Cuba Unhappy With Venezuela and USA

     Today is May 2, 2023 and the image above shows the start of a key Newscast in Cuba. It began by loudly denouncing the U. S. "BLOCKADE of Cuba and Venezuela." It was explaining to the Cuban people why the normally hugely celebrated May Day Parade was cancelled yesterday. The prime reason for the cancellation was the long lines at gas stations that are out of gas, which the Cuban media blames on the "U. S. blockade of Cuba and Venezuela."

 

     Yesterday -- May 1st, 2023 -- Cuba made international headlines when it cancelled its May Day Parade in Havana that normally drew up to a million celebrants to celebrate the 1959 victory over the U.S.-backed/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship. The cancellation was deemed necessary this year because the U. S. Embargo/Blockade of the island, which began in 1962, is finally and totally devastating Cuba's fragile economy.

   Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel further surprised international observers as well as the Cuban people by criticizing Venezuela for "selling its best oil to the United States while not living up to its full fulfillment of its promise to us."

     The famed professor at the Universitiy of Texas Jorge R. Pinon, the notable economist and top expect on Cuba's economy, seems to concur with what President Diaz-Canel told his Cuban people, as reported by the London-based The Guardian.

     Above Professor Jorge Pinon said, "Hungry for crude after sanctioning Russian oil and gas, Washington last November issued Chevron a license to export Venezuelan petroleum to the US for the first time in years." In thus easing its sanctions on Venezuela, the U. S. further stopped Cuba from getting its vital supply of oil from its longest and best friend --- Venezuela.

    The death of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez because of cancer in 2013 remains a devastating {and possibly fatal blow} to Revolutionary Cuba. As the powerful leader of oil-rich Venezuela, Hugo Chavez idolized Cuba's revolutionary icon  Fidel Castro, who repeatedly proclaimed that Chavez was "Cuba's best FRIEND."

      "We lost our best friend." When Hugo Chavez died in 2013, Fidel Castro himself wrote the article shown above for Cuba's Prensa Latina News Agency that led the tribute to the loss of Hugo Chavez.

     For sure, since the deaths of Hugo Chavez in 2013 and of Fidel Castro in 2016 -- as the Bloomberg News Agency reported above -- Venezuela has had "DUELING PRESIDENTS." Since 2013 Nicolas Maduro has been Venezuela's hand-picked President but the last two U. S. presidents -- Trump and Biden -- support and consider opposition leader Juan Guaido the real Venezuelan President. Thus in the new month of May in 2023 Cuba is the biggest loser in the USA's vaccilating relationship with oil-rich Venezuela, a Venezuela without Cuba's dear friend HUGO CHAVEZ!!!

     In this first week of May-2023, poor little Cuba is wedged precariously between the mighty United States and oil-rich Venezuela. Before the deaths of revolutionary strongmen Hugo Chavez {2013} and Fidel Castro {2016}, somehow Cuba survived history's longest and cruelest economic blockade ever imposed by a powerful nation against a much-weaker nation. But...After the deaths of Chavez and Fidel Castro, it appears that Revolutionary Cuba in May of 2023 is finally doomed.

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