Cubans Hopeful of Survival

 Despite Blockade & COVID on Sept. 15-2021!!

    Behind the COVID mask this is Lisbet Penin Matos. She is still in her 20s and she is a very talented and popular television news anchor. Lisbet believes Cuba will survive both the U. S. Blockade and the COVID-19 pandemic. Like most well-educated and media savvy young Cubans, Lisbet uses Social Media platforms to repeat, for example, her favorite John Lennon words: "You may say I'm a dreamer; but I am not the only one."

      Today -- on September 15, 2021 -- above are the Top Cuban Headlines. The London-based The Guardian headline reflects a report on an actual opinion by the Cuban government regarding the "Havana Syndrome" that Cuba considers yet another excuse for the U. S. to continue to expand the Embargo/Blockade of the island. The other two Cuban Headlines above are from the mainstream United States media today-- namely the New York Times and the Miami Herald -- and that means it is anti-Cuban propaganda, which is what the American people are spoon-fed on a daily basis.

      The New York Times anti-Cuban article today used this Ramon Espinosa/Associated Press photo to illustrate its mocking of Cuba for being the only nation to begin a COVID-19 program that vaccinates all of its children aged 2 to 18.

      This image from Cuban television today -- Sept. 15th, 2021 -- shows Doctor Francisco Duran updating Cubans on the still-alarming COVID-19 statistics. They reveal 74 more deaths, fallecidos, in the past 24 hours as well as 7437 new positive cases on the island.

       This 7-year-old Cuban girl has been vaccinated with the island's home-grown Soberana vaccine and, like other school children, she has begun the new school term with virtual lessons via television. But the current plan calls for in-class schooling to resume next month, by mid-October.

     Also next month Cuba plans to open more of its international airports to accommodate more much-needed tourism. The Madrid-based Iberostar Hotel & Resorts chain is now again promoting its eighteen 4-Star and 5-Star hotels and resorts in Cuba, emphasizing the island's renowned beaches such as Varadero that has been listed as the Most Beautiful Beach in the World. In fact, in 2021 TripAdvisor lists Santa Maria, which is near Varadero, as The Second Most Beautiful Beach in the World. 

      Above are photos by Iberostar Hotels & Resorts that it is using to promote Cuban tourism in September-October of 2021. Except...uh...for the U. S. Embargo/Blockade of the island, would Cuba tourism slice deeply into Florida's and all of the Caribbean's tourism dollars??? Just ASKING!!!

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COVID Continues to Ravage Cuba

 Sept. 14th-2021 Numbers Discouraging!!

 The Cuban government released the above COVID-19 statistics today -- September 14th, 2021. The deaths {fallecidos} in the past 24 hours from the virus are 76 and the total deaths now are 6499. In the western provinces, Havana has 612 new cases but Pinar del Rio has a staggering 1973 new cases while to the east Sancti Spiritus has an alarming 989 new cases, with overall a total of 7516 new cases in the past 24 hours.

    In other words, the 11 million people on the Caribbean's largest island nation -- Cuba -- appear to be losing their two genocidal battles against the combined terrors of the U. S. Blockade and COVID-19. History will now likely have to conclude that, when David faces two Goliaths at the same time, the inevitable loss finally became predictable.

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Cuba Struggles, but Plans to Survive

Blockade, Covid, Tourism Converge!!

    Today -- on Monday, Sept. 13-2021 -- Dr. Francisco Duran Garcia reported that in the past 24 hours there have been 74 more Covid deaths in Cuba as the total has now zoomed beyond 6,000.

      The eastern and central provinces of the island have been leading the Covid-19 cases but, as shown today, the western provinces now are also reporting hundreds of new cases daily too.

    Cuba has begun an ambitious campaign to vaccinate its entire 11 million citizens with its own homegrown vaccines. This includes vaccinating children ages 2 to 18.

    While blaming the U. S. Embargo for massively hampering the island's fight against the  Covid-19 Pandemic, Cuba has begun the new school term with in-home virtual television classes. And by mid-October the island plans to open more of its airports to international tourists.

     With its strategic location right below Florida, Cuba is not only the Caribbean's largest island nation but, in the views of many, also its most beautiful island and millions of tourists believe that Cuba has far more beautiful beaches than Florida -- especially Varadero, which international polls have rated as the most BEAUTIFUL beach in the whole world.

     In fact, in 2021 TripAdvisor now rates Cayo Santa Maria on Cuba's north-central coast as the Second Most Beautiful Beach in the World. In other words, none of the popular beaches in the vicinity of Cuba compare to Cuba's beaches and, therefore, except for the U.S. Embargo/blockade of the island, Cuba in 2021 would be a tourist mecca...just as it was back in the 1950s when the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship ruled the island.

    Of course, in 2021 it doesn't matter what 340 million Americans, including 2+ million Cuban-Americans, say about the U. S. Embargo-Blockade of Cuba. Only the ten Cuban-Americans listed above are allowed to dictate America's laws regarding Cuba. And it so happens, I believe, that their political status as extreme Cuban Counter Revolutionaries account for their being members of the 535-member United States Congress.

     If you study the two graphics above -- the magnet and the quotations -- you will understand, I believe, that from its early days as a Democracy that the United States of America has never had decent nor democratic thoughts about Cuba. In 1817 Thomas Jefferson said: "If we seize Cuba we will be masters of the Caribbean." In 1823 Thomas Jefferson, America's most renowned Founding Father, said: "I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could be made to our system of states." Surely the uniquely astute Thomas Jefferson judged Cuba's significance and importance correctly. And that is why, from at least 1817 till September of 2021 that the United States has been greedily trying to "seize Cuba."

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Cuba U. S. Headlines Sept12-2021

 Propaganda, Mostly, As Usual!!

     Of course, today and every day the Miami Herald, as shown above, promotes extreme propaganda designed to please extreme Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Little Havana. But today CNN, interestingly, has some informative headlines about the Caribbean's largest, most beautiful, and most interesting island nation. But the headline at the bottom above is the most important: "CUBA BEGINS VACCINATING CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS TWO FOR COVID-19." No other nation in the world is vaccinating children as young as two, so at least that CNN headline actually informs Americans about Cuba, not just promotes the usual Little Havana propaganda that aims to starve Cubans on the island while enriching Cubans in Miami!!!

   This September 12-2021 photo by noted photographer Roberto Suarez actually is informative about what is happening in Cuba. It shows children being vaccinated against Covid-19 in Marianao, Cuba. The propaganda-obsessed U. S. media's addiction to Little Havana's lucrative six-decade-old promotions about Cuba from Miami say much more about the USA than it says about Cuba.

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Does Cuba Allow COMPLAINTS?

 Yes, if Not Funded by Foreign Entities!!

   The Spanish word "periodismo" pertains to journalism and yesterday radio & television journalists in Cuba headlined a quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Colombian who is considered by many to be Latin America's all-time greatest writer and author. He also taught journalism at the University of Havana and, for half century, was Fidel Castro's dearest friend but verily hated dictators such as Trujillo, Somoso, Pinochet, etc. The journalist who posted the graphic depicted above is Katia Siberia, who works for Radio Sancti Spiritus and Alma Mater Magazine, two important outlets that are very influential in Cuba that often criticize the government but are allowed to do so because it is known they are not funded by tax dollars from the United States. Today -- Sept. 9, 2021 -- Katia's highly read report on the island is entitled: "CIEGO de AVILA en El Alma." Other major Cuban state journalists reported on what Katia's article was about, which claims that "Cuba does not count their Covid deaths according to the criteria of the WHO and PAHO." The well-researched article dominated news on state-owned news media in Cuba today.

    The three photos above were in a major BBC article written by the BBC's Will Grant to update the July 11-2021 government protests in Cuba. The article was entitled: "CUBANS REMAIN DEFIANT" and it is anti-Cuban news but it is readily accepted by Cubans because they respect the BBC and Will Grant. But most of Cuba's 11.2 million people believe that both the U. S. mainstream media and other well-funded sources -- Radio-TV Marti, Ciber Cuba News, Babalu, etc., etc., etc., exist only to saturate Americans with anti-Cuban propaganda.

    Above are typical Top Stories for Americans regarding Cuba. In other words, biased anti-Cuba propaganda must be sifted out of such reporting if one is hoping to digest any real news.

   Cubans on the island, not just in the U. S., have opinions to. They love and believe their prime doctor, Francisco Duran Garcia. Today he sadly reported 89 more deaths from COVID-19, raising the overall total to a staggering 6,056 as of September 9, 2021.

      Cuba is now the only country to be vaccinating children aged 2 to 18 with Covid vaccine doses.

     Because of the strong uptick of COVID-19 cases that includes children, Cuba is merely hoping to resume in-class schooling next month, by mid-October. But now the children are being schooled virtually only via television. The schedule listed above provides the details for TV classes.

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Who Are Liars Regarding Cuba?

 Cubans Or Cuban-Americans??

Or the Cuban or American Media??

     This photo from Havana today...a Cuban mother and her child...reveals that on September 8th, 2021 that U.S.-Cuban Relations are at a crossroads. Struggling mightily with the tightened Biden-Trump Blockade of the island during a deadly upsurge of COVID-19 deaths, Cuba this week has begun vaccinating children from ages 2-to-18 in the hopes that the island will be able to resume in-school classes for its children in October. On the island most Cubans, like this mother, believe their Revolutionary government tells them the truth about the Pandemic and the Blockade; in the U. S. the media as well as Counter Revolutionary forces in Miami, Newark, and Washington convince the American people that there is no Embargo-Blockade and that the Cubans in Miami, Newark, and in Washington {Congress & White House} are actually trying real hard to love and HELP the Cubans on the island!!! SOMEBODY, of course, is lying and the liars, I believe, are killing people.

    This photo from Havana today shows children being prepared to get their COVID-19 Soberana Vaccine doses. Their young mothers are discussing their trust in the government, which is practically universal on the island despite what Americans are routinely told. In fact, these two well-educated and Social Media savvy mothers will tell you what most Cubans on the island will tell you, which is that "...the vast amount of U. S. tax dollars that saturate the island enrich and create dissidents to undermine Cuba at the behest of rich and politically powerful Miami-Newark Cubans in Washington." Of course, in the U. S. these Cubans mothers in Cuba are dismissed as "brain-washed" by the world's "most brutal Government." Again, the question is...who is lying? It appears the Cubans in the U. S. who dictate such things as the Blockade...which in fact does exist...are the ones who gain financially and politically from the Blockade while Cuban mothers on the island like the two above are prime victims.

    This photo today from Havana -- Sept. 8, 2021 -- reveals why Cubans in Cuba believe that Cubans in the U. S. are the liars. Every day on Cuban television, the loved, respected, and renowned Dr. Francisco Duran Garcia minutely informs the Cuban people the COVID-19 numbers...stressing the deaths and new positive cases in the previous 24 hours. The staggering death totals have suddenly zoomed past 7,000, with almost half of them occurring in the past month of August, 2021. Dr. Duran is 75-years-old and is a brilliant physician and the Cuban people over the years have come to believe every word he says!!

     This photo taken today shows Dr. Duran on Cuban television today -- Sept. 8th, 2021 -- doing something he rarely, if ever, does -- which is to make a heartfelt political statement. But in the video above he today began with the words shown above: "Today we can say that in all the provinces of our country..." He then went on to calmly but emphatically say that, in all 14 of Cuba's provinces, essentially that the "...U. S. embargo/blockade is a prime factor in the deaths from COVID-19 that we are experiencing now on a daily basis. We worry most of all about that because it is something we are powerless, as a small country, to effectively deal with. But we will fight it as hard as we can, and I want the Cuban people, especially the mothers, to know that. We have skill and resources...and some help from dear friends not fully restricted by U. S. power...and our fight will never end." It is believed that never before has Dr. Duran publicly spoken unfavorable words about the United States. Yes, Cubans on the island believe every word Dr. Duran speaks to them daily.

    Meanwhile, in the United States the American people are daily told that there is no U. S. EMBARGO against Cuba and that, of course, that the United States would never take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to impose genocide against Cuban families on the island. But as I said earlier, someone is lying...and I don't believe that Dr. Francisco Duran in Cuba is a liar!!

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