Cuba Survived April Fool's Day 2022

 

     The arrival of April Fools Day in the tumultuous year of 2022 actually affirms one historic and topical fact: The Cuban Revolution for the 62nd Consecutive Year still ruled Cuba.

        While much of the world, especially the Imperial World that controlled Cuba from 1492 till 1959, remains its enemy, Cuba still has some international support from the portions of the world that champions the victories of Davids against Goliaths.

     On this first weekend of April-2022, Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel was in the central province of Camaguey. To his live audience and before radio microphones & television cameras his exact words may have surprised many observers: "We have to work with spirituality, with feelings, because otherwise we may have a future flourishing with Yankee dollars and tourism and companies but one that would spawn valueless individuals who are mere pawns of greedy, criminal United States businesses just as the Batista-Mafia thugs that spawned our revolution in 1952. Back then from 1952 till 1959 we had an island of supposed puppies that the imperialists starved, brutalized, killed, and exploited whenever such whims intervened with their massive larcenies that robbed every aspect of the island's existence, including its dignity. Since 1959, from Miami and Washington, the remnants of those forces spend every minute of every day trying mightily to regain that dastardly dominance of our Cuba. The Bay of Pigs attack in 1961, the multiple terrorism attacks, the assassinations, and such crimes as the economic blockade since 1962 has not combined to recapture Cuba, to the total surprise of the world. But in recent months Miami and Washington sources believe the pandemic, the tightening of the blockade by both Trump and Biden, the Russia-Ukraine War that still rages, and the melding of all of the well-funded Miami and Washington projects will finally destroy our historic revolution this spring or at least by this summer. We must not allow that to happen, and if we do allow it to happen it will be a dire insult to the rebels who decided in 1952 that Batista, the Mafia, and the United States had no right to plunder this sovereign island to suit their greedy whims."

     When he became President of Cuba in 2018, Diaz-Canel was well known to Cubans from his days as the island's Education Minister. He believes he still has the popular support of most of Cuba's 13 million people and, as shown above, he loves to stroll with them on even remote regions of the island to hear them voice {and point out to him} what is "most on your minds." He was born after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1 of 1959 but Diaz-Canel is a fierce revolutionary. In Camaguey this week he stressed, "We must continue to do what we have done for the past six decades, which is to resist the extreme power, wealth, and greed of the Miami and Washington  forces. But we must admit and address our own economic mistakes and permit the people to have the liberty and means to create our own products, especially our food as well as other things we have always purchased from abroad...eggs and pork from Brazil, powered milk from New Zealand, fruits from Virginia, and so forth. As the leader of Cuba, if I do not make it so that the talented young people of Cuba can stay here and do productive things, then replace me with someone who will allow the people to be such entrepreneurs. Buying a bulk of our food from abroad is something that must be replaced by producing it on this lush and fertile land...even as the U. S. blockade tries so powerfully to starve us. The U. S. blockade tried to take advantage of the pandemic to kill us off with the deadly virus but our great doctors and scientists have defeated it even as we keep our guards up. We must replicate such ingenuity in the food and manufacturing sectors. Demand that we do it."

     For sure, the tightening of the ageless and cruel U. S. embargo/blockade of the island by both the Trump & Biden presidencies in Washington attempted to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to further destroy Cuba's economy.

      But at the start of April in 2022, as shown above, Cuba has used its own successful vaccines to stem the deadly virus. In recent days, after registering over 8,500 deaths from COVID-19, now it is common for Cuba to report "no deaths" each day from COVID-19 -- truly an astounding achievement considering the extreme power and cruelty of the ongoing and expanded U. S. embargo.

     The U. S. media gloats whenever it headlines such revolutionary problems as Cuba failing to provide enough "milk" for all of the island's children, as promised by the Revolution starting in January of 1959. Of course, the U. S. media never blames the U.S.-Miami Embargo/blockade for harming generations of Cuban children on the island, and such Counter Revolutionary propaganda is ubiquitously and conveniently shoved now the throats of Americans everyday of every week.

     But of course, prior to the Revolution neither Batista, the Mafia, nor the United States worried about Cuban children like the ones shown above not having things such as...milk, education, healthcare, etc.!! A vast array of historic black-and-white photos like the one shown above FROM Batista's Cuba are supposed to be ignored by U. S. voters and taxpayers who are supposed to support and lavishly fund such things as...the Embargo. 

    Through it all, Cuba's President Diaz-Canel begins the month of April-2022 by encouraging and even funding enterprises designed to help Cuban entrepreneurs produce more food and other products, trying to correct mistakes the revolution itself has made. As indicated by the photos and articles above, he said, "We must incentivize Cuban entrepreneurs to make profits by producing food and other products that help everyday Cubans. That is what we must do to survive in the face of history's longest and cruelest blockade. We start April of 2022 still buying powered milk from faraway New Zealand to satisfy the dictates of the Miami-U. S. blockade. But we need to produce the milk and such things on the island, and we are beginning to do that."

    For sure -- on, above, and below all the surfaces -- Little Havana in Miami is vastly richer and many times more powerful than Havana in Cuba. Yet, the mystery and intrigue lingers as to when...or if...the USA-Cuba conundrum will permit two neighboring Cities -- Havana-Cuba and Miami-USA -- to coexist in peace, even as the important trading partners that they could and should surely be. A Prediction: It won't happen...not in the next six decades or so...simply because a few rich and politically powerful folks in Miami don't want it to happen.

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Bashing Cuba and Cashing In

From Batista to TODAY!!

     The photo above shows a well-known and very notable U. S. businessman having a cozy chat with Cuba's Mafia-riddled Fulgencio Batista dictatorship. Americans to this day are not supposed to remember that very ubiquitous relationship in which rich Americans were, shall we say, lovingly friendly to the island's brutal and thieving regime that preceded the triumph of the world-shocking Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959. Starting with January of 1959 Little Havana evolved in nearby Miami and, since then, has increasingly become richer-and-richer and more-and-more POLITICALLY POWERFUL. All the while, in the past 6+ decades, all that wealth and all that power in Miami and Washington has dictated poverty and deprivation for generations of Blockaded Cubans on the island via an incredible array of Little Havana-friendly U. S. laws. Meanwhile, in the U. S. media every day of every week since 1959 Americans have been told how swell Batista's Cuba was and how terrible Revolutionary Cuba has been since the U. S. businesses, the Batistianos, and the Mafioso were ousted.

         Today -- on March 30, 2022 -- this is one of the prime examples of Cuban-American journalists -- in this case Ethan Bauer of the Deseret News -- taking advantage of the well-plowed and well-cultivated media field in the U. S. to bash Cuba while, of course, implying how fantastic their lavish lives in the the United States are. Of course, there are no mentions about the fact Cuba for the past 60 years has been the only small nation in history to have been forced to face the longest and cruelest Embargo/Blockade ever imposed on any small nation by any powerful nation. Such history and topicality, of course, shouldn't be mentioned in the U. S. because it just wouldn't compute with the narrative that powers and fuels the endless...and endlessly lucrative...Cuban Cottage Industry in the United States.

    Today -- on March 30-2022 -- the two paragraphs above are the way that Ethan Bauer in the Deseret News began his propaganda spiel against Cuba. In his first sentence about his visit to Havana he tells us about the roads in Havana "pricked with potholes and bumps and are prone to flooding..." I have been to Havana and that is surely not the first thing I noticed in the Cuban capital, but, of course, it is not my job or prerogative to promote Little Havana's self-serving view of Havana.

    In the above two paragraphs today by Ethan Bauer of the Deseret News we are told: "In Miami, when you come from a Cuban family {or even a half-Cuban family, like me} you're surrounded at all time by Cuban culture -- or, at least, what Cuban culture once was. Yet Cuba itself remains mysterious." Yes, while Miami/Little Havana is rich and marvelous, Havana is a pot-marked hellhole!!!!!!!!!! In other words, let's keep making Miami/Little Havana richer-and-richer while making sure Havana keeps getting poorer-and-power...with more-and-more POT-HOLES!!!

      Of course, what Ethan Bauer in the Deseret News won't mention is the fact that this old car in Cuba, while driving over those Havana pot-holes, is forced to navigate in an island nation that is forced to face "the largest/longest genocidal blockade in history." And, Ethan, you should at least admit that the uniquely cruel blockade is prone to probably and purposely create a lot of pot-holes...and other problems...in Havana.

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Cuba Tensions Reach New Heights

 AS DEMOCRACY PEEKS FROM AROUND THE CORNER!!

    Virtually every day since January 1st of 1959 there have been dire predictions that Cubans in Florida, with the omnipotent help of the United States, would regain control of Cuba from Cuba's upstart revolutionary government. But, perhaps, on March 28th-2022 -- as Tension Rises In Cuba -- many insiders in both Florida and Cuba believe that the demise of Revolutionary Cuba is imminent, perhaps as soon as April of 2022.

    The Latino Affairs Reporter for the Tampa Bay Times is Juan Carlos Chavez. Tampa is second only to Miami when it comes to the ultra-powerful Cubans in Florida.

     Above is the start of the prime article penned by Juan Carlos Chavez in the Tampa Bay Times today -- on March 28th-2022. It explains that Guillermo Farinas, the long-time dissident MOST FAMED for being the most passionate Cuban obsessed with overthrowing Revolutionary Cuba's government, seems poised to finally get his wish. The first three paragraphs shown above pinpoint the avalanche of tensions that supposedly are about to accomplish that fervent and long-standing goal. Keep reading below:

     On his latest visit to Florida, this time to Tampa, Guillermo Farinas seems to be explaining that the time is ripe for a new democracy in Cuba...although, of course, there are a lot of long-suffering embargoed-blockaded Cubans on the island who would like to know exactly when Cuba has ever had Democracy, certainly not when the Mafia and the United States profited so massively during the pre-revolutionary years when they supported the brutal Batista dictatorship in Cuba.

    For sure, Guillermo Farinas has suffered mightily for his dissidence in Cuba. Now 60-years-old, as indicated by his array of international prizes and honors, he continues to  garner massive support off the island.

    As you can note from Senator Ted Cruz's congressional page above, the most powerful Cuban-Americans have long wildly supported Guillermo Farinas's efforts to dethrone Revolutionary Cuba; and if you are supported wildly by unchallenged U. S. Senators like Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Bob Menendez, the wonder is...why has Guillermo Farinas not dethroned Revolutionary Cuba years ago!!!????

    All Cuban dissidents since 1959 have had the massive support of all key Republican politicians in the USA's two-party political system. But, as shown above, Guillermo Farinas has also had the massive support of the top Democratic leaders, even President Obama, who has been the only United States President in history who has had the courage to defy the ultra-powerful and ultra-rich Counter Revolutionary Cuban-Americans, especially the normally unchallenged Cuban-Americans that control the political power in the Cuban-led cities of Miami, Tampa, and Newark.

      Today on March 28th-2022 this article in the Tampa Bay Times indicates that Guillermo Farinas is closer than he has ever been to overthrowing Revolutionary Cuba, perhaps as early as APRIL OF 2022!!!! If you deny that, I suggest you re-read today's first three paragraphs shown above from the March 28th-2022 Tampa Bay Times.

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Troops {Crabs} March On Cuban Soil

 The Last Week of March-2022

     Since the day in 1492 that the Spanish explorer Columbus discovered Cuba, the powerful imperial nations in the world -- especially Spain, England, France, and the United States -- have been marching unrelentingly to capture the Caribbean's largest island, which Columbus famously noted in his diary as "The most BEAUTIFUL LAND THESE EYES have ever seen." In this last week of March in 2022, as reported above by Reuters, millions of crabs from the sea are marching on Cuban land at the famed Bay of Pigs on their migration to lay eggs in the soft Bay of Pigs Cuban sand.

     Of course, the fame of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba derives from the march of U.S./Miami soldiers, supported by U. S. air and naval power, that took place in mid-April of 1961. It was supposed to be a 3-day defeat of Revolutionary Cuba but ended up being a 3-day victory for Revolutionary Cuba.

     Today, in late March of 2022, this is a photo of the Bay of Pigs. Now it is very peaceful and it accepts the breeding march of the crabs. It also now is well known as one of the favorite snorkeling  spots in the Western Hemisphere. Of course, since failing to regain control of Cuba with the April-1961 air-land-&-sea Bay of Pigs attack, the U. S. and Miami have not failed to curtail their relentless efforts to starve and overwhelm Revolutionary Cuba with vicious attacks that include the longest and cruelest Embargo-Blockade {from 1962 till today} ever imposed by any powerful nation against any much-smaller nation.

    Surviving the United States EMBARGO has been, for over six decades, even more astounding than winning the Revolutionary War in 1959 or winning the Bay of Pigs battle in 1961.

     In the USA's two-party political system, since the 1950s the Republican presidents have all been totally aligned with Little Havana in trying to destroy Revolutionary Cuba, with the Republican President Donald Trump from 2016 to 2020 being the most vicious, even more than the three 4-year terms of the two totally Little Havana-dictated Bush Presidents. So when Election 2020 elected the Democrat Joe Biden as President, many Cubans and Americans believed that Trump's genocide against Cuban families would at least be lessened somewhat. But Biden has followed Trump's devious efforts designed to starve Cuba into submission while, of course, adding substantially to the economic power of the already rich and politically powerful Little Havana Cubans who are deemed the dictators of Florida's important 29 Electoral Votes that can predicate the outcome of Presidential Elections. So, the money-crazed 2020 Election, to the surprise of some, didn't ease the incredible torment the Superpower United States, on behalf of Miami, has created for Cuban families for six decades...and counting.

       Yet, incredibly, there have always been, since 1959, generations of Cubans in Cuba to resist the lures, threats, deprivations, and turmoil they have been subjected to all their lives by Little Havana as well as the omnipotence of the U. S. Congress and the U. S. White House. And during the ongoing Trump/Biden era in Washington, the well-funded efforts to starve Cuba by enriching Little Havana have reached crescendos not even seen when the Bush dynasty was enriching and empowering Miami's request to recapture Havana. With almost three years left in the Biden presidency, even the "proud" Cubans depicted above seem resigned to the inevitable reality they have tried so hard to prolong for all of their lives.

     The notable photojournalist Roberto Suarez took this photo of the Bay of Havana at dusk today.

       But the specter of the Bay of Pigs in 1961 has colored the conflicts between Miami and Havana. Those conflicts, unfortunately, will never cease till the Little Havana Cubans in Miami regain control of Havana...which may finally happen in 2022.

     And that, of course, evokes the unforgettable specters of what Havana was like in the 1950s prior to the startling victory of the Cuban Revolution in 1959.

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