Africa Ramps Up Its Assault on US "Apartheid" vs. Cuba!!

 

     According to the United Nations, there are 195  nations in the world and 193 are UN members and there are two observer members -- the Holy See and Palestine. In near unanimity, the UN vote each year loudly condemns the U. S. Embargo/Blockade of Cuba. But the Continent of Africa, which includes a whopping 54 nations, is always the most vociferously vocal in denouncing the United States and its drastic Cuban policies, which Africa considers to be "self-serving, genocidal, and unending simply because the United States has the military and financial power to maintain a Cuban policy that the rest of the world condemns."

    Today is January 14th of 2024 and the USA's drastic economic Embargo/Blockade of Cuba is now into its 62nd Year because it began in 1962. Tomorrow -- on January 15th of 2024 -- South Africa, as shown by the poster above, will host the 7th Africa-Cuba Solidarity Conference. One of this year's themes is: "We are not strong enough or rich enough to stop U. S. apartheid and genocide against Cuban families, but we continue to be brave enough to condemn it." As shown above...the poster promoting the conference features a photo of South Africa's civil rights icon Nelson Mandela with his dearest friend Fidel Castro, Cuba's revolutionary icon that Mandela credited with providing South Africa {and now 53 other Africa nations} with sovereignty as opposed to the foregin-powered apartheid rule that had gripped the continent for many decades, including the 27 years Mandela spent in a South Africa prison where his cell had a bucket for a toilet. Mandela said he emerged from that cell and became the democratic President of South Africa because of his dearest friend Fidel Castro.

     Famously, Nelson Mandela and his best friend Fidel Castro co-authored a book to explain how foreign-ruled Apartheid in South Africa changed to a voting-ruled Democracy, all thanks to...Fidel Castro. The Africa-Cuba Confernece that starts tomorrow -- January 15th of 2024 -- in Johannesburg tries to remind the world of the Mandela-Castro alliance that changed the world and the African continent.

The YouTube video above recounts the Mandela-Castro alliance.

   As a Civil Rights icon and Nobel Prize winner, Nelson Mandela was elected President of South Africa in 1994 and served proudly till 1999. He died at age 95 in 2013. In 1990 Mandela made an 8-city tour in the United States where he was euphorically hailed, everywhere except in Miami. By then Miami had a Ciuban-born Mayor and, in fact, today -- in mid-January of 2024 -- it is no coincidence that the current Mayor of Miami is the son of Miami's Mayor in 1990. Above is the interesting Front Page of the Miami Herald on June 29th of 1990 that reported on Nelson Mandela's visit to Miami: "Grass-roots welcome counters official snub." Yes, most of the people in Miami loved Nelson Mandela but the Cuban leaders of Miami, of course, rudely "snubbed" the African icon.

     The eternal friendship of Nelson Mandela, who died in Johannesburg at age 95 in 2013, and Fidel Castro, who died at age 90 in Havana in 2016, remains a pertinent fact in history...and even the Miami Herald should report such facts in January of 2024.

     Thus this week -- from January 15th till January 17th of 2024 -- the poster above heralds the fact that South Africa will try to remind the world that the vast African Continent's support of Cuba includes its unanimous and fierce denouncement of the United States policy against Cuban families.

     The U. S. Blockade of Cuba has existed since 1962 and the U. S. OCCUPATION of Guantanamo has existed since 1903. Like the rest of the world, the 54 African nations want both of those factors to end.

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