More Nations Fight US Cuba Blockade

 

    Today -- on August 22nd, 2022 -- Jim Wyss/Bloomberg News -- reported that nations such as Canada are helping Cuba recover from the COVID Pandemic and also helping Cuba survive the strengthened six-year-old U. S. Embargo/Blockade of the island. Bloomberg says that the vital tourist industry, "led by a surge in visitors from Canada," rebounded to 1.2 visitors from January-July, "compared to 217,364 visitors during the same period in 2021."

     With a surge of visitors from the U. S. seeking flights to Cuba, American Airlines has asked the U. S. government for permission "to increase its 6 daily roundtrip flights between Miami and Havana to 8 daily roundtrip flights."

      Iceland also opposes the U. S. blockade of Cuba: "The US Department of Transportation has approved an application by Icelandair to fly up to 31 round-trip flights a weeks between the United and Cuba on behalf of Florida-based World Atlantic Airlines."

     India, the world's most populace Democracy, has asked Cuba to greatly increase Trade Relations between the two countries. 

     A few days ago -- on August 19th, 2022 -- Italy requested 497 more Cuban doctors "to Italy's Calabria region" and Italy asked Cuba, if possible, to send many of the same Cuban doctors that had so powerfully helped Italy during the height of the COVID pandemic. And as you can see above, when the great London-based News Agency, Reuters, reported on Italy's latest request for Cuban doctors it added these facts: "Around 40 countries across five continents, including Italy, received Cuban medics during the COVID-19 pandemic, as the island nation -- home to just over 11 million inhabitants -- has punched far above its weight in medical diplomacy." While Reuters can tell the world such facts about Cuba, the U. S. media can't...because the U. S. Embargo-Blockade severely sanctions Cuba for what the U. S. conveniently claims that Cuba's sending the island's excess doctors to foreign nations constitutes slavery...and violates the tenets of the Blockade because it presumably allows some foreign money to flow back to Cuba, which since 1959 has provided free education through college for all its citizens, free health-care for all its citizens, etc....things the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship didn't even remotely consider when Batista, the Mafia, and U. S. businesses raked in fortunes on the island prior to the Cuban Revolution's victory in January 1 of 1959.

     In fact, although Americans are not supposed to know it, for decades U. S. medical students have traveled to Cuba to get totally free six-year medical degrees with poor little Cuba taking care of the expenses of "around $10,000 to $15,000 a year" while only requiring the U. S. students agree to return to their poor U. S. areas for at least five years to help sick Americans.

    President Lopez Obrador of Mexico, the huge country on the USA's southern border, is actually the most out-spoken leader denouncing the U. S. Embargo-Blockade of Cuba: "The longer it exists the more innocent families in Cuba are being criminally assaulted and deprived by rich people in a much larger and more powerful country. And that shames us all."

     As a fierce critic of the U. S. Blockade of Cuba, Mexico's President Lopez Obrador has renewed his already close friendship with Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel...and offered "trade and other help." This month when the latest monstrous explosion and fire spent days wiping out Cuba's main Oil Depot in Matanzas, Mexico was the first nation to quickly send help to fight the inferno that raged for five days.

    Of course, Americans who are told to support or condone the cruel Embargo-Blockade of Cuba are not told why "future U. S. doctor Chasiti I. Falls is a fifth year medical student in Havana...Under full scholarship to a six-year medical degree program courtesy of Cuba..." Like other poor Americans, her U.S.-to-Cuba-and-back-to-the-U.S. story, as shown above, is not told by the Cuban media nor by the mainstream U. S. media but was told by Amy Goodman, the renowned anchor of the "Democracy Now!" program that is carried on 1400 radio and television stations. You see, such stories don't compute with the continuation of the six-decade-old blockade of Cuba...and thus Americans are not supposed to Google the history of "ELAM" -- the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana. Amy Goodman often reminds her viewers and listeners that the United States is the "only" nation in the world that supports and benefits from the Blockade.

      If the only country that wants the Blockade of Cuba would end it, perhaps the whole world would benefit from such a change.

The tropical sun deserves to shine in Cuba.

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Lazo vs. Rubio

Loving Cuba vs. Hating Cuba!!

     The two photos above in late August of 2022 chronicle and revive the ageless tug-of-wars between the mighty USA and little Cuba that, actually, have been going on since 1492, which was the year both neighboring territories were discovered by the Spanish discoverer Columbus. Carlos Lazo is a Cuba-born Cuban-American professor from Seattle who has devoted his life to keeping Miami Cubans from "starving my mother and other innocent people in Cuba.";  Marco Rubio is a Miami-born Cuban-American in Miami who furiously represents Miami in the U. S. Senate and has devoted his career to being an extreme Counter Revolutionary zealot devoted to overthrowing the Cuban Revolution, which on January 1st of 1959 overthrew the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship, the historic event that quickly created Little Havana in the heart of Miami, which has drastically changed both Cuba and the USA. Now in August of 2022 Rubio's latest tactic is to urge the FBI to go after Lazo. That is hugely significant because since 1959 Miami Cubans like Rubio have, essentially, been allowed to dictate the USA's Cuban policies...which for over six tumultuous decades have been used to TRY to overthrow the Cuban Revolution.

 The efforts, of course, have lavishly enriched and empowered Little Havana USA Cubans but drastically assaulted masses and generations of Cubans in Havana and all of Cuba...while U. S. citizens, voters, and taxpayers have been propagandized to hugely award Little Havana USA and, of course, not be ashamed about what the rest of the world thinks of the U. S. treatment of Cubans in Cuba.

    When Miami's ultra-powerful and uncontested U. S. Senator Marco Rubio in August of 2022 sic's the ultra-powerful FBI on Carlos Lazo, it's a big deal. Neither the overall U. S. government nor the overall U. S. media will dare contest Rubio's extreme anti-Cuban policies because Little Havana, Miami, and the state of Florida are simply too politically powerful to be riled. So...if anyone or anything tries to "roll back" Little Havana USA's control of America's Cuban policies, Marco Rubio alone can put a stop to it.

     So, exactly, what is Marco Rubio's beef with Carlos Lazo? Especially during Donald Trump's four years as President, Senator Rubio was allowed to drastically expand the USA's already drastic six-decade-old assaults on Cuba. Rubio and Trump even activated Title 3 of Helms-Burton, something that the totally Miami-aligned two-term George W. Bush presidency refused to activate because even Bush believed that activating Title 3 would mean genocide against Cubans in Cuba. So Carlos Lazo and some of his students rode their bikes 3,000 miles from Seattle to Washington to beg President Trump and Rubio to at least ease Title 3 and the genocidal aspects of Miami's beloved and lucrative Helms-Burton Act. But when neither Trump nor the U. S. media paid any attention to his fervent plea, Carlos founded an organization he calls "Bridges of Love" to try to keep Cubans in Cuba from being starved, deprived, and made miserable by rich and powerful people in a Superpower nation. When he believed Trump's successor, President Joe Biden, would also not ease Title 3, Carlos walked the 300 miles from Little Havana in Miami to Washington to beg President Biden to at least ease Title 3. Again neither Biden nor the media paid any attention to Carlos.

   Meanwhile, of course, Americans are not supposed to even know what Title 3 of Helms-Burton is!! But the astute and beloved professor from Seattle, Carlos Lazo, believes it legalizes genocide against his mother and other innocent Cubans in Cuba.

    And meanwhile, of course, since 1996 Americans are not supposed to know nor care what Congress's massive Helms-Burton Law massively perpetrates!! But the great professor from Seattle, Carlos Lazo, believes that Helms-Burton has two distinct purposes: {1} to make sure that tax & tourist dollars create many millionaires and billionaires in Little Havana USA, while also {2} trying to starve, deprive, and make miserable Cubans in Cuba.

    And so...fighting valiantly against Title 3 and Helms-Burton has become Carlos Lazo's passion. Expertly organizing protests in cities around the U. S. {including Little Havana USA}, and using Social Media platforms effectively, Carlos Lazo's "Bridges of Love/Puentes de Amor" foundation has grown more-and-more powerful. He now regularly flies planeloads of medicine, food, and other necessities to families in Cuba. In the Facebook/YouTube photo above, Carlos has just off-loaded boxes in Cuba that included children's medicine as well as cans of Tuna and other food.

    A former U. S. soldier and now a professor, Carlos Lazo's fervent desire to keep families in Cuba from starving and otherwise being targeted has drawn the ire of Little Havana USA's U. S. Senator Marco Rubio. Obviously Rubio believes he has the support of the U. S. media and the U. S. government as he asks the FBI to investigate and presumably imprison Carlos Lazo. All this has left the Lazo vs. Rubio battle a David vs. Goliath tug of war.

     In English and Spanish, Carlos Lazo uses his emphatic videos and speeches on Social Media platforms as well as massive caravan-long protests in cities from Vancouver to Miami to New York, etc., to fight for targeted families in Cuba...and now he also must direct his defense against Marco Rubio. Carlos Lazo knows that the U. S. media and the U. S. government will not support him as he responds to Senator Marco Rubio, but as shown above he uses his strong platforms on Facebook, YouTube, etc., to respond. Above he starts out saying: "Carlos Lazo's response: About Senator Marco Rubio's attempt to get the FBI to investigate members of the Bridges of Love humanitarian movement and war veteran and professor Carlos Lazo. I want to thank Senator Marco Rubio. I never thought a U. S. senator would take notice of our movement and lift us up like he has..."

Indeed!!!!!!!

    The vicious Tug-of-War between Carlos Lazo and Marco Rubio is, of course, a classic David vs. Goliath struggle. But, nevertheless, don't expect the compassionate Cuban-American Carlos Lazo to stop trying to keep his mother and other innocent Cubans in Cuba from being starved, deprived, and made miserable...by ultra-powerful forces such as Title 3 of the Helms-Burton Act.

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The Havana & Miami Charade!!

What has been and what could be AGAIN!! 

     Back in the 1950s Havana was richer than Miami. That was when the United States and the Mafia both lavishly supported the thievery of the brutal Batista dictatorship. Back in the 1950s the U. S. wildly promoted American companies and American tourists to flock to Havana and partake lavishly in the Gold Mine that Batista's Cuba afforded them. Thus, back in the 1950s the United States loved the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful island nation. Miami back in the 1950s was no more than Havana's little sister, with DC-3 airplanes, ships, and ferries using Miami as a port to fly and sail and ferry tourists to Havana...where uncontrolled lures such as gambling, drugs, and prostitution awaited all those unending tourist dollars!!

There has always been a Miami-Havana Connection.

    But it was in Batista's Cuba in the 1950s when Miami was used to make Havana the GO-TO destination and the RICHEST CITY in the Caribbean!! Back in the 1950s Miami was saturated with ads like the one above: "HAVANA ROUND-TRIP EXURSION $42...THREE ROUND TRIPS FROM MIAMI EVERY WEEK!!!!" Wonderful!! Of course, Batista's Cuba as well as the MAFIA and all those U. S. COMPANIES were WAITING in Havana as all those Dollars sailed FROM Miami into the ever-ALLURING Havana!!!

    And for sure, back in the 1950s in Batista's Cuba the Batistianos, the Mafiosi, and the U. S. businessmen were making vast fortunes by using Havana as a Mafia-fueled Cash Cow. But, as they stashed much of those easy dollars in Miami banks and other Miami entities, they also stupidly failed to toss even a few crumbs to the majority peasants, or non-Batistianos, who were neglected all across the island. Thus, there were no crumbs to fund education, health care, and other necessities for the starving majority. And, beyond that cruel stupidity, Batista's Cuba in the 1950s had a ploy that was even crueler: Their goon-squads murdered children to persuade the parents not to dissent!!

     In Batista's Cuba in the 1950s peasant mothers had no crumbs to properly feed and otherwise care for their children.

     But in Batista's Cuba in the 1950s the last straw for the non-Batistiano-Mafiosi mothers was the "the murders of our children"/"LOS ASESINATOS DE NUESTROS HIJOS." Of course, in August of 2022 Miami still denies the significance of historic photos such as the two above, but nevertheless photos like these two explain why the Batistianos, the Mafiosi, and the American businessmen were booted out of Havana in January of 1959...mostly to nearby Miami by the Cuban Revolution!!

Incredibly the Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959.

   Even more incredible is the fact that the Cuban Revolution has existed for over 62 years, and in 2022 that includes six years since the death of Fidel Castro at age 90 in 2016.

    In the last 62+ years many pro-Revolutionary and many anti-Revolutionary journalists and authors have tried mightily to tell us "How the Mob Owned Cuba...and Then Lost It to the Revolution." But, for sure, T. J. English in his classic and seminal book "Havana Nocturne" has done the greatest job in telling us the pivotal history of Havana...and Little Havana USA.

     Yes, T. J. English best chronicles what happened in Havana in the 1950s and what has happened in Little Havana USA since 1959. Since 1959 ultra-targeted Havana has gone from being the richest city in the Caribbean to the poorest, while since 1959 Little Havana USA in the heart of Miami has emerged from poverty to become one of the richest and most politically powerful entities in the superpower United States.

    To understand the Miami-Havana conundrum, start by reading and studying T. J. English books, especially Havana Nocturne. Then you might understand why today ultra-poor Havana is barely holding on while ultra-rich Miami and ultra-rich Little Havana USA in AUGUST of 2022 totally dictate the USA's lucrative Cuban policies the same as Batista and the Mafia, with the help of the USA, dictated Cuba in the 1950s before the Cuban Revolution intervened in 1959. But what, incredibly, if Miami and the USA loved Havana again? Well, if that happened, Havana would again become as rich as Miami is today!!!

    In August of 2022 poor little Cuba remains the largest nation in the Caribbean and the most beautiful island in the Western Hemisphere...and the region's most intriguing and alluring destination. And if Miami and the USA loved Cuba now as much as they did in the 1950s, Havana would soon be as rich as Miami and Little Havana USA. Cuba's history and its dalliances with Miami and the USA tell us that is so.

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The Lady Determined to Revive Cuba's Economy!!

    And the Lady Trying to Save the Revolution!!

    If the perennially targeted nation of Cuba is to survive the newly drastic twin assaults from the U. S. Blockade and the Covid-19 Pandemic, the lady who is now charged with saving the island's depleted economy [and the Revolution] is Ana Teresita. 

   A brilliant expert regarding trade and economic issues, Ana Teresita has enough power in Cuba to now become the orchestrator of a new Revolutionary policy that permits Cuba to allow foreign investments in companies on the island, even allowing foreign companies to own or be the majority entities of companies in Cuba. Somehow Cuba's own vaccines have curtailed the most egregious effects of the Covid pandemic, but the increased tightening of the six-decade-old U. S. embargo/blockage by the Trump-Biden administrations has practically brought the island's economy to unprecedented depths. In recent months and weeks a massive series of terrorist-like explosions and huge fireballs have destroyed prime economic facilities in Cuba, including major tourist hotels and vital oil depots. In this milieu, it is now up to Ana Teresita to revive Cuba's economy...at least enough to allow the Revolutionary rule of Cuba to continue.

     The American people don't know who Ana Teresita is, but the Cubans in Miami as well as the U. S. government in Washington know exactly who she is. Moreover, important people atop many foreign governments know who Ana Teresita is and they deeply admire her!! That includes Prince Charles, the man who will be the next King of England...but also the leaders of important nations such as Spain, Italy, Mexico, South Africa, Vietnam, Argentina, China, etc., etc., are also well acquainted with and deeply admire Ana Teresita.

     Today -- on August 17th, 2022 -- Ana Teresita is largely responsible for the Top Cuban Headlines saturating the U. S. media right now...as shown above.

Above today is the NBC News headline and sub-headline.

    The two images above -- the letter to President Biden begging him to ease or end the U. S. "sanctions" that are devastating Cuban families; and the fireballs from massive explosions now hitting the island -- also are disturbing more-and-more Americans. The above letter to President Biden recently was signed by over two dozen Democrats and Republicans in the United States Congress. Like millions of Cuban citizens, the well-known letter-writers wonder if the fireballs coupled with the increased "sanctions" are designed to finally overthrow the Cuban Revolution. Indeed the U. S. "sanctions" are now targeting specific individuals in Cuba such as...you guessed it...Ana Teresita.

     And indeed, from many corners of the world more and more international leaders are growing more and more ashamed of the endless targeting by the Superpower United States of the island nation of Cuba.

     And, it so happens...that one of the most powerful leaders in the entire world that is "most fed up" with the USA's targeting of Cuba is GREGORY MEEKS. A 68-year-old lawyer, Congressman Meeks has represented New York...as well as targeted Cuban families...in the U. S. Congress since 1998. Now, since 2021, Mr. Meeks is the powerful Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee in the U. S. House of Representatives. Cuba, of course, is a foreign nation...not a possession nor a piggybank of the United States. Today...in August of 2022...GREGORY MEEKS is one of the most powerful people in the United States and in the world trying mightily to help the long-targeted Cuban families on the island of Cuba. And, yes, GREGORY MEEKS is a good friend of Ana Teresita, the Cuban who is trying so hard to revive the Cuban economy.

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