From Cuba on February 4th-2023

    With offices in both Havana and Miami, the fair and excellent reporters at On Cuba News are your best sources for daily news and photos from and about Cuba. Otherwise too much of the media insight from Cuba, especially in the propaganda-obsessed U. S. media, is terribly slanted in favor of the six-decade-old U. S. Embargo that remains designed to fully starve the Cuban economy. Below are some honest photos and captions from Cuba today -- February 4th-2023 -- by On Cuba News:

    Also today -- on Feb. 4th-2023 -- are two interesting photos from Havana from two notable photographers Roberto Suarez and Victor Toledo. These last two photos were posted on Facebook today, revealing insight into the island.

     The two above Suarez-Toledo photos today -- February 4th, 2023 -- show a food market as Cuba stresses entrepreneurs that will purchase farm products grown in Cuba and make a profit selling them; and the other photo shows Cubans fishing from Havana's famous Malecon wall while in front of them yet another high-rise hotel is being built. Embargoed, Revolutionary Cuba is many things on February 4th, 2023 -- and all of them are interesting.

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Biden White House Thinks of Cuba {a little}

 How About That???

      It is true, yes, that the UK's Simon Calder is known as the world's top Travel Writer. Thus he is familiar with the U. S. Embargo of Cuba that, since 1962, has been designed to starve the Cuban economy by making sure that the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful island is not the tourist mecca that it should be. So, in this first weekend of February in 2023 it is interesting to note that Simon Calder had devoted a long update on what he calls "US u-turns on Cuba tourists."

    As a world-famed Travel Writer, Simon Calder is well aware of how the last two U. S. Presidents -- Trump & Biden -- have tussled with Cuba, which is, uh, on "Washington's list of 'state sponsors of terrorism'" -- which is one of the "reasons" for Washington to continue into a Seventh Decade of imposing the Embargo on Cuba that, among other reasons, tries to strangle Cuba's tourism so as to strangle the island's overall economy.

       Meanwhile...the U. S. media remains obsessed with anti-Cuban propaganda as espoused by extreme Counter Revolutionary U. S. Cubans and their acolytes...always ignoring worldwide opinion as well as most Cuban-Americans, such as Carlos Lazo. A Cuban-born professor from Seattle, Carlos is always campaigning somewhere against the Embargo. Today -- February 3rd of 2023 -- Carlos took his message to the streets of Miami. His BRIDGES of LOVE organization also flies planes loaded with supplies of food and medicine to help the besieged families on the island of Cuba. While the mainstream media in the United States lacks the integrity to report on Carlos Lazo's passionate love for Cuban families, his strong presence on Social Media networks is fueling BRIDGES of LOVE.    Meanwhile...Haydee Milanes, one of the world's greatest singers, says: "Actually, I'm in Havana."

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Cuba In the First Week of February-2023

 One News Source Reports Truth About the Embargo!

     One media source that has offices in both Havana and Miami -- On Cuba News -- is unique because it actually reports honest and unbiased news regarding the ongoing conundrum that is known as Havana-Miami Relations and U.S.-Cuba Relations. For example, the photo above on a street in Havana shows Cubans trying eagerly to withdrawn their money from a bank...perhaps to then migrate to nearby Miami, as hundreds of thousands of Cubans are actually doing during the two years of the Biden administration in Washington. WHY? It is important to know why that is happening and it is important to know how much the extremely cruel and undemocratic, six-decade-old U. S. Embargo/Blockade is so powerfully causing that to happen in February of 2023. The Miami Herald and the rest of the U. S. media will not provide honest and unbiased information about why there is currently a vast and often dangerous migration of Cubans to Miami. But again today -- February 2nd, 2023 -- On Cuba News reports truthfully and insightfully about the current mass migration of Cubans to Miami and the U. S.

   From Manzanillo, Cuba, Arturo Arango is a respected journalist/author with honest insight into why a record number of Cubans are migrating to the United States.

    Today -- February 2nd, 2023 -- the above article today in On Cuba News explains honestly and truthfully why the ongoing Cuban migration to the United States has already reached new heights...many times more than the famed 1980 Mariel Boatlift that ended with about 125,000 Cubans migrating to the U. S. with approval of both Fidel Castro and the United States. The article above features Alex Fleites of On Cuba News interviewing Arturo Arango to learn why a record number of Cubans are currently migrating to the United States. The article today, for example, includes the paragraph shown below that begins with this sentence: "The great theme continues to be material survival, day to day." In other words, the U. S. Embargo -- with starvation themes that have existed since 1962 -- has reached a crescendo in February of 2023 that, more than ever, is affecting the "survival" of Cuban families on the island. Perhaps it is time for the U. S. media, the U. S. government, and the U. S. people to admit what they are doing to innocent Cuban families in Cuba.

The longest genocide in history?

The cruelest EMBARGO in history???

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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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