Miami vs. Havana Heats Up

 

    In January of 1959 the Cuban Revolution shocked the world by overthrowing Cuba's powerful Batista dictatorship that was supported by the Mafia, the strongest criminal organization in the world, and by the United States, the strongest nation in the world. Even more shocking has been the fact that Revolutionary Cuba has survived for over six decades...and counting!!! A prime offshoot of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution is the fact that it immediately spawned Little Havana in nearby Miami, Florida. Supported by the unmatched wealth and power of the United States, Little Havana for over six decades has been at the forefront of the massive and exhaustive effort to overthrow the Cuban Revolution...while creating massive wealth and political powerful for Cubans in Little Havana but also starving, depriving, and making miserable Cubans in Cuba.

     For the past six-decades+ the Havana vs. Little Havana saga has been permeated by the mainstream media in the U. S. telling American taxpayers and voters that the Cubans in Little Havana are world-class saints while the Cubans in Havana are worthy of being starved, deprived, and made miserable. One of the most notable U. S. journalists reporting from Havana and Little Havana is Patrick Oppmann of CNN.

     Heading into this weekend -- November 19th & 20th of 2022 -- above are the current TOP CUBAN HEADLINES. Please note that CNN's high-profile article, written by Patrick Oppmann, screams: "FAMILIES OF JAILED CUBAN PROTESTERS BLOCKED FROM MEETING US OFFICIALS." It is typical of the pro-Little Havana/anti-Havana journalism in the U. S. for the past six decades+ but, at least, this time a top official in Havana was allowed to voice a comment.

    The Cuban minister in charge of Cuba's relations with the United States is Carlos Fernandez de Cossio. Regarding the CNN/Oppmann headline, he said that..."such protests in Cuba are funded and promoted by the United States on behalf of Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Little Havana and thus Cuba is left to react to the enormous money and efforts that Miami and Washington devote to de-stabilizing and overthrowing Cuba's sovereign government."

     For the record, in the last paragraph shown above you can see where the CNN/Oppmann article permitted Havana's Carlos Cossio to voice Cuba's opinion about the typical U. S. article damning terrible Havana on behalf of saintly Little Havana. In other words, there are usually two sides to most stories, not just one side. And that even pertains to the Havana-Little Havana saga.

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A Dire Week for Cuba's Economic Survival

 

      This important photo on November 16th-2022 shows Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and his wife Lis Cuesta after they landed in Algiers, Algeria today.

     Cuba's President Diaz-Canel was lushly welcomed today in Algiers on his vital mission to get economic help for Cuba. From Algeria he will also fly to Turkey, Russia, and China.

    Born 62 years ago, soon after the 1959 triumph of Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, Miguel Diaz-Canel has been the President of Cuba since 2018. This week in mid-November of 2022 might be the most important week of Diaz-Canel's life as the leader of Cuba. Today -- November 16th of 2022 -- he began flights to the far away countries of Algeria, Russia, Turkey, and China as he tries desperately to avoid Cuba's total financial collapse in the face of the ever-tightening 62-year-old U. S. Embargo/Blockade, the costly Pandemic, drastic fires/explosions that destroyed a key tourist hotel in Havana as well as the island's most vital Power Depot in Matanzas, etc.!! Seeking desperate help today Diaz-Canel would rather be staying much closer to home to save some precious money but the long trips starting today are deemed vital to the financial survival of Revolutionary Cuba.

    A graduate of the University of Havana, Omar Everley is considered by U. S. observers to be a top expert when it comes to the trials & tribulations of the fragile Cuban economy.

       And so today -- November 16th-2022 -- the above article by Omar Everley is being eagerly scrutinized by both foes and friends of Cuba.

     In the two paragraphs above, as you can see, Omar Everley concludes that: "These questions try to convince about the difficult -- almost impossible -- task that those who direct the Cuban economy have on their shoulders. Well, above all, the US blockade is increasingly present in the Cuban reality." While those sage words are starkly true and honest, on November 16th-2022 340 million American citizens are programmed to ignore them...as Americans have been told since 1962, which was the year the U. S. began the Embargo/Blockade that was supposed to economically destroy Cuba.

     Today as he begins flights to faraway Algeria, Russia, Turkey and China, President Diaz-Canel would prefer seeking help much closer to home. But circumstances since 1962 prevent that, and thus this week -- mid-week in November-2022 -- desperation in Cuba made Diaz-Canel decide to spend his time on expensive flights seeking help from faraway nations.

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Cuba Battles Power Blackouts

 

     Today -- Tuesday, November 15th, 2022 -- the two photos above show a key ship from Turkey arriving in Havana Harbor. The Turkish company Kardeniz delivers  electric power to Cuba. This is vital to the Cuban people who have suffered from Pandemic, the tightening of the six-decade-old U. S. Blockade, and a massive fire and explosion in Matanzas that destroyed Cuba's most important Power Plant. Turkish ships like this one help provide much-needed electricity to the island's people.

The photo above was taken in Havana today -- November 15th-2022 -- by the great photographer Yamil Lage who works for the worldwide Paris-based AFP News Agency. It shows Cuban boys playing soccer.

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EMBARGO: Criminal, Crazy, and Endless

 So...WHY is it so Endless?

    Today -- on November 14th-2022 - - Dan Burgis penned the Top Cuban Article that is circulating around the world and this is the headline: "WHY HAVEN'T WE ENDED THE CUBA EMBARGO ALREADY?" As a top reporter for the Houston Chronicle, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Daily Beast, etc., Dan Burgis today asked the question that most U. S. journalists are too afraid to ask although it surely is one that needs to be asked!!!!

     Above are the top four Cuban Headlines today and this is the top headline: "Why the Hell Haven't We Ended the Cuba Embargo Already?" The stark pertinence of this question on November 14th-2022 is starkly apparent to everyone except the most ignorant and the most cowardly people on the planet...as Dan Burgis explained today. Of course, since 1962 the U. S. Embargo of Cuba has existed for all these decades simply because it enriches and/or empowers a handful of rich and politically powerful Cuban-Americans in Little Havana/Miami and in the U. S. Congress. Below, is the start of the scathingly honest and brave article today by Dan Burgis:

     As revealed above, when the entire world -- year after year -- pleads for the United States to end its Embargo against the innocent but vulnerable population of Cuba, Americans need to ask why in the hell it is allowed to continue endlessly even although the rest of the world considers it shameful genocide against the people in a much-smaller, nearby nation.

    "Why the Hell Haven't We Ended the Cuba Embargo Already?" For generations now the American people have simply been too cowardly to ask that question. But today -- November 14th-2022 -- a brave journalist did ask it!!!

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A DIRE Medical Situation in Cuba

    In Cuba one of the most renowned medical authorities is Dr. Tania Margarita Cruz. She confirms that there is a dire medical problem on the beleaguered island: TOO MANY BABIES ARE DYING!!

      Quoting Dr. Margarita Cruz, the first paragraph above reveals in an On Cuba article that the "infant immortality rate" is higher than it has been in decades with "7.6 per 1,000 live births" in 2021 and that "In 2022 the numbers are not encouraging. After the first 10 months of the year, the country registers a rate of 7.4. The information was offered by Dr. Tania Margarita Cruz."

    Meanwhile...the Houston Chronicle used the photo shown above to illustrate a headline that said: "Cubans Arrive At The Border In Record Numbers."

     In this second week of November-2022 the Associated Press, as shown above, reports: "Nearly 221,000 Cubans were encountered by migration enforcement on the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2022. That was a 471% increase from the year before according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data."

      In other words...on November 11th of 2022 news sources in both Cuba and the United States all seem to be agreeing on one basic fact: Finally, the USA's economic embargo against Cuba, which began in 1962, IS WORKING!!!!!

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Cuba After US's Nov. 8th Election

     The November 8th-2022 midterm U. S. elections revealed the well--known sharp divide in the USA's two-party political system. But the last two U. S. Presidents -- the Republican Donald Trump and the Democrat Joe Biden have both agreed to sharply expand the six-decade-old U. S. economic Embargo-Blockade of Cuba to appease the rich and politically powerful Cuban-Americans in Miami and in Congress. The mainstream U. S. media has relinquished its courage and integrity when it comes to producing unbiased reports regarding Cuba but today -- on November 9th-2022 -- the best worldwide article related to U.S.-Cuba Relations was sent around the world by a renowned Travel Writer & Author.

      The famed UK Travel Writer-Author Simon Calder is published around the world by the London-based The Independent and many other forums. His article after the November 9th U. S. election was about the Trump-Biden torment of Cuban families, specifically pinpointing one of Trump's cruelest attacks that his successor Biden inherited and has yet to overturn -- putting Cuba on the U. S. Sponsors of Terrorism list that had only previously included North Korea, Iran, and Syria. While, of course, the mainstream media in the U. S. doesn't have the courage to report such things regarding Cuba, today Simon Calder does have both the courage and talent to do so, as shown below:

    Simon Calder's first paragraph on November 9th-2022: "President Trump's final act against Cuba was to place the island on Washington's list of 'state sponsors of terrorism {SST}'. His successor, Joe Biden, has left the designation in place." While the cruel designation direly adds to the already dire effects of the ageless Embargo-Blockade against Cubans on the island, it greatly appeases and empowers Cubans in Miami and in Congress. In the second and third paragraphs above by Simon Calder, he points out that the 143 Counter Revolutionary sanctions against Cuba, such as adding Cuba to the USA's Sponsors of Terrorism list, also harms the freedoms of other nations...such as ENGLAND!!!

    Back on January 11, 2021 two journalists {see above} for NBC News reported that "The Trump administration declared Cuba a state sponsor of terrorism on Monday, the latest in a series of actions aimed at undoing the Obama-era legacy of opening U. S. relations with the island nation just weeks before President-elect Joe Biden takes office." Since the above article, there has been scant reporting by the U. S. media regarding the continuing barrage of assaults on Cubans in Cuba by the island's Superpower northern neighbor.

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The Cuba Headlines on NOVEMBER 8TH-2022

    Today -- November 8th-2022 -- is a vital Election Day in the United States. Meanwhile, today the Cuban headlines flashing around the world resemble the Cuban headlines that have existed since 1962, which was the year the world trembled for 14 days in October during the Cuban Missile Crisis and 1962 was also the year the superpower United States imposed a cruel economic Cuban Blockade, which has continued during the past six decades {and counting} as the world's longest and cruelest economic embargo ever imposed by any powerful nation against any much-smaller nation.

    And now today -- on November 8th-2022 -- above are the top four Cuban Headlines flashing around the world, proving that the genocidal U. S. embargo against Cuba remains...after all these decades...the prime topic related to US-Cuba Relations today. As you can see above, the top Cuban story today is from Newsweek and it was written by Tom O'Connor, its top Senior Foreign Policy Writer.

   Above is what Newsweek's Tom O'Connor told the world about the U. S. trade embargo against Cuba that has existed since 1962 and, as Newsweek reports, the last two U. S. presidential administrations -- meaning both Republican Trump and Democrat Biden -- have "went on to toughen the effective economic blockade against Cuba."

    And meanwhile, as Newsweek and all the top news sources in the world know, each year the nations of the world at the United Nations in New York vote to condemn the U. S. trade blockade on Cuba, although the superpower United States shamefully ignores that stark world opinion. A few days ago -- just prior to today's November 8th-2022 election in the United States -- you can see above the nations of the world that just voted 185-to-2 to beg the U. S. to end the embargo-blockade against Cuba, with only the U. S. and Israel, as usual, voting to maintain it. Somehow...unlike in the past six decades...perhaps in some future year the United States might consider the near-unanimity of world opinion before, year after year, continuing what most people believe is a cruel embargo/blockade against families in Cuba.

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