Mexico Bravely Tries to HELP Blockaded & Starving Cubans

 

     A legendary journalist and author, Steven Kinzer remains one of the best sources regarding the remifications that result from the ongoing US-Cuban Conundrum.

       And therefore, as the historic and still important US-Cuban conundrum now winds around its way through the month of November in 2024, the most current article updating the relations between the two neighboring countries is the one shown above written by the great Stephen Kinzer in the Boston Globe. At least this major article is brave enough and honest enough to mention the U. S. economic EMBARGO/blockade of Cuba that has been trying to starve the vulnerable island of Cuba since 1962, which is over six decades ago.

       After six decades, the U. S. EMBARGO has not overthrown Cuba's Revolutionary government, but for over six decades it has certainly succeeded in starving, depriving, and making miserable Cuban families on the island.

     This photo by the worldwide London-based Reuters News Agency in November of 2024 shows a Cuban-flagged tanker shipping 412,000 barrels of much-needed oil from Mexico to Cuba.

      This massive headline from the US-based Associated Press News Agency seems to disparage Mexico's decision to ship oil to Cuba. But at least the AP, as you can see below, explains why 10 million Cubans on the island, impovished by six-decades+ of a drastic U. S. Embargo/Blockade, are being bombarded by island-wide power blackouts, food shortages, and medical shortages. Yes, even the AP reports that: "The Cuban government blames the U. S. economic embargo for its woes...." 

      Cubans old and young on the island have spent all their lives in despair and, while it might not be the only reason, the endless U. S. EMBARGO remains a prime reason.

      The photo above in November of 2024 shows another conference in Havana in which Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel is hosting a top delegation from another country that is expressing dire concern about Cuba's almost-total economic downfall. Yet, as the Cuban President learned again, almost every nation around the world refuses to help Cuba becuase of the fear that it will displease the incomparably influential United States.

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