But most observers don't think so!!
On January 1st in 1959 Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution shocked the world by overthrowing the US/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship. But even more shocking is the fact that in 2024 was the 65th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution actually being able to still rule Cuba...eight years after the death of Fidel Castro at age 90.
Cuba's current President Miguel Diaz-Canel is shown above telling the Cuban people at the close of 2024 to not believe the rampant rumors that the revolutionary rule in Cuba will finally end in the New Year of 2025. His words above said: "We are an optimistic people , resilient and creative."
The YouTube video above shows President Diaz-Canel telling Cubans that: "The Cuban Revolution has survived and will stay that way in 2025."
But, for sure, 65 Years is an extremely long time for the Cuban Revolution to defy the continuous attempts to overthrow it by a close neightbor, the United States, that happens to be the richest and strongest nation in the whole world.
It took the Cuban Revolution six years -- July 26-1953 till January 1-1959 --to "triumph" over a powerful dictator, Batista, who was supported by the strongest criminal organization in the world, the Mafia, and by the strongest nation in the world, the United States. But I agree that 2024 will likely be the 65th and last full year of the Cuban Revolution being independently and totally in control of the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful nation.
The continuous U. S. efforts to overthrow the Cuban Revolution since 1959 include the air-land-sea Bay of Pigs military attack in 1961. Fidel Castro himself raced to the frontlines to famously defeat that invasion, which remains a humiliation for the U. S. and a glorious epic for the Revolution.
But in 1962, after 1961's disastrus Bay of Pigs attack, the U. S. imposed a massive economic EMBARGO against Cuba. It has existed for an amazing 62+ Years and has been tightened even more in the past five years by the Trump-Biden presidential administrations. The purpose of the EMBARGO was and is to restrict or block two financial lifelines for Cuba -- trade and tourism. In 2024 the EMBARGO has been the harshest it has ever been for Cuban families who head into 2025 with shortages of food, medicine, hygiene products, etc., and also are facing continuous island-wide power blackouts. Therefore in 2025 Cuba must make concessions to the United States during the second four-year presidential term for Donald Trump or Cuba will either totally collapse financially or risk being overwhelmed physically by the world's economic and military Superpower. The U. S. EMBARGO was unmercifully tightened at the end of President Trump's first term in 2016 when he placed Cuba on the Sponsor of Terrorism List and President Biden has refused to remove Cuba from the drastic Terror List, and therefore in 2025 Cuba must submit to the U. S. or negotiate.
Whatever Donald Trump's 2025 Calendor portends for Cuba remains to be seen. But his second 4-year term as President of the United States, which starts on January 20th in 2025, will show him as a stronger U.S. and world leader than he was during his first 4-year term as President. This time he is coming off a smashing victory in the November 5th-2024 presidential election when he won a whopping 312 electoral votes, won all seven of the so-called "swing" states, and also won the overall national votes although he is vehemently opposed by most of the U. S. media and by the USA's most populated and richest states of New York and California. And this time President Trump starts with a majority support in the Supreme Court, both branches of Congress, and the White House that are the FOUR prime pillars of the U. S. government. Most observers believe that Trump in 2025 will burnish his Cuban legacy by overthrowing the Revolution in Cuba. But Trump is nothing if not unpredictable. He is a quintessential deal-maker, which made him a multi-billionaire. He admires Cuba's vast financial potential and, indeed, once sent a top echelon of business assocaites to Cuba to scout out the best places to build his new hotels, golf courses, etc.
But the suggestion IS THIS: In 2025 President Trump will have the power to either overthrow Revolutionaly Cuba or negotiate a deal that might change leadership positions on the island but also be beneficial to both Cuba and the United States.
Another interesting factor about Cuba heading into 2025 is the fact that Raul Castro appears to be physically and mentally healthy as he heads toward his 94th BIRTHDAY on June 3rd in 2025. From the start of the Cuban Revolution on July 26th in 1953 until Fidel Castro died on October 25th in 2016 at age 90, the two Castro brothers fought together side-by-side. And Raul remains the greatest defender of Fidel's legacy. And, yes, in 2025 if President Trump overthrows the Cuban Revolution or makes a deal with it, Raul may play a part in either process.
And by the way: exactly 43 years ago on December 31st in 1971, Fidel Castro closed out 1971 with this quotation:
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