Miami Is UNHAPPY With POPE FRANCIS!!

       Back on Tuesday, July 12th, 2022, Pope Francis "UNDERLINED HIS LOVE FOR CUBA AND ITS PEOPLE." Today -- five days later -- the Miami Herald and the Leaders in Miami are still stewing and pouting that such a world leader would express compassion and love for Cubans in Cuba, especially without lavishly pointing out how fantastic, wonderful, and loving the rich Cubans in Miami are!! As shown by the YouTube clip below, these are are the 25 seconds that most angered the Miami Cubans regarding what Pope Francis said:

      As you listen to or read the kind words Pope Francis said this week about the Cuban people and Raul Castro, note how -- five days later -- the Miami Herald is still fuming about his words:

    Here are top Cuban headlines flashing around the U. S. and the world today -- July 16, 2022. As usual, there are non-propaganda headlines about the drastic "economic crisis" currently assaulting the Cubans in Cuba...largely fueled by Miami-Trump-Biden ratcheting up the six-decade-old Embargo-Blockade of the island nation that, unfortunately, is just south of...Miami. Today's huge Editorial in the Miami Herald is a typical joke that Americans are supposed to believe: "Pope Francis' comments on Cuba were callous, for what he said -- and didn't say." WOW!! The Pope is being chastised in Miami for both showing compassion for the poor people in Cuba and for not SALUTING the rich and wonderful Cubans in Miami!!

        Since 1959 -- the year the Cuban Revolution chased the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship off the island, mostly to Miami -- Miami has dictated most of the USA's Cuban rhetoric and policy, with the propagandized compliance of American taxpayers and voters. In other words, in July of 2022 Pope Francis has the courage and insight {and audacity} to understand what generations of Cubans in Cuba have been forced to endure since 1959. After all, Pope Francis is, himself, a Latin American. {He was born with the name Jorge Mario in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina}. He thus is fully acknowledgeable of Cuba's history, including Batista's Cuba and Revolutionary Cuba. Thus he is not glued only to Miami's self-serving interpretation of that history.

    In Buenos Aires, Havana, and Rome, Pope Francis met Fidel Castro. This photo was taken in Fidel's Havana home shortly before he died at age 90 in 2016.

    For sure, Raul Castro -- who is now 91-years-old -- has for many years been a friend of Pope Francis. This week when the Pope reminded the world of that friendship, Miami five days later is still going ballistic!!!

    As Pope Francis would know, a study of the above image reveals Miami's influence in Batista's Cuba in the 1950s after Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and Fulgencio Batista huddled in Meyer's Miami mansion and discussed the famous Meyer Lansky quote: "I have always wanted the Mob to own its country." And from 1952 till 1959, his wish came true!!!

  Unfortunately, both geographically and historically, the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful island has always been located due south of...Miami.

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US TV News/Cuba TV News

 

        This montage of photos of Cuban TV anchors was used to promote television news on multiple stations and networks on the island this week in mid-July of 2022. The revolutionary Cuban government has said, "The U. S. polls confirm that most Americans dislike and distrust their last two Presidents and most Americans also dislike and distrust their news media, especially giant newspapers like the Washington Post and New York Times as well as all the major television networks such as NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and Fox. By contrast, even foreign observers confirm that most Cubans strongly support their President Diaz-Canel and most Cubans strongly trust their news media, especially TV news."

    Indeed, in the U. S. major polls, including Gallup, reveal that, increasingly, "Americans Distrust the Mass Media." And, of course, since 1776 Americans have been told and most agree that Democracy depends on having a media that the citizens trust.

   Today -- July 15th, 2022 -- the Cuban people were shown this photo and video of President Diaz-Canel, as usual, spending time in the barrios and streets with everyday Cubans. Indeed, it appears that Diaz-Canel is a popular President just as he was a popular Education Minister prior to 2018. Moreover, indeed it appears that most of Cuba's 13 million people trust their mass media, especially the television networks.

    And, indeed, this image this week -- mid-July of 2022 -- is getting much attention, including on Social Media, of a TV journalist showing emotion as she interviews an everyday Cuban mother about her family coping with dire problems, "...the largest of which is the U. S. blockade that continues to try to starve us but also make us prone to dying of COVID...and even things like Dengue that we thought our scientists had eradicated long ago."

    And, indeed, in Cuba this week -- mid-July of 2022 -- a Cuban mother mentioned that her family was being direly facing calamities, including Dengue Fever, that she blames on the effects of the ageless "U. S. blockade of my island." The headline as shown above was about the surge of Dengue Fever that hit Cuba in both the 1990s and again in 2010, which many Cubans blamed on the U. S. Embargo and which many Cubans praised their scientists for leading the way in discovering vaccines to combat it, the way their scientists have recently apparently discovered vaccines that have combatted COVID-19, which earlier had killed about 5,800 Cubans but now any such deaths from it are rare.

     And, indeed, the Cuban media allows everyday Cubans to speak up about what ails them most, which is the Embargo, but also Cuba says it allows its media and government to be criticized "whenever they deem it necessary to do so, as long as the criticism is not funded by the United States, especially Miami Cubans."

    In that Milieu, as U. S. polls and Cuba claim that the U. S. media is not to be trusted, above are the top U.S.-Cuban Headlines today -- July 15th, 2022!! It seems that U. S. TV networks NBC & ABC -- both fierce anti-Trump propaganda machines -- today zero on President Biden allowing U. S. airlines to fly to Cuban cities that Trump had banned in the belief that such tactics would finally doom Cuba's Revolution. Also today the London-based Reuters News Agency reports that Russia has begun sending oil to Cuba in defiance of the U. S. blockade.

     Above NBC News today actually had an important story about the U. S. bucking Trump genocide against Cuba by at least allowing major U. S. airlines to fly into Cuban cities, not just Havana. But, while NBC once was extremely trustworthy, now it is deemed untrustful because of its extreme tilt to left-wing propaganda...and most Americans understand that.

   This important headline regarding Cuba is from a source -- London-based Reuters -- that is trusted when it reports news concerning Cuba. While Cuba refused to use its vote in the UN to support Russia's War in Ukraine, when it comes to the survival of Cuba's people, Cuba will import what it needs from nations that will trade with it in defiance of the U. S. embargo. Reuters has the guts to report that fact, and report that the basic fact that Cuba would prefer to trade with nearby U. S. ports than with FARAWAY NATIONS because of the drastic added cost of longaway shipments. For example, Cuba since 1959 has guaranteed food and college educations and free healthcare free for all Cubans but the U. S. embargo and other U. S. sanctions try to block that. Recently Cuba briefly ran out of powdered milk that it guarantees to all its children because the shipments from faraway New Zealand were late in arriving. As Cuban scientists fought the COVID-19 crisis some vital equipment it needed to import was blocked by the U. S. embargo, even from nations that wanted to help Cuba fight COVID-19. While Reuters has the guts and integrity to report such things, the U. S. media simply doesn't have such guts and integrity...especially when it comes to Cuba. But, at least, today we learned that American Airlines is going to be allowed to fly into some more Cuban cities and that some much-needed Russian oil has arrived in Cuba in defiance of the blockade.

Little girls in Cuba are precious...too!!

Even if the U. S. bogeyman doesn't care!!

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Pope Francis Begs U. S. to End Cuban Blockade

      The latest world leader begging the United States to finally end its Embargo/Blockade of Cuba is Pope Francis.

Tap the YouTube video above to hear Pope Francis.

     In his plea from the Vatican this week, as shown above, Pope Francisco mentioned his friendship with Cuba's Raul Castro as well as his fervent love and respect for the "Cuban people."

    The Three Castro Brothers were born in Biran, Cuba -- and all lived into their 90s but only Raul, at age 91, is still alive. Fidel was born in 1926 and died at age 90 in 2016. Ramon was born in 1924 and also died in 2016.

     Now 91-years-old, Raul Castro has long had a close relationship with Pope Francis...but Pope Francis has also long loved the "tenacity and good of the everyday Cubans during their endless struggles with imperative-minded bad people."

  Of course, in the USA's two-party political system {Democratic and Republican} and two-tier media system {Left-wing and Right-wing} it does not matter if every world leader, including Pope Francis, strongly opposes the U. S. Embargo-Blockade of Cuba. For many decades Right-Wing Republicans have massively supported the Spanish-American War, Batista's Cuba, the Bay of Pigs, the Embargo and every other assault on Cuba. Now even the extreme Left-wing U. S. media, as shown above, also support all the lucrative U. S. policies against Cuba, mostly notably the Embargo that began in 1962 and was massively codified in 1996 to use the perpetual Helms-Burton Act that still massively enriches and empowers Miami-type Cubans while starving Cuba-type Cubans on the island nation that, unfortunately, is due south of Miami. Thus...note the extreme and powerful Left-wing U. S. Headlines today -- on July 13th, 2022 -- just hours after Pope Francis joined the ubiquitous chorus that denounces such U. S. headlines.

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One Year After the Protests in Cuba

    For decades the genius of Brazilian editorial cartoonist Carlos LaTuff has brilliantly informed the world that there are two sides to the ageless U. S. EMBARGO of Cuba.

    This is Carlos LaTuff telling the world that the U. S. Embargo, which was started in 1962, is still a two-sided affair in July of 2022. In other words, he disagrees with the Washington Post and the rest of the mainstream U. S. media that seems to maintain that the Embargo is a one-sided event and therefore starving, depriving, and making miserable the Cubans on the island is still justified. In other words, Americans are told that all the good Cubans are already in the U. S. or trying to get there, while all the bad Cubans are still in Cuba and planning to stay there...come hell or HIGH water.

     Today -- July 11th, 2022 -- is the first anniversary of the July 11th-2021 anti-government protests in Cuba that many hoped and believed would finally doom Cuba's revolutionary rule.

    The U. S., of course, is awash today with massive headlines rehashing last year's protests in Cuba. Not surprisingly the Washington Post led the anti-Cuba diatribes today...the Washington Post that is owned by the ultra-rich Jeff Bezos, the step-son of the Cuban-born Miguel Bezos.

   Today on July 11, 2022 the mammoth Washington Post headline shown above heralded the anniversary of last year's Cuban protests with the reminder that a year later  "NOW THEY'RE FLEEING THE ISLAND."  For sure, throughout this year Cuban migrants are among the millions of exiles flooding across the USA's southern border with Mexico.

    In contrast to what the U. S. media reports daily about the ongoing conundrum known as U.S.-Cuba Relations, there are unreported opinions from untold millions of people who strongly believe that the prime problems inside Cuba and within the USA Cuban policies is because that a minority of U.S. Cubans dictate the self-serving policies regarding Cuba -- thus enriching already rich U. S. Cubans while hurting Cuban families in Cuba. Such unreported opinions are shared by people such as...Mexican President Lopez Obrador and Cuban President Diaz-Canel.

    In fact, perhaps the most egregiously unreported fact by the U. S. media about U.S.-Cuban Relations is that most Cuban-Americans strongly resent what many believe are genocidal U. S. policies targeting Cuban families on the island. Carlos Lazo is a beloved professor in Seattle who is devoting his life to preventing innocent women and children in Cuba from succumbing to such drastic U. S. policies as the six-decade-old Embargo-Blockade against the nearby island nation. Although his efforts are massive and also ubiquitously chronicled on Social Media platforms, the U. S. media doesn't want the American people to know about Carlos while they massively promote any and all Counter Revolutionary Cubans. Unreported by the U. S. media, Carlos rode his bicycle {followed by some of his students} the 3,000 miles from Seattle to Washington to beg President Trump to end the Embargo against Cuba. Then Carlos {followed by some of his students} walked the 300 miles from Little Havana in Miami to Washington to beg President Biden to end to the Embargo against Cuba. NEEDLESS TO SAY, the U. S. media ignores people like Carlos Lazo while, of course, devoting countless pages and hours to anti-Cuban zealots.

     While neither the U. S. media nor Presidents Trump or Biden pay any attention to Carlos Lazo, his ferment pleas on behalf of innocent children and their families in Cuba are hourly heralded on Social Media and via his speeches and videos.

   Through his BRIDGES of LOVE foundation, Carlos Lazo frequently flies planeloads of food and medical supplies to Cuba...such as 5,000 cans of Tuna and other food on one recent flight and boxes of Pediatric Medicine and other necessities on another recent flight. The passionate belief that predicates the life of Carlos Lazo is this: "I sincerely believe that a few rich and powerful people in a superpower nation should not endlessly be allowed to benefit from starving and depriving innocent families that happen to live in a much smaller and vulnerable nation."

    Today -- on July 11, 2022 -- this photo was posted on Facebook and other Social Media platforms but you won't see it in the U. S. media that is too busy being saturated, as usual, with only anti-Cuban diatribes. But for the record, this is Carlos Lazo with some of his BRIDGES of LOVE boxes filled with Pediatric Medicine that will benefit children in Cuba, children in Cuba that he believes have been unfairly treated all their lives by the U. S. Embargo/Blockade of their island.

Is this a two-sided story or is it a one-sided story?

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Is Revolutionary Cuba Finally Ending?

The Cuban Revolution shocked the world in 1959.

     Even more shocking is the fact that Revolutionary Cuba, right below Miami, has existed for over six decades!! This photo was taken today -- July 9th, 2022 -- and it shows a peaceful, calm view of Havana's skyline and its famed Malecon Wall. But just across the Florida Straits in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood there appears to be more-and-more signs that the end of Revolutionary Cuba is near at hand, perhaps closer than it has ever been since 1959.

      Here are the Top Cuban Headlines for today -- July 9th, 2022. The top two headlines reveal that Little Havana and the United States government are celebrating the first anniversary of the protests that roiled Havana and other Cuban cities a year ago. Little Havana celebrates while Washington imposes sanctions "on 28 Cuban officials" including Cuban journalists. Meanwhile, the two bottom headlines today hint that, except for the U. S. embargo/blockade, Cuba would likely be the economic hub of the Caribbean the way it was in the 1950s when both the U. S. and the Mafia supported the Batista dictatorship and championed hordes of tourists to the island. The lower-right headline today -- from the NY-based Epoch Times -- is about the "Unexplained Deaths of 23 Senior Cuban Military Officers that Died Within 12 months, or since July of 2021." As usual, the daily congregations of Cuban headlines about Cuba reflect the fact that the island nation is saddled with always having to exist within the confines of its dangerous location that puts it due south of the superpower United States...which means:

    Such hostility from the world's superpower long ago would have likely caused much larger nations than Cuba to have capitulated, but Cuba somehow has managed to resist...decade after decade.

   Today's headline about Caribbean Airlines that "it is increasing its cargo network to and from Cuba" is merely one tiny hope in a gloomy sea of despair for Revolutionary Cuba.

      The headline today that stirred the ire of "Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez" concerned the latest of the USA's endless sanctions against Cuba and Cuban officials, this time  targeting Cuban journalists. As reported above by the powerful London-based REUTERS NEWS AGENCY, Bruno Rodriguez said, "In view of its failed attempt to provoke popular uprising in Cuba in 2021, the US government and its Secretary of State are seeking to discredit the Cuban people's victory over imperialist aggression." Of course, for many years Bruno Rodriguez...in speaking for Revolutionary Cuba...has loudly claimed that the United States, on behalf of Little Havana, has continually funded and encouraged terrorism against Cuba -- such as the deadly bombing of the civilian Cubana Flight 455 in 1976, while also funding and encouraging dissident protests on the island.

        In other words...the uneven David vs. Goliath fight that pits poor-and-blockaded Havana against ultra-rich Little Havana USA has, incredibly, existed since January of 1959. Will it FINALLY reach a coda in JULY of 2022? Maybe...maybe not!

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