Cuban President Arrives in Friendly Africa

  On AUGUST 22nd-2023 the three photos above show that Angola is an extremely important African nation and Angola loves Cuba. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel is on a 4-day visit to Angola and its President Joao Laurenco is lavishly welcoming President Diaz-Canel to his country.

     This photo today -- AUGUST 22nd-2023 -- shows a billboard in Luanda heralding the 4-day Angolan visit of Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel. As the six-decade-old U. S. Embargo grips the Cuban people more than ever in August of 2023, Diaz-Canel is flying to friendly nations seeking vital support, and perhaps no nation in the world loves Cuba as much as  ANGOLA...because of their shared histories of being longtime colonial victims of foreign imperative powers.

    In 1959 Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution shocked the world by defeating the US-Mafia-Batista rule in Cuba. In 1975, despite dire warnings from both the U. S. and the Soviet Union, Fidel Castro sent 35,000 Cuban troops to Angola to overthrow British rule in Africa known as apartheid. INCREDIBLY...the victory of the Cuban soldiers in Angola changed history, leading to drastic events such as Nelson Mandela, who had been stuck in a British-run South African prison for 28 years with only a bucket for a toilet but, thanks to Cuba, Nelson Mandela was democratically elected president of South Africa from 1994 till 1999 and thereafter has been hailed as a world-wide Civil Rights icon.

   This photo shows Fidel Castro himself in Angola congratulating his Cuban soldiers for their historic victory.

    This photo shows Cuba's current President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, in Angola today placing a wreath of flowers on a monument in Luanda that honors the Cuban soldiers who died fighting for Angolan and African independence in the 1970s and 1980s.

    Today -- AUGUST 22nd-2023 -- billboards herald the 4-day visit to Angola by Cuban President Diaz-Canel. While the visit doesn't mean anything to the U. S. media, it is being reported by the International News Media:

   Oil-rich Angola, which has a population of 35 million people, is a very important African nation. While Angola massively loves Cuba, the United States and other Superpowers court Angola with trade favors and other inducements. While the ageless U. S. Embargo is designed to starve Cuba's economy, the U. S. provides Angola favored trade rights.

     Perhaps history's most famed Civil Rights icon, Nelson Mandela, considered Fidel Castro his all-time best friend, as revealed by famous quotes such as the one above.

They remained best friends as long as they lived.

They co-authored a book together.

Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro.

    And this week -- in late August of 2023 -- Presiden Lourenco of Angola is warmly hosting President Diaz-Canel of Cuba...in honor of what Fidel Castro did for Angola and Africa back in the 1970s and 1980s.

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US Remains Cuba's Only Enemy in August-2023

Now That Brazil Has A New President!! 

    Since the Cuban Revolution in 1959 replaced the Batista/Mafia/U.S. rule in Cuba, the Caribbean's largest island-nation has seriously had just one mortal enemy, but that massive foe was/is its northern neighbor that happens to be the United States, the strongest and richest nation in the world. All of Cuba's Latin America neighbors have been strong or passive supporters of Cuba, except when pressured to be otherwise. The largest and richest Latin America nation, Brazil, has always been vital to Revolutionary Cuba's mere survival. And that prospect resounds with some very positive news on that front in AUGUST of 2023 as reported worldwide by the London-based Reuters News Agency.

    The Reuters News Agency in AUGUST OF 2023, as shown above, confirms that Cuba and Brazil have "restored trade and political ties." This is vital to Cuba, which in August of 2023 is reeling from the drastic effects of the six-decade-old U. S. economic Blockade of the island nation.

    Photos like this one are probably the most important that will make the news pertaining to the island of Cuba in all of 2023!! Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Brazil's President Lulu da Silva are dear friends. The Brazilian president that Lulu replaced was Jair Bolsonara, who was an extreme right-wing disciple of former U. S. President Donald Trump who put Cuba on the U.S.'s Sponsor of Terrorism list that Trump and Bolsonara believed would fianlly starve Cuba into total submission. So in August of 2023 the best possible news for Cuba is the transition in Brazil from the Bolsonara presidency to the current Lulu presidency. For four former presidential terms in Brazil Lulu and his hand-picked successor Dilma Rousseff were Cuba's dearest and most important friends...but when Jair Bolsonara became President Lulu spent a long stretch in a Brazilian prison before getting out and then beating Bolsonara in the last presidential election in Brazil!!

      For sure...as a political power in Brazil Lulu da Silva adolized and adored Fidel Castro's Cuba Revolution.

       Now in AUGUST of 2023 Cuba's current President Miguel Diaz-Canel has Brazil's current President Lulu da Silva as his and Cuba's best friend. It is, FOR SURE, a drastic turn-of-events for Cuba considering that Lulu emerged from a Brazilian prison only to be amazingly re-elected as President of Brazil, upsetting Bolsonara.

      Prior to Bolsonara, Lulu da Silva and his top aide Delma Rousseff had won four consecutive 4-year presidential terms in Brazil.

     As Brazil's President for two terms from 2003 till 2011,  Lulu da Silva's hand-picked successor Dilma Rousseff then won the next two presidential elections and Dilma loved Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution as much as Lulu did. But then Dilma's second 4-year term as President was truncated by fraud charges that chased her from office and ended up putting Lulu in prison during the anti-Cuba/Trump-loving Jair Bolsonara presidency...till Lulu emerged from prison and defeated Bolsonara in the election in 2022 that restored Lulu to his current 3rd term as President of Brazil, which started on January 1st, 2023.

     Yes, in this year of 2023 the Cuba-loving Lulu da Silva has replaced the Cuba-hating Jair Bolsonara as the President of Brazil. That, of course, is a vital development for Cuba as the island tries desperately to survive the tightened U. S. Embargo of Cuba that began in 1962, over six decades ago!!

      The largest, most populated, and richest nation in Latin America is Brazil. The difference in Lulu da Silva, a lover of Cuba, returning as the President of Brazil in 2023  is vital to Cuba, especially since he replaces Jair Bolsonara who had supported Trump's and the USA's drastic policies against Cuba.

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Cuba Headlines August 17-2023

Reminders of the soap opera As the World Turns!! 

    The top Cuban Headline today -- on AUGUST 17TH of 2023 -- concerns the incredible fact that baseball-loving Cuba was allowed to participate in the 76th Little League World Series that started yesterday in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. In a game that was televised live around the world by ESPN, Cuba lost 1-0 to Japan, the nation that now dominates international baseball events such as the World Baseball Classic as well as the Little League World Series...and even Japan's Shohei Ortani is now the Top Superstar in the U. S. Major Leagues. In yesterday's tough 1-0 loss to Japan in Pennsylvania, the Cuban Little League team got a brilliant performance from shortstop and pitcher Edgar Torrez, but it was not quite enough.

      And so, on August 17th of 2023 above are the top Cuban Headlines flashing around the world -- starting in the top-left with "CBS News: Cuba welcomed at Little League world Series and holds Japan to a run but..." 

    The Cuban team playing in the Little League World Series in Pennsylvania-USA includes some Cuban Baseball Royalty, especially Luis Gurriel. His dad and his uncle are two of the all-time Superstar players in Cuba's storied baseball past, and two of Luis's First Cousins are currently stars in the U. S. Major Leagues.

    Today -- August 17th, 2023 -- in Cuba both Cuba News channels as well as the everyday Cuban people have baseball on their minds but, mostly, all Cubans in Cuba remain focused on political relations with their northern neighbor, the United States that happens to be the strongest and richest nation in the world. While Americans, since 1962, have allowed the U. S. to defy the rest of the world by continuing a cruel economic Embargo against the Cuban people that is history's longest and cruelest embargo any large nation has ever imposed on any much-smaller nation. While Americans call the tragedy an "Embargo," Cubans, such as the lady shown above today, call it a "genocidal Blockade." 

Americans call it an EMBARGO!!

Cubans call it a GENOCIDAL Blockade!!

     As the yearly vote in the United Nations confirms almost unanimously year-after-year, the rest of the entire world wants the U. S. Embargo/Blockade of Cuba to end. Yet, it has existed from February of 1962 till August of 2023...with no end in SIGHT. What does that say about Democracy? What does that say about the United States? What does that say about Cuba?

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US Permits Cuban Little League Champs INTO US!!!!

AFTER 76 YEARS CUBA ARRIVES!! 

    Today is WEDNESDAY-AUGUST 16TH of 2023. In the past 24-hours, incredibly, the top sports articles in both the AP and USA Today -- the largest News Agency and the largest Newspaper in the U. S. -- have heralded Cuba's arrival in the U. S. to play in the 76th Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Cuba's first game starts at 5 PM today against overall favorite Japan and the game will be televised live by ESPN and across the entire island of Cuba.

    Starting today Bayamo will represent Cuba in the 76th Little League World Series in Williamsport, PA. The photo above shows the moment Bayamo beat a team from Havana to win the Cuban Little League Championship. Bayamo is a city in far southeastern Cuba with a population of about 220,000 and it is the Capital of Granma Province. Today's game at 5 PM will pit Bayama against Japan, the overall favorite. Japan is the country that has recently won five Little League Titles in Williamsport since 2010, so Bayamo is the underdog today but has also made history by just arriving on U. S. soil. The Cuba-Japan game will be televised live across the U. S., Japan, and Cuba.

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Cuba Remembers Fidel Castro's Birthday

     Today is AUGUST 13th-2023. On AUGUST 13TH-1926 Fidel Castro was born in Biran, Cuba. He died at age 90 in Havana on November 25th-2016. Today in Cuba the birth and the death of Fidel Castro are considered the two most important dates in Cuba's long, intriguing, famous, and infamous history.

    On JANUARY 1ST of 1959 Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution shocked the world by overthrowing the powerful Batista dictatorship that was supported by the ultra-powerful Mafia and the ultra-powerful United States. And, even more shockingly, Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution still rules Cuba on AUGUST 13TH of 2023, Fidel's birthday!!

     According to America's famed People Magazine, this was the very last photo ever taken of Fidel Castro. It was taken in his home in Havana on November 15th of 2016, ten days before he died at age 90. It shows the President and First Lady of Vietnam -- Tran Dai Quang and Nguyen Thi Hien -- presenting Fidel a gift as President Tran Dai Quang said, as registered by an interpreter and a transcript: "Most esteemed and beloved Commander, the Vietnamese people chose this as their favorite photo of you. My wife and I are honored to give it to you on behalf of all the Vietnamese people who will love you with all their hearts as long as they live. What you have done, they want you to know, will never be forgotten in their memories."

Born on AUGUST 13Th of 1926!!

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August-2023: Cuba TRYING to Survive U.S. Embargo

 

    This interesting photo is courtesy of London-based Reuters, the international News Agency that best and most honestly reports Cuban news. Here it shows the Cuban Oil Tanker Petion docked at the Veracruz Port in Mexico. Along with another Cuban Oil Tanker, the Vilma, the Petion tanker now regularly transports badly oil from Mexico to Cuba.

     Today -- on August 12th, 2023 -- the Top Cuban Headlines, as you can see above on the lower-left, includes the Reuters Headline that says: "Cuban oil tankers becoming regular visitors to Mexican Ports."

    As shown above, Reuters reports that "Washington was 'aware that Cuba purchases oil from a variety of countries, both sanctioned and non-sanctioned.'"

   In other words, since the U. S. in February of 1962 legalized "Proclamation 3447", Cuba has tried to do whatever it takes to survive the EMBARGO/blockade that was and is designed to starve, deprive, and make miserable Cubans on the island to persuade them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. The overthrow attempt remains in progress but, as of Mid-AUGUST of 2023, it has not happened. Thus, to keep from starving, being miserably deprived, and just being made totally miserable, Little Cuba is now using its own Oil Tankers to transport oil from a friendly nation, Mexico!!

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Cubans Starving as U. S. Media Rejoices!!!

 USA's STARVATION-EMBARGO TIGHTENS!!

Three Generations of Cuban Children Are Victims!!

     Since January of 1959, when the Cuban Revolution chased the U.S.-backed Batista/Mafia dictatorship out of Havana, all the way to nearby Little Havana in Miami, the mainstream U. S. media has repeatedly informed the American people how wonderful Little Havana Cubans are and how terrible Havana Cubans are. In other words, since 1959 Americans have been programmed to ignore images such as the ones shown above while also condoning how rich that the politically powerful Cubans in Little Havana have become.

    Since 1959 the mainstream U. S. media in Miami, Washington, New York, California, etc., has invariably had high-profile journalists who regularly and routinely produce glowing tributes about Little Havana while mercilessly damning Havana. A prime example is Nora Gamez Torres, the longtime "Cuban" expert at the Miami Herald.

     In AUGUST of 2023 the headline and article by the Miami Herald's Nora Gamez Torres rejoices how the six-decade-old U. S. Embargo/Blockade is continuing to do its job, which is to starve, deprive, and make miserable Cubans in Cuba to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. After six+ decades, it hasn't happened yet but obviously Little Havana Cubans are convinced it will happen any day now!!

    In these early days of AUGUST-2023, as you can see above, Nora Gamez Torres seems to be rejoicing as she "reports" from Miami/Little Havana that in Havana "the medium state salary is now worth about $16 dollars {a month}". Instead of rejoicing about those Miami Herald numbers, perhaps one day Nora Gamez Torres might write about how another generation of Cuban children in Cuba are coping in August of 2023 while their parents are trying to raise them on "16 dollars a month."

       As long as Miami-affiliated journalists such as Nora Gamez Torres remain the typical reporters reporting about US-Cuba Relations, the US Embargo/Blockade of Cuba might well last another six-decades-or so...unless, of course, it finally starves Cubans in Cuba into submission before then.

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