Yes, Fidel Castro IS STILL the Leader of Cuba

Even If Americans Don't Know It!!

    Yes, both of the captions posted on Cuban TV on November 25th of 2023 are correct. They report that Fidel Castro died at age 90 in Havana on November 25th of 2016 and that Fidel Castro is still the leader of Cuba on November 25th of 2023. The words above say..."...Cuba laments the death...on November 25th of November in 2016." On the anniversary of that day, Cubans in Cuba lament the death of Fidel Castro...and still consider him the leader of Cuba.

    On November 25th in 2023 huge crowds like the one above acknowledged and mourned the death of Fidel Castro exactly seven years ago. In the middle of the front row above, that is Cuba's current President Miguel Diaz-Canel who is 63-years-old and was born in 1959 a few months after Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution overthrew the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship on January 1st of 1959.

     Since 2018 Miguel Diaz-Canel has been Cuba's President and Leader. He firmly says, "Fidel Castro will remain the leader of Cuba as long as his Revolution lives. And that is why we must make sure that it lives another 63 years and beyond that." 

     During his lifetime Fidel Castro ordered that, after he died, there would be no roads or buildings named for him nor that no statues of him should never be erected...although he had decreed that such honors should honor Celia Sanchez, Che Guevara, Camilo Cienfuegos, Jose Marti and other special revolutionary icons. But the photos above show the Tomb that contains Fidel Castro's ashes. Cubans, including those showed in long line above, rountinely pay homage to him at his Tomb. In the photo directly above the 3 people in the middle of the front row at the Tomb are Cuba's current Prime Minister, President, and First Lady.

    But mostly, the normal daily visitors to Fidel Castro's Tomb are everyday Cubans, such as the two above.

    Because of the area where Fidel Castro was born and where he bagan his Revolution, the Fidel Castro Tomb  is in Santiago de Cuba on the island's for southeastern end. But almost 500 miles away in Havana on the northeastern tip of the island is the new and very splendid Fidel Castro Ruz Center in Havana.

"Fidel Forever"

     Whether you love or hate Fidel Castro -- and there are surely many millions who still fall within those two extremes -- unbiased opinions agree that, yes, his legacy still rules Cuba 64 years after the triumph of this Revolution and 7 years after his death at age 90. If the six-decade-old Blockade of Cuba, or some other U.S.-orchestrated Bay of Pigs-like ploy finally succeeds, Fidel Castro's rule of Cuba and his Revolution will both finally end, but till or when that occurrs it will remain Fidel Castro's island.

    For sure, as noted, November 25th of 2016 {When Fidel Castro Died} is deeply engraved in the memories of Cubans on the island but, as shown above, so is "November 25th of 1956." That was the day that Fidel -- and 81 other rebels including Raul, Che, Camilo, etc. -- arrived back in Cuba from Mexico on the yacht Granma to join Celia Sanchez's viable rebel army that was already raging a fierce war against dictator Batista on the southeastern end of the island in the foothills of the Sierra Maestra Mountains. Today in Revolutionary Cuba "Granma" is the name of a prime Province in Cuba and also the name of the top newspaer in Cuba. Of course, if and/or the U. S. government and the Cubans in Miami & Washington finally overthrow Fidel Castro's Revolution, there would be no Province or Newspaper in Cuba named "Granma." 

   On November 25th of 2023 the photo above showed Cubans in Cuba standing on a roadside and paying homage to Fidel Castro's Revolution. The U. S. media & government claim there are not many Cubans in Cuba that feel that way...at least of their own free will. But that is simply not so. During the Revolution in the 1950s, during the Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba in 1961, and during the Blockade since 1962, there have always been millions of Cubans in Cuba who have always supported their most beloved rebel Fidel Castro. Starting in 1960 when Dwight Eisenhower was replaced by the young John Kennedy as U. S. President, every U. S. President has been politically and economically compelled to overthrow Fidel Castro's Revolution, but, incredibly, that remains a project that is still ongoing as November turns to December in 2023!!!

    And as November turns into December in 2023, the "Hombre" that still rules Cuba is Fidel Castro, seven years after his death at age 90 on November 25th of 2016.

    Prior to becoming the rebel that overthrew Dictator Batista, Fidel Castro was a baseball pitcher who was offered a Major League contract by the Washington Senators. 

    Many Cubans in Cuba today who remember the US-Mafia-Batista dictatorship still speak dearly of their "amigo" Fidel Castro...and Frei Betto remains Fidel's friend.

    Today in Cuba children also fondly remember Fidel Castro based on what their parents, grand-parents, and their governmental leaders have told them about Fidel Castro.

     On November 2nd of 2023, for the 31st consecutive year, the nations of the world -- 188 of them -- voted in the United Nations to beg the United States to end its six-decade-old Embargo/Blockade of Cuba. Of course, that international plea is denied year-after-year-after-year....!!!! 

    Of course, many Cubans like this athlete choose to stay in Cuba despite the terrible economic disasters the island is facing, but in 2023 about 400,000 of them have bolted Cuba seeking financial rewards in the United States.

\     At the end of November in 2023, the six-decade-old U. S. blockade of Cuba continues with no end in sight. Yet, incredibly, Fidel Castro -- seven years after his death at age 90 -- remains the ruler of Revolutionary Cuba.

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