Sanctioned Cuba Battles Virus

Two Enemies: Coronavirus & U.S.

Photo courtesy: CNN

     The photo above shows the British cruise ship MS Braemar docked at Cuba's deep-water, ultra-modern Mariel Port 35 miles of Havana. The ship had been stranded in the Caribbean since February because no nation would allow it to dock until Cuba agreed to take the risk because it said "over a thousand people on board were in dire trouble." On board were 682 passengers and 381 crew members. Five people on the Braemar have tested positive for the Coronavirus while 27 crew members and 28 passengers are being isolated with symptoms. England turned to Cuba when all other ports in the region refused to allow the ship to dock.

This is the MS Braemar docked at Port Muriel.

     These Cuban buses were lined up at the Mariel Port to accept the passengers and crew members aboard the MS Braemar. The healthy people were bused to Jose Marti International Airport in Havana. Cuba and the UK had arranged for flights to return them to England and to their other home countries.

       A passenger on the MS Braemar, Anthea Guthrie, has used her Facebook account to thank the people for rescuing the {see above}. All over social media, there have been similar "thank you, thank you, thank you" tributes to Cuba. On both her and my Facebook accounts Anthea Guthrie wrote these words: "Cuba has world class hospitals, and we have said for years, if you get sick, get sick in Cuba." Anthea Guthrie has been to Cuba and knows Cubans. Americans who have never been to Cuba are provided anti-Cuban narratives from anti-revolutionary Cuban zealots such as Mauricio Claver-Carone.

      These passengers on the MS Braemar were thankful to finally be at the airport in Havana on their journey home.

     As of today -- March 18th, 2020 -- Cuba reports that it has "10 Confirmed Cases" of the Coronavirus and "389 suspicious cases." And this afternoon Cuba confirmed that it now has one person on the island that has died from the Coronavirus.

    This AP/Ramon Espinosa photo shows a Cuban woman buying food as she wears a mask to fight the Coronavirus. This photo was used today by the powerful London-based newspaper The Guardian to illustrate a major article entitled: "Cuba Faces Squeeze On Food Production As U.S. Oil Sanctions Bite." I SINCERELY BELIEVE that every American needs to go on the Internet and read every word of this story that The Guardian is spreading around the world today -- March 18, 2020. It points out the sheer uniqueness of Cuba that leaves the Caribbean's largest nation as the ONLY NATION IN THE WORLD that is compelled to battle a near-blockade by the world's Superpower, the United States, while it tries to battle the Coronavirus pandemic. The must-read The Guardian article states: "The U. S. has since April sanctioned tanker companies delivering petroleum to Cuba...in an effort to strangle its most indefatigable foe. Over the past 12 months, the U. S. has hit Cuba with the most potent sanctions in half a century." Being an internationally influential newspaper and digital giant based in London, The Guardian can readily print such facts. Yet, in the United States even the mainstream media is too afraid to report the truth about Cuba, and that includes the omnipotent left-wing anti-Trump power houses such as The NY Times, Washington Post, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, etc. who for over three years have spent most of their space and time searching and reporting anything real or imagined or propagandized to impeach or otherwise remove Trump. Yet, even those left-wing propagandists who shower the U. S. media do not have the guts or the integrity to mention the main reason Trump should be impeached or imprisoned -- and that is for allowing Counter Revolutionary zealots such as Mauricio Claver-Carone to unleash genocide on masses of everyday Cubans on the island.

    Most decent and brave Cuban experts are aware that President Trump committed an impeachable offense when he pointed to Mauricio Claver-Carone as the dictator of America's Cuban policy.  For six decades and two generations the U. S. has allowed Counter Revolutionary Cuban zealots like Claver-Carone to dictate Batista/Mafia-like rules pertaining to recapturing Cuba for the Cubans who fled the Cuban Revolution in January of 1959 only to resettle in Miami, creating their new capital of Little Havana. After the Bay of Pigs military attack failed to recapture Cuba in April-1961, along with unchecked assassinations and terrorist assaults that also failed to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba, in 1962 the U. S. tried to strangle the island with an economic boycott that has become the cruelest and longest in history ever imposed by a powerful nation against a much weaker nation. But from 1962 till today the boycott has also failed to recapture Cuba. All Republican administrations in the U. S. since the 1950s have been tightly aligned with Cubans like Fulgencio Batista and Mafia leaders like Lucky Luciano in dominating or trying to dominate Cuba. But not even the Batistiano-loving George W. Bush presidency refused to activate Title 3/Helms-Burton because even Bush considered it too genocidal against the masses of innocent Cubans on the island. But when Trump put Cuban zealots like Claver-Carone as the sole dictators of Cuban policies, Title 3/Helms-Burton WAS ACTIVATED...just as the London-based The Guardian reported today -- on March 18-2020.

     Now that Mauricio Claver-Carone can dictate Cuban policies in the Trump White House, any American journalist, politician or citizen who doesn't admit that Title III constitutes genocide against Cubans is either a liar or an idiot.

 When the world's so-called "strongest and greatest" Democracy allows the likes of a Mauricio Claver-Carone to make what decent and observant Americans consider to be genocide against masses of innocent people in a weaker nation, America is no longer the great Democracy is was before its Batistiano and Mafiosi obsession included first ruling Cuba and since 1959 obsessed with recapturing Cuba. Claver-Carone's hometown newspaper is the Naples Daily News in Florida. A recent headline in that newspaper was: "A Closer Look At The Man Advising Trump on Cuba." The article said:

          "'As a boy when Mauricio Claver-Carone played football in Orlando, if you ever mentioned Fidel Castro he would go berserk,' said Farlan Bailey, Claver-Carone's longtime friend who graduated with him from Bishop Moore Catholic High School in 1993."

      Since leaving high school, Claver-Carone everyday of his adult life has self-servingly taken advantage of his "berserk" obsession of recapturing Cuba. With massive advantages from the rich and volatile Cuban exiles in Little Havana, Republican administrations such as the Bush dynasty, and the Catholic Church, Claver-Carone has raised massive amounts of political dollars and cultivated powerful political allies to assault Cuba. Yet, only the Trump administration permitted Title 3/Helms-Burton to be a genocidal tool that Claver-Carone can use against masses of totally innocent Cuban families on the island. And perhaps most incredible of all is the fact that neither the mainstream U. S. media nor the intimidated or ignorant American people have neither the guts nor the integrity to utter a peep about U. S. genocide against innocent Cubans, even though...of course...even hints of genocide by a Russia or a China against innocent people is always in vogue in the United States. Back in the 1950s the U. S. supported Batista and Luciano as dictators in Cuba because, via kickbacks, they permitted rich U. S. businessmen to partake in the wholesale rape and robbery of the island. In March of 2020 the U. S. allows Mauricio Claver-Carone, whom most Americans never heard of, to dictate America's genocidal Cuban policies, apparently because President Trump believes it will help him obtain Florida's 29 crucial Electoral Votes in November's presidential election. In the 1950s Americans accepted Batista and Luciano as Cuba's U.S.-friendly dictators and in 2020 Americans accept Mauricio Claver-Carone. In other words, from the 1950s till to this day, the pugnacious island of Cuba has said a lot more about the superpower United States than it has said about Cuba.

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Cuba Drug Key To Coronavirus Fight

China Thinks It Is!!

   Today -- March 17, 2020 -- the popular news source CounterPunch has a major article entitled "Cuba's Contribution to Combatting COVID-19". It is written by the Cuban and Latin American expert at the University of Glasgow, Helen Yaffe. The long article begins with this update:

         "COVID-19 began in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late December 2019 and by January 2020 it had hit Hubei province like a tital wave, swirling over China and rippling out overseas. Among the 30 medicines the Chinese National Health Commission selected to fight the virus was a Cuban anti-viral drug Interferon Alpha 2B. This drug has been produced in China since 2003, by the enterprise ChangHeber, a Cuban-Chinese joint venture. Cuban Interferon Alpha 2B has proven effective for viruses with characteristics similar to those of COVID-19."

      Including China, at least 15 other nations have contacted Cuba requesting Heberon Alfa B to combat COVID-19.

      As of March 17-2020 Cuba reports that it has "5 Confirmed Cases" of the Coronavirus and "388 Suspicious Cases."

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Cuba Welcomes Stranded British Ship

All Other Nations Denied Its Entry

        Cuban journalist Rosy Amaro Perez reports that Cuba has given permission for the British cruise ship MS Braemar to dock in Cuba although it has at least five confirmed cases of the Coronavirus. CNN's Havana correspondent Patrick Oppmann has confirmed Rosy Amaro Perez's report on his Twitter account. The ship has been perilously stranded in the Caribbean and all other nations had refused the ship to dock in their ports and have their hospitals help the patients. The MS Braemar has 682 passengers and 381 crew members.

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Cuba Battles Coronavirus

As The U.S. Strengthens Blockade!!

     Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel chaired this discussion about the Coronavirus with top medical experts on the island. Asked if the U. S. "might possibly loosen the blockade during the COVID-19 pandemic," President Diaz-Canel replied: "To the contrary, the Cubans like Mauricio Claver-Carone in charge of the Trump administration's effort to regain control of Cuba have no pity for Cuban families on the island. Instead, taking advantage of disasters to further punish everyday Cubans is a policy aimed at turning Cubans here against their government while, as we know, making people like Claver-Carone rich and powerful on the expected bones of our people. As the Coronavirus threatens us, the blockade threatens us even more. We must deal with COVID-19 with that knowledge as we move forward."

     In the discussion above, it was revealed that expected COVID-19 patients are being treated with a medicine known as Recombinant Interferon Alfa 2B. It was produced by Cuba's Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology {CIGB} and its Director, Eulogio Pimentel said, "We think we are capable of satisfying not only possible demand in Cuba for this proven medicine, but also the requests that we are getting from other countries. So far, 15 countries have asked for supplies."

Meanwhile:

    The Cuban dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara has been released from 13 days of confinement. International human rights groups and U. S. Cuban Counter Revolutionaries had raved about Otero Alcantara's imprisonment, which the Cuban government maintained was supported by most Cubans on the island. But the release apparently was mostly related to one major complaint from a beloved Cuban.

     Cuba's most famed folk singer and songwriter, 73-year-old Silvio Rodriguez, wrote these words on his blog about Otero Alcantara's arrest: "We are giving a very sad impression of backwardness." That sentence predicated Otero Alcantara's release.

      For decades on the island, Silvio Rodriguez has been a prime supporter of Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, and Silvio openly denounces the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia regime that preceded it. So, one sentence from Silvio about the incarceration of dissident artist Otero Alcantara was instrumental in the dissident's release.

      Cuba still staunchly maintains that Luis Manual Otero Alcantara and others like him are "massively funded by anti-Cubans in the U. S. Congress, all Republican White Houses, and unchecked political operatives in Little Havana and in Newark." One thing that recently irked Cuban officials was when Otero Alcantara allegedly video-taped "the debasing of the Cuban flag in his bathroom."

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Cuba In the Coronavirus Era

Amid the Trump Blockade!!

     The photo above taken in mid-March of 2020, I believe, is emblematic of Cuba in the age of the Coronavirus pandemic and the continuing cruel intensification of the US-Trump blockade against the sovereign Caribbean island. This image shows my friend Maite Romero Padron and seven other young, well-trained, dedicated female doctors at their hospital in the city of Ciego De Avila, Cuba. These eight medical experts are in the vanguard of Cubans trying to protect Cubans against the Coronavirus and other illnesses. Of course, these young doctors are greatly assaulted by the U. S. blockade being fiercely administered by a handful of Counter Revolutionary U. S. Cubans authorized self-servingly by President Trump. Of course, the asinine attempt of genocide is not opposed by neither the American people nor the mainstream U. S. media. And that, of course, reflects much more tellingly on the nearby Superpower than it defines Cuba.

     This Wikipedia map shows the location of Ciego De Avila, a city of 119,000 totally innocent Cubans who do not deserve to be victims of a few very greedy Cuban-Americans who have the support of the U. S. President and the U. S. Congress to commit atrocities against Cubans on the island. Ciego De Avila in the heart of Central Cuba is where young Doctor Maite Romero Padron, my friend, and her colleagues shown above are doing their best to provide medical services to the citizens of Ciego De Avila. Their prime enemies in Little Havana/Miami, Newark, and in the U. S. Congress have no shame as they profit economically and politically in the United States from administrating suffering to far better humans on the nearby, vulnerable island of Cuba.

      Meanwhile, this photo was taken today -- Saturday, March 14th, 2020 -- and it shows Cubavision International journalist Rosy Amaro Perez interviewing the President of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel. The two topics, of course, were the Coronavirus and the U. S. blockade -- now intertwined subjects in Cuba.

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Cuba Copes With Virus

And With U.S. Blockade!!

    The CNN correspondent based in Havana, Patrick Oppmann, reports that the pants factory shown above in Sancti Spiritus has been turned into the production of face masks to fight the Coronavirus. Oppmann said that the three Italian tourists diagnosed with the virus in the southern city of Trinidad are now in a hospital in Havana.

       In a follow-up to the comments U. S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said in praise of Fidel Castro, USA Today has shown a plethora of books that were published in 1959 to be used during the Literary Campaign. This book is entitled "Liberty or Death: Episodes of the Revolution." It highlights Commanders such as Fidel Castro upper-left, Camilo Cienfuegos lower-center, and Raul Castro in the lower-right.

     The USA Today also spotlighted the above Literacy Campaign book in 1959 that spotlighted rebel leaders but strongly included two major martyrs shown to the left and right of the Fidel Castro photo -- Frank Pais, the 23-year-old teacher, and Jose Antonio Echeverria, the University of Havana student leader.

    Both teacher Frank Pais and student Jose Antonio Echeverria {above} became everlasting martyrs after they were brutally and publicly murdered by Batista police officials because of their roles in the early days of the Revolutionary War. Today in Cuba there are no edifices named for Fidel Castro but there are major hospitals, airports, etc. named for Pais and Echeverria.

    Meanwhile in Cuba today Cubavision International Television anchor Rosy Amaro Perez interviewed Dr. Roxanne Castellanos Cabrera about suggestions to combat the Coronavirus. One of the suggestions included the use of Dalmer dermatological soaps.

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Cuba Battling Coronavirus Too

3 Cases Confirmed This Week!!

    This week Cubavision International Television has confirmed that three Italian tourists who arrived in the city of Trinidad have now been diagnosed with the Coronavirus. They are being treated at Cuba's Pedro Kouri Medicine Institute.

       The island of Cuba, because of the extreme intensification of the U. S. blockade by the Trump administration, is now one of the most isolated sovereign nations. But just across the Straits of Florida from the U. S. mainland, Cuba is a part of a world trying to react as the best it can to the perils presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.

     This Ramon Espinosa/AP photo was taken today, March 12th, and shows a woman at Jose Marti Airport in Havana wearing a mask against the deadly COVID-19 virus. The photo was used by NBC News to update the effect of the Coronavirus in Cuba. At a textile workshop Susana Navarro told NBC, "There is a deficit in the country" that includes basic things such as medicine, certain foods, and even fabric needed to make more COVID-19 masks. Cuba is reeling from the fact that the Trump administration activated Title 3/Helms-Burton in 2019. Even the George W. Bush administration REFUSED to activate Title 3 because many observers consider it to be a genocidal assault on everyday Cuban families. Tonight's NBC News update about the Coronavirus impact in Cuba is a rare mention by even the left-wing anti-Trump U. S. media about what Trump's Title 3 entails, and, yes, it means genocide for innocent Cubans.

     In the U. S. democracy, most American don't know and don't care what Title III/Helms-Burton is. Yet, in their names Title III, in the eyes of many unbiased and caring people, is committing genocide against masses of totally innocent people on the island of Cuba, with children and other innocents among the acute victims. At least tonight one U. S. media source, NBC News, had the guts to mention how the Coronavirus is impacting Cuba in the Age of Title III in Trump's and Little Havana's United States of America.

     All Cuban television channels have concentrated on updating the latest data related to the Coronavirus.

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