Cuba Decides to Produce Its OWN Food!!!

     Since 2018 Miguel Diaz-Canel has been the undisputed President of Cuba. Well known for his success in his previous job, which was Minister of Education, on February 1st of 2023 he still believes he has the support of a strong majority of Cubans on the island. He was born after the 1959 triumph of the Cuban Revolution but Diaz-Canel remains a lifelong supporter of revolutionary icon Fidel Castro. To this day, contrary to how U. S. sources portray Fidel Castro, after he replaced the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship, Castro is still renowned for quickly guaranteeing things such as free healthcare for life and free education through college for all Cubans. But while idolizing Castro's legacy, Diaz-Canel has privately criticized Revolutionary Cuba for some key mistakes, especially for having to buy most of its food as opposed to producing it on the island. Thus, President Diaz-Canel is working hard to vastly improve the island's food production.

          President Diaz-Canel believes that Fidel Castro's greatest support when he began his Revolution on July 26th of 1953 {when he audaciously attacked Batista's Moncada Military Base} came from two primary sources: {1} The young anti-Batista zealots aligned with the Federation of University Students where many of them, such as Jose Antonio Echeverria, became famed revolutionary martyrs; and {2} the severely maligned and neglected non--Batistiano peasants, all of whom hated Batista and loved their rebel hero Fidel. As shown above, Diaz-Canel believes that those two same sources today -- rural peasant farmers and adult students -- are vital keys for Cuba in 2023 to survive the stifling U. S. economic Embargo, which began way back in 1962. The photo above shows President Diaz-Canel joining student volunteers working a field to produce more-and-more food that farmers will later profitably sell in markets across the island. So far there are results!!

   The four photos directly above were posted this week on Facebook -- Jan.-Feb-2023 -- by renowned independent photographer Roberto Suarez. They show Cuban farmers producing food and then trucking it along the highways to markets across the island. 

    As shown by the fourteen photos directly above, the food now being produced in Cuba by Cuban farmers is beginning to be sold in markets that seem to be both flourishing and becoming more-and-more important to everyday Cubans.

     As he did when he was Minister of Education, now as the President of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel closely communicates with the island's everyday people...both in the streets and in the fields but particularly by using nationwide television broadcasts. The photo above was taken from Cuban TV this first week of February of 2023. He often refers to the legacy of Jose Antonio Echeverria, such as when he now encourages University students to volunteer to work in the fields to help produce food for the Cuban people...and "also to help our farmers become successful entrepreneurs, because if our farmers are not successful, neither will the rest of us."

    This was Jose Antonio Echeverria in 1957 as the Top Student Leader at the University of Havana delivering one of his revolutionary anti-Batista exhortations at a time when many such student leaders were being furiously hunted and then gunned down by Batista's feared police units.

    This was the day -- March 13th-1957 -- when Jose Antonio Echeverria himself was gunned down on a Havana street. His martyrdom is now -- in February of 2023 -- encouraging University leaders to respond to President Miguel Diaz-Canel's call for them to volunteer to help Cuban farmers to produce more domestic food, most of which Cuba -- during the endless U. S. Embargo -- has tried to buy from foreign sources.

       The U. S. economic Embargo of Cuba has existed since 1962 for the purpose of trying to economically starve Cuba. At times it has succeeded even though a vast majority of people around the world believe strongly that rosy-cheeked little Cuban girls and other innocents on the vulnerable island don't deserve to be "starved, deprived, or made miserable" to appease a relative handful of rich people in a much-larger neighboring nation.

     Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel believes that the Caribbean's largest nation is a Free Cuba. And moreover, Diaz-Canel believes that it is time that Revolutionary Cuba begins to grow most of its own food while its farmers make good money producing it and selling it at proliferating markets.

    President Miguel Diaz-Canel, in other words, in February of 2023 has a plan: He plans for Cuba to survive the endless U. S. Embargo by becoming a key Caribbean food producer!!

    This photo shows a woman in Havana buying some fresh produce. When Cubans on the island have the wherewithal to buy fresh food grown in Cuba, the world is a better place...regardless of what some people in the USA say.

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Chaos & Intrigue Dominate Cuban Headlines Daily

 

     Revolutionary Cuba in 2023 has entered into its 64th Year after the pugnacious Caribbean island on the first day of 1959 overthrew the supposedly unbeatable U.S./Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship. During the centuries of Spanish control, during the decades of U. S. domination after the 1895 Spanish-American War, and from 1952 till 1959 when the ultra-powerful Batista dictatorship ruled the island, the Chaos & Intrigue attached to Cuba saturated headlines internationally.

   And since January 1-1959 till January 30th of 2023, the United States -- viewing Cuba across the Florida Straits from the nearby Miami community of Little Havana -- has plotted every conceivable plan to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba...including the 1961 Bay of Pigs military attack, 500+ world-record assassination attempts on Fidel Castro, and since 1962 by history's longest and cruelest economic Embargo ever posed on any small nation by any much larger nation. Thus, it can be said that the Chaos & Intrigue related to Revolutionary Cuba has reached new heights in the past six decades. That fact...or nuance...was illustrated again today -- January 30th, 2023 -- by the international Cuban headlines.

    Today, as you can see above, the CNBC Cuban headline on Jan. 30th-2023 screams these words: "Chaos and intrigue reign in UK court fight over Castro-era Cuban debt." As usual, the other three TOP CUBAN HEADLINES -- the ones from the Miami Herald, the Associated Press, and the Wall Street Street -- simply stick to their constant themes of propagandizing about how terribly bad Revolutionary Cuba is and how terribly nice the murderous Batista dictatorship that preceded it was.

    From the 1940s and the 1950s the brutal Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, as shown above, was squired around as a saint when he visited the U. S. capital of Washington.

     As the leader of the victorious Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro survived numerous assassination attempts. Many sources list over 600 times in which assassins from the CIA and Mafia tried to kill him. Other sources including the Guinness Book of World Records, a notable documentary, and the following You Tube video place the number at "638", pinpointing the well-known "7 times" that the U. S. Congress Senator Church Committee confirmed. {Senator Frank Church, to this very day, remains the most notable politician famed for criticizing governments, notably his own, for trying to kill foreign leaders, and Senator Church was astonished when he learned about just the First 7 such attempts against Fidel Castro...not knowing at the time there were or would be about 600 more}. The video below mentions Mr. Church:

     Whatever the number of assassination attempts against Fidel Castro, it is surely a world record!!!! And before he died of Old Age in Havana at 90 he often joked about how many.

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Yes, Cubans STILL LOVE Their Independence Fighters!!

     All across Cuba all this week Cubans are honoring the life of Jose Marti, the famed poet who was born in Havana on January 28th, 1853. He could have lived out his rich life in Paris, London, New York or wherever he desired but he returned to his beloved Cuba to fight in the island's Independence War against Spanish soldiers. He died in the Battle of Rio Cauto on May 19th, 1895. To this day in 2023 Jose Marti is roundly heralded on the island every day, especially on his BIRTHDAY. The children in Cuba particularly still celebrate Jose Marti's BIRTHDAY, as shown above by 9-year-old Mariana who is shown today in her favorite Spanish Dancer dress so she can dance in honor of the child-loving Jose Marti.

     For sure, Jose Marti left behind many, many quotations that still resonate around the world, but the one above is the one that means the most to Cuban mothers in Cuba today: "Children are the hope of the world." 

    This was Mariana, the now 9-year-old Spanish Dancer who is dancing this week to honor Jose Marti's January 28th birthday. Even at Age 4, as she was when the photo above was taken, Mariana's mother posted on Facebook a truly beautiful video that showed the 4-year-old Mariana beautifully singing a song entitled "Marti!! Marti!!"

January 28th-1853 -- May19th, 1895!!!

     The photo above was taken today -- January 27th, 2023 -- in Havana,  the city where Jose Marti was born on January 28th, 1853. The 9-year-old Spanish Dancer Mariana today in Havana was dancing to honor Jose Marti's birthday, which is tomorrow!!!!

     In Spanish the word "Patria" means "Homeland" and it was appropriately headlined around the world when the internationally renowned poet Jose Marti died on his return to Cuba to fight for Cuban independence against Spanish soldiers. Jose Marti died in the Battle of Rio Cauto on May 19, 1895...a bloody battle in which Spain won to keep control of Cuba. But the love that Jose Marti had for Cuba surely inspired future Cuban independent fighters...including a young lawyer named Fidel Castro in 1952!!

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Why Does the US Hate Dr. Velez?

 Because he hasn't defected to Miami?

    Beyond doubt, Dr. Vicente Velez is one of the world's most brilliant and most successful doctors and medical researchers. He is famed for developing treatments and vaccines that have saved millions of people, especially focusing his energy on childhood diseases. Dr. Velez is also listed as a terrorist by the United States, apparently designated as such to appease some unknown but zealous Counter Revolutionary in the U. S. that promotes the six-decade-old economic Embargo/Blockade of Cuba. Thus, while the world loves and respects Dr. Velez, the U. S. hates him as he continues his vital work at Cuba's famed Findlay Institute in Havana.

    In mid-January of 2023, this massive headline {and article} in the WASHINGTON POST tells the world "How Cuba became a pioneer in covid-19 vaccines for kids." Of course, the answer is the brilliant Dr. Vicente Velez!! Yes, somehow at Havana's Findlay Institute Dr. Velez, despite the U. S. Embargo that tries to starve Cuba's economy, developed Covid-19 vaccines that have saved the lives of MANY children in Cuba and elsewhere. The WASHINGTON POST confirmed and updated these facts in these early days of 2023.

 From Havana in January of 2023 the WASHINGTON POST says: "Long before he was declared a U. S. national security threat, Vicente Verez was a Cuban chemist who loved kids. His specialty was vaccines. In the 1990s, he helped create an inexpensive vaccine targeting the bacteria known as haemophilus influenzae type b, or Hib, which had been killing children under 5. It was a global hit. So when covid-19 came along, Verez knew what he had to do." Then if you dial up the very long article in the WASHINGTON POST and study it, you will learn how once again, during the Covid-19 pandemic, the brilliant Dr. Velez developed more vaccines that have saved and are saving the lives of children. "So when covid-19 came along, Verez knew what he had to do." And so, as he so brilliantly did in the 1990s when so many children were dying from haemophilus influenzae, Dr. Velez quickly developed successful vaccines to fight Covid-19.

  The WASHINGTON POST: "Most of Cuba's youngsters got their shots months ago. His Soberana 02, used in children as young as 2, is one of a pair of homemade vaccines credited with taming covid-19."

A precious jewel from Dr. Velez.

     His love for Cuba's children inspired Dr. Vicente Velez to devote his life to creating vaccines that are fighting dreadful diseases, such as Covid-19.

Dr. Vicente Velez

     And by the way, this photo courtesy of Flickr shows the Findlay Institute in 1991 right after it was opened. Fidel Castro named it to honor Carlos Juan Findlay, the doctor who pioneered the research that resulted in the life-saving Yellow Fever vaccine.

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Cuba Allowed Fair Treatment in the World Baseball Classic!!

 DESPITE THE U. S. EMBARGO!!

     The 20-team World Baseball Classic 2023 starts in March. Baseball-loving Cuba, per capita, has the best players in the world and, on fair playing fields, the island nation regularly won most international tournaments...including three consecutive Gold Medals in the Olympics. But the U. S. embargo kept enlarging the Embargo/Blockade sanctions against Cuba, including making the island uncompetitive in recent international baseball events, including the World Baseball Classic. But, lo 'n behold, the U. S. in 2023 incredibly has allowed Cuba to finally include Cuban Major League players, giving the island nation a fighting chance in the WBC 2023 starting in March.

   Above are recent articles from sources such as Reuters that explain how Cuba, like the other 19 teams in the World Baseball Classic, can use some native players that are currently stars in the U. S. Major Leagues.

    Thus, Cuba's preliminary starting line-up for the World Baseball Classic -- as shown above -- includes some Cuban-born players that are superstars in the U. S. Major Leagues. Luis Robert will be anchoring the Cuban outfield in Center Field and Yoan Moncada will be anchoring the Cuban infield at Third Base. This drastically improves Cuba's chances in the World Baseball Classic. Cuba's first game in the WBC will be March 7th against the Netherlands in faraway Taiwan.

     This is Luis Robert, the superstar Center Fielder for the Chicago White Sox. Born 25 years ago in Abreus, a town of 30,000 on Cuba's southern coast, Luis is one of the most talented outfielders in the U. S. Major Leagues and will be one of the top players in the World Baseball Classic.

    This is Yoan Moncada, the superstar Third Baseman for the Chicago White Sox in the U. S. Major Leagues and for Cuba in the World Baseball Classic. Yoan was born 27 years ago in Guantanamo, Cuba. Both Yoan and Luis combine superb power and speed. Both had injury-plagued 2022 seasons for the White Sox but are now healthy as the Cuban National Team begins to practice for the WBC, including exhibition games in the Dominican Republic and Mexico before flying to Taiwan to face the Netherlands on March 7th.

    The aforementioned Reuters article depicted above mentions that over "650 Cuban players have defected to the U. S." to pursue their dreams of becoming multi-millionaire stars in the Major Leagues. Many of them now own lavish mansions, especially in Florida. The photos above show Luis Robert and his mansion in nearby Florida. Luis, of course, has plenty of money to buy such things as the mansion shown above but, at age 25, he is still not quite eligible for Free Agency. When he reaches Free Agency -- meaning all 30 MLB teams can bid for him, Luis Robert will be able to purchase ten mansions like the property shown above. Below are some more photos of Luis Robert's current mansion in Florida.

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