Did the Great Celia Sanchez Provide the Answer??
Leading up to Black Friday that is tomorrow on November 17th-2023, ads like this are ubiquitous as they promote lucrative cruises to nations in the Caribbean and elsewhere around the world -- all EXCEPT to Cuba, which is the Caribbean's largest and arguably its most beautiful nation.
Since 1962 the Superpower United States has imposed a tight economic blockade against Cuba that prohibits Cruises from docking at Cuban ports because, of course, those ships might have tourists that might want to visit Cuba and even HELP THE CUBAN ECONOMY.
Despite the endless U. S. blockade of Cuba, the two Spanish-based Hotel giants -- Iberostar and Melia -- still have forty of the world's best 4-star & 5-star Hotels in Cuba.
As shown above, many of Cuba's plush Hotels in 2023 continue to win international awards despite the U. S. Blockade that is designed to starve them from having tourists. Just a few miles due south of Florida, for example, on Cuba's northern coast are beaches like Varadero, which has been voted by tourists to be the Best Beach in the World, and Santa Maria, which has been recently voted the Second Best Beach in the World. While Florida rakes in billions of dollars from tourism, it is nearby Cuba that has the Best Beaches and perhaps the Best hotels too.
Of course, in addition to the dozens of 5-star Hotels in Cuba courtesy of Iberstar and Melia, the famed National Hotel in Havana remains the most famous 5-Star Hotel in North America and in the Caribbean. As you can see above, the National Hotel in 2023 continues to win MASSIVE AWARDS for its magnificence and its history. Prior to the 1959 when the Cuban Revolution overthrew the U. S.-beloved Dictator Batista's rule in 1959, U. S. tourists and celebrities from Frank Sinatra to Al Capone were encouraged to spend tons of tourist dollars at the National Hotel in Havana. Now, still glorified and beautifully refurbished, the U. S. Blockade powerfully prevents tourists from experiencing the National Hotel.
Of course, it was revolutionary icon Fidel Castro who was among the first in 1962 to proclaim the U. S. Blockade against Cuba as "a Genocidal Blockade." It so happens that in 2016, the year that Fidel Castro died at age 90 in Havana, he was still saying that it was "a Genocidal Blockade." Also note that Fidel Castro maintained that the Blockade was "an immoral" poliical act perpetrated by the United States. While Americans since the 1950s have been told that nothing Fidel Castro ever said was true, most Cubans in Cuba since 1959 have believed his words. As a Democracy-loving American allowed to visit Cuba in 2004 by the counter revolutionary George W. Bush administration, I believed that the Cuban people hated Fidel Castro and didn't believe a word he said. But after my visit to the island, I have known otherwise.
During his 90-year lifetime, Fidel Castro was never known to have ever shed a tear, at least in public. But the person who knew him best, the incomparable rebel leader Celia Sanchez, told the incomparable journalist-author-rebel Marta Rojas, that indeed Fidel Castro did shed tears about the impact "the economic blockade was having on the people."
Of course, since the 1950s Americans have been told that Celia Sanchez was not a factor in the Cuban Revolution...while, in fact, she was the prime factor as the prime recruiter of supplies and rebels as well as the key decision-maker during and after the Cuban Revolution.
Therefore, of course, Americans are not supposed to know the truth of this historic Lee Lockwood photo taken after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. It shows Fidel Castro relaxing in his rocking chair while, early one morning, Celia Sanchez was busy writing new revolutionary rules and laws that, with the 100% support of Fidel Castro, would then become vital rules and laws for Revolutionary Cuba.
As the most important factor during the Cuban Revolution, and after 1959 as the top decision-maker in Revolutionary Cuba, the child-loving Celia Sanchez, with Fidel Castro's total blessing, was easily the most important person in Cuba. Till the day she died of cancer at age 59 on January 11th of 1980, Celia Sanchez -- the daughter of a notable Cuban doctor -- had unchallenged revolutionary fervor and passion fueled by her love for Cuban children, and that was the fervor and the passion that won the Revolution for Fidel Castro and other more famous rebels. As the Fidel Castro-anointed leader of the Revolution, at least Celia Sanchez is registered by history as the person who best defined both her Cuban Revolution and her enemies, and that is a fact and a quotation shown below:
"WE REBELS...GET FAR TOO MUCH CREDIT FOR WINNING THE REVOLTUTION. OUR ENEMIES DESERVE MOST OF THE CREDIT, FOR BEING GREEDY COWARDS AND IDIOTS."
Celia Sanchez: Guerrilla Fighter.
In these closing days of 2023, why are Americans still not supposed to know that a 99-pound doctor's daughter named Celia Sanchez was and is the most important rebel in the history of the Cuban Revolution and Revolutionary Cuba? I believe the answer is this: Her enemies in the United States decided that it would be a lot easier to lie about macho men like Fidel Castro than it would be to lie about a small woman named Celia Sanchez!!!! PLEASE STUDY HER OWN WORDS SHOWN ABOVE...as you ponder my answer. And, meanwhile, below are some more topical truths and updates about Cuba that Americans are not supposed to know, starting with a surprising permission for a notable American singer to not only be allowed to visit Havana but actually perform there. WOW!!
Even President Miguel Diaz-Canel is pondering that.
Cuban journalists report how the world loves Cuba.
In mid-November of 2023 Cubans in the community of Moa were surprised when a muddy flood at night from the Cabana River began destorying their homes. Yet...such natural disasters pale in comparison to the man-made destruction every Cuban on the vulnerable island has suffered every day and every night since 1962 from the colossal U. S. economic Blockade of Cuba that remains endless in mid-November of 2023 because, apparently, it pleases or benefits a few rich and politically powerful Cubans in the United States.
Uh, yes in November-2023 Cuba has GREAT hotels.
In November-2023 Cuba had GREAT U. S. baseball stars.
The whole world loves Cuba even while...
the U. S. makes it illegal to go there.
Yes, politically powerful counter-revolutionary Cubans in Miami in November of 2023 sitll dictate the U. S. policies regarding Cuba, including since 1962 having the drastic Embargo that Cubans, and 188 nations at the UN, call "an endless and genocidal blockade." To this day Miami Cubans control what Washington's White House & Congressional decisions pertaining Cuba are -- and that includes powerful Mimai Cubans in the U. S. Congress such as the Diaz-Balart brothers, Rubio, Salazar, Gimenez, etc. But the three photos directly above reveal that the majority of U. S. Cubans, like 188 nations around the world, vehemently disagree with the USA's Cuban policies. For example, a Miami Cuban born in Cuba named Hugo Cancio has a business organization with offices in both Miami & Havana and, as shown above, he knows both Cuba's President Diaz and the USA's President Biden. Not only does Cancio own OnCuba News, which has offices in both Miami & Havana and provides fair & excellent & daily news coverage regarding Cuba-US relations, but he also has other businesses, including a new "Cuba Food" company, that tries to help Cubans in Cuba survive the U. S. economic blockade. And, yes, both the US & Cuba are abundantly aware that Hugo Cancio is the leading force trying to create entrepreneurs in Cuba that can own their businesses and even be allowed to trade with U. S. businesses, including exchanging inports and exports. And most of all, Hugo Cancio is not deterred from his colossal attempts to help Cubans in Cuba by the ultra-powerful Miami Cubans in Washington.
The photo above shows Hugo Cancio in Havana announcing the opening of his latest business. He calls this one deCancio Foods. And, no, he didn't ask the Washington Cubans for permission to start his new company.
In Cuba today this is a typical image. An old man looks for food or something else he might want and the young man is trying to make a living as an entrepreneur but if the old man doesn't have any money to pay for what he needs or wants...the young man just gives it to him free. Cubans in Cuba are known to help less well off Cubans.
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