Cuban women {"mujeres} and their children have auguably been the greatest victims of the U.S. EMBARGO that began in 1962 after such drastic measures as the 1961 Bay of Pigs air-land-&-sea military attack failed to overthrow the Cuban Revolution that had overthrown the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship in Cuba. The purpose of the EMBARGO was to deprive, starve, and make miserable the Cuban people to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. But 62 years after the EMBARGO was first imposed it still has not overthrown Cuba's rebel government but it has surely deprived, starved, and made miserable three generations of Cuban women like the one above standing on that balcony in Havana near the end of 2024.
The Cuban Revolution was led by Fidel Castro from 1952 till 1959 until he defeated the U.S-backed and Mafia-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista. The rebel leader of Cuba, Fidel Castro, died in his sleep in Havana in 2016 at age of 90. It is Fidel Castro's legacy that still leads Cuba today -- on November 15th in 2024.
The President of Cuba since 2018 has been the Fidel Castro-disciple Miguel Diaz-Canel who was born after the triumph of Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution. Prior to becoming President in 2018 Diaz-Canel had been Cuba's Education Secretary, and one that regularly visited even remote areas of the island, often on his motorcycle. Despite the tightening of the U. S. EMBARGO as well as many admissions of misteps by the rebel government, President Diaz-Canel is still admired by most Cubans on the island.
This photo was taken this month -- in November of 2024 -- and it shows President Diaz-Canel meeting Cuban people in their neighborhoods as they are suffering from island-wide power blackouts, food shortages, medical shortages, as well as drastic hurricanes and even two earthquakes, and other dire deprivations.
Throughout everything the Cuban people are contending with in November of 2024, the state-run media continually reminds them to "STAY STRONG." The word "fuerza" means "strong" and "strength."
The red stars in the map above show where two earthquakes hit far eastern Cuba this month of November in 2024. The map also shows that neighborning countries near to Cuba that depend on robust U. S. trade and tourism are reluctant to help Cubans on the island in their dire struggles with hurricanes, equakequakes, etc. But, also, even faraway nations that could help Cuba also are reluctant to do so for the same reason that nearby nations like Jamaica and Puerto Rico don't help Cuba.
The latest hurricane to hit Cuba in November of 2024 left problems such as this fallen tree, not to mention a week-long power blackout for the entire island. Of course, the Cuban government in November of 2024 does not have the money to adequately deal with the small or enormous castastrophic disasters that daily confront the island, including the sheer uniqueness of the U. S. EMBARGO that has plagued and so uniquely obsorbed Cuba for the past 62 years.
This photo was taken today -- November 15th in 2024 -- and I urge you to study it as a dichotomy within the realm of U.S.-Cuba Relations. A renowned photographer, Molina, took this photo today of the iconic National Cuban Hotel in Havana. Back in the 1940s and 1950s in Batista's Cuba massive U. S. headliners from Al Capone to Frank Sinatra frequented this famed hotel. Today it is still a beautiful 5-Star giant and still gorgeously maintained...as it awaits the day when tourists will no longer be dissuaded from visiting the nearby island.
In the 1950s Americans loved Varadero Beach!!!
Varadero is still the WORLD'S BEST BEACH!!!!
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