Trump Exits With More Cuban Genocide

 Naming Cuba a "Terror Sponsor"!!!

    It has been known for at least the past three weeks that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Donald Trump had drawn up plans to put one last genocidal blow against the Cubans on the island to solidify their Republican Party's extreme ties to only the most extreme Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Little Havana and in the U. S. Congress. Many thought that, with Pompeo and Trump now having just a few days left in The White House, that they would not bother with this last-ditch insane diatribe against innocent Cubans on the island. But, of course, today the POMPEO-TRUMP White House put Cuba on the USA's list that designates the island as an INTERNATIONAL SPONSOR OF TERROR. Meanwhile, Cuba has never been a sponsor of terrorism and right now is just trying to survive the terror inflicted on the island by the latest Little Havana-aligned Republican regime.

       But for what it is worth, here is what NBC News today said about Cuba being designated as a Sponsor of Terrorism:

     The above Tweet from Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said: "We condemn the hypocritical and cynical designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, as announced by the US. The political opportunism of this action is recognized by all who have an honest concern about the scourge of terrorism and its victims."

      Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez also said: "Prior to Trump and Pompeo designating Cuba as a sponsor of terrorism, they have already spent four years applying their other criminal tirades against Cuban families. Even the Bush administration from 2001 to 2009 refused to activate Title 3 of Helms-Burton because even Bush believed it to be a criminal and genocidal assault on masses of innocent Cuban people on the island, but Pompeo and Trump activated Title 3 of Helms-Burton knowing it was intended to legalize criminal genocide against Cuban families. And now today the hypocrisy of the U. S., meaning Pompeo and Trump, designating Cuba as a sponsor of terrorism is not lost on decent governments in the region and around the world, and that is even well known to governments and dissidents whereby U. S. money is buying off countries and dissidents so they will oppose Cuba. The shame of Republican politicians in the United States trying to terrify, starve, and kill innocent Cubans on the island is an infamy that appears to be endless."

     Of course, the United States -- since being booted off the island all to the way to Little Havana in Miami by the Cuban Revolution way back on Jan. 1-1959 -- has never allowed everyday Cubans on the island themselves to say anything about what their thoughts are about the extreme brutality and thievery of the U. S.-backed and Mafia-backed FULGENCIO BATISTA dictatorship that preceded the Cuban Revolution's startling victory. But guess what??? Now Cubans on the island repeatedly use Social Media forums to voice their opinions about such things as Fulgencio Batista's terror in Cuba...Revolutionary Cuba that overthrew Fulgencio Batista but that spawned the subsequent U. S. Embargo, the U. S. Blockade, and the gutlessness of consecutive generations of Americans who permit self-serving Little Havana and Republican Party miscreants who make vast economic and political gains by punishing and terrifying totally innocent Cuban families on the island.

      Now Cubans young & old on the island ubiquitously use their Smart Phones and Tablets to search the Internet. Thus, they  confirm what they already knew about things such as...the Embargo, the Blockade, and Terrorism. FOR EXAMPLE, Cubans on the island can now go on the Internet to see images/photos such as the four PHOTOS below that show Cubans on the island who have been victims of vicious Terrorism carried out BY Cubans trained and PAID BY the U. S. GOVERNMENT.

    Yes, Cubans on the island cry too when U. S. Terrorism inflicts pain on them or their loved ones. The four photos above are testaments to real and true history that Americans are programmed to ignore, and that is WRONG!!

    Today -- January 11, 2021 -- the Pompeo-Trump administration in the White House made a last-ditch effort to commit more Terrorism against Cubans on the island even as Cubans on the island are also struggling against the COVID-19 Pandemic!!!

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Cuba Has a COVID Setback

 As It Battles Pandemic & Little Havana!!!

       Cuba this past weekend used the above January 9-2021's statistics to explain to the Cuban people via television newscasts why it was posting a new curfew and virtually locking down the capital city of Havana. The key "365" number was the key, denoting the positive new COVID-19 cases within a 24-hour period.

     Cubans have depended on the brilliance of Dr. Francisco Duran to advise them during the Pandemic and tell them what to do to survive it.

      Appearing daily on state television, Dr. Francisco Duran on Jan. 9-2021 cogently explained why he was advising the new curfew restrictions such as closing cinemas, bars, and other popular spots in Havana: "Legal measures will be taken because we cannot jettison the sacrifice of a whole country, a whole people."

     The article depicted above was written this past weekend by Nelson Acosta, one of the great journalists at the London-based Reuters bureau in Cuba. No U. S. source comes close to the Reuters News Agency when it comes to covering Cuban events in a fair, unbiased and professional manner.

     The people in a small island that are fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic should not have to also have to try to fight back the cruel and bald-FACED insanity of the unending EMBARGO from a neighboring nation that happens to be the richest and strongest country in the world. When over 300 million Americans continue to allow that to happen decade-AFTER-decade, images like the famous one shown above by the great Brazilian Carlos LaTuff will continue to spread an egregious image of America and Democracy. 

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Freedom Caravan Reached Havana

On January 8th, 1959!!

      These Cubans today -- January 8th, 2021 -- are shown standing on a street as the island nation celebrates a reenactment of the day, January 8th, 1959, when the Freedom Caravan reached the capital city of Havana. The cars and trucks, led by Fidel Castro and Celia Sanchez, had started on January 1st, 1959 from the southeastern of the island in Santiago de Cuba on their quest to reach Havana on the northwestern edge of the island. The historic journey took eight days before Fidel & Celia reached Havana to take over the new Revolutionary government after the leaders of the defeated U.S.-backed & Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship had fled Havana in the wee hours of January 1-1959 when news reached Havana that a Che Guevara-led rebel army had taken the key city of Santa Clara and was racing "hellbent toward Havana."

     On January 1st, 1959 Fidel Castro and Celia Sanchez had captured Santiago de Cuba, the former capital and still its second largest city, and they were finalizing plans to hold it before they began their long 500+-mile drive to Havana. Fidel & Celia stopped in towns and cities along the way to greet supporters. The photo above shows one of those stops as Fidel waves to the crowd and a very tired Celia seemed anxious to get back in the car and continue on to Havana.

      On their Freedom Caravan ride from Santiago-to-Havana on Jan. 1-8, 1959 Fidel & Celia stopped off at the home of Jose Antonio Echeverria's mother. Celia personally told Jose's mother that "we rebels will always avenge Jose's murder. Jose helped us start the revolution and his death has inspired us all the way." Jose had been the Student Leader at the University of Havana who led anti-Batista protests. Then Jose and other student leaders were brutally murdered and, as shown above, Jose's body was left on the street as a warning to other dissidents not to resist the brutal dictatorship.

     In Revolutionary Cuba today there is an airport and many other memorials named for Jose Antonio Echeverria. In the photo shown above on January 7th, 2021, you can see Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who was born after the revolutionary triumph, discussing a major topic with students at the Jose Antonio Echeverria Technological Center at the University of Havana. They were discussing the importance today of technology during the COVID-19 pandemic at hospitals and isolation centers.

     Right before Fidel's & Celia's portion of the Liberty Caravan reached Havana on January 8-1959, the back of a big truck carrying Tete Puebla, Eloisa Ballester, Lilia Rielo and other crucial female Guerrilla Fighters had already arrived in Havana. That is Tete on the left looking a bit gloom. Later she would say: "The crowds that greeted us on the way to Havana were euphoric but we girls, like the ones on the truck, were a little sad. That was because we had hoped that Batista and his cronies, the thieves and baby-killers, would have chosen to stay in Havana to fight us, not to run to Miami." The photo above, as you can see, is courtesy of Tete Puebla.

     Now 80-years-old, General Tete Puebla is now a member of the Cuban Parliament. She was born on Dec. 9-1940 in Yara, a Cuban town in the foothills of the Sierra Maestra Mountains.

     The book "MARIANAS IN COMBAT: Tete Puebla & the Mariana Grajales Women's Platoon in Cuba's Revolutionary War" reveals why Tete Puebla became a legendary anti-Batista front-line Guerrilla Fighter starting at 15-years-old. At age 14 in Yara she watched as 300 of Batista's soldiers -- the famed and dreaded MASFERRER TIGERS -- came to Yara and locked some villagers in a shed, including one of Tete's relatives, and burned the shed as a warning as citizens were forced to watch. The Cuban narratives in the United States, of course, will never tell the American people about the MASFERRER TIGERS or about their nemesis Tete Puebla, the famed Guerrilla Fighter.

     This photo shows the Masferrer Brothers flanking Rafael Diaz-Balart, a Batista Minister, at a Batista rally in 1958.

     The leader of the Masferrer Tigers that brutally supported the Batista dictatorship was Rolando Masferrer. He fled to Miami in January of 1959 as Tete Puebla and other highly motivated Cuban Revolutionary rebels raced to capture Havana. As Wikipedia and other sources reveal, in the U. S. Rolando Masferrer was engaged in violent episodes such as trying to assassinate Fidel Castro, trying to recapture Cuba, trying to invade Haiti to use it as a jumping point to attack Cuba, etc...until he himself was killed in Miami by a car-bomb on October 31, 1975.

     This historic photo shows five of the women guerrilla fighters who fought so bravely during the Cuban Revolution. Third from the left is the incomparable fighter, recruiter, and leader Celia Sanchez. Celia is shown giving instructions to Tete Puebla, Eloisa Ballester, and Lilia Rielo about an upcoming battle.

     This photo in Revolutionary Cuba shows Tete Puebla, now a General and a Parliamentarian at age 80 in 2021, at her desk still protecting the Revolution that she helped to win. Above Tete is one of Tete's favorite photos of CELIA SANCHEZ. Tete said, "Celia will forever remain the greatest woman on this planet who has ever lived when it comes to fighting and making decisions that ended up giving innocent people the freedom to survive a truly brutal dictatorship." Tete still lives but Celia died of cancer at age 59 on January 11, 1980.

      This photo taken by Lee Lockwood reveals that Celia Sanchez, from 1953 until she died of cancer in 1980, was the prime decision-maker in Cuba with, of course, Fidel Castro's 100% approval and support. In fact, some key insiders in Cuba claim that even after Celia died she remained the key decision-maker in Cuba because, until he died at age 90 in 2016, Fidel ruled Cuba only as he precisely believed Celia wanted him to rule it. In the Lee Lockwood photo above, that is Celia writing down a decision as Fidel leisurely sits in his rocking chair waiting for her to finish. And whatever decision Celia was writing down, she knew Fidel would make sure it would become a law in Revolutionary Cuba. {And by the way, the photo above was taken on the Isle of Pines in 1965. From July-1953 till May-1955 Fidel was in a BATISTA PRISON CELL on the Isle of Pines. One of Celia's decisions in Revolutionary Cuba was to change the name of the Isle of Pines to its current name, which is Isle of Youth.

     The red image on the map above shows the Isle of Youth, which is the rather island that was known as the Isle of Pines when the Batista dictatorship had Fidel Castro in prison there from July of 1953 till May of 1955.

       Of course, after he exited his prison cell on the Isle of Pines in May-1955 and then met Che Guevara in Mexico, Fidel Castro famously made his way from Mexico to the Sierra Maestra where he joined the Revolutionary War that was being waged by two extraordinary female recruiters and guerrilla fighters named Hayley Santamaria and Celia Sanchez.

       Americans are not supposed to know it, but the Cuban Revolution would not have been won except for the brilliance of Celia Sanchez and Haydee Santamaria. Not only were they leaders of key early Guerrilla Fighter units but in the crucial early days of the Revolution Celia and Haydee were the vital recruiters of rebels, money, and supplies. That includes once when Celia sent Haydee to Miami to recruit a bundle of U. S. dollars that was important to help finance the Revolution. The photo above was taken in 1958 at a time when Celia, Fidel, and Haydee were beginning to capture and hold Batista towns and cities west of the Sierra Maestra foothills...leading to the eventual capture of Havana on January 1, 1959.

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Cuba Awaits Trump's Exit

 62nd Year of Revolutionary Cuba!!

        On January 1st, 2021, Cubans on the island celebrated the 62nd Year since their historic victory over the U.S.-backed/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship.

    For the past four years U. S. Secretary of State Mike Romney and President Donald Trump have powerfully tried to starve, deprive, and make miserable the 11.2 million Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary government. After yesterday's bloody riots in the U. S. Congress blamed largely on Trump, and involving gunshots that killed one innocent woman, the lame-duck Trump administration  itself may be overthrown even as it has just a few days remaining in its control of the seriously troubled Republican White House in Washington that will be replaced the Democratic Biden administration on January 20th. Yet incredibly, Romney & Trump apparently are about to try one more attempt to overthrow the extremely pugnacious Revolutionary rule of the nearby island. Despite the fact they will be leaving the White House in less than two weeks, Trump & Romney reportedly are planning to add Cuba to its extremely punitive Sponsors of Terrorism list along with its unending string of punitive anti-Cuban sanctions.

    Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez routinely denounces each action by U. S. Republicans and Little Havana Cubans in Miami, as in the Tweet listed below:

     Meanwhile, during these last few days of the Trump administration, in Vancouver there are daily demonstrations by Canadians protesting the cruel U. S. Blockade against Cuban families. A few of the daily photos this week in Vancouver reveal the abiding love Canadians have for the Cuban Revolution that is celebrating the 62nd Anniversary of its Jan. 1-1959 victory over the U.S.-backed/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship:

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