The Elian Gonzalez SAGA Continues in December-2023

 

     This photo was taken this week -- the first week of December in 2023, and it shows Elian Gonzalez holding his daughter Eliz in their hometown of Cardenas, which is about an hour's drive southeast of Havana near Varadero Beach. Elian is now 30-years-old and this week all of Cardenas celebrated his birthday. He graduated from the University of Matanzas with an Engineering Degree. He was also recently elected to the Cuban Parliament, which means he now spends a lot of his time in Havana. In the U.S.-Cuba Saga/Tug of War, history will forever list Elian Gonzalez as one of the most important players!!

    Back on April 22nd of 2000 when Elian Gonzalez was six-years-old this photo flashed internationally and made him the most famous little boy in the entire world. U. S. Marshalls burst into a Miami home and took Elian out of a clothes closet as the huge rifle just inches from him spawned this frightened expression on his face, an image that remains historically frozen in time. The rescue, as far as Fidel Castro was concerned, was a massive victory for Revolutionary Cuba because it meant that the U. S. decided that Elian could return to Cuba with his father Juan Gonzalez instead of remaining with Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami.

   Back in Cuba, Elian Gonzalez married his childhood sweetheart Llianet Escano. They are shown here with their baby girl Eliz in a photo taken exactly three years ago on December 8th of 2020.

     After returning to Cuba in 2000 as a six-year-old world-famed celebrity, Elian Gonzalez often was seen with Fidel Castro, whom he genuinely loved: "I consider Fidel my second father, and I trust everything he has done for my country." 

    As he grew up in Cuba starting as the famed six-year-old in 2000 to his 30th birthday in December of 2023, Elian Gonzalez has tried to stay out of the spotlight as much as possible. A rare and excellent interview with the USA's ABC News revealed his innermost thoughts about the United States and about his deep devotion to Cuba, which he said "is my forever home." Remaining as private as possible, he has also steadfastly maintained, "If conditions were normal, I mean better, I would one day love to return to Miami as a friend and I would love for my family to visit other places in the United States. But wishing for such things will not make it happen, and now I admit that I may never experience such things, except in my mind as some of my wishes and hopes."  

    The amazing and historic saga of Elian Gonzalez has evolved in December of 2023 into a full cycle and circle as he emerges as a key politician in the Cuban Parliament.

 Elian welcomed to Cuba's Congress in Havana.

Elian in Cardenas with 3-year-old daughter Eliz.

The baby Eliz exactly three years ago.

As a proud Cuban soldier, Elian Gonzalez.

A six-year-old in Miami to an adult in Cuba.

     A legend as a child during his brief time in Miami, Elian Gonzalez in the first week of December in 2023 turned 30-years-old as an important member of Cuba's Parliament while explaining, "I mostly consider myself a Cuban husband and father. How I got to where I am merely includes a long journey of reacting to a life's nuances, a life that I never intended to be famous, just productive."  

   Yes, when he was six-years-old in Miami, the world asked "WHERE DOES HE BELONG?" And today, after turning 30-years-old on December 6th of 2023, Elian Gonzalez has answered that question himself. HE BELIEVES THAT HE BELONGS IN CUBA.

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On Dec. 6-2023 Little CUBA Makes BIG U.S. News

     For sure, the United States has always had its keen sights on the nearby island of Cuba, especially peeking down from Miami where the Cuban-dominated Little Havana area in Miami since 1959 has become a very rich and very politically powerful force within the bowels of the U. S. government. 

 

    Therefore, on December 6th of 2023 -- even as massively important Domestic and International events rocked the News Arena -- the mainstream U. S. media is obsessed with the arrest in Miami of "another long-time Cuban Spy within the U. S. goverment." Long-time U. S. Ambassador Manuel Rocha on December 6th of 2023 in Miami is charged with being a Cuban Spy dating back to the 1980s. Now 73-years-old, Rocha is shown above in 2001 during his stint as the U. S. Ambassador to Bolivia. 

   Thus on December 6th of 2023 the mainstream media is obsessed with the newly arrested Cuban Spy Manuel Rocha, and that doesn't only mean the Miami Herald, which daily is obsessed with Cuba-related headlines. Above are other mainstream U. S. headlines about Rocha, and below is how NBC News is reporting the new Cuban Spy Novel-type story:

Does this remind you of Ana Belen Montes??

    The two photos above {1} show Ana Belen Montes when she receiving awards being the U. S. government's key Cuban expert and {2} when she was released back in January of 2023 after serving 20 years in a federal prison for spying for Cuba.

    The two photos above show {1} Ana Belen Montes being booked on October 21-2001 for spying for Cuba and {2} on January 6-2023 when she was released from a Federal Prison in Texas after serving her sentence.

    The Manuel Rocha saga that is playing out this first week in December of 2023 is eerily reminiscent of the Ana Montes saga that played out in 2001 and 2002 in Miami and Washingon. At age 44 Ana had been a long-time top senior analyst for the DIA, the USA's Defense Intelligence Agency and she, a prized graduate of the University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins University, was the US expert on Cuba. In 2002 Ana was sentenced to 25 years in a U. S. federal prison after pleading guilty of spying for Cuba. And, having served her time, she was finally released in 2023 and is now living in the U. S. Territory of Puerto Rico. Neither Rocha nor Montes were charged with receiving money or other gifts for spying for Cuba. It would, of course, make for an interesting article or video in December of 2023 to see what Ana Montes has to say about the arrest of Manuel Rocha who now is facing Judge Edwin G. Torres, the Chief Magistrate in Miami.

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Cuba In December of 2023 IS STILL BIG NEWS

Its Tug of War With the US Confirms That!! 

      Back in May of 2023 Cuba's Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations, Yuri Gala Lopez, told the nations of the world that "Cuban families are reeling from food shortages and blackouts because of the expansion of the six-decade-old U. S. blockade that, in the last five years, has been greatly expanded by the Trump-Biden administrations in Washington." 

    The world's best News Agency, London-based REUTERS, also has long had the best news bureau in Havana. As shown above, REUTERS also correctly informs the world about "the food and fuel SHORTAGES in Cuba.

     But in stark contrast to a great News Agency such as Reuters, the mainstream media in the United States consistently promotes extreme anti-Cuban "news" designed to support the anti-Cuban/Miami & Washington policies such as the Blockade of Cuba that started in 1962. For example, today is December 5th of 2023 and see above the TOP Five Cuban Articles from the U. S. Media TODAY from NBC News, AP News, The New York Times, USA Today, and CNN. As usual, Today and Always, the mainstream in the U. S. wildly seems to promote only the Cuban News that most hurts Cuba. So, note the 5 U. S. headlines today and their 5 sources:

    By nightfall today -- on December 5th of 2023 -- note that other mainstream U. S. promoters such as ABC News and The Washington Post had joined the massive anti-Cuban bandwagon that is also known as the Mainstream U. S. Media. OH, YES, another Ana Belen Montes-like News Story is newsworthy but, because it can be used to hurt Cuba, the mainstream U. S. media incessantly jams it down the throats of 330 million Americans who are obligned to support or condone the endless U. S. Blockade of Cuba. It seems another longtime notable U. S. goverment person, not unlike the Ana Belen Montes saga, will now be tried in a Miami Federal Court for being a longtime SPY for Cuba, in this case a 73-year-old former U. S. Ambassador who supposedly became a Cuban spy back in the 1980s. Terrible, if true, but that should not be the only Cuban article on December 5th of 2023. But, yes, it is quite juicy as you can detect below: 

    Like in a best-selling Spy novel, the true reporting today {see above} reveals: "An undercover FBI intelligence agent posing as a Cuba agent messaged Rocha on Whatsapp..." Great work by that FBI agent because Rocha responded.

    Hugo Cancio's On Cuba News, which has offices in both Miami and Havana, explains: "The Department of Justice accuses Manuel Rocha of working for 40 years to promote the interests of the Cuban government. He was arrested after a lengthy FBI investigation." YES I AGREE...that is two great sentences making News on December 5th of 2023 and it would also be two GREAT SENTENCE in a  SPY novel.

     The ongoing story of Manuel Rocha on December 5th of 2023 merely confirms and adds to the vast intrigue of U.S.-Cuban Relations, which has incomparably existed almost since 1492, the year Columbus discovered both Cuba and the nearby United States. As you can see from the historical dates and quotes above, at least since 1817 and 1823, the United States has excessively craved owning Cuba...or as notable Founding Father 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." Following those pertinent Thomas Jefferson quotations, you can study the similar cravings about Cuba from other notable U. S. politicians and U. S. media sources. Indeed, from 1492 until December of 2023 just about every imperative power in the world has massively craved Cuba!! 

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US Starts December-2023 Feeling Sorry For Cuba??

 Incredible!!!!!!!

    For the past six decades there have been intermittent signs that the superpower United States wants to "Let Cuba Live"!! But, meanwhile, the tenets of the "EMBARGO" have remained the exact same since 1962, which is to starve, deprive, and make miserable the Cubans to make them rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. Thus the dichotomy of the two images above diverge into political chicanery, at least as far as the starving, deprived, and miserable Cuban families in Cuba are concerned.

    As if to tease Cubans in this first week of December in 2023, the ad/promotion from the Tampa International Airport in Florida hints that a key provision of the EMBARGO, blocking tourism to Cuba, will be eased!! But remember...if Cuba was permitted to have normal tourism, the U. S. six-decade-old rule to starve, deprive, and make miserable Cubans in Cuba would essentially cease to exist. And thus...that easing will not happen.

 The explanation by the Tampa International Airport {Above} starts with the sentence "Good news for guests traveling to Cuba from Tampa..." It states that starting on June 4th of 2024 that Southwest Airlines will drastically increase its flights to Cuba. But the sentence that starts the next to last paragraph above says: "Travel to Cuba from the United States is restricted..." No KIDDING!! Since 1962 the U. S. Embargo/Blockade against Cuba has made sure that U. S. tourists to Cuba are not allowed to spend money that might help Cuba's economy. That nice and endless law might benefit a few Cuban-Americans in Miami and Washington but for the past six decades+ is has devastated Cuban families in Cuba.

    The map above indicates that Cuba alone in the region is restricted from making money, at least a few dollars or pesos, from tourism or from other normal enterprises such as exports & inports. Nearby is Florida, which is enormously wealthy from lucrative unrestricted enterprises such as tourism, an abundance of U. S. military bases, etc. And Florida is home base for International Cruise Lines but such ships must bypass Cuba and, if they have the audacity to dock at a Cuban port they then can not dock at a U. S. port. Wow!! Starving, depriving, and making miserable Cubans in Cuba is easy for a Superpower, and all you have to do is tell the American people the Cubans in Miami and Washington are the "Good Guys" and the Cubans in Cuba are the "Bad Guys." Wow!!

    So, in the first week of December-2023 Southwest Airlines is allowed to announce that in June of 2024 that it will drastically increase its flights from Florida...but those flights won't be allowed to help the blockaded Cuban economy!!! 

     Above you can see how close Tampa-Miami-Key West airports in Florida are to Havana. The proximity dating from 1959 to December-2023 explains how rich and powerful the Cubans in Tampa-Miami-Key West have become while the "mean" Cubans in Cuba have been starved, deprived, and made miserable!!

     The map above shows Havana* as the capital of Cuba but mostly it shows how uniquely treated by the United States that Cuba is as compared to the treatment Cuba's neighbors receive. For example, in this first weekend of December-2023 a few miles northeast of Cuba the  Bahamas is hosting a money/tourist-driven Golf Tournament that includes world-famed golfers such as Tiger Woods. And just a few miles southeast of Cuba in Jamaica there have been money/tourist-driven events such as international track meets, heavyweight championship boxing matches, etc. Nice, but sports-loving Cuba is not allowed to participate in such events because the decision-makers in the United States are supported by the strongest, richest, and most influential nation in the world -- the nearby United States. 

Should the United States "Let Cuba Live"??

Is this image of the United States OK??

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The Miami Herald Is UPSET With Javier Sotomayor

 

    Born in Cuba in 1967, Javier Sotomayor, by the time he retired from track in 2001, was enshrined as one of the all-time greatest international athletes. For example, he still holds the World Record in the High Jump. But the Miami Herald doesn't like him because his primary home is in Havana, not in Miami's Little Havana. Javier and his wife own a popular Cuban restaurant in Maryland but their main home remains in Havana. Now on December 1st of 2023 the Miami Herald has another reason not to like Javier...as the glaring headline today reveals:

    You see, the Miami Herald and its extreme Counter Revolutionary anti-Cuban journalists, such as Nora Gamez Torres, seem to get terribly upset if they detect any positive item related to Little Havana's hatred of Revolutionary Cuba being dented in any way. The glaring Miami Herald article today -- on December 1st of 2023 -- reveals that the rich and politically powerful Little Havana Cubans in Miami are indeed direly upset that "a Tesla shipped from Florida will be driving through the streets of Havana." It, uh...seems that Javiar Sotomayor's new car, a white 2021 Tesla, has been shipped from Florida through the Panama Canal to Cuba's superb deep-water Mariel Port and now has arrived in Havana!! 

    Above -- on December 1st of 2023 -- you can see the latest Miami Herald diatribe against anything that appears to be even the slightest bit of joy for a Cuban in Cuba -- in this case, for Heavens Sake, a nice car owned by the legendary Javier Sotomayor that might start driving on the streets in Havana. I mean, let's GET real here, the Miami Cubans in Little Havana are perplexed and upset that a nice white Tesla car shown above has arrived in Cuba?? 

    I mean...uh, how in the heck did the rich and ultra-POWERFUL Cubans in Miami look elsewhere while a 2021 Tesla car was sent from Florida to Havana?? I mean...uh, Little Havana has a vast number of political operatives in Washington in the U. S. Congress kinda dictating Cuban policies -- Rubio, Salazar, Diaz-Balart, Gimenez, etc. I mean, uh...so how in the heck did Javier's car leave Miami and reach Havana?? I, of course, am not upset about it...but I am surely perplexed!!!!

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