On January 21st-2024 Cuba Wins Again vs. Embargo

     Today is Sunday, January 21, 2024 and this is the month that Cuba is celebrating the 65th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution's victory over the US/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship in Cuba. And this is also the month in 2024 that almost the entire world opposes the 62 years in which the superpower United States has imposed a drastic economic Embargo/Blockade against the nearby nation of Cuba. Today the poster above promotes a huge protest against that Embargo/Blockade.

     The notable Cuban-born professsor from Seattle, Carlos Lazo, is one of the prime speakers at today's anti-Embargo/Blockade protest on January 21st, 2024. He believes: "Most Cuban-Americans, most Americans overall, and most people all around the world strongly oppose the strangulation being caused by the six-decade-old U. S. blockade of Cuba. Only a handful of politically powerful and rich Miami citizens support it, but the U. S. democracy is internationally shamed by it."

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US Alone Tries to Starve Cuba!!

 After six decades, the Outrage Rages On!!

     In this troubled new year of 2024 the United States is faced with drastic problems on its almost 2,000-mile southern border with Mexico as millions of migrants -- far too many to be vetted and processed properly -- are streaming into the United States. The Biden administration recently sent top officials to Mexico City to ask President Obrador for help in dealing with the crisis and, as shown above, he said he would be more inclined to help if the U. S. would "eliminate its EMBARGO on Cuba." 

    While Americans for decades have been programmed not to be embarrassed BY THIS internationally renowned image of the drastic U. S. Embargo/Blockade of Cuba, which was legalized by the U. S. in 1962 and, incredibly, has been tightened in the past five years by the Trump & Biden administrations in Washington!! While Americans are propagandized not to be ashamed about it, the rest of the world is indeed ashamed of it, and that includes Mexico's President Obrador.

    The red line shown above shows that the USA's soouthern border with Mexico runs from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, which means it borders the Caribbean Sea and that Means Cuba, as this map shows. The incomparable land border is 1,954 miles long. Among other things, Mexico is the top trading partner of the United States and the daily traffic across the Rio Grande River is unique and incomparable by any worldwide standard. It is also evident that U. S. laws related to little Cuba involve U. S. relations with Mexico and other nations.

   With 2024 being a vital presidntial re-election year for Democrat Biden against his bitter and hated rival Trump, the dire problems for the U. S. on its vast southern border with Mexico will continue to come more-and-more into focus...as will be the endless and brutal U. S. relations with little Cuba that involve crucial international relations with other nations -- such as Mexico.

     A 62-year-old citizen of Cuba that has lived all of his/her life in Cuba has done so under the yoke of the U. S. Blockade...and they, of course, beg for "the elimination of the Blockade." Well, it appears, so do the other nations all around the world.

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Will US Media Ever Say Anything Positive About Revolutionary Cuba?

PROBABLY not!!

    In these now clossing days of January in 2024 -- as has been the case since January of 1959 when the Cuban Revolution overthrew the US/Mafia-backed Batista DictatorSHIP -- the mainstream U. S. Media has touted the Batista dictatorship because it allowed rich U. S. companies to partake in the wholesale robbery of Cuba...while the U. S. media for the past 65 years has demanded the overthrow of Revolutionary Cuba. In that milieu...the U. S. media is not about to report on Cuban positives such as the UN vote each year that shames and denounces U. S. policies against Cuba that almost the entire world considers harsh and even genocidal...especially in the past four years since the Trump & Biden administrations in Washington have tightened the six-decade-old USA's Embargo/Blockade against Cuba by designating the vulnerable island "A Sponsor of Terrorism" that particularly targets Cuban families while, as always, enriching and empowering Miami Cubans and Cubans in the U. S. Congress. But in late January of 2024 the worldwide non-U. S. Cuban headlines, as shown above, reveal that the non-U.S. media have the freedom to report positive articles regarding Cuba...such as the massive article above from Italy.

     And so, I suppose, Americans are not supposed to read or see the above updated article that shows the rich Western nation of Italy needed some "Oxygen" for its ailing health system in 2024 so it seeked help from Cuba's highly regarded health system that is routinely and unfairly demeaned by the U. S. media and by the U. S. government. Thus...the massive article above in late January of 2024 is circling around the world at the behest of less biased sources -- such as Polistena and The Guardian that actually report fairly from Italy on a Cuban positive.

    Therefore it is important to know, for example, that Dr. Asbel Diaz Fonseca is one of the 500 highly trained Cuban medical experts that Italy feels it needs to help the medical needs of the Italian people. And the caption above even has the freedom to reveal that Dr. Diaz Fonseca says, "There is no obligation for us to do this. We are here because we want to be." For decades countries from Africa to Italy to Mexico, etc., have tried to improve their health system by using Cubans, and meanwhile the U. S. media reports that it is human trafficking by the Cuban government so it can rake in money while paying the foreign Cuban medical experts a few pennies or pesos. Above and below you can see the more honest appraisal in late January of 2024 comes from honest media sources in Italy and England, including {below} reporting on why Italy feels it needs to have so many Cuban medical workers: "To remedy the problem, Calabria's regional government called on Cuba, famous worldwide for dispatching medical brigades to assist with saving lives, most often during times of humanitarian calamity." For sure, such a positive and honest paragraph about Cuba would never come from the U. S. media, but Americans should be permitted to see it nevertheless.

     Instead of asking the U. S. media or the U. S. goverment why Italy, in late January of 2024, needs "500 health workers from Cuba" Americans would need to ask the British or the Italian governments and media for that answer.

    Above is 38-year-old Dr. Asbel Diaz Fonseca and one of his colleagues working in Polistena, Italy. They are two of the 500 Cubans needed to help Italy's health system in January of 2024. As a Democracy-loving American, I believe the U. S. media should report fairly about such things -- not just having well-known, well-paid, and wildly anti-Cuban "journalists" primed only to report negatives about Cuba. Yes, since 1959 Revolutionary Cuba, in stark contrast to Batista's Cuba that preceded it, has provided free medical treatment for life and free educations through college for its citizens. For decades, even very poor and embargoed Cuba had maintained a health system that trains foreign medical students for free and then sends back to those poor areas to practice as doctors...and that to this DAY includes DOZENS of United States medical students. Perhaps the U. S. media might report that too, but don't count on it. Yet on YouTube the world can easily find many video reports on U. S. students studying for free at Cuba's famed ELAM Medical School, such as this report:

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Africa Ramps Up Its Assault on US "Apartheid" vs. Cuba!!

 

     According to the United Nations, there are 195  nations in the world and 193 are UN members and there are two observer members -- the Holy See and Palestine. In near unanimity, the UN vote each year loudly condemns the U. S. Embargo/Blockade of Cuba. But the Continent of Africa, which includes a whopping 54 nations, is always the most vociferously vocal in denouncing the United States and its drastic Cuban policies, which Africa considers to be "self-serving, genocidal, and unending simply because the United States has the military and financial power to maintain a Cuban policy that the rest of the world condemns."

    Today is January 14th of 2024 and the USA's drastic economic Embargo/Blockade of Cuba is now into its 62nd Year because it began in 1962. Tomorrow -- on January 15th of 2024 -- South Africa, as shown by the poster above, will host the 7th Africa-Cuba Solidarity Conference. One of this year's themes is: "We are not strong enough or rich enough to stop U. S. apartheid and genocide against Cuban families, but we continue to be brave enough to condemn it." As shown above...the poster promoting the conference features a photo of South Africa's civil rights icon Nelson Mandela with his dearest friend Fidel Castro, Cuba's revolutionary icon that Mandela credited with providing South Africa {and now 53 other Africa nations} with sovereignty as opposed to the foregin-powered apartheid rule that had gripped the continent for many decades, including the 27 years Mandela spent in a South Africa prison where his cell had a bucket for a toilet. Mandela said he emerged from that cell and became the democratic President of South Africa because of his dearest friend Fidel Castro.

     Famously, Nelson Mandela and his best friend Fidel Castro co-authored a book to explain how foreign-ruled Apartheid in South Africa changed to a voting-ruled Democracy, all thanks to...Fidel Castro. The Africa-Cuba Confernece that starts tomorrow -- January 15th of 2024 -- in Johannesburg tries to remind the world of the Mandela-Castro alliance that changed the world and the African continent.

The YouTube video above recounts the Mandela-Castro alliance.

   As a Civil Rights icon and Nobel Prize winner, Nelson Mandela was elected President of South Africa in 1994 and served proudly till 1999. He died at age 95 in 2013. In 1990 Mandela made an 8-city tour in the United States where he was euphorically hailed, everywhere except in Miami. By then Miami had a Ciuban-born Mayor and, in fact, today -- in mid-January of 2024 -- it is no coincidence that the current Mayor of Miami is the son of Miami's Mayor in 1990. Above is the interesting Front Page of the Miami Herald on June 29th of 1990 that reported on Nelson Mandela's visit to Miami: "Grass-roots welcome counters official snub." Yes, most of the people in Miami loved Nelson Mandela but the Cuban leaders of Miami, of course, rudely "snubbed" the African icon.

     The eternal friendship of Nelson Mandela, who died in Johannesburg at age 95 in 2013, and Fidel Castro, who died at age 90 in Havana in 2016, remains a pertinent fact in history...and even the Miami Herald should report such facts in January of 2024.

     Thus this week -- from January 15th till January 17th of 2024 -- the poster above heralds the fact that South Africa will try to remind the world that the vast African Continent's support of Cuba includes its unanimous and fierce denouncement of the United States policy against Cuban families.

     The U. S. Blockade of Cuba has existed since 1962 and the U. S. OCCUPATION of Guantanamo has existed since 1903. Like the rest of the world, the 54 African nations want both of those factors to end.

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BBC In 2024 Tells World HOW MUCH Embargoed Cubans Suffer

    As shown above, the top News sources and agencies around the world -- such as El Pais, The Guardian, Reuters, the BBC, etc. continually inform the world how much the U. S. Embargo/Blockade, which started in 1962, is direly harming everyday Cuban families in Cuba in January of 2024 while, of course, massively pleasing and supposedly enriching already rich and politically powerful Cubans in Miami and Washington. The BBC update above from Cuba is just one dire example.

    Of course, the Miami Herald on a daily basis -- as shown above in these first weeks of 2024 -- seems to only use its mighty and unchallenged anti-Cuba staff to denounce Cuba while always implying that the Batista/Mafia dictatorship that spawned it was a wonderful government and that the Cubans that fled the revolution to Miami are wonderful souls who make sure that the Embargo/Blockade of the island lasts another six decades if it takes that long to finally overthrow the revolution, and meanwhile Cubans in Cuba starve while Cubans in Miami flourish thanks to their unchallenged influence regarding Washington's political rules.

In 2024 the Cuban Revolution is 65 Years old.

     While Miami rakes in billions of dollars daily on its unrestricted tourism and commerce, Miami makes sure that Washington into a 7th decade makes sure that blocking tourism and trade to Cuba starves the nearby island. Meanwhile, the Miami Herald and the Miami Cubans rejoice in blocking tourism and commerce to Cuba although, arguably, Cuba has much better beaches and some other lures that would entice multitudes of tourists -- such as was the case back in the 1950s when Miami and the United States sent millions of tourists to Batista's Cuba.

    It appears that the Whole World wildly disagrees with Miami when it comes to things such as the Embargo/Blockade of Cuba. Yet it has existed for over six decades and, if necessary, it seems Miami wants it to exist for another six decades. And, meanwhile, as indicated by the image below, Washington merely claims it is doing its best to, uh...help the people of Cuba...not, uh, just the people in Miami. "Let's shake on it, little man!!"

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January 11th of 1980: The Day Celia Sanchez Died

    Today is January 11th of 2024. Back on January 11th of 1959 at age 59 Celia Sanchez died because of lung cancer. She is the  greatest heroine of the Cuban Revolution and, beyond that, many consider her the greatest and most important overall person in the Cuban Revolution. The photo directly above, for example, historically shows the day Fidel Castro joined Celia Sanchez's already viable Cuban Revolution in the foothills of the Sierra Maestra Mountains in southeast Cuba...and this was the day she gave him his revolutionary rifle. Yes, revolutionary insiders -- including Fidel Castro -- have believed that Celia Sanchez was the most important rebel during the Revolution and during Revolutionary Cuba starting on January 1st of 1959 until she died on January 11th of 1980. A doctor's daughter and a passionate fighter for Cuban children, Celia Sanchez started and ended the fight that overthrew the U.S./Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship...and she did it as a guerrilla fighter, a decision-maker, and as the top recruiter of rebels and supplies that were vital to the outcome of the Cuban Revolution.

    After the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1 of 1959, the tireless Celia Sanchez was the leader who laid down the parameters for the post-Batista rule in Cuba...and she was always supported 100% by Fidel Castro. Thus her decisions were unchallenged. The historic photo above reveals that, day or night in Revolutionary Cuba, it was Celia Sanchez that devised and documented the revolutionary decisions, and thus Fidel Castro could relax in his rocking chair while she worked tirelessly on crafting the rules that he would later support totally. Therefore, it is historic quotations by Celia Sanchez that best define the Cuban Revolution, such as: "We rebels...get far too much credit for winning the revolution. Our enemies deserve most of the credit, for being cowards and idiots." 

The definitive Celia Sanchez quotation.

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