Cuba Reopens Havana's Airport

 For First Time In Over Seven Months!!

      This past weekend -- Nov. 14th-15th, 2020 -- Cuba reopened Jose Marti International Airport for its national airline, Cubana, and for foreign airlines. Because of strict COVID-19 restrictions Cuba's major airline had been closed for seven-and-a-half months.

       Yesterday, Sunday flights from Havana included flights to Florida, Belize, Panama, and Mexico. Here are photos by photographer Roberto Suarez at the Havana airport Sunday.

      Several weeks ago Cuba had reopened prime tourist spots, including Varadero Beach and Cayo Coco, with regular flights via Air Canada from both Toronto and Montreal being welcomed by the Canadian and Cuban governments.

      Now that Havana has joined other Cuban airports to handle some much-needed tourism traffic, Cubans are beginning to adjust  to something akin to a post-pandemic existence. Of course, the 11.2 million Cubans on the island are wildly hopeful that the now Lame Duck Trump presidency in the United States will at least begin to relax some of the Trumpian/Little Havana genocide that has targeted them for the past four years.

     Yet, even as the Democrat Biden defeated the Republican Trump in this month's U. S. presidential election, extreme and influential anti-Cuban/Counter Revolutionary journalists such as  Nora Gamez Torres are pressuring the Democrats not to revert back to the decent and sane Cuban policies of the Democratic Obama presidency that preceded Trump. This weekend Nora Gamez Torres' latest blistering article in the Miami Herald was entitled: "FEDERAL JUDGE GREEN LIGHTS CUBAN DOCTORS' HUMAN-TRAFFICKING LAWSUIT AGAINST HEALTH GROUP."

       There are many viciously mainstream Counter Revolutionary journalists such as Nora Gamez Torres who seem to support starvation tactics against Cubans on the island while wildly supporting anything that enriches already rich Cubans in Miami and in the U. S. Congress. Of course, "lawsuits" against unrepresented Cuba fit that bill wonderfully!!! Of course, the unchecked premise implies that everything about Revolutionary Cuba since 1959 has been and is evil and, of course, the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista regime that preceded it was comprised only of saints. And since 1959, of course, the rulers in Little Havana have been and are SAINTS. Just ask Nora Gamez Torres.

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cubaninsider: After Biden's Win, Cuba Still Loses

cubaninsider: After Biden's Win, Cuba Still Loses: Cuba  Epitomizes   America's  Tar-baby Obsession !! {As illustrated by being unable  to recapture Cuba} { And employing terrorism & ...

After Biden's Win, Cuba Still Loses

Cuba Epitomizes America's Tar-baby Obsession!!

{As illustrated by being unable to recapture Cuba}

{And employing terrorism & genocide against Cubans}

{While assisted by a propaganda-fueled media} 

       At times, of course, the Miami Herald has stressed journalism as opposed to propaganda since its very first edition was published on September 15th, 1903. But shortly after January 1 of 1959 -- when the Cuban Revolution chased the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship to nearby Miami -- the Miami Herald has been a vessel for Batistiano propaganda. The Batistianos, still supported by the U. S. government, expected to recapture Cuba from the rebels within a few days...at least within a few weeks. Then they planned to return to their Gold Mine/Piggybank in Havana. But as the months piled up and Revolutionary Cuba survived, the Batistianos created and solidified their new capital in the heart of Miami...and called it Little Havana. In the money-crazed U. S. democracy, capitalist Little Havana...buoyed  by its owned money and then using its political clout to amass tax dollars...soon evolved into a powerful, uncontrollable, and unchecked political and economic force -- not in Cuba, of course, but in the United States!!

           In this month's presidential election, seeking a second 4-year term, Batistiano-controlled of Little Havana led to Trump's winning Florida's huge passel of 29 Electoral Votes...the same Batistianos who persuaded Trump to activate Title 3/Helms-Burton, which is so incredibly GENOCIDAL against masses of Cuban families that even Batistiano-aligned George W. Bush REFUSED TO ACTIVATE IT during his 8-years as President from 2000-2009. But in November-2020 Florida's 29 Electoral Votes were not quite enough to give Trump a second presidential term, making Biden the President beginning on January 20th, 2021.

       In that milieu, the Miami Herald's Batistiano-spewed Editorial this week is entitled: "Obama Threw Cuba A Lifeline. Biden Shouldn't Do The Same Thing. It Didn't Work."

    In other words, the propaganda-riddled Miami Herald advises President-elect Biden to maintain the USA's shameful Title 3/Helms-Burton genocide against 11.2 million innocent Cubans on the nearby island.

     As Little Havana emerged in Miami, the cruel, undemocratic U. S. Embargo against Cuba began in 1962 after things such as assassination attempts, deadly terrorism acts, the Bay of Pigs military attack, etc., failed to recapture Cuba for the U.S.-backed Batistianos and their rich sycophants. All Republican U. S. presidencies since the 1950s, especially the three Bush administrations, have been tightly aligned with the Batista-Batistianos so rich American individuals and corporations could partake in the rape and robbery of Cuba -- a brutal process that spawned the Cuban Revolution on July 26, 1953, and then, as a worldwide phenomenon, came to fruition on January 1, 1959. De-classified U. S. documents confirm that the purpose of the U. S. embargo was to starve, deprive, and make miserable Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary government. It appears, in these last 6+ decades, that the vivid memories of the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship have been the primary reasons Revolutionary rule on the island has persisted and resisted foreign threats...a survival that has/is occurring against OVER-WHELMING odds. Meanwhile, the U. S. media has been too intimidated or too incompetent or too biased to explain why the world's best Editorial Cartoonist -- Carlos Latuff of Brazil -- has vividly told the entire world how the little island nation of Cuba has exposed the Batistiano hold on the United States democracy that is now supposed not to be embarrassed by such ongoing, ubiquitous, and brilliant images of the USA's despicable Cuban policies. As crafted by Carlos Latuff, this {directly below} remains the most ubiquitous and the most vivid worldwide image of the USA's insatiable greed for and against Cuba.

      And the brilliant Carlos Latuff in 2020 sent this image around the world to explain that the USA's Batistiano-fueled Trump government took advantage of the COVID-19 PANDEMIC to further expand its genocide against Cubans on the island. Study this year's Carlos Latuff image {directly below} of the United States of America TRYING TO PREVENT DEDICATED  AND WELL-TRAINED CUBAN MEDICAL PERSONEL WHO ARE TRYING SO HARD TO TAKE CARE OF CUBANS ON THE ISLAND WHO WERE/ARE THREATENED BY COVID-19. Prior to Little Havana's impact on the United States government, I am convinced that America's Founding Fathers 245 years ago had imbued their Democracy with enough Safeguards and Checks & Balances to have prevented the images Carlos Latuff has so brilliantly sent around the world.

         I agree with Carlos Latuff's depictions, as shown above, of the USA's attempts to try to impose genocide on masses of Cubans on the island. As a democracy-loving American, I am embarrassed about these images. I will forever wonder why several generations of Americans have allowed this calamitous situation to continue decade-after-decade in OUR names!!!

     And, by the way, the great Carlos Latuff also crafted the image shown above of a Cuban schoolgirl showing her love for the Cuban flag as well as her feisty contempt for the U. S. EMBARGO.

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The U.S. Election and Cuba

 Cubans On the Island Cringe!!

     During the Democratic Obama presidency Josefina Vidal, Cuba's top diplomat related to U. S. affairs, powerfully represented the island in fashioning a sane normalization process between the two nations. But starting on January 20th-2017 the Republican President Donald Trump replaced Obama and Vidal was abundantly aware that the transition in Washington was the difference between sanity and insanity as well as the difference between decency and indecency as far as families in Cuba were concerned. In that milieu, it was Vidal who uttered the statement depicted in red above: "Cuba is not going to renege on its principles nor the ideas it has always believed in."

      Now shift forward to today, a week before the Nov. 3rd-2020 U. S. presidential election. Josefina Vidal is now Cuba's Ambassador to Canada. And today she topped off her Facebook page with these words from Ottawa: "407 Western Union payment points will close in Cuba due to the brutal measures taken by the US Government against remittances. Another example of the policy of maximum cruelty against the Cuban people and families, even more so in times of the COVID-19 pandemic." In an effort to starve "the Cuban people and families," Vidal is aware that the Trump administration, as a trade-off that he thinks will win him Florida's crucial 29 Electoral Votes in next week's election, has allowed self-serving Little Havana Cubans in Miami and in Congress to dictate genocidal-type policies against Cubans on the island. Decent Cuban-Americans send several billion dollars to their families on the island each year and, of course, the likes of Little Havana benefactors such as Senator Marco Rubio had rather see those family members in Cuba starve than have money to survive on. While Vidal understands that situation, the propagandized and intimidated American citizens are not supposed to comprehend or at least not to object to such things lest it angers Counter Revolutionary Cubans like Rubio.

     While the brilliant and decent Cuban diplomat Josefina Vidal adamantly fights to keep what she perceives as Cuban-Americans like Marco Rubio from trying to starve Cuban families on the island, from her position in Ottawa as Cuba's Ambassador to Canada she also places most of the blame on "cowardly and sanctimonious United States citizens who allow it to happen. Rubio's political and economic fortunes may be tied to the genocide against Cuban families but the U. S. citizens don't share such egregious rewards, but yet they silently condone it."

      During the Obama presidency the very skilled and decent U. S. diplomat Roberto Jacobson led U. S. efforts in highly publicized private and public meetings with Cuba's skilled and decent diplomat Josefina Vidal. These two brilliant female diplomats corrected most of the indecent portions of the USA's six-decade-old economic Embargo against Cuba. Thus, in October of 2016 the entire world voted 191-to-0 in the United Nations to condemn the Embargo because even Obama's U. S. vote, and therefore Israel's, REFUSED to support it.

      During the U.S.-Cuba normalization negotiations during the Obama presidency, three decent and brilliant diplomats were at the forefront -- Jeffrey DeLaurentis and Roberto Jacobson representing the United States while Josefina Vidal represented Cuba. At the time DeLaurentis was the charge d'affaires at the U. S. Embassy in Havana that Obama had reopened for the first time in six decades. President Obama, after normalizing relations with Cuba as best he could, nominated the universally respected DeLaurentis as the U. S. Ambassador to Cuba and nominated the highly respected Jacobson to the job she wanted as U. S. Ambassador to Mexico. Immediately Rubio used his Senate position to stop DeLaurentis from being Ambassador to Cuba and cruelly seeked bitter revenge against Jacobson for being the Ambassador to Mexico.

     During the Republican primary in 2016 when both of them were candidates to be President, Rubio and Trump called each other vile names. They hate each other to this day but once he became President Trump shook Rubio's hand and anointed Rubio as the Dictator of Cuba on U. S. soil. Trump's payoff, he believed, was that Little Havana's Counter Revolutionary zealots who sent Rubio to the U. S. Senate could and would provide Trump with Florida's crucial 29 Electoral Votes needed for his 2020 reelection in November. That trade-off should go down as America's most egregious political pay-off in history. Quickly not only did Dictator Rubio ditch decent and brilliant U. S. diplomats such as DeLaurentis and Jacobson, Rubio also saturated the U. S. State Department and Western Hemisphere departments WITH ONLY vicious LIFETIME anti-Cuban zealots such as Mauricio Claver-Carone. Therefore, the genocidal U. S. efforts to starve Cuban families on the island goes on unabated daily since Rubio was anointed the U. S. Dictator of Cuba!!!!

      That's why today -- October 28th, 2020 -- Cuba's Ambassador to Canada Josefina Vidal, from Ottawa, topped off her Facebook page with these cogent words: "407 Western Union payment points will close in Cuba due to the brutal measures taken by the US Government against remittances. Another example of the policy of maximum cruelty against the Cuban people and families, even more so in times of the COVID-19 pandemic."

      In other words, Josefina Vidal {who is massively admired in Canada} knows the definition of genocide and she believes that Little Havana today equates to what Havana was in the 1950's during the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship, which was prior to the...uh...Cuba Revolution's triumph in 1959.

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Surviving Trump and COVID

 Cuba's Massive Problems!!

        The Editor In Chief of the Travel Off Path website Kashlee Kucheran this week concentrated on Cuba's decision to reopen tourist sites to international tourism after seven months of closing its borders because of the COVID-19 pandemic. She particularly pinpointed Cuba's decision to reopen Varadero Beach, which Travel Writers have voted "The World's Best Beach."

       As shown by the map above, Varadero Beach is only an hour's drive east of Havana down the coastal highway along Cuba's northwest coast. As of October 15th, 2020, Varadero Beach became the latest Cuban tourist site to reopen for international travelers. Actually Cuba on July 1st had reopened the six most popular Cayo sites including Cayo Coco and Cayo Largo as depicted on this map. By November 1-2020 German, Russian, Panamanian, and other flights will deny/defy the U. S. blockade and also begin returning tourists to the Caribbean's largest island.

     Several weeks ago Air Canada flights had begun taking Canadian tourists to their beloved vacation destination spot -- Cayo Coco on Cuba's northern coast.

     Meanwhile, Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez this week reiterated that his island nation "will survive the current Trump administration's genocide against Cuban families just as we have survived the past six decades as a sovereign and very independent country." Rodriguez told REUTERS that in just the past year, "The U. S. genocide has cost Cuba more than $5 billion and, as the U. S. planned, it has hurt our ability to tackle the coronavirus pandemic in the total manner we have otherwise  tried so hard to deal with it. Taking advantage of a pandemic to tightened genocide against Cuban families is an ongoing policy of the United States of America. I decry the propaganda or the scare tactics U. S. citizens are subjected to in order to get them to accept U. S. genocide against innocent families in a much smaller island nation. The criminality of the United States to join with the Mafia to support the brutal Batista regime in Cuba during the 1950's has spawned even more criminality in the United States since the Cuban Revolution gained our country's sovereignty by chasing the Batista-Mafia regime to U. S. soil on January one of 1959. A population of 330 million Americans today puts up with it, and in the eyes of much of the world that says much about the U.S. 'Democracy,' and what it says leaves much to be desired."

      Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez this week began his annual campaign for a United Nations resolution condemning the embargo put in place after Cuba's 1959 revolutionary victory over the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship. The UN vote regarding Cuba's plea is usually held in October and for 29 years it has severely denounced the U. S. embargo against Revolutionary Cuba, which calls the Blockade, a "Bloqueo." In 2016, the last year of the Obama presidency, the UN voted 191-to-0 to denounce it because President Obama opposed it. But when the Democratic Obama was replaced by a Republican President named Trump, Bruno Rodriguez this week said, "The decency and sanity of Obama has gone to unmitigated insanity under Trump, a veritable genocidal Blockade aimed at the masses of everyday Cuban families. It, of course, is the age-old  six decades of a policy that is trying to make the Cuban people rise up and overthrow their government. It hasn't happened and won't happen because they understand what created the Cuban Revolution, which was the extreme brutality and ravages of the U.S.-backed Batista and Mafia rule on this island in the 1950's. Unbiased nations understand that history and it is unfathomable that the American people are so massively lied to about the reason and the longevity of Revolutionary Cuba, which changed history in 1959 and now in October of 2020 is still surviving genocidal attempts being legalized by the U. S. government at the behest of the Trump regime in Washington to appease Mafiosi-types in Miami. In Spanish we call it 'genocidio' and in English the Americans and the world call it 'genocide.' And in any society 'genocidio'/'genocide' is perhaps the greatest crime in the history of mankind."

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U.S. Coup In Bolivia Backfires

 Overturned By Election Result...Wow!!

     This is the newly elected President of Bolivia Luis Arce. A year ago in what the world believes was a U.S.-backed coup, the Bolivian President Evo Morales was chased out of the country, first to Mexico and then Argentina, in fear for his life. The purpose of the coup, apparently, was because Evo Morales was a dear FRIEND of Cuba's, a fact that the Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami, Newark, and the U. S. Congress didn't like. After the coup Jeanine Anez was installed as the new pro-U.S./Anti-Cuban leader of Bolivia. Today, speaking to AFE News, Luis Arce said, "We are going to reestablish all relations. The government we had after Evo has acted very ideologically, depriving the Bolivian people of access to Cuban medicine..." The newly elected Bolivian President, Luis Arce, belongs to the MAS PARTY that was founded by and is led by Evo Morales, Cuba's dear friend.

And BY THE WAY:

     I am often asked why Cubaninsider doesn't have any ads. Well, it is because Google, which makes billions of dollars on ads, bans ads on Cubaninsider for petty and unfounded reasons. But thanks for asking Armando. It reminds me that some sponsors themselves have asked me the same question.

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Bolivian Presidential Election Overturns Coup

 Massive Pro-Cuba/Anti-U.S. Result!!!

     The photo above is one of 14 that the Associated Press sent around the world this afternoon {Oct. 19, 2020}. The AP began its awesomely important news article with these exact words:

               "Evo Morales' party has claimed victory in a presidential election that appears to sharply shift Bolivia away from the conservative policies of the U.S.-backed interim government that took power after the leftist leader resigned and fled the country a year ago. The leading rival of Morales's hand-picked successor, Luis Arce, conceded defeat on Monday, as did interim President Jeanine Anez, a bitter foe of Morales."

    A year ago a coup in Bolivia chased President Evo Morales from office and out of the country. Morales and neutral observers believe that the coup was supported by United States efforts fueled by vicious Trump-empowered anti-Cuban forces in Miami and in Congress. Morales remains one of the world's strongest supporters of Cuba.

      Bolivia's indigenous majority loved having one their own, Evo Morales, as their President and they repeatedly elected him. He is now 60-years-old and had been elected President for the first time in 2002.

   This photo shows some of the aftermath after the coup in Bolivia a year ago that chased Evo Morales to Mexico in fear for his life.

    Since being deposed by the coup, Evo Morales has called himself a "New Internationalist." In that role in the past year Morales has used the media, including social media, to denounce the USA under President Trump "as dangerous to the world, especially Latin America and the Caribbean, because of its bloody obsession to recapture Cuba at all costs. Next to Cuba, the United States wants to eviscerate any and all nations in the Western Hemisphere that show concern or respect for Cuba."

    This BBC photo shows Evo Morales this week in Argentina where he is living during his forced exile since the coup. As shown above, he continued fervently campaigning to "overturn the U.S.-backed coup that forced me from power in Bolivia so a USA-backed regime could rule, which it has for a year. In years past, the U. S. got away with forcing murderous right-wing regimes in many Latin America and Caribbean nations, especially the U.S.-backed Mafia-Batista regime that ruled Cuba prior to the 1959 Cuban Revolution. Now the Trump regime in Washington wants regimes like that all over the region. If Trump wins a second 4-year term in next month's U. S. presidential election, that will allow anti-Cuba extremists like Marco Rubio and his kind to capture Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua for sure."

     Of course, Americans are not supposed to know it, but the views espoused this week by Evo Morales from Argentina align with the views of most Caribbean and Latin American people regarding Rubio's and Trump's plans for Cuba as well as for Cuba's closest allies. But, for sure, today's presidential election in Bolivia drastically reversed the U.S.-backed coup that forced pro-Cuban President Evo Morales from power and forced him to seek safety in Mexico and now Argentina. And how Rubio and Trump respond to today's presidential election in Bolivia remains to be seen.

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