Vidal & Cossio Speak for Cuba

    Veteran diplomat Josefina Vidal for many years was Cuba's primary negotiator in its vital relations with the United States, including all 8 years of President Barack Obama's administraation in Washsington from 2009 till 2017, and then she was Cuba's Ambassador to Canada. Now, as shown above, she remains a key Minster in Havana. In April of 2024 she reminds the United States that. "By tightening your decades-old genocidal Blockade in the past five years, the U. S. is assaulting another generation of children on this island. Back in the 1950s when the U. S. dominated Cuba during the vile Batista dictatorship, the uncontrolled plundering of Cuba left the everyday Cubans with no health care, no education, and not even food. That is why, when the revolution took over in January of 1959, the first new rules guaranteed free health care and free educations through college and free food when needed for all Cubans. To this day in 2024, those rules remain despite the genocidal desires of the United States. Thus, for Cuban officials like me, 65 years after the revolution's victory, we must still work tirelessly to try to protect our children from powerful imperative forces. And in April of 2024, while the U. S. spends money on bloody foreign wars and keeps spending money to maintain the Blockade and its unneeded and unwanted Military Base on Cuban soil, we in Cuba have to make sure our precious children survive the Blockade." 

     In April of 2024, for example, Cuba's free care includes maintaining its "Polio Vaccination Campaign" as mothers in Cienfuegos, shown above, eagerly bring their children to the clinics.

     And speaking of Josefina Vidal, Americans remember her standing between Cuban & US flags while negotiating with the Obama administration in both Havana and Washington TO FINALLY NORMALIZE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO NATIONS.

     Both history and the Google search above regissters the fact that the brilliant diplomacy by Josefina Vital along with the diligence of President Obama's desires in 2016 actually, for the first time ever, normalized relations between Cuba and the United States. But, as shown above, that "was undone  by the Trump administration" that replaced President Obama on January 20th, 2017. And, unfortunately, since January 20th of 2021 the new President Biden, Obama's Vice President for 8 years, has refused to overturn Trump's extreme anti-Cuban measures such as "undoing" Obama's historic attempt to normalize relations with Cuba.

    The historic photo above was taken on March 17th of 2016 on a rainy day in Havana when President Obama -- along with his wife and two daughters -- arrived at Cuba's Jose Marti Internaitonal Airport. Prior to that moment, no U. S. President had visited Cuba since 1928 when President Calvin Coolidge arrived in Havana on a U. S. warship.

    On his trip to Havana in March of 2016 President Obama punctuated his fervent desire to normalize relations with Cuba by allowing his major speech to be shown live on national television stations all across Cuba. As shown above, President Obama told the Cuban people: "Cuba Does Not Need To Fear A Threat From The United States." Unfortunately, of course, since those words warmed the hearts of the people in Cuba, the rich and politically powerful Cuban-Americans in Miami and in Washington quickly took advantage of the end of President Obama's 8 years as President "to undo" the normalizations of relations between the United States and Cuba. "Cuba Does Not Need To Fear A Threat From The United States." Of course, that sentence is now meaningless and, of course, no one will ever be held accountable for eliminating it.

    While top Cuban diplomat Josefina Vidal amazingly negotiated the Obama administration's desires to NORMALIZE relations with Cuba, in April of 2024 Cuba's top diplomat now negotiating relations with the United States is the well-respected Carlos de Cossio. Indeed, in this last week of April-2024 the U. S. officials have been meeting face-to-face with Carlos de Cossio about issues such as the migration of Cubans to the United States, as a vast number of Cubans are trying to land in nearby Florida or try to cross at the US-Mexican border. Carlos de Cossio has reminded the U. S. this week that, "If you are concerned about how many Cubans are migrating to the United States, stop denying that the Trump and Biden administrations have severely tightened the Blockade, which started in 1962, to create genocidal food shortages and blackouts in Cuba. Lying about that is your problem as well as ours, and that is fueling migrations from Cuba."

    The DEMOCRACY NOW! television-radio network that is anchored by Amy Goodman, has the above updated interview with Cuban diplomat Carlos de Cossio. The entire interview is on the worldwide YouTube internet giant. You can easily access the entire interview on YouTube by using the caption shown above: "Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister: Deliberate U. S. Policy "Destroying Cuban Economy" Drives Migration." And, yes, Americans should at least listen to what Carlos de Cossio is telling U. S. officials regarding Cuban migration to the United States.

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