cubaninsider: Fantastic U.S.-Cuba Saga

cubaninsider: Fantastic U.S.-Cuba Saga: Captured By   World-Class  Photos !!       A Cuban-American named  Lisette Poole  is considered to be America's best photo-journal...

Fantastic U.S.-Cuba Saga

Captured By World-Class Photos!!

      A Cuban-American named Lisette Poole is considered to be America's best photo-journalist. She is particularly famed for capturing the paradoxes and ingenuities that shape the lives of Cubans who love their enigmatic island passionately as well as those who feel obliged to leave it for the lures of the nearby United States, which looms enticingly 90 miles across the Florida Straits.

       This Lisette Poole photo, for example, screams out the secret thoughts of this Cuban: Does she want to stay on her beloved but targeted island or is she thinking about going to the United States. Lisette Poole's photos eerily reveal the souls of Cubans.

       A new book by Lisette Poole is a fantastic portrait of the depths of the U.S.-Cuban saga in its modern dimensions but it has also been evolving since 1492, the year Christopher Columbus founded both the island and what became the United States. The title of the book is: "La Paloma y La Ley" {"The Dove and The Law"}. With stunning photos, it chronicles an arduous 8,000-mile journey through 13 countries of two Cuban women -- Liset Barrios and Marta Amaro -- determined to get to the USA, with Lisette Poole and her unique skills as a photo-journalist taking us along with them.

       This Lisette Poole photo, for example, should help the new book be a best-seller and be kept on coffee tables as a constant reference that takes us inside the priceless and vivid nuances of the ongoing U.S.-Cuba conundrum. In this case, two Cuban women embarked on a dangerous, 8,000-mile journey to get to the United States after President Obama ended the Cuba-only Wet Foot-Dry Foot law that gave easy privileges to any Cuban touching U. S. soil. The end of Wet Foot-Dry Foot for these two Cuban women resulted in the torturous 8,000-mile from Cuba to the U. S. as opposed to the 90-miles across the sea from Havana to Key West, Florida.

         This Lisette Poole photo shows Marta and Liset resting in a jungle stream on their 8,000-mile trek to the USA.

       But, incredibly, this Lisette Poole photo shows Liset Barrios arriving in O'Hare International Airport in Chicago after her determined 8,000-mile journey from Cuba to the United States of America. Liset joined the essence of the Cuba-U.S. saga.

Lisette Poole's incredible new book.

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cubaninsider: Legal Free Flights to Cuba

cubaninsider: Legal Free Flights to Cuba: Despite  Trump  Sanctions ?        One of America's top Travel Writers,  Mary Forgione  of the   Los Angeles Times , today --  Nov...

Legal Free Flights to Cuba

Despite Trump Sanctions?

       One of America's top Travel Writers, Mary Forgione of the Los Angeles Times, today -- November 13, 2019 -- penned an interesting article entitled: "FREE FLIGHTS TO CUBA INCLUDED WITH THESE MULTIDAY TOURS." Mary Forgione began her insightful article with these words: "Insight Cuba is offering U. S. travelers free round-trip airfare between Miami and Havana on multidays to the island nation. Insight Cuba also provides a legal visa for U. S. travelers. Rules governing travel to Cuba have changed, most recently with the Trump administration banning U. S. carriers from flying to any city except Havana." Interesting words considering that the Trump administration's attempts to strangle Cuba's economy included such things as ending all cruise ships entering Cuba, ending all U. S. flights to 9 major Cuban cities although flights to Havana will be permitted, etc. Such dictates approved by the Trump administration are generally believed to be routinely dictated to Trump by Cuban extremists such as Marco Rubio and Mauricio Claver-Carone, and they often punish non-extremist Cuban-Americans who believe they should have the freedom to visit and relate to their relatives or friends in Cuba. Thus, Mary Forgione's article today indicates that individuals and organizations also routinely try to LEGALLY exist within the parameters of unpopular and stringent Cuban policies that are composed by Republican administrations merely to appease a handful rich and powerful Cuban counter revolutionaries in Miami and in the United States Congress...and, of course, in all Republican White Houses.

       The international tour operator Friendly Planet Travel has acquired New York-based Insight Cuba and the President of Friendly Planet Travel is Peggy Goldman. Ms. Goldman told travelpulse.com that even she is confused but she said, "Actually, the recent changes have had little impact on our ability to offer legal programs to American travelers...other then to confuse people."

     Most Cuban-Americans, like most Americans, believe they should not be the only people in the world lacking the freedom to visit Cuba IF they desire to do so. Moreover, most Cuban-Americans believe, if they want to, should be able to provide money and other needed help to help out poor relatives in Cuba. Therefore, it appears that the majority of Cuban-Americans are often the people most punished by a handful of Cuban extremists who are routinely empowered to do so by Republican administrations, of which the current Trump administration has been the most egregious in that regard, especially the activation of Title 3 of the infamous Helms-Burton Act, which even the Little Havana-aligned George W. Bush presidency considered to be too cruel and genocidal to activate. So, genocide in the Age of Trump against Cuban families in 2019 is one thing but routine restrictions on freedoms of Americans and Cuban-Americans is another thing altogether.

       So, today's aforementioned Los Angeles Times article {Nov. 13-2019} written by Mary Forgione provides some interesting insight to how Americans and Cuban-Americans are affected by ongoing Trump administration dictates regarding Cuba.

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Spain Strongly Supports Cuba

Openly Defying USA!!

      This Juan Karita/Associated Press photo shows opposition leader Jeanine Anez Chavez proclaiming that "I assume the Presidency" of Bolivia. The country's President since 2006, Evo Morales, was ousted Sunday night {Nov. 10, 2019} by what he calls a coup. Morales, fearing for his life, has been given asylum by Mexico after the Mexican government plane flyingl him to Mexico City was denied the air space of several countries who didn't want him to get there. Evo Morales is the latest of Cuban-friendly Latin American leaders who have unceremoniously been ousted from their positions, which Cuba and others believe is being generated and funded at least partly by anti-Cuban forces in the USA. It is not known if Jeanine Anez Chavez, a 52-year-old former television anchor, can hold onto power in Bolivia or win a future election considering that Evo Morales will always be beloved by most of Bolivia's poor people, who he says voted again in October 20th to keep him  in office in a disputed election that the U. S. and the Organization of American States said was fraudulent. Meanwhile, Cuba...amid teetering friends like Bolivia, Venezuela, and Nicaragua being fiercely opposed by the U. S...is hoping to bolster other friends, such as Spain.

  This Yamil Lage/AP photo shows Spain's King Felipe and Queen Letizia as they arrived Monday night {Nov. 11, 2019} at Jose Marti International Airport in Havana. The 3-day visit to the island is designed to show support to the Cuban people who are being strongly targeted by the USA's Trump administration and Republican sycophants in Miami's Little Havana sector. For five centuries Havana was one of the most important cities in the Spanish empire, providing a primary port for its treasure fleet. Seeking independence, Cubans fought two bloody but losing wars in the 1890s against Spain...prior to the 1898 U.S.-Spanish War on Cuban soil that shifted domination of Cuba to the United States, at least till the Cuban Revolution shocked the world by defeating the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship on January 1, 1959. The visit by King Felipe this week marks the first time in 500 years that a Spanish king has had a state visit to Cuba. King Felipe's father King Carlos, never during his four decades on the throne, had a state visit to Cuba but in 2016 Carlos traveled to the island for Fidel Castro's funeral.

      This week's 3-day visit of Spain's King Felipe and Queen Letizia is timely and it means a lot to the Cuban people who are increasingly frustrated with unchecked heavy-handed assaults on their lives and the welfare of their children sanctioned by Trump on behalf of a few Miami Counter Revolutionaries.

      This London Daily Mail montage shows Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel hosting Spain's King Felipe for this week's 3-day state visit for the royals to Cuba.

     Today Cubans were ubiquitous on social media using this photo and proclaiming that they never expected to see such an image or gesture. It shows Spain's King Felipe bowing in reference at a statue of Cuban independence fighter Jose Marti who died in 1895 fighting occupied Spanish soldiers.

      Earlier this year Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, the tall man walking in Old Havana next to Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, had a productive visit to Cuba. Spain has emerged as Cuba's third-largest trading partner and is becoming a top investor on the island.

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Are Cuba-Friendly Nations Targeted?

Evo Morales Thinks It's Happening!!

       This photo shows Evo Morales' predicament the night after his ouster on the night of November 10-2019 as the President of Bolivia, a job he had held since 2006.  Here are Evo's exact words describing this photo: "This was my first night after leaving the presidency forced by the coup and Comacho with the help of the police. So I remembered time of leader. Very grateful to my brothers from the federation of the tropic of cochabamba for providing us with safety and care." Evo seems convinced of two things: {1} Cuban-friendly nations like Bolivia, Venezuela, and Nicaragua are targeted by factions that are primarily "funded" from Miami and Washington that are mainly focused on recapturing Cuba while Trump remains in the White House; and {2} it is apparent that Evo believes he will face assassination because the indigenous Bolivians still "love me so much." Soon after spending time on his Smart Phone and then leaving his blanket-pallet, Evo Morales accepted political asylum in Mexico and then boarded a Mexican government airplane.

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cubaninsider: Pro-Cuba Bolivia Leader Ousted

cubaninsider: Pro-Cuba Bolivia Leader Ousted: Trend   Hurts  Cuba !!         After resigning Sunday night to end his reign as Bolivia's Cuba-friendly President since 2006, the ...