January 1st of 2024 marked the 65th anniversary of the victory of the Cuban Revolution over the US-backed & Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship...and it has been 62 YEARS since the devastating US economic EMBARGO began in 1962 as one of the violent efforts by the US to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba. Considering that the US is the world's economic & military Superpower, and is just a few miles from Cuba's northern border, it is astonishing that any small nation could long survive such a EMBARGO by a neighbor that is the world's most powerful and most influential nation, meaning that other nations must abide by the EMBARGO. The fact that Cuba has survived the US EMBARGO for over six decades is incredible!! But in the past five years both the Trump & Biden adminisstrations in Washington have tightened the EMBARGO by putting Cuba on the US List of Nations that Sponsor Terrorism, an ultra-punitive measure that drastically strengthens the EMBARGO. Of course, the U. S. media, especially the Miami Herald and writers such as Nora Gamez Torres, routinely blame Cuba -- not things such as the US EMBARGO -- for the food shoirtages and power blackouts that are more-than-ever impacting everyday Cubans on the island, many of whom are now finding wayss to emigrate to the US while others protest on Cuban streets...while the Miami Herald and others gleefully seem to mock the turmoil fueled by hunger and blackouts in Cuba in late March of 2024.
In this next to last week in March of 2024 above are the Top Cuban Headlines flashing around the U. S. and the world, including Bloomberg News among those telling Americans that "Cuba is on the Brink of Collapse." But in the lower-right above it is the NBC News headline that is the best because it at least permits Cubans in Cuba, not just in Miami, to speak about the situation.
Above are some of the quotes from Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel that NBC News reported, and the first three paragraphs of the major video-audio-and-written report by three major NBC News journalists is shown below:
It is impressive, I think, that NBC News in late March of 2024 allowed comments such as this from Cuba's president Miguel Diaz-Canel as he blames the U. S. for the protests in Cuba that he knows are threats to his Revolutionary government: "They're always looking for justifications and turning things around. The most absurd thing is that they have applied a criminal blockade against us for more than 65 years. That is the absurdity." What the U. S. calls a EMBARGO is known as a Blockade in Cuba.
The above report by NBC 6 News in Miami on YouTube shows that the Miami media closely monitors Cuba's problems, such as the March-2024 uptick of blackouts and hunger on the island.
It was "Proclamation 3447" back in 1962 that legalized the EMBARGO/Blockade against Cuba. In these final days of March in 2024, more than six decades later, it is still legal. Cuba, as shown by the billboard sshown above, says the Blockade is "The largest and longest genocide in history." It appears that most of the world agrees with that definition.
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