Cuba's President Admits His People Are Hungry

 A Leader That Admits His People Are "Hungry"

    Miguel Diaz-Canel, Cuba's President, was born soon after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 but -- first as the island's Education Minister and now as President -- he is determined, against fierce odds, to maintain revolutionary rule in Cuba, which has somehow existed now into its 65th year!! In face of the fierce U. S. economic Embargo/Blockade, which has existed since 1962, President Diaz-Canel, has repeatedly said, "To continue to survive the blockade's purpose of starving Cuban familes, we must do a better job, despite the tightened 2024 blockade, of producing more of our own food, even if that means replacing over-worked oxen with new tractors." In that milieu, the photo above shows President Diaz-Canel this week hosting an important conference in Havana that includes major U. S. agriculture executives and companies that are anxious for the U. S. blockade to allow them to trade with Cuba regarding agriculture products such as tractors, fertilizer, eggs, apples, etc., etc.

     As you can see above, today -- on February 24th, 2024, the Top Cuban Headlines flashing around the U. S. and the world include the key report from the London-based Reuters News Agency: "US state agriculture officialss eye Cuba's private sector." For more than six decades, many critics of the USA's extremely punitive Cuban policies have pointed out that they are meant to please a few politically powerful anti-Cuba factions, mainly in Miami's Little Havana counter revolutioonary sector, while drastically harming innocent Cuban families in Cuba while also hurting U. S. citizens that might want to visit or trade freely with the nearby island-nation.

     For sure, as the worldwide reach of Reuters News explains in these final days of February in 2024, outside of Little Havana in Miami there are powerful agricultural enterprises in the U. S. hoping to trade with Cuba, including "Ted McKinney, CEO of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture..." 

       And, in fact, as Reuters reports above, Ted McKinney -- an ultra-important agriculture expert in the United States -- believes that there is "a new Cuba that is emerging" and that he believes the U. S. should have a Cuban policy that helps desperate Cuban families and also help increasingly strained U. S. farmers who want to trade with Cuba, which is a hungry nation of 11 million people that, for example, has to buy milk products from faraway New Zealand, not from nearby U. S. farmers. Of course, in February of 2024 it is presumed that Americans like Ted McKinney will continue to be drowned out BY Little Havana USA.

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