Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and First Lady Lis Cuesta, in these last few weeks in 2023, have received and accepted invitations to fly to many friendly nations that are obviously concerned about the drastic damage the U. S. Embargo/Blockade is having on Cuban families on the island. Yesterday -- on November 28th-2023 -- they arrived in the United Arad Emirates.
Interestingly, it is reported that yesterday the Emir of Abu Dhabi asked Cuban President Diaz-Canel, "Is it true that the leaders of the United States, which is a few miles from your country, will not allow Cuban leaders to visit the United States even to discuss the blockade?" Diaz-Canel reportedly replied, "As Cuba's leader I am not allowed in the U. S., except to to go to the United Nations in New York. And, no, no United States official will discuss with me or my wife about how the blockade affects Cuban families."
Of course, back on November 2nd-2023 -- for the 31st consecutive year -- the UAE and 187 other nations around the world voted at the United Nations to beg the United States to end its six-decade-blockade of Cuba. It is known that during the session yesterday in Abu Dhabi {shown above} that the UN votes were on the minds of the UAE officials hosting Cuba's leader.
It is also interesing to note that the Emir of Abu Dhabi told President Diaz-Canel, "We in the UAE get most of our Cuban news by reading and seeing the photos reported by the Reuters News Agency." Obviously the Emir has read and studied Reuters articles such as the one above. Based in London but with offices around the world, including Havana and Abu Dhabi, Reuters has the best and most honest coverage of US-Cuban News, and apparently world leaders understand that.
And, meanwhile, while the UAE and other nations around the world are begging the United States to at least ease or hopefully end the USA's blockade of Cuba, it is known that nations, such as the UAE this week, are asking the U. S. "to at least allow Cuba to have the same right that other small nations have, which is to use tourism to prop up its economy." In other words, the nations of the world understand that Cuba has massive tourist attractions, such as world-class beaches such as Santa Maria and Varadero that are directly just a few miles south of tourist-obsessed Florida...and it is Santa Maria that has been voted the Second Best Beach in the World while Varadero has been voted THE Best Beach in the World. WOW!! And the U. S. Blockade keeps Americans from visiting Cuba's nearby beaches that are considered by many to be the BEST in the world.
Spain's two world-renowned Hotels & Resorts giants -- Iberostar and Melia -- have over forty {40} 4-star and 5-star Hotels & Resorts in Cuba. This is now the prime Winter Tourist Season for Cuba, and both Iberostar and Melia are currently using international ads like the one above to lure tourists to visit their renowned properties in Cuba. For many years both of the Spanish-owned Hotels & Resorts experts have battled the dictates of the U. S. blockade against Cuba, but obviously neither of the giant chains have not yet given up on promoting tourism to Cuba. Below are some more of the images being used in current ads by Iberostar and Melia in November-December of 2023 in the hopes that the U. S. government will permit them the freedom to operate in Cuba. Both of the Spanish Hotels and Resorts chains have gorgeous 4-star & 5-star Hotels in many places around Cuba...but below you can tell by their ads in November of 2023 that they are stressing Cuba's incomparable beaches.
The Spanish word "Bienvenido" means "Welcome." It is drastically important to Cuban families that Cuba is allowed the freedom to welcome tourists to their island. But...a few Cuban-Americans in Miami and Washington for over six decades still seem to be saying, "We are the good Cubans while the Cubans in Cuba are the bad Cubans. So the blockade will stay in place!!!!"
The rest of the nations in the world -- and it appears to be unanimous -- believe that tourists, if they choose to do so, should be allowed to visit Cuba. But the richest and strongest nation in the world disagrees, and therefore most would-be tourists abide by that edict. Yet a few, like the Canadian couple above, defy the blockade's ultimatum.
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I do not understand the reason for the US embargo. Please could someone explain! The Cubans living in the US seem to be the controlling influence on US government policies but after 64 years, I'm unsure what the embargo has achieved except to depress the Cuban economy some what, and so increase the Cubans' suffering through lack of food, medicine, power and gasoline.
The Cuban government officials do not look like releasing their power any time soon and, to be sure, they are not suffering. Do the US population not realize that the Cubans have no power to retaliate, 11 July 2021 proved this: 1000 young people are still in prison, arbitrarily chosen from the thousands who demonstrated that day. Would you like your children to be locked up like this? Fear rules. My guess is the ending of the embargo would actually speed the process of democracy in Cuba. Money talks.
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