Since 1962 the United States has imposed an Embargo/Blockade on Cuba that declassified U. S. documents revealed was designed to starve, deprive, and make miserable Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government, which had overthrown the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship in 1959. The goal of the Embargo/Blockade has not worked but, yet, it still continues to fulfill its three prime purposes sixty-two years later, including Christmas Day in 2023 despite the fact that, for all these decades, the rest of the world begs the superpower United States to put an end to it. Here at the end of 2023, as shown above, Cuba is actually thinking about a PROSPEROUS 2024.
Cuba's President since 2018, Miguel Diaz-Canel, was born after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1st of 1959. He was Cuba's popular Education Minister prior to becoming President. Shown above speaking this last week in December of 2023, Diaz-Canel continues to be a popular President according to most unbiased observers.
Translated from Spanish to English on Facebook, above you see what President Diaz-Canel told Cuba's 470-member National Assembly on December 23rd of 2023 about the starvation-type effects the U. S. Blockade is having on the Cuban people. This speech was broadcast to Cuba's Parliament and carried live on Cuban and Caribbean television, and also widely posted on top Social Media platforms. His theme stressed: "...the blockade imposed by the United States more than 60 years ago seeks to mutilate the capacity of the Government of Cuba to respond to the fundamental needs of the people." As he often does, President Diaz-Canel admitted that Cuba since 1959 has made its own mistakes but "the crimes of the United States to regain control of this island nation have superseded good things we and others try to do. The U. S. blockade, terror and military attacks, and other tactics from the United States are opposed by the whole world. Yet, as I cry today because the ever-tightening blockade is causing drastic food, medical, and power shortages in Cuba, the Cuban people know that the Revolutionary promises of things such as free heathcare for life, free education through college for everyone, and free food when necessary remain priorities for us. The U. S. government and the U. S. media lies maintain and perpertrate the criminal assaults, such lies saying that the Cuban leaders live as rich as kings while the people starve. Those lies take hold, of course, but the Cuban people live with and among their leaders and they know the truths. But the superpower U. S. government and the superpower U. S. media have a criminal Cuban policy and the entire world knows that basic fact, but not even the whole world can match the nuclear United States lies about Cuba."
The two images above, including the Social Media captions, show how Cuba -- on Christmas week in 2023 -- addressed the U.S. Blockade's effects on how its two prime revolutionary promises -- Heathcare and Education -- are being dealth with. As you can see, on Cuban-Caribbean television and during the National Assembly session, Cuba touted its famed Literary Campaign that started in 1961 to replace the Batista-US-Mafia neglilence. And Cuba also addressed prior to Christmas-2023 the government's free medical/healthcare priorities that it has maintained since ousting Batista in 1959. At the same time, while discussing Education and Health as shown above, Cuba explained that the U. S. Blockade is now forcing the government to made some "necessary reductions" even to reduce the guaranteed food rations.
As it has done, especially through 2023, Cuba at the National Assembly session to end December explained that it is continuing to spend "a strong percentage of our resources" to helping farmers produce their own food, including enough to sell. Indeed, some of the island's finances are being used to purchase tractors that are replacing oxen.
This is a post today on Facebook and other Social Media forums by Roberto Suarez, a great and popular photo-journalist. Roberto on December 24th of 2023 was expressing his opinion of the drastic status of the Cuban economy. While he believes that the U. S. government and the U. S. media promote only the extreme views and policies of the Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami and Washington, Roberto's expression kinda says: "Hey, we Cubans in Cuba actually live here and we have well-lived and well-educated opinions too. We know more about the Blockade than the Miami Cubans who just lie and laugh about it. So I wonder why no one in the U. S. democracy is allowed to ask us about it!! As the blockade starves some Cuban families, it also starves the international perception of the U. S. democracy, at least in our opinions."
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