trying to fend off the dire efforts of the United States to regain control of the Caribbean's largest island nation.
While the U. S. Territory of Puerto Rico has a large group of people, all of whom are U. S. citizens, trying mightily to help Cuban families, there are also thousands of Cuban-Americans in the U. S. who are also trying to do the same thing. The most notable Cuban-American passionately trying to help Cuban families on the island is the professor from Seattle, Carlos Lazo. That is Carlos second from the right above. His powerful organization BRIDGES of LOVE flies planeloads of food and medicine to Cuba. In the photo above Carlos and some of his followers were delivering vital boxes of medicine to help the children at Cuba's largest Children's Hospital, the one that was named for "William Soler."
The photo above shows William Soler's mother, wearing the sunglasses and the white blouse, leading one of the marches that fueled the revolution that ended up defeating the Batista dictatorship. Little Willie Soler was one of the Cuban children that mothers such as these said were gruesome victims of Batista's plans to quell dissent, but instead of quelling dissent such murders arguably led directly to Batista's amazing defeat because of brave marches like the one depicted above.
The historic black-and-white photo of Little Willie's mother contrasts with the modern color photos shown above in September of 2022. On the left is Carlos Lazo, the Cuban-American professor who is desperately trying to help Cuban children and their mothers on the island survive the blockade and other obstacles hurled at them from Miami and Washington. On the right is Marco Rubio, the Cuban-American U. S. Senator from Miami who is trying desperately to thwart everything that Carlos Lazo is trying to do. For sure, Senator Rubio seemingly is dealing from a stacked deck...or at least he is backed by the ultra-power of the U. S. government as well as the U. S. media. But, apparently worried about the nascent yet burgeoning power of Carlos Lazo, it seems that Senator Rubio recently reached into his abundant tool chest to pick out a new ploy -- asking the FBI "to investigate" Carlos Lazo's growing BRIDGES of LOVE movement.
Senator Rubio's hometown Miami Herald published the above official statement about why Rubio believes the FBI should investigate BRIDGES of LOVE and its leader Carlos Lazo.
While he certainly doesn't have the U. S. government nor the U. S. media on his side, as you see above Carlos Lazo makes ubiquitous use of Social Media platforms as well as very visible demonstrations and marches from Seattle to Washington and in Senator Rubio's hometown of Little Havana/Miami. The image above shows a "Carlos Lazo's response" to Rubio.
And, of course, worldwide organizations such as OXFAM support Carlos Lazo's struggle to help Cuban women in their daily struggle to have the "RIGHT TO LIVE WITHOUT A BLOCKADE."
And so...in September of 2022 Carlos Lazo's fight to end the Blockade and Senator Rubio's fight to oppose Carlos Lazo appears to be a stacked deck that favors the U. S. Senator from Miami.
But tireless and also supremely dedicated, Carlos Lazo will not stop "until the blockade of Cuba ends so this current generation of children and their mothers in Cuba no longer live under the cruel dictates, the yokes, of a few ultra-powerful people that benefit from it and live, like me, in my beloved United States of America. It pains me how the blockade still harms Cuban mothers in Cuba, like my own mother, but it also pains me about how much it still casts shame on my beloved United States of America."
Carlos Lazo is ashamed of the Blockade!!
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