More and more, in this first week of 2023, Cubans on the island believe that faraway Vietnam is the most important nation trying to help them survive.
The map above shows the strategic location of the *Mariel Port* 28 miles southwest of Havana. It is an ultra-modern deep-water port that, since 2014, is capable of handling the largest container ships that exit the Panama Canal. Except for the drastic and endless U. S. economic Embargo, Mariel's lavish Economic Zone has the potential to revitalize Cuba's dire financial outlook...if the U. S. would allow it to be utilized properly. At the moment faraway Vietnam is the only nation that has the courage to bravely challenge the U. S. Embargo and to invest heavily in the *Mariel Economic Zone. And, Moreover, in the New Year of 2023 Vietnam is determined to greatly expand its investment at *Mariel* by building more companies that will continue to produce vital products as it continues to hire more-and-more Cuban workers.
Since 1962, or since the 1961 Bay of Pigs military attack and other drastic measures by the U. S. didn't defeat Revolutionary Cuba, Americans have been programmed to support the U. S. Embargo that, for over six decades, has tried to massively starve the Cuban economy. Thus, for over six decades, propagandized Americans have supported or condoned the Embargo while being lied to about such well-known truths such as those explained above about the Mariel Port. If allowed to attain its potential, the Mariel Port would be more valuable than the nearby Florida Ports.
Above is another well-known Mariel Port fact: "Perhaps most important, Mariel is a deep-water port, and will be able to accommodate the world's largest cargo ships. If successful, it could mean big money for Cuba." In other words, only one nation -- the United States -- is keeping the Mariel Port from "meaning big money for Cuba." And in other words, the only nation seriously challenging the ongoing United States attempt to totally starve Cuba is Vietnam, which is hoping that the Mariel Port means "big money for Cuba."
Ana Teresa is the Cuban in charge of the Mariel Port Economic Zone, but all of Cuba's top economists are involved in trying to make it the catalyst to the island's economic survival. And today -- on January 4th, 2023 -- many top Vietnamese political and economic officials are working tirelessly to make Mariel the jewel among all the ports in the Caribbean and beyond. Below are photos this week from Mariel that give Ana optimism that Vietnam's view of Mariel, not the view of the United States, will prevail and, in fact, is prevailing. Study the photos below to see some of the things that Vietnam is doing this first week in 2023 at Cuba's vital Mariel Port.
Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel this first week of 2023 said: "If the Cuban people in this new year of 2023 begin to rise above the efforts of the United States to starve them, I now believe that the biggest reason will be the help the Cuban people are now getting from our friends in Vietnam." Above this photo of Diaz-Canel, the other photos show why the island's leader feels able to make that statement. The 2023 photos this week at Mariel Port show current Vietnamese-supported companies already manufacturing key products while new companies are being built to do the same thing...as trucks carry products to Havana along the newly paved 28-mile highway; as Cuban workers are now being paid decent wages at Mariel; as Vietnamese government and economic officials are eagerly at Mariel continuing to make more things happen...etc., etc.
While the world's superpower, the United States, is located near Cuba's northern border, thousands of miles away the feisty nation of Vietnam is the nation in 2023 most concerned with helping the Cuban people survive history's longest and cruelest economic Embargo ever imposed by any powerful nation against any much-smaller nation.
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