Cuba Decides to Produce Its OWN Food!!!

     Since 2018 Miguel Diaz-Canel has been the undisputed President of Cuba. Well known for his success in his previous job, which was Minister of Education, on February 1st of 2023 he still believes he has the support of a strong majority of Cubans on the island. He was born after the 1959 triumph of the Cuban Revolution but Diaz-Canel remains a lifelong supporter of revolutionary icon Fidel Castro. To this day, contrary to how U. S. sources portray Fidel Castro, after he replaced the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship, Castro is still renowned for quickly guaranteeing things such as free healthcare for life and free education through college for all Cubans. But while idolizing Castro's legacy, Diaz-Canel has privately criticized Revolutionary Cuba for some key mistakes, especially for having to buy most of its food as opposed to producing it on the island. Thus, President Diaz-Canel is working hard to vastly improve the island's food production.

          President Diaz-Canel believes that Fidel Castro's greatest support when he began his Revolution on July 26th of 1953 {when he audaciously attacked Batista's Moncada Military Base} came from two primary sources: {1} The young anti-Batista zealots aligned with the Federation of University Students where many of them, such as Jose Antonio Echeverria, became famed revolutionary martyrs; and {2} the severely maligned and neglected non--Batistiano peasants, all of whom hated Batista and loved their rebel hero Fidel. As shown above, Diaz-Canel believes that those two same sources today -- rural peasant farmers and adult students -- are vital keys for Cuba in 2023 to survive the stifling U. S. economic Embargo, which began way back in 1962. The photo above shows President Diaz-Canel joining student volunteers working a field to produce more-and-more food that farmers will later profitably sell in markets across the island. So far there are results!!

   The four photos directly above were posted this week on Facebook -- Jan.-Feb-2023 -- by renowned independent photographer Roberto Suarez. They show Cuban farmers producing food and then trucking it along the highways to markets across the island. 

    As shown by the fourteen photos directly above, the food now being produced in Cuba by Cuban farmers is beginning to be sold in markets that seem to be both flourishing and becoming more-and-more important to everyday Cubans.

     As he did when he was Minister of Education, now as the President of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel closely communicates with the island's everyday people...both in the streets and in the fields but particularly by using nationwide television broadcasts. The photo above was taken from Cuban TV this first week of February of 2023. He often refers to the legacy of Jose Antonio Echeverria, such as when he now encourages University students to volunteer to work in the fields to help produce food for the Cuban people...and "also to help our farmers become successful entrepreneurs, because if our farmers are not successful, neither will the rest of us."

    This was Jose Antonio Echeverria in 1957 as the Top Student Leader at the University of Havana delivering one of his revolutionary anti-Batista exhortations at a time when many such student leaders were being furiously hunted and then gunned down by Batista's feared police units.

    This was the day -- March 13th-1957 -- when Jose Antonio Echeverria himself was gunned down on a Havana street. His martyrdom is now -- in February of 2023 -- encouraging University leaders to respond to President Miguel Diaz-Canel's call for them to volunteer to help Cuban farmers to produce more domestic food, most of which Cuba -- during the endless U. S. Embargo -- has tried to buy from foreign sources.

       The U. S. economic Embargo of Cuba has existed since 1962 for the purpose of trying to economically starve Cuba. At times it has succeeded even though a vast majority of people around the world believe strongly that rosy-cheeked little Cuban girls and other innocents on the vulnerable island don't deserve to be "starved, deprived, or made miserable" to appease a relative handful of rich people in a much-larger neighboring nation.

     Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel believes that the Caribbean's largest nation is a Free Cuba. And moreover, Diaz-Canel believes that it is time that Revolutionary Cuba begins to grow most of its own food while its farmers make good money producing it and selling it at proliferating markets.

    President Miguel Diaz-Canel, in other words, in February of 2023 has a plan: He plans for Cuba to survive the endless U. S. Embargo by becoming a key Caribbean food producer!!

    This photo shows a woman in Havana buying some fresh produce. When Cubans on the island have the wherewithal to buy fresh food grown in Cuba, the world is a better place...regardless of what some people in the USA say.

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