CUBA: What IF There Is No Blockade?

 

      In the mainstream U. S. media the daily refrain for the last six decades has informed Americans how necessary the U. S. Embargo/Blockade of Cuba is; how fantastically great the pre-Revolultionary Batista/Mafia rule of Cuba was; and how incredibly nice and correct the Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Little Havana/Miami are and have been since January of 1959 and since February of 1962 when the Embargo/Blockade against Cuba began. But...Cubans on the island also have opinions too, including Manuel Lopez Bello, the Director of the International Jose Marti Airport in Havana. On Cuban television today -- March 27th-2023 -- Manuel had a lot of opinions: "If there was no blockade of this island, our tourism could top Florida's. After all, Cuba has more beautiful beaches and other such lures. This month of March in 2023, after the pandemic and other recent calamities, despite the blockade more tourists are arriving in Cuba and repeatedly I hear from other would-be tourists that want to fly or cruise to Cuba but they are scared off by the economic and military power of Miami and the United States. Through it all, when there are glimmers of light in the dark tunnels between Key West and Havana, our tourism and our would-be tourism tries to flourish."

     Today -- March 27th-2023 -- these photos from Havana's Jose Marti International Airport reveals renewed tourism beginning to arrive in Cuba despite the longest and, many say, the cruelest Embargo/Blocade ever imposed by any powerful nation against any much weaker nation.

      Today -- March 27th-2023 -- this photo shows a rather busy Jose Marti Airport in Havana. But how much busier would it be if Cuba was not embargoed/blockaded since 1962 by the richest, most powerful, and most influential nation in the world??

     Today -- March 27th-2023 -- this Air France airplane is shown leaving Jose Marti Airport in Havana. How many other flights since 1962 have bowed to the dictates of the U. S. Embargo/Blockade and thus refused to fly to Cuba.

     The location of Cuba...namely its tragic closeness to Miami...remains Cuba's greatest tragedy since 1959.

      Of course, great authors such as T. J. English have minutely explained such pertinent U.S.-Cuban Facts as: "How the Mob Owned Cuba...and Then Lost It to the Revolution." But, of course, it appears that the Embargo/Blockade will endure.

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