The sole publisher of Cubaninsider, Rich Haney, has passionately studied Cuba day and night since the 1980s and he has visited the island. He is a fiercely pro-democracy conservative Republican from Virginia and he believes the Cuban Revolution and Revolutionary Cuba say more about the United States than they say about Cuba.
This Washington Post photo in the summer of 2024 flashed around the world with a caption that told about the"cascading" food shortages {hunger} facing children in Cuba.Of course, not many cared because the world has been programmed to believe this little girl in Havana is a "bad" person and that the "good" people in a nearby rich nation should not even care. Meanwhile,in this last week of July in 2024, a war-ravaged far-away nuclear superpower is saying it will help starving children in Cuba...if Cuba helps in its bloody, far-away war efforts.
ThisNPR photo on July 28th, 2024 shows yet another Russian warship entering Havana harbor. It's not yet akin to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis but it surely is worth watching.
And, yes, the world's media continues to keep tabs on Russian warships entering Havana Harbor...as shown by the headlines flashing around the world on July 28th, 2024. As the Russian warships frequent Havana Harbor they are just mere miles from Florida and from the U. S. Military Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. As the bloody war rages over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the world's two most powerful nuclear powers -- Russia and the United States -- are on opposite sides in a tragic conflict that often resembles the worst destruction from World War II.
But,meanwhile, as the Winds of War swirl ominously around the world in late July of 2024, let us not forget the hungry little girl in Havana that the Washington Post showcased to remind the world of the tragic food shortage in Cuba. The parents and neighbors of this little girl are beyond taking sides regarding which country to support in the worldwide wars,but each day they are concerned about which big country is trying to help their little girl from starving. The parents and neighbors of this little girl believe that the Embargo/Blockade that the United States has imposed on Cuba since 1962 was intended to starve, deprive, and make miserable the Cubans on the island to cause them to overthrow their revolutionary government. At the end of July in 2024 perhaps it is time for the U. S. government to tell Cuban families if that reallywas the stated purpose of the Embargo/Blockadeand also tell them why, despite the fact it hasn't caused the overthrow of the revolution, it has existed for so long.
Beginning early in 1960 photographerAlberto Korda and Cuban revolutionary iconChe Guevara became forever intertwined by history. It was on March 5th in 1960 whenKorda took the famed photo ofGuevara. Quickly the image became famous becauseKorda photos about the triumph of the Cuban Revolution were highly prized, but soon the photo evolved into one of the most seen and most famous photos and portraits in the hisstory of the world. Even dorm rooms at thousands of U. S. colleges and universities featured the uniquely iconic and ubiquitous photo ofKorda's ultra-powerful photographic portrait ofChe Guevara.
ButAlberto Korda himself was surprised that the Che Guevara photo instantly got such fame. For sure, Korda had earlier been more notable for stressing revolutionary photos of important but non-famed Cuban rebels,such as the photo Korda took of this female Cuban fighter to emphasize the fact that women were ultra-important as revolutionary fighters, decision-makers, recruiters, etc., and not just the most historic ones such as Celia Sanchez, Tete Puebla, Vilma Espin, Haydee Santamaria, etc.
In fact, Alberto Korda once considered this as the most important revoluutionary photo he had taken. This showsCamilo Cienfuegos andFidel Castro, two of the most powerful rebel commanders and fighters. After the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1st of 1959, many of the everyday Cuban people ratedCamilo andFidel about equal as future leaders of Cuba. The very popularCamilo, however, was killed later in 1959 at AGE 27 when the small airplane he was in crashed into the ocean on October 28th-1959 during a storm on the edge of the island...a mere few months afterCamilo had played such a huge part in winning the Revolution.
The great photographerAlberto Korda was born in Havana on September 14th in 1928 and he died in Paris on May 25th in 2001 while he was being honored for his immortal photo ofChe Guevara. But some family members later said that one ofKorda's other photos had even more impact on his personal life.
This photo was taken byAlberto Korda. It shows a little Cuban girl standing in the doorway of her home, a peasant shack. She was very tightly and lovingly holding a block of wood, pretending it was a doll.Korda had taken a lot of photos that day but it was later that night when he was developing and studying the photos thatthis one powerfully gripped him and he began to cry uncontrollably. For the rest of his life,this photo madeAlberto Korda cry every time he took time to study and reflect on it. Yes, he got to know the little girl and made sure she had a real doll and nice clothes. In Paris in 2001 while being celebrated because of the Che Guevara photo,Alberto Korda admitted, "I have taken millions of photos. But the one that constantly remains in my heart is the one of the little girl pretending that she had a doll."
Since overthrowing the US-backed/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship in 1959, Revolutionary Cuba has faced daily attacks such as the 1961 Bay of Pigs air-land-&--sea military attack, the EMBARGO/Blockade that began in 1962 and has continued for over six decades, and many, many other attacks from the U. S. and individual U. S. Cuban-Americans. So it is not surprising that the great London-basedReuters News Agency inJuly of 2024 reports on another such attack. In theReuters article this week, the last paragraph shown above says:"...a Cuban man residing in the United States arrived on the island by jetski, armed with guns, ammunition and military gear, to recruit others and commit acts of Violence."
Let it be known too that there are many Cuban-Americans in the United States who vehemently denounce the Batista-Mafia dictatorship that ruled Cuba prior to the Revolution and also vehemently denounce the U.S.-backed efforts to overthrow the Cuban Revolution, which somehow has managed to not be overthrown for the last 65 YEARS. One such supporter of Revollutionary Cuba is award-winning journalistLiz Oliva Fernandez.
A dedicated journalist and producer of documentaries,Liz Olivia Fernandez reports frequently about topics such as "The War On Cuba" and "Inside Biden's Cuba Policy." So, perhaps Cuban observers should get to knowLiz Olivia Fernandez.
If you take time to study the passionate reporting ofLiz Olivia Fernandez on the US-Cuba conundrum, you will see that she often goes to the two most anti-Cuban enclaves ruled by counter revolutionary Cuban-Americans -- namely, Little Havana in Miami and Havana on the Hudson in Hudson County, New Jersey, and in the famed Hudson River area in New York.
In the video above watch how Liz Olivia Fernandez confronts the powerful U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, the leader of the ultra-strong U. S.. sanctions on Cuba. Liz above meets Menendez on a street in his backyard in Union City, New Jersey.
In the video above you will see and hear Liz Olivia Hernandez expertly discuss, in a key interview, the U. S. sanctions on Cuba...explaining how and why they have existed since 1962 "and now are tougher than ever on the Cuban people."
Yes, award-winning journalistLiz Olivia Fernandez is passionate about Cuba and her documentaries on YouTube and elsewhere attest to the fact that she denounces the past Batista-Mafia-US rule of Cuba and she also denounces ongoing and current attacks on Revolutionary Cuba.
Above you can tap and then see 12-minutes of a YouTube documentary"The War On Cuba" -- by the passionateLiz Olivia Fernandez.
Cuban MeteorologistYinelis Bermudez is important to Cubans because of the many terrible Hurricanes that target the Caribbean island.
But the prime U. S. EMBARGO SURROUNDING CUBA FOR THE PAST SIX DECADES remains the biggest problem for Cuban families.
Daily Cuban Headlines flashing around the world remind anti-Revolutionary/anti-Cuban sources to keep things such as U. S. stactics as the EMBARGO in place in hopes that it will overthrow Cuba's Revolutionary government "any day now!!" But now well intoJuly of 2024 the Cuban Revolution that overthrew the U.S.-backed/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship in 1959 has still,somehow, not been overthrown yet.
As a troubled world viewsJune of 2024 in the rear mirror and now encountersJuly of 2024, the island-nation of Cuba faces exactly what it has faced since 1959, which is ultra-powerful Cuban-Americans such asSenator Bob Menendez enjoying near dictatorial Powerss over the US's Cuban Policies, which have been disastrous for masses of Cubans in Cuba but extremely lucrative for Cuban-American politicians in Miami and in Washington since 1959. Whether your last name isMenendez, or Rubio, or Ros-Lehtinen, or Diaz-Balart, or Fanjul, or Canosa, etc., if you are an extreme anti-Cuban Counter Revolutionary stalwart in the United States, you can easily get elected to the U. S. Congress from Cuban strongholds such as Miami and Newark. And then, once in Congress, such Cubans immediately routinely end up as the ultra-powerful CHAIRMEN or CHAIRWOMAN in the U. S. Congress Senate or the U. S. House of Representatives, which are the two ultra-powerful branches of the U. S. Congress.
Here at the end ofJune of 2024 a massive federal trail is raging that charges massive bribery charges againstSenator Bob Menendez involving foreign nations. Back in 2015Senator Menendez barely survived a federal trial that charged him with many masssive bribery charges that involved a millionaire friend in Miami and included the Dominican Republic. But the 2015 trail resulted in a hung jury, after whichMenendez ran for another six-year term in the U. S. Senate and, of course, easily won again. Regarding Cuban policies and other foreign policies,Bob Menendez has been an ultra-powerful Democratic U. S. Senator from New Jersey since 2007 and, of course, loves being the ultra-powerful Chairman of the Senate's Foreign Affairs Committee.
As shown above, the TOP HEADLINES regarding Cuba heading intolate June in 2024 include"Bob Menendez and Biden's Cuban Policy." Despite the news media focused on the 2024 presidential election pitting President Biden against former President Trump, CBS News and the rest of the mainstream media cannot totally ignore the currentMenendez Trial. A CBS News update is shown below:
Since 1959 only Counter-Revolutionary Cuban-Americans such asSenator Bob Menendez have seemingly had a firm grip on the U. S. Cuban Policies.
Therefore, since 1962 the U. S. has maintained a cruel EMBARGO against Cuba although the UN and almost the rest of the entire world OPPOSES the ultra-controversial EMBARGO.Yet...the EMBARGO has existed for over six decades thanks to a handful of anti-Cuban Revolution Cuban-Americans...regardless of how much harm it does to the Cuban families and how much harm the EMBARGO also does to the international image of the U. S.
Since 1959, the year theCuban Revolution shocked the world by overthrowing the US/Mafia-backedBatista dictatorship, rich and powerful Cubans starting in 1959 created Little Havana in the heart of Miami and began to dominate the economy and political landscape in Miami and Florida and, when it came to overthrowing theCuban Revolution, the Little Havana Cubans also have easily dominated U. S. presidential and congressional policies regarding Cuba. That includes extreme counter revolutionary Cuban families such as the Diaz-Balarts, the Fanjuls, the Canosas, etc., etc., and individuals that became ultra-powerful politicians in Washington such as Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mario Diaz-Balart, Bob Menendez, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Marco Rubio, etc., etc., etc. But from January of 1959 until July of 2024 BY FAR the most powerful Cuban counter revolutionary in the history of Miami and Washington has beenJorge Mas Canosa, who was born on September 21, 1939 in Santiago de Cuba and died at age 58 from lung cancer in Coral Gables, Florida on November 23, 1997. All of the prime parameters that dictate U. S. policy today...in July of 2024...were primarily put in place byCanosa -- and that includes the Bay of Pigs military attack in April of 1961, the 1962 EMBARGO of Cuba that still exists in JULY of 2024, the exceedingly cruel Helms-Burton Act that has devastated Cuban families from 1991 until July of 2024 while also vastly enriching and empowering Cubans in Little Havana/Miami.Canosa himself became a billionaire via his Miami company Mas Tec but he also vastly increased his popularity by spreading the wealth. For example, for over three decadesCanosa's influence made sure that Miami's Radio-TV Marti broadcasting empire has received many millions of tax dollars from Washington to operate Miami's huge and lucratic anti-Cuban media facilities even though many highly respected journalists {Kofman, Eaton, etc.} have repeatedly reported that Radio-TV Marti exists for two reasons -- to overthrow the Cuban Revolution and to provide tax dollars to its employees. Till his untimely death in 1997 at age 58,Canosa's ultra-powerful guidance of the U. S. Cuban policy included both Republican and Democratic PRESIDENTS meekly bowing toJorge Mas Canosa and ONLY to Canosa...but laws and Cuban policies put in place byCanosa remain!!
Canosa andPresident Ronald Reagan.
President Bill Clinton andCanosa.
President George H. W. Bush andCanosa.
The man most responsible for the unchecked power ofJorge Mas Canosa was, of course,George H. W. Bush. During the 1960s & 1970sBush held powerful political jobs such as the Director of the CIA. ThenBush was Vice President from 1981 till 1989 during Ronald Reagan's 8 years as President. Then from 1989 till 1993Bush served his own 4-year term as President. Thus, thanks to the power ofBush, from the 1960s into the 1990sCanosa had extreme and undeniable control of the U. S. policies regarding Cuba...including the Bay of Pigs, the EMBARGO of Cuba that started in 1962, Cuban terror that included some of Posada's most historic and infamous episodes,Canosa's ultra-powerful Cuban American National Foundation, the unchecked Helms-Burton Act, ect., etc. etc.
Of course, whenGeorge H. W. Bush was President from 1989 till 1993,Bush signed bills into law that drastically hurt Cuba but helpedCanosa and other rich U. S. Cubans. At the presidential signing shown above, please note thatPresident Bush grinned triumphantly whileJorge Mas Canosa, of course, was the man standing directly behindPresident Bush has he signed a bill into law!!
And sinceMarch 12 of 1996, as shown above, the cruel pro-Miami and cruel anti-CubaHelms-Burton Law has for almost three decades cruelly harmed Cuban families in Cuba but also greatly helped Cuban-American politicians, especially those in Little Havana in Miami. In 1996 the truth is thatPresident Bill Clinton planned to ease the stringent anti-Cuban sanctions but he was forced to instead sign into law the cruelHelms-Burton Law. You ask WHY? Well, asPresident Clinton reluctantly signedHelms-Burton Law you can see that the rich and powerful Cuban-Americans includedBob Menendez andIleanna Ros-Lehtinen, both of whom spent many years as the ultra-powerful Chairs in the U. S. Senate and U. S. House where they, as disciples of Canosa, led the anti-Cuban policies of the United States.
Located in the heart of Miami,Little Havana USA for many decades has flourished while powerfully influencing massive anti-Cuban laws. The prime architect ofLittle Havana USA was Jorge Mas Canosawho was born in Santiago de Cuba and died from lung cancer at age 58 in 1997 in Coral Gables, Florida. For many reasons, in the Miami area till this day there are many schools and other landmarks named for Canosa because of the prime anti-Havana/pro-Little Havana USA laws that have drastically enriched Miami Cubans while starving and depriving Cubans in Cuba.
Again, the images directly above reveal the historic truth about the day in 1991 when the reluctant President Bill Clinton signed theHelms-Burton ACT into law while the two people ominously just above his right shoulder happened to beBob Menendez andIleanna Ros-Lehtinen!!
All U. S. Presidents such as the DemocratBill Clinton, as indicated above, made their Cuban policies as dictated to them byJorge Mas Canosa...and that included Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, etc. That is an historic fact even though in America's two-party political system, biased policies EVEN INVOLVING CUBA should not be allowed to prevail while being decided by a handful of politicians with their own special motives.
And all the while the US-Cuban facts are well known.