A Cuban Tells US About "The Pain"

    Although she is a prime Cuban diplomat regarding the island's relationship with the United States, Yohana Tablada's views are normally never aired by the U. S. media. But, incredibly, one major Washington-based media source, The Hill, has allowed its top political reporter, Rafael Bernal, to interview Yohana and even quote her correctly about the cruel targeting of Cuban families for the past six decades, especially during the past five harsh years during the Trump-Biden administrations in Washington.

    Once allowed to speak to a key U. S. media source, Yohana Tablada cogently explained Cuba's dire hope of having positive discussions with the U. S. so U.S.-Cuba Relations so U. S. policies will allow Cuban families on the island "to have decent lives, and not be humiliated and starved to death by a foreign superpower." Below are some of Tablada's most pertinent comments to The Hill:

    As shown above, Johana Tablada, speaking for Cuba, said the U. S. has only "deaf ears" when Cuba tries to talk about the drastic relations between the two nations. In the third paragraph above she told The Hill: "We always say, 'OK, let's talk about it seriously. Let's put everything on the table with no exception.' But it is very clear that the limit -- in our opinion -- is political will and electoral politices." In other words, Cuba pointed out that the U. S. predicates its policies regarding Cuba to please only a few extreme Counter Revolutary Cubans in Miami and in Washington.

    When Johana Tablada spoke to the Washington-based The Hill, she explained that the last two U. S. administrations, Trump's and Biden's, have used putting Cuba on its "List of state sponsors of terrorism" category is destroying Cuban families. According to Tablada, Trump ended his presidency by putting Cuba on the Terror List and Biden has refused to listen to international pleas for the U. S. to end what she calls "Trump's blatant lie, which has terrorized families in Cuba to please a handful of Cubans in the U. S." As shown in the first paragraph above, The Hill concluded its interview with Johana Tablada with this sane statement: "Cuba's top priority is no secret: For the past three years, the island's officials publicly have urgently urged the Biden administration to remove the country from the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism." Many observers were not surprised that Trump put Cuba on the list because it permitted the U. S. to vastly expand the cruelty of the already very cruel six-decade-old U. S. Embargo of Cuba. But most observers believed Biden, when he replaced Trump, would remove Cuba from the Terror List, but the Biden administration has allowed it to continue.

    The key Cuban diplomat Johana Tablada told The Hill that during the past five years the Trump and Biden administrations have greatly expanded the always cruel U. S. Embargo that surrounds Cuba. Tablada said she is "amazed" that the American people don't have the courage to "speak up" about the image above that depicts how "the rest of the world views this U. S. policy." The US Headline shown below irked Tablada, who had expected the Biden administration to curb the harshest Cuban attacks it inherited from the Trump administration.

     But at least one Washington-based news source, The Hill, permitted Johana Tablada to speak for Cuba regarding U.S.-Cuban Relations in October of 2023.

     A top Cuban diplomat, Johana Tablada, has actually been honestly interviewed by a top U. S. journalist, Rafael Bernal. AMAZING!!! 

    Normally, of course, Embargo-loving Cuban Americans from Miami's Little Havana are the only ones permitted by the U. S. media to speak about CUBA POLICY.

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Mexico Leads Fight Against US Cuban Policies

 

     In this last week of October of 2023 the President of Mexico, Manuel Lopez Obrador, is leading the fight against U. S. policies against Cuba, specifically the six=decade-old economic Embargo/Blockade. He says: "Back in the 1950s the U. S. profited enormously when the Mafia-led Batista dictatorship plundered and brutalized the island, creating the Cuban Revolution that has since been assaulted by the United States because it ceased the plunder while the U. S. has not permitted Cuba since 1959 to chart its new course, which includes needing to be a U. S. trade partner. Meanwhile, to pacify a few politically powerful Cubans in Miami and Congress, the U. S. has used its enormous military and financial power to starve and otherwise torment the masses of Cubans in their vulnerable country. I say today that it is time that the rest of Latin America and the rest of the world has the decency and courage to exert some restraint against such foreign assaults and not just remain cowardly afraid of the world's most powerful nation. Cuba should be America's helpful friend, not an enemy to please a few rich U. S. and Washington Cubans. All of Latin America deserses for Cuba to be treated decently and sanely by the United States." In the session above, President Obrador explained that Mexico is still purchasing the respected anti-Covid Cuban vaccine Abdala, is trying to get fuel to Cuba to prevent the island's blackouts, and is hoping to get support from Latin America and elsewhere "to let other nations understand that the U. S. Embargo is straving Cuban families, not overthrowing Cuban leaders."

      Above is a Declaration that Mexico's President Lopez Obrador got other nations to sign on October 23rd, 2023. It is related to "the Blockade by the United States against Cuba." He also said that Mexico has tried to influence other powerful nations, including China and Russia, to more eagerly denounce "the Bloqueo."

      As the worldwide Reuters News Agency headline above shows, President Obrador is also urging U. S. President Joe Biden "to finally end all of the Trump-imposed Cuban sanctions against Cuba, including the lie about Cuba being a Sponsor of Terror. Cuba is a a victim of terror, and that includes the U. S. blockade that is staving the Cuban people.

   But while President Obrador {above} is busy gaining support from the region and around the world for the end of the U. S. Blockade of Cuba, the supporters and benefactors of the Blockade use the mainstream media to keep it firmly in place.

    Above today on October 25th-2023 the Top Cuban Headlines reveal why the U. S. Blockade of Cuba has existed for over 60 years and might exist for another six decades or so. As usual, today the headline from the Miami Herald tops the anti-Cuba/pro Blockade parade, always saluting the long ago Batista regime and promoting the not-so-nice results of the Miami-laced U. S. sanctions on the island, namely the Blockade.

     Yes, the Miami Herald headline above salutes Blockade-related heartaches in Cuba: "Nearly 425,000 Cubans have migrated to the U.S. in the past two years, U. S. figures show."

    In sessions like the one shown above this week, Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel himself is discussing the topic that the Miami Herald is chortling about, the fact that the dire consequences of the U. S. Blockade is, indeed, causing many young adult Cubans to leave the island because of drastic economic hardships in Cuba. As Cuba's population dips below 11,000 people,  President Diaz-Canel admits: "For sure, the U. S. blockade is exacerbating the fact that our ageing population is being harmed severely by the loss of so many talented and well-educated young people deciding they can no longer survive the blockade. I understand that fact, and we are doing everything we can to try to stop such tides. But 61 years of the blockade, especially the last five years during the Trump-Biden era, have seemed to reach genocidal levels for too many of our children and young adults."

The U. S. calls this a wonderful Embargo!!

But Cuba calls it a genocidal Blockade!!

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Cuba Is Closing October-2023 Fighting the US Embargo

     Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel arrived in Mexico on October 22nd for a major conference regarding the rampant Latin American and Caribbean migration crisis.

    The President of Mexico Adres Manuel Lopez Obrador is shown above hosting other regional leaders that include Cuba, on the left, and Venezuela, on the right. Honduras, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, and Nicaragua also have sent top representatives joining the group. Their topic centers on the mass floods of migrants that are continuing to easily enter the United States at the porous Mexican-U.S. border.

    The major conference in Mexico this next to last weekend of October-2023 is trying to seek answers to the vast flood of migrants from around the world crossing into the United States along the US-Mexico border. Cubans, massively blockaded economically by the tightened, six-decade-old U. S. Embargo, are also flooding into the U. S. anyway they can, causing Cuba dire concerns because its ageing population is losing many young people.

   Before he flew to Mexico this weekend, President Diaz-Canel was busy speaking on Cuba's city streets, in rural areas, and on statewide television. He is telling the Cuban people: "The United States in 1962 began the blockade to starve this island in the belief it would lead to the overthrow of the Cuban Revolution. So, generations of Cubans have suffered from it but in the past five years the Trump-Biden administrations have strengthened it. We, in your government, are trying everything we can to prevent the blockade from fulfilling its cruel purposes. We need the United States as a friend and trade partner, not a foreign superpower that is trying to conquer us and exploit us in the cruel and greedy way the U. S., Batista, and the Mafia was doing prior to the Revolution."

    Now that Latin American nations such as Brazil, Colombia, and Bolivia have replaced Trump-allied leaders with pro-Cuban leaders, Cuba believes...except for the United States...that it has no major enemies in Latin America and the World. The Mexican leader, President Lopez Obrador, has increased his efforts to help Cuba...even provide some oil and paying for a new batch of Cuba's popular anti-Covid vaccines. Mexico, of course, is not only on the US's southern border but also is a vast and prime trade partner with the U. S.

    Mexico in 2023 remains very involved with purchasing Cuba's Abdala vaccine, which helps Mexicans but also helps Cuba.

    In a world in which faraway Wars in places such as Ukraine and Israel involve powerful nations taking sides, little Cuba continues to signal that it badly wants and needs to have friendly ties with the neighboring United States, most of all, but also must consider cultivating new friendly gestures from other prime nations, including China.

      In the closing days of October-2023, Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel has recently flown to major conferences in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America...and he has recently hosted a Summit in Havana that included 72 nations. And today -- on October 22nd-2023 -- he is in Mexico seeking help in fighting the U. S. economic Embargo/Blockade as well as the crucial influx of young Cubans migrating from Cuba because of the island's dire economic problems. And for sure...President Diaz-Canel and the vast majority of the Cuban people believe that the #1 Cuban "Problem" remains the endless U. S. Blockade.

     The United States for over six decades has said its economic Embargo of Cuba is both wonderful and necessary, because the starvation tactic will eventually work!!

But Cubans call it a cruel Blockade!!

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Cuba's Little Country/Big Country Woes

 

   Today -- on October 19th-2023 -- and every day since 1962 Cuba has tried mightily to attract tourists to the island but the drastic U. S. economic Embargo/Blockade for over six decades has mostly blocked that effort because the U. S. effort to starve the Cuban economy is much stronger than anything little Cuba is able to muster.

    This street in Havana today reflects the fact that Cuba projects this street as a lure for tourists, the kind of tourism that the U. S. prevents Cuba from having.

     But this street in Havana also today reflects decaying buildings that Cuba is not able to maintain properly, and some of them still have homes where Cubans live. Sometimes, as happened again a week ago, collapsing buildings can be deadly.

         Above today are the Top Cuban Headlines flashing around the U. S. and the world on October 19th-2023. As usual, the Miami Herald article dominates Cuban headlines from the U. S. as written by anti-Cuban zealot Nora Gamez Torres. The dominance of Cuban news in the U. S., led by such Miami/Little Havana sources, remain a reason that the cruel Embargo/Blockade of Cuba has existed for over six decades -- and counting. As long as the Embargo/Blockade pleases or enriches rich and politically powerful Cubans in Miami/Little Havana, it might exist for another six decades.

This world-wide image doesn't deter the Embargo supporters.

    Just a few miles south of Key West & Miami, Cuba's northern coast has the world's best beaches, such as Varadero. But, of course, the U. S. doesn't want Cuban beaches to compete with Florida's tourist-obsessed attractions.

     But, of course, back in the 1950s {above} when the Batistianos, the Mafia, and major U. S. companies were making tons of money off tourist lures in Cuba such as gambling, drugs, prostituion, and world-famed beaches, the United States media and the United States wildly promoted tourism to dictator Batista's Cuba!!

    And, meanwhile, the five images/photos above are never mentioned by the U. S. media that promotes the U. S. Embargo of Cuba. As noted above, two of the world's most famed Hotel & Resort operations -- Iberostar and Melia, both headquartered in Spain -- have over forty gorgeous 4-star & 5-star Hotels in Cuba. But, of course, to make sure the Embargo continues to starve Cuba's economy, Americans are not allowed to stay in such hotels...and the Embargo also tries to dissuade citizens from other nations to also avoid spending any money in Cuba. For example, if a cruise ship docks in Cuba it can't then go and dock in a U. S. port.

       And, of course, for over six decades Americans have been programmed to believe that this seminal international image doesn't reflect badly on the United States and that -- HEY!! -- the wonderful Embargo starves only the mean leaders of Cuba, not Cuban children and their mothers, of course.

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