Cuba Returns To Dollar Exchanges

 

      Back on April 10th-2023 OnCuba News reported that "The Cuban government announced the bankability of the dollar, a measure that has caused intense exchanges of criteria among the population."

      The London-based BBC reports that "Banks in Cuba will again accept cash deposits in US dollars after a ban prohibiting the practice was surprisingly lifted on Monday."

     Today -- Monday, April 17th, 2023 -- OnCuba News reports that: "More recently, Casas de Cambio S.A. {Cadeca} announced that as of Monday, April 17, users will be able to deposit cash in USD at all their offices." Expert economists on Cuba's economic had differing views regarding the island's return to the dollar, but perhaps the most important comment was Pavel Vidal said: "The relationship of the Cuban financial system with the USA has been very irregular. It is hard to understand its logic. It has been part of the government's preference to only introduce partial, fragmented changes and managing industries and markets in a segmented way {"handmade"} economy."

     But whether it is problems in Cuba attributed to the endless U. S. economic embargo or to internal decisions by Cuba's revolutionary government, the Washiongton-based Center for Democracy in the Americas used the photo above to point out that the most important aspect of Cuba is its children, and neither foreign nor domestic players should ever forget that fact. These two children in Cuba, as well as their parents and grandparents, have all lived under the shackles of the U. S. economic blockade...and someday some decent people should correct that situtation. No one in a a more powerful nation should ever benefit from the misery of children in a much weaker nation.

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Blockaded But At Least Let Them SPEAK!!

 

     For six decades the strongest nation in the world, the United States, has imposed an economic embargo against a nearby much-smaller nation, Cuba. It is a glaring situation {depicted above} that most people and most nations in the world consider to be a genocidal blockade. Yet...the United States and the mainstream U. S. media consider it worthwhile although its prime purpose, which is to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba, somehow has not occurred in the last six decades...and counting!!

    Each day Cuban Headlines circulate around the word, almost always promoting the endless Embargo/Blockade. EXCEPT, alas, today in mid-April of 2023, the Top Cuban Headline not only doesn't promote the Embargo/Blockade but, ACTUALLY, gives powerful voices to young Cuban women in Cuba who vividly are permitted to expressions opinions about what they believe is a genocidal assualt on Cuban families like theirs. The Top Headline above comes from the Democracy Now! television network and is entitled: "Cuban Journalist: U.S.-Cuba Talks..."

     The Havana-based journalist who is now in the U. S. and wants to tell Americans about how the U. S. embargo hurts her family, her mother's family, and all the Cuban families in Cuba is Liz Oliva Fernandez. After she speaks about it on U. S. soil, Liz will return to Cuba to help Cuban families and she won't migrate to the rich Cuban conclave of Little Havana in Miami.

     For sure, Liz Oliva Fernandez is an Award-Winning Journalist and Documentarian that has actual and honest first-hand views about how Cuban families are forced to live all their lives on the island "in crisis" because of the endless U. S. blockade. Thus, even in the U. S., she knows that most of the U. S. media will not listen to a word that she says. But Liz also knows that the Democracy Now! television network will allow her to speak to Americans in her perfect English.

     Anchor Amy Goodman gave ample time for Liz Oliva Fernandez to speak on her trip to the USA.

    Obviously, there will always be a few rich and powerful people in the U. S. democracy that benefit from and support the endless U. S. embargo of Cuba. But the young Havana journalist/documentarian Liz Oliva Fernandez both knows and lives the truth. Her exact words shown above thanks to Democracy Now! television included "...I have been in crisis my entire life. My mom has lived in crisis in my entire life. The biggest cause of this crisis is the sanctions that the United States put against Cuba..."

   In her Award Winning {Gracie Award, etc.} documentary "The War On Cuba" it was clear that Liz Oliva Fernandez blamed the ultra-powerful U. S. media for not telling the truth about...the war on Cuba.

     "WHAT DO YOUNG CUBAN WOMEN HAVE TO SAY?" Well, young Cuban women like Sandra, Yadira, and Liz Oliva Fernandez -- when allowed to speak -- say things such as, "EVERYTHING YOU'VE EVER SEEN ABOUT CUBA IS A LIE."

    As a brilliant young journalist and documentarian, Liz Oliva Fernandez lives in Havana and has no desire to migrate to Little Havana USA. But she wants Americans to know how much the endless U. S. embargo has hurt and is hurting another generation of Cuban families on her island. I think that makes Liz a Cuban heroine.

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Six Decades+ of the U. S. Cuban Embargo

    Back in the 1950s the United States, the world's leading Democracy, and Cuba, led by the ruthless and thieving Mafia-aligned dictator Fulgencio Batista, were Good Friends. And top U. S. companies took massive advantage of that heralded friendship by sending hordes of tourists to Cuba to partake in the incredibly enticing lures such as sex, drugs, and gambling.

    But in 1959 something called the Cuban Revolution chased the Batistianos to safer havens, especially the nearby Dominican Republic and nearby Miami. Somehow in April of 2023 the Cuban Revolution, against all odds, still rules Cuba.

    Somehow in April of 1961 Revolutionary Cuba hugely fended off the massive air, sea, and land military attack known to history as the Bay of Pigs.

     And somehow Revolutionary Cuba since 1959 has survived six decades of other massive assualts.

     And somehow Revolutionary Cuba since 1962 has survived history's longest and cruelest Economic Embargo ever imposed by any Powerful Nation against any Much Weaker Nation.

    Meanwhile today -- April 13th, 2023 -- above are the Top Cuban Headlines circulating around the world and originating in places such as Miami, New Jersey, and London. Not surprisingly, no one is talking about the things that most concern the day-to-day lives of the besieged, embargoed, and blockaded Cubans in Cuba. In other words, on April 13th, 2023 no one is talking about things such as...the Embargo, the Blockade, the fact that Trump cruelly put Cuba on the very short list of Nations That Sponsor Terrorism and, just as cruelly, Biden has unfairly left Cuba on that very punitive {for Cuba} list that also, of course, is very lucrative for well-known benefactors in Little Havana USA.

Biden & Trump

Since 1959

Before 1959

     For sure, the captivating history of US-Cuba Relations includes Little Havana USA in Miami since 1959 and Batista's Mafia Cuba from 1952 till 1959. Yet...those two crucial facets of US-Cuba Relations will never garner any headlines in either the modern captivating history books or in the current propagandized-obsessed news media.

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BBC Updates US Blockade's Punishment of Cuban Children

Please Study the Two Photos Below!! 

     The two photos above and six other similar photos like them were taken by Natalia Favre and all eight of them were used to illustrate an article written by Natalia Favre that was sent around the world by the worldwide reach of the London-based BBC News. The article graphically reports the punishment the U. S. economic Embargo/Blockade has eked out to generations of children in Cuba sinced 1962, including the two Little Girls shown above. While brilliant journalists/photographers such as Natalia Favre are truthfully reporting from Cuba on the prime victims of the endless U. S. sanctions against Cuba, Americans are still being told by propagandists in the Little Havana-aligned Miami Herald, the Jose Bezos-own Washington Post, etc., how wonderful the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship was in the 1950s and how terrible Cuba has been since 1959 when the Cuban Revolution overthrew Batista and spawned rich & powerful Little Havana in nearby Miami.

   As an honest and brilliant journalist, photographer, documentarian, and filmmaker covering Latin America, Natalia Favre has used the worldwide coverage of BBC News to update the unconscionable punishment another generation of children in Cuba are receiving as the endless U. S. Embargo/Blockade of the Caribbean island flourishes into its Sixth Decade. While Americans routinely get their Cuban news from propaganda sources catering to Miami and Washington opinions that justify the extreme cruelty of the endless Embargo/Blockade, real honest and brilliant journalists such as Natalia Favre tell the world about the prime victims of such self-serving Miami/Washington decisions. So, Please...take just a moment to study the photos below as Natalia Favre tells the world about the prime victims of the cruel, endless Embargo/Blockade that the U. S. has imposed on Cuba since 1962.

    As Natalia Favre reminds us, as far as we know these Little Cuban Girls never harmed anyone in Miami or Washington.

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Blockaded For Six+ Decades Pains Cubans

 As It Is SUPPOSED To Pain Them!!

     Fine-tuned convertibles parked in Havana in April of 2023. The most interesting thing about them is that they were built in the 1950s in the United States when the United States had great trade and tourist relations with Cuba's Batista-Mafia dictatorship. When these cars were new in the 1950s, the Batistianos, the Mafia, and rich U. S. businessmen were raking in fortunes in Cuba. 

   Now in April in 2023 the London-based Reuters News giant is {above} updating the pain that the U. S. Blockade/Embargo inflicts daily on Cubans, as it has been designed to do since February of 1962. The purpose of the economic assault, for over six decades, has been to starve, deprive, and make miserable Cubans in Cuba to cause them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary Government, which overthrew the Batista/Mafia rule of Cuba on January 1, 1959. For over six decades the U. S. Embargo and other drastic efforts hasn't been able to overtrow Revolutionary Cuba, but now in April of 2023 the rich and powerful Counter Revolutinary zealots in the U. S. continue to see signs that it is about to happen any day now, as major articles from Havana such as the Reuters report reveal!!

     As Reuters explains in early April-2023, Venezuela "has ramped up oil supply to Cuba since early 2023" but it is not enough and also "Venezuela's supply in recent months has barely included clean refined products, especially gasoline and diesel." In other words, after six+ decades of its existence, the three prime purposes of the U. S. economic Embargo/Blockade of Cuba remain exactly the same: One day soon Miami and the United States believe that starving, depriving, and making miserable everyday Cubans will cause them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary Government that has, against all odds, survived since January 1, 1959.

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Miami to London courts sue unrepresented Cuba

SO WHAT? 

    A notable Caribbean photographer named Tonalli Ambar took the photo above right after a rainstorm had just drenched this Havana street and its 1950s-era cars. When the rain stopped this tourist resumed her walking tour of the Caribbean's most famous capital city. Soooooo...the point is...this photo is a rarity from Havana because it doesn't demean Cuba nor does it show disrespect for the Cuban people on the island. All it shows...is a glimpse of Cuba at a moment of time in April of 2023.

      Meanwhile today -- on April 5th, 2023 -- the Cuban Headlines, as shown above, mostly reflect only how wonderful the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship was in Cuba in the 1950s and how terrible the U.S.-hated Revolutionary Cuba has been since January 1, 1959. The CNBC News Headline shown above, for example, blares this news on April 5-2023: "CUBA'S LOSSES IN CASE OF CASTRO-ERA DEBT OPEN IT UP TO MORE LAWSUITS."  In other words...64 years after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution captured Havana and created Little Havana USA in Miami, courtrooms in Miami and even London can sue unrepresented Cuba for virtually whatever they want to sue Cuba for...including money. The above CNBC article this first week of April-2023 is a huge USA report about a courtroom in London trying to squeeze the Cuban lemon for whatever money remains that can possibly be still "legally squeezed" out of the besieged island.

    Above you can see a small piece of the CNBC News Report in the U. S. that informs Americans and the World on April 5th-2023 that a courtroom in London is squeezing the Cuban lemon when, as always, Cuba is unrepresented but high-priced lawyers hostile to Cuba are salivating as if they are shooting fish in an undefended bucket. The article, of course, doesn't explain that U. S. courts, especially in Miami, have sued unrepresented Cuba since 1962, the year the U. S. Embargo against Cuba began, and especiallly since 1996, the year that Little Havana USA in Miami orchestrated the extremely punitive {for Cuba} and extremely lucrative {for Little Havana USA} Congressional Bill known as the Helms-Burton Act, the extremely punitive-lucrative U. S. law that remains extremely legal to this day.

Little Havana USA has existed since 1959.

The Helms-Burton Bill has existed since 1996.

    Yes, "With the Helms-Burton Act, the U. S. sought to asphyxiate the Cuban economy..." The truth is...early in 1996 the Democratic U. S. President Bill Clinton had let it be known that he was about to ease the U. S. Embargo against Cuba, but he misjudged the power in Washington of Little Havana USA. Thus, President Clinton became the President that signed the Helms-Burton Act into law. But please study the scared and defeated expression that President Clinton couldn't hide right after he signed the Act into law. He was looking up at Bob Menendez while, as he well knew, peering down at the back of President Clinton's head was Lincoln Diaz-Balart. The day in 1996 when he signed the Helms-Burton Act into law, the reluctant and scared President Clinton could only wish that he had as much power as Menendez and Diaz-Balart.

     A Captivating History of Cuba can appropriately include the Skull & Bones attached to the Helms-Burton Act since the reluctant President Clinton signed it into law in 1996.

      But in April of 2023 neither the United States of America nor the masses of Cubans on their island can smile about the Helms-Burton Act that so easily and powerfully has been legal since 1996. So who does smile about it? Just Little Havana USA?

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