Today -- on November 14th-2023 -- this popular Cuban TV journalist was standing in front of Havana's famed Malecon Seawall when she ended her report with these exact words: "My Havana in the background. What more could I ask for." But this same journalist has also informed her fellow Cubans about this reality: "The recently stiffened U. S. Blockade against our island by the Trump and Biden administrations have caused severe blackouts as well as food and medical shortages that are making some of my friends, many of them journalists, to leave Cuba. As journalists in Cuba we live with the Cuban people, so we report to them exactly what they are seeing and are living themselves...otherwide we would be nothing more than stupid and cruel propagandists. It is the U. S. media that lies about Cuba, telling everyone that the Blockade is necessary entering into its 7th decade and must be strengthened to finalize the starvations that will make us submit to the Cubans in Miami and Washington that profess to be good while we are bad. Such lies, coupled with the incomparable U. S. power, prolongs the Blockade's genecidal goals from generation to generation. Yes, I have been to 14 major cities in Latin America, Europe, and Asia and I could easily live in Miami. But I will live and die in the city where I was born, Havana...and not in Little Havana in Miami."
And, meanwhile, today -- on November 14th-2023 -- the ultra-powerful Reuters News Agency is flashing this headline around the world: "Help Wanted: Cuba's government turns to growing diaspora for investment." The first paragraph of that important international article today ends with these exact words: "...stiffened U. S. sanctions" to explain to the world that the "stiffened" U. S. blockade against Cuba is finally, after six+ decades, starving mass numbers of Cubans on the island to cause them to submit to overthrowing their revolutionary rule, which was the purpose of the U. S. Embargo/Blockade when it was created way back in February of 1962. Please note on November 14th-2023 that the Cuban journalist standing at Havana's Malecon Seawall was reporting the same thing that Reuters is reporting today, which is about the effects of the "stiffened" U. S. Blockade now devastating the Cuban people. And, of course, London-based Reuters is the world's best News Agency and it also has long had the world's best journalism regarding Cuba.
From time-to-time, since imposing the Embargo/Blockade against Cuba in 1962, the United States has occasionally stated its intent to ease the dreadful sanctions "as a goodwill gesture to the Cuban people that we are trying to help." One of those times was back in July of 2022 when the Associated Press, the USA's top News Agency, informed the world {see above} that American Airlines was told by the U. S. goverment that it could "resume flights to five destinations to Cuba that were stopped in 2019 when the Trump administration sharply curtailed air service between the two countries." Then {see above} the AP article said that the Biden administration would reverse the Trump administration decision and "let American Airlines resume flights from Miami to Santa Clara, Varadero, Holguin, Camaguey and Santiago de Cuba," which are all prime destinations for tourists hoping to visit Cuba. WONDERFUL!! After Trump put Cuba on the U. S. List of Nations That Sponsor Terror, it drastically allowed the Miami-Washington Cubans to dictate the harshest-ever sanctions against Cuba...but many thought the Democrat Biden would reverse the Republican Trump and that Biden would take Cuba OFF the dreaded Terror list. But in mid-November of 2023 the Biden adminstration has refused to do that, allowing the "stiffened" six-decade-old Embargo/Blockade of Cuba to drastically starve Cubans on the island...and making them believe that, in the USA's two-party political system, both the Republicans and the Democrats are now dictated to by the Counter Revolutionary U. S. Cubans in Miami and Washington. Of course, a prime desire of the U. S. Blockade on Cuba since 1962 has been to Block tourism...because, of course, tourists that would flock to Cuba would not compute with the U. S. desire to starve the Cuban economy, which is happening in mid-November of 2023.
The image above is from an ad that reflects the prices of flights from Miami or Charlotte to three of Cuba's prime Tourists Destinations. Cuba's lures and intrigue, including some of the World's Best Beaches and some of the World's Best Hotels & Resorts, would be attracting enough tourist money to blunt the U. S. economic Blockade of the Caribbean's largest and arguably the Caribbean's most beautiful island. Nearby Miami, like the rest of the world, loves money derived from tourism...but the U. S. Blockade blocks Cuba from having that basic right.
Yes, when I was in Cuba I stopped at spots such as Varadero Beach because it was rated The Best Beach in the World and it is on Cuba's northern coast directly below the tourist-mecca of Florida. Varadero is just an hour's drive east of Havana but even closer to Havana is Vinales Valley that remains the most unique and most beautiful valley I've ever seen and it is a haven for tourists who like to walk on its trails or ride bikes or horses on the trails. BUT HEY!! The United States has had a Blockade on Cuba since 1962 that blocks tourism to the Cuban destinations that tourists might want to visit.
A law known as Proclamation 3447 in February of 1962 legalized the U. S. EMBARGO/BLOCKADE of Cuba. In this month of November in 2023 the nations of world, as happens each year, loudly voted to condemn it and beg for it to end. But the one nation that wants to continue it happens to be the richest and strongest nation in the world, and that is the reason it has existed since 1962.
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