Cuba Is Closing October-2023 Fighting the US Embargo

     Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel arrived in Mexico on October 22nd for a major conference regarding the rampant Latin American and Caribbean migration crisis.

    The President of Mexico Adres Manuel Lopez Obrador is shown above hosting other regional leaders that include Cuba, on the left, and Venezuela, on the right. Honduras, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, and Nicaragua also have sent top representatives joining the group. Their topic centers on the mass floods of migrants that are continuing to easily enter the United States at the porous Mexican-U.S. border.

    The major conference in Mexico this next to last weekend of October-2023 is trying to seek answers to the vast flood of migrants from around the world crossing into the United States along the US-Mexico border. Cubans, massively blockaded economically by the tightened, six-decade-old U. S. Embargo, are also flooding into the U. S. anyway they can, causing Cuba dire concerns because its ageing population is losing many young people.

   Before he flew to Mexico this weekend, President Diaz-Canel was busy speaking on Cuba's city streets, in rural areas, and on statewide television. He is telling the Cuban people: "The United States in 1962 began the blockade to starve this island in the belief it would lead to the overthrow of the Cuban Revolution. So, generations of Cubans have suffered from it but in the past five years the Trump-Biden administrations have strengthened it. We, in your government, are trying everything we can to prevent the blockade from fulfilling its cruel purposes. We need the United States as a friend and trade partner, not a foreign superpower that is trying to conquer us and exploit us in the cruel and greedy way the U. S., Batista, and the Mafia was doing prior to the Revolution."

    Now that Latin American nations such as Brazil, Colombia, and Bolivia have replaced Trump-allied leaders with pro-Cuban leaders, Cuba believes...except for the United States...that it has no major enemies in Latin America and the World. The Mexican leader, President Lopez Obrador, has increased his efforts to help Cuba...even provide some oil and paying for a new batch of Cuba's popular anti-Covid vaccines. Mexico, of course, is not only on the US's southern border but also is a vast and prime trade partner with the U. S.

    Mexico in 2023 remains very involved with purchasing Cuba's Abdala vaccine, which helps Mexicans but also helps Cuba.

    In a world in which faraway Wars in places such as Ukraine and Israel involve powerful nations taking sides, little Cuba continues to signal that it badly wants and needs to have friendly ties with the neighboring United States, most of all, but also must consider cultivating new friendly gestures from other prime nations, including China.

      In the closing days of October-2023, Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel has recently flown to major conferences in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America...and he has recently hosted a Summit in Havana that included 72 nations. And today -- on October 22nd-2023 -- he is in Mexico seeking help in fighting the U. S. economic Embargo/Blockade as well as the crucial influx of young Cubans migrating from Cuba because of the island's dire economic problems. And for sure...President Diaz-Canel and the vast majority of the Cuban people believe that the #1 Cuban "Problem" remains the endless U. S. Blockade.

     The United States for over six decades has said its economic Embargo of Cuba is both wonderful and necessary, because the starvation tactic will eventually work!!

But Cubans call it a cruel Blockade!!

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Cuba's Little Country/Big Country Woes

 

   Today -- on October 19th-2023 -- and every day since 1962 Cuba has tried mightily to attract tourists to the island but the drastic U. S. economic Embargo/Blockade for over six decades has mostly blocked that effort because the U. S. effort to starve the Cuban economy is much stronger than anything little Cuba is able to muster.

    This street in Havana today reflects the fact that Cuba projects this street as a lure for tourists, the kind of tourism that the U. S. prevents Cuba from having.

     But this street in Havana also today reflects decaying buildings that Cuba is not able to maintain properly, and some of them still have homes where Cubans live. Sometimes, as happened again a week ago, collapsing buildings can be deadly.

         Above today are the Top Cuban Headlines flashing around the U. S. and the world on October 19th-2023. As usual, the Miami Herald article dominates Cuban headlines from the U. S. as written by anti-Cuban zealot Nora Gamez Torres. The dominance of Cuban news in the U. S., led by such Miami/Little Havana sources, remain a reason that the cruel Embargo/Blockade of Cuba has existed for over six decades -- and counting. As long as the Embargo/Blockade pleases or enriches rich and politically powerful Cubans in Miami/Little Havana, it might exist for another six decades.

This world-wide image doesn't deter the Embargo supporters.

    Just a few miles south of Key West & Miami, Cuba's northern coast has the world's best beaches, such as Varadero. But, of course, the U. S. doesn't want Cuban beaches to compete with Florida's tourist-obsessed attractions.

     But, of course, back in the 1950s {above} when the Batistianos, the Mafia, and major U. S. companies were making tons of money off tourist lures in Cuba such as gambling, drugs, prostituion, and world-famed beaches, the United States media and the United States wildly promoted tourism to dictator Batista's Cuba!!

    And, meanwhile, the five images/photos above are never mentioned by the U. S. media that promotes the U. S. Embargo of Cuba. As noted above, two of the world's most famed Hotel & Resort operations -- Iberostar and Melia, both headquartered in Spain -- have over forty gorgeous 4-star & 5-star Hotels in Cuba. But, of course, to make sure the Embargo continues to starve Cuba's economy, Americans are not allowed to stay in such hotels...and the Embargo also tries to dissuade citizens from other nations to also avoid spending any money in Cuba. For example, if a cruise ship docks in Cuba it can't then go and dock in a U. S. port.

       And, of course, for over six decades Americans have been programmed to believe that this seminal international image doesn't reflect badly on the United States and that -- HEY!! -- the wonderful Embargo starves only the mean leaders of Cuba, not Cuban children and their mothers, of course.

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Cuba Tries to Feed Its People

     For many years Cubans believed Miguel Diaz-Canel when he was their Education Minister and now, in the closing days of October of 2023, he is asking them to trust him as the President of Cuba, the role he has had for the past five years. An excellent communicator, President Diaz-Canel often walks the streets in Cuban cities speaking to the Cuban people and, as shown above today, he also makes strong use of Cuba's excellent line-up of nationwide television stations. Above this week in late October of 2023 he is shown using that effective medium to tell the Cuban people, "For over six decades the U. S. blockade has targeted us to starve and torment us, with the effort stronger than ever this year, by attacking our economy in the hope the food shortages and the electric blackouts will  encourage the overthrow of our revolution, which triumphed in January-1959 a few months before I was born. The terror, blackouts, and the food shortages test us daily but we will survive and then thrive. We are lessening the terror attacks and we are making strides in improving the electric grid, and -- as a top priority -- we are trying desperately to produce more food from our own soil. Revolutionary promises guaranteed such things as free educations through college and free food, if needed. The blockade, for example, made us buy things such as milk powder from New Zealand and when travel problems blocked those purchases I cringed seeing our babies suffer from losses of some of their milk rations. That convinced me anew that we must produce our products, despite the blockade, and that means having farm machinery to till our soil and our own milk cows. As this news station reported as I visited such fields to analyze the progress we are making, the people are seeing for themselves that, despite the blockade, we are making strides to alleviate the food shortages, which is the place that I believe we should start in our efforts to survive the blockade." As President Diaz-Canel said, it is important that the Cuban people themselves see the progress the island is making in its all-out efforts to produce more-and-more food. One of the world's greatest News Agencies -- the Paris-based Agence France-Presse -- has a great journalist-photographer named Yamil Lage posted in Cuba. Today the seven photos shown below reveal that Yamil Lage is reporting that Cuba, indeed, is making major strikes in trying to produce more food on the island.

     For sure -- as reported above this week by Yamil Lage/Agence France-Presse -- Cuba is trying to alleviate its food shortages. 

      In addition to producing more-and-more of its own food, Cuba also has massively encouraged more-and-more private entrepreneurs to open their own businesses. Above...a new entrepreneur named Maduro has opened his own market to sell food products produced by an influx of Cuban farmers.

     Also today President Diaz-Canel told his nationwide television audience: "We have to be able to produce and distribute the little we have with the greatest concept of equity and social justice." This exact quote from the Cuban president is also shown on several Social Media forums today. 

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Targeting Cuba Makes For Rich Celebrities

 

     These images of Cuba on Social Media platforms in Mid-October of 2023 reflect the fact that Cubans on the embargoed/blockaded island actually think about things other than their devastated economy, which shows no signs of lessening as their Superpower neighbor continues to create a litany of rich celebrities who profit from it.

      And so, on October 14th-2023 -- as the world is forced to embrace bloody Wars in multiple regions -- above are the TOP Headlines related to Cuba. On the top-left there is a Florida-Cuba headline, of course; on the top-right there is a headline about nations being pressured to stop dealing or trading with Cuba while the U. S. Embargo is designed to starve the Cuban economy; in the lower-right there is a headline about many starving young people in Cuba being forced to "exit" the island; and in the lower-left there is the headline about "Tania Bruguera"; and in the very bottom of the TOP Headlines you are reminded that the Miami Herald on a daily basis promotes the need for Embargo/Blockade because of the terrible "Castro regime/President Miguel Diaz-Canel" revolutionary rule that replaced the nice and wonderful U.S./Mafia/Batista dictatorship that ruled Cuba so wonderfully in the 1950s prior to the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1st of 1959. But here let's focus on today's topical TOP Headlines on October 14th of 2023, especially the wonderful headline about anti-Cuban zealot Tania Bruguera.

      As you can see above, the TOP headline about Tania Bruguera taking her anti-Cuba crusade to Chile flashed around the world on October 13th & 14th in 2023, celebrating her as the "Cuban artist and Harvard lecturer." WONDERFUL!! The article is a reminder that...if you are an anti-Cuban zealot you can easily get rich and famous in the U. S. by becoming a Harvard lecturer, a Yale professor/author, the top Editorial Writer at the Miami Herald, one of the many Little Havana/Miami members of the U. S. Congress, etc.

It's wonderful...to be rich & famous.

It's not wonderful to be embargoed.

And it's not wonderful to be blockaded.

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