The U. S. Embargo vs. Cuba Is 61 Years Old

 It Started in FEBRUARY Of 1962!!

     On February 24th in the New Year of 2023 we are in the 61st year of the U. S. economic Embargo against Cuba.

    Each year in near unanimity the world at the United Nations loudly condemns the Embargo, and yet it exists year-after-year to apparently please a few key people in Miami and Washington. The purpose of the Embargo is supposedly to starve, deprive, and make miserable Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. For over 61 years the Embargo has, indeed, starved, deprived, and made miserable generations of Cubans in Cuba...even as Revolutionary Cuba, somehow, hasn't yet been overthrown.

      This week in late February of 2023 the London-based worldwide Reuters News Agency used the above headline to inform the world about some of the current misery in Cuba, including  "three major blackouts" this week.

      "Those issues, officials say, have been exacerbated by the U. S. Cold War-era embargo on Cuba..." As this Reuters article late in February of 2023 informs the world, the U. S. embargo's six-decade-old purpose of starving, depriving, and making miserable 11 million Cubans in Cuba continues to fulfill its mission, except for overthrowing the revolutionary government.

    As February of 2023 is about to end, the U. S. EMBARGO of Cuba that began in February of 1962 is not about to end and, in fact, is stronger than ever. As usual, it doesn't matter that most of the people in the World and in the United States loudly condemn it. Thus...for over six decades Americans have been programmed to ignore the above seminal image of the United States.

      In 2016 the popular Barack Obama was finishing his two terms as President of the United States. He went to Cuba to tell the Cuban people on statewide television that: "Cuba Does Not Need To Fear A Threat From The United States." That year President Obama, during the United Nations vote, refused to allow the United States to support it!! Thus in 2016 all the nations of the world voted to end the EMBARGO of Cuba. But there was a problem to that U. S. and Worldwide unanimity: The U. S. still did not end or seriously ease it.

    Above the Reuters News Agency article explains that President Trump's designation of Cuba as a State Sponsor of Terrorism lumps Cuba with Syria and North Korea as a Terrorist Nation: "The rule ranks Cuba with Syria and North Korea, and assumes holidaymakers {from Cuba to the U. S.} are complicit in terror activity." And President Biden has not changed that Trump designation, which the rest of the world calls "a bonkers rule."

    If the current U. S. President, the Democrat Joe Biden, is going to end or ease the Embargo/Blockade, the embattled everyday citizens in Cuba are hoping that: {1} Cuba should be removed from the U. S. list of Nations that support Terrorism; and {2} that the U. S. should remove Cuba from being punished by Title Three of the Helms-Burton Act, which Republican President Trump activated at the behest of Miami in 2019. Not even extremely pro-Miami Republican presidents such as George W. Bush would activate Title Three because even President Bush considered it too harmful to Cuban families.

    Today -- Feb. 24th-2023 -- an article written by Guillaume Long is getting international exposure. It points out that having Cuba on the U. S. List of Sponsors of Terror is wrong. He got his PhD in international policies from the University of London and is a senior policy analyst at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

     It seems that a strong majority of the people around the world agree with today's article by Guillaume Long: "Biden Should Reverse Trump's Designation of Cuba as a "State Sponsor of Terrorism."

From today's Guillaume Long article.

    It happens that Cuba is the largest and perhaps the most beautiful island in the Caribbean. But it's strategetic location, due south of Miami, makes it very small compared to its neighbors such as Canada, the United States of America, Mexico, and even Venezuela and Colombia. But, since it was discovered by Columbus in 1492, Cuba has punched on the international scale far larger than its size would suggest. The imperative powers, starting with Spain in 1492, have spent all of the last 8 or so centuries trying to dominate and exploit Cuba. Thus trying not to be dominated in the last 8 or so centuries has kept Little Cuba in the headlines more than Cubans in Cuba have wanted.

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