Why is Cuba Closing 2023 as USA's "Enemy"??

Did the Great Celia Sanchez Provide the Answer?? 

     Leading up to Black Friday that is tomorrow on November 17th-2023, ads like this are ubiquitous as they promote lucrative cruises to nations in the Caribbean and elsewhere around the world -- all EXCEPT to Cuba, which is the Caribbean's largest and arguably its most beautiful nation.

     Since 1962 the Superpower United States has imposed a tight economic blockade against Cuba that prohibits Cruises from docking at Cuban ports because, of course, those ships might have tourists that might want to visit Cuba and even HELP THE CUBAN ECONOMY.

     Despite the endless U. S. blockade of Cuba, the two Spanish-based Hotel giants -- Iberostar and Melia -- still have forty of the world's best 4-star & 5-star Hotels in Cuba.

    As shown above, many of Cuba's plush Hotels in 2023 continue to win international awards despite the U. S. Blockade that is designed to starve them from having tourists. Just a few miles due south of Florida, for example, on Cuba's northern coast are beaches like Varadero, which has been voted by tourists to be the Best Beach in the World, and Santa Maria, which has been recently voted the Second Best Beach in the World. While Florida rakes in billions of dollars from tourism, it is nearby Cuba that has the Best Beaches and perhaps the Best hotels too.

       Of course, in addition to the dozens of 5-star Hotels in Cuba courtesy of Iberstar and Melia, the famed National Hotel in Havana remains the most famous 5-Star Hotel in North America and in the Caribbean. As you can see above, the National Hotel in 2023 continues to  win MASSIVE AWARDS for its magnificence and its history. Prior to the 1959 when the Cuban Revolution overthrew the U. S.-beloved Dictator Batista's rule in 1959, U. S. tourists and celebrities from Frank Sinatra to Al Capone were encouraged to spend tons of tourist dollars at the National Hotel in Havana. Now, still glorified and beautifully refurbished, the U. S. Blockade powerfully prevents tourists from experiencing the National Hotel.

    Of course, it was revolutionary icon Fidel Castro who was among the first in 1962 to proclaim the U. S. Blockade against Cuba as "a Genocidal Blockade." It so happens that in 2016, the year that Fidel Castro died at age 90 in Havana, he was still saying that it was "a Genocidal Blockade." Also note that Fidel Castro maintained that the Blockade was "an immoral" poliical act perpetrated by the United States. While Americans since the 1950s have been told that nothing Fidel Castro ever said was true, most Cubans in Cuba since 1959 have believed his words. As a Democracy-loving American allowed to visit Cuba in 2004 by the counter revolutionary George W. Bush administration, I believed that the Cuban people hated Fidel Castro and didn't believe a word he said. But after my visit to the island, I have known otherwise.

      During his 90-year lifetime, Fidel Castro was never known to have ever shed a tear, at least in public. But the person who knew him best, the incomparable rebel leader Celia Sanchez, told the incomparable journalist-author-rebel Marta Rojas, that indeed Fidel Castro did shed tears about the impact "the economic blockade was having on the people." 

     Of course, since the 1950s Americans have been told that Celia Sanchez was not a factor in the Cuban Revolution...while, in fact, she was the prime factor as the prime recruiter of supplies and rebels as well as the key decision-maker during and after the Cuban Revolution.

      Therefore, of course, Americans are not supposed to know the truth of this historic Lee Lockwood photo taken after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. It shows Fidel Castro relaxing in his rocking chair while, early one morning, Celia Sanchez was busy writing new revolutionary rules and laws that, with the 100% support of Fidel Castro, would then become vital rules and laws for Revolutionary Cuba.

   As the most important factor during the Cuban Revolution, and after 1959 as the top decision-maker in Revolutionary Cuba, the child-loving Celia Sanchez, with Fidel Castro's total blessing, was easily the most important person in Cuba. Till the day she died of cancer at age 59 on January 11th of 1980, Celia Sanchez -- the daughter of a notable Cuban doctor -- had unchallenged revolutionary fervor and passion fueled by her love for Cuban children, and that was the fervor and the passion that won the Revolution for Fidel Castro and other more famous rebels. As the Fidel Castro-anointed leader of the Revolution, at least Celia Sanchez is registered by history as the person who best defined both her Cuban Revolution and her enemies, and that is a fact and a quotation shown below:

     "WE REBELS...GET FAR TOO MUCH CREDIT FOR WINNING THE REVOLTUTION. OUR ENEMIES DESERVE MOST OF THE CREDIT, FOR BEING GREEDY COWARDS AND IDIOTS." 

Celia Sanchez: Guerrilla Fighter.

      In these closing days of 2023, why are Americans still not supposed to know that a 99-pound doctor's daughter named Celia Sanchez was and is the most important rebel in the history of the Cuban Revolution and Revolutionary Cuba? I believe the answer is this: Her enemies in the United States decided that it would be a lot easier to lie about macho men like Fidel Castro than it would be to lie about a small woman named Celia Sanchez!!!! PLEASE STUDY HER OWN WORDS SHOWN ABOVE...as you ponder my answer. And, meanwhile, below are some more topical truths and updates about Cuba that Americans are not supposed to know, starting with a surprising permission for a notable American singer to not only be allowed to visit Havana but actually perform there. WOW!!

Even President Miguel Diaz-Canel is pondering that.

Cuban journalists report how the world loves Cuba.

   In mid-November of 2023 Cubans in the community of Moa were surprised when a muddy flood at night from the Cabana River began destorying their homes. Yet...such natural disasters pale in comparison to the man-made destruction every Cuban on the vulnerable island has suffered every day and every night since 1962 from the colossal U. S. economic Blockade of Cuba that remains endless in mid-November of 2023 because, apparently, it pleases or benefits a few rich and politically powerful Cubans in the United States.

Uh, yes in November-2023 Cuba has GREAT hotels.

In November-2023 Cuba had GREAT U. S. baseball stars.

The whole world loves Cuba even while...

the U. S. makes it illegal to go there.

       Yes, politically powerful counter-revolutionary Cubans in Miami in November of 2023 sitll dictate the U. S. policies regarding Cuba, including since 1962 having the drastic Embargo that Cubans, and 188 nations at the UN, call "an endless and genocidal blockade." To this day Miami Cubans control what Washington's White House & Congressional decisions pertaining Cuba are -- and that includes powerful Mimai Cubans in the U. S. Congress such as the Diaz-Balart brothers, Rubio, Salazar, Gimenez, etc. But the three photos directly above reveal that the majority of U. S. Cubans, like 188 nations around the world, vehemently disagree with the USA's Cuban policies. For example, a Miami Cuban born in Cuba named Hugo Cancio has a business organization with offices in both Miami & Havana and, as shown above, he knows both Cuba's President Diaz and the USA's President Biden. Not only does Cancio own OnCuba News, which has offices in both Miami & Havana and provides fair & excellent & daily news coverage regarding Cuba-US relations, but he also has other businesses, including a new "Cuba Food" company, that tries to help Cubans in Cuba survive the U. S. economic blockade. And, yes, both the US & Cuba are abundantly aware that Hugo Cancio is the leading force trying to create entrepreneurs in Cuba that can own their businesses and even be allowed to trade with U. S. businesses, including exchanging inports and exports. And most of all, Hugo Cancio is not deterred from his colossal attempts to help Cubans in Cuba by the ultra-powerful Miami Cubans in Washington.

    The photo above shows Hugo Cancio in Havana announcing the opening of his latest business. He calls this one deCancio Foods. And, no, he didn't ask the Washington Cubans for permission to start his new company. 

    In Cuba today this is a typical image. An old man looks for food or something else he might want and the young man is trying to make a living as an entrepreneur but if the old man doesn't have any money to pay for what he needs or wants...the young man just gives it to him free. Cubans in Cuba are known to help less well off Cubans.

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"Stiffened U. S. Sanctions" Starving Cubans

 

    Today -- on November 14th-2023 -- this popular Cuban TV journalist was standing in front of Havana's famed Malecon Seawall when she ended her report with these exact words: "My Havana in the background. What more could I ask for." But this same journalist has also informed her fellow Cubans about this reality: "The recently stiffened U. S. Blockade against our island by the Trump and Biden administrations have caused severe blackouts as well as food and medical shortages that are making some of my friends, many of them journalists, to leave Cuba. As journalists in Cuba we live with the Cuban people, so we report to them exactly what they are seeing and are living themselves...otherwide we would be nothing more than stupid and cruel propagandists. It is the U. S. media that lies about Cuba, telling everyone that the Blockade is necessary entering into its 7th decade and must be strengthened to finalize the starvations that will make us submit to the Cubans in Miami and Washington that profess to be good while we are bad. Such lies, coupled with the incomparable U. S. power, prolongs the Blockade's genecidal goals from generation to generation. Yes, I have been to 14 major cities in Latin America, Europe, and Asia and I could easily live in Miami. But I will live and die in the city where I was born, Havana...and not in Little Havana in Miami."

    And, meanwhile, today -- on November 14th-2023 -- the ultra-powerful Reuters News Agency is flashing this headline around the world: "Help Wanted: Cuba's government turns to growing diaspora for investment." The first paragraph of that important international article today ends with these exact words: "...stiffened U. S. sanctions" to explain to the world that the "stiffened" U. S. blockade against Cuba is finally, after six+ decades, starving mass numbers of Cubans on the island to cause them to submit to overthrowing their revolutionary rule, which was the purpose of the U. S. Embargo/Blockade when it was created way back in February of 1962. Please note on November 14th-2023 that the Cuban journalist standing at Havana's Malecon Seawall was reporting the same thing that Reuters is reporting today, which is about the effects of the "stiffened" U. S. Blockade now devastating the Cuban people. And, of course, London-based Reuters is the world's best News Agency and it also has long had the world's best journalism regarding Cuba.

    From time-to-time, since imposing the Embargo/Blockade against Cuba in 1962, the United States has occasionally stated its intent to ease the dreadful sanctions "as a goodwill gesture to the Cuban people that we are trying to help." One of those times was back in July of 2022 when the Associated Press, the USA's top News Agency, informed the world {see above} that American Airlines was told by the U. S. goverment that it could "resume flights to five destinations to Cuba that were stopped in 2019 when the Trump administration sharply curtailed air service between the two countries." Then {see above} the AP article said that the Biden administration would reverse the Trump administration decision and "let American Airlines resume flights from Miami to Santa Clara, Varadero, Holguin, Camaguey and Santiago de Cuba," which are all prime destinations for tourists hoping to visit Cuba. WONDERFUL!! After Trump put Cuba on the U. S. List of Nations That Sponsor Terror, it drastically allowed the Miami-Washington Cubans to dictate the harshest-ever sanctions against Cuba...but many thought the Democrat Biden would reverse the Republican Trump and that Biden would take Cuba OFF the dreaded Terror list. But in mid-November of 2023 the Biden adminstration has refused to do that, allowing the "stiffened" six-decade-old Embargo/Blockade of Cuba to drastically starve Cubans on the island...and making them believe that, in the USA's two-party political system, both the Republicans and the Democrats are now dictated to by the Counter Revolutionary U. S. Cubans in Miami and Washington. Of course, a prime desire of the U. S. Blockade on Cuba since 1962 has been to Block tourism...because, of course, tourists that would flock to Cuba would not compute with the U. S. desire to starve the Cuban economy, which is happening in mid-November of 2023.

    The image above is from an ad that reflects the prices of flights from Miami or Charlotte to three of Cuba's prime Tourists Destinations. Cuba's lures and intrigue, including some of the World's Best Beaches and some of the World's Best Hotels & Resorts, would be attracting enough tourist money to blunt the U. S. economic Blockade of the Caribbean's largest and arguably the Caribbean's most beautiful island. Nearby Miami, like the rest of the world, loves money derived from tourism...but the U. S. Blockade blocks Cuba from having that basic right.

    Yes, when I was in Cuba I stopped at spots such as Varadero Beach because it was rated The Best Beach in the World and it is on Cuba's northern coast directly below the tourist-mecca of Florida. Varadero is just an hour's drive east of Havana but even closer to Havana is Vinales Valley that remains the most unique and most beautiful valley I've ever seen and it is a haven for tourists who like to walk on its trails or ride bikes or horses on the trails. BUT HEY!! The United States has had a Blockade on Cuba since 1962 that blocks tourism to the Cuban destinations that tourists might want to visit.

   A law known as Proclamation 3447 in February of 1962 legalized the U. S. EMBARGO/BLOCKADE of Cuba. In this month of November in 2023 the nations of world, as happens each year, loudly voted to condemn it and beg for it to end. But the one nation that wants to continue it happens to be the richest and strongest nation in the world, and that is the reason it has existed since 1962.

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Why US Blocks Tourism to Cuba?

 As you can see above, the British travel magazine Wanderlust has anointed Cuba with its 2023 gold medal as "The Most Desirable Island in the World" for travelers. While many would-be tourists around the world might concur with that designation, it so happens that Cuba's neighbor, the United States, has expanded its six-decade old Cuban economic blockade that, since 1962, has tried desperately to starve Cuba by, among other things, blocking tourism to Cuba. In November of 2023 the most glaring Cuban headlines are telling the world that the U. S. Blockade in 2023 is indeed starving, depriving, and making miserable Cubans in Cuba to such an extent that over 400,000 of them have recently left the island hoping to reap financial rewards in capitalist nations such as the United States, which is also home to Miami's rich and powerful Little Havana Cubans. That being said, in mid-November-2023, Cuba is still trying its best to survive the violent Miami-based/Washington-based/Blockade-beloved designs of its northern neighbor that happens to be the longest and strongest such economic embargo in history.

    But, in mid-November of 2023 {see above} Cuba is holding its annual International Trade Fair in Havana seeking "foreign investment to help boost its ailing economy." And it appears to be successful with "over 800 companies from more than 60 countries showcasing products and services."

     At the Trade Fair in Havava some foreign companies, as shown above, are promising to help Cuba stock its store shelves with food that average Cuban can actually afford.

   Cuba-born Cuban-Americans such as Hugo Cancio are in the majority when they try to help Cubans in Cuba survive the U. S. blockade although the more politically powerful U. S. Cubans from Miami and Newark have historically dictated the USA's anti-Cuban policies since 1959. But Hugo Cancio, who uniquely has offices in both Miami and Havana, is determined that enterprises such as this month's Trade Fair, coming a couple of weeks after the yearly UN vote that reveals the whole world's disgust with the U. S. blockade of Cuba, might provide some positive vibes for the 11 million Cubans still on the island who have lived their lives under the yoke of a stifling economic blockade imposed by the strongest nation in the world. Hugo Cancio in November of 2023, as shown above, is at the Trade Fair in Havana trying to find and create gaps in the blockade that will permit Cuba to obtain fuel to prevent the electric blackouts and obtain fertilizer and machinery to help the island grow more of its own food. He said, "It has become history's longest and cruelest economic embargo that the Cuban people know as a genocidal blockade. That, especially as it is allowed to continue decade after decade, hurts Cuba, America, and Democracy."

    Every now and then, during the six+decades of the U. S. blockade, the Cuban people have been given some hints that it will ease or even end some day. Here in mid-November of 2023 the images above provide more hints. Yes, Cuba -- with massive tourist lures such as beaches rated the best in the world by some travel agencies -- wants the superpower United States to permit free and honest tourism to Cuba but that is impossible within the confines of the superpower blockade. Yet this week the prime U. S. airline -- American Airlines -- plans "82 WEEKLY" flights to Cuba during this period, the winter part of the island's prime winter season for tourism. Wow!! Will the rich and powerful Cuban politicians in Washington from Miami and Newark allow such tourism to reach Cuba with actual dollars to spend. I doubt it.

    This is the Hotel Royalton at Cayo Santa Maria in Cuba where the beach, directly south of Floirda, has been recently rated "The Second Best Beach in the World." It is very close to Veradero Beach, which has been rated THE Best Beach in the World. The two world-famed Spanish chains -- Iberostar and Melia -- have 5-star Hotels and Resorts in Cuba but the U. S. blockade blocks tourism to visit them.

       This tourist believes that the clear water and soft sand at Cayo Santa Maria makes it the best beach in the world, but her friend said it is "second only to Veradero!!"

    This is the Seville Hotel in Havana operated by Melia Hotels & Resorts. Melia and Iberostar -- the two world-famed Spanish chains -- have 42 4-star and 5-star hotels in Cuba...all waiting to see in November of 2023 if the BLOCKADE will ease a bit.

    Of course, the famed National Hotel in Havana has been restored beautifully and remains the most famous and the most alluring and best hotel in "the Caribbean and in North America."

    For tourists who want to go beyond the wonders of Cuba's big and historic cities such as Havana, the four photos above show why many tourists want to visit places such as Candetorea, which is a little community in the Rosario Mountains in Artemisa Province. Candetorea has a population of 1,000 very friendly Cubans who are anxious to provide wonderful experiences for visitors who venture to a gorgeous spot that Cubans love to show off on their island.

   But, of course, the U. S. Blockade of Cuba powerfully and cruelly denies American tourists from spending a dollar in Cuba because it might deter from the starvation tactics embedded deeply within the Blockade. The "CRUISE FROM FLORIDA 2023/24" ad shown above actually applies to anyone except tourists that might want to visit Cuba. For example...as dictated by the Blockade, a cruise ship that has the audacity to dock in Cuba is then not allowed to leave Cuba and then dock in a U. S. port. Yes, if you are the richest and strongest nation in the world you can impose such dictates to other nations.

Uh...ANYWHERE EXCEPT CUBA, of course.

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