4 Years Since Fidel Died

 And It's Still His Cuba!!!

   Today is November 25, 2020. It has been exactly four years since Fidel Castro died at 90 in Havana on November 25, 2016. While today Americans are not supposed to know it, it is still Fidel Castro's Cuba...and that remains a fact until or if another foreign nation captures or recaptures the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful nation.

    After the miraculous triumph of his Cuban Revolution over the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship on January 1-1959, Fidel Castro made thousands of speeches to the Cuban people and to the world. In his last speech in April of 2016 as he knew he was dying, he began, as shown above, by reminding Cubans that it is up to them to maintain what he had won and left to them.

     During his 90 years on this planet, Fidel Castro aged from a strong revolutionary legend into an old man. While dying of old age in his own bed in Havana, his many records included having survived by far the most assassination attempts of any person in the annals of history. And, incredibly, his would-be assassins included the best, most capable assassins in history -- the CIA, the Mafia, and legions of zealous, well-trained, and well-equipped Cuban assassins that he had chased off his island to U. S. soil.

     Even as he himself was on U. S. soil, Fidel Castro musingly read about one of the latest plots to kill him in the pages of the New York Journal-American. The famed Guinness Book of World Records says that there were "638 assassination attmpts on the life of Fidel Castro, but none were successful."

     But, by any yardstick or measurement, from January 1st of 1959 until the day he died of natural causes on November 25th of 2016, it was Fidel Castro's Cuba. That is true even though the nearby United States, the strongest nation in the history of the world, tried many of those days to kill Fidel Castro and destroy every vestige of his Revolutionary Cuba.

       And the fact is today on November 25th-2020 -- exactly four years after his death at age 90 -- Cuba is still Fidel Castro's Cuba. And, as a measure of what Fidel Castro accomplished as  a revolutionary icon, to this DAY the United States of America, still the strongest nation in the world, still can't recapture Cuba on behalf of the ultra-rich and mega-powerful Counter Revolutionary Cubans in the United States who conceivably still have every wherewithal supposedly needed to overpower the nearby island nation. As a token of how the Cuban Revolution has so drastically changed America, today Americans are not supposed to know that there are many millions of Cubans on the island who verily worship everything that Fidel did for them, such as the young woman shown above worshipping at Fidel's tomb. And that's WHY it's still Fidel's Cuba. Perhaps one key reason the United States and the Batistianos have not recaptured Cuba is because the Batistiano-dictated Cuban narratives in the United States from the 1950s until today have falsely denied the fact that from the 1950s until TODAY most Cubans on the island have loved Fidel and will fight to the death to defend him.

     Yet, it is an historic fact that Fidel Castro died of natural causes in his own bed in Havana at age 90 four years ago today -- on November 25th, 2016. And, yes, it is a topical fact that every American today is programmed to vilify everything about him while also, of course, sanctifying everything that the United States, the Mafia, and the Batistianos did in Cuba from 1952 till 1959 to spawn the need for Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution. The Revolutionary victory was earth-shattering but so has been its longevity. If he could put pen to paper today on what would have been his 94th birthday, I suppose the whimsical Fidel Castro, with a grin on his face as above, would write something akin to this: "I be damned!!! What Celia Sanchez said about who was most responsible for the victory of the Cuban Revolution is still being proven to be true with every passing day." Celia Sanchez, of course, is/was the revolutionary heroine that Fidel Castro literally worshipped and whom he considered as the single most important person in the Cuban Revolution, man or woman.

      The historic quote that the incomparable Celia Sanchez made that the worshipful Fidel Castro most admired was/is: "WE REBELS...GET FAR TOO MUCH CREDIT FOR WINNING THE REVOLUTION. OUR ENEMIES DESERVE MOST OF THE CREDIT, FOR BEING GREEDY COWARDS AND IDIOTS." In other words, Celia Sanchez believed that the extreme greed, brutality, and stupidity of the U.S.-backed/Mafia-backed Batistianos provided rebels like her with the extreme motivation to out-smart and out-FIGHT "our enemies." I believe Celia Sanchez was correct. Much more importantly, Fidel Castro believed she was correct!!!

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USA's Mainstream Propaganda Media

 America And Cuba Are Victims!!!

     The above banner headline in the Washington Post chronicles one of the last nails in America's once-respected media industry as a vital purveyor of important news. Now the USA's mainstream media newspaper, television, radio, and online "news" outlets are strictly purveyors of left-wing and right-wing propaganda machines. The left-wingers are much more dangerous to the U. S. democracy than the right-wingers because the left-wing extremists now owning most of the U. S. mainstream media simply have the most MONEY, now reaching past the trillion-dollar stratosphere. For example, Jeff Bezos is the richest person in the history of the world. His ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott, after her divorce settlement, is now the richest woman in the history of the world. The day Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post that longstanding liberal bastion of real news became the latest current purveyor of real left-wing propaganda...joining with the USA's other most powerful newspapers, such as the NY Times, along with the most powerful television news operations NBC, CBS, and ABC...not to mention the embarrassingly left-wing propaganda that now spews out of cable outlets CNN and MSNBC every single hour of every single day!! But among all that regretful truth, the Jeff Bezos purchase of the Washington Post remains the primary parameter of how the demise of the USA's media has perhaps...probably...become the biggest threat to the USA's democracy. While Bezos, the richest person in the history of the world, now owns the Washington Post, the other extreme left-wing propaganda powers mention above are owned by...Carlos Slim, who is the biggest single owner of the NY Times and is the richest person in the history of Mexico; and the other powerful left-wing media mentioned above are owned by MULTI MEGA-billionaire corporations such as A T & T, Time Warner, Comcast, Disney, etc. With a trillion dollars+ to ramrod its propaganda down the throat of Democracy, the left-wing extremist media moguls seem, among other things, very intent and very capable of making the two-party U. S. political system into a one-party political system via its domination of the Democratic Party, which means the destruction of the Republican Party, which also means the destruction of the U. S. democracy, at least as the Founding Fathers envisioned it 245 years ago!!

      This photo shows Jeff Bezos, the richest person in the history of the world, and his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott, the richest woman in the history of the world.

      This photo shows Jeff Bezos with his step-father Miguel Bezos. Jeff was born 56 years ago in Albuquerque, New Mexico to a penniless 16-year-old mother and an 18-year-old father. When he was 4-years-old Jeff was adopted by Miguel, who was born in Santiago de Cuba. As a rich Cuban-American, Miguel made sure Jeff had a rich life, a great education {Princeton}, and enough money to start Amazon, which soon became a veritable Gold Mine for the Bezos family. As far as Cuba is concerned, it is evident that Jeff Bezos, like Miguel, is an anti-Cuban Counter Revolutionary zealot!!

       Thus, the Jeff Bezos-ownd Washington Post has turned into one of the most extreme anti-Cuban propaganda sources in the United States. Almost every day, it seems, the Washington Post has a scathing anti-Cuban article, often published as Opinion Editorial columns. That could only happen via the approval of Jeff Bezos. For example, today the "Opinion" column in the Washington Post is loudly entitled: "A GROUP OF CUBAN ARTISTS IS DARING TO LIVE IN DEMOCRACY. THEIR PROTEST COULD END IN TRAGEDY." Of course, any Cuban dissident or any Counter Revolutionary Cuban readily has the Washington Post as a prime source to spew anti-Cuban vitriol. For example today...!! 

      Born in Matanzas and educated at the University of Havana, Carlos Manuel Alvarez wrote the Washington Post editorial entitled: "A GROUP OF CUBAN ARTISTS IS DARING TO LIVE IN DEMOCRACY. THEIR PROTEST COULD END IN TRAGEDY." Of course, don't hold your breath waiting for an unbiased article about Cuba in the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post, not while it is owned by the richest person in the history of the world who also happens to be a Counter Revolutionary zealot.

     If you happen to be a Counter Revolutionary Cuban like Carlos Manuel Alvarez, who wrote the scathing aforementioned article, or Denis Solis, the Counter Revolutionary Cuban rapper shown above, the propaganda-obsessed Washington Post will make you a Superstar while providing you the space to publish your Cuban venom. Meanwhile, obviously, most of the 11.2 Cubans on the island support the revolution as opposed to what preceded it, but the U. S. media doesn't want you to know that.

       Cubans in Cuba who are neither Counter Revolutionaries nor influenced by consistent avalanches and tsunamis of Counter Revolutionary U. S. dollars or Counter Revolutionary U. S. propaganda also have OPINIONS about their island and their Superpower neighbor. Like this young man, Cubans on the island are well-educated, opinionated, and now have ubiquitous access to Smart Phone-provided data. But of course, in the United States the voices and opinions of non-dissident Cubans in Cuba are not permitted. For that reason, I believe, Americans have no idea why the island nation has been able to somehow survive the violent and unchecked decades-old effort of the ultra-powerful Cuban extremists and the MEGA-powerful United States to retake Cuba.

        The grossly unbiased Cuban narratives in the United States exploit the views vitriols of anti-Cuban extremists but totally ignores the opinions, hopes, and desires of Cubans in Cuba such as this group, all of them checking their Smart Phones on a Cuban street. And, YES, they have opinions too!!! The triumph of the Cuban Revolution is 1959 over the U.S.-backed and MAFIA-backed Batista dictators drastically changed Cuba. But, incredibly, it has drastically changed the United States JUST AS MUCH.

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Amnesty International and Cuba!!!!

 Yet Another Update!!

       Amnesty International is a great organization and it has been DEFENDING HUMAN RIGHTS around the world for years.

      For sure, Erika Guevara-Rosas is a great lady. She is the Amnesty International Director for the Americas. She is a Mexican-American who graduated from York University, Canada's third largest university. She also got her law degree from Mexico's University of Londres.

     Great women like Erika Guevara-Rosas and Jurema Werneck, under the auspices of Amnesty International, monitor human rights violations around the world. As the Americas Director at Amnesty International, it is Erika Guevara-Rosas who closely monitors human rights violations in Cuba.

      On behalf of Amnesty International this week -- on Nov. 20th-2020 -- Erika Guevara issued her latest Human Rights Report on Cuba. It is entitled: "CUBA: HARASSMENT OF SAN ISIDRO MOVEMENT EXEMPLIFIES ONGOING ASSAULT ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION." The report stressed these exact words: "The ongoing harassment and intimidation of members of the San Isidro movement, at the forefront of challenging Degree 349, a dystopian law that stands to censor artists, shows Cuba's ongoing repression of human rights, including the right to freedom of expression in the country. Authorities can continue to harass, intimidate, detain, and criminalize artists and alternative thinkers, but they can't keep their minds in prison. No one should be imprisoned for 'contempt' against a public official, a provision of the criminal code that Amnesty International and other human rights organizations have consistently called on the Cuban authorities to repeal."

      For decades, of course, Amnesty International has spotlighted the images and names of Cubans such as Eduardo Cardet as "a prisoner of conscience who must be released immediately and unconditionally." In this week's update in November of 2020, Amnesty International named current prisoners of conscience in Cuba such as rapper Denis Solis Gonzalez who was "detained on 9 November."

     So, for many year Amnesty International has kept a keen eye on civil rights violations in Revolutionary Cuba, as it should. But one problem with all that diligence, I believe, is that it tends to minimize the opinions of everyday Cubans on the island while placing an emphasize on Counter Revolutionaries that Cuba says are supported politically and financially and even militarily by Counter Revolutionary Cubans in the United States -- namely in Miami, Newark, and the U. S. Congress. Also, many unbiased observers believe that Amnesty International and other such organizations, perhaps influenced or intimidated by America's unique Superpower wealth and power, fails to compare civil rights in Revolutionary Cuba since 1959 with the civil rights in PRE-Revolutionary Cuba -- namely the Cuba supported from 1952 till 1959 by the Mafia and the United States.

     And, for example, an unbiased source -- the Encyclopedia Britannia -- used the above Library of Congress photo in a segment that detailed Fulgencio Batista's pre-Revolutionary rule of Cuba, first from 1933-1944 when Batista rose from a soldier to head of the Cuban army and then became the head of the Cuban government. In the photo above taken in the U. S. capital of Washington, Batista, as the leader of the Cuban army and leader of the Cuban government, is shown on Nov. 10-1938 with General Malin Craig, then the Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army. According to historical accounts that include Encyclopedia Britannia, "After ruling Cuba from 1933-1944, Batista traveled abroad and lived for a while in Florida, where his best friends included Mafia kingpins and where he invested part of the huge sums he had acquired in Cuba. At the behest of his best Florida friend, Mafia kingpin Meyer Lansky, Batista returned to power in Cuba in March of 1952 via a military coup that deposed President Carlos Prio Socarras. Batista returned to the island as an extremely brutal dictator supported by the Mafia and the United States, and he embezzled huge sums from Cuba's soaring economy that was bulging with American tourists lured by gambling, drugs, prostitution, etc. The rich U. S. companies as well as the top Mafia kingpins including Lansky, Lucky Luciano, Santo Trafficante Jr., Carlos Marcelo and others partook in the sacking of Cuba from March-1952 until January 1-1959 when the Cuban Revolution shocked the world by overthrowing the Batista dictatorship."

     Beginning in January of 1959, as the nascent Revolutionary government was taking over Cuba, on nearby U. S. soil in the heart of Miami, a bastion known as Little Havana evolved as an unchecked creation of Counter Revolutionary zealots. With tons of Cuban money already sent to South Florida banks and invested in prime real estate holdings, along with the last of the Batistiano loot and gold that left Cuba in getaway planes, ships, and boats in the wee hours of January 1-1959 quickly and permanently overwhelmed Miami and thus Little Havana reigned, and still reigns, as a political and economic force in the U. S. to this very day. Yet, from 1959 till 2020, unable to recapture Cuba, Little Havana has nevertheless been a massive tormentor of Cubans left behind in Cuba, meaning the ones unable to leave the island or the ones unwilling to be lured off the island. Of course, early Counter Revolutionary leaders such as Rafael Diaz-Balart and Jorge Mas Canosa -- and latter day zealots such as Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Mario Diaz-Balart -- have believed that, with the help of the U. S. government, recapturing Cuba would take only a few weeks, and certainly not more than a few months. But all these decades later, and now in late November of 2020, the supposedly vulnerable island of Cuba is still standing as a poor but pugnacious and incredibly resilient Revolutionary Cuba while the ultra-powerful and ultra-rich leaders in Little Havana are left wondering how in the hell they are not back in control of Havana. "I mean...uh...with the help of the world's financial and military Superpower we have attacked, terrified, deprived, and starved the people on that island since 1959. So why in the hell have they not overthrown their rebel government and then handed it back over to US in the USA?" An interesting question. I will attempt to answer that question when I return within 48 hours with Part Two of "Amnesty International and Cuba!!!"

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cubaninsider: "The Country That Raped Me" (A True Story)

cubaninsider: "The Country That Raped Me" (A True Story): Note : This particular essay on  Ana Margarita Martinez  was first posted on   Cubaninsider  on November 2nd, 2011. Yet, for some reason...

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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