For sure, Ana Maria Mari Machado is a Cuban Vice President but, well beyond that, she is one of the island's top decision-makers on a day-to-day basis. While Americans are not suppossed to know that, a major article today -- on January 22nd, 2024 -- by the London-based Reuters News Agency again informed the world of that fact.
This article flashing around the world today -- January 22nd, 2024 -- by Reuters indicates that Ana Maria Mari Machado is the key official in Cuba that will decide what becomes of a petition to free all of the anti-Cuban protesters that were arrested in July of 2021. {Note the Reuters article above}.
When it comes to major decisions in Cuba, Ana Maria Mari Machado is often the person that makes the final judgment...and she will decide the outcome of the petition asking for the release of the remaining July-2021 protestors. She has already released many of them but she has also firmly denied pardons for those that she determined were funded and/or otherwise persuaded to act on behalf of foreign entities.
Another rising and important voice and decision-maker in Cuba is Yamislay Matos who is well-known as "Yami" to her fellow Cubans. In the interview above with Yami in the influential Venceremos Media, her increasing significance is heralded as both "fundamental and sublime too!" Despite all their problems related to the powerful and endless U. S. economic blockade, most Cubans rely on young and well-educated journalists such as Yami because, as she explains it, "We live with or among the Cuban people and share their problems and hopes. A lot of that pertains to the blockade. My friends in America tell me they mostly don't believe what the U. S. media tells them, but we are not so stupid as to lie to the people in Cuba that actually share their daily lives with us." So, uh...Yami in Cuba expects Cubans in Cuba to believe what she tells them. {Surely an interesting concept for a journalist}.
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