The Two Superpowers want little Cuba!!
But China Is Winning that Battle!!
Little Cuba is a close neighbor of the United States but its capital of Havana is 7,913 miles from China's capital of Beijing, and a one-way flight from the two capitals takes 22 hours. Yet, in September of 2023, the United States and China -- the two richest and strongest nations in the world -- are both Superpowers that crave little Cuba as an ally in the volatile warlike and economic struggles unfolding on the international stage. But it's not really a contest as to which Superpower is wooing little Cuba in September of 2023. As the two photos shown above suggest, China, which now has 1.4 billion people, is helping little Cuba's 11.3 million people from totally being starved, deprived, and made miserable by the newly strengthened U. S. economic Embargo/Blockade that has existed since 1962. In other words, in September of 2023 the United States is allowing China to easily win the one-sided battle that is driving little Cuba more-and-more into the arms of the Asian giant that the United States considers its greatest economic and military rival in a very, very volatile world.
On the Isle of Youth today -- September 7th, 2023 -- Cubans held an agricultural meeting in which citizens discussed the U. S. Embargo and the help they are getting from China to help them survive the Embargo. The Isle of Youth, shown in the left-center above, is the largest Cuban island other than the main island, and it is where Fidel Castro was in prison from July of 1953 until May of 1955 when his first attempt to overthrow the Batista dictatorship failed. In the 1950s it was named the Isle of Pines but Fidel changed the name to the Isle of Youth after the triumph in 1959 of his Cuban Revolution.
This was the scene today -- Sept. 7th-2023 -- when farmers held a massive meeting to discuss the help they are now getting from China, contrasting China's help with the U. S. Embargo that they said was "trying to starve us once and for all."
This was a part of the crowd on the Isle of Youth today as national TV News programs across Cuba televised the comments live.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel today went out into the crowd at the Isle of Youth to speak on live TV with Cubans. Before becoming President five years ago, Diaz-Canel had been Cuba's beloved Education Minister.
Cuban farmers today took turns stepping up to the microphones on the Isle of Youth to express their hopes and dreams, with two of them uttering the same sentence: "As the United States is still trying to starve us and China seems to be trying to keep us from starving, we ask you Mr. President to embrace what China is doing."
In Cuba today there are approximately 11.3 million Cubans and most of them have not starved yet, and most of them are social media savvy, as this photo today shows. And, YES, Cubans in Cuba today have opinions too...just as Cubans in Miami and Washington have opinions!!!! Perhaps -- in September of 2023 -- it is time that the U. S. media and the U. S. government considers the opinions of Cubans in Cuba too.
And, speaking of the Isle of Youth where Fidel Castro spent almost two years in a Batista prison in 1953-55, he later spent a lot of time as Cuba's leader showing famous admirers around the island's most famous spots. The photo above was taken in 1973 when Fidel was hosting the internationally famed Movie Star Gina Lollobrigida. Thus, Gina was told why he renamed the Isle of Pines to the Isle of Youth.
The capital of Cuba's historic Isle of Youth is the important city of Nueva Gerona, which now has a population of 60,879. It is interesting to know that the population of Nueva Gerona has steadily increased since 2012. Because of its beauty, location, and abundant wildlife, the Isle of Youth should be a prime tourist destination. But the U. S. Embargo, since 1962, has been designed to block tourism to Cuba because tourism is known to help countries and regions that are not blocked by a Superpower-imposed Embargo. But, uh, a few cruise ships and a few foreign flights to the Isle of Youth would make for wonderful visits for tourists and would also help some wonderful people from, uh, being starved, deprived, and made miserable by a U.S.-imposed Embargo/Blockade that has existed since 1962.
Back in February of 1962 Proclamation 3447 was made into a legal law by the Superpower United States for the purpose of starving, depriving, and making miserable Cubans in Cuba to enduce them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary government. Six+ Decades later it still exists in SEPTEMBER of 2023 to appease a few Counter Revolutionaries in Miami and Washington. It seems that the rest of the world fervently believes that Cubans in Cuba have a "right to live without a blockade" because the rest of the world knows about "The impact of US sanctions on the Cuban population and women's lives."
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