Cuba on Sunday, Oct. 9th-2022!!!

 Do Most Cubans Trust their President??

      On Sunday afternoon, October 9th, 2022 a nationwide one-hour Newscast was extended to one-hour + ten minutes because it ended by going to a live speech being conducted on a street in Havana by President Miguel Diaz-Canel. The two photos above are important, I think, because they show why that important one-hour Newscast was extended ten minutes. It switched to the speech by President Diaz-Canel just as a huge crowd was still arriving and soon grew into the thousands. They were being told that Cuba will survive...despite recent days in which the U. S. Blockade has been both expanded and newly funded, as Cuba emerges from the deadly pandemic thanks to the success of its own vaccines, from a devastating series of deadly explosions and fires that have recently destroyed a prime tourist hotel in the heart of Havana and destroyed Cuba's main Power Plant 65 miles southeast of Havana in Matanzas, etc., etc.!!

       The key question in Cuba and in Miami-Washington on October 9th-2022 is this: Do most Cubans in Cuba trust their President? The answer, to the surprise of Miami & Washington, is probably Yes. President Diaz-Canel was born after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in January of 1959...but he is a furious defender of Revolutionary Cuba and that has been so since the day he became President in 2018. And, yes, Cubans on the island know him well. Before he became President he was the island's Education Minister and Cubans knew him well because he was famous for riding his motorcycle or bicycle even to rural towns and cities to meet the people, then addressing them in school rooms or out in the streets or in their homes. And Yes, almost all Cubans in Cuba trusted him when he was their Education Minister and, since 2018, almost all Cubans on the island trust him as their President!!

     But, 0H YES, there is no denying that little Cuba is still David while the United States is Goliath. But, YOU KNOW WHAT? That is why the U.S.-Cuba saga has been so unbelievably intriguing from Batista's Cuba in 1952 until Diaz-Canel's Cuba on October 9th in 2022!!!!

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