Why Has Economic Warfare Against Cuba Lasted For Six+ Decades?

 And How Does It Impact Latin America Today?

     The U. S. economic Blockade of Cuba has existed since 1962, or since the 1961 air-land-sea Bay of Pigs U.S./Miami military attack failed to overthrow the nascent but pugnacious Cuban Revolution. Afraid of powerful foregin nations trying to starve and deprive masses of people in much-smaller nations, since 1962 the rest of the world has almost unanimously denounced the U. S. economic Blockade of Cuba, but even such international unanimity doesn't make a dent on an endless Blockade/Embargo legalized by the richest and strongest nation in the world, which is also the small nation's neighbor.

   The U. S. Blockade of Cuba has existed since 1962 despite being opposed by most Americans and by almost every unbaised American expert on Latin American and Caribbean issues. The U. S. Embargo of Cuba since 1962 has existed all these decades because it pleases, empowers, and enriches rich and politically powerful Cuban-Americans in Miami and Washington. But it also has existed since 1962 because of a biased and unfair U. S. media that promotes misinformation that supports its vile continuation, which shames the U. S. and its Demcoracy while it commits "economic warfare" and "wealth extraction" from selected and much weaker nations. Such quotes are included in a new report at the end of October-2023 from Juan Gonzalez and his Chicago-based Great Cities Institute. Juan Gonzalez is America's most brilliant, astute, and unbiased Latin American and Caribbean expert that normally is not allowed by the U. S. media to partake in discussions about vital Latin American issues because, apparently, such information might be critical of a superpower foreign nation that Juan Gonzalez says is committing "economic warfare" and "wealth extraction" on three particular much weaker nations.

  In the Wall Street Journal and then republished elsewhere, Juan Gonzalez cogently had an update entitled "The Current Migrant Crisis" across the US-Mexican border that is vastly changing and endangering the United States. After that article Juan Gonzalez was provided a huge segment on the Democracy Now! website to minutely explain and vividly show how the drastic U. S. sanctions against three particular nations -- Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua -- are fueling much of "The Current Migrant Crisis" that many feel is not only vastly changing the United States but also vastly endangering its cherished Democratic foundations. The views of Juan Gonzalez are very important within any parameters that discuss the U. S. migrant crisis or the U. S. sanctions against Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua...sanctions that impact many other dire situations other than JUST the harm the sanctions do to those three nations.

The Latin American & Caribbean EXPERT!!

Juan Gonzalez

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The World Loudly Denounces US Cuban Embargo

 

    Since 1962 every little girl in Cuba has been subjected to starvation and deprivation by the U. S. Embargo on the nearby Island. And that situation has existed the last six decades while the  world denounces it.

     The above 189 nations at the UN in NY routinely denouce the United States Embargo/Blockade of Cuba, which has existed since 1962...with the U. S., despite its incomparable power,  only able to usually get one other nation in the world to support its drastic Embargo/Blockade of Cuba.

    The UN votes each year to denounce the U. S. Embargo/Blockade of Cuba and it routinely allows Chinese representatives to give blistering speeches against the United States policies regarding Cuba. As usual, each year the only two nations that vote to continue the Embargo/Blockade of Cuba are the United States and Israel.

But the US Embargo/Blockade of Cuba continues!!

Please, allow little Cuban girls to live!!

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Can You Vision Cuba Without the U. S. Embargo?

HISTORICO: Today is October 28th-2023 and Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel made history by sitting down and talking to key United States officials about the six+ decades of the U. S. Economic Blockade of Cuba!!!

     And President Diaz-Canel also made history by getting to speak to U. S. journalists to even present Cuba's view that "The illegal blockade has cruelly devastated generations of Cuban families since 1962. I know Miami and Washington are aware that a new wave of a half-million Cubans, especially young Cubans, are flocking to the U. S. and it is happening because both the Trump and Biden administrations have labeled Cuba a Sponsor of Terror Nation so Miami-based and Washington-based counter revolutionaries can tighten the blockade against Cuban families in Cuba while enriching Cubans in Miami and in Congress. The meanest Miami Cuban in Congress, Marco Rubio, is loudly proclaiming for Biden to tighten the blockade even more. The U. S. well knows the UN and the rest of the world is not only opposed to this but also ashamed with Washington's blockade of very vulnerable people who are U. S. neighbors." 

    Cuba has gotten particularly more-and-more upset that the unending contingent of Miami-based counter revolutionaries in the U. S. Congress -- such as Salazar and Rubio -- especially show no sympathy for Cuban children in Cuba targeted unmercifully by the Blockade while using the U. S. media to claim they are trying to "help" Cuban children like the child above. President Diaz-Canel pointed out that "...the Miami Cubans enrich their own children, for sure, but try to starve and deprive children in Cuba. Yes, and that is a shame that the American people have allowed this to happen."

    As you can see above, the London-based REUTERS NEWS AGENCY is telling the world that the Miami Cubans, led by "Senator Rubio, are upset that other nations -- such as Mexico -- are trying to defy the Blockade by helping Cuban families survive the hunger, deprivations, and blackouts caused by the "Miami-beloved blockade" in Diaz-Canel's words.

     Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel this weekend could have referenced the photo above that is from a current ad campaign by Iberostar Hotels & Resorts to try to lure tourists to defy the U. S. blockade and visit Cuba's world-class beaches. In fact, both of Spain's world-famed hotel chains -- Iberostar and Melia -- have a total of 44 world-class hotels in Cuba that are victims of the U. S. economic blockade of the island.

      As shown above, back in the 1950s both the U. S. government and the U. S. media lavishly promoted tourism to visit Cuba to partake in the island's world-class beaches...as well as massive gambling, drugs, prostitution, etc. But, of course, back in the 1950s rich U. S. businessmen, the Mafia, and other cronies of Dictator Batista were all making vast and quick fortunes because of Cuban tourism...but all that ended when the Cuban Revolution on January 1-1959 overthrew the powerful but cruel Batista and his ultra-powerful allies.

    Yes, the World's Best Beaches -- such as Varadero -- happen to be on Cuba's northern coast just a few miles from tourism-obsessed Florida. But since 1962 the U. S. Blockade of Cuba has blockaded tourists from visiting Cuba's world-class attractions such as its incomparable beaches where both of Spain's Hotel & Resort giants have world-class hotels waiting for tourists.

    Just a few miles from Florida tourists that might want the basic freedom to visit Cuban attractions such as Varadero are not allowed to do so. WHY? Well...because some rich people in an  extremely rich neighboring country have, FOR 61 YEARS, legalized a blockade that is supported by the richest and strongest nation in the world.

A "nice" Blockade?

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A Cuban Tells US About "The Pain"

    Although she is a prime Cuban diplomat regarding the island's relationship with the United States, Yohana Tablada's views are normally never aired by the U. S. media. But, incredibly, one major Washington-based media source, The Hill, has allowed its top political reporter, Rafael Bernal, to interview Yohana and even quote her correctly about the cruel targeting of Cuban families for the past six decades, especially during the past five harsh years during the Trump-Biden administrations in Washington.

    Once allowed to speak to a key U. S. media source, Yohana Tablada cogently explained Cuba's dire hope of having positive discussions with the U. S. so U.S.-Cuba Relations so U. S. policies will allow Cuban families on the island "to have decent lives, and not be humiliated and starved to death by a foreign superpower." Below are some of Tablada's most pertinent comments to The Hill:

    As shown above, Johana Tablada, speaking for Cuba, said the U. S. has only "deaf ears" when Cuba tries to talk about the drastic relations between the two nations. In the third paragraph above she told The Hill: "We always say, 'OK, let's talk about it seriously. Let's put everything on the table with no exception.' But it is very clear that the limit -- in our opinion -- is political will and electoral politices." In other words, Cuba pointed out that the U. S. predicates its policies regarding Cuba to please only a few extreme Counter Revolutary Cubans in Miami and in Washington.

    When Johana Tablada spoke to the Washington-based The Hill, she explained that the last two U. S. administrations, Trump's and Biden's, have used putting Cuba on its "List of state sponsors of terrorism" category is destroying Cuban families. According to Tablada, Trump ended his presidency by putting Cuba on the Terror List and Biden has refused to listen to international pleas for the U. S. to end what she calls "Trump's blatant lie, which has terrorized families in Cuba to please a handful of Cubans in the U. S." As shown in the first paragraph above, The Hill concluded its interview with Johana Tablada with this sane statement: "Cuba's top priority is no secret: For the past three years, the island's officials publicly have urgently urged the Biden administration to remove the country from the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism." Many observers were not surprised that Trump put Cuba on the list because it permitted the U. S. to vastly expand the cruelty of the already very cruel six-decade-old U. S. Embargo of Cuba. But most observers believed Biden, when he replaced Trump, would remove Cuba from the Terror List, but the Biden administration has allowed it to continue.

    The key Cuban diplomat Johana Tablada told The Hill that during the past five years the Trump and Biden administrations have greatly expanded the always cruel U. S. Embargo that surrounds Cuba. Tablada said she is "amazed" that the American people don't have the courage to "speak up" about the image above that depicts how "the rest of the world views this U. S. policy." The US Headline shown below irked Tablada, who had expected the Biden administration to curb the harshest Cuban attacks it inherited from the Trump administration.

     But at least one Washington-based news source, The Hill, permitted Johana Tablada to speak for Cuba regarding U.S.-Cuban Relations in October of 2023.

     A top Cuban diplomat, Johana Tablada, has actually been honestly interviewed by a top U. S. journalist, Rafael Bernal. AMAZING!!! 

    Normally, of course, Embargo-loving Cuban Americans from Miami's Little Havana are the only ones permitted by the U. S. media to speak about CUBA POLICY.

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Mexico Leads Fight Against US Cuban Policies

 

     In this last week of October of 2023 the President of Mexico, Manuel Lopez Obrador, is leading the fight against U. S. policies against Cuba, specifically the six=decade-old economic Embargo/Blockade. He says: "Back in the 1950s the U. S. profited enormously when the Mafia-led Batista dictatorship plundered and brutalized the island, creating the Cuban Revolution that has since been assaulted by the United States because it ceased the plunder while the U. S. has not permitted Cuba since 1959 to chart its new course, which includes needing to be a U. S. trade partner. Meanwhile, to pacify a few politically powerful Cubans in Miami and Congress, the U. S. has used its enormous military and financial power to starve and otherwise torment the masses of Cubans in their vulnerable country. I say today that it is time that the rest of Latin America and the rest of the world has the decency and courage to exert some restraint against such foreign assaults and not just remain cowardly afraid of the world's most powerful nation. Cuba should be America's helpful friend, not an enemy to please a few rich U. S. and Washington Cubans. All of Latin America deserses for Cuba to be treated decently and sanely by the United States." In the session above, President Obrador explained that Mexico is still purchasing the respected anti-Covid Cuban vaccine Abdala, is trying to get fuel to Cuba to prevent the island's blackouts, and is hoping to get support from Latin America and elsewhere "to let other nations understand that the U. S. Embargo is straving Cuban families, not overthrowing Cuban leaders."

      Above is a Declaration that Mexico's President Lopez Obrador got other nations to sign on October 23rd, 2023. It is related to "the Blockade by the United States against Cuba." He also said that Mexico has tried to influence other powerful nations, including China and Russia, to more eagerly denounce "the Bloqueo."

      As the worldwide Reuters News Agency headline above shows, President Obrador is also urging U. S. President Joe Biden "to finally end all of the Trump-imposed Cuban sanctions against Cuba, including the lie about Cuba being a Sponsor of Terror. Cuba is a a victim of terror, and that includes the U. S. blockade that is staving the Cuban people.

   But while President Obrador {above} is busy gaining support from the region and around the world for the end of the U. S. Blockade of Cuba, the supporters and benefactors of the Blockade use the mainstream media to keep it firmly in place.

    Above today on October 25th-2023 the Top Cuban Headlines reveal why the U. S. Blockade of Cuba has existed for over 60 years and might exist for another six decades or so. As usual, today the headline from the Miami Herald tops the anti-Cuba/pro Blockade parade, always saluting the long ago Batista regime and promoting the not-so-nice results of the Miami-laced U. S. sanctions on the island, namely the Blockade.

     Yes, the Miami Herald headline above salutes Blockade-related heartaches in Cuba: "Nearly 425,000 Cubans have migrated to the U.S. in the past two years, U. S. figures show."

    In sessions like the one shown above this week, Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel himself is discussing the topic that the Miami Herald is chortling about, the fact that the dire consequences of the U. S. Blockade is, indeed, causing many young adult Cubans to leave the island because of drastic economic hardships in Cuba. As Cuba's population dips below 11,000 people,  President Diaz-Canel admits: "For sure, the U. S. blockade is exacerbating the fact that our ageing population is being harmed severely by the loss of so many talented and well-educated young people deciding they can no longer survive the blockade. I understand that fact, and we are doing everything we can to try to stop such tides. But 61 years of the blockade, especially the last five years during the Trump-Biden era, have seemed to reach genocidal levels for too many of our children and young adults."

The U. S. calls this a wonderful Embargo!!

But Cuba calls it a genocidal Blockade!!

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