The sole publisher of Cubaninsider, Rich Haney, has passionately studied Cuba day and night since the 1980s and he has visited the island. He is a fiercely pro-democracy conservative Republican from Virginia and he believes the Cuban Revolution and Revolutionary Cuba say more about the United States than they say about Cuba.
Today is November 25th of 2023 and every Cuban remembers that revolutionary iconFidel Castro died at age 90 in Havana on November 25th of 2016. And on November 25th of 2023, while cogently denied by Americans, most Cubans in Cuba still consider and loveFidel Castro as the leader of Cuba.
And so...on November 25th of 2023...Cubans in Cuba today not only remember the death of Fidel, but most Cubans in Cuba honor their memories ofhim...such as the ones below:
Today on November 25th of 2023 on the SEVENTH ANNIVERSITY OF HIS DEATH AT AGE 90, above are some of the memories that Cubans in Cuba are having aboutFidel Castro. Back in the 1950s most of the Cubans in Cuba supportedhim powerfully against the Batistianos, the mafia, and the U. S. businessmen who controlled the island. Also, it should be noted, that many of history's greatest independence icons, such asNelson Mandela, were lifelong admirers ofFidel Castro.
Of course, today on November 25th of 2023 the Cubans in Cuba remember thatFidel Castro survived634 assassination attempts,"MOSTLY BY THE USA'S CIA."
But mostly Cubans in Cuba rememberFidel Castro for theCuban Revolution, which stunned the world on January 1st in 1959 and, incredibly, still rules Cuba on November 25th of 2023.
Little Havana/Miami CRYING About Nora Jones Concert!!!
This week in the closing days of November-2023 Americans are celebreatingTHANKSGIVING DAY all week.
And meanwhile media headlines in the U. S. confirm that Cubans in Cuba are close to starvation as the six-decade-old U. S. economic blockade of the island at last seems to be HAPPENING. And meanwhile...in late November of 2023 the meanstream U. S. media, led as always by theMiami Herald, makes sure that Cubans in Cuba are not helped by a few dollars tourists might leave on the beleaguered island...and thus, of course, theMiami Herald is now wildly upset that a surprisingNora Jones Concert in Havana might be allowed to leave a dollar or two in Havana in February of 2024.
Of course, theMiami Herald is awash with extreme Counter Revolutionary journalists such asNora Gamez Torres who fired off the latest diatribe against anyone, such as singer Nora Jones, who might try to lend a hand to starving Cubans in Cuba, something that Cubans in Miami will not allow.
Yes, Nora Gamez Torres in Miami is UPSET that Nora Jones will have four concerts in Havana...and Miami's Nora wildly believes that American superstarNora Jones, nor any other American, should not be allowed to visit Cuba!!I mean...the U. S. blockade against Cuba is still legal,isn't it?
Wow!! If Nora Jones is allowed to have four concerts in Havana, how can the U. S. maintain its wonderful blockade???? Please tap theYouTube video above to listen to Nora Jones sing some of her greatest hits, the same Nora Jones that has scheduled four concerts in Havana in February of 2024.
Cubans in Havana deserve to be able to see Nora Jones, the Cubans after all these decades since 1962 after being tormented since the nice Cubans in the U. S. sicced the blockade on the bad Cubans in Cuba...and have kept it on all these decades as Cubans in Miami get rich. Above in late November-2023 the worldwide reach of the London-based Reuters News Agency is telling the world that"Food SHORTAGES" are finally working wonderfully against families in Cuba thanks to extreme new sanctions by both the Trump & Biden administrations to drastically strengthen the always cruel 1962 legalization of the blockade...as Washington politicians please the politically powerful Cubans in Miami.
Despite the ravages of the U. S. blockade, the mothers in Cuba are trying their best to protect Cuban children on the island such as 4-year-oldRoman and 10-year-oldMariana. They are shown above on Thanksgiving Week in Havana. Mothers in Cuba have faced the Blockade during the past three generations.
Every now and then, such as with news of the impending Nora Jones concert in Havana, Cuban mothers in Cuba have seen glimmers of hope that Cuba and its superpower northern neighbor were beginning"to cooperate." But time and again, such hopes are simply blocked, beginning in Miami.
Thus the four images directly above have ruled U.S.-Cuba Relations since 1962 when the Blockade began.
And meanwhile Cuba's powerful Vice PresidentAna Mari Machado in the closing days of November-2023 is holding talks with important people such asEamon Gilmore, a key leader of the 27-nation European Union.
And meanwhile in the closing days of November-2023 Cuba's powerful Vice PresidentSalvador Valdes Mesa is holding important meetings with important people such asAbiy Ahmad Ali, the 47-year-old Prime Minister of Ethiopia.
And meanwhile in the closing days of November-2023 Cuba's PresidentMiguel Diaz-Canel told the Cuban people: "This week is celebrated as Worldwide Children's Day and it should remind us why Revolutionary Cuba is now over 63 years old."Diaz-Canel, Cuba's President since 2018, is 63-years-old and he was born a few months after the triumph of Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution on January 1st of 1959.
And meanwhile...this photo was taken in 1994. It shows Cuba's prime revolutinary iconFidel Castro writing down a declaration in which the first sentence, translated to English, said: "Each man, such as great men like Jose Marti, must be measured by the immensity that opposes them."
The photoabove was taken today in Havana Harbor -- on November 22nd-2023. It shows one of the crumbling seawalls or fortresses that were built centuries ago to protect Havana from foreign powers determined to capture the Caribbean's most beautiful, largest, and most strategically located island.Indeed...starting shortly after Spainish explorer Columbus descovered Cuba in 1492, just almost every one of the world's imperative powers violently coveted capturing the island, especially Spain and the United States who fought the most notable War -- the Spanish-American War that was fought in Cuba in 1898 when the easy victory in Cuba gave the U. S. dominance of Cuba, Puerto Rico, etc., as the U. S. began its emergence of the world's richest and most powerful nation.So...natives in Cuba, starting in 1492, soon began building seawalls to defend their island from foreign attacks,and thus crumbling seawall fortresses such as the one shown above are still visible remnants in Cuba's two most important cities -- the current 500-year-old capital of Havana on the western tip of the alligator-shaped island and the former capital of Santiago de Cuba on the eastern tip of the island.
Now study this map to understand whyCuba is known as an"alligator-shaped island" with Havana on the western tail end and Santiago de Cuba on the mouth end. Also note thatCuba's extremely important location so close to the superpowerUSA remains its greatest curse although it could be its greatest treasure if Revolutionay Cuba since 1959 was still a vital trading partner with theUSA as it was back in the 1950s when theUSA's richest companies and the U.S.-based Mafiosi were getting vastly richer because of their sweet deals with the Batista dictatorship when both theUSA andBatista's Cuba wildly promoted tourism from theUSA toCuba!!!
The massive and rampant U. S. tourism and trade with Cuba during the Batista dictatorship abruptly ended on January 1st of 1959 when theCuban Revolution overthrew Batista, an historic phenomenon that quickly created Little Havana in Miami.
Since 1959 Cubans inLittle Havana USA in Miami have spearheaded the massive U. S. effort tooverthrow Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution.
Beginning in 1959 Cuba's revolutionary leaderFidel Castro famously survived634 or so assassination attempts...allegedly attempted"MOSTLY BY THE CIA."
Cuban memorials have claimed that Cubans other than Fidel Castro were targeted by Little Havana Cubans and the CIA.
Of course,Fidel Castro himself not only survived"634 or so assassination attempts" but he also survived the famed "Bay of Pigs" air-land-sea Military Attack by the Cuban exiles and the U. S. military in April of 1961. The attack was, of course, also supported by the two top U.S.-backed regional dictators Trujillo in the Dominican Republic and Somoza in Nicaragua. Famously Somoza stood on a Nicaraguan dock and historically bade a departing U. S. military ship,"Bring me back some hairs from Fidel's beard!!!"Of course, Somoza never got to receive any hairs fromFidel Castro's beard because, onceCastro heard U. S. bombs attacking Camp Colombia on the edge of Havana,he raced to Cuba's southern coast to the Bay of Pigs beach where he, correctly, anticipated the ground attack would take place; 72 hours laterFidel Castro's forces had easily defeated the attack...to the chagrin ofhis enemies in Little Havana USA, the Dominican Republica, and Nicaragua.
Above journalist Haynes Johnson in the Washington Post on April 17, 1981, correctly reported, as shown above, Nicaragua's U.S.-backed dictator Luis Somoza told the Bay of Pigs attackers leaving the Nicaraguan port to"Bring me a couple of hairs from Castro's Beard." Like others, Somoza waited for the Bay of Pigs attackers to kill Fidel Castro and recapture Cuba.
Turns out that after smashingly winning the Bay of Pigs battle in April of 1961,Fidel Castro not only kept his famous beard intact, but he also relished smoking a victory Cuban cigar.
History confirms thatFidel Castro, easily the most targeted rebel in history, died peacefully in his own bed in Havana at age 90 in 2016.
Amazingly, in November of 2023 it is still the legacy and quotations ofFidel Castro that still remain, in the opinions of many Cubans in Cuba, the prime bulwark against the"U. S. economic Blockade that in November of 2023 still harms Cubans in Cuba. After the Bay of Pigs military attack in April of 1961 failed to defeatFidel Castro's revolutionary rule of Cuba, the next major attempt to accomplish it was theBlockade, which began in February of 1962 and continues in November of 2023. In other words...64 YEARS after Fidel Castro's revolution defeated the USA, the Mafia and Batista, the U. S. and Miami's Little Havana in November of 2023 still can't overthrow Fidel Castro.
In November of 2023 188 nations in the United Nations in New York voted once again, for the 31st consecutive year, to support Revolutionary Cuba's struggle against the endless U. S. Embargo/Blockade that began way back in February of 1962.
It was back in 2016 whenFidel Castro died in Havana at age 90.Yet, in November of 2023 many Cubans in Cuba still wonder what be would be thinking today about things such as this 64th Year since the VICTORY FOR HIS Cuban Revolution?
Cubans in Cuba, such as the popular journalist above, have opinions about U.S.-Cuba and Havana-Miami relations. Havana's Rosy Amaro has visited fourteen {14} famed foreign cities -- Paris, Beijing, Moscow, Abu Dhabi, Instabul, etc. -- but she has no plans to visit nearby Miami.Yet she has pertinent opinions about whether, for example, journalism is FAIRER in Havana or in Miami: "Because of the U. S. blockade of Cuba, journalists such as me struggle to have necessities of life in our households, but at least we provide fair journalism to the people because we live beside them or with them and the people would know if we lie to them or not. In Miami and in the U. S. the rich and powerful journalists live mostly in luxury and routinely lie as propagandists to the American people. How do I know that? I know Cubans who live in Miami. And I also see that many respected polls in the U. S. reveal that barely 10% of the U. S. citizens 'trust their media.'But journalists like me in Cuba don't lie to the masses of people in Cuba because, like them, we all suffer from the crimes against us by rich and powerful Cubans in the U. S. who benefit from things such as the Embargo, which the entire world wildly condemns, but, alas, as the richest and most powerful nation in the world the U. S., and its media, can do whatever they want to do to Cubans in Cuba. To deny that fact is to deny the truth about the blockade and other U. S. policies regarding Cubans in Cuba."
One problem with U.S.-Cuban Relations, both before and after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 that got rid of the Batista dictatorship in Havana but then quickly created Little Havana in Miami, is that it seems that only ultra-powerful Miami forces are allowed to dictate U. S. policies regarding Cuba. Miami Law Professor Pedro Freyreor someone like him routinely are used by the U. S. media and the U. S. government to guide Cuban policies in the USA. For example, today -- on November 19th of 2023 -- the most powerful Cuban News flashing around the world is an article by theAssociated Press, the USA's giant News Agency, and byVoice of America, the U. S. government's giant worldwide media source. Obviously that article didn't include any opinions from Cubans in Cuba like Rosy Amaro but did include the opinions of Miami's Pedro Freyre -- as shown below:
If you take time to read today's worldwide article {above} on November 19th-2023 from theAssociated Press/Voice of America, in the headline and in the article there are references to Cubans in Cuba having dire problems because they can't afford basic items although Cuba is now flourishing with entrepreneurs trying to open new stores filled with products the people need.Of course, the article doesn't mention the endless U. S. economic blockade of Cuba as a cause of the problem. In the two last paragraphs shown above, note that the quotations are by"Pedro Freyre, an analyst with the Florida-based Akerman Consulting and professor at Miami Law School."PERHAPS ONE DAY theAP andV of A might ask a Cuban Mother in Cuba, such as the journalist Rosy Amaro, how she feels about things such as...the U. S. Blockade!!!
Perhaps in late November of 2023 it is time for the superpower United States to heed the International cry that calls for the end of The U. S. Blockade of Cuba!! After all it began on February 7th of 1962 and now we are near the end of 2023!! Does the historic longevity of the Blockade hinge on a few people in a superpower nation claiming that they "are the good guys" and the masses of people in the much-smaller nation "are the bad guys"and is that what created the Blockade and what has prolonged it for over six+ decades?? And if that is not why it still exists, then perhaps theAP and theVoice of America will publish another article around the world and let us know what is the reason the Blockade still exists!!!!