President's Trip Was Important

    On his four-nation trip seeking help from Algeria, Russia, Turkey and China, Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel was warmly...even lavishly...received by the four key foreign Presidents -- Tebboune, Erdogan, Putin, and Xi. But most observers have concluded that the promises that China's Xi Jinping personally gave to President Diaz-Canel are the most important.

     The USA's top News Agency, the Associated Press, as you can see above, reported from Beijing just how important Xi Jinping's promises to Miguel Diaz-Canel were, stressing that China now says that Cuba's economic survival is considered one of China's "core interests." The AP explained it this way: "China generally defines core interests as the defense of its economic and political development aims, along with control over territory it claims, especially self-governing Taiwan. No specific issues or other countries were mentioned in the Chinese government news release. Diaz-Canel's visit is a further sign of how China is trying to jump-start its in-person diplomacy after a virtual shutdown of such exchanges during the pandemic." China is generally considered the prime...or only...threat capable of overtaking the United States as the world's economic and military Superpower.

       The AP article above also said: "Diaz-Canel was quoted as saying his visit 'shows that we attach great importance and attention to the friendly and cooperative relationship between Cuba and China.'" And the AP also concluded: "China is Cuba's second largest trading partner after key oil producer Colombia, and has provided buses, locomotives and other equipment for the island's drive to upgrade its decrepit infrastructure. Chinese firms have also invested in mineral extraction in Cuba but on a limited scale."

    Today is November 25th-2022. On November 25th-2016 revolutionary icon Fidel Castro died at age 90 in Havana.

    On the anniversary of his death on November 25th-2016 millions of Cubans are remembering things such as...Fidel Castro's revolutionary victory in 1959, many of his quotations, his defense of his revolution at the Bay of Pigs in 1961, the world-record assassination attempts that he survived before dying of old age at 90 in 2016, etc., etc., etc.

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Yes, Cuba Seeks Help From Non-US Nations

 

    In November of 2022 Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel believed that the ageless, 6-decade-old U. S. Embargo/Blockade was increasingly starving the nation's vulnerable economy as well as more-and-more beginning to starve the masses of Cuban people themselves. Thus he embarked on a long, expensive journey to four nations -- Algeria, Russia, Turkey, and China -- that he believed were able to help Cuba and, moreover, will not be too afraid to displease the economic and military Superpower United States. The photos above showing President Diaz-Canel being powerfully welcomed to Moscow by President Vladimir Putin has, not surprisingly, angered the U. S. government and the U. S. media the most.

     But non-U.S. sources -- such as the Spanish media giant EL PAIS -- are much less biased and more sympathetic to President Diaz-Canel's 4-nation mission. As shown above, EL PAIS even explained that Cuba did not vote in the UN to support Russia's invasion of Ukraine but Cuba has few options in its quest to survive the U. S. blockade and therefore must seek help wherever it can...including Putin's Russia.

     But all four of the powerful Presidents of Algeria, Russia, Turkey, and China have hosted President Diaz-Canel this week even more lavishly and extravagantly than expected -- including China's ultra-powerful President Zi Jinping. For sure, China is the biggest threat to replace the United States as the world's top economic and military Superpower. Like the other three strong presidential hosts, President Zi strongly gave President Diaz-Canel a military salute...and President Zi also took time to formally introduce President Diaz-Canel to top Chinese Ministers that he said will help Cuba survive the Blockade.

     This photo shows President Zi introducing President Diaz-Canel to key Chinese officials that presumably will help Cuba survive the U. S. Blockade of Cuba.

     In all four nations -- Algeria, Russia, China, and Turkey -- Cuban President Diaz-Canel was allowed to make long speeches on both television and to legislative sessions.

     The major speeches by President Diaz-Canel on his four-nation tour were also carried live on newscasts back in Cuba.

     Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune loudly told President Diaz-Canel and the world that, "The blockade against Cuba is a criminal calamity of historic proportions." 

    Turkey is an ultra-powerful member of NATO and President Racep Tayyip Erdogan, while sitting next to President Diaz-Canel, told his legislature and a nationwide television audience, "Our cooperation and solidarity with Cuba must be increased because for much too long NATO's strongest nation, the United States, has been allowed to intimidate the world and continue for all these decades a genocidal program against the everyday people of a tiny nation, our friend Cuba."

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US Media Wants Cuba to Stop Trying to Survive

 

     While barely having enough finances to try to keep its electricity on and to keep its 11 million people from starving, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel this week felt obliged to fly thousands of exhaustive and expensive miles to seek help from four possibly supportive nations -- Albania, Russia, Turkey, and China. Of course, Diaz-Canel would prefer staying much closer to home while hoping Miami and Washington would finally show some concern and compassion for everyday Cubans in Cuba instead of continually tightening the SIX-DECADE-OLD Embargo-Blockade that, starting in 1962, began with the purpose of starving, depriving, and making miserable Cubans on the island to persuade them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. The ploy has not worked but, with the compliance or cowardice of the American people, after six+ decades, it continues!!! 

     Meanwhile...on November 23rd-2022...above are the TOP Cuban Headlines circling around the world, all designed to suggest that Cubans in Miami and Washington are saintly creatures while Cubans in Cuba are deserving to be...starved, deprived, and made miserable. Such propaganda for over six decades has made this worldwide image of the United States totally acceptable to the gullible, uncaring American people:

    Until...or if...the U. S. has a generation of more caring and more sensible people, this image will never be permitted to shame the American people.

    On his long, expensive trip this week in the last days of November-2022, Cuba's President Diaz-Canel felt it necessary to seek some help from Russia's President Putin. With Russia's ongoing War in Ukraine angering the world, Putin is aware that Cuba refused to support the war in a UN vote...but, as expected, he greeted Cuba's leader cordially.

     But, of course, photos this week in Moscow showing Diaz-Canel shaking hands and smiling with Putin are used as more fodder for the western media to tell the world how saintly Cubans in Miami are and how worthy of blackouts and starvation Cubans in Cuba are. A more unbiased media in the U. S. and elsewhere would, of course, at least mention that President Diaz-Canel -- who is popular with most Cubans in Cuba -- has very few options left in his quest to keep the Cuban people in Cuba from starving, being deprived, and made miserable.

Miguel Diaz-Canel's Cuba is next door to Miami.

In other words, geography is Cuba's problem.

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A Legend Dies in Cuba

 As Cuba's President Seeks Foreign Economic Help

     Today -- on November 22nd-2022 -- this interesting photo was taken in Moscow. It shows Presidents Diaz-Canel and Putin right after they had placed red roses before a famous statue in the Russian capital. The statue is of Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.

     This photo today was sent around the world by the London-based Reuters News Agency. It shows Cuban President Diaz-Canel and Russian President Putin after they placed a plethora of red roses at a statue of Fidel Castro in Moscow.

   As the tightened U. S. Embargo/Blockade coupled with other recent disasters such as the Pandemic and drastic explosions that have plagued the island, continue to strangle Cuba's already fragile economy, President Miguel Diaz-Canel is on a vital 4-nation trip designed to seek help from four more friendly nations. Today, on November 22nd-2022 -- the two photos above show Diaz-Canel speaking before the Russian legislature in Moscow. His long speech was repeatedly punctuated with strong applause.

      And meanwhile, Cubans on the island today are deeply mourning the death of musical  legend Pablo Milanes. Since his teenage years he has thrilled Cubans as a singer, songwriter, and guitar player. Renowned internationally for his unique talents and his steadfast devotion to the Cuban people, Pablo Milanes will never be forgotten in Cuba.

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US Cuba Policy: Sane or Insane

Fair or Unfair/Honest or Criminal?

   History registers the fact that both Cuba and the United States were discovered in 1492 by the Spanish explorer Columbus. Since then...and especially since the years 1898, the year the U. S. won its Spanish-American War in Cuba to become the new imperative power to dominate Cuba; and 1959, the year Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution overthrew the US's Cuban dictator Batista...there have been very few historians and journalists in the United States that have had the courage, integrity, and ability to tell the truth about the contentious US-Cuba relations. But for many years William LeoGrande has had those three traits and used them to be the USA's overall best and most honest expert related to the much maligned U.S.-Cuba saga. William LeoGrande is the renowned Professor of Government Studies at American University in Washington.

    Today -- November 21st-2022 -- above are the TOP FOUR Cuban headlines flashing around the world. The Foreign Policy Magazine article is headlined: "WHY DEMOCRATS SHOULD FORGET ABOUT FLORIDA and FOCUS on CUBA." You should dial it up and study it carefully because it is written by the great William LeoGrande.

     Above are some of the paragraphs in today's article by William LeoGrande, the top U. S. expert regarding U.S.-Cuba Relations. With the data provided above, you should dial up the entire article and then not JUST read it but devour it.

 Anyone concerned with U.S.-Cuba Relations should consult the aforementioned article today by William LeoGrande. And also, if you can't attend his classes at American University in Washington, at least read his books...especially "BACK CHANNEL TO CUBA" that he co-authored with the great Peter Kornbluh. For example, the Nixon-Castro photo shown on the cover of that seminal book has been grossly lied about for decades to comply with the USA's counter revolutionary assaults on Revolutionary Cuba since January of 1959. The photo was taken in April of 1959 when Fidel Castro flew to the U. S. to tell President Eisenhower that Revolutionary Cuba would be democratic and be the U.S.'s friend and trading partner. Both the U. S. Society of Newspaper Editors and the U. S. government assured him that he could meet Eisenhower face-to-face but that turned out to be a lie; instead he met Vice President Nixon who famously told Fidel Castro that none of that would ever happen because the U. S. would quickly recover control of Cuba. During the 12 days of Castro's trip to the U. S. in April of 1959, he was wildly treated as a revolutionary hero by the American people in both Washington and New York...but he returned to Cuba shaken by Nixon's prediction, which he famously resisted and kept from happening till he died in Havana at age 90 in 2016.

     During his 12-day visit to the U. S. in April of 1959, the new rebel leader of Cuba, as shown above, was on TV's famous Meet the Press program to tell the American people what he had been promised he would be allowed to tell President Eisenhower. But Nixon was the one who shamefully met with Fidel Castro to let him know that the U. S. would quickly recapture Cuba.

    During his 12 days in the U. S. in April of 1959 as Cuba's post-Batista leader, the American people treated Fidel Castro as a hero...and he visited places such as the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. If he had met President Eisenhower, and not Vice President Nixon, it is possible that U.S.-Cuba Relations from 1959 until 2022...and counting...would have been drastically different.

     From April of 1959 until November of 2022 the American people have been grossly lied to about this famous Castro-Nixon photo. And that's a damn shame...for both the U. S. and Cuba.

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