Today -- on October 9th-2023 -- baseball-loving Cubans had something to celebrate. In the 5th Caribbean Cup played in Puerto Rico, Cuba beat Curacoa 3-to-2 in the Championship game, giving Cuba the trophy!! Cuba had to ask the United States for permission to participate in the event because Puerto Rico is a U. S. Territory, but the Cuban players were given visas by the U. S. government.
Meanwhile on October 9th-2023 the respected OnCuba News, which has offices in both Miami and Havana, above reported on massive efforts in Miami and Washington "To crush investiment in Cuba" as the six-decade-old U. S. economic Embargo against Cuba has been tightened and thus is creating blackouts and some hunger. 
And, meanwhile, on October 9th-2023 the two photos above reveal one of the massive efforts that Cuba is involved in to improve the island's economy by getting investments from nations that might not be afraid of defying the international tenets of the U. S. Embargo. The photos above show Cuba's longtime Vice Minister Ricardo Cabrisas, Cuba's prime Trade Minister, being warmly greeted in Saudi Arabia on a crucial 4-day visit that has taken place from October 6th till October 9th, 2023. Also today -- on October 9th-2023 -- in Latin America support for Cuba in fighting the U. S. Embargo is now considered unanimous with Bolivia, Brazil, and Colombia having governments that are pro-Cuba, a stark change from recent years when Bolivia, Colombia, and Brazil -- at the same time -- had anti-Cuban governments that supported the U. S. policies against Cuba, including the cruel economic Embargo.
And today -- on October 9th-2023 -- Cubans across the island are celebrating the life of Che Guevara, a life that began in Rosario, Argentina on June 14th in 1928 and ended in La Higuera, Bolivia on October 9th-1967.
Today there are many memorials in Cuba that honor Che Guevara's massive role in helping the Cuban Revolution defeat the U.S./Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship on January 1st of 1959. The memorial shown above is in Santa Clara, the Cuban city where the brilliance of Commander Che Guevara won the Battle of Santa Clara, the battle that convinced Dictator Batista to rush to his getaway airplane to finally leave Cuba forever.
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And so...on October 9th-2023 -- Revolutionary Cuba remains the most defiant and largest island nation in the Greater Antilles and in the Caribbean Sea. In 1492 the Italian explorer Columbus, who was working for Spain, wrote in his diary that Cuba "is the most beautiful land these eyes have ever seen." After that depiction circled around the globe, the "beautiful land" that became Cuba has been violently coveted by many imperative nations, especially Spain that lost its lucrative domination of Cuba in 1898 when the emerging imperative power, the United States, easily won the Spanish-American War fought in Cuba.
And so...since 1492 {Columbus}, and especially since 1898 {Spanish-American War}, and especially since 1959 {Cuban Revolution}, the island of Cuba has been forced to punch far above its size to try to maintain its status as a nation free of foreign domination. The historic dates and facts referenced above attest to that fact!!
And also...study the historic quotes above to comprehend the fervent desires of the United States to want to control Cuba, beginning with the two top quotations from Thomas Jefferson, the man who wrote the U. S. Declaration of Independence that freed the United States from being dominated by England. Thomas Jefferson said: "If we seize Cuba we will be masters of the Caribbean" and "I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could be made to our system of states." Indeed, despite the proposals from Thomas Jefferson and countless other notables, nearby Cuba has never become a U. S. state but far away Hawaii and far away Alaska have become the last two of the 50 states that now comprise the United States. And...neither Hawaii nor Alaska shared a love of things such as baseball with the United States!!
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