Terror, not just the Blockade, Targets Cuba

      Today is October 6th of 2023. On October 6th of 1976 this civilian Cuban airplane -Cubana Flight 455 was bombed out of the sky by a terrorist bomb, killing all 73 people aboard. Today 11.2 million Cubans are remembering that day.

     History registers the fact that Cubana Flight 455 was returning to Cuba before it was bombed into the ocean near Barbados. The photo above shows a sister and mother that was waiting at the airport for their brother and son to return on Cubana Flight 455; he was one of the two dozen teenage athletes returning home after winning Gold Medals in the Central American Sports Tournament in Caracas. The photo above shows the moment on October 6-1976 that this sister and mother learned that Cubana Flight 455 had crashed into the ocean and that "there are no survivors."  

     Every October 6th since 1976 Cubans on the island have had ceremonies across their island mourning the 73 souls that died on Cubana Flight 455. Of course, that mother and sister, for the rest of their lives, were among the mourners.

    In the sad days after October 6th-1976 the Cuban people were told by Fidel Castro that Cuba's meticulous investigation of the Cubana Flight 455 crash revealed that Miami-based Cuban terrorists were responsible for the terror bomb that doomed Cubana Flight 455. Later...declassified U. S. documents revealed that the United States also was well aware that Fidel Castro was correct.

     Yes, by the time Fidel Castro was telling the Cuban people what had happened to Cubana Flight 455, and he had put up memorials to the victims such as the one above, the United States had the same information that Fidel Castro had.

        For example, the de-classified U. S. document shown above shows that President G. H. W. Bush's Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was informed by U. S. intelligence that Luis Posada Carriles and other Cubans had roles in "the bombing of the Cubana Airlines DC-8..." 

     Of course, today -- on October 6-2023 -- as Cubans in Cuba mourn the 73 victims on Cubana Flight 455 who died on October 6-1976 -- they are also reminded that those who Fidel Castro and Henry Kissenger, etc., believed were responsible continued to live out their lives as celebrated heroes in Miami.

     Also today -- on October 6-2023, the anniversary of the October 6th-1976 bombing of Cubana Flight 455 -- Cubans are reminded that the terrorist bombings of Revolutionary Cuba began almost as soon as the Cuban Revolution ousted the U.S./Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship in 1959. History, for example, knows that the French ship La Coubre was bombed in Havana on March 4th-1960 and that Havana's finest department store El Encanto was bombed into oblivion on April 13-1961...etc., etc. Like Cubana Flight 455, La Cubre, El Encanto, etc., are historic names but, of course, Americans are not supposed to make a Google search of such names, or on October 6th-2023 Americans should not ask WHY the United States has Cuba on its List of Nations that SPONSOR TERRORISM!!

    But today -- on October 6-2023 -- Cubans are remembering what happend to Cubana Flight 455 on October 6-1976.

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Starving Cubans & Shaming USA for Six+ Decades

 Is U. S. media Most to Blame??

     Since February of 1962 the superpower United States has imposed an economic EMBARGO on the nearby island of Cuba that has been designed to starve Cubans in Cuba to benefit or please a few Cubans in the U. S, mainly those in the Little Havana section of Miami. From 1962 till October of 2023 it is well known that almost every person and almost every nation in the world opposes the extreme cruelty of the EMBARGO, but yet it has existed for over six decades with no end in sight. The U. S. media is the main culprit for the EMBARGO's astonishing longevity, I believe. Almost every one of the mainstream media outlets in the United States, such as NBC News and its Miami-based Carmen Sesin, view the EMBARGO only from the perspectives of Little Havana in Miami, ignoring the views of the masses and generations of Cubans in Cuba who have suffered so severely from IT since 1962.

   Above are the Main Cuban Headlines flashing around the U. S. and the world today -- October 5th, 2023. Note that yet another building in Havava has simply "collapsed, killing 3 people." Such headlines are common, which the world understands is at least partially because of the U. S. EMBARGO. Also note Above that NBC News and Carmen Sesin has a huge Cuban Headline on October 5th-2023, and as usual it shows the mainstream U. S. media promoting the EMBARGO while claiming that Little Havana/Miami Cubans are actually trying to HELP the starving Cubans in Cuba.

     WOW!! Today -- October 5th-2023 -- NBC News and Carmen Sesin informs us: "As Cuba's private sector grows, entrepreneurs get a warm welcome in Miami." WOW!!

   Above are the first four paragraphs from the NBC News/Carmen Sesin article on October 5th-2023. It suggests that Miami Cubans are trying to help Cubans in Cuba. Of course, the starving Cuban in Cuba believe that the way for Cubans in Miami to help them is to simply tell the U. S. goverment to end the EMBARGO!!

    Above you can see three more paragraphs from that huge NBC News/Carmen Sesin article on October 5th. The words and sentences, as usual, are propaganda that are cloaked in wonderful platitudes for the Cubans in Little Havana/Miami but not a word about what the EMBARGO is doing to Cubans in Cuba.

     When the Mainstream U. S. Media continues to refuse to report on why the rest of the world that doesn't reside in Little Havana/Miami demands the end of the EMBARGO, then the EMBARGO might continue for another 60+ Years or so.

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U. S. Lies Hurt Cuban Mothers & Grandmothers

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    Today -- on October 4th, 2023 -- one of the sweetest grandmothers in this world posted this photo on Facebook with a caption that started with these two words: "Triste dias." That means "Sad days." To translate her whole capiton from Spanish to English, it said: "Sad days, but resilient nature gives us life. Flowers from my garden." If you happen to care about this sweet grandmother and her photo, I can tell you that I know her VERY well. Her name is Carmen. She has lived in Cuba all of her life and that yellow flower today that gave her some hope, boosting her...resiliency. You see, in case you might care about her, she has lived all of her life targeted by the U. S. Embargo that was legalized in 1962 for the purpose of starving her, depriving her, and making her miserable...for the purpose of turning her against her revolutionary government. But she hasn't done that. She remembers the extreme brutality of the U.S./Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship that ruled Cuba ruthlessly back in the 1950s until the victory by the Cuban Revolution on January 1st of 1959. On her vulnerable island-nation that is just a few miles from Florida, Carmen has managed to live a productive  and decent life as a wife, mother, and grandmother. Knowing Carmen, and seeing her photo and her "Sad days" comment today on Facebook, it pains me to know that she has faced extreme hardship all of her life because of the U. S. Embargo...all the while being labled a "mean" person by the "nice" people in the United States who have supported or condoned the Embargo against her for her entire life. That yellow flower in Carmen's garden in Havana today reminds me that she is a far better human being and a far nicer person than any American who has targeted her with the brutal and cruel Embargo that began way back in 1962 and Carmen is finding out that in October of 2023 it is more cruel and more harsh than ever!!! 

       Just for the record, in case you might care, above are Carmen's two grandchildren. She loves them passionately and every day of their lives she has tried to care for them and protect them as best she can. And every day -- including today on October 4th-2023 when she saw that yellow flower bloom in her garden -- Carmen knows that up to 330 milion uncaring Americans who allow the Embargo to continue decade after decade are dire enemies of her two precious grandchildren. When rich people in a powerful nation target generations of children in a much-weaker nation decade after decade, something is wrong...and it is not these two grandchildren who are WRONG!!!! 

I Believe this is WRONG!!

 

Why USA's Cuban Policies Shame USA the Most

 Yet it continues decade AFTER decade!!

      Amazingly, Traveling to Cuba has been blocked by the United States sinces 1962 so tourism to the awesomely beautiful Caribbean Island will not help Revolutionary Cuba provide for its people. Of course, back in the 1950s prior to the Cuban Revolution the U. S. lavishly supported tourism when it was massively enriching the brutal Batista dictatorship, the Mafia, and major U. S. businessmen and their companies that dominated the island. But since 1962 the U. S. has Embargoed/Blockaded Cuba "to starve, deprive, and make miserable" Cubans in Cuba to persuade them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary government. Indeed, since 1962 generations of citizens on the vulnerable island have been starved, deprived, and made miserable, although -- as of October in 2023 -- it has failed to bring about the U.S.-desired overthrow of the Cuban government.

     The photo above on October 3rd of 2023 shows a young Cuban family in Havana. A few rich people in the United States believe this young family should be Embargoed/Blockaded economically, and so that is the way it is.

     This photo on October 3rd of 2023 shows a Cuban woman who is the caretaker for these vulnerable Cuban children. Should they be endlessly Embargoed/Blockaded by the few decision-makers in Cuba's northern neighbor, the United States, that apparently benefit from the Embargo/Blockade?  

    Above are some of the Top Cuban Headlines flashing around the world in this first week of October of 2023. But for another week, the endless U. S. Embargo/Blockade of Cuba by the world's Superpower nation continues without anyone able to curb its impacts against innocent Cuban families.

     Such tragic comments as the ones above like the one above are regularly flashing around the world in October of 2023, yet no one is allowed to help innocent Cubans such as Milagros Rodriguez Perez when she says, "I have needs." The comments above, as you can see, are from the rich and influential U. S. news source NPR.

     International polls as well as the October votes in the United Nations in NY for the past three decades have revealed that almost all Americans and almost every nation in the entire world wants the U. S. to end its EMBARGO of Cuba. So why does it exist...decade AFTER decade???

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To Starve Cubans, Americans Can't Visit Veradero

 

    On the last day of September in 2023 the two photos shown above reveal why a powerful nation should never be allowed to permit a few of its rich people to starve vulnerable women and children in a much-smaller nation. Yet, since 1962, that is precisely what the superpower United States has allowed a few rich and powerful very revengeful & greedy Cuban-Americans in Miami, Newark, and Washington to do to three generations of women & children in the nearby Caribbean nation of Cuba. The two photos above illustrate the fact that Cuba, on its northern coast a few miles from Florida, has better Tourist-Beloved Beaches than Florida has, yet Tourist-Obsessed Florida since 1962 has wildly promoted its money-hungry beaches while wildly blocking Cuba from deriving Tourism Revenue even from Varedero, the World's Best Beach that is just a few miles south from the Tourism-Mecca of Florida. It is a situation that has existed since 1962 because a propaganda-driven U. S. media since 1962 has informed the compliant American people that the nice Cubans in Newark, Miami, and Washington are correct and the terrible Cubans in Cuba deserve to starve.

    Of course, the image above was from the 1950s when the U. S. media and the U. S. government wildly promoted Wild Tourism to Cuba to benefit the rich U. S. companies, the Mafia, and the Batista dictatorship that was using massive Tourism to Cuba to fuel their uncontrolled and exceedingly greedy Lures to Tourists such as gambling, drugs, prostitution, etc. Of course, to this day as October of 2023 arrives, the U. S. still conveniently denies that neither the image above from the 1950s nor the USA's love for Cuban Tourism back in the 1950s were true facts.

     And of course, if there was no U. S. Embargo against Cuba in October of 2023, which has existed since 1962, there would be massive Tourism to Cuba to spots such as Varadero Beach that could garner some pesos that could keep Cubans from starving. As shown above today, the two top international Spanish Hotel Chains have forty-four 4-star & 5-star Hotels & Resorts in famed Cuban areas such as Varadero Beach.

    And of course, the propaganda-obsessed U. S. media wouldn't explain to the American people what this photo means. It shows on the last day of September of 2023 that much-needed rice is being loaded onto a truck at a Cuban port, defying the U. S. Embargo and hopefully keeping some Cubans in Cuba from starving because of the Florida-beloved U. S. Embargo...which began in 1962 but has been expanded and strengthened in 2023. Of course, the U. S. media says that is all a lie...and the U. S. media reminds everyone that nice Americans are behind the Embargo while mean Cubans in Cuba are both deserving of it and responsible for it. And of course, to keep its Cuban lies alive for six decades and counting, the U. S. media only presents the opinions of Embargo promoters from Newark, Miami, and Washington...never presenting the opinions of Cubans in Cuba who are being targeted for starvation by the U. S. Embargo. So, today -- on the last day of September in 2023 -- here are some of the Cubans in Cuba who have opinions on the endless U. S. Embargo of their island.

    Above are Cubans in Cuba at the start of October of 2023 who are expressing opinions about the U. S. EMBARGO that has tried to starve, deprive, and make miserable the Cubans in Cuba, an EMBARGO that has existed since February of 1962. Perhaps, in October of 2023 it would be nice if the U. S. media would finally allow the opinions of Cubans in Cuba to be heard or read regarding the greatest disaster affecting their lives.

      The EMBARGO of Cuba by the United States has existed for over six decades, since 1962. And, therefore, wouldn't it be nice in October of 2023 if the U. S. media would finally tell the truth about {1} Who is responsible for it and {2} Who suffers from it. As a Democracy-loving American, permit me to express an opinion: I think the U. S. Democracy suffers terribly from this disaster, not to mention the three generations of innocent women and children in Cuba who have most suffered from it!!!

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Ana Belen Montes and U.S.-Cuba History

 

She Returns to the Headlines!!

    For years Ana Montes Belen was the top Cuban expert in the U. S. government. Then she was famously arrested and sent to 25 years in a federal U. S. prison for being a Cuban spy. Having served her sentence, Ana is now a free woman and is living in the U. S. Territory of Puerto Rico.

    The intriguing and fascinating saga of Ana Belen Montes is well documented, but even long-secretive tidbits of her life still filter out despite her desire for privacy. One of the YouTube Videos focused on her is listed below:

   After serving over two decades of her 25-year sentence as a Cuban spy, Ana Belen Montes remains feisty and spunky.

     From the day of his mug photo on September 21st of 2001 till the day she was sentenced to 25 years in prison till now in September of 2023 when, at age 66, she became a free woman again, Ana Belen Montes has steadfastly maintained that she "has never for a second regretted what I did in trying to help masses of innocent Cuban people survive the cruel injustices inflicted on them by elements in a much stronger nation." Even her prosecutors in the United States have admitted that she never asked for or made any money from her efforts on behalf of the Cuban people.

    Above is an updated quotation from the newly freed Ana Belen Montes on the USA's six-decade-old Embargo of Cuba.

   From 1962 until the end of September in 2023, three generations of Cuban women have suffered from the U. S. EMBARGO of Cuba. For six decades many billions of people around the world have begged the U. S.  to end the EMBARGO. But, for sure, no one in the world has made that plea more forcefully that Ana Belen Montes has. 

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Why Rich Miami Starves Poor Cuba

 For revenge and money??

     This is a ubiquitous & expensive ad today that is luring tourists to very rich Miami, the same Miami that has led the mammoth U. S. effort to starve poor Cubans in Cuba since 1962, which was the year that, indeed, Miami and the U. S. began the massive economic Embargo/Blockade of Cuba for the stated purpose of starving, depriving, and making miserable the Cuban people to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionarry goverment. As of October of 2023 the overthrow still hasn't happened but, indeed, the Embargo/Blockade has starved, deprived and made miserable three generations of Cubans in Cuba, a long and enduring disaster supported by rich and politically powerful Cubans in Miami!! 

    Indeed, a few miles south of Miami the island of Cuba has beaches better than Miami has, but that simply appears to be a prime reason Miami, since 1962, has been a strong and effective advocate for the starvation-inducing U. S. Embargo/Blockade of the nearby island. For sure, Miami loves tourism but doesn't want Cuba to have such tourism!!! Of course...if the U. S. permitted tourism to Cuba, the U. S. couldn't keep starving Cubans in Cuba!!

     And, of course, it appears that in October of 2023 that still the prime reason for the EMBARGO against Cuba remains the 1959 victory of the Cuban Revolution over the brutal U.S./Mafia-backed/Tourism-crazed Batista dictatorship. But, indeed, I'm sure Miami wildly disputes such depictions of things such as the EMBARGO, the Cuban Revolution, Varadero Beach, etc., etc., etc. So...a Superpower nation encircling and smothering a much-smaller might actually continue six more decades or so!!

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