Cuba Looks to China for Vital Tourism

 ...as the island tries to survive the US EMBARGO!!

     In April & now in May of 2024 headlines around the world by respected international media sources, such as London-based Reuters and Madrid-based El Pais, have stressed that Cubans in Cuba are direly facing "food shortages and constant blackouts as the six-decade-old US embargo has been severely tightened in the past five years by both the Trump and Biden administrations in Washington." The U. S. media, meanwhile, mostly ignores the crisis facing Cuban families -- except for blaming it all on Cuba and, strangely, claiming there is no US embargo or blockade of the island that the world knows has existed since 1962. The photo and caption above shows Cuba trying to cope with the crisis by trying to "Reconnect-Rebuild-Innovate" Cuba's tourism. 

    Cuba's Minister of Tourism is Juan Carlos Garcia. He says, "If you look around the world you will notice that countries large and small -- from superpowers such as the United States and China to little countries like Cuba -- you will see that all countries crave tourism as a means to get super rich if you are a large nation or merely to survive if you are a small nation trying to obtain enough money to support your citizens. In that regard, if you look arund the world you will note that Cuba is the only nation facing an endless economic blockade engineered by a superpower nation that desires to starve the economy and the families in Cuba. To deny that this has existed for six decades is to be a damn liar, but there are a lot of scared liars who are afraid of the United States or merely want to be financial or military friends of the United States. Cuban families facing hunger and blackouts know the facts first-hand, and so do Cuban leaders like me who want to help them. As tourism Minister, I wish for flocks of tourists from a few miles away in the United States just like Batista had in the 1950s, but unlike Batista and Luciano we don't indugle in kick-back dollars. Surely in 2024 Cuba would prefer tourists from the United States and elsewhere but, mostly, we must depend on tourists from just a few countries that don't bend to the U. S. blockade...such as faraway China." 

      Indeed, in May of 2024 Cuba's desperation for tourism has caused Cuba to get more cozy than ever with China. The two countries have agreed to new policies encouraging more visitors to Cuba from China as announced by Cuba's Tourist Minister Juan Carlos Garcia, and, as you can see below, the news also is being reported by China's News Agency Xinhua:

    The Cuban minister in charge of relations with the United States is Carlos Fernandez de Cossio. A respected diplomat even in Washington and Miami, he says: "Using its unique superpower status and influence, the United States can dictate its Cuban policies even knowing the rest of the world might believe it is not only wrong but even genocidal to masses of people in a small, vulnerable country. For this to exist for over six decades is a testimony to a handful of benefactors making the decisions while the vast majority of U. S. citizens are expected to remain silent. And when the compliant U. S. media daily propagadizes to American citizens that those making the Cuban decisions in the U. S. are good people and that all Cubans from revolutionary leaders to current President Diaz-Canel are bad people, then it doesn't matter what the small country says or proves. In a fairer world, one in which might doesn't dictate right or wrong, the U. S. would not be able to maintain a genocidal economic blockade on generations of people in a small country. In that regard, the American people, I believe, should be allowed to know that the Cuban Revolution in the 1950s evolved because the U. S. supported Cuba's vile dictator Batista...and that was at a time when other regional vile dictators such as Trujilo in the Dominican Republic and Somoza in Nicaragua and later vile dictators such as Pinochet in Chile, the Shaw in Iran, and others had U. S. support. Sure, the motives were to reap money out of such countries by kick-backs to friendly dictators, but sometimes the U. S. should consider motives that don't involve money." Below is a two-minute video on CBS News/YouTube in which Carlos Fernandez de Cossio discussed US-Cuba Relations from Cuba's viewpoint:

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