Yet ANOTHER Fire-Explosion Rocks Cuba

Coincidental? Suspicious? 

    In recent weeks a devastating series of fires-explosions have rocked Cuba...including in the important financial center of Mariel {see map} that is 30 miles southwest of Havana, the capital of Havana itself, etc., and now the key city of Matanzas that is 65 miles southeast of Havana. This weekend {August 6-7, 2022} the island is being shocked again by another massive fire-explosion, this time at a key power plant in Matanzas!!!!

     This is the headline today {August 6th, 2022} by the Associated Press's excellent reporter in Cuba, Andrea Rodriguez, regarding the vast fire and explosion in Matanzas.

   As you can see above, the AP's Andrea Rodriguez reports that the vast Matanzas fire and explosion was caused by a "lightning strike" according to the Cuban government. Similarly Cuba has suggested the recent explosions in Mariel, Havana, etc., had also been caused by accidental or natural causes.

     This is how Cubans saw the devastation of the Matanzas explosion-fire on their TV News broadcasts.

    The two photos above by Yamil Lage for the powerful Paris-based AFP News Agency show that on Saturday afternoon {August 6, 2022} Cuban helicopters were still dropping ocean water on the ruins of the Matanzas explosion-fire.

 For sure, Cubans are trying desperately to survive the combined throes of the ever-tightening U. S. Embargo-Blockade and also the remaining remnants of the COVID Pandemic. The twin perils are causing shortages of food and medicines on the island as well as intermittent power outages. For sure, everyday Cubans since 2019 believe that their enemies just across the Florida Straits were/are urging the Trump-Biden administrations to take advantage of the added COVID pandemic to tighten the EMBARGO perils even more. While the Cuban government maintains that the drastic series of fires-explosions that have assaulted the economic, tourist, and power structures on the island have been accidental, many everyday Cubans are not sure, and they want more answers.

     Meantime, as you see above by the date today -- August 6, 2022 -- Cuban firefighters are still trying to save what remains of the key power plant at Matanzas, Cuba.

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Clouds Over Cuba

     Yes, there are very dark clouds hovering over Cuba today -- August 5th, 2022. We know that because a great Cuban photo-journalist named Yamil Lage -- who works for the global Paris-based AFP News Agency -- informs the world of that fact. His four photos shown above were also posted on Facebook today. He is confirming that the dark clouds can't conceal the fact that there are food shortages on the island...and medical shortages on the island...and power shortages on the island, etc, etc.

  While the Biden administration in Washington like the Trump administration that preceded it have both allowed extreme Counter Revolutionary Cuban-Americans like Democratic Senator Bob Menendez and Republican Senator Marco Rubio to dictate Cuban policy, the ever-tightening U. S. EMBARGO, exacerbated all the more by things such as the Pandemic, have seemingly given Newark, Miami, and Washington the chance to finally overthrow the Cuban Revolution that back in January of 1959 overthrew the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship in Cuba.

   At least, the ever-tightening EMBARGO continues to give Cuba the excuse to blame the United States for the island's food, medical, power, and other problems. Cuba's current President -- Miguel Diaz-Canel, who was born after the triumph of the Revolution -- remains very popular with most Cubans on the island. And Fidel Castro, the historic rebel who died at age 90 in 2016, also remains very popular with most Cubans on the island.

    Back in the 1950s there was no chance a little rebel uprising could overthrow the rich and ultra-powerful Batista dictatorship, but it did. And since 1959 there has been no chance that Cuba could prevent the rich and ultra-powerful Counter Revolutionary Cubans in the U. S. from overthrowing the Revolution, but it has.

      In other words, little Cuba is still doing the impossible...while Cubans in Cuba suffer more-and-more as anointed Cubans in the United States get richer-and--richer.

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Cuba Revamps Economy!!

 To try to survive the Blockade and Pandemic

     Today -- August 4th, 2022 -- Cuba's Central Bank drastically revamped its economy as the island nation tries to emerge from the throes of the U. S. blockade and the almost ebbing pandemic.

     The architect of the important change is Alejandro Gil Fernandez, Cuba's Economic Minister.

     A massive outside expert on the nuances of the Cuban economy is Pavel Vidal Alejandro, an Economics Professor at the University of Cali. Vidal was once a key strategist at Cuba's Central Bank in Havana. Today he has written extensively on the insightful and respected OnCuba News website about the new economic changes by Cuba.

     So on August 4th-2022, as usual, the best place to get the best and most unbiased update on the new and important economic changes in Cuba is to read Pavel Vidal Alexander's decisive article on the OnCuba News website. The website is in either English or Spanish.

    This photo today shows everyday Cubans trying to get their own first-hand information at the Metropolitan Bank in Havana regarding the drastic new economic changes. After all, everyday Cubans like these are the ones that will most be affected by the changes. And after all, when a much-more powerful nation levies endless sanctions on a much-weaker nation, everyday people like these are the ones that are most harmed. Of course, since 1962 Americans have been told that the cruel United States sanctions against Cuba are meant to help the EVERYDAY PEOPLE IN CUBA. And, of course, such lies for all these decades have benefited certain people economically and politically in the U. S., and that is why they continue to exist decade-after-decade.

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Sen. Rubio Wants FBI to Investigate Carlos Lazo!!

 WONDERFUL?!!?

    51-years-old Cuban-American Marco Rubio was born in Miami. Since 2011 he has been a fixture in the U. S. Senate because he is a Counter Revolutionary extremist, the only kind of politician that Miami sends to Washington. As Miami extremists are prone to do, Rubio heads to the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee and, when Republicans lead the Senate, to the Chairmanship of that Committee. Thus since 2011 Rubio's political and economic fortunes {donations, etc.} have been attached to his being the prime promoter of Miami's prime mission...which is to dictate the USA's "CUBA POLICY." That means legalizing U. S. laws designed to help Miami and hurt Cuba.

    In that milieu, please take note of the three prime U. S. media's Cuban headlines in this first week of August, 2022. The top headline, which I will address in this forum tomorrow, has an extremist Miami-lobbyist "Latin American expert" telling the world about "The folly of investing in Cuba." That, of course, means to further tighten the genocidal 6-decade-old Embargo against Cuba so Cubans on the island will be starved, deprived, and made miserable -- reasons the Embargo was legalized in 1962. The bottom headline above, which I will discuss Friday, has one of the extremist Miami-lobbyist typically defaming Cuba to glorify Miami. And the middle headline, which I will discuss now, says: "Rubio urges FBI to investigate Cuba's ties to U.S.-based anti-embargo group Bridges of Love." In other words, Marco Rubio wants the U. S. federal government to put Carlos Lazo -- the Cuban-American who founded Bridges of Love prosecuted. WHY? Because Carlos Lazo's foundation devotes its passion to helping Cubans on the island to keep from starving, being deprived, and made miserable by Miami's and Rubio's beloved EMBARGO!!

     So who is Carlos Lazo, the lovely man that Marco Rubio wants the FBI to prosecute? A beloved Cuban-American professor in Seattle, Carlos Lazo now passionately devotes his life to helping Cuban families in Cuba...especially the women and children that he believes have faced genocidal assaults from a vast array of Miami-promoted U. S. policies that have been in force since 1962. During the Trump presidency, which drastically tightened the 1962 Embargo, Carlos Lazo and some of his students rode their bicycles the 3,000 miles from Seattle to Washington to beg President Trump and Congress to end or at least ease the genocide against Cuban families. Neither Trump, Congress, nor the Media paid attention. Then Carlos Lazo, upset that President Biden had not eased Trump's Cuban policies, walked the 300 miles from Little Havana in Miami to Washington to beg President Biden to end or at least ease the genocide against Cuban families on the island that appeases Miami's extremists. Again, neither Biden, Congress, nor the Media listened. So Carlos Lazo founded his "Bridges of Love/Puentes de Amor" foundation. He has promoted it wildly daily on Social Media and with Protests in cities across the United States, including Miami.

    The USA's Embargo, exacerbated by things such as the Pandemic, has created drastic food, power, and medical shortages in Cuba. Thus, Carlos Lazo and his Foundation have flown planeloads of canned food, medical supplies, etc., to Cuba to massively help Cuban families. Of course, as we have gotten into August of 2022, the vast and lucrative anti-Cuban Cottage Industry headquartered in Miami wants Carlos Lazo's work to be stopped...by imprisoning him, if necessary. Thus, in this first week of August-2022, Miami's U. S. Senator Marco Rubio, according to a prime headline/article in the Miami Herald, is..."urging the FBI to investigate Puentes de Amor."

WONDERFUL!!

     Anointed by Miami and Congress to be the prime promoter of the devastating and endless U. S. Embargo of Cuba, Senator Marco Rubio's ongoing job is to make sure Miami's Cubans thrive while Cuba's Cubans continue to be endlessly starved, deprived, and made miserable. While Rubio, the U. S. media, and the U. S. Congress lavishly deny that it is so, they won't even discuss endless examples of Rubio's work that helps Miami's Cubans and hurts Cuba's Cubans.

      For example, even the Miami Herald was embarrassed enough to give voice to Cuban mothers and entrepreneurs who took advantage of President Obama's brief window that eased the Embargo enough for them to create tourist-related businesses that successfully made money and employed thousands of Cubans. Yes, even the Miami Herald -- as shown above -- allowed such Obama-helped Cuban women to explain how their businesses in Cuba helped their families and the families of their employers until President Trump allowed "Senator Marco Rubio" to quickly wipe out their businesses. Then, as reported above by the Miami Herald, Rubio didn't have the guts or the decency to even meet with these women when they went to Miami and then to Congress to tell him how how much he was hurting their children.

      It is known that Cubans are passionate for Baseball and, per capita, produce the best baseball players of any nation. When President Obama eased the Embargo, Major League Baseball in the U. S. and the Cuban Baseball Federation signed a binding deal in which Cuban players would be treated the same as other Latin American players, with the MLB leaders trying to end the cruel trafficking of defecting Cuban players by criminals. Of course, when Obama was replaced by President Trump, Rubio quickly ended that sane and decent deal between the U. S. Major Leagues and Cuba's Baseball Federation...because Rubio wondered if ending the  cruel trafficking of Cuban players might allow Cuba's government to get a few dollars in the process when Cuban players were signed by Major League teams.

     Ending the sane and decent agreement between the Cuban Baseball Federation and Major League Baseball; and ending the successful businesses that Cuban mothers in Cuba had created thanks to Obama, etc., etc. by Miami's U. S. Senator Marco Rubio remains unchallenged, of course. And Rubio didn't ever have to explain his actions, of course.

   Of course, when it comes to the likes of Senator Rubio dictating the USA's Cuban POLICY, it doesn't matter one iota that a great and respected journalist, Ken Silverstein, labels Rubio unfit to do so. In the notable article above, Ken Silverstein began his extremely long and minutely investigated report with these exact words: "When it comes to sheer brazen corruption, chicanery and dishonesty there is one candidate who stands heads and shoulders above everyone else and that is the right-wing Cuban-American and Tea Party darling Senator Marco Rubio of -- naturally -- the great state of Florida. Mr. Rubio's entire public image is less tethered to reality than the Wizard of Oz." Of course, as far as I know the great Ken Silverstein was never sued for that long and devastating bio of Marco Rubio. But, of course, neither his donors; nor the U. S. media; nor, of course, the American people are supposed to care who makes U. S. policy regarding Cuba.

     But for the record, Carlos Lazo -- the former U. S. soldier and now the beloved Cuban-American professor in Seattle -- today replied to Miami's Marco Rubio's efforts to have the FBI put him in prison. Let's see now...the charge would be that Carlos Lazo, whose mother still lives in Cuba, is passionately trying to keep the U. S. Embargo/Blockade of Cuba from starving, depriving, and making miserable totally innocent families on the island. Above is the start of the reply to Rubio that Carlos Lazo posted on Facebook today -- August 3rd, 2022.

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Pressure Builds on US to Ease Blockade

     Today -- on August 1, 2022 -- furious anti-demonstrations around the United States -- from Vancouver to Miami to New York, etc. -- have upped the pressure on the Biden administration to end or at least ease the Trump-increased genocide against Cuban families on the island.

        Although he is ignored by both the U. S. government and the mainstream U. S. media, Carlos Lazo -- the Cuban-American professor from Seattle -- uses ubiquitous demonstrations as well as the Social Media to tell the world about the genocide that the U. S. Embargo/Blockade imposes on totally innocent Cuban families on the island to appease or benefit "a few rich Cubans in Miami and Congress." Today Carlos Lazo posted -- in Spanish and English -- the Live video shown above on Facebook and other Social Media giants, as he does daily. Yesterday -- on the last day of July-2022 -- he was again demonstrating in the heart of Little Havana/Miami. With a large and growing following, Carlos Lazo regularly flies cargo planes to  Cuba with food, medicine, and other essential items that Blockade-deprived Cuban families desperately need.

      Over the last weekend in July-2022 while Carlos Lazo was holding his massive anti-Blockade Caravan in the heart of Miami, other cities across the U. S. such as Vancouver -- inspired by Lazo -- were doing the same thing.

     While the U. S. government in Washington and the U. S. mainstream media tries to dismiss Carlos Lazo, he has massively used the Social Media to get his message across to President Biden and to Congress. In the past two weeks a Democratic and Republican group teamed in Congress to write a pleading letter to President Biden to end or ease the genocidal Embargo/Blockade against Cuban families in Cuba. The Congressional letter reminded President Biden that the Blockade was keeping vital medicine and food items from Cuban women and children, indicating that is exactly the essence of genocide when it is done by a powerful nation to a much-weaker nation.

    While U. S. journalists appear to have gloves or cuffs on when it comes to writing or telling the truths about Cuba, the great journalist/author for the great London-based Reuters News Agency -- Marc Frank -- regularly writes and speaks the truth and he does it by actually reporting from Cuba where he actually knows the trials and tribulations of Cuban families constantly assaulted by the U. S. Embargo/Blockade that has tried to starve and deprive them since 1962. At the end of July-2022, Marc Frank's international Reuters article -- as shown above -- explained that the Cuban government has told families in Havana that there will be more blackouts because Cuba is forced to concentrate more-and-more of its limited resources on medical and food issues.

     And meanwhile, great Cuban-Americans like Carlos Lazo and great international journalists like Marc Frank are letting the world know that the U. S. Embargo/Blockade of Cuba is indeed genocidal for innocent Cuban families on the island to please what Carlos Lazo calls "some rich Cubans in the U. S." "LET CUBAN FAMILIES LIVE!".

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