US-Cuba Intrigues Still Defy History

 Such as the Fidel Castro Assassination Attempts!!

    A German beauty named Marita Lorenz, many historians believe, had one of the earliest and best chances to assassinate Fidel Castro in 1959, the very year his Cuban Revolution overthrew the U.S./Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship on the nearby and always coveted Caribbean nation. A lot of beautiful women in 1959, including raging rumors about Hollywood lovelies such as Ava Gardner, both caught Fidel's enticing rebel eyes, but the only one that history confirms was the only one that spent a night alone with Fidel in a Havana hotel room with the plans and means to assassinate him was Marita Lorenz!!

    Many books and newspaper articles have told the world that no person in history has ever come close to surviving as many assassination attempts as Fidel Castro did, with the most accepted number being 634 although one credible and famous documentary put the number as 638. Those figures are sort of astounding considering that the CIA and the Mafia reportedly were behind most of the attempts. The Marita-Fidel saga was perhaps best documented by the New York Post on September 2nd, 2017. That was when Marita, then in her 70s, explained that her episode in that hotel room with Fidel was true. As you can see above, Marita at the time she spoke to the New York Post was promoting her famed tell-all book as well as an upcoming Hollywood movie in which A-List actress Jennifer Lawrence was playing Marita. At this late stage of her life, Marita wanted history to know what happened in that Hotel Room in Havana when she was alone with Fidel!!! Of course, some very powerful and well-heeled assassination experts thought, for sure, it would be the night that Fidel would be assassinated.

    In her tell-all revelations the fascinating Marita Lorenz said that notable CIA operative Frank Sturges recruited her to assassinate Fidel Castro, as both U.S. & Cuban historians had already stated.

     True History registers the truly unique and fascinating relations between Cuba and the United States that began in 1492, the year Columbus discovered both of the neighboring land areas. And that History continues into August-September of 2023 with Fidel Castro still the centerpiece. For sure, for all those turbulent years and fascinating times one man, Fidel Castro, has dominated the History of U.S.-Cuba Relations.

    While History clearly registers the 600+ assassination attempts that Fidel Castro survived, History also confirms that Fidel Castro died at age 90 in 2016 as he slept peacefully and unapologetically in his own bed in Havana. The History of Fidel Castro confirms that the assassins failed to kill him although they tried over 600 times. And since 2016 the ultra-powerful forces trying to destroy Fidel Castro's legacy have also failed.

     But the most amazing and most significant aspect of Fidel Castro's life is this: As August turns into September of 2023, "Fidel" is still the leader of Cuba and still the primary reason that his revolution still rules the otherwise very vulnerable island-nation.

1952-1959 and 1959-2023!!

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CUBA: A Forever Blockade + A Hurricane Today

    Today -- on AUGUST 28th-2023 -- the vulnerable Caribbean island of Cuba is bracing for its latest threat from a dangeous Tropical Storm/Hurricane, this one named Idalia.

      But everyday since 1962 Cubans have faced the threat of what they call "the largest. longest, and most genocidal economic embargo in history maintained by our neighbor, the U. S."   

    But today -- AUGUST 28-2023 -- the photo above shows that these Cubans on the island are, at least temporarily, more concerned about Hurricane Idalia than the Blockade.

     Today in Cuba some citizens are being transported to safer areas as Idalia becomes more of a threat.

     For these three Cuban officials strategizing how to save Cubans today, Idalia is not their first rodeo.

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CUBA HAS A GREAT WEEK to End August-2023

 A Frequent Flyer President Wins Support!!

   From Cuba to Asia to Europe and to Africa...Cuba's President and First Lady -- Miguel Diaz-Canel and Lis Cuesta -- have accumulated Frequest Flyer miles trying desperately to garner support for the economic deprived Caribbean nation. In Angola a journalist asked President Diaz-Canel, "Why, sir, so many urgent trips?" He replied: "As a small nation that has been attacked longer than any nation in history by a powerful nation, the Cuban people are tired of suffering for three generations, over 62 years from it. I believe Cuba's only enemy is the United States, our close northern neighbor. I am making these long trips to confirm that belief."

     The BRICS Summit closing out AUGUST of 2023 in Johannesburg has celebrated Cuba as one of the 77 nations in attendance. BRICS now stands for just five nations -- Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa -- but dozens of others nations are hoping to join its ranks. The avalanche of photos and videos from Johannesburg reveal that Cuba's ageless struggle to survive the US economic Embargo/Blockade is being supported powerfully by these nations, a fact that President Diaz-Canel is discovering.

     While President Diaz-Canel is currently seeking and receiving support from Latin American, Asian, and European nations, the African Continent is where Cuba has been most loved and admired. Constantly at the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg the President of Cuba has heard comments such as explained by Mozambique's leader: "For too many decades nations of the world, afraid of the supreme economic and military might of one nation, has permitted the people of Cuba to be deprived illegally while we have normal trade relations with the powerful nation that deprives the Cuban masses. That cowardice finally should end." 

      The giant London-based Reuters News Agency has informed the world that the five Brics nations -- Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa -- have vowed renewed support for Cuba, but so have 75 other important nations in attendance.

    Of course, in the United States both the U. S. media and its two-party political system -- Democrats and Republicans -- have issues that don't consider the U. S. Relations with Cuba, but more-and-more nations around the world are, indeed, more-and-more concerned with the Superpower's endless blockade of Cuba that perhaps enriches/empowers some people in Miami and Washington but is designed to starve, deprive, and make miserable succeeding generations of innocent Cubans in Cuba.

Images that shame nations around the world.

Close NEIGHBORS, the big U. S. and little Cuba.

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Cuba Has IMPORTANT Friends!!!

    Today -- on AUGUST 24TH-2023 -- this photo is not popular in the United States but it is circulating around much of the rest of the world. At the very important BRICS Summit in Johannesburg the Chinese President Zi Jinping is making sure to let it be known that Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel is not only being spotlighted but "For many decades too long the island of Cuba has been illegally tormented by the United States."

    The BRICS Summit now being held in Johannesburg in late August of 2023 is hugely important because its FIVE members are Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. That includes the two most populated nations in the world, the most populated nation in Latin American, and the most influential nation in Africa...while at least twenty other nations are hoping to join this Group of Five.

   At the important meeting above at this week's BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, as you see above Cuba's President Diaz-Canel shown in the left-center is given a prominent spot.

   Above you can see that the international media, including the massive Chinese media, is heralding the photo of Cuba's leader Diaz-Canel and China's leader Zi at the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg. Moreover...the Chinese media, as shown above, reminded the world, including the U. S., that: "Chinese President Xi Jinping said here on Wednesday that China will continue to firmly support Cuba in defending national sovereignty and opposing external interference and blockade." It is interesting, among other things, that China joins Cuba in calling the U. S. Embargo of Cuba a "blockade."

     In this year of 2023 newly re-elected Lulu da Silva, a dear friend of Cuba, replaced Jair Bolsonara, a strong Trump/US ally, as the President of Brazil, which is by far Latin America's largest and richest nation. Thus, the massive BRICS Summit in Johannesville this week is unanimous in its support of Cuba and its denunciation of the U. S. economic "blockade."

Five Nations that denounce the Blockade.

One Nation Loves the Blockade!!

For the last 62 Years!!

WOW.

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Leave Cuba for US, Hate Cuba, AND GET RICH!!!

The Playbook Has Unerringly Existed since 1959!!

     This photo is courtesy of the giant publisher Simon & Schuster and it shows Fabiola Santiago, one of Miami's most famous citizens, authors, and journalists. Fabiola was born in Matanzas, Cuba in the spring of 1959, three months after the victory of the Cuban Revolution that overthrew the U.S./Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship. Her parents then made sure she grew up in nearby Miami/USA. Now for over three decades, since 1980, she has been a SUPER Counter Revolutionary journalist and editor at the Miami Herald. She is, for sure, very high on the exalted pantheon of Cuban-Americans since 1959 that have quickly gained everlasting fame and wealth as high-profile Counter Revolutionary Cuban-American Journalists & Authors, usually without ever being subjected to criticism.

    But there are a few critics of extreme but unimpeded Counter Cuban Revolutionaries thriving in the United States, "90 Miles From Cuba." Yet since 1959 such criticism has easily been hidden under very large and expensive anti-Cuban rugs. Thus today -- on AUGUST 23RD in 2023 -- the top Cuban Headline has been penned by Fabiola Santiago and the Miami Herald.

   So today -- AUGUST 23RD-2023 -- above is the top Cuban Headline circulating around the United States and, not surprisingly, it originated in the Miami Herald and is written by supreme Opinion Editor Fabiola Santiago. It warns Americans that they must agree with Fabiola's dictatorial admonition that Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel must not be allowed to arrive at the United Nations in New York where he is scheduled to speak. In other words, since 1959 in the U. S. it seems that only people like Fabiola Santiago should be permitted to speak on Cuban issues...and, perhaps, that is why the ugly and cruel U. S. Embargo against Cuba has been allowed to exist for over six decades, since 1962.

   Yes, despite the image of the United States that the EMBARGO has presented to the world for decades, every October -- year-after-year -- the United Nations in New York loudly votes to condemn the EMBARGO. Yet it has existed for over six decades...with no end in sight.

    Today -- on AUGUST 23rd in 2023 -- the headline above dominates the Cuban News in the United States. It is a reminder, I think, of why the U. S. Embargo of Cuba since 1962 has existed all these decades despite worldwide condemnation, which the vote in the United Nations confirms every October.

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