From Guantanamo Bay Itself!!
As Spain's King Felipe wrapped up his positive 3-day visit to Cuba this week, the interesting El Pais photo shown above captured the moment last night {Nov. 14-2019} at a state dinner when the King, as Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel sat nearby, remarked that Cuba needed "to respect freedom and of association." President Diaz-Canel later made this strong statement:
"I totally agree with my friend and Cuba's friend King Felipe about freedom and association. I have also this week, and the King understands, that our nearby neighbor that happens to be the richest nation in the world floods this sovereign island nation with untold millions of dollars every single day to create and fund highly paid bought-off dissidents and propagandists. Everyday Cubans that King Felipe has taken to time know fully knows this fact and both Cubans and the King know that such devious tactics of the United States against our independence shapes some steps we are forced to take to protect our people. Despite all that money and energy from the United States, King Felipe and other notable people who come to Cuba are encouraged to speak to everyday and randomly solicited Cubans to ascertain whether the vast majority of Cubans are determined to keep the Miami Mafia that brutalized Cubans prior to the Cuban Revolution from returning from nearby Miami. And that prevailing, stark sentiment on this island, as King Felipe understands, has somehow prevented the recapture of generations of Cubans on this island by the strongest nation in the world, a process that has been happening for six decades."
Prior to hosting last night's state dinner for King Felipe, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, accompanied by some international journalists including from the AP and Reuters, embarked on an extremely significant trip almost 500 miles from Havana to the eastern tip of the island to visit Caimanera. This little town of 10,000 people is on the edge of the disputed U. S. Naval Base that sits threateningly on 44 square miles of plush acres of Cuban territory. The photo above shows President Diaz-Canel greeting citizens of Caimanera. He told them that "the U. S. sanctions that evolve each day from Miami and Washington hurt Cuban families and this revolutionary government that kicked the Mafia forces to Miami and Washington over six decades ago is trying its best to help you and protect you from those foreign criminals." Diaz-Canel then stopped off at a newly renovated movie theater where he added, "Please know that we plan to survive Trump's White House and the extreme anti-Cubans in Miami and Congress that he has empowered with an eye to his reelection in 2020. You know our history. You don't want the Mafia back in control of this island and your lives."
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President Diaz-Canel's decision this week to visit the little Cuban town of Caimanera on the edge of the U. S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay was obviously both symbolic and calculated.
This photo shows Cuban children in Caimanera, Cuba. They are only a short walk from the U. S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay.
In 1898 the Spanish-American War on Cuban soil shifted imperative domination from Spain to the United States. It was five years later, in 1903, that the U. S. utilized that prerogative to acquire plush Guantanamo Bay for the purpose of building a military base. To this day, the U. S. occupation of this valuable Cuban land is considered illegal by international entities such as the United Nations, the European Union, etc.
Caimanera is shown in red above.
As this book points out at the top of its cover and in the inside pages {"...the mephitic legal swamp of Guantanamo Bay..."}, America's disputed military base on Cuban soil shames the United States and Democracy, although a small minority of Cuban exiles and their sycophants exalt about its shameless worldwide image. That shame, of course, has been particularly true since the still-existing Bush-era prison at Guantanamo Bay still operates.
Yet, "CLOSING GUANTANAMO" will never happen as long as a mere handful of rich and powerful remnants from the 1950's Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba still maintain their lucrative and powerful grip on the Republican Party in America's two-party political system.
Also, ending the "GENOCIDAL BLOCKADE" against Cuban families by the United States has existed since 1962 and it will never end as long a mere handful of rich and powerful remnants from the 1950's Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba still maintain their lucrative and powerful grip on the Republican Party in America's two-party political system.
The little Cuban town of Caimanera on the edge of Guantanamo Bay this week got a visit from Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel. With some of the international press as observers, it appears that he was trying to remind the world that Cuban children like these in Caimanera do not deserve to be endlessly blockaded by a few rich Cuban exiles and the entire U. S. Republican Party. And by visiting Caimanera, President Diaz-Canel was also reminding the world that these Cuban children do not deserve to live just a few steps from the infamous U. S. military base at Cuba's Guantanamo Bay.
