What Would Fidel Castro Say About Cuba Today?

     Today is December 7th in 2024. The photo and caption above shows Fidel Castro and what he was thinking back on December 7th in 1976. Each day in 2024, on social media forums, it seems that a lot of Cubans are still asking, "What would Fidel be thinking today now in this 65th year of his victorious Cuban Revolution? Well, it probably would still be...the U. S. Blockade.

      The United States calls it an "EMBARGO" while Cuba calls it a "Blockade." But whatever it is called, it has existed for over six decades -- since 1962 -- and many in Cuba call it "genocidio" and many people around the world use their own word for "genocide." 

      If he was still alive on December 7th in 2024, I think Fidel Castro would mostly be thinking about the 62-year-old U. S. "Economic Blockade of Cuba." 

      On January 1st in 1959 Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution triumphed over the US-backed/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship. Come Hell and High water --- and there has been a lot of both in Revolutionary Cuba since 1959 -- that is particularly true in this very dreadful year of 2024, which happens to be the 65th Anniversary of Fidel Castro's victoriious Cuban Revolultion. In 2024 headlines have told the world about the  Cuban people facing constant hardships such as nation-wide power blackouts, shortages of food, shortages of medicine, etc., etc. Cuba says the EMBARGO/Blockade is the cause; the United States says that Cuba's Revolutionary rulers are at fault. And on December 7th in 2024 that is where the hardships on the island remain.

At age 90 in 2016 in Havana, Fidel Castro died.

Many Cubans think he is still looking out over his island.

      For sure, however, Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution has incredibly survived deep into its 65th {and mostly its last full year} anniversary of the heralded victory in 1959.

       With Cuba's capital citiy of Havana just a few miles south of Key West, Florida, the Caribbean's  largest and most beautiful island will also always have the United States as its very close northern-most neighbor. That, of course, should be a good thing. But, of course, both historic and current facts say that is simply not so.  

While Cuba's future is unknown, its location stays the same.

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