cubaninsider: Cuba Speaks of a Post-Covid Future

cubaninsider: Cuba Speaks of a Post-Covid Future: And  A Post-Trump  Future !!      Throughout today -- July 16th, 2020 -- the state-wide media in Cuba, as well as Social Media forums ...

Cuba Speaks of a Post-Covid Future

And A Post-Trump Future!!

     Throughout today -- July 16th, 2020 -- the state-wide media in Cuba, as well as Social Media forums -- reminded the people that tonight's Council of Ministers session would reveal how the government plans to continue the island's ongoing recovery from the Coronavirus and then get past the Trump-imposed Blockade "of our people." Actually, the meeting began around 5:30 so it could be shown live on the prime and popular 6:00 PM Roundtable television news program. As shown above, the leader standing upfront at the podium was President Miguel Diaz-Canel and sitting close to him at the long desk was the First Vice President of the Republic Salvador Valdes Mesa. The other major speakers included the Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Rodrigo Malmierca and the Vice Prime Minister Alejandro Gil Fernandez. The important meeting was broadcast live on all national radio and television stations on the island as well as on the Roundtable YouTube Channels, and on all the Cubadebate Pages of Facebook.

      Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel, as shown above keynoting the important session, punctuated it with these exact words: "Developing the economy means offering greater welfare to the people. In doing that we must do more of our direct producing of products and services by individual citizens and groups of private entrepreneurs supported by the government that needs to give better incentivizing for businesses and providers to have the means to better care for their families. The worst risk for us would be in not changing, in not transforming." And also from that podium tonight President Diaz-Canel suggested that, whether the U. S. had a Republican or Democratic political leader, one like Trump or one like the decent Obama, "Cuba must better reciprocate commerce and other relations with our friends, and not be bogged down by reacting so much to our enemy...and not hide behind the excuses of blaming all of our problems on the fact that a superpowered nation close to us is our unfathomable and endless impediment. Even if we wanted to change our location, we can't do it. So, always Miami and its Little Havana will be just to our north. We can be wary of that but not be obsessed with that because we must be obsessed with Havana and the rest of our proud homeland. We will always be Cuba and even if envious people in an enemy nation name some of their land Little Cuba after Cuba, we will still be Cuba. We must maintain what we have won, such as our independence, but we must make Cuba better...and stronger, and richer. And that we can do...and must do...for Cuba."

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cubaninsider: New Airline To Launch Flights To Cuba

cubaninsider: New Airline To Launch Flights To Cuba: Canada   Bucks  U. S. Blockade !!       A brand-new Canadian airline,   OWG , is launching with its inaugural flights destined for Cub...

New Airline To Launch Flights To Cuba

Canada Bucks U. S. Blockade!!

      A brand-new Canadian airline, OWG, is launching with its inaugural flights destined for Cuba. OWG stands for "Off We Go" and its first flights are set for November 1st of this year.

      The OWG airline starts with three Boeing 737-400 aircraft. OWG Airlines is in a partnership with the Canadian aircraft company Hola Sun Holidays. The two companies obviously believe that the Blockade imposed by the U. S. to deter all commerce with the Caribbean's largest and, arguably,  also its most beautiful island, creates opportunities for other nations to exploit the void for other visitors and tourists.

     Many experts consider Cristiano Ronaldo the world's all-time greatest soccer player. In fact, Forbes used this headline: "Cristiano Ronaldo Becomes First Footballer To Reach Billionaire Status." He plays for Juventus F. C. in Turin, Italy, and also captains his native Portuguese national team. Organizations in both Portugal and Italy, along with groups in other nations from Spain to South Africa to Qatar, are promoting Cuban doctors and nurses for the Nobel Peace Prize for their herculean devotions in helping many nations battle the Coronavirus pandemic. Cristiano Ronaldo has sent a special message for the Cuban doctors working in Turin: "FOR THE BLESSED CUBAN DOCTORS OF TURIN." Along with the message, Cristiano Ronaldo sent Juventus jerseys bearing his famed number "7" for all the Cuban doctors and nurses who are helping the people in Turin.

      These are some of the Cuban doctors in Turin, Italy, showing off their proud Cristiano Ronaldo jerseys.

     When South Africa, which has beloved Cuba and been beholden to Cuba since Nelson Mandela's triumph against apartheid, joined the clamor for Cuba's renowned doctors to help against the COVID-19 pandemic, U. S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, at the behest of a few zealots in Miami and in Congress, assailed South Africa for its solidarity with Cuba and claimed requesting the Cuban doctors will help Cuba's economy and defy the U. S. blockade.

      Meanwhile, the Cuban doctors have helped dozens of nations fight the Coronavirus and now many organizations in those countries are nominating the Cuban doctors for the Nobel Peace Prize even as one superpower nation, the USA, uses its leverage to assail them...along with all Cubans on the island.

     Since 1962 the U. S. has imposed a tight Embargo against Cuba and that has been expanded by the current Trump regime into a total genocidal Blockade of the island.

      Yet, remarkably, since 1959 there have been enough Cubans on the island determined to protect the sovereignty provided by the victory of the Cuban Revolution against the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship. So, with a mere 110-days-or-so left in Trump's first 4-year term as president, this is where we stand: A little island nation still fighting off the world's superpower, an ongoing and historic event that has been going on for seven decades. So far, it appears that the U. S. DEMOCRACY is the primary casualty.

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Title III's Genocide Continues

But So Far It's No Piggy-Bank!!

       The Southern District of Florida Miami Division has handed down the first-ever ruling in a Helms-Burton/Title III lawsuit. It ruled for Carnival Cruise Lines and against the Cuban-American in Florida who sued Carnival because it used a dock in Cuba. There remain dozens of mammoth claims against companies who have had business related to Cuba, but so far none have resulted in the anticipated millions or billions of dollars the claimants are clamoring for.

      Since 1996 the infamous Helms-Burton Act, considered the product of extreme Cuban Counter Revolutionaries Jorge Mas Canosa and Lincoln Diaz-Balart, has purportedly legalized two gigantic purposes: {1} To enrich certain Cuban-Americans in the Little Havana section of Miami; and {2} to severely punish and deprive Cubans on the island every day since 1996.

     The Helms-Burton Act had a provision called Title III that all Presidents prior to Donald Trump had refused to activate, and for a damn good reason -- it legalized a full Blockade of Cuba that many decent people consider legal genocide imposed by a powerful nation against a much smaller nation. And, of course, Title III proposed a huge financial reward for U. S. Cubans who would sue companies that did business with Cuba, with the lawsuits to be adjudicated in the Southern District Of Florida Miami Division. All Republican administrations, even the George W. Bush presidency that condoned making acolyte Cubans like Canosa billionaires and many others multi-millionaires, would not allow Title III to be activated because even Bush believed it would permit genocide against totally innocent Cuban families on the island.

       But the photo above revealed that extreme Counter Revolutionary Little Havana benefactors finally had a Republican president in Donald Trump that would activate Title III and do whatever else they wanted as a means to finally regain control of Havana for the denizens in Little Havana. This photo shows the FOUR MEN ABOVE the day right after they had just had a meeting in the White House with Trump. Then, knowing they had him in total control, a bank of microphones already awaited them outside the White House to perpetrate a news conference extolling their victory. Of course, Marco Rubio began the orations about their triumph as Mario Diaz-Balart, Ron DeSantis, and Rick Scott -- all of whom also own their political fortunes in Florida to fully supporting Little Havana's extreme whims -- stood stone-faced.

     The U. S. Economic Embargo against Cuba has been in force continually since 1962, certainly the LONGEST and CRUELEST in all-time history. After the air-land-and-sea military attack at the Bay of Pigs in 1961 as well as numerous terrorist attacks and a record number of assassination attempts failed to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba, the Embargo in 1962 was intended, according to de-classified U. S. documents, to starve, deprive, and make miserable the Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their government. So, for 6+ decades now the Embargo has failed, except to  continually punish Cubans on the island and to create the image of the red-eyed, claw-fingered United States of America...as depicted above.

     In America's two-party political system, Democratic president Barack Obama, prior to the 2016 election of Republican Donald Trump, did all he could to end the Embargo and normalize relations with Cuba...as most Americans, most Cuban-Americans, and most nations around the world desire. In Obama's last year in office, 2016, he would not allow the United States to vote in the UN to support the insidious Embargo at the United Nations...so the worldwide vote in the UN against the Embargo was 191-to-0.

     When a decent President of the United States, supported by the entire world, pleaded for the Embargo against Cuba to be lifted, it revealed that the U. S. democracy was not strong enough to stand up to a handful of Counter Revolutionary zealots in Little Havana and in the U. S. Congress.

      And so in mid-July of 2020 the U. S., with a Little Havana-controlled Republican president in the White House, the U. S. democracy is not capable of dealing with even the genocidal aspects of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act.

So, don't challenge Pinocchio!!!

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Diaz-Canez Calls Trump Illiterate

 And Then Adds "Grotesque"!!

      Today -- July 11, 2020 -- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel lashed more vehemently at U. S. President Donald Trump than he has ever done before. Using the island's print, television, and Social media platforms Diaz-Canel, among other things, called Trump both "illiterate" and "grotesque."

   Apparently Diaz-Canel was particularly perturbed about Trump's visit this week to the USA's powerful Southern Command military apparatus in Doral, Florida. Diaz-Canel said, "Using the U. S. nuclear military in nearby Florida to intimidate Cuban families, while also threatening their children by continually tightening the genocidal Blockade, could only be conducted by an illiterate and grotesque individual. For the American people to promote such genocide with their silence, which is apparently because of their fear of operatives in Florida and in Congress and the White House, is not lost on brave and righteous people such as the Cubans who depend on me and others to protect them against the Coronavirus pandemic and, of course, the Blockade. Never before have I blamed the fear of the American population for enabling the illiterate and grotesque Trump as he tries to eviscerate 11.2 Cubans on this island as a trade-off for winning Florida's 29 Electoral Votes needed for his re-election on November of this year. Today I do."  

     Also today, Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez used the word "mendacious" to describe "what Trump is able to get away with even the powerful anti-Trump leftist media too afraid to mention Trump's genocide against Cuban families on the island. There was a time even during the Cold War when the mainstream media was not THIS afraid of the Cubans in Florida."

    But in Cuba today the most flagrant denunciation of Trump came from President Miguel Diaz-Canel. He said, "The U. S. has a real problem, I think, when the American people are the only people in the world who are obliged to believe, accept, the lie that Cubans on the island want Trump and the likes of Claver-Carone, Rubio, and Diaz-Balart to come over and 'help' them. If a strong majority of Cubans in Cuba did not support me and the Revolution, I would resign today. In America's two-party political machine, fueled by obscene piles of money, it is apparent that a strong majority of Americans hate Trump, but they can't do anything about it now or probably not after the November 3rd election. Every nation in the Caribbean and throughout Latin America knows the U. S. reputation for over-throwing Democratic governments to install merciless U.S.-backed dictators like Trujillo, Pinochet, Videla, Somoso, and so forth...actions made to enrich already rich Americans even though the pretexts were always that those Democracy-loving presidents were a threat to the United States. Of course, they were a threat to the rape and plunder of their countries by rich Americans supported by the American government. When, in 2020, Americans are never told the difference between, for example, the great Democracy president Allende in Chile who was killed in a coup led Nixon and Kissinger so they could install the U.S.-friendly blood-thirty Pinochet as the U.S.-friendly bloody dictator for two bloody decades. When in the  US Democracy today politicians like that can routinely perpetrate such lies, maybe it is time the American people took it back. In Cuba today, I assure you, neither I nor the Cuban media could get away with such lies because the Cubans in Cuba are much too intelligent to be so easily lied to."

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