Does Fidel STILL Speak for Cuba?

 

A decade after he died in 2016??

         History confirms that Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution in 1959 shocked the world when he and it overthrew the U.S./Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship. A forceful orator, he could speak up to five hours in front of outdoor crowds of a million Cubans at a time. In one of his initial such speeches as shown above he said that his Revolution would serve the "voluntad de todo un pueblo" {"will of the people." 

     Generally considered the most targeted leader in history...some documentarians   claimed he survived up to 538 assassination attempts...Fidel Castro died peacefully in his own bed in Havana at age 90 on November 25th, 2016. But after somehow surviving massive attempts to eliminate him and to overthrow him -- INCLUDING the 1961 U. S. air-sea-and-land military attack -- many believe that Fidel Castro, or his legacy, continue to rule Cuba to this day in late June of 2025. For sure, after all these years and decades, the words of Fidel Castro can still resonate on the island nation.

"As much as is possible, it will be necessary..."

"No to impose."

       Since the Cuban Revolution has ruled Cuba from 1959 until at least the summer of 2025, Oxfam and other international human rights organizations loudly proclaim that Cuba has a right to live without the devastating economic Embargo/Blockade that the superpower United States has imposed on Cuba for over six decades, from 1962 to 2025. Moreover, each year for over three decades the nations of the world in the United Nation have voted almost unanimously to end the EMBARGO/BLOCKADE.

      Yet, since 1962 only one U. S. President -- Barack Obama -- has had the courage to even try to end the EMBARGO/BLOCKADE. In fact, President Obama actually flew to Cuba and personally told the Cuban people: "Cuba does not need to fear a threat from the United States." But, of course, by the time President Obama had flown back to the U. S. from Cuba the rich and powerful Cuban-American politicians in Miami and Washington had already begun to overrule President Obama's sincere plans to begin normalizing relations between the United States and Cuba.

    Now, for the first time, since January of 2025, the Little Havana Cubans in Miami have one their own as the leader influencing  relations with Cuba. Born in Miami 54 years ago to anti-Castro parents, Marco Rubio has been appointed by President Donald Trump as the current U. S. Secretary of State. All of his adult life, Rubio has tried to end the Cuban Revolution, including his long stint as a powerful U. S. Senator from 2011 till January of 2025.  Now as Secretary of State, the most powerful position in the Trump adminstration, it would appear that the Cuban Revolution at last will finally end during the last half of 2025.

      In this last week of June, 2025, this photo by Vladimi Molina shows a uniquely beautiful but empty beach in northern Cuba just a few miles from the mega-crowded and tourist-loving beaches in southern Florida. One day soon, perhaps, Cuban beaches once again might be crowded with tourists not restricted by a EMBARGO.

How will Fidel Castro's LEGACY handle that?

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