Cuban Tourists Welcome

 

    The two Spanish Hotels & Resorts giants -- Melia and Iberostar -- both have dozens of gorgeous properties in Cuba. Above is the 5-star, 386-room Iberostar Hotel & Resort in Varadero, Cuba. The island is still coping mightily with the U.S. Embargo/Blockade but its own homegrown vaccines have sharply curtailed the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, as illustrated below today -- November 24th-2021 -- by the reliable and unbiased OnCuba News.

     The photo above is by Otmaro Rodriguez and the update is by OnCuba News, which has bureaus in both Havana and Miami.

    Hoping for a successful Tourism Season this winter is some of Cuba's growing number of new, young entrepreneurs such as Daylene Hernandez Alvarez. Her designs of clothing, under her Innatus brand, are now so popular that Daylene now has the wherewithal to hire models to advertise and show her clothes.

    From agriculture to clothes to renters/boarders, to ownership of taxis/cars, entrepreneurs in Cuba are trying to establish themselves under new regulations and guidelines that are encouraging their creativity and ambitions. OnCuba News, a news source that will actually criticize or praise Cuba, fairly reports such stories. Daylene is one of three young Cuban women who have recently created successful clothing enterprises.

     The famed Haydee Milanes, an international musical Superstar, is a Cuban celebrity very willing to model designs of clothing by young female entrepreneurs on the island.

    Cuba, directly south of Florida, is the largest and the most beautiful island in the Caribbean. Back in the 1950s both the Mafia and the United States brutally and massively exploited Cuba's unique beauty and its strategic location, spawning the Cuban Revolution that in 1959 tried to end that foreign domination. In November of 2021 severely targeted Revolutionary Cuba is still trying to survive the United States restraints, and otherwise, surely, Cuba would likely and quickly realize its potential as the Caribbean's most prosperous nation...and even more prosperous, probably, than the ultra-rich Little Havana neighborhood of nearby Miami.

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SUCCESS: Cuba's Own Covid Vaccines!!!

But Americans, of course, Are Not Supposed to Know It!! 

   One of the world's most respected health and science journals, Nature, this week had the very long and important Headline, sub-Headline, and study that is depicted above. Nature has offices around the world staffed by world-renowned geneticists, doctors, and scientists in cities such as London, NY, SF, Berlin, etc. While this article would be useful for and interesting to Americans, the USA's plethora of well-funded blogs and the USA's mainstream media led by the Miami Herald, Washington Post, NY Times, etc., are devoted to only printing and broadcasting anti-Cuban propaganda...or real news that sheds only negative images of Cuba. But for what it's worth, here is the start of that long article in Nature that explains the startling efficacy of Cuba's own Covid vaccines.

     The new article in Nature, as shown above, states: "When the COVID-19 pandemic began, Cuba decided not to wait on the rest of the world to develop vaccines. The United States 60-year-old economic embargo against the country, which prevents US-made products from being exported there, would make it difficult for Cuba to acquire vaccines and therapies, researchers and officials knew, 'it was best, for protecting our population, to be independent,' says Vicente Verez Bencomo, director-general of the Finlay Institute of Vaccines in Havana."

     This is Vicente Verez Bencoma, the head of the renowned Finlay Institute of Vaccines. The world's health & science Superstars, such as Nature, are aware that Dr. Verez has saved many lives in Cuba and around the world but the U. S. media since 1959 has repeatedly told Americans that all the good Cubans are in Miami, Newark, and in the U. S. Congress...but please understand that Dr. Verez and his colleagues are still in Cuba and doing fantastic things in their health and scientific work, even though Nature this week allowed Dr Verez to remind the world that "...the United States 60-year-old embargo against his country..." is designed to starve the island's people as well as starve his famed Finlay Institute {that saves SO MANY  lives}.

Of course, the U. S. Embargo of Cuba, first imposed in 1962, is primarily designed to starve Cuban families and great Cubans like Dr. Vicente Velez but its off-shoots, of course, also harm great Americans like Dr. Candace Johnson, the renowned President & CEO of the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, NY. Dr. Johnson has been to Havana many times because of her admiration of the Finlay Institute and Dr. Johnson has fought tenaciously to have a lung vaccine developed by the Finlay Institute for her own patients. Perhaps one day both the U. S. media and the U. S. government might relax its genocidal Embargo against Cuba at least enough to acknowledge the great life-saving work that great people like Dr. Vicente Velez and Dr. Candace Johnson do, but don't count on it if it has ANY POSITIVE Cuban connotations.

     When the American people can be so easily propagandized to not be ashamed of the two images depicted above, perhaps the Superpower United States is actually in more trouble than the Caribbean island nation of Cuba.

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Distrust of U.S. Media Hurts Democracy

 And Hurts Americans & Cubans Too!!!

    The man who wrote the U. S. Declaration of Independence in 1776 was fearful of one PARTICULAR THREAT to his Democracy. And as you see above, Thomas Jefferson considered a mass media that American citizens would not trust would be the biggest threat to the nascent United States democracy. For about 240 years, most Americans did trust the U. S. media...but NO LONGER is that true in the USA.

    As the most notable Founding Father of the U. S. democracy, Thomas Jefferson's greatest fear has become true; in recent years Americans have increasingly become "DISTRUSTFUL" of the "Mass Media" in the United States. The headline and article shown above referred to what the Gallup Poll and the other major U. S. Polls are revealing. Like most Americans, for years I trusted the most iconic U. S. media sources -- such as the..New York Times, Washington Post, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, etc. BUT NO LONGER!! The U. S. democracy changed drastically, for the worst, in 2011 when even the Supreme Court permitted ultra-billionaires such as Jeff Bezos to buy important print media sources such as the Washington Post...and ultra-billionaire corporations such as Comcast, A T & T, Disney, etc., to buy important television media sources...and for ultra-trillionaire tech companies such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, etc., to become ultra-powerful and unchecked media sources. Of course, if the U. S. democracy allowed this to happen in the HOPE that such billionaire-trillionaire owners of the U. S. media would be honest and "TRUSTFUL" owners of the mass U. S. media...well, such hope has resulted in a propaganda-obsessed mass media in the U. S. that most Americans surely don't trust!! While many conservative sources such as the the NY Post, Fox, OAN, Newsmax, etc., are owned by rich conservatives, the biggest threat to the U. S. democracy today is the extreme left-wing U. S. media that is now owned by the most ultra-richest individuals and corporations such as those mentioned above. {Disclosure: I am a lifelong liberal but, like most Americans, I am appalled by the extreme wealth that owns and dictates extreme left-wing views via the mass U. S. media in the USA. Yes, "Americans Remain Distrustful of Mass Media." And that distrust, I believe, has become the biggest threat to the U. S. democracy...and I believe that THOMAS JEFFERSON would agree with that fact.

    And for example, today is Sunday, Nov. 21-2021 and the headlines in the U. S. today regarding the topic of Cuba, as always, reflect the U. S. media's extreme anti-Cuban propaganda...as shown above today from...Time Magazine, Miami Herald, and The New York Times. Such extreme propaganda masquerading as trustful news is a threat to the U. S. DEMOCRACY and an insult to Americans and Cubans, I truly believe.

     When once iconic and trustworthy news sources as the New York Times invariably now dispense only their extreme left-wing propaganda, it is an example of what is the biggest threat to the U. S. democracy, as Thomas Jefferson would probably have recognized if he was alive on November 21, 2021. Above is today's typical U. S. anti-Cuban propaganda concerning a key subject, Cuba, today.

    This week in November of 2021 the latest highly publicized coup designed to overthrow Cuba's revolutionary government simply fizzled out quickly and the leader quickly flew to Madrid to resume his dissidence from other capital cities not named Havana. In promoting the latest coup and its aftermath, the DISTRUSTFUL and propaganda-obsessed U. S. media, as usual, told Americans only the views of the top anti-Cuban dissidents without a mention of how most Cubans on the island appear to strongly oppose such coups...the same such OPPOSITION since 1959 that apparently counts for Revolutionary Cuba's incredible longevity for the last six+ decades.

     For example!!!: The mother shown above lives in Cuba and her name is Arianny. Like most Cubans on the island, Arianny strongly opposed this week's coup because she believed it was supported by foreign forces she opposed. The New York Times, of course, will never mention the views of Cubans such as Arianny but such mass U. S. media sources will make super-heroes of Cuban dissidents such as Yunior Garcia...while leaving Americans wondering how such coups like his repeatedly fail!!!!

     The mass media in the U. S. has anointed Cuban dissident Yunior Garcia as a Super-Hero. WONDERFUL. This is because he is a dissident and he thus computes with the Cuban propaganda promoted by the U. S. mass media.

  But the U. S. media doesn't care about ARIANNY because she is NOT a dissident. Arianny was born and still lives & works in the town of Guantanamo next to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Arianny supports Revolutionary Cuba and opposes coups. When and if the mass media in the United States admits that people like Arianny live in Cuba and actually have opinions, perhaps the mass media in the U. S. will begin to regain the "trust" that it once had, and that Thomas Jefferson in 1776 envisioned for it!!!

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Revolutionary Cuba Today: Nov. 19-2021

 

     This photo was taken today -- Friday, Nov. 19, 2021 -- by Israel Tamarit Herran and it shows a view of the clear-blue waters of the Caribbean Sea from Havana. Today the largest and, arguably, the most beautiful island-nation in the Caribbean is still ruled by the Cuban Revolution, as has been the case since 3:00 A. M. on Jan. 1st-1959.

    But, of course, today -- Nov. 19-2021 -- the mainstream U. S. media, as shown above, continues to provide Americans with a one-sided and distorted view of how and why Revolutionary Cuba has, since 1959, survived supposedly insurmountable odds about being overthrown by Miami exiles and the ultra-powerful United States. The prime victims of such anti-Cuba propaganda by the mainstream U. S. media are, I believe, the everyday Americans who deserve fair and unbiased news regarding a topic...US-Cuba Relations...that impacts so many lives in both countries. As shown above, the Miami Herald since 1959 is the prime voice of the hotbed of Cuban exiles who bolted Revolutionary Cuba and who have led the anti-Counter Revolutionary clamor...greatly enriching & empowering Miami Cubans but also greatly assaulting Cuban families in Cuba. So thus the Miami Herald today continued its one-sided, distorted reports about the Cuban-Protests/COUP back on Monday -- Nov. 15-2021 -- that were supposed to finally overthrow Revolutionary Cuba. Monday's overthrow, as many prior would-be overthrows since 1959, fizzled out rather quickly. One reason the latest Protests/COUP failed, the reason that the mainstream refuses to report, is the fact that most Cubans on the island simply don't want COUPS they feel are engineered and funded {at least in part from a foreign nation} to succeed.

     But today -- Nov. 19-2021 -- the mainstream U. S. media only wants to continue promoting the  anti-Cuba Protests and its leader, Yunior Garcia...even as he quickly bolted this week to friendly havens in Madrid, Spain.

   The typical Counter Revolutionary article was depicted above in today's Miami Herald and was written by Fabiola Sanchez. She was born in Matanzas, Cuba, and she arrived in Miami in 1969 on one of the Freedom Flights. As such she had the wherewithal to quickly emerge as a key journalist in 1980 for the Miami Herald. And almost as quickly she became the top Editorialist of Miami's main newspaper. As shown above, her Nov. 19-2021 "OPINION" piece loudly, as usual, heralded Cuban dissidence and implied that Batista's Cuba prior to the Revolution was fantastic while Cuba since 1959 has been a hellhole, causing her and so many others to flee to rich and wonderful Miami. The main distortion about such endless propaganda is the sheer fact that the voices and OPINIONS of millions of everyday Cubans who choose to remain in Cuba and support the Revolution are never mentioned in the mainstream U. S. media, especially by the Miami Herald and its top OPIONIONS Editor Fabiola Sanchez.

     This photo was taken today in Havana at the Martin Luther King Memorial. These two Cubans were celebrating the defeat of Monday's Protests/COUP. As a Democracy-loving American in the United States, I believe that the mainstream U. S. media should have the INTEGRITY to tell Americans that these two women in Havana have OPINIONS too...even if they support the Revolution and have no plans to bolt to Miami or Madrid to become rich.

    This photo in Cuba today shows Cubans listening to their President Miguel Diaz-Canel, and indications are clear that most Cubans on the island support their leader, who happens to have been born after the triumph of the Revolution and first became well known all across Cuba as its Education Minister.

 For days prior to Monday's Protests/COUP, President Diaz-Canel went on the streets and on state-wide television to tell Cubans that the U. S. was behind such attempts to overthrow or stabilize their Revolution. And indications are most Cubans on the island support Diaz-Canel, not the dissidents.

    Cubans on the island are aware of the 1950s when, prior to the Revolution, the island was verily raped, brutalized, and robbed by, left to right, Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and Fulgencio Batista.  And all three of these LOVELY MEN verily loved the support they got from plane-and-ship loads of U. S. tourists and from the greedy U. S. businesses that partook wholeheartedly in the wholesale ransacking of Cuba...uh...prior to the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959. In other words, such truths about U.S.-&-Mafia-run Cuba in the 1950s still factor into the failures of Protests/COUPs determined since 1959 to overthrow the Cuban Revolution!!! And perhaps one day the mainstream U. S. media will return to REPORTING such truths.

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Coup Fizzled BUT Continues

 

    Today -- Wednesday, Nov. 17-2021 -- headlines like this around the world acknowledge that the latest Coup that began in Cuba two days ago was blunted. But  the group Archipelago led by dissident Junior Garcia says that the protests will still continue...especially from Miami & Madrid.

     The Protest/Coup leader Yunior Garcia has bolted from Cuba, as shown above, and took a flight to Madrid, Spain. Spain has many people and businesses that support Cuba but Madrid also has a very strong and well-funded anti-Cuba group.

    This is the photo of Yunior Garcia that NBC News used today -- Nov. 17-2019 -- to preface its article entitled: "Missing Cuban protest leader Yunior Garcia Lands in Madrid."

     Above are the major U. S. headlines today -- Nov. 17-2021 -- regarding the mainstream media continuing to fan the flames of ongoing coups designed to finally overthrow Revolutionary Cuba. Today as always, the mainstream U. S. media will never say anything derogatory or unkind about the brutal, thieving Mafia-backed & U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship that verily raped & robbed Cuba in the 1950s...prior to the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959. From 1959 till 2021 the U. S. media has massively denounced Revolutionary Cuba during the many coup attempts to overthrow it, including an Embargo/Blockade since 1962 that had/has as its purpose to starve, deprive, and make miserable the Cubans on the island to induce THEM to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. WONDERFUL!!! When the U. S. media purposely ignores or denies such facts, perhaps it is more of an affront to the U. S. democracy than it is just the cruelty of trying to starve, deprive, and make miserable Cubans on the island.

      Of course, in addition to the U. S. media there have been a plethora of media entities that have emerged and thrived since 1959 for the sole purpose of destroying the Cuban Revolution. I would suggest, and the mainstream Media would deny, that those unchecked sources include...Radio-TV Marti in Miami that U. S. tax-payers have lavishly funded for three decades; Babalu; CiberCuba News; 14ymedio, etc. 14ymedio is an ultra-powerful Counter Revolutionary digital newspaper that is operated from her Havana apartment by Yoani Sanchez with considerable support from Miami, Madrid, Newark, and Washington. Yoani Sanchez, on her flights from Havana, has stopped off in Miami to broadcast from the lavish tax-funded Radio-TV Marti studio. Above she stopped off in Washington at the U. S. Senate where she confirmed the support of Senator Marco Rubio from Miami and Senator Bob Menendez from Newark. Of Course, the Republican Rubio dictated vicious anti-Cuba U. S. policy during the Trump administration and the Democrat Menendez is now dictating vicious anti-Cuba policy during the Biden presidency. That, of course, continues the policies of enriching and empowering Counter Revolutionary Cuba in the U. S. but, of course, also continues to starve, deprive, and make miserable Cuban families on the island.

 While Yoani Sanchez operates her 14yMedio Counter Revolutionary rhetoric from her Havana apartment, it is translated into many languages and digitally, supposedly, has many millions of readers around the world each day, especially in Miami, Madrid, and Washington. In additon to her apparently well-heeled international digital newspaper, Yoani Sanchez also, of course, has a powerful Social Media presence to transmit her Counter Revolution vitriol. For example today -- Nov. 17-2021 -- Yoani Sanchez used the image depicted above on Facebook to continue her fervent promotions of Yunior Garcia and any other Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Cuba, Miami, or Madrid. There are, however, millions of Cubans in Cuba, and at least a million or so in the U. S., who believe firmly that Yoani Sanchez should have some sympathy for the Cubans on the island who support the Revolutionary Cuban government while also having sad memories of the Mafia-riddled Batista regime that preceded the revolution.

      FOR EXAMPLE, the unchecked extremist Counter Revolutionaries like Yoani Sanchez and The U. S. media are far too biased to even mention the newsworthy three photos depicted above...so let me mention them. A decent and beloved Cuban-American, Carlos Lazo, is a professor in Seattle. He is obsessed with making sure that women and children in Cuba are not starved, deprived, and made miserable all their lives, generation-to-generation, by self-serving Cubans in Miami and Newark who happen to have control of Washington's Cuban policies. Above, the top photo shows Carlos Lazo when he rode his bicycle, as did some of his students, the 3,000 miles from Seattle to Washington to beg President Trump and Congress to end the genocidal Embargo/Blockade against Cubans families on the island to appease, enrich, and empower a few already rich Cubans in the United States. Later, Carlos Lazo walked the 300 miles from Miami to Washington to beg President Biden and Congress to end the genocidal Embargo/Blockade against Cuban families on the island. The middle photo shows Carlos Lazo in just the past few days visiting his mother in Cuba. And the photo directly above shows Carlos Lazo after he was an instigator of taking an airplane to Cuba loaded with 20,000 pounds of food and other supplies to help Cuban families on the island. The photo above shows Carlos Lazo unloading boxes of canned Tuna for Cuban families. The three photos directly above in November-2021 are newsworthy but the U. S. News Media lacks the integrity and courage to mention a great man and his great story...but the same U. S. News Media will lavish countless pages and hours to extreme Counter Revolutionary extremists like Yunior Garcia and Yoani Sanchez.

   Two days ago on Nov. 15-2021 Cubans like the girl wearing the red scarf were among the crowd of Cubans who bravely denounced the highly publicized Coup she believed was trying to overthrow the Revolution that she supported. It appears that this girl was among a majority of Cubans who feel the way she did...and it was the same way most Cubans felt in April of 1961 when Miami Cubans and the United States, at what history calls the Bay of Pigs, tried a well-funded air-sea-and-land military attack that was supposed to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba. To this day, because of a biased media, Americans still can't comprehend why/how Revolutionary Cuba survived the Bay of Pigs attack and countless other efforts designed to recapture Cuba for Miami Cubans and for the United States, the strongest and richest nation in the world. But merely studying the photo above...of the Cuban girl combatting the latest Coup attempt on November 15th-2021...would reveal, I think, why the Revolution survived the Bay of Pigs attack in 1961 and what Cuba calls the Coup attempt on Nov. 15th-2021. The fact is...in 1961 most Cubans on the island supported Fidel Castro's defense of the Revolution and in November of 2021 most Cubans on the island supported Miguel Diaz-Canel's defense of the Revolution. Of course, the U. S. media will tell Americans all about Yoani Sanchez, Yunior Garcia, and any other heralded dissidents...but the U. S. media will not let the American people know about non-dissidents like Carlos Lazo...and like the Girl wearing the red scarf  while brandishing her fists in the air on Monday, November 15th, 2021.

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