Cuba Tries to Survive US Sanctions in Mid-May of 2024

     This ultra-interesting photo & headline was taken TODAY on MAY 13th-2024 and it depicts a conference at the famed Hotel National in Havana involving high-level Cuban and USA representatives. The headline above in the Cuban state media says: "CUBA & UNITED STATES CELEBRATE AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCES." Please note that this amazing conference, which started today in Havana, will continue in Washington even as the the U. S. Embargo against Cuba, which began in 1962, is causing drastic "food shortages {hunger} and blackouts in Cuba" and while the U. S. is involved in two raging wars around the world along with masssive criminal trials involving former president and current key presidential contender Donald Trump and yet another massive criminal trial starting today involving Senator Bob Menendez who happens to be the most powerful Cuban-American in America and the man most responsible for making sure that the U. S. maintains its drastic CUBAN EMBARGO. Amid all that, amzingly, you can go back and re-study that photo-caption today regarding the meeting at Havana's Hotel National!!! 

    In recent years many respected polls have revealed conclusively that one of the greatest pillars of the great U. S. Democracy, a strong and honest news media, is alarmingly now "not trusted by most American citizens." Many notable Cuban observers believe that an untrustworthy mainstream U. S. media is a key reason that, dating back to the 1950s as far as Cuba is concerned, the U. S. media's promotions of policies of extreme counter-revolutionary Cuban-Americans -- such as Bob Menendez, the Diaz-Balart brothers, Ros-Lehtinen, etc., etc. -- have massively dictated the USA's ultra-harsh Cuban policies. But despite the overall distrust of the U. S. media, there remain many great and true U. S. journalists...such as Tracey Eaton. As the former superb head of U. S. news bureaus in Mexico and Cuba, Eaton for the past 17 years has been a beloved Journalism Professsor at Flagler College in Florida. And recently he has returned to active journalism and documentaries...so, as usual, the best and most honest journalism you will find on US-Cuba Relations is from Tracey Eaton on fourms such as his "TRACEY EATON JOURNALIST" website, which is data republished by other respected media sources.

    In the last paragraph shown above and written by Tracey Eaton, he says: "A forgotten story is that Menendez may not have reached the pinnacle of political power without the support of hardline Cuban exiles, including some accused of violent attacks on Cuba." 

      Above is a federal U. S. prosecutor pointing to bundles of cash and gold bars discovered by the FBI in a closet at Bob Menendez's home, plus a luxury car he alledgedly received as one of his illegal gifts as a foreign bribe.

    Also above see/read the update from Tracey Eaton as Bob Menendez today on May 13th-2024 goes on trial for massive fraud for alledgedly taking brides, including in gold bars, from foreign countries such as Egypt and Qatar while he was am ultra-powerful U. S. Senator from New Jersey since 2006. Many of those years Menendez was the sole Chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee. Back in 2017, just before he was re-elected to yet another 6-year term in the U. S. senate, Menendez barely survived a huge federal trail that charged him with multiple felonies involving Miami and Dominican Republic operatives...a trial that ended in a controverial "hung jury" verdict.

    Above is the headline today on MAY 13th-2024 from the Asssociated Press about the start of the latest federal trial of powerful U. S. Senator Bob Menendez. Not only has Menendez for many years has had massive influence regarding overall U. S. foreign policies, but he only has also been widely considered the prime U. S. leader dictating extreme anti-Cuban polcies, including making sure that the drastic six-decade-old U. S. EMBARGO on Cuba remains firmly in place.

     Meanwhile...yesterday on Mother's Day -- May 12th, 2024 -- the Cuba media reminded Cubans of cultural events even as the U. S. and much of the international media are headlining the fact that the Caribbean island, a few miles south of Florida, is experiencing drastic food shortages, continuous power blackouts, etc. As shown above, the Cuban media also stressed events such as a major concert by popular singer Monika Mesa. 

     Also...for three days last week Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez were in Moscow meeting with their Russian counterparts Vladimir Putin and Sergei Lazrov. 

      Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, shown above second from the right, set up and approved this handshake last week in Moscow between Lazrov and Diaz-Canel. Rodriguez said: "Any fair and honest observer knows that Cuba would rather be friends to a neighbor like the United States than a faraway foreign power such as Russia. Even Russia knows that. But since 1959 the United States has employed tragic tactics, including starvation and deprivation, to overthrow Cuba's revolutionary government. All the while the United States tries to shame us when we try to make friends with countries that are not trying to starve or deprive our people." 

     Any map shows the location of little Cuba just a few miles below the United States and thousands of miles from Russia...and China.

     Although drasically short on money, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has spent many hours and miles visiting or hosting representatives of other countries that Cuba hope will sign new "Cooperation Deals" with the desperate Caribbean island. Would Diaz-Canel prefer such an agreement with the United States? As Cuba's former Education Minister, the answer to that question appears to be an easy one, but one he doesn't expect the United States to ask him.

Cuba and the EMBARGO!!

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Will Cuba's Revolution End in 2024????

Yes...it seems the Revolution is ENDING!!

      But, incredibly, in 2024 Revolutionary Cuba is celebrating the 65th Year of Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, a feat that actually is even more INCREDIBLE than the original overthrow of the US-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship on the Caribbean's largest and arguably the Caribbean's most beautiful island.

      Today -- on May 12th in 2024 -- the international headlines regarding Cuba, as always, inform the world that the targeted island's demise will occur "any day now."

     And, Yet, three generations of Cubans on the island somehow have managed to survive foreign massively powerful designs to erase the Revolution, a sheer fact epitomized by the determined rosy-cheeked little Cuban rebel shown above.

     The London-based Reuters is the world's best News Agency and today -- March 27th in 2024 -- it is telling the world that this 65th Year of the Cuban Revolution will finally end revolutionary rule in Cuba. The Reuters headline and photo today says: "Amid Blackouts and Scarce Food, Protest Rattle 'Cradle" of the Revolution." The photo above illustrating the headline today shows a young Cuban finally giving up, and about 400,000 others like him have recently vacated the island.

    Little girls in Cuba are different than little girls in other countries. Little girls born in Cuba since 1962 have lived all their lives under the drastic economic EMBARGO/Blockade maintained staunchly by the United States, Cuba's neighbor that is the strongest, richest, and most influential nation in the world...and also the nation that in the 1950s wildly profited in Cuba during the Batista dictatorship that preceded the 1959 victory of the Cuban Revolution. It is astounding that generations of Cuban children since 1962 have survived the EMBARGO even as the revolutionary government tried to maintain its guarantees of free educations through college and free food if needed. But, of course, many little girls in Cuba have also left the island, often to join the rich and counter-revolutionary mecca of Little Havana in Miami. But in the last week in March of 2024 international headlines are letting the world realize that little girls are indeed starving in Cuba...more than ever.

     International orgranizations such as the various UN programs that monitor children hunger are direly concerned about hunger affecting families in Cuba in the last week in March of 2024.

     If people around the world Goggle "How bad is hunger is Cuba," take a moment to study replies that start today with the Top Four Worldwide Cuban Headlines as shown above. Please note that the Wall Street Journal, which is by far the USA's largest newspaper, screams loudly that the crimes by Cuba's government are solely responsible for the hunger in Cuba while loudly suggesting that the U. S. EMBARGO of the vulnerable island has been a wonderful kindness to Cuba for the past six+ decades!! Despite what the WSJ says, the rest of the world seems to understand that it is actually amazing that any small nation could survive FOR OVER SIX DECADES a massive EMBARGO/BLOCKADE orchestrated from the world's economic and military power. Indeed, Cuba has somehow survived the U. S. EMBARGO/BLOCKADE SINCE 1962.

     Since 2005 Mary Anastasia O'Grady has used her ultra-unchallenged position at the Wall Street Journal, America's largest newspaper, to suggest that the thieving and brutal Batista rule in Cuba in the 1950s was tolerable, or even wonderful, as it allowed rich American businessmen as well as Mafia leaders to make wild fortunes. But since overthrowing Batista's rule it is Revolutionary Cuba that "IS STARVING ITS PEOPLE" according to Mary, the Cuban expert at the USA's largest newspaper.

      Of course, ultra-powerful counter revolutionary U. S. "journalists" such as Mary Anastasia O'Grady won't comment on facts such as the two photos shown above that show, prior to the Cuban Revoluion, that the Batista dictatorship in Cuba didn't even toss a few crumbs to everyday Cuban families even as the Batistianos, the Mafia, and rich U. S. businessmen will raking in mammoth financial windfalls in Batista's Cuba.

      And so...anti-Cuban Mary Anastassia O'Grady's editorials in the Wall Street Journal, which is by far the USA's largest newspaper, tells Americans and the world that "CUBA IS STARVING ITS PEOPLE." And as you can see above, her typical sub-headline mock Cuba for blaming "US sanctions for the island's latest hunger crisis," The world needs to know "if Cuba's latest hunger crisis in made in Havana" or "if it is made in Miami with the help of the superpower U. S. government." Of course, the Wall Street Journal and the rest of the mainstream U. S. media say "The island's latest hunger crisis is made in Havana" and that history's longest and cruelest EMBARGO, orchestrated by Miami and the United States has nothing to do with it.

    When the Wall Street Journal keeps saying "The island's latesst hunger crisis is made in Havana" it wants Americans and the rest of the World to believe it. The proof that the statement is a eternal propaganda lie is that the Wall Street Journal will never publish an Editorial suggesting that the EMBARGO should end because, HEY!!, stravation in Cuba is a prime tool that will finally overthrow the Cuban Revolution, probably in May of 2024!!!!!!!!!!!! And if so, is there anotther Batista waiting in the shadows to take over???? 

      And, meanwhile, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel takes to the streets and to the airways in Cuba to say, "Always with Cuba, we will get out of the difficulties, let no one doubt it!!!" But this time, in MID-MAY in 2024, it appears the odds are against Diaz-Canel.

     Deep in May of 2024 the United States is mired in a presidential contest that will be decided in November, with former President Donald Trump, the Republican, against current President Joe Biden, the Democrat. In its two-party political system, billions of dollars are poured into the campaigns during state legislative elections and to national congressional and presidential elections...so the constant billion dollar campaigns are seemingly wall-to-wall, year around. The 2024 presidential race is Trump vs. Biden although both are considered too old and too unpopular. As you can see above, Trump is openly promising to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba "if he is reelected." Of course, as far as Cuba is concerned, Biden appears to be no improvement. Honest observers understand that the current hunger problems in Cuba are being caused, at least partly, by the fact that Trump as president put Cuba on the U. S. List of Nations that Sponsor Terrorism, which vastly tightened the six-decade-old EMBARGO. Most observers believed that the Demcorat Biden presidency would quickly remove Cuba from that List because of genocidal repercussions in Cuba...but Biden as President has had over three years to do that and he has refused to do so. You see, Little Havana Cubans in Miami have masssive political power both in Florida and nationally in Washington. And, in the US's two-party political system, relief for starving Cubans who once hoped for help from the Democrat Party, simply became a faded dream in 2024.

     Listing Cuba as a nation that Sponsors Terror, from a political standpoint, has had the effect of helping to create the Hunger and Blackout problems that appear to finally be tipping the scales against Revolutionary Cuba, to the delight of Little Havana Cubans. Thus, deep into May of 2024, there really appears nothing that Cuba can do to confront what is finally the Perfect Storm against it.

     If you study the images above, you should understand that even Cuba comprehends the difference between normal Tropical Storms and the climatic Perfect Political USA Storm that it now faces. We can assume, I think, that the most famous counter revolutiary Cuban in Cuba, Yoani Sanchez, knows all about the Perfect Storm now gushing over the vulnerable island...and so do her dear friends Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez, the two most ultra-powerful Cuban-American counter revolutionaries in the United States Senate.

    In other words, in 2024 the incredible 65 years that the Cuban Revolution has ruled Cuba might finally end. And, in other words, Cuba and the United States will again be lucrative "Good Friends" again -- you know, like in the lucrative 1950s when Batista dictated Cuba as US's friend when financial kickbacks to Batista allowed major U. S. companies to rake in vast wealth in Batista's Mafia-fueled Cuba...right up till the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1st of 1959.

Remember, uh, when Batista loved those rides around Washington?

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Cuba Looks to China for Vital Tourism

 ...as the island tries to survive the US EMBARGO!!

     In April & now in May of 2024 headlines around the world by respected international media sources, such as London-based Reuters and Madrid-based El Pais, have stressed that Cubans in Cuba are direly facing "food shortages and constant blackouts as the six-decade-old US embargo has been severely tightened in the past five years by both the Trump and Biden administrations in Washington." The U. S. media, meanwhile, mostly ignores the crisis facing Cuban families -- except for blaming it all on Cuba and, strangely, claiming there is no US embargo or blockade of the island that the world knows has existed since 1962. The photo and caption above shows Cuba trying to cope with the crisis by trying to "Reconnect-Rebuild-Innovate" Cuba's tourism. 

    Cuba's Minister of Tourism is Juan Carlos Garcia. He says, "If you look around the world you will notice that countries large and small -- from superpowers such as the United States and China to little countries like Cuba -- you will see that all countries crave tourism as a means to get super rich if you are a large nation or merely to survive if you are a small nation trying to obtain enough money to support your citizens. In that regard, if you look arund the world you will note that Cuba is the only nation facing an endless economic blockade engineered by a superpower nation that desires to starve the economy and the families in Cuba. To deny that this has existed for six decades is to be a damn liar, but there are a lot of scared liars who are afraid of the United States or merely want to be financial or military friends of the United States. Cuban families facing hunger and blackouts know the facts first-hand, and so do Cuban leaders like me who want to help them. As tourism Minister, I wish for flocks of tourists from a few miles away in the United States just like Batista had in the 1950s, but unlike Batista and Luciano we don't indugle in kick-back dollars. Surely in 2024 Cuba would prefer tourists from the United States and elsewhere but, mostly, we must depend on tourists from just a few countries that don't bend to the U. S. blockade...such as faraway China." 

      Indeed, in May of 2024 Cuba's desperation for tourism has caused Cuba to get more cozy than ever with China. The two countries have agreed to new policies encouraging more visitors to Cuba from China as announced by Cuba's Tourist Minister Juan Carlos Garcia, and, as you can see below, the news also is being reported by China's News Agency Xinhua:

    The Cuban minister in charge of relations with the United States is Carlos Fernandez de Cossio. A respected diplomat even in Washington and Miami, he says: "Using its unique superpower status and influence, the United States can dictate its Cuban policies even knowing the rest of the world might believe it is not only wrong but even genocidal to masses of people in a small, vulnerable country. For this to exist for over six decades is a testimony to a handful of benefactors making the decisions while the vast majority of U. S. citizens are expected to remain silent. And when the compliant U. S. media daily propagadizes to American citizens that those making the Cuban decisions in the U. S. are good people and that all Cubans from revolutionary leaders to current President Diaz-Canel are bad people, then it doesn't matter what the small country says or proves. In a fairer world, one in which might doesn't dictate right or wrong, the U. S. would not be able to maintain a genocidal economic blockade on generations of people in a small country. In that regard, the American people, I believe, should be allowed to know that the Cuban Revolution in the 1950s evolved because the U. S. supported Cuba's vile dictator Batista...and that was at a time when other regional vile dictators such as Trujilo in the Dominican Republic and Somoza in Nicaragua and later vile dictators such as Pinochet in Chile, the Shaw in Iran, and others had U. S. support. Sure, the motives were to reap money out of such countries by kick-backs to friendly dictators, but sometimes the U. S. should consider motives that don't involve money." Below is a two-minute video on CBS News/YouTube in which Carlos Fernandez de Cossio discussed US-Cuba Relations from Cuba's viewpoint:

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