Embargo Against Cuba Still Shames US in June of 2023

      The photo above was taken on August 3rd of 1962. It shows President John Kennedy signing Proclamation 3447 into law. This presidential signature legalized the U. S. EMBARGO against Cuba, ending "All Trade With Cuba" and also penalyzing other nations that might want to trade with Cuba. The new law was intended to starve, deprive, and make miserable Cubans on the island to entice them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary government, which had shocked the world by overthrowing the U.S./Mafia-backed brutal and thieving Batista dictatorship on January 1st of 1959. Today -- on June 5th of 2023 -- the Proclamation 3447 that legalized the EMBARGO remains in place six+ decades later even though it still has not caused the Cubans in Cuba to overthrow their Cuban Revolution.

      There are, of course, a myriad of reasons that the U. S. Embargo of Cuba has failed but still exists all these many decades later even though it has always miserably harmed generations of Cubans in Cuba as well as miserably impacted the image of the United States and of Democracy for all these decades. And, of course, the prime reason the Embargo has failed and existed all these years is the sheer fact that the American people have been lied to about it for all these 6+ decades, starting with the historic photo above that shows President John Kennedy on August 3rd of 1962 smoking his favorite brand of Cuban cigars. Before signing the Embargo into law, JFK famously had told his Press Secretary Pierre Salinger to get him boxes of cigars mailed to the White House from Cuba. The historic truth of this photo is this: As the new and young Democratic President of the United States, JFK in 1960 had inherited the Republican Eisenhower administration's obssession with recapturing Cuba. So, reluctantly, in April of 1961 JFK approved the infamous Bay of Pigs land-sea-&-air military attack against Cuba. The stupidity surrounding the attack ended up in an emphatic and brilliant defense led by revolutionary icon Fidel Castro himself. Then the next second super thrust to destroy Castro's revolution, following infamous assassination and terrorist attempts, was the equally stupid and cruel Embargo that the still young and cowered JFK signed into law in 1962, the stupid and cruel proclamation that sadly pained JFK for the rest of his life, which sadly ended when he was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 22nd-1963. By then JFK was a young and popular President in his prime and sure to be easily elected to a second 4-year term in 1964, and by then JFK had decided he was strong enough to eliminate the EMBARGO and to NORMALIZE RELATIONS WITH CUBA. Those are truthful and historic facts confirmed in books by five of JFK's top aides, including Pierre Salinger who later became a journalist for ABC News. Yes, if JFK had not been assassinated on November 22nd of 1963, he would have eliminated the EMBARGO and normalized relations with Cuba.

     The truths about the U. S. Embargo of Cuba -- which has existed from August 1962 until June of 2023, with no END IN SIGHT -- has enriched and empowered millions of Americans while cruelly starving, depriving, and making miserable generations of Cubans on the nearby Island.

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