Does US Want Cuba to Resemble the Haitian Warfare?

     In these last few days of March in 2024, even with tragic Wars in places such as Ukraine and the Middle East, the world is also closely watching another violent uprising in the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The map and photo above reveal that Haiti, which shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic, is just a few miles off the eastern tip of Cuba where Cuba's second largest city, Santiago, is located and where the U. S. military base at Guantanamo Bay is also located. While Haiti is awash with flames and turmoil, Cuba's important city of Santiago is also facing agitations that Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel says are exacerbated by the U. S. taking advantage of the Haitian violence to foment violence in Cuba. According to London-based REUTERS, which maintains a highly respected news bureau in Cuba, President Diaz-Canel's exact quote is: "Terrorists from the United States were seeking to foment further uprisings" in Cuba while the uprisings in Haiti are making international news.

       As you can see above, the top Cuban headline in the clossing days of March 2024 is the one from Reuters and it says: "Cubans stage rare street protest over power blackouts." Note above that the BBC and other worldwide news agencies republished the Reuters article regarding the street protests in Santiago de Cuba, which is very close to the violent turmoil in Haiti. Cuba strongly says the problems in Santiago de Cuba are being fomented by the "ageless counter revolutinary U. S. measures designed to re-dominate Cuba the way it did prior to 1959's revolutionary victory." 

    The Reuters photo above shows a street in Santiago de Cuba and this photo was used to illustrate the Reuters article headlined: "Protests erupt in eastern Cuba over blackouts and food shortages." Of course, Cuba blames those conditions on the U. S. Embargo/Blockade of the island that has existed since 1962.

      Another worldwide Reuters headline in late March of 2024, as shown above, says: "Cuba summons top US diplomat, accuses US of stoking protests." 

    Above is the international Reuters article back on March 18-2024 that started off with this paragraph: "Cuba's foreign ministry said it had summoned the top U. S. diplomat on the island to a meeting following protests on Sunday, accusing the U. S. embassy in Havana of seeking to stoke a broader anti-government uprising and meddling in Cuba's international internal affairs."

     The two photos above taken in Havana today -- March 20th of 2024 -- show Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel leading a public meeting that was covered live nationwide by Cuban radio and television stations. The prime topic concerned the protests on the eastern tip of the island in Santiago de Cuba, which is close to the violence taking place in Haiti. As usual, Diaz-Canel -- who was Cuba's Education Minister for years before becoming President in 2018 -- takes questions from his audiences. In one earlier session Diaz-Canel had mentioned: "As we all know, the U. S. bank-rolling of the Batista dictatorship in Cuba caused the Cuban Revolution and the U. S. bank-rolling of dictatorships in Haiti, such as the Duvalier family, for many years helped shape what is happening now in Haiti. The U. S., obviously, wants the same violence in Cuban cities, espeically Santiago de Cuba and Havana." When asked, "So, what are you going to do about it?"...he said, "Everything I can, short of declaring war on the United States. The world already has too many wars, and we are far too poor and far too little to fight the United States."

    This photo was taken in Santiago de Cuba in 1957 and is used courtesy of the informative LatinAmmericanStudies.org website. It famously and historically shows Cuban mothers bravely marching to protest the murders of their children by the Batista dictatorship. Such protests galvanized Cuba's Revolution that defeated Batista in 1959. The poster above said: "Stop the murders of our children. Cuban Mothers." Most major revolutionary celebrations to this day in 2024 are held in Santiago de Cuba, not in Havana.

    This photo is courtesy of the Miami Herald and it shows the protests in Santiago de Cuba in mid-March of 2024 as being caused by "blackouts and food shortages" that are gripping Cuba.

    Cuban women living in Santiago de Cuba are called Santiagueras, such as Isabel Fernandez. She knows a lot about what is happening in 2024 in Santiago de Cuba, the cradle of the Revoltuion. Isabel says, "At least the Cuban media lets me speak my piece. In the U. S. the media only cares what the anti-Cuba Cubans want and say." And, of course, Isabel has some pertinent thoughts about what is happening in March of 2024 in nearby places such as Miami and Haiti.

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Cash Flies From Cuba to Florida!!!

Conundrums & Shenigans Between Florida & Cuba!!

And between Miami and Havana!!!

Cash Money Still Fills Many Flights to & fro!!! 

     The two maps shown above show just how Cuba and the United States are extremely close neighbors, and it has been that way almost since 1492 when explorer Columbus discovered both terriories long before they became nations. As the U. S. emerged into the world's richest and most powerful nation, the island nation of Cuba, awessomely beautiful and extremely strategically located, emerged into an island and a nation vastly coveted by the world's imperative powers -- especially Spain and the United States -- starting before & after Cuba became a new nation.

    Please understand the extreme greed for Cuba that permeated the United States by the time it became a nation. The U. S. leaders, from the beginning, sought to capture, own, and exploit Cuba as a top priority and if you deny that fact I suggest you study the historic quotations shown above. For example, please read what Thomas Jefferson, the greatest Founding Father, said in 1817: "If we seize Cuba we will be masters of the Caribbean." Then after 1817 continue to read above what Thomas Jefferson and other notable Americans continue to euphorically say about capturing, dominating, and exploiting Cuba!! Well, finally in 1898 the United States used the Spanish-American War fought in Cuba to replace Spain as the Masters of Cuba!! And from 1898 until 2024 the intrigues and wars and tribulations between feisty little Cuba and the superpower United States have been both uniquely historic and utterly fascinating...as poor Cuba tries to survive while trying to ward off the incomparable United States greed and power. That tiny bit of history and topicality brings us up to mid-March in 2024 and the headline shown below:

    The above up-to-date headline in mid-March of 2024 tells us that a woman from Tampa, Florida flies to Cuba and is then caught "SMUGGLING $100 THOUSAND DOLLARS INTO THE US FROM CUBA." This headline is from NBC 6 News, a top news source in South Florida. And actually, of course, it is typical of what great journalists/authors have been reporting about US-Cuba News since 1898...you know, the year the U. S. replaced Spain as the new Master of Cuba.

    Of course, the great journalist/author T. J. English wonderfully and correctly told us, following the 1898 Spanish-American War, "How the Mob Owned Cuba...and Then Lost It to the Revolution." And for sure T. J. English would not be surprised today about the massive headline from NBC 6 News in South Florida, so now permit me to return to that fasinating new update on the always intriguing US-Cuba conundrum.

       NBC 6 South Florida News in Mid-March of 2024 reminds us about what T. J. English so bravely told us about in "Havana Nocturne." 

The NBC 6 News from South Florida is merely more US-Cuba fascination.

    But the massive fascination with US-Cuba relations probably reached a peak in tthe 1950s when the U. S. Mafia and the U. S. government supported the Batista dictatorship, a furiously lucrative but brutal era that promoted T. J. English to famously and bravely tell us all about "How the Mob owned Cuba...but lost it to the Revolution." The two photos directly above show when Mafia kingpins Luciano, Batista, and Lansky ruled Cuba and above it shows Batista being triumphantly driven around the U. S. capital of Washington.

      But the two photos directly above show why, as T. J. English said, "The Mob owned Cuba but lost it to the Revolution." When the Mob owned Cuba it didn't think it needed to toss a few crumbs to the majority peasants and the Mob also brutalized Cuban children to supposedly persuade Cuban mothers from protesting the murders of their children. But instead of scaring and shaming the mothers into silence, the mothers bravely started marches covered closely by New York Times journalist Herbert L. Matthews and these marches galvanized the majority of Cubans against Batista, and ended up winning the Revolution. The woman with the white blouse and sunglasses above was the mother of the gruesomely murdered Little Willie Soler. Today in Mid-March of 2024 the top children's hospital is named "William Soler Children's Hospital" -- a name that signafies that the Revolution the Cuban mothers helped forge is still ruling Cuba.

     This is the William Soler Children's Hospital in Havana, the most important children's hospital in Cuba in March of 2024. Please note the caption shown above that explains why the vital Soler Hospital is not allowed to buy vital "medicines or devices by the US Treasury Department under the US blockade of Cuba" even if "thesse products are made only by US companies or subsidiaries." Of course, Americans who support or condone the blockade don't know that...nor do they know why William Soler Children's Hospital got its name.

     For sure, since 1962 the US EMBARGO/Blockade of Cuba has supposedly been endlessly enfoced to harm the Post-Batista leaders of Cuba, but it seems that most people around the world believe it has gravely harmed generations of Cuban children.

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Egypt Wants To Help Starving Cubans!!

 But Not the US???

     This recent photo in the Washington Post should have reminded Americans that their endless Embargo against Cuba is causing little Cubans to starve, but do Americans care??

     This recent photo by the world's top news agency, London-based Reuters, showed a Cuban mother crying as she sat on the sidewalk waiting for help as she tries to get needed food and medicine for her children. In March of 2024 some faraway nations such as Egypt are trying to help this crying Cuban mother but, of course, the nearby United States seems not to care.

    On March 11th of 2024 this headline in Arab News informs the world that Egypt is trying to help starve-wracked and medicine-deprived Cuban mothers.

    After reading such headlines as produced by Arab News and other worldwide venues today, many people around the world GOOGLED this question: "What is the role of the USA in the shortage of food and medicine in Cuba? As you study that much-GOOGLED question  today, please see above how the prime GOOGLE answer explained the tragic sittuation: "For over 30 years an embargo by the USA has restricted Cuba's ability to purchase foods and medicines...."

     More and more in March of 2024 there are more and more nations around the world ashamed of the endless U. S. EMBARGO that surrounds Cuba. As the Arab News reported today, Egypt -- a key USA ally and a key player in yet another bloody Middle East war -- is also taking time to show that it too is ashamed of the above EMBARGO.

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Dismal Economy Dooms Key Cuban Minister

      A powerful Cuban official, Economy Minister Alejandro Gil Fernandez, has been fired and now is facing criminal charges after the island's drastic financial problems are devastating everyday life in Cuba, including power blackouts and critical shortages of food and medicine. Gil appears to be a scrapegoat. He has worked tirelessly to improve Cuba's financial outlook and recently his focus has been on begging the United States to ease its six-decade-old economic Embargo/Blockade, which has been drastically exacerbated since outgoing U. S. President Donald Trump placed Cuba on the very short list of Nation's That Sponsor Terrorism. Most observes believed that Democratic President Joe Biden would quickly remove Cuba off that designation but, after over three years as President, Biden has kept it in place...apparently to appease a few very rich and politically powerful Cuban-Americans in Miami and in the U. S. Congress.

    Therefore, to close out the first week of March in 2024, above you can see the TOP Cuban Headlines flashing around the world. Of course, the Miami Herald daily produces extreme anti-Cuban headlines such as now yet another company, in this case being Airbnb, becomes the latest to be sued in Miami. But much fairer and less biased non-Miami and non-US news giants such as Reuters tell the world real Cuban news such as Cuba now sacking Economic Minister Gil in a week in which Cuba also begged the UN for "food aid" when the Cuban government admitted, for the first time during the endless Embargo/Blockade, that it was having trouble providing free milk for its young children "ages zero to 7." While international non-US news agencies, such as London-based Reuters, are the best sources for updates regarding Cuba, today -- on March 8th-2024 -- below the U.S.-based ABC News TV Network actually provided a fair update on the dismissal of Economic Minister Gil by the Cuban government.

   The photo above shows Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel talking with Cuban Economic Minister Alejandro Gil when Gil was in charge of saving the Cuban Economy from total disasters after the Trump & Biden adminstrations have drastically tightened the already tragic U. S. Embargo that began against Cuba in 1962. Now, in March of 2024, President Diaz-Canel needs a powerful scrapegoat after admitting the power blackouts and the shortages of food and medicine are devastating Cuban families on the island. And it appears that the scrapegoat is Gil.

      As shown above, for the past five years ALEJANDRO GIL has worked tirelessly begging the United States to ease the EMBARGO/Blockade that was starving and deprving Cuban children and women the most. Headlines such as the one above reported that fact: "Alejandro Gil: "We are prepared to take advantage of any economic opening with the U.S, but it doesn't depend on us." Indeed, while doing everything he could to save Cuba's economy, Alejandro Gil recently resorted to begging the U. S. to ease the EMBARGO/Blockade but, as shown above, the U. S. refused to listen to his plea.

     And now Alejandro Gil is being charged and scrapecoated by the Cuban government because he could not persuade the United States, the strongest nation in the world, to ease the endless economic U. S. blockade of the island. It was an impossible task for Gil to accomplish and to blame him was and is unfair.

     The Reuters headline and photo shown above revealed to the world that a great journalist named Nelson Acosta reported from Havana that Cubans such as the woman shown on the right were facing starvation and deprivation because of the U. S. refusal to ease the Blockade.  That report from Nelson Acosta, as you can see, was on July 22nd of 2023 with the worldwide headline: "Cuban economy minister says no quick fix to devastating crisis." That diligent Economy Minister was Alejandro Gil and today -- on March 8th of 2024 -- that decent man Alejandro Gil is being the scrapegoat because he could not do the impossible, meaning that he was unable to persuade the U. S. to ease the EMBARGO/Blockade.

      Since 1962 millions upon millions of concerned people at the U. N. and elsewhere have begged the U. S. to end or to at least ease the EMBARGO that sourrounds the vulnerable and neighboring island of Cuba. And now, in March of 2024, it appears that a decent man -- Alejandro Gil -- is being unfairly persecuted in Cuba because he could not persuade the strongest nation in the world to ease the EMBARGO. 

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US Media & the Blackouts & Starvation in Cuba!!

 Six Decades+ After the Cuban Revolution

   In the spring of 1959, three months after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution ousted the Batista dictationship, Fabiola Santiago was born in Matanzas, Cuba. By 1980 she was a powerful journalist at the Miami Herald on the way to becoming its prime Columnist and Editorial Writer. And the USA's most famed book publisher, Simon & Schuster, has published her books in multiple languages. And since 1980 Fabiola Santiago has been fiercely powerful by benefiting marvelously in her constant anti-Cuban diatribes...from 1980 till TODAY, March 5tth of 2024.

    And so, on March 5th of 2024 above you can see, view, study, and absorb the latest unchallenged anti-Cuban diatribe from Fabiola Santiago in the Miami Herald. Of course, because she is Fabiola Santiago, no one is brave enough to challenge her -- EXCEPT foreign journalistic giants such as Reuters, BBC, etc.

    Today -- March 5th of 2024 -- the photo above is flashing around the world thanks to the international reach of the BBC. The photo illustrates today's BBC update on the fact that Cuba, direly impacted by the six-decade-old U. S. EMBARGO/Blockade of the nearby island, is currently having starvation problems, especially trying to feed its little children.

    The BBC photo & article above starts out by reporting that Cuba, for the first time, is begging the UN and the World Food Programme to help its "children under seven years of age." 

     Unlike the Miami Herald and the rest of the U. S. media, the BBC today is brave enough to mention that Cuba "continues to blame the ongoing US sanctions for the dire state of its economy but critices say government mismanagement is behind the current econnomic crisis -- the worst in three decades." At least the BBC, unlike the U. S. media, is fair enough to report that there are, indeed, two reasons for children in Cuba starving today...and one of the reasons is the endless U. S. EMBARGO/Blockade of the nearby, very vulnerable island. And, of course, the U. S. companies famously partook of the vast and lucrative rape-and-robbing of Cuba back in the 1950s prior to the victory of the Cuban Revolution in 1959. PERHAPS one day Fabiola Santiago and the Miami Herald might publish a tiny Editorial that mentions the historic pre-revolutionary rape and robbery of Cuba by U. S. companies, the Mafia, and the Batistianos...and perhaps even contrast the endless EMBARGO/Blockade with what happened in Batista's Cuba fefore 1959.

   Above today on March 5th of 2024 is the photo and headline that the London-based Reuters, the world's best News Agency, is flashing around the world. And this factual article is written by Nelson Acosta and Marc Frank, two of the world's greatest journalists who have been writing from Cuba for Reuters for many years. Today this report is telling the world about the power blackouts that Cubans across the island are routinely having. A great News Agency such as Reuters routinely reports on such US-Cuba relations...while also explaining the Cuban problems that also massively involves the endless U.S. EMBARGO/Blockade.

       Yes, US-Cuba Relations include many historic things -- significant events that include the brutal Batista dictatorship, the Blockade and EMBARGO that have existed since 1962, and the Photo shown above to the world today by the BBC-- on March 5th of 2024. It is a Photo that illustrates to the world that Cuban children in Cuba have hunger problems. Unbiased worldwide news sources, such as the BBC and Reuters, believe that childhood food shortages in Cuba constitute a problem not only for Cuba but also for the world, including the neighboring United States.

    No Blockade of any small country by any large country should have lasted six decades, and the Blockade depicted above has existed since 1962...as it continues into March of 2024.

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