Reminders of the soap opera As the World Turns!!
The top Cuban Headline today -- on AUGUST 17TH of 2023 -- concerns the incredible fact that baseball-loving Cuba was allowed to participate in the 76th Little League World Series that started yesterday in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. In a game that was televised live around the world by ESPN, Cuba lost 1-0 to Japan, the nation that now dominates international baseball events such as the World Baseball Classic as well as the Little League World Series...and even Japan's Shohei Ortani is now the Top Superstar in the U. S. Major Leagues. In yesterday's tough 1-0 loss to Japan in Pennsylvania, the Cuban Little League team got a brilliant performance from shortstop and pitcher Edgar Torrez, but it was not quite enough.
And so, on August 17th of 2023 above are the top Cuban Headlines flashing around the world -- starting in the top-left with "CBS News: Cuba welcomed at Little League world Series and holds Japan to a run but..."
The Cuban team playing in the Little League World Series in Pennsylvania-USA includes some Cuban Baseball Royalty, especially Luis Gurriel. His dad and his uncle are two of the all-time Superstar players in Cuba's storied baseball past, and two of Luis's First Cousins are currently stars in the U. S. Major Leagues.
Today -- August 17th, 2023 -- in Cuba both Cuba News channels as well as the everyday Cuban people have baseball on their minds but, mostly, all Cubans in Cuba remain focused on political relations with their northern neighbor, the United States that happens to be the strongest and richest nation in the world. While Americans, since 1962, have allowed the U. S. to defy the rest of the world by continuing a cruel economic Embargo against the Cuban people that is history's longest and cruelest embargo any large nation has ever imposed on any much-smaller nation. While Americans call the tragedy an "Embargo," Cubans, such as the lady shown above today, call it a "genocidal Blockade."
As the yearly vote in the United Nations confirms almost unanimously year-after-year, the rest of the entire world wants the U. S. Embargo/Blockade of Cuba to end. Yet, it has existed from February of 1962 till August of 2023...with no end in SIGHT. What does that say about Democracy? What does that say about the United States? What does that say about Cuba?
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