Cuba & the US & the Embargo!!!

 It is now 6+ Decades Old!!

     It is now March 3rd of 2023. The U. S. Economic EMBARGO/Blockade of Cuba began in February of 1962. So it is now 61 years old and it continues unabated although history long ago listed it as the longest and cruelest economic blockade ever imposed by any large country against any much smaller country.

    While a few rich and powerful people in Miami and Washington Love This Embargo/Blockade of Cuba, there are millions...or billions...of other people around the world who consider it an endless shame...both to the United States as well as to the targeted families in Cuba. Yet...it seems it might continue for another 61 years or so with no end in sight.

    Today -- on March 3rd in 2023 -- above are the Top Cuban Stories circulating around the world. There are no indications, as usual, that anyone in Miami or Washington is trying to end or ease the Embargo/Blocade of Cuba. Note that the London-based Reuters News Agency today is telling the world that even the U. S. is finally admitting that, uh, there was never any reason to blame Cuba for the "Havana Syndrome" lies that, for the past 5 years or so, have been used cruelly to punish Cuba for some medical problems of U. S. personel at the U.S. Embassy in Havana. The same problems occurred in other cities around the world but the "Havana Syndrome" still to this day tarnishes only Cuba...even though from the beginning no one was allowed to ask who exploiting the "Havana Syndrome" would hurt {Cuba} and who it would help {the anti-Cuban zealots in Miami and Washington}. So...study the Cuban Headlines on March 3rd-2023 and note that the non-U.S. news agency reports that, uh, finally the U. S. admits the Havana Syndrome was, uh, not Cuba's fault. Of course, the other three Top Cuban Headlines today are from the Miami Herald, a newspaper that since 1959 has tried to tell the world how fantastically nice the Batista dictatorship ruled Cuba in the 1950s until the Cuban Revolution intervened in 1959 and chased it to the Little Havana neighborhood in Miami. As you can ascertain from the three Miami Herald headlines shown above today -- on March 3rd-2023 -- it appears that Little Havana wants another 1961-type Bay of Pigs episode to punctuate the ongoing U.S.-Cuban saga.

"Can you see Cuba from Key West?"

"Yes!!"

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Cubans That Arrive In Florida

 Even in Hijacked Airplanes!!

      Since January of 1959, the month that the Castro Revolution replaced the Batista Dictatorship in Cuba, both Havana and Miami as well as Cuba and the United States were changed forever. So, actually, "Cuba in Miami" is a Big Story.

      For one thing, rich Cubans in Batista's Cuba quickly got much richer in Florida starting in January of 1959.

     Since January of 1959 Little Havana USA in the heart of Miami has attained and maintained huge financial and political power in the entire United States. Thus millions of Cubans in Cuba have been lured to Florida since January of 1959...and on this First Day of March in 2023 that tsunami of Cubans to Florida continues to make major headlines...with many Cubans leaving Cuba to get to Florida anyway they can -- via sea, or air, or walking across the southern U. S. border with Mexico.

      For example, this little Cuban airplane is -- on March 1st-2023 -- making headlines. Cuba used the little plane to fumigate crops but a Cuban flew it from Sancti Spiritus in Cuba to Florida, assuming -- correctly -- that he could get asylum in Florida once he landed on the U. S. soil. Updating the saga of that little airplane, below is the what the London-based Reuters News Agency is telling the world today -- March 1st-2023.

    Of course, Reuters -- a worldwide news agency based in London -- thinks this is an important and headline-grabbing story about a little plane hijacked from Cuba landing in Florida. But the U. S. media largely ignores any topic that shines any negative spotlight on Florida regarding revolutionary Cuba.

      On March 1st of 2023, the long-ago headlines from January of 1959 about Castro's revolution making dictator Bastista flee the island are ancient history in the United States. In the U. S. media since 1959 till 2023, almost all of the "news" about Cuba pertains to how terribly bad  and poor revolutionary Cuba is compared to the good and rich Cubans in Florida.

     But a conveniently misunderstood Caribbean revolution that replaced Batista in Cuba with Castro needs to be assessed accuratedly today -- because 64 YEARS later, and 7 years after Castro died at age 90 -- the massive changes that January of 1959 wrought in Cuba and in the United States remain, especially in the nearby cities of Miami and Havana.

       The U.S.-Cuban conundrum on March 1st of 2023 needs a plethora of "Captivating Histories" as well as topical media coverage to explain the daily developments between the two vastly different neighbors -- Little Cuba and the Super United States -- since January of 1959.

       And thus...on March 1st of 2023 this little airplane hijacked from Cuba to Florida needs to be accurately reported to the U. S. people, meaning the 340 million Americans who are also responsible for the U.S.-Cuban conundrum, which starts and ends with the Havana/Little Havana conundrum. Today the Reuters worldwide headline explains that Havana wants this little airplane back because it is needed to fumigate Cuban crops while the United States, at the behest of Little Havana as expected, has decided to keep the little airplane and to give the hijacker/pilot asylum in Florida. The current saga of this little airplane, of course, has been replicated before -- with the same outcome...favoring Little Havana while hurting Havana.

    Of Course, since January of 1959 there have been many hijackings of planes in Cuba that landed in nearby Florida. Note the photo and caption above from CBS News: "Hijacked Cuban Plane Lands in Key West." But that frequency is no excuse for the mainstream U. S. media to ignore the hijacking that London-based Reuters thinks is a Big Deal today on March 1st of 2023!!!

     Study this map and see how easy and luring it is to hijack a plane in poor little revolutionary Cuba and land it in mighty and rich Florida. Note the location of Havana and Miami. About half between those two warring cities is Key West, Florida. This map helps explain the U.S.-Cuban conundrum...especially since January of 1959!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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World Baseball Classic March-2023

 

      The 2023 World Baseball Classic is now a week away. It starts for 20 baseball-loving nations on March 8th. Many of the teams are loaded with Major League superstars...especially the U. S. and Dominican Republic teams!! The U. S. has even eased its six-decade-old Embargo/Blockade enough to allow Cuba to have a few Cuban Major Leaguers next week when it begins play in Taiwan against the Netherlands.

    Today -- February 28th, 2023 -- the great baseball writer/scout Ben Badler at Baseball America has a long article about Cuba's World Baseball Classic entry this year.

      The Ben Badler article today, as shown above, begins with remembering Cuba's long history of loving baseball and producing a plethora of Major League superstars...but also has to deal with massive and unending sanctions by the superpower United States since the 1959 victory of the Cuban Revollution.

     Starting next week {March 8th-2023} Team Cuba will have a competitive lineup although the U. S. and Dominican lineups have nothing but Major League superstars and many believe that Japan will actually be the overall favorite because it has superstars from its own powerful Major League teams and some Japanese superstars from the U. S. Major League teams. But Team Cuba, as shown above, also has some Major Leaguers from both the U. S. and Japan...led by two great Cuba-born players in their prime from the Chicago White Sox -- switch-hittinng third baseman Yoan Moncada and brillant centerfielder Luis Robert. And starting next week the 2023 World Baseball Classic is being anticipated eagerly by millions of baseball fans, especially those in 20 baseball-loving nations!!!!!!!

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The Lonely BUT LOUD Anti-Blockade Crusade

 February 26th, 2023!!

Bridges of Love to Cuba!!

From February of 1962 till February of 2023.

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The U. S. Embargo vs. Cuba Is 61 Years Old

 It Started in FEBRUARY Of 1962!!

     On February 24th in the New Year of 2023 we are in the 61st year of the U. S. economic Embargo against Cuba.

    Each year in near unanimity the world at the United Nations loudly condemns the Embargo, and yet it exists year-after-year to apparently please a few key people in Miami and Washington. The purpose of the Embargo is supposedly to starve, deprive, and make miserable Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. For over 61 years the Embargo has, indeed, starved, deprived, and made miserable generations of Cubans in Cuba...even as Revolutionary Cuba, somehow, hasn't yet been overthrown.

      This week in late February of 2023 the London-based worldwide Reuters News Agency used the above headline to inform the world about some of the current misery in Cuba, including  "three major blackouts" this week.

      "Those issues, officials say, have been exacerbated by the U. S. Cold War-era embargo on Cuba..." As this Reuters article late in February of 2023 informs the world, the U. S. embargo's six-decade-old purpose of starving, depriving, and making miserable 11 million Cubans in Cuba continues to fulfill its mission, except for overthrowing the revolutionary government.

    As February of 2023 is about to end, the U. S. EMBARGO of Cuba that began in February of 1962 is not about to end and, in fact, is stronger than ever. As usual, it doesn't matter that most of the people in the World and in the United States loudly condemn it. Thus...for over six decades Americans have been programmed to ignore the above seminal image of the United States.

      In 2016 the popular Barack Obama was finishing his two terms as President of the United States. He went to Cuba to tell the Cuban people on statewide television that: "Cuba Does Not Need To Fear A Threat From The United States." That year President Obama, during the United Nations vote, refused to allow the United States to support it!! Thus in 2016 all the nations of the world voted to end the EMBARGO of Cuba. But there was a problem to that U. S. and Worldwide unanimity: The U. S. still did not end or seriously ease it.

    Above the Reuters News Agency article explains that President Trump's designation of Cuba as a State Sponsor of Terrorism lumps Cuba with Syria and North Korea as a Terrorist Nation: "The rule ranks Cuba with Syria and North Korea, and assumes holidaymakers {from Cuba to the U. S.} are complicit in terror activity." And President Biden has not changed that Trump designation, which the rest of the world calls "a bonkers rule."

    If the current U. S. President, the Democrat Joe Biden, is going to end or ease the Embargo/Blockade, the embattled everyday citizens in Cuba are hoping that: {1} Cuba should be removed from the U. S. list of Nations that support Terrorism; and {2} that the U. S. should remove Cuba from being punished by Title Three of the Helms-Burton Act, which Republican President Trump activated at the behest of Miami in 2019. Not even extremely pro-Miami Republican presidents such as George W. Bush would activate Title Three because even President Bush considered it too harmful to Cuban families.

    Today -- Feb. 24th-2023 -- an article written by Guillaume Long is getting international exposure. It points out that having Cuba on the U. S. List of Sponsors of Terror is wrong. He got his PhD in international policies from the University of London and is a senior policy analyst at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

     It seems that a strong majority of the people around the world agree with today's article by Guillaume Long: "Biden Should Reverse Trump's Designation of Cuba as a "State Sponsor of Terrorism."

From today's Guillaume Long article.

    It happens that Cuba is the largest and perhaps the most beautiful island in the Caribbean. But it's strategetic location, due south of Miami, makes it very small compared to its neighbors such as Canada, the United States of America, Mexico, and even Venezuela and Colombia. But, since it was discovered by Columbus in 1492, Cuba has punched on the international scale far larger than its size would suggest. The imperative powers, starting with Spain in 1492, have spent all of the last 8 or so centuries trying to dominate and exploit Cuba. Thus trying not to be dominated in the last 8 or so centuries has kept Little Cuba in the headlines more than Cubans in Cuba have wanted.

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