Cuba's Survival Plans In October-2023

      Today -- on October 9th-2023 -- baseball-loving Cubans had something to celebrate. In the 5th Caribbean Cup played in Puerto Rico, Cuba beat Curacoa 3-to-2 in the Championship game, giving Cuba the trophy!! Cuba had to ask the United States for permission to participate in the event because Puerto Rico is a U. S. Territory, but the Cuban players were given visas by the U. S. government.

      Meanwhile on October 9th-2023 the respected OnCuba News, which has offices in both Miami and Havana, above reported on massive efforts in Miami and Washington "To crush investiment in Cuba" as the six-decade-old U. S. economic Embargo against Cuba has been tightened and thus is creating blackouts and some hunger.   

    

   And, meanwhile, on October 9th-2023 the two photos above reveal one of the massive efforts that Cuba is involved in to improve the island's economy by getting investments from nations that might not be afraid of defying the international tenets of the U. S. Embargo. The photos above show Cuba's longtime Vice Minister Ricardo Cabrisas, Cuba's prime Trade Minister, being warmly greeted in Saudi Arabia on a crucial 4-day visit that has taken place from October 6th till October 9th, 2023. Also today -- on October 9th-2023 -- in Latin America support for Cuba in fighting the U. S. Embargo is now considered unanimous with Bolivia, Brazil, and Colombia having governments that are pro-Cuba, a stark change from recent years when Bolivia, Colombia, and Brazil -- at the same time -- had anti-Cuban governments that supported the U. S. policies against Cuba, including the cruel economic Embargo.

        And today -- on October 9th-2023 -- Cubans across the island are celebrating the life of Che Guevara, a life that began in Rosario, Argentina on June 14th in 1928 and ended in La Higuera, Bolivia on October 9th-1967.

    Today there are many memorials in Cuba that honor Che Guevara's massive role in helping the Cuban Revolution defeat the U.S./Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship on January 1st of 1959. The memorial shown above is in Santa Clara, the Cuban city where the brilliance of Commander Che Guevara won the Battle of Santa Clara, the battle that convinced Dictator Batista to rush to his getaway airplane to finally leave Cuba forever.

   And so...on October 9th-2023 -- Revolutionary Cuba remains the most defiant and largest island nation in the Greater Antilles and in the Caribbean Sea. In 1492 the Italian explorer Columbus, who was working for Spain, wrote in his diary that Cuba "is the most beautiful land these eyes have ever seen." After that depiction circled around the globe, the "beautiful land" that became Cuba has been violently coveted by many imperative nations, especially Spain that lost its lucrative domination of Cuba in 1898 when the emerging imperative power, the United States, easily won the Spanish-American War fought in Cuba.

    And so...since 1492 {Columbus}, and especially since 1898 {Spanish-American War}, and especially since 1959 {Cuban Revolution}, the island of Cuba has been forced to punch far above its size to try to maintain its status as a nation free of foreign domination. The historic dates and facts referenced above attest to that fact!! 

     And also...study the historic quotes above to comprehend the fervent desires of the United States to want to control Cuba, beginning with the two top quotations from Thomas Jefferson, the man who wrote the U. S. Declaration of Independence that freed the United States from being dominated by England. Thomas Jefferson said: "If we seize Cuba we will be masters of the Caribbean" and "I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could be made to our system of states." Indeed, despite the proposals from Thomas Jefferson and countless other notables, nearby Cuba has never become a U. S. state but far away Hawaii and far away Alaska have become the last two of the 50 states that now comprise the United States. And...neither Hawaii nor Alaska shared a love of things such as baseball with the United States!!

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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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