Little Havana Still Dictates USA's Havana Decisions

     It seems that since January of 1959 -- when the Cuban Revolution shocked the world by overthrowing the US/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship -- Little Havana in nearby Miami-USA has essentially dictated U. S. policies regarding Cuba...including the 1961 Bay of Pigs military attack, the 1962 till 2024 U. S. Embargo/Blockade of Cuba, etc. And now in February of 2024 that situation seemingly continues unabated.

     Above today -- on February 6th of 2024 -- you can see the major Cuban Headlines that are flashing around the U. S. and the world TODAY!! Note that the AP, the USA's top News Agency, headlines about the drastic results of the depleted Cuban economy. Reuters, the vast London-based News Agency, today reports from inside Cuba about how the government and people are coping with the drastic turmoils related to the island's devastated economy. And The Hill, a powerful political media source in Washington, reports on the consequences of the USA's endless ultra-powerful actions against Cuba that have existed since...well,  since January of 1959 when Cuba overthrew the U.S.-backed and tourist-beloved and money-crazed Batista dictatorship. And, of course, the Headline shown at the bottom above is from the Miami Herald that only loves Miami's Little Havana and hates post-revolutionary Havana.

     Today -- on February 6th of 2024 -- the Miami Herald as always reports on the greatness of Miami's Little Havana and the deplorable nature of Havana. The massive new two-sentence Headline in the Miami Herald from Nora Gamez Torres refers to the latest extreme Counter Revolutionary member of the U. S. Congress from Miami-Little Havana -- Maria Elvira Salazar.

     Since Janiuary of 2021, Maria Elvira Salazar has represented Miami in the U. S. Congress. She was born 62-years-ago in Miami and was educated at the University of Miami and Harvard University. In the U. S. Congress she followed in the footsteps of other Little Havana/Miami politicians that have made to Congress -- such as, shown above, Havana-born Lincoln Diaz-Balart, whose father was a key Minister in the Batista dictatorship, as well as Florida-born Mario Diaz-Balart, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Marco Rubio, Carlos Gimenez, etc., etc. In other words, any moderate politician regarding Cuba will never be elected to serve in Washington.

    As shown above, before she made it to the U. S. Congress from Miami, Maria Salazar was, for a couple of decades, a powerful TV News Anchor in Miami and in that capacity she had famous interviews with notables such as Fidel Castro and Luis Posada Carriles, and to this day in 2024 those Salazar interviews with Castro and Posada are still easily accessed on YouTube for the world to see. Castro, of course, needs no introduction but Luis Possada Carriles, along with Orlando Bosch, are historically remembered as the two most famous and infamous U. S. and Little Havana Counter Revolutionary Cubans...eternal heroes to Miami and villians to Havana.

      Now as a member of the U. S. Congress, Little Havana's Maria Elvira Salazar can use her television expertise on National TV U. S. News Shows to endlessly promote Little Havana's massive views regarding Havana, and -- of course -- those views are routinely never disputed.

      But in Maria Elvira Salazar's backyard in Miami the Miami New Times -- as shown above -- reported about Salazar far differently than she was/is depicted by the Miami Herald and the national U. S. media. Enlarge and read the Miami New Times reports about Salazar shown above.

    And, meanwhile, the two images directly above reflect reality in Cuba today on February 6th-2024. That reality today includes, for sure, the U. S. Embargo/Blockade that has tried to destroy Cuba's economy for the past 62 Years, and another natural FLOOD on a street in Havana TODAY. In that vein, as shown below, the sophisticated Cuban Television News Shows are mainly focusing on the weather on February 6th-2024.

     And, in other words, on February 6th of 2024 -- as usual -- the News from Little Havana USA in Miami and from Cubavision Television in Havana are vastly different enterprises and objectives.

     And so...the fascinating Miami-Havana Soap Opera resembling As The World Turns continues on-and-on in FEBRUARY of 2024...AND NOBODY knows when it will end. {And that includes Little Havana's Maria Elvira Salazar}.

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February 3rd-2024 is the 62nd Anniversary of the EMBARGO!!

BUT little CUBA calls IT A  BLOCKADE!!

    Today is February 3rd of 2024 and it was on February 3rd of 1962 that President John F. Kennedy signed and legalized the U. S. EMBARGO/BLOCKADE against Cuba. It became legal shortly after the infamous U. S. military {Bay of Pigs} attack against Cuba in April of 1961 failed to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba. Legalizing the EMBARGO/BLOCKADE became firm on February 3rd of 1962 when President Kennedy signed Proclamation 3447 and it remains legal on February 3rd of 2024, so today is its 62nd Anniversary.

   Made legal by Proclamation 3447 on February 3rd in 1962, the U. S. EMBARGO/BLOCKADE OF CUBA today is celebrating its 62nd ANNIVERSARY. Declassified U. S. documents revealed that the purpose of Proclamation 3447 was to starve, deprive, and make miserable the Cubans in Cuba to encourage them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary government, but because that has not occurred it remains in effect 62 YEARS later. That, incredibly, is true although the image above shames the United States internationally, as does the outraged yearly vote of the nations around the world at the United Nations in New York.

    As of last month -- January in 2024 -- Cuba is celebrating the 64TH ANNIVERSARY of the Cuban Revolution's astouinding victory over the U.S./Mafia-backed BATISTA DICTATORSHIP, which occurred in January of 1959.

    And today -- February 3rd of 2024 -- Cuba is marking the 62nd ANNIVERSARY of the day on February 3r4 of 1962 when the United States legalized Proclamation 3447, which legalized the Embargo/Blockade on Cuba...which incredibly remains in effect till this day on February 3rd of 2024 with absolutely no end on the horizon.

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Cuba Makes US Headlines on February 1st-2024??

AMAZING!!! 

    Today is February 1st, 2024 and, incredibly, the US News Media is reporting on the grave economic conditions in Cuba despite the massive array of other mammoth domestic and international events facing the United States in a vital election year, such as Wars in Europe and the Middle East that directly involved the USA. But, Yes, today CNN News on its worldwide and internet forums informed the world about Cuba's economic crisis, which Cuba blames on the US tightening its already devastating six-decade-old Embargo/Blockade on the nearby vulnerable island.

     Incredibly today -- February 1st of 2024 -- from the U. S. CNN News is telling the world that Cubans, who have been targeted all their lives by a starvation-causing U. S. economic Embargo/Blockade, are now facing a skyrocketing "500% rise in the cost of fuel in Cuba." So, it is amazing that on the first day of February in 2024 the U. S. is reporting, or bragging, about the latest calamity for Cubans in Cuba?????

     For over six decades, since 1962, the U. S. economic Embargo/Blocade of Cuba has been legalized for the PURPOSE, according to delcassified U. S. documents, to starve, deprive, and make miserable Cubans on the island. That purpose has almost been realized previously but now is CNN News telling the world that it is finally happening?

     At least today, unlike normally in the U. S. media, CNN News today at least allowed comments from everyday Cubans as well as a comment from Cuba President Miguel Diaz-Canel about the island's dire crisis.

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Some Americans Care About Cuba's Children

On January 31st in 2024!!! 

    On January 31st, to end the first month in 2024, today I believe Americans should study the TOP Headlines related to Cuba, the island nation just a few miles south of Florida. As you can see, the great London-based Reuters News Agency is telling the world today that Revolutionary Cuba, as it has done each each since January of 1959 when the Cuban Revolution overthrew the U.S./Mafia-backed Batista rule in Cuba, is "rallying" support to keep from being overthrown by powerful forces in nearby Florida and in Washington. Another headline on this last day of January-2024 is from The Tico Times reporting on the startling "exodus" of Cubans trying to leave the island as the six-decade-old U. S. Embargo/Blockade is finally creating its desired starvation, deprivation, and misery that the Embargo/Blockade intended when it began back in 1962. And also note above that the USA's NBC News is reporting today that one of Miami's extreme Counter Revolutionary members of the U. S. Concress, "Republican Rep. Maria Salazar," is blocking Democratic Representative Barbara Lee from enen speaking in Congress because Lee doesn't believe that the U. S. should keep starving, depriving, and making miserable Cubans on the island to appease rich and powerful Miami Cubans such as Salazar that can dictate Cuban policies in the U. S. Congress. But please note that the TOP Cuban Headline on the last day of January-2024 is an unbiased headline from the London-based The Guardian: "DIVE INTO THE SURREAL: STRANGE VIEWS OF CUBA -- IN PICTURES"!!!!!! One of those amazing pictures is the one I show below that depicts, along with the many others posted today by The Guardian, a real story in Cuba.

        The haunting photo above is one of the many photos posted worldwide today by The Guardian and taken by notable photographer Raul Canibano who was born in Havana in 1961, two years after the victory of the Cuban Revolution. This photo was taken in Vinales, Cuba. It shows the haunting facial expressions of a grandmother and mother looking hauntingly at their grandson and son...three generations of Cubans who have lived in Revolutionary Cuba and are targets of the U. S. Embargo/Blockade that began in 1962 and, in the past four years, has been severely tightened by the Trump and Biden presidential administrations in Washington. As you can study the sadness and wonder coating the faces of the grandmother, mother, and child in the photo above, please permit me to show you in the photo below that shows that there are indeed some people in the United States that actually care about generations of people in the small nation of Cuba who have spent all their lives embargoed/blockaded by people in a much-more larger and more powerful nation.

     Above is a photo and headline today -- January 31st, 2024 -- about the top Children's Hospital in Havana. As you can see, the update on "William Soler Pediatric Hospital" explains that two U. S. organizations -- Code Pink and Bridges of Love/Puentes de Amor -- have somehow been allowed to actually donate some much-needed help to Cuba's main Children Hospital, notably "one thousand pounds of powdered milk" and "71,000 pancreatin tablets for patients suffering from cystic fibrosis." In contrast to the positive report on U. S. help donated to "William Soler Pediatric Hospital" in Havana, there also have been constant reports from doctors at the hospital that the endless Embargo/Blockade of the island by the U. S. blocks many vital supplies from reaching the hospital, including much-needed material and medical equipment that Cuba is not allowed to purchase from the U. S. or from other foreign companies that must comply with the U. S. Embargo/Blockade of the island.

    Above is a recent photo of "William Soler Pedriatic Hospital" in Havana, a hospital vital to Cuban children. A quick Google search will inform you of the history of why this key Children's Hospital is named for "William Soler" and, also, that the hospital is a piece of Cuban history that is well known, except in the United States.

     This great lady, Dr. Susett Gonzalez, is fiercely devoted to saving the lives of Cuban children at William Soler Children's Hospital in Havana.

   This photo shows Dr. Susett Gonzalez and her husband at William Soler Hospital soon after their own child, a boy named Roman, was born.

   This photo shows Dr. Susett Gonzalez and three other doctors at William Soler Children's Hospital in Havana as they take a short rest break before returning to save the lives of children. It seems that Americans, since 1962, have supported or tolerated the Embargo/Blockade of Cuba because, apparently, they are told that the endless sanctions are meant only to harm Revolutionary Cuba's leaders. Well...I believe such Americans should ask Dr. Susett Gonzalez about who the Embargo/Blockade hurts the most and she believes it harms the Cuban children the most.

    The very historic photo shown above says a lot about the Cuban Revolution and, after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in January of 1959, it also says a lot about why William Soler Children's Hospital in Havana got its name. You see...the woman on the left in the sunglasses and wearing the white blouse was the mother of a little boy named "Willie Soler." His mother and other outraged Cuban mothers were bravely marching to protest the murders of their children by the much-hated Batista dictatorship...and these brave mothers believed the purpose of such killings was to make them so afraid that it would deter them from protesting anything the Batista regime was doing to their families. This march, and many others like them, was brave enough to tell Batista to "STOP KILLING OUR CHILDREN" and, as you can see above, it was signed: "Madres Cubanas"/"Cuban Mothers."  

     Without a doubt, marches by Cuban Mothers protesting the Murders of Their Children played a vital role in the eventual victory of the Cuban Revolution in January of 1959. And please understand that the Mothers shown above were bravely protesting a particularly gruesome "assassination" -- that of little Willie Soler and three of his classmates whose bodies were left in a vacant warehouse to apparently make these Mothers too afraid to resist. The two photos above, and other like them, played a massive part in the Cuban Revolution and also explain why and how, after the victory of the Revolution, Havana's William Soler Children's Hospital got its name!! It is named after Little Willie Soler.

    A Cuban-American professor in Seattle, Carlos Lazo, is an American that cares about Children in Cuba. He has ridden his bicycle coast-to-coast from Seattle to Washington to protest the U. S. Embargo/Blockade of Cuba. And the caption to the article shown above says: "Carlos Lazo getting ready to start his march from Miami to Washington, D.C. Credit: Tighe Barry." Since he founded his foundation, Bridges of Love, Carlos Lazo has personally flown supplies that included medicine, powered milk, boxes of can food, etc. to help Cuban families.

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