Fidel's Cuba Still Lives At 65-Years-Old Starting In 2024!!

 

     As of today -- January 1st of 2024 -- Revolutionary Cuba is an amazing 65 Years Old!!! Yes, that stupendous fact is every bit as amazing as the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1st of 1959...considering that the Revolution had to overthrow the powerful Batista dictatorship that was supported by the most powerful nation in the World, the United States,  and by the most powerful criminal organization in the world, the Mafia. Every day for the past 65 Years there have been dire predictions that ultra-powerful forces in the United States -- from Washington to Little Havana, the Cuban enclave in Miami -- will overthrow Revolutionary Cuba "any day now!!!" Well...those herculean efforts by Little Havana and the United States to overthrow Havana are still ongoing into a 65th Year but the Revolution starts 2024 still in control of Cuba.

     And, therefore, on January 1st of 2024 Revolutionary Cuba is celebrating the day exactly 65 Years ago when Fidel Castro's Revolution defeated Dictator Batista, much  to the chagrin of the United States and the Mafia.

In 2016 Fidel Castro died at age 90 in Havana.

     But as most Cubans still in Cuba believe, Fidel Castro still watches over his Revolution...while standing tall on a Sierra Maestra Mountain where the revolution first began to defeat Batista armies at the end of 1957 and early in 1958.

    Today on January 1st of 2024, therefore, the Revolutionary Celebrations in Cuba surround memories of Fidel Castro.

   Cubans still remember that prior to becoming a lawyer and then an anti-Batista rebel, Fidel Castro was a baseball player with Major League ambitions. Thus the 65th Year Celebrations include a scoreboard that exclaims this score: Revolution 65, Enemies 0!!

   Today -- on JANUARY 1st of 2024 -- there are still a few of the prime anti-Batista rebels still alive, including the healthy Raul Castro who is 92-years-old. From the start to the finish of the Cuban Revolution, Raul was at his brother Fiden's side. This photo of Raul was taken this weekend at 65th Year celebrations in Santiago de Cuba, the city in far southeastern Cuba where the Revolution started and where Fidel's tomb is located.

    While Cuba this weekend is celebrating Revolutionary Cuba's 65th Year anniversary, the Miami Herald very surprisingly published the Editorial shown above: 'The Cuban Revolution turns 65. It broke Cuba, but not its people. Opinion." It is amazing, certainly surprising from the Miami Herald, that any of the U. S. media would grudingly mention the sheer tenacity of the Cuban Revolution's amazing longevity.

     Yes, it is startling that the Miami Herald would say things such as: "As 2023 dawns, we mark an anniversary that is difficult to stomach for many in Miami's historic Cuban-exile community: The 65th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution." Then near the bottom of the long Miami Herald editorial, as you can see above, it says: "So could the revolution celebrate another birthday? We hope not, but it has shown staying power." At least...even the Miami Herald is forced to claim that the Cuban Revolution and REVOLUTIONARY CUBA HAVE BOTH SET HISTORIC RECORDS!!!!

  The Cubans shown above celebrating the 65th Year anniversary of the Cuban Revolution this weekend are saying: "CUBA NO ESTA SOLA"/"CUBA IS NOT ALONE." And that is true, because only the United States maintains the Embargo and other drastic policies designed to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba.

   This is Vladimir Molina, one of the Caribbean's greatest photo-journalists. His photos this weekend about the 65th Year celebrations in Santiago de Cuba are saturating the Cuban media as well as Facebook and other Social Media sources. The great Molina, as he is known, points out that most Cubans in Cuba, now and during the Revolution, support/supported what the Revolution did.

     Translated from Spanish to English, "nuestros suenos" means "our dreams" and "1ro de Enero" means "1st of January" So -- on January 1st of 2024 the poster above shows Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel emphasizing these words: "65th anniversary. This is the Revolution. On January 1st of 2024, let's work for our dreams."

     To many Cubans in Cuba on January 1st of 2024, their suenos, their dreams, revive memories of or the thoughts of the image reflected above. It is about the day when Fidel & Raul Castro and 80 other rebels returned to Cuba from Mexico on the yacht Granma to resume their do-or-die revolution to overthrow the Batista dictatorship in Cuba.

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Is There A Source For Honest News From Cuba? Yes!

 

    Founded in London in 1851, REUTERS is now the World's Best News Agency. For example, the Associated Press, Miami Herald, New York Times, Washington Post, etc., seem obliged to saturate the news with anti-Cuban propaganda while REUTERS actually provides honest and balanced jouralism regarding Cuba, and it includes a bureau on the island well-staffed with world-class journalists and photographers. Thus, here at the end of 2023 REUTERS is providing the article with a fair and balanced report on a Holiday marriage in Havana.

     This is a major worldwide REUTERS article from Havana to close out the Year of 2023. The caption for the photo above says: "Daniley, 21, and Reininier, 27, Celebrate Their Wedding on His Electric Motorcyle. Photos by REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini." As usual, with this article from Havana at the End of 2023, REUTERS is fair and balanced and uses two of its top journalists to write the story while their top photographer shows the event to the world.

    And so...this year-end story of a special wedding in Havana is truthfully and expertly told and shown to the world by the excellent REUTERS News Bureau stationed in Cuba. Internationally, REUTERS will remain the best source for honest and truthful news from Cuba in 2024 too!!

     Actually, it can also be said that, despite its embargoed economic problems associated with the nearby superpower United States, Cuba has sophisticated and modern Radio & Television operations that cover the entire island 24-hours a day.

    This was television news anchor Rosy Amaro in Havana last night captioning her "Final Broadcast of 2023." 

   Then before daybreak today -- December 30th-2023 -- Rosy Amaro was on a bus riding down the ocean highway from Havana to Santiago de Cuba, and there she will be broadcasting from that city this weekend. While on the bus ride today, she posted this photo to show that she is "half-way there." 

    For the record, this map shows that Havana, on Cuba's northwestern tip, is a long way from Santiago de Cuba, which is on the island's southeastern tip. The distance, as shown above, between Havana and Santiago de Cuba is 538.3 miles and the drive takes 12 hours and 16 miles. While not nearly as well known as Havana, Santiago de Cuba is Cuba's second largest city and, quite historically, it is where Fidel Castro started his Cuban Revolution on July 26th of 1953 by attacking dictator Fulgencio Batista's Moncada Military Barracks.

    Totally refurbished with all the attacking bullet marks removed, this is the building that was Batista's Moncada Military Barracks in 1953. It is now an important School Building in Santiago de Cuba.

    The three photos directly above were taken this week in Santiago de Cuba by notoble photographer Vladimir Molina. It is a beautiful and historic city that was once Cuba's capital city and, because of its strategic location, it has been widely coveted since it began in 1515. Today it has a vibrant population of about 435,000 and it is very close to the U. S. Military Base at Guantanamo Bay, a plush port that Cuba hopes one day to reclaim if it ever has friendly ties with the United States.

    When Fidel Castro died in 2016 at age 90, his ashes were entombed in Santiago de Cuba. As far as the Cuban news media is concerned, January 1st of 2024 will be widely celebrated because it was on January 1st of 1959 that Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution overthrew the Batista dictatorship.

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Does Little Havana Plan to Overthrow Havana in January?

     The war between Little Havana in Miami against Havana in Cuba has essentially been going on since January of 1959, which was the month the Cuban Revolution shocked the world by overthrowing the US/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship on the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful island-nation. After extreme schemes such as the April-1961 Bay of Pigs military attack failed to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba, Little Havana and the U. S. legalized the Economic Embargo against Cuba in March of 1962 believing that starving, depriving, and making miserable the Cuban people would induce them to rise up and overthrow their own governments.

    Well...six decades after the start of the Embargo, which Cuba and most of the world calls a genocidal blockade, it still has not caused the overthrow of Revolutionary Cuba but -- at the end of 2023 -- it continues to starve, deprive, and make miserable another generation of Cubans on the island. But in the past five years the tightening of the Embargo by the Trump-Biden administrations have so seriously created such starvation, deprivations, and misery on the island that most sources in Cuba and in United States believe that it is now too intolerable for Cuba to continue to resist Little Havana's beloved EMBARGO.

    Today's Top Cuban headlines on December 27th of 2023 are shown above and seem to reveal that key leaders in both Havana and Washington believe that Little Havana has plans to regain control of Havana as early as January of 2024. For example, the Miami Herald's headline above reveals one of the major reasons the superpower U. S. government must regain control of Cuba or else poor little Cuba has the power to determine the results of the next U. S. election!! And, yes, Little Havana has enough political power in Washington to dictate such things, as this latest Miami Herald diatribe suggests...as shown below.

    That headline above at the end of 2023 is a part of a massive year-end Editorial that suggests poor little Cuba must not be allowed to take over the current national U. S. election!! The three Little Havana members of the U. S. Congress in Washington shown with the Miami Herald headline -- Scott, Salazar, and Gimenez -- are in the U. S. Congress to seal Little Havana's agendas as they join long-time Little Havana members of the U. S. Congress such as Rubio, Diaz-Balart, etc. And, yes, the rest of the members of the 535-member U. S. Congress do not have the power or the desire to challenge what unchallenged Little Havana stalwarts tell the U. S. government to do regarding Cuba.

   And therefore, as you can above, please note in the Miami Herald editorial shown above that Scott, Salazar, and Gimenez -- on behalf of Little Havana -- are telling Washington that Cuba's capturing "the already approaching and nerve-wracking 2024 presidential elections" is the reason for the U. S. to give Little Havana control of Havana and do it now!!!!!!

    As this map shows, Havana is just a few miles southwest of Miami and Miami is where Little Havana Cubans have enough financial and political clout to dictate United States policy regarding Cuba. Therefore...when the Miami Herald editorial on December 27th of 2023 indicates that, after all these years, there is finally an absolute reason to retake Havana, the editorial should be taken SERIOUSLY!! And that reason, of course, is because poor little Cuba has taken over control "of the already nerve-wracking 2024 presidential elections" in the SUPERPOWER United States!! {Wow, I wonder if the Miami Herald will win another Pulitzer Prize for discovering that amazing fact??????

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Cuba Trying to Survive U. S. Blockade on Christmas

  Since 1962 the United States has imposed an Embargo/Blockade on Cuba that declassified U. S. documents revealed was designed to starve, deprive, and make miserable Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government, which had overthrown the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship in 1959. The goal of the Embargo/Blockade has not worked but, yet, it still continues to fulfill its three prime purposes sixty-two years later, including Christmas Day in 2023 despite the fact that, for all these decades, the rest of the world begs the superpower United States to put an end to it. Here at the end of 2023, as shown above, Cuba is actually thinking about a PROSPEROUS 2024.

    Cuba's President since 2018, Miguel Diaz-Canel, was born after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1st of 1959. He was Cuba's popular Education Minister prior to becoming President. Shown above speaking this last week in December of 2023, Diaz-Canel continues to be a popular President according to most unbiased observers.

     Translated from Spanish to English on Facebook, above you see what President Diaz-Canel told Cuba's 470-member National Assembly on December 23rd of 2023 about the starvation-type effects the U. S. Blockade is having on the Cuban people. This speech was broadcast to Cuba's Parliament and carried live on Cuban and Caribbean television, and also widely posted on top Social Media platforms. His theme stressed: "...the blockade imposed by the United States more than 60 years ago seeks to mutilate the capacity of the Government of Cuba to respond to the fundamental needs of the people." As he often does, President Diaz-Canel admitted that Cuba since 1959 has made its own mistakes but "the crimes of the United States to regain control of this island nation have superseded good things we and others try to do. The U. S. blockade, terror and military attacks, and other tactics from the United States are opposed by the whole world. Yet, as I cry today because the ever-tightening blockade is causing drastic food, medical, and power shortages in Cuba, the Cuban people know that the Revolutionary promises of things such as free heathcare for life, free education through college for everyone, and free food when necessary remain priorities for us. The U. S. government and the U. S. media lies maintain and perpertrate the criminal assaults, such lies saying that the Cuban leaders live as rich as kings while the people starve. Those lies take hold, of course, but the Cuban people live with and among their leaders and they know the truths. But the superpower U. S. government and the superpower U. S. media have a criminal Cuban policy and the entire world knows that basic fact, but not even the whole world can match the nuclear United States lies about Cuba." 

     The two images above, including the Social Media captions, show how Cuba -- on Christmas week in 2023 -- addressed the U.S. Blockade's effects on how its two prime revolutionary promises -- Heathcare and Education -- are being dealth with. As you can see, on Cuban-Caribbean television and during the National Assembly session, Cuba touted its famed Literary Campaign that started in 1961 to replace the Batista-US-Mafia neglilence. And Cuba also addressed prior to Christmas-2023 the government's free medical/healthcare priorities that it has maintained since ousting Batista in 1959. At the same time, while discussing Education and Health as shown above, Cuba explained that the U. S. Blockade is now forcing the government to made some "necessary reductions" even to reduce the guaranteed food rations.

    As it has done, especially through 2023, Cuba at the National Assembly session to end December explained that it is continuing to spend "a strong percentage of our resources" to helping farmers produce their own food, including enough to sell. Indeed, some of the island's finances are being used to purchase tractors that are replacing oxen.

   This is a post today on Facebook and other Social Media forums by Roberto Suarez, a great and popular photo-journalist. Roberto on December 24th of 2023 was expressing his opinion of the drastic status of the Cuban economy. While he believes that the U. S. government and the U. S. media promote only the extreme views and policies of the Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami and Washington, Roberto's expression kinda says: "Hey, we Cubans in Cuba actually live here and we have well-lived and well-educated opinions too. We know more about the Blockade than the Miami Cubans who just lie and laugh about it. So I wonder why no one in the U. S. democracy is allowed to ask us about it!! As the blockade starves some Cuban families, it also starves the international perception of the U. S. democracy, at least in our opinions."

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