Only Vietnam Supports Hungry Cuban Children!!

    The Washington Post published this photo of a little hungry Cuban girl and then BBC News used its international platform to spread it around the world. But it seems that the Vietnam government and the everyday Vietnamese people are the only outsiders who are actually trying to help little Cuban girls like this one.

      Any Google Search {like the one above} will inform anyone who cares about the acute "Food Shortages" in Cuba. And, yes -- as shown above -- such information will always mention the endless "U. S. EMBARGO as one of the causes." 

     Further media searches about the hunger problems in Cuba appear to reveal that the nation of Vietnam and the everyday Vietnamese people are the only foreign entities concerned about the dire food shortages in Cuba. The Vietnamese people recently sent a shipload of rice plus the equivalent of $25 million dollars to help hungry people in Cuba.

      In addition to the direct help for Cuban people from the everyday Vietnamese people, the Vietnam goverment also is now providing massive assistance in helping Cuba grow more of its own food. Vietnam maintains that the fertile Cuban soil would be able to produce ample food products for its own people "if not for the EMBARGO that restricts proper form machinery, etc."

     Vietnam has sent its top farm expert Tran Tron Prai to Cuba to help Cuban farmers have both the know-how as well as the modern machinery and fertilizer to grow its own food on the Caribbean island's fertile soil. Cuba has long claimed that harsh sanctions, such as the U. S. Embargo that has existed since 1962, has kept Cuba from having the wherewithal to produce enough of its own food. Vietnam, led by Mr. Prai, is providing Cuba the financial help as well as the expertise to grow its own food products.

     This photo shows Cuban farmers using Vietnamese farm equipment and know-how to grow food in Cuba. Yes, Vietnam -- which has been a U. S. ally and key trade partner since the long and bloody Vietnam War ended in 1975 -- is bravely and uniquely trying to help Cuban families cope with the island's regional and international economic strangulation. Constantly reading about food shortages and island-wide power blackouts in Cuba, the everyday Vietnamese people recently donated their money -- more than $25 million worth -- to struggling Cuban families. That spurred help from the Vietnamese government too.

      Yes, any Google search such as the above will reveal that Vietnam and the United States are important trade partners, and have been that way since the long and bloody Vietnam War ended in the 197Os.

     In contrast to massive trade with faraway Vietnam, the United States goes to great lengths to block trade with its close neighbor Cuba.

      While drastically restricting money-producing Tourism to Cuba, the United States supports Tourism to Vietnam and other countries thousands of miles away.

The Washington Post published this photo of a hungry Cuban child.

Why is Vietnam the only country that cares about her?

Cuba needs HELP to feed its children.

      The Voice of America, the international news agency supported by U. S. tax dollars, stressed the Cuban protests spawned by the "Food Shortages and Power Outages" in Cuba. But the only country in the world in December of 2025 that seems to care enough to actually try to help hungry Cuban families is...faraway Vietnam!!

And Cuba is 11,103 miles from Vietnam.

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Deadly Diseases Hit Economic-ravaged Cuba

 

Latest Jolt for Cuba in December of 2025

     Today -- December 3rd in 2025 -- the Associated Press flashed this photo around the world from Havana with this caption: "A national police officer directs traffic in Havana after a power outage. Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. {AP photo by Ramon Espinosa}." Of course, constant power outages are not the only dire economic problems plaguing Cuba in this last month of 2025.

     In this first week of December in 2025 above you can see the Top five Cuban Headlines flashing around the world. Adding to Cuba's drastic economic problems are deadly preventable diseases -- Chikungunya and Dengue -- that are killing Cubans including 21 children in recent days. London-based Reuters is the international News Agency best covering that news while CBS News is the U. S. news source best reporting it. Below are the first three paragraphs of the CBS News report on December 2, 2025:

         As shown above, CBS News this week points out that Cuba has "long been known for its medical and pharmaceutical expertise" but now Cuba simply does not have the economic wherewithal to deal with such a problem involving chikungunya and Dengue that in years past the island's medical expertise was praised for dealing with, a fact that other Caribbean nations learned from and benefited from. Also note that in the last paragraph shown above CBS News said: "With the country under U. S. sanctions and its critical tourism sector left in ruins by Covid, a dearth of foreign currency has seen a steep decline in Cuba's medical service and prevention programs such as mosquito fumigation." 

     Since January of 2025 Miami-born U. S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U. S. President Donald Trump have tightened the U. S. sanctions on Cuba, including the tightening of the U. S. Embargo on the nearby island. In this first week in December in 2025 CBS News cited "U. S. sanctions" as a key reason Cuba no longer is able to adequately protect its citizens from preventable mosquito-driven diseases as chikungunya and dengue.

       The important CBS News update on the mosquito-caused diseases currently killing Cubans in December of 2025 relate, as pointed out by CBS News, to "U.S. sanctions"  -- most notably the endless U. S. EMBARGO that, incredibly, has existed since 1962 and in 2025 is harsher than ever!!! 

      In this first week in December in 2025 the latest important nation to give up on Cuba is Belgium, which in the past had been supportive of the Cuban people.

    There are now 193 nations that make up the United Nations. Each October for the past 33 years the UN Nations have voted overwhelmingly to beg the United States to end its Embargo on Cuba, usually with only the U. S. and Israel voting to keep it. But in 2025 the U. S. -- the richest and most powerful nation in the world -- was influential enough to get a total of seven nations to support the Embargo, including countries such as Ukraine and Montenegro. But still the near-unanimity against the Embargo continues to be ignored year-after-year by the United States.

Cuban headlines on December 2nd-2025!!

Cuban children need friends -- not enemies!!

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The Cuban Tragedy Needs More Scrutiny & Clarity

 Top Caribbean Experts Speak Out!!!

    One of the leading experts on US-Cuba Relations is American University professor Fulton Armstrong. His comments shown below update his views regarding how President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio since January of 2025 have tightened the already very tight U. S. sanctions on Cuba and appear ready to force a regime change in Venezuela also.

      Many believe that the Miami-born U. S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, with ultra-power regarding Foreign Affairs since January of this year, would have already orchestrated a regime change in Cuba except for the fact he is also so massively engaged in ending international wars including the bloody Russia-Ukraine War.

     Meanwhile, the notable photograher Vladimir Molina is one of the best Caribbean journalists chronicling the pulse of the Cuban people on their island. He shares his work on social platforms to provide insightful views and viewpoints of the often misunderstood everyday Cuban people while the U.S.-Miami media basically presents only extremely negative images of the island's revolutionary leaders who took power in 1959 by overthrowing the US-backed Batista dictatorship. Molina in November-December of 2025 is more-than-ever distressed about the plight of yet another generation of Cuban children facing dire conditions with much of their problems obviously related to the tightening of the endless U. S. EMBARGO.

     Both topical news and history confirm that the U. S. EMBARGO surrounding Cuba has existed since 1962 for the purpose of ending revolutionary control of the Caribbean's largest island. The expected easy overthrow of revolutionary Cuba has not taken place even though in 2025 the U. S. continues to tighten harsh sanctions on Cuba that include the EMBARGO.

       On the first day of 1959 Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution overthrew the US/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship that U. S. support and U. S. tourism had helped to become very rich and supposedly too powerful to be overthrown...until the Cuban Revolution chased Batista off the island in the wee hours of January 1sr, 1959.

     Since 1959 generations of Cubans and Cuban-Americans who dominate nearby Miami have dictated U. S. policy regarding Cuba. That is particularly true in 2025 with more-and-more Cuban-Americans from Miami such as Maria Elvira Salazar tightly control Cuban policies in the U. S. Congress. Salazar is shown above loudly demanding that the already vicious U. S. sanctions against Cuba should be more vicious!!

For almost seven decades little Cuba has resisted Miami.

But for sure, Miami dictates the USA's Cuban policy.

Miami loved dictator Batista but hated the rebel Castro.

     The struggles of little Cuba against the mighty United States -- especially the historic Batista-to-Castro transition that came about on January 1st in 1959 -- has been epic for many decades. After the U. S. victory in the brief-and-easy 1898 Spanish-American War fought on Cuban soil, the U. S. celebrated its victory over Cuba, even establishing a powerful U. S. Naval Base on the island's plush southeastern tip in 1903 at Guantanamo Bay, which the U. S. still owns. But in 1959 after Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution ousted Fulgenico Batista's US-backed dictatorship, Revolutionary Cuba became the USA's pugnacious enemy. Although Castro died in 2016 at age 90, his legacy and stubborn rebel streak shakily still holds off total U. S. dominance, except for the 45-square-acre U. S. military base at Guantanamo Bay.

    This Vladimir Molina photo taken this week as November turned into December in 2025 indicates why Revolutionary Cuba, against all odds, has survived since 1959. It shows a meeting of everyday Cubans discussing their island's awesome problems but stressing strongly that the prime topic was their desire to remain loyal to Fidel Castro. As 2025 begins to turn to 2026, Rubio and Trump need to tred at least softly on that fact of life in Cuba more than 90 years after "Fidel" died in Havana at age 90.

Yes, Fidel is still loved by most Cubans in Cuba.

Rubio & Salazar hate Fidel but should not hate everyday Cubans.

       This photo and caption by Vladimi Molina was posted on Facebook and other social media outlets this week. He said: "Children are born to be happy, especially Cuban children." He was pointing out that Cuban children such as this little boy have for generations now have suffered terribly in Cuba since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution over US-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959. Molina mostly blames that dire situation on the drastic and endless US EMBARGO that has existed since 1962. Most of the world agrees with Molina although Miami stalwarts such as Rubio and Salazar deny that basic fact.

     The Cuban headlines shown above in late November of 2025 reflect what the world is being told about the vast economic problems existing in Cuba. Of course, neither the Miami nor US headlines blame the US EMBARGO but that is simply not true just as pretending that the Mafia-Batista dictatorship back in the 1950s was a paradise for everyday Cubans. It, of course, was only a paradise for Batista, the Mafia, and the many rich U. S. companies that partook in the spoils simply didn't bother to toss even a few crumbs to the everyday Cubans on the island.

     At least, after 1959, the Revolution tried to toss food, shelter, and education to every Cubans on the island. To deny that fact is to deny Batista-Castro history.

The photo above in Batista's Cuba was/is "wrong." 

The two Cubans above know "changes" & "sanctions." 

      The photo shown above shows Marco Rubio and other rich Little Havana Cubans in Miami directing President Trump's U. S. Cuban policies. The problem is this: decent but poor everyday Cubans in Cuba should also have a say about such things.

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