Cuban Allies Embargoed Too

      Today -- on April 7th-2022 -- the top headlines related to Cuba reveal how the Biden presidency has followed the Trump presidency's massive assault against families on the island to appease a few rich and politically powerful Cubans in Miami and in the U. S. Congress. The articles today by Reuters, the Miami Herald, Bloomberg, and Al Jazeera all refer to the fact that the Rubio/Menendez-dictatation of the USA's Cuban policies during the Trump-to-Biden transition reveals that the USA's two-party political system -- Republican & Democratic -- now both cater only to extremist Little Havana Cubans in Miami who keep getting richer and more powerful in their unchallenged and lucrative efforts to regain control of Havana...as in the pre-Revolution days in the 1950s when the U.S., the Mafia, and Batista ruled and robbed the Caribbean's largest island nation.

     Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel repeatedly tells the Cuban people: "We must adjust to the fact that Biden will continue the lucrative genocide that the Trump regime began against Cuban families when he activated the most genocidal aspect of the legal but criminal Helms-Burton Act. Now in March and April of 2022 the unique economic and military power of the United States is using the pandemic, the blockade, the war in Ukraine, and other topical excuses to further starve Cuban families while also funding new methods to entice our young adults to defect to Miami. We, however, must continue to do all we can to make sure that  foreign-backed criminals like Batista and Lansky don't again rule Cuba. Our food production, our energy production, and other necessary aspects of daily life must be improved because now Washington's blockade against us is more-and-more aimed at any nation that seeks the freedom to have commercial ties to Cuba."

     President Diaz-Canel has said that Cuba, despite the blockade, must produce more of its food and energy needs or "else the Cubans who dictate Biden's Cuban policies will succeed with their efforts to starve and deprive our children as a means to weaken the sovereign resolves of Cuba's adults." The above headline about U. S. sanctions aimed at Cuba's allies such as "Venezuela" is an example of what Diaz-Canel is having to deal with.

    As the Reuters article updates, Cuba is "struggling to recover following the coronavirus pandemic and harsher U. S. sanctions imposed by the administration of former President Donald Trump."

   While the worldwide London-based Reuters News Agency is able to report some true facts about Cuba's U.S.-imposed problems, the U. S. media is obligated to primarily provide the American people only with Little Havana's one-sided opinions about what everyday Cubans on the island face from Miami's ultra-rich and ultra-unchallenged Cubans.

      A U. S. democracy that has an unending string of only self-serving extremist Counter Revolutionary Cuban-Americans elected to dictate politics in Florida and in Washington resembles the democracy that was in charge of the USA's support of the Batista dictatorship in Cuba in the 1950s. As indicated above, in the U. S. media both the right-wing and left-wing media powers reflect only Little Havana's views of the U.S.-Cuba conundrum. Most Cuban-Americans don't agree with what the U. S. is doing to everyday Cubans on the island but both the U. S. media and the U. S. democracy seem geared to only catering to self-serving extremists like Maria Salazar, who is the latest example to prove that only extremists like her get to be elected in Florida and to the U. S. Congress...and now get to be saturated in the Democratic Biden White House. And only such extremists need apply.

    In the USA's two-party political system, Americans should study the four photos directly above. In the past 5+ years only the Republican Marco Rubio or the Democrat Bob Menendez have been the ultra-powerful Chairmen of the Foreign Relations Committee in the United States Senate during both the Trump and Biden presidencies. Not coincidentally, Cuba is a Foreign Country and both Rubio and Menendez are very controversial but totally unchallenged and extremely self-serving Counter Revolutionary extremists who can readily dictate U. S. Cuban policies. Back in the 1950s the American people were told it was nice to have Batista & Luciano in charge of Cuba; and in 2022 Americans are told that it is nice to have Rubio & Menendez in charge of the USA's Cuban policies. Perhaps...it is time for both Miami and Washington to listen to second opinions that actually reflect democracy.

    For example, in his classic book HAVANA NOCTURNE T. J. English had second thoughts about "How the Mob Owned Cuba...and Then Lost It to the Revolution." Perhaps, in April of 2022, it is time for all democracy-loving Americans to have second thoughts about the USA's history regarding Cuba, especially about how lucrative the endless attempt to recapture the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful island is for a few very lucky and uncontested people.

    For sure, as created by America's Founding Fathers in 1776, DEMOCRACY was the best government ever devised by the minds & hearts of mankind. And it is still the best template!!

     Still pretending in April of 2022 that this was DEMOCRACY in Cuba in the 1950s might benefit a select few people in Florida and in Congress, but it continues to shame the experiment that America's Founding Fathers so painstakingly crafted in 1776.

     In the backyard of the superpower United States, the island nation of Cuba -- like all other small nations in the Caribbean and elsewhere around the whole world -- deserve not to be exploited and robbed by rich people in much-larger and much-stronger nations.

     Rich people in southern Florida making people in Cuba poorer-and-poorer may be politically and socially acceptable in the United States, but that doesn't make it right. 

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Miami Gloats While Cuba's Cubans Struggle

 

     Today -- on APRIL 5th-2022 -- the biggest article related to Cuba, not surprisingly, is penned by Nora Gamez Torres, the Counter Revolutionary zealot for the Miami Herald. Therefore, not surprisingly, there is much gloating about the poor Cubans on the island suffering mightily as the Biden administration, like the Trump presidency that preceded it, takes its Cuban orders only from the rich and politically powerful Cubans that dictate Florida's massive haul of Editorial Votes as well as other political & economic measures that are designed to enrich Cubans in Miami while, secondarily, impoverishing Cubans in Cuba to induce them to overthrow their government or leave the island for the wealth and glories of Miami and then assail Cuba from Little Havana/Miami while being propped up by the Florida and United States governments.

     This gloating headline by Nora Gamez Torres in the Miami Herald today -- April 5th, 2022 -- gloats about huge numbers of Cubans leaving for the United States.

     The first two paragraphs today by Nora Gamez Torres explains that "widespread shortages of basics and little prospects for economic recovery from the impact of the pandemic" are the reasons Cubans in Cuba are flocking to the U. S. Of course, while gloating, neither Gamez nor the Miami Herald will never mention that the Miami-beloved Embargo for the past six decades is the prime reason for the beloved "shortages" in Cuba that are driving Cubans to leave the island for the U. S.

     Gloating {above} over "desperate" situations in Cuba today is par-for-the course for Gamez and the Miami Herald on April 5th, 2022.

    Of course, Gamez and the Miami Herald will never mention that the Embargo-lovers in Miami seem to be still taking advantage of the Pandemic to complete the desperation of the Cubans on the island.

      Of course, the long Gamez article in the Miami Herald today -- April 5-2022 -- celebrated the many Cubans flocking to the U. S. but also today, as shown above, another Gamez article in the Miami Herald continued heralding Miami's prime Cuban policy, which is to make Miami Cubans richer and richer. You know, sue organizations such as the World Health Organization or anyone else while, secondarily, starving Cubans on the island to make them bend to Miami's dictates. HEY!! Let's sue the "WHO" because the World Health Organization didn't do enough to help us starve the Cubans on the island!!! Wonderful!!!

        Of course, as you can SEE from the headline above, Gamez and the Miami Herald are still gloating about the ongoing lawsuits against four of the world's top Cruise Lines who once stopped off at Cuban ports and, alas, helped Cuba's tourism!! WOW!!! If those Cruise Lines don't choose to settle out of court, the Miami lawyers, of course, expect to win either WAY!!

      And of course, the wonderful Helms Burton Act since 1996 and the wonderful EMBARGO since 1962 will remain legal United States policies. WHY? For two reasons, I believe: {1} To enrich politically powerful Cubans in Miami; and {2} to impoverish helpless Cubans in Cuba.

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Cubans Trying To Survive April-2022

 

    Today, on April 3rd-2022, this is a Cuban family riding on a Havana street...as reported by OnCuba News, an honest & respected independent news source on the island that also has an office in Miami that reports honestly about Little Havana. All their lives these parents and children have tried to survive amid the genocidal U. S. Embargo that generations of severely propagandized Americans have been obligated to ignore since 1962...apparently because it benefits a few key very rich and very powerful Cuban-Americans in Miami and in the United States Congress.

     Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel is currently engaged in a massive effort to revive the Cuban economy...at least enough for Cuban families to exist amid the U. S. Embargo/Blockade. Diaz-Balart's most fervent plan, as indicated by the headline above, is to create huge voluntary projects designed to produce products, especially food, on the island.

   Thus on this first weekend of April-2022, President Diaz-Canel is shown above conducting a volunteer work session.

     In this photo on Sunday -- April 3rd-2022 -- that is President Diaz-Canel, in the red hat, tilling the fertile Cuban soil himself as an example to the other eager volunteers.

     In recent months, day-after-day President Diaz-Canel has conducted sessions with meetings large and small across the island to seek Cuban volunteers that will begin to grow food and other products. He repeatedly said, "The revolution has failed to produce the food and other necessities we need, and the genocide the Blockade wants to impose on us includes blocking us from getting the machines and fertilizers we need. But we must, as volunteers, overcome that. To get the milk we need for our children, we even today buy powered milk from New Zealand and absorb such shipping costs from such faraway nations. The nearby United States won't sell it to us because the purpose of the Blockade since 1962 has been to starve us into submission. We must volunteer so we won't have to ever submit to such greed and brutality."

     The headline above on April 2-2022 shows that President Diaz-Canel has found enough money to renovate and greatly improve the production of the island's Powered Milk Factory in Camaguey, Cuba. He has convinced most Cubans that producing its own powdered milk is better than buying it from faraway New Zealand.

     Cuba is also offering incentives for Cuban farmers to raise more pigs...and chickens...and then profit from creating or expanding such businesses.

     Meanwhile, as Cuban families appear to be emerging from the pandemic thanks to Cuba's own COVID-19 vaccines, emerging from the forever U. S. EMBARGO is something everyday citizens on the island struggle with every day...as more-and-more Cubans try to reach and cross over the chaotic southern U. S. border along with millions of other would-be hopefuls entering the United States.

    As President Diaz-Canel -- Cuba's former popular Education Minister -- crisscrosses the island talking to Cubans in April of 2022, he is stressing this theme: "The expansion of the Blockade by both the Trump and Biden regimes took advantage of the pandemic to destroy us but we are surviving that and we will also survive their effort to starve us. The money from Washington to create and entice dissidents to harm us has increased dramatically since Trump and Biden ended the Obama efforts to treat us humanely. With Trump and Biden we have seen more-and-more young and talented Cubans be funded to dangerously leave Cuba or, why still here, to terrorize us, but almost all of the young Cubans I meet and talk to want to stay here and join the volunteer programs to help the homeland that we see springing up all over the island. We will continue to grow those programs every day from now on, and in that manner we have the resolve and the talent to combat the longest and cruelest blockade any small nation has ever encountered."

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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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