Mexico's Love Affair With Cuba!!!!

    This is now mid-February in 2023. Last week Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel and his wife Lis, for the 5th time recently, flew to Mexico to visit their friend Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the President of Mexico. As you can see by the photos below, the two Presidents exchanged and placed around each other's necks their two nations' highest medallions awarded to foreigners.

     After the exchange of medallions that was viewed live via Newscasts in both countries, Cuba's Diaz-Canel and Mexico's Obrador, as shown by the photos below, delivered televised speeches that stressed the "genocide" that Cuban families have suffered from for the past six decades because of the U. S. Embargo-Blockade that began in February of 1962.

    As Cuba's President and First Lady watched and listened intently, Mexico's President Obrador used a large poster to show and to tell them how Mexico is planning to help the long-besieged Caribbean nation survive the U. S. Embargo/Blockade.

     Of Course, the mainstream U. S. media mostly ignored the important North American visit of the Cuban leader to again meet with Mexico's leader, but as you can see by studying the three images directly above the Associated Press, the USA's largest News Agency that is used by thousands of U. S. newspapers, mocked the latest Obrador-Diaz-Canel meeting as "The latest chapter in Mexico's love-fest with Cuba." Of course, the AP and the rest of the mainstream U. S. media routinely mock any international leader, such as Mexico's President Obrador, that tries to help Cuban families on the island that, for generation-after-generation, must try to survive the extreme cruelties of the endless U. S. Embargo-Blockade.

     But, of course, the mainstream U. S. media, which thinks the Embargo-Blockade of Cuba is a wonderful part of the USA's foreign policies, has its own "love-fest" with the brutal and thieving Batista-Lansky-Mafia dictatorship that ruled Cuba in the 1950s prior to the victory by the Cuban Revolution. Batista and Lansky were nice Cuban leaders because they permitted, in exchange for massive financial & military kick-backs, rich U. S. companies to also enjoy the spoils of robbing and raping Cuba...until a little revolution intervened.

        Three things {above} that the U. S. media ignores are: The Mafia rule of Cuba from 1952-1959; the reasons for the Cuban Revolution from 1952-1959; and the U. S. EMBARGO of Cuba from February of 1962 until February of 2023.

     The U. S. Cuban policy, as shown by the two graphics above, supported the Mafia rule of Cuba before 1959 because of financial reasons. And since 1959, to appease a few rich Cuban-Americans in Miami-Dade County, the U. S. democracy ignores world opinion, and even the opinions of most Cuban-Americans in Miami-Dade County, to maintain, for over six decades, a draconian Cuban policy that apparently longs for something akin to the days of Batista & Lansky from 1952 till 1959.

    From the 1950s till FEBRUARY of 2023, perhaps the two best headlines that define the saga of U.S.-Cuban Relations are: "Cuba in Miami" and "A Caribbean Mob Story. The Mafia in Havana." 

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Valentine Day''s Love/Hate for Cuba

Havana vs. Little Havana!!

    On Valentine's Day-2023, on February 14th, this Cuban television journalist in Havana shows her love for Cuba and for her station Cubavision International.

     But as usual...the Hate for Cuba from Little Havana in Miami remains palpable on Valentine's Day-2023 -- February 14th -- and the rest of the media all year around. The top-left headline today -- "Cuba Dares Biden to Look Away" -- is written by the Wall Street Journal's longtime Cuban hater Mary O'Grady. The bottom-left headline today -- "Mexican's president's medal to Cuban dictator is an outrage/His words at the ceremony...{were outrageous, etc.} were written by the Miami Herald's longtime Cuban hater Andres Oppenheimer. Those two articles on Valentine's Day-2023 represent the usual propaganda-driven media in the United States that polls indicate that 90% or so of the American people "don't trust" -- nor should!!! For decades O'Grady & Oppenheimer have used their mainstream media profiles to suggest that dictator Batista was a saint and his rule of Cuba prior to the Revolution was saintly...and, of course, they use that Batistiano saintliness to contrast with anything and everything Cuba has done since 1959 when the Cuban Revolution rid the island of Batista, despite his massive support from the Mafia and the United States.

      On Valentines Day -- February 14th, 2023 -- and every day of the year, the mainstream U. S. media rams down the throats of the American people that their Embargo/Blockade, which began in February of 1962, is still a wonderful thing and that it provides the world with a wonderful image of the United States. Of course, almost everyone else around the world believes it constitutes "history's longest genocide ever imposed by any large nation against any much smaller nation."

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Tourism to CUBA is EXPLODING

 

    As a clear indication that Cuba has survived the Pandemic and is trying hard to survive the six-decade-old U. S. Embargo, Tourism to the Caribbean's largest island is exploding in 2023. In January of 2022 Cuba had 86,424 tourists and last month -- in January of 2023 -- the encouraging number was 246,000.

     Due south of Florida, Cuba is awash with some of the world's most intriguing cities...such as Havana, Cienfuegos, and Trinidad. And Cuba is also home to some of the world's Most Beautiful Beaches, such as world-renowned Varadera!!

     Yes, Varadero has been rated the "World's Best Beach" by international tourist experts such as TripAdvisor.

     In fact, as recent as 2021 Cayo Santa Maria has been rated as the "The World's Second Best Beach" by TripAdvisor. And both Varadero and Santa Maria are both on Cuba's northern coast a little bit south of Florida!!! If there was no U. S. Embargo of Cuba, could Florida's less beautiful beaches compete with Cuba's more highly rated beaches???

    This Iberojet airplane is owned by Iberostar Hotels & Resorts. Both Iberostar and Melia, based in Spain, have over forty 4-star and 5-star hotels in Cuba.

Four major Canadian airlines fly daily to Cuba.

     During the 62 years of the U. S. Embargo against Cuba, Canadian tourists, historic lovers of Cuba's beaches, have dominated Cuba's tourism. It is interesting to note that last month -- January of 2023 -- the countries sending the most tourists to Cuba were, in this order, Canada, the U. S., Spain, Germany, and Russia. The U. S. Embargo allows Cuban-Americans easier trips to Cuba while making it hard for most Americans to go, as a means of hurting the Cuban economy. Russian tourists have often been second in numbers to Cuba and, even during the bloody War with Ukraine, it is interesting that Russian tourists last month still were the 5th most visitors to Cuba.

     But, yes, these new tourist numbers are very interesting: Cuba had 246,000 tourists in January of 2023 compared to 86,424 in January of 2022.

   Again...it is interesting to wonder how much Cuba Tourism would cut into Florida Tourism if it was not for the U. S. Embargo of Cuba that has existed since FEBRUARY OF 1962!! Please note that the beautiful map shown above depicts Cuba as North America's Tourism Jewel back in the 1950s when both the U. S. Mafia Kingpins and major U. S. businesses were making vast fortunes during the vastly corrupt Batista dictatorship when the U. S. wildly promoted tourism to Cuba.

    Yes, any look at the archives in the 1950s tells us all about the 1950s when the U. S. and Cuba were "Good Friends" while Batista, the Mafia, and U. S. businessmen were all making vast fortunes and wildly promoting Tourism to Cuba!!! 

A typical "Beautiful Havana" ad in 1950's USA.

Since the 1950s "Welcome to Little Havana USA."

It is in Miami!!!!!!!!!

What HAPPENED?

Well, A Cuban Revolution happened!!!!

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Cuba Headlines in February-2023

 

    Today -- on February 10th of 2023 -- Cuba remains the largest and arguably the most beautiful nation in the Caribbean, located due south of Key West, Florida. Like most days since Columbus discovered Cuba in 1492 and proclaimed, in his diary, that it "is the most beautiful land these eyes have ever seen," Cuba has made news. Since 1492 prime imperative nations have tried to dominate the intriguing and strategically located island. Today the Top Cuban Headlines flashing around the world, as always, are interesting and...intriguing...as shown above.

    The massive headline today regarding the amazing saga of Elian Gonzalez emerges from Cuba along with others such as the massive War in Europe, the latest U.S.-China confrontation and dispute over a shot-down spy balloon, etc. Yes, the 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez who dominated U.S.-Cuba headlines for over a week in 2000 is now 29-years-old in February of 2023 and, as a patriotic Cuban on the island, is still making big headlines as he now contemplates a prominent political move in his country.

     This is the memory of the massively afraid 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez that the world saw back on April 22nd, 2000. That day Elian was being hidden in a closet by Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami to keep him from reuniting with his father so he could return to Cuba. To this DAY -- February of 2023 -- this remains a colossal image of the vast Tug-of-War that has existed since 1959 between fierce Cubans in Miami and fierce Cubans in Havana. History registers the fact that the terrified six-year-old Elian survived that drama in the Miami closet and returned with his father to Cuba. Now 29-years-old and considered a revolutionary hero on the island, Elian is today a well-educated adult engineer, a married man and a father, and now wants to be a key politician.

      Today -- on Feb. 10th-2023 -- Elian Gonzalez -- is back in the news in a big way at age 29 in his beloved Cuba.

     But forever, or as long as the U.S.-Cuban conundrum drags on, the photo above will remain a massive image of the huge David vs. Goliath tugs-of-war between Cuba and the superpower United States. But below are other pertinent stages of Elian Gonzalez's life back in Cuba as a worldwide celebrity.

     This gorgeous baby is Eliz Gonzalez. Her father is Elian Gonzalez.

    This is Elian Gonzalez, his wife IIiana Escano, and their daughter Eliz. Still madly in love, Elian and IIiana first met when they were both students and soldiers.

    This interview broadcast by ABC News in the U. S. was the first major interview the mostly shy Elian Gonzalez and his father Juan Gonzalez gave to the U. S. media.

    Both Elian Gonzalez and his dad Juan have unwittingly been celebrities since the ordeal in the U. S. in 2000.

    Revolutionary icon Fidel Castro deeply loved the six-year-old Elian Gonzalez and the feeling was/is mutual. Very famously Fidel won some key battles against the U. S. -- such as the Revolution in 1959 and the military U. S. Bay of Pigs attack in 1961 -- and, of course, lost some -- such as the U. S. Embargo/Blockade that started in February of 1962 and still exists in February of 2023. But in 2010 on a trip to the Gonzalez home in Central Cuba, Fidel was asked how "proud" he was of Elian; after a hesitation and displaying rare public emotion, Fidel said, "This lad...this boy...is among my three greatest accomplishes, but that is all I will say about that." Therefore, as recorded live and with the audio preserved to this day by Radio Rebelbe, Fidel Castro, before he died in Havana at age 90 in 2016, had historically listed Elian as one of his three greatest accomplishments -- apparently along with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 and the defense he led at the Bay of Pigs in 1961.

    Thus, for the historic record, let it be known that Fidel Castro's three proudest achievements were: {1} The triumph of his Cuban Revolution in 1959; {2} the successful defense at the Bay of Pigs in 1961; and {3} his battle to return 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez from that Miami closet back to Cuba in 2000.

     Yes, the terrified 6-year-old boy in the Miami closet on April 22nd in 2000, is Making Headlines Again in February of 2023.

     And, yes, in February of 2023 Elian Gonzalez and his wife IIiana are back in the worldwide headlines. At age 29 Elian has decided to enter politics in Cuba.

At age 29, Elian becomes a politician!!

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