The Country Making Sure Cuba Survives in 2023

Vietnam also wants Cuba to Thrive in 2023!

    Revolutionary Cuba throughout January of 2023 is celebrating its 64th anniversary of its stunning victory over the U.S./Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship on January 1st of 1959. Surviving 64 years as Revolutionary Cuba is even more stunning than the initial triumph 64 Years ago.

    With the U. S. economic Embargo/Blockade in its 62nd year and as stringent as ever, a nation far from the Caribbean is determined to make sure that Revolutionary Cuba improves its blockaded economy and even has a "Happy New Year in 2023. Incredibly, that faraway country is Vietnam!!!

      The long and bloody Vietnam War finally ended on April 30th of 1975 in humiliation for the United States, which had tried to bomb North Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia into oblivion to hopefully leave the U.S.-backed Saigon-based South Vietnamese government in charge of all Vietnam as opposed to the anti-U.S. North Vietnam communists. The dramatic end, however, was a bitter defeat for the U. S. that even wiped out the name of the ancient city of Saigon and left Hanoi as the capital of all of Vietnam. And, incredibly, since 1975 Communist Vietnam has emerged as a highly praised trade partner of the United States!!

    By November 17th of 2006 {see/read above} the two-term U. S. President George W. Bush was in Hanoi lavishly toasting the strong economy that communist Vietnam had amassed. Above you see The White House itself officially proclaiming Vietnam's prosperity by publishing the photo above along with the caption that included President Bush saying: "Vietnam is a country that's taking its rightful place as a strong and vibrant nation." Since that visit to Hanoi in 2006 by President Bush the U. S. acceptance of Communist Vietnam has included the two nations becoming key trade partners.

     In Hanoi in 2006 President Bush wildly praised Vietnam while acknowledging reluctantly that Vietnam's victories in bloody wars against Western imperative powers such as France and then the United States were, uh, indeed memorable victories. Of course, in sharp contrast, no U. S. leader will acknowledge the need for the Cuban Revolution and, of course, no U. S. leader will acknowledge {see below} the drastic actions that the superpower U. S. has tried for the past 64 years in its efforts to overthrow the Cuban Revolution.

   Since January of 1959, against all odds, Revolutionary Cuba has survived only by surviving such things as a world-record number of assassination attempts, the famed 1961 Bay of Pigs military attack, the 1976 terrorist bomb that killed all 72 people aboard the civilian Cubana 455 airliner, and since 1962 the economic U. S. EMBARGO that, for six decades, has tried to starve, deprive, and make miserable Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their own revolutionary government that had defeated the U. S., the Mafia, and Batista back in January of 1959.

    In that milieu today -- on January 3rd of 2023 --the faraway nation of Vietnam is the only foreign country trying desperately to help Revolutionary Cuba survive the stifling U. S. Embargo. Tomorrow -- on January 4th of 2023 -- I will use 20 new photos to illustrate how Vietnam is trying so desperately to help Revolutionary Cuba survive...against all odds...in 2023.

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Starving Cubans in Cuba while making Cubans in Miami RICH!!!

 Welcome to Miami's Little Havana USA!!

    In January of 1959 the Cuban Revolution shocked the world by defeating the U.S.-backed Luciano-Lansky-Batista dictatorship. Since January of 1959 the rich and powerful Little Havana neighborhood in Miami has had the financial and political clout to dictate the USA's Cuban policies, which appears to be designed to {#1} make Cubans in Miami rich and {#2} starve Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary government. Those two priorities, with the first one still being lucratively fulfilled while the second one remains unfulfilled, remain in play till this very day -- January 2nd of 2023!!! Today both the Miami Herald and CBS News in Miami powerfully headlined how extremely lucrative the USA's Cuban policies continue...but still STARVING CUBANS IN CUBA WHILE ENRICHING CUBANS IN MIAMI!!!: "Miami U. S. District Judge Beth Bloom on Friday ruled that four Florida-based cruise lines must pay more than $400 million in damages for use of Cuba port. The damages will need to be paid to the American company that had the concession to some of the port piers in Havana that had been unlawfully expropriated by Fidel Castro in 1960, according to CBS 4 news partner The Miami Herald." Of course, as you read today's article from Miami don't FORGET how wonderful the Batista dictatorship was prior to the victory of the Cuban Revolution in 1959.

    For what it is worth, above you can see that CBS News and the Miami Herald today -- on January 2nd, 2023 -- tell us all about that possible new $400 million windfall for Cubans in Miami. Of course, Americans have been programmed since 1959 to believe that all the Cubans in Little Havana are good and all the Cubans in Havana are bad. So, for sure, Americans will not object to the aforementioned $400 milllion windfall mentioned today -- 01-02-2023 -- by this new article from Cuba-obsessed Miami that starts the New Year 2023.

     And, for sure, while accepting the financial U. S. windfalls from stringent Cuban policies since the 1950s, Americans are conveniently programmed in 2023 to not be ashamed of Carlos LaTuff's worldwide view of the USA as shown above.

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Cuba: Batista, Castro, and Miami

   Today -- on December 30th-2022 -- this was the massive headline in the Miami Herald: "Cuban migrants awaiting deportation are freed after U. S. accidentally leaked their info." For sure, in these last few days of 2022 the Miami Herald is obsessed with all things Cuban...including the record numbers of Cubans now flocking across the controversial U.S.-Mexican border to reach the United States.

    Of course, the reasons for the Cuban Revolution from 1952 to 1959 have never been emphasized in Miami's depiction's of why or how Fidel Castro replaced the Luciano-Batista-Lansky rule of Cuba on the first of January in 1959.

    And, of course, the massive attempts designed to overthrow the Cuban Revolution since 1959 include the Bay of Pigs military attack in 1961, along with an all-time record of assassination attempts against Fidel Castro, and -- since 1962 -- including the longest and cruelest economic Embargo ever imposed by any powerful nation against a much much smaller nation.

     The Bay of Pigs military attack, the assassination attempts, the EMBARGO, etc., have somehow not overthrown Revolutionary Cuba...but have starved, deprived, and made miserable the lives of generations of everyday Cubans on the island for the past six+ decades.

    Of course, since January of 1959 Cuba in Miami has created a Welcome to Little Havana USA that has spawned a bevy of rich and politically powerful Cuban-Americans in Miami...and in Washington.

    Of course...since Batista fled Cuba and left Castro in control of Cuba on January 1, 1959, Miami has dictated much of the history and topicality of the U.S.-Cuba conundrum.

     Thus, to justify six+ decades of trying to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba it has been important to deny the truths of Batista's extreme brutality in Cuba from 1952 till 1959, events that grossly enriched the Batistianos, the Mafiosi, and U. S. businessmen. 

     In Batista's money-crazed Cuba not even a few crumbs were doled out to the non-Batistiano Cubans, as indicated by the two photos shown above that spawned the Revolution.

          If truths are ever revealed in the U. S. regarding the Cuban Revolution, they will explain that a brilliant doctor's daughter named Celia Sanchez...not Fidel, Che, or Camilo...was the most important rebel and the key decision-maker during the Revolutionary War and then in Revolutionary Cuba after 1959.

    Because Miami has basically defined the U.S.-Cuba conundrum since 1959, Americans are supposed to not be able to understand this photo in Revolutionary Cuba. So permit me to explain it: Typically, on a porch one morning, the tireless and brilliant Celia Sanchez was busy writing rules for Revolutionary Cuba while Fidel Castro casually lazed in his rocking chair. But then, most importantly, whatever decisions Celia was writing down would be supported 100% by Fidel, whether or not he agreed with them. Thus...perhaps one day the Miami Herald will try to truthfully explain this historic photo.

    Or, perhaps, one day the Miami Herald might try truthfully to explain this photo. Meanwhile...I'll try to explain it. It shows Fidel Castro intently studying the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. It was during his 12-day visit in April of 1959...shortly after he had replaced Batista as Cuba's leader. The visit was not Fidel's idea...it was Celia's. After the triumph of the Revolution, she knew that friendship and trade with the U. S. was vital to Cuba. She then worked for weeks beginning in January of 1959 to get the U. S. to allow Fidel to visit the U. S. so he could tell President Eisenhower that Cuba wanted friendly relations with Cuba and that the U. S. could closely monitor a democratic election that fall in which Fidel would not be competing in...and neither would Che or Camilo. Finally, Celia got permission from the U. S. Society of Newspaper Editors and the U. S. State Department so that Fidel could make the vital visit. The trip for Fidel, which included Celia, lasted for 12 days in April of 1959 and Fidel was wildly treated as a rebel hero who had just overthrown a brutal dictator. But, of course, the historic trip soon took some historic and cruel turns.

    During his Celia Sanchez-orchestrated 12-day trip to the U. S. in April of 1959, Fidel Castro, speaking English, appeared on the top U. S. news show, Meet the Press...as also arranged by Celia.

     But the one dark and cruel aspect on the April-1959 visit to the U. S. by Fidel Castro involved a double-cross to Celia Sanchez. She had been told that Fidel would be allowed to meet with President Eisenhower, and that turned out to be a lie. Fidel was forced instead to meet with Vice President Richard Nixon, who brashly told "Fidel" that there was no need for him to talk about such things as friendship or trade or an election because..."your revolution will end in a few months...actually in just a few weeks."

    It so happens that Celia Sanchez, the prime decision-maker in Revolutionary Cuba, returned to Cuba devastated after her 12-day visit to the U. S. with Fidel in April of 1959. She then told two people -- Fidel and famed journalist Marta Rojas -- these exact words: "Nixon is an idiot and a criminal. As long as I live or as long as Fidel lives, Washington will never end this revolution." Celia died of cancer in 1980; Fidel died at 90 of old age in 2016. And as 2022 turns into 2023 Washington has still not ended the Cuban Revolution.

     By the way, when I visited Cuba in 2004 with the permission of the George W. Bush administration, I met the legendary journalist and author Marta Rojas. My mission in Cuba was to research the legendary rebel Celia Sanchez. The first American I met in Havana was Tracey Eaton, the USA's top journalist in Cuba. Tracey told me, correctly, that Marta Rojas knew more about Celia Sanchez, Fidel Castro, and the Cuban Revolution than anyone alive. That's how I got to know Marta Rojas, and in 2005 I wrote a book in which I explained why I exchanged emails with Marta, a truly great and sweet lady, after I returned to the U. S. in 2004. It was Marta, the one person who would know, who told me what Celia Sanchez said regarding the visit she and Fidel made to the U. S. in April of 1959: "Nixon is an idiot and a criminal. As long as I live or as long as Fidel lives, Washington will never end this revolution."

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THE USA WILL ALLOW CUBA TO PLAY BASEBALL

 AMAZING!!

    Since January of 1959 Little Cuba has considered itself a sovereign nation. That was the month the Cuban Revolution shocked the world by overthrowing the U.S./Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship.

    But since January of 1959 Little Cuba has struggled to express its sovereignty because the U. S. colossus just to the north has maintained its own colossal plans for the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful nation.

  But...lo and behold!!...the U. S. Cuban Headlines today -- on December 28th-2022 -- are truly shocking: "United States to allow MLB players to play for Cuba in World Baseball Classic." Incredible; I mean the U. S. IS ALLOWING Cuba to compete with the other 19 nations involved in the World Baseball Classic that starts in March, 2023. FANTASTIC!! Does this mean that someone in Washington actually believes that Cuba is a sovereign nation?????????

     If the headline and sub-headline shown above is true, Cuba is suddenly a favorite to win the 20-nation World Baseball Classic starting in March of 2023!!! On level playing fields, Cuba is capable of winning the 2023 World Baseball Classic starting on March 8th when it plays its first game in Taiwan...just like Cuba won the first three Olympic Baseball Championships when the games were played on level conditions. Per capita Cuba produces the best baseball players in the world and that includes the 600 that have defected to the riches of Major League Baseball because of draconian sanctions against Cuba since 1959.

     Other baseball powers such as the U. S., Japan, and the Dominican Republic {where all 30 U. S. Major League teams have lucrative year-around baseball training facilities}, of course, have recently been allowed to use Major League Players, all nations except Cuba.

    Until this last week of 2022 Cuba believed the USA's worldwide influence, and its excruciating "longtime sanctions" against Cuba, would keep the Caribbean nation from competing in the 2023 World Baseball Classic.

    Like families in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and other Caribbean nations, Cuban fathers in Cuba begin early to train their boys to play baseball...knowing that they now can have long careers in the U. S. where star players are now making $40 million dollars A YEAR in salaries -- plus more millions of easy dollars each year from U. S. companies eager to lavish ad money on such athletes. In the Caribbean there are many poor families that have learned that a star baseball player can earn $40 to $60 million dollars A YEAR on outrageous but very legal long-term U. S. contracts!!!!

    But apart from the obscene and easy money that Cuban players can get playing baseball in the United States, Cubans such as the three shown above simply love baseball!!!!

     And, yes, despite the ultra-cruel and ultra-unique sanctions that the U. S. has levied on Cuba for the past six decades, Cuba still produces, per capita, the best baseball players in the world. And, yes, on level playing fields around the world Cuba can still win heralded international baseball tournaments such as the upcoming 20-nation World Baseball Classic in which teams from the Dominican Republic, U. S., Japan, Venezuela...and Cuba...will be among the favorites.

   In the USA's two-Party political system, in the past six decades the Republican President Donald Trump has levied the most harsh sanctions against Cuba. But the current Democrat President Joe Biden has been slower than expected to ease the most draconian Cuban policies he inherited from Trump.

    After sane and decent overtures to Cuba by two-term President Barack Obama, Major League Baseball and the Federation of Cuban Baseball signed an historic agreement in which Cuban baseball players would have the same rights as players from other nations to reach the U. S. and play pro baseball. The MLB leaders direly wanted the agreement because greedy and criminal agents and human traffickers were grossly ripping off and at times brutally treating Cuban defectors who wanted to play baseball in the Major Leagues. Everyone except the sanction benefactors loudly praised the MLB-FCB agreement. But like all other sane and decent agreements between the U. S. and Cuba since 1959, the sane and decent MLB-FCB agreement was quickly doomed by a minority of rich and powerful people in the U. S. who benefit either financially or politically from the vast and unending Cuban diaspora.

    During the Trump presidency, ultra-powerful Cuban-American U. S. Senators Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez weren't about to allow the sane and decent MLB-FCB agreement to last very long.  And therefore it didn't!!

    Yet...at least for a few hours on December 28th-2022...the United States {see above} appeared to treat Cuba as a sovereign nation that would be "allowed to" make some sovereign decisions of its own regarding the upcoming 2023 World Baseball Classic.

Incredible!!

Is Miami sleeping on Dec. 28th-2022??

Or can Cuba now win the World Baseball Classic?

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