EU Tries to Help Starving Cubans

     In the 27-nation European Union there have always been a few countries that are brave enough and independent enough to openly voice strong disapproval of the U. S. economic Embargo/Blockade of Cuba that has existed since February of 1962 with no end in sight as we enter June of 2023. The EU, in fact, is still trying to keep Cubans from starving as it defies the ever-tightning U. S. Embargo/Blockade by providing 32% of Cuba's Foreign Trade compared to 8% each from the two main foreign U. S. competitors, China and Russia. In that milieu...the EU in June of 2023 wants to increase its Foreign Trade with the Caribbean's largest and most embattled nation.

 The photo above from Euronews shows Cuba's Minister of Foreign Commerce Ricardo Cabrisas welcoming Joseph Borrell to Havana. Mr. Borrell is the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and he is direly concerned that, as we enter June of 2023, "The Embargo, combined with other factors, continues to cause stavation for Cuban families."

      While there are some importnat and concerned people in the European Union worried that Cuban families are being starved and/or deprived as we enter June of 2023, the top U. S. Cuban Headlines -- while surprisingly even acknowledging Borrell's key humanitarian trip to Cuba -- as always stress top anti-Cuban propaganda sources such as Fox News and the Miami Herald that daily inform Americans how wonderful Little Havana politicians are regarding Cuba.

     The photo and article above shows that anytime some nation or important person tries to help Cubans in Cuba, the members of the U. S. Congress from the Little Havana area of Miami quickly denounce such sane efforts. Above the photo shows Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador after he signed agreements benefitting Cuba with Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel. The article above explains that Little Havana-Miami members of the U. S. Congress Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar made sure to denouce it on behalf of the entire United States.

      And that is the way it has been since 1959 when a handful of rich and powerful Cubans in Little Havana-Miami -- such as Rubio and Salazar -- are allowed to dictate Cuban policy for the entire United States.

        In the decades in which the starvation-designed U. S. Embargo of Cuba has been imposed on the island nation, yearly for over the last three decades almost in unanimity and even once unanimously {189-0} the nations of the World loudly have denounced it. Yet...yearly for decade-after-decade the U. S. democracy allows a handful of rich and powerful Cubans that rule Little Havana-Miami to keep the draconian Embargo in place although it remains a glaring worldwide eyesore for the U. S. and for democracy.

     As May turns into June in 2023, as the latest Cuban headlines confirm, two members of the U. S. Congress representing the Little Havana area of Miami -- Maria Elvira Salazar and Marco Rubio -- can dictate the USA's ageless and draconian policies regarding Cuba. What does that say about the other 533 members of Congress, or the other 340 million Americans, or the entire democratic rule in the United States? One thing it says is that a lot of people in Little Havana-USA have easily attained much wealth and a lot of power since 1959 and with apparently no concern about the suffering of generations of Cubans in Cuba.

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