US Cringes at 64 Years of the Cuban Revolution

     The photo above was taken today in Havana Harbor -- on November 22nd-2023. It shows one of the crumbling seawalls or fortresses that were built centuries ago to protect Havana from foreign powers determined to capture the Caribbean's most beautiful, largest, and most strategically located island. Indeed...starting shortly after Spainish explorer Columbus descovered Cuba in 1492, just almost every one of the world's imperative powers violently coveted capturing the island, especially Spain and the United States who fought the most notable War -- the Spanish-American War that was fought in Cuba in 1898 when the easy victory in Cuba gave the U. S. dominance of Cuba, Puerto Rico, etc., as the U. S. began its emergence of the world's richest and most powerful nation. So...natives in Cuba, starting in 1492, soon began building seawalls to defend their island from foreign attacks, and thus crumbling seawall fortresses such as the one shown above are still visible remnants in Cuba's two most important cities -- the current 500-year-old capital of Havana on the western tip of the alligator-shaped island and the former capital of Santiago de Cuba on the eastern tip of the island.

    Now study this map to understand why Cuba is known as an "alligator-shaped island" with Havana on the western tail end and Santiago de Cuba on the mouth end. Also note that Cuba's extremely important location so close to the superpower USA remains its greatest curse although it could be its greatest treasure if Revolutionay Cuba since 1959 was still a vital trading partner with the USA as it was back in the 1950s when the USA's richest companies and the U.S.-based Mafiosi were getting vastly richer because of their sweet deals with the Batista dictatorship when both the USA and Batista's Cuba wildly promoted tourism from the USA to Cuba!!! 

   The massive and rampant U. S. tourism and trade with Cuba during the Batista dictatorship abruptly ended on January 1st of 1959 when the Cuban Revolution overthrew Batista, an historic phenomenon that quickly created Little Havana in Miami.

      Since 1959 Cubans in Little Havana USA in Miami have spearheaded the massive U. S. effort to overthrow Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution.

   Beginning in 1959 Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro famously survived 634 or so assassination attempts...allegedly attempted "MOSTLY BY THE CIA." 

    Cuban memorials have claimed that Cubans other than Fidel Castro were targeted by Little Havana Cubans and the CIA.

    Of course, Fidel Castro himself not only survived "634 or so assassination attempts" but he also survived the famed "Bay of Pigs" air-land-sea Military Attack by the Cuban exiles and the U. S. military in April of 1961. The attack was, of course, also supported by the two top U.S.-backed regional dictators Trujillo in the Dominican Republic and Somoza in Nicaragua. Famously Somoza stood on a Nicaraguan dock and historically bade a departing U. S. military ship, "Bring me back some hairs from Fidel's beard!!!" Of course, Somoza never got to receive any hairs from Fidel Castro's beard because, once Castro heard U. S. bombs attacking Camp Colombia on the edge of Havana, he raced to Cuba's southern coast to the Bay of Pigs beach where he, correctly, anticipated the ground attack would take place; 72 hours later Fidel Castro's forces had easily defeated the attack...to the chagrin of his enemies in Little Havana USA, the Dominican Republica, and Nicaragua.

    Above journalist Haynes Johnson in the Washington Post on April 17, 1981, correctly reported, as shown above, Nicaragua's U.S.-backed dictator Luis Somoza told the Bay of Pigs attackers leaving the Nicaraguan port to "Bring me a couple of hairs from Castro's Beard." Like others, Somoza waited for the Bay of Pigs attackers to kill Fidel Castro and recapture Cuba.

    Turns out that after smashingly winning the Bay of Pigs battle in April of 1961, Fidel Castro not only kept his famous beard intact, but he also relished smoking a victory Cuban cigar.

    History confirms that Fidel Castro, easily the most targeted rebel in history, died peacefully in his own bed in Havana at age 90 in 2016.

    Amazingly, in November of 2023 it is still the legacy and quotations of Fidel Castro that still remain, in the opinions of many Cubans in Cuba, the prime bulwark against the "U. S. economic Blockade that in November of 2023 still harms Cubans in Cuba. After the Bay of Pigs military attack in April of 1961 failed to defeat Fidel Castro's revolutionary rule of Cuba, the next major attempt to accomplish it was the Blockade, which began in February of 1962 and continues in November of 2023. In other words...64 YEARS after Fidel Castro's revolution defeated the USA, the Mafia and Batista, the U. S. and Miami's Little Havana in November of 2023 still can't overthrow Fidel Castro.

    In November of 2023 188 nations in the United Nations in New York voted once again, for the 31st consecutive year, to support Revolutionary Cuba's struggle against the endless U. S. Embargo/Blockade that began way back in February of 1962.

    It was back in 2016 when Fidel Castro died in Havana at age 90. Yet, in November of 2023 many Cubans in Cuba still wonder what be would be thinking today about things such as this 64th Year since the VICTORY FOR HIS Cuban Revolution?

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