A powerful Cuban official, Economy Minister Alejandro Gil Fernandez, has been fired and now is facing criminal charges after the island's drastic financial problems are devastating everyday life in Cuba, including power blackouts and critical shortages of food and medicine. Gil appears to be a scrapegoat. He has worked tirelessly to improve Cuba's financial outlook and recently his focus has been on begging the United States to ease its six-decade-old economic Embargo/Blockade, which has been drastically exacerbated since outgoing U. S. President Donald Trump placed Cuba on the very short list of Nation's That Sponsor Terrorism. Most observes believed that Democratic President Joe Biden would quickly remove Cuba off that designation but, after over three years as President, Biden has kept it in place...apparently to appease a few very rich and politically powerful Cuban-Americans in Miami and in the U. S. Congress.
Therefore, to close out the first week of March in 2024, above you can see the TOP Cuban Headlines flashing around the world. Of course, the Miami Herald daily produces extreme anti-Cuban headlines such as now yet another company, in this case being Airbnb, becomes the latest to be sued in Miami. But much fairer and less biased non-Miami and non-US news giants such as Reuters tell the world real Cuban news such as Cuba now sacking Economic Minister Gil in a week in which Cuba also begged the UN for "food aid" when the Cuban government admitted, for the first time during the endless Embargo/Blockade, that it was having trouble providing free milk for its young children "ages zero to 7." While international non-US news agencies, such as London-based Reuters, are the best sources for updates regarding Cuba, today -- on March 8th-2024 -- below the U.S.-based ABC News TV Network actually provided a fair update on the dismissal of Economic Minister Gil by the Cuban government.
The photo above shows Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel talking with Cuban Economic Minister Alejandro Gil when Gil was in charge of saving the Cuban Economy from total disasters after the Trump & Biden adminstrations have drastically tightened the already tragic U. S. Embargo that began against Cuba in 1962. Now, in March of 2024, President Diaz-Canel needs a powerful scrapegoat after admitting the power blackouts and the shortages of food and medicine are devastating Cuban families on the island. And it appears that the scrapegoat is Gil.
As shown above, for the past five years ALEJANDRO GIL has worked tirelessly begging the United States to ease the EMBARGO/Blockade that was starving and deprving Cuban children and women the most. Headlines such as the one above reported that fact: "Alejandro Gil: "We are prepared to take advantage of any economic opening with the U.S, but it doesn't depend on us." Indeed, while doing everything he could to save Cuba's economy, Alejandro Gil recently resorted to begging the U. S. to ease the EMBARGO/Blockade but, as shown above, the U. S. refused to listen to his plea.
And now Alejandro Gil is being charged and scrapecoated by the Cuban government because he could not persuade the United States, the strongest nation in the world, to ease the endless economic U. S. blockade of the island. It was an impossible task for Gil to accomplish and to blame him was and is unfair.
The Reuters headline and photo shown above revealed to the world that a great journalist named Nelson Acosta reported from Havana that Cubans such as the woman shown on the right were facing starvation and deprivation because of the U. S. refusal to ease the Blockade. That report from Nelson Acosta, as you can see, was on July 22nd of 2023 with the worldwide headline: "Cuban economy minister says no quick fix to devastating crisis." That diligent Economy Minister was Alejandro Gil and today -- on March 8th of 2024 -- that decent man Alejandro Gil is being the scrapegoat because he could not do the impossible, meaning that he was unable to persuade the U. S. to ease the EMBARGO/Blockade.
Since 1962 millions upon millions of concerned people at the U. N. and elsewhere have begged the U. S. to end or to at least ease the EMBARGO that sourrounds the vulnerable and neighboring island of Cuba. And now, in March of 2024, it appears that a decent man -- Alejandro Gil -- is being unfairly persecuted in Cuba because he could not persuade the strongest nation in the world to ease the EMBARGO.
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