Miami and Little Havana Pretending to be Havana

 From one Nation to the Other!!

     Yes, indeed. "Is it anything like the real thing?" For sure, Little Havana in the heart of Miami indeed has been very much like "the real tthing" since 1959. That was when many of the leaders of the US/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship in Havana, such as Rafael Diaz-Balart, fled the victorious Cuban Revoluion to quickly settle powerfully and safely in nearby Miami where -- with help from the United States government, the Mafia, the Catholic Church, etc. -- they created the financially and politically powerful  haven of Little Havana. The prime purpose of Little Havana was to quickly overthrow the Cuban Revolution but, almost seven decades later, that goal has not been realized. Yet, from 1959 to 2025 Little Havana and many of its Cuban exiles have more-and-more grown richer-and richer as well as more-and-more powerful politically. 

       Of course, both the U. S. government and the U. S. media will deny these facts even though  they know those facts are true. It is all merely a part of the historic truth that, since its founding in 1492 by Columbus, the island and then the nation of Cuba has been one of the world's most interesting, coveted, desired, and beguiling stories. And, yes, I am talking about the time from October in 1492 till July of 2025. But perhaps the most interesting and beguiling era in the iconic and enigmatic existence of Cuba was during the Batista-Castro clashes in the 1950s that massively involved the Mafia and the United States supporting brutal dictator Fulgencio Batista who got massive kickbacks so he would let top U. S. companies and top Mafia kingpins (Luciano, Lansky, etc.} rake in enormous profits in Batista's Cuba. Below from July 1952 till July 2025 are some peeks at some of the peaks during and after the Batista-Castro donnybrooks!!!

     No one can deny that Fulgencio Batista was a theiving and brutal dictator in Cuba in the 1950s. As shown above, Batista partnered with the two most powerful US Mafia leaders -- Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky to rob and brutalize Cuba. The U. S. also supported Batista because top U. S. companies were allowed to  partake in the financial plunder of Cuba in the 1950s. And Batista felt  invincible. AFTER ALL, he had his own powerful army and police force and his dictatorship was also supported by the strongest nation in world, the United States, and by the strongest criminal organization in the world, the Mafia. As shown above, the Mafia loved Batista and the U. S. government squired him around Washington as an important "friend to the United States" and not just to the huge U. S. companies that he signed huge deals with. But the rich and over-confident Batista made two huge mistakes: {1} he did not even toss a few crumbs to the everyday Cubans even when it evolved health and education; and {2} Batista had a police unit that murdered individuals or groups that objected to his rule.

       This historic Gold Phone today is a prize keepsake in Cuba's Revolutionary Museum. The U. S. phone company that was making a lot of money in Batista's Cuba sent the dictator this Gold Phone as a Chrstmas gift, along with the other normal kickbacks that U. S. companies were routinely paying Batista for the privilege of doing lucrative business in Batista's Mafia-led Cuba in the 1950s prior to the victory by the Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959.

      In the 1950s in Batista's Cuba not even crumbs were provided to the majority peasants, especially in rural areas. The woman shown above and the seven children she loved were not given a penny or peso to help feed, cloth, educate or give them healthcare by Batista. Meanwhile the Batistianos, the Mafiosi, and the U. S. companies were raking in massive financial rewards in Cuba in the 1950s from rampant tourism, gambling, casinos, prostitution, etc.

    In the 1950s the center of anti-Batista protests in Cuba came from University of Havana student leaders, such as Student President Jose Antonio Echeverria who is shown above leading a protest although he well knew Batista had a well-known police unit killing such protestors.

     On March  13th, 1957, the University of Havana student president Jose Antonio Echeverria was shot to death and his body left on a Havana street as a warning to others. The same Batista police unit that killed Jose also famously discovered and murdered four other student leaders who were hiding out in what they thought was a safe house in Havana.

     By 1952, of course, Dictator Batista's biggest problem was the University of Havana's most legendary graduate, a lawyer named Fidel Castro who formally started his revolution against Batista on July 26th, 1953 by attacking Batista's Moncada Army Barracks in Santiago.

     In 1953 Fidel Castro left his law practice in Havana to launch his career as a rebel almost 500 miles away on turf he knew well from his childhood days -- the rugged mountains and foothills of the Sierra Maestra Mountains on the far southeastern tip of Cuba. His plan, with help from the adoring peasants along the way, was to capture and hold cities and towns from the Sierra Maestra foothills all  the way to Havana. Castro knew that the last two Batista strongholds leading to Havana were Yaguajay and Santa Clara. The plan was a  good one but Batista had powerful army and police forces and he was backed by the Mafia, the strongest criminal organization in the world, and by the United States, the strongest nation in the world. So, Castro was a billion-to-one underdog in his quest to overthrow Batista.

     Meanwhile in Havana Dictator Batista regularly stood by this huge map pointing out the Sierra Maestra Mountain region where Fidel Castro and his determined rebels were launching attacks on Batista soldiers from their well-hidden mountain hideouts. Famously, Batista used US-supplied airplane bombers to try to locate and destroy the rebels and their mountain camps. And as late as November and December in 1958 Batista stood before this map and told the media, which included the famed pro-Castro New York Times reporter Herbert L. Matthews, this lie: "We have contained the gangster rebels in this area and, of course, they continue to pose no threat to the government forces." But within five weeks of that latest Batista lie, the rebels had been capturing towns and cities from Santiago de Cuba to Santa Clara...and leaving enough rebels behind to hold them. Then on December 30th the rebels captured Santa Clara, the last major city leading to Havana. While he was holding a New Years Party in Havana in the wee hours of January 1st in 1959 Batista was notified by phone and by radio that Santa Clara had been captured by rebels led by Che Guevara and 27-year-old Camilo Cienfuegos. With that news Batista and his family raced to his getaway airplane that already had been stocked with gold and other supplies, and they flew to the Dominican Republic where the famed & brutal anti-Castro dictator Rafael Trujillo ruled.

    The United States had supported the Batista dictatorship almost until Batista fled the island once he knew the rebels had captured Santa Clara and then were racing hellbent to Havana.

     In April of 1959 the new leader of Cuba Fidel Castro spent 12 days in the United States trying to assure the American people and the U. S. government that Cuba very much wanted normal relations with the U. S. and that the island direly needed normal trade with its superpower northern neighbor. Furthermore, Fidel Castro wanted to let the U. S. know that he planned an honest election later that  year in 1959 and that the US and UN could closely monitor that election; and he indicated he would return to his law practice and not be a candidate and neither would his brother Raul nor Che Guevara but that he would "probably" support someone such as Raul's new wife Vilma Espin, a beloved rebel heroine, or 27-year-old Camilo Cienfuegos, a beloved rebel Commander. While in the U. S. for 12 days in April of 1959 Fidel Castro, speaking plain English, was the wildly celebrated and anticipated guest on "Meet the Press, which was by far the top U. S. news program of that era. To see and hear Fidel Castro on "Meet the Press" in April of 1959, tap the arrow above to see and to listen to his answers.

     The photo and caption shown above shows Fidel Castro pointedly answering one of the pertinent questions famously posed to him on Meet the Press on April 19th, 1959.

    The only reason Fidel Castro visited the United States for 12 days in 1959, so soon after becoming the new leader of Cuba, was because he had been promised that he would be able to meet U.  S.  President Dwight Eisenhowr. Castro admired Eisenhower, the top World War II general, and he wanted to tell the American leader his plans for Cuba, which he believed Eisenhower would approve of. But Fidel Castro was lied to. He never met Eisenhower. Instead he was subjected to a brief meeting with Vice President Richard Nixon who pomposely told Castro that his U. S. visit was...a waste of time and that his role as the new leader of Cuba would be overthrown within, at most, a few weeks. Of course, the historic repercussions of Fidel Castro's 12-day visit to the U. S. in April of 1959 has never been truthfully registered by either the U. S. media or the U. S. government...and that includes the Castro appearance on Meet the Press and Castro's disastrous meeting with Vice President Richard Nixon who later became the only U. S. President to be removed from office because of corruption.

     Since 1959, when Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution shocked the world by overthrowing the US/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship, nearby Miami in Florida quickly created Little Havana in honor of the many Cuban counter-revolutionaries who quickly fled the Revolution to settle powerfully in Miami where they firmly believed, with the support of the U. S. government, they would quickly overthrow Castro and regain control of Cuba on behalf of the Batistianos/Mafiosi. But, even with Little Havana also receiving powerful support from the Catholic Church as well as the U. S. government, over six decades later in JULY of 2025, the gigantic and massively funded efforts by Little Havana to regain control of Havana remains an ongoing project. And FOR SURE, with Miami being unable to regain control of Havana from 1959 till 2025, that fact is even more shocking than the Revolution's shocking victory over Batista on January 1st in 1959.

      Almost every day since 1959 the world headlines have predicted that Miami would soon regain control of Havana, but yet it has simply not happened. Above are Cuban headlines circling around the world in late JULY in 2025. Today, as usual, the Cuban Headlines are very interesting. As you see above, today there are dire predictions that the viciously anti-Cuban Trump-Rubio administration is "tightening the Noose Around Cuba's neck" to hasten the end of of the Cuban Revolution. That, of course, has particularly framed such predictions since January of 2025 when President Trump appointed Marco Rubio as the USA's ultra-powerful Secretary of State. Rubio was born in Miami 53 years ago to Cuban parents and Marco, mentored by Little Havana stalwarts, has spent his entire adult life trying to overthrow revolutionary Cuba, including as  a  U. S. Senator in Washington from 2011 till 2025.

       So, as you mull over today's Cuban Headlines in late July of 2025, note that Trump and Rubio are "focusing on tightening the noose around Cuba." All that is very interesting but also so are the Other Headlines too. For example, the Miami Herald and most of the rest of the U. S. media has been carrying water and wild  support for Little Havana Cubans since 1959. So this July-2025 Miami Herald headline is interesting: "Lina Luaces, daughter of Univision star Lili Estefan, is crowned Miss Universe Cuba in Miami." 

Yes, now Little Havana in Miami even holds Cuban Beauty Pageants.

      For sure, Little Havana in Miami has another generation of beautiful Cuban women so why not hold the lavish Cuban Beauty Pageants in Miami, not in Havana?????

             In fact, since 1959 Little Havana in Miami has spawned many of the most famous and richest Cuban families on the planet...such as the extended Diaz-Balart family, the Canosa family, the Cuban-born Bezos family that adopted Amazon's ultra--rich Jeff Bezos when he was a child, the Estevan family of entertainment giants, etc. For example, Gloria Estevan and Emilio Estevan are Miami legends and surely one of the richest couples in the United States. Gloria was  born 67 years ago in Havana. Emilio was born 72 years ago in Santiago de Cuba. They teamed up when Gloria graduated from High School in Miami. As a singer she has sold many millions of records and performed concerts around the world with Emilio as her devoted husband and superstar entertainmentt producer. By 2011 Emilio was estimated to be worth at least $700,000,000 and Gloria was individually just as well off. So, since 1959 it is not at all uncommon for Cubans born from Havana to Santiago de Cuba to be incredibly rich with their new roots in Little Havana in the heart of Miami, Florida USA.

But, actually, Havana to Santiago is the real Cuba.

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Not ALL Cubans in Cuba Have Given UP!!!

     Since January of 2025, which was the start of President Donald Trump's second 4-year term as President  of the United States, most Cuban experts believed that the end of Revolutionary Cuba's rule on the Caribbean's largest island-nation would finally end after its enigmatic 66-year run since 1959. That was because President Trump's most important and most powerful appointment was to make Marco Rubio, a U. S. Senator from Miami since 2011, as the new Secretary of State in the United States. Born in Miami/Little Havana to Cuban parents 53 years ago, Rubio has spent his entire adult life trying drastically to end the Cuban Revolution. Since January of 2025 as Secretary of State, it was assumed he now had a power to do that. But now more than six months later in late July of 2025 that, surprisingly, remains an ongoing project for Marco Rubio...who says he only wants to "support" the Cuban people in Cuba.

       With Miami's own Marco Rubio as the USA's ultra-powerful Secretary of State, the Miami Herald -- as shown above in July of 2025 -- appears to assume that Cuba is now Miami's own favorite toy. Thus, for example, the Miami Herald this month heralded the fact that "The Miss Cuba Universe BEAUTY PAGEANT" belonged to Miami's rich and powerful Little Havana stalwarts, not to the Cubans on the nearby island themselves.

     But despite what the Miami Herald and the rest of the mainstream U. S. media says, not all Cubans in Cuba agree that Little Havana in Miami now controls Havana. For example, a popular television journalist on the island, Rosy Amaro, has neither fled the island nor given up on it. This month of July in 2025 she has even started a beautifully produced Podcast to try to show the world that there is a new wave of very successful Cuban entrepreneurs on the island bravely bucking all the foreign and domestic obstacles that others REFUSE to mention.

       Today on July 16th in 2025 Rosy Amaro's Podcast features Aldo Alvarez as the leader of a very successful private company in Cuba.

     As an excellent interviewer, Rosy Amaro today was a good listener as she gave young entrepreneur Aldo Alvarez ample time to explain why his company is now so successful in Havana.

      On her privious Podcast, Rosy Amaro spotlighted Carlos Arce, a successful young entrepreneur who is also a professor at the University of Havana.

     The very popular Cafe Miel in the heart of Havana is the home site for Rosy Amaro's new Podcasts. She is well aware that the Miami Herald and the rest of the U. S. media, along with ultra-powerful U. S. politicians such as Miami's own Marco Rubio, seem to believe that Cuba now belongs to Miami. But she, and the thriving young entrepreneurs she spotlights, think otherwise.

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The Legend of Cuba's Alberto Korda Still Resonates

The Unforgettable Cuban Photos!!

     The incomparable Alberto Korda took this photo of Chi Guevara on March 5th in 1960, 15 months after Fidel Castro and Chi Guevara had shocked the world by leading the Cuban Revolution to an astounding victory over the US/Mafia-backed Batista dictorship in Cuba on the first day of 1959. The photo soon became the most reproduced photo in modern history, even adorning numerous millions of walls in U. S. homes and college dormitories as well as millions, or billions, of cups, clothes, billboards, and other ubiquitous places and edifices worldwide.

   Born in Havana on September 14, 1928, Alberto Korda died in Paris on May 26, 2001. In his lifetime he took millions of photos, many of them quite noteworthy and newsworthy, but his iconic photo of Chi Guevara has made him perhaps the most famous photographer in history. While he was immensely proud of his Chi photo, Korda spent his final years wondering why, among all of his great photos, the image of Chi is the one that the world most admires and cherishes.

   For example, both before, during, and after the Cuban Revolution, Alberto Korda took thousands of great photos, many of them from rural Cuba where he chronicled the dismal lives of peasants, especially children. One day after spending the day in the Cuban countryside, Korda returned to his studio in Havana and developed that day's photos. When he got to see the photo shown above, he studied it for a long, long time until tears streamed down his face. The gushing tears were his first emotional reaction to his photo that day of a little Cuban peasant girl standing in her doorway proudly holding a block of wood that she lovingly pretended was her doll. Korda kept staring at the photo long after he began crying. He would later say, "The little peasant girl was so beautiful but what really will touch my heart till the day I die was her sheer honesty. Yes, she made that block of wood look so awesomely beautiful and important too." Yes, this photo was  the one that made Korda cry. Was it also his greatest?

   But the world has established that Alberto Korda's greatest photo was the one he took of Chi Guevara on March 5th in 1960. Below are two of the YouTube videos about the historic and incomparable Alberto Korda photo of Chi Guevara:

     But the great Alberto Korda also took many superb photos apart from the historic one of Chi Guevara, as shown in this YouTube video:

      From strictly a historic standpoint I believe that one of the most important photos that the great Alberto Korda ever took is the one below. Study it and I will explain it.

     This photo was taken by Alberto Korda on April 16th in 1959 in Washington, D. C. That was when Korda flew to the United States with the two revolutionary Cuban icons Fidel Castro and Celia Sanchez. It was a massively historic visit, or at least it should have been. Please note that the date of April 16th in 1959 was just a little more than three months after the overthrow of the US/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship by the Cuban Revolution. The Korda photo shown above shows rebel leader Fidel Castro speaking to Christian Herter, then the U. S. Secretary of State. The woman leaning in to hear exactly what was being said was Celia Sanchez, the prime Cuban decision-maker and the person who persuaded a reluctant Fidel to make the trip to the U. S. so soon after the revolution took over Cuba. And they stayed in the U. S. for 12 days in April of 1959 because Celia wanted Fidel  to be able to tell the U. S. government and especially President Dwight Eisenhower that Revolutionary Cuba wanted to have friendly trade & political relations with the Uniited Stattes and that Revolutionary Cuba would soon have honest and democratic presidential elections and that the U. S. and the UN could both monitor the election very closely. And, although Celia believed the super rebel hero Fidel would get 9 out of every 10 votes in any honest 1959 election in Cuba, she had instructed Fidel to promise the U. S. that he would not run for election and would instead return to being only a lawyer.

    Of course, since 1959 those who deny the explanation above about the Celia-Fidel 12-day visit to the U. S. in April of 1959 are lying to correspond with their decades-old narratives that benefit powerful forces in mighty Miami and Washington, not in little Cuba. And, of course, those who lie about that very historic Cuban visit to the U. S. in April of 1959 also lie about the historic Castro-Herter photo shown above.

      As you study this vastly historic Korda photo  of Fidel  Castro with U. S. Secretary of State Christian Herter in Washington in April of 1959, permit me to explain why it should be honestly interpreted by history ALTHOUGH it is not. After Fidel met Herter it is known that Celia expected Fidel to be allowed to meet with President Dwight Eisenhower because, before she had finalized the U. S. visit, she had been told that Fidel would be allowed to meet the President. And, yes, both the U. S. State Department and the Society of U. S. Newspaper Editors had assurred Celia that the Fidel-Eisenhower meeting would take place and that is why Celia persuaded Fidel to make the trip. But she was lied to, as the three famous photos listed below prove.

       As mentioned, Celia Sanchez orchestrated Fidel Castro's 12-day visit to the U. S. in April of 1959 because she had been told that Cuba's new rebel leader would be allowed to meet U. S. President Dwight Eisenhower. That turned to be a tragic lie. Instead, as shown above, Fidel met the U. S. Vice President Richard Nixon. With Nixon arranging photographers and reporters to register the photo-op, the brief but historic meeting took place in Nixon's doorway. It drastically concluded the lie to Celia Sanchez and it has drastically affected US-Cuban Relations from April of 1959 to July of 2025!! 

     At the exact moment shown above, as planned, Nixon told a perplexed Fidel these words: "Your visit, Mr. Castro, was both wasted and useless. Your revolution will be overthrow within a few weeks, at our choosing. So there is nothing more to say about your visit to Washington. We will allow you to fly back to Cuba. So just give us credit for that." And, YES, Fidel understood English very well as he had earlier proved for a famous half-hour during that visit when he had appeared on the top U. S. news program Meet the Press, which, if you dial it up on YouTube, will prove my point.

    This last historic photo about that tragic Fidel-Nixon meeting in Washington in April of 1959 shows Fidel, totally unafraid, leaning back with a strong grin on his face as he absorded Nixon's boast that the Cuban Revolution would be overthrown "within a few weeks, at our choosing." Not concerned or worried about Fidel's reaction or expression, Nixon is then shown merely in a political pose for the cameras that he hoped would improve his political fortunes. After this historic vivit, Fidel indeed "returned" to Cuba where he lived as a revolutionary icon till he died peacefully in Havana at age 90 in 2016. Nixon later lost his own presidency for being "a crook."

     And to prove that Fidel clearly understood the English words that Nixon threatened him with, when Fidel earlier had been quizzed on Meet the Press, the top news program in the U. S. at that time, Fidel spoke English. Shown below is Fidel Castro's historic appearance on Meet the Press on April 16, 1959:

      The historic Fidel Castro half-hour on Meet the Press in April of 1959 was used by Fidel to inform the U. S. people and the U. S. government what his revolutionary victory would change for both Cuba and for the island's post-Batista relations with the United States. You might want to click the arrow above and listen to what he said.

     This historic Lee Lockwood photo crowns the Castro-Nixon saga that occurred in Washington in April of 1959. This photo shows Celia  Sanchez on that 12-day visit to the U. S., a visit that she orchestrated in its entirety because she knew revolutionary Cuba needed good peaceful trade relations with the nearby superpower U. S. The photo above shows Celia in the hallway of a U. S. hotel. This was before she knew about the double-cross to Fidel in Washington. Once she did know, it was HER who had the DEFINITIVE reaction: "Nixon and the United States tried to kill me, Fidel, Camilo and the others for five years during the revolution's war and now during the three months after we won. They are liars and cowards, so now they will have to try those same things again. Let's see what happen. We rebels are not easy to kill...or to lie to."   

    When Celia Sanchez and Fidel Castro arrived back in Cuba after their Nixon-marred 12-day visit to the U. S. in April of 1959, it was still Celia, with Fidel's 100% concurrence, who was the key decision-maker in Revolutionary Cuba. Lying about that fact has been a prime factor in the tragic state of US-Cuban Relations since 1959. Lying about Celia Sanchez's primary role in the Cuban Revolution and in Revolutionary Cuba is tantamount, I believe, to maintaining those lies from the 1950s to July of 2025.

     Before, during, and after the victory of the Cuban Revolution over the Batista/Mafia dictatorship on January 1 of 1959, the top rebel decision-maker in Cuba was Celia Sanchez, the petite doctor's daughter. That was true because Fidel Castro worshipped the ground she walked on and, even if he sometimes didn't fully agree with her, he always --- yes, ALWAYS -- supported her decisions 100%!!! 

      This famed photo was taken at the prime rebel campsite in the Sierra Maestra Mountains during the war as the rebels tried to keep the camp location unknown to Dictator Batista who had U. S. bombers flyiing desperately overhead trying to locate it and bomb it. In this photo Celia Sanchez was studying battle plans for the next day while she held a candle so Fidel Castro could read a Ernest Hemingway novel. Next day, Celia's battle plans would be fully supported by Fidel.

      After the triumph of the Cuban Revolution over the Batista dictatorship, this Lee Lockwood photo again is an example of Celia Sanchez, shortly after waking up one morning, diligently writing down laws for Revolutionary Cuba. Again Fidel Castro was leisurely relaxing barefoot in his rocking chair with his slippers nearby. Once he read her new laws, he would 100% support them. And, please understand, major laws that Celia Sanchez wrote still remain laws in Cuba to this day and nclude prime guidelines such as Committees for the Protection of the Revolution on each urban block, The Federation of Cuban Women, etc., etc. {Two other rebel female warriors -- Vilma Espin and Haydee Santamaria -- were prime collaborators with Celia Sanchez both during and after the revolutionary war}.

Vilma Espin, Celia Sanchez, Haydee Santamaria.

     This historic photo was taken during the war. It shows the always studious Celia Sanchez and her dear friend Vilma Espin. Fidel Castro worshipped Celia and Raul Castro quickly married Vilma in late  January of 1959 right after the victory by the Cuban Revolution. This photo was taken by Dickey Chapelle, history's greatest female wartime photographer.

     Working for the top magazines of the time -- Look, Time, and National Geographic -- Dickie Chapelle took famous photos from the battlefields of World War II, the Cuban Revolution, and the Vietnam War. She was killed in 1965 on a battlefield during the Vietnam War. She took the aforementional wartime photo of Celia  Sanchez and Vilma Espin -- the most historic and revered female Cuban revolutionaries.

     A U. S. officer mourning the body of Dicky Chapelle on November 4th in 1965 on a battlefield in Vietnam. This photo was taken by the AP war photographer Henri Huet.

     The superpower U. S. government and a biased U. S. media, of course, have always denied that Celia Sanchez was the top decision-maker in both the Cuban Revolution and in Revolutionary Cuba. That is because it has always been more appropriate for the U. S. government and the U. S. media to ascribe those powers to Fidel Castro. Yet, it is true that, with Fidel Castro's total support, Celia Sanchez indeed was the top decision-maker in both the Cuban Revolution and in Revolutionary Cuba. Celia Sanchez died at age 59 on January 11th in 1980 in Havana of lung cancer.

      It is true that lying about the fact that Celia Sanchez was solely responsible for 1959's 12-day visit to the U. S. by her and Fidel Casttro tragically impacts both Cuba and the United States. Even now in July of 2025 there remain convenient lies about the photo shown above...when Vice President Richard Nixon replaced the promised President Dwight Eisenpower so it would be Nixon who met Fidel in Washington in April of 1959. It was a historic double-cross that Celia and thus Fidel never forgot, and it remains a double-cross that resonates, tragically, from April in 1959 till July of 2025.

     The prime catalyst for the outcome of the Cuban Revoluion and for the longevity of REVOLUTIONARY CUBA was and is Celia Sanchez. She died from lung cancer at age 59 on January 11th, 1980. But she till this day in 2025 still speaks for her Revolution with historic quotes such as: "Tired old rebels like me, I reckon, are out-gunned and out-numbered. But we still don't get to write it."  She was not fond of the Batistianos, the Americans, and the historians. But most of all, as indicated by her historic quotation below, Celia Sanchez mostly hated "creedy cowards and liars."

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