Cuba and US Relations in October-2023

 

    Today is October 12th-2023 and, as indicated above, Revolutionary Cuba since January of 1959 is still obsessed with its three most memorable heroes -- Che Guevara, Jose Marti, and, especially, Fidel Castro. But the images below reveal the basic fact that, in October-2023, Revolutionary Cuba is also primarily obsessed with its relations with its northern neighbor, the superpower United States...especially the economic Embargo that the United States has imposed on the island for the past six decades.

    Revolutionary Cuba in October of 2023 is most frustrated that the U. S. has maintained the Embargo/Blockade of Cuba for six decades despite the fact that most of the rest of the world strongly comdemns it.

    Also in October of 2023 Cubans in Revolutionary Cuba are frustrated that the two last U. S. administrations -- Trump's and Biden's -- have tightened the Embargo/Blockade against the island by putting Cuba on the very short U. S. List of Nations That Sponsor Terror. Meanwhile, Cubans in Revolutionary Cuba in October of 2023 don't believe that Cuba is a terrorist nation but they well remember being victims of numerous terrorist actions, such as the downing of the civilian Cubana Flight 455 in October of 1976 that killed all on board.

     And, meanwhile, in October of 2023 Cubans in Revolutionary Cuba are being reminded daily that their government is trying desperately to obtain foreign help in trying to survive the ongoing economic crisis that they believe is mostly caused by the endless U. S. Embargo/Blockade of the island. The photo above shows Cuba's longtime Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrisas on a 4-day visit to Saudi Arabia in October of 2023 seeking trade and/or financial help from that faraway but ultra-rich nation.

    But in October of 2023 Cubans in Revolutionary Cuba also study maps such as the one above and wonder why they are the only ones in the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean Sea that are being starved by the United States, a process that has existed for the past six decades.

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